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This is tonight! If you’re not in the Boston area, it will be live streamed as well: secure.givelively.org/event/boston...

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📅 Fri. 2/28 @ 7PM: We join @bostonreview.bksy.social in welcoming Sam Klug for a discussion of his new book "The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization" in conversation with Chad Williams. For more info visit: www.harvard.com/event/sam-klug

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glad to talk to @keeanga.bsky.social @itsmccarthy.bsky.social, @danieldenvir.bsky.social, about our increasingly weird political situation and the role that identity politics plays in it. even if this episode isn't for you, @thedigradio.bsky.social is a gold mine thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...

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The attempt to preemptively shut down a search to hire academics to teach Palestinian Studies, for fear of potential antisemitism, is a deep threat to academic freedom. And I hope everyone criticizing the Trump admin's threats to academic freedom is just as critical when it comes from a Democrat.

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AAUP President Todd Wolfson at rally outside HHS headquarters today

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Otd 5 years ago, Ahmaud Arbery was "trapped like a rat" before he was shot dead for being Black

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it's going great

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The Knicks have led for 50 seconds total across these three games, and never after the first 2 minutes of the first quarter

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Re: Last Week 1. Chose commoner bride 2. Announced betrothal 3. Planned wedding 4. Hired men to kidnap her 5. Framed Gilder for it Frankly I’m swamped.

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Pretty funny that the Knicks spent huge amounts of draft and financial capital to get two wings to guard Tatum, and he torches them every time

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Counterpoint: @sanders.senate.gov should be applauded for awakening interest in rudimentary and ancient ideas in politics

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There has never been a more auspicious time to challenge Democratic lawmakers in primaries

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When we fight, we win. Judge Halts Implementation of Trump Anti-DEIA Executive Orders Nationwide The AAUP is proud to stand up & defend our campuses & communities against those attempting to squash civil rights & halt progress toward an equitable, multi-racial democracy. www.washingtonpost.com

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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are we ready to talk about how much research and programming has occurred despite universities?

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Amid Domestic Chaos, Rogue Nation Rattles Nuclear Saber www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-la...

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If you can't join us in person, sign up for the livestream here! secure.givelively.org/event/boston...

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Next Friday at 7 p.m., I will be in conversation with the great Chad Williams about my book THE INTERNAL COLONY at Harvard Book Store, co-sponsored by @bostonreview.bsky.social.

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Ironically I can't attend this rally because I'll be teaching in Baltimore, but I hope my higher ed friends in DC will show out on 2/25: www.labor4highered.org#register

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@lilygeismer.bsky.social and I are thrilled that our new project, Mastery and Drift: Professional Class Liberals since the 1960s, is published today. When we began this work a few years ago, we had no idea how sadly relevant exploring the evolution . . . (1/10) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Where are all the Dem consultants who supposedly do "comms" work at? Where's the website put together with succinct talking points, one pagers, posters that folks can easily download, print and pass out in their communities? Why aren't they doing this work PRO-BONO?

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The University of Illinois Press published A David Montgomery Reader: Essays on Capitalism and Worker Resistance, a collection of essays, some of them previously unpublished, by the late historian & UE member. You can read the UE NEWS review of it here: www.ueunion.org/ue-news-feat...

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Bill Russell’s family made the migration from Monroe to Oakland. They were friends.

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Our new issue lands on doorsteps (real or digital) soon—including @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on anti-“wokeness,” @morefius.bsky.social on Trump’s “invasion” narrative, + @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social on Israel and the reality of settler colonialism Subscribe here: bostonreview.net/memberships

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RIP to Dr. Marika Sherwood: a huge inspiration among historians and activists, and a founder of the Black and Asian Studies Association. Without her tireless contributions over the past few decades, the field of Black British History would look very different today. We owe her so much 🖤✊🏽

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It seems to me that Republican lawmakers are accomplishing a lot—achieving the party’s longstanding aims of cutting Medicaid and decimating the federal workforce. They’re just doing this by fully supporting the Executive’s usurpation of legislative powers. More than one way to skin a cat

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The Trump administration has just announced that all college financial aid programs, scholarships, prizes, housing, and graduation ceremonies that help Black or Latino students are now considered to be illegal. The Education Department accuses colleges of discriminating against white students.

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AFGE, the main federal workers' union, has grown as much in the last 5 weeks as in the whole previous year Sometimes "the boss is the best organizer"

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Really loved this article by @bentarnoff.com. Here is the kicker www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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This is a great book that I cite a lot. It should get more appreciation in our increasingly authoritarian times. Certainly much more interesting and politically useful than a certain bestseller that sells you "lessons" as a "guide to resistance"

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“Ceasefire”.

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Join @lilygeismer.bsky.social @brentcebul.bsky.social @pastpunditry.bsky.social @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social & Dylan Gottlieb on Feb 20 at 7pm for a virtual event on The Limits of Professional-Class Liberalism, moderated by contributing editor Simon Torracinta. Register here: tinyurl.com/4cxpm8fa

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Liberal anti-racism at its most silly and annoying is still a form of soulcraft far less corrosive to democratic life than the habit of thinking like a political consultant

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If you're a federal worker, don't miss an important opportunity to organize and fight back 👇

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One of the most exciting moments of my early childhood was when a moose walked through our backyard, immediately followed by a local news crew shoving various forms in my mom's face to sign

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Spent the morning worrying about a very pregnant friend who’s a probationary federal employee; spending the afternoon worrying my employer will cut my position as all the federal higher ed cuts trickle down through the budget. Fun Friday so far

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if you too want to know the joys of walking around in a circle, talking **** about your biggest opps, a picket line might be the place for you

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The United States is now an open kleptocracy. The Constitution has been suspended to allow the wealthiest man in the world to loot and destroy the federal government.

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That they think everything is Find and Replace is telling and weird, right? They think you OCR something, look for or strike the “DEI” words, and boom, you’ve eliminated whole ideas?

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My book talk at GW today is now virtual because of the snow. Anyone can register for the Zoom here: gwu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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I did not feel like writing a long thread about Kendrick Lamar's SB performance, so I just decided to publish it on Substack. So, here are my thoughts! Wanted to make some historical connections. open.substack.com/pub/austincm...

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The third of the theses on Feuerbach.

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Subtext is woke. This is why all these idiots love John McNaughton and ChatGPT--interpretation is a Jewish conspiracy to find meaning beyond the straightforward.

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“Without my own intimate transatlantic experiences ... I would not have fully appreciated my historical actors, many of whom lived quintessentially African diasporic, transnational, and cosmopolitan lives.” Check out this by Wendell Adjetey: www.processhistory.org/adjetey-amer...

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I wrote about the economics of rap beef and the Kendrick and Drake battle for Public Books www.publicbooks.org/bad-beef/

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