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Well said, @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and @ryanenos.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

“If academic freedom in teaching & in scholarship can be overridden by the dicta of politicians & administrators, then the right to learn will not survive our present moment.” Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson’s full letter to Governor Hochul on CUNY interference here: www.aaup.org/news/governo...

Had the honor of discussing my album Traversées in a conversation with Felwine Sarr, Vincent Brown & Usha Rungoo at Harvard's Hutchins Center recently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqc3...

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

The second episode of the podcast series on long-distance ethnonationalisms that I did with @loriall.bsky.social is now out. Please check out our conversation on Hindutva in India, the UK, and US with Subir Sinha! recallthisbook.org/2025/02/20/1...

The New Yorker once described Peter Beinart as the most influential liberal Zionist of his generation. No longer. Listen to my conversation with him and Ajantha Subramanian about his latest book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning newbooksnetwork.com/being-jewish...

new video up on trump's war on "DEI" youtu.be/aPExCDMJs-Q

NEW VIDEO: In a blockbuster decision a federal judge has BLOCKED Donald Trump's effort to freeze federal spending and loans. Paige and I discuss the impact of this big victory! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPTJ...

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup

Buttigieg’s response to Trump vis Twitter, on multiple levels:

Trumpism will cede global leadership to China in multiple areas because most other countries and institutions would prefer to deal with a lawful evil system than a chaotic evil one.

#AHA25 resolution against scholasticide in Gaza passes 428 to 88!!

“The frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.” harpers.org/archive/1941...

Surprise!

Springtime for Billionaires talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/sprin...

If you need a reminder…

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“[The picture] shows a Black person, born to enslaved African parents, who already as a youth was mathematically talented enough to understand the most complicated, avant-garde science in the world.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

Hi new followers. 👋🏼 It's probably my sacred duty to highlight that I published this firey volume recently with @dukepress.bsky.social. I just presented it in Martinique this AM. Big hit. Folks are ready for this more radical Césaire.

Here's a good MAGA moderation list or "blocklist". There are others. Click on the subscribe button and it will ask you if you want to mute or block. I blocked. bsky.app/profile/did:...