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We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. He is irreplaceable; We will miss him forever.

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Got an email from the athletics dept after 5pm the Sunday before finals telling me my exam conflicts w/ a postseason event. I'm a massive sports fan; I'm quite sure conference championships aren't scheduled 4 days in advance. Schools should be for teaching and learning, at least a little bit.

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Terrible news. RIP Joshua Clover

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this encapsulates exactly what i've been feeling for two years but haven't been able to articulate so clearly

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a lot of the talk about AI in the humanities seems to leave out the notion of pleasure in having ideas which is a real shame

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Just finished teaching a new undergrad "humanities research lab" course called The Black Panther Party & the Politics of Decolonization. Students are finalizing original primary-source research projects now. Here's the playlist I made to accompany the syllabus (1 song per week).

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How black movements responded as the Vietnam War and limits of civil rights victories combined to explode the Cold War’s contradictions at a time when white working class was thoroughly deradicalized. Ep 3 of what is now (yes) a four-part series with Aziz Rana. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/blac...

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This, for example, is one that is constantly on my mind in our age that combines racist democratic collapse with mindless AI hype. From DARKWATER

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Du Bois has plenty of good quotes there’s no need to constantly spread around this fake one

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I wrote about Nate Klug's "Beautiful Meteor" for my April column at @commonweal.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/nate-klug-po...

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Moe Foner would never

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Bro they lobotomized your aunt

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Many thanks to Adam Dahl for his thoughtful commentary on The Internal Colony as part of this excellent review essay on four new books in history & political theory: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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What people really don’t want to hear is that shaming people who brag about writing emails with AI would be just fine. Admirable in fact. Norms can sometimes do what law won’t.

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UPDATES: Barnard turned over personal info to feds. Almost every prof got this text. “The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister,” said Barnard prof. Debbie Becher, who is Jewish & got the text. theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...

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The Exeter-Yale vibes of this are off the charts

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Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, gave birth to their first child today, a baby boy. In a statement, she said, “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud. ICE and the Trump administration have stolen these precious moments from our family…”

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"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of Hell. God’s economy, on the other hand, does not kill, discard or crush. It is lowly, faithful to the earth." aleteia.org/2025/04/18/p...

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This review of my brother’s new chapbook in @commonweal.bsky.social is really lovely. Check it out and buy his book! www.commonwealmagazine.org/nate-klug-po...

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Beyond the fact that I love this photo, I think about this concept ALL OF THE TIME. As an archivist, I am really conscious of the fact that it's likely we'll have a more robust understanding of the 18 and 19th centuries than of the 21st century. Why? PAPER. bsky.app/profile/doro...

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"I appeal to the warring parties: call a ceasefire, release the hostages and come to the aid of a starving people that aspires to a future of peace!"

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The next generation will absolutely not believe how good pre-AI Google was.

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A "young historian’s superlative debut" says this starred review of my book from Kirkus. It's the first (!) review of my book and ofc I'm over here rejoicing in the idea that somebody still thinks I'm young www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

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Alan Garber's "Our Resolve" email on 3/31 signaled a very different response than what happened today. What changed? 1) Tariffs crashed the market; the Harvard Corporation is filled with private equity and hedge fund types. 2) The unions on campus put up a unified front against Trump's demands.

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It looks very much like the Department of Homeland Security memo seeking to revoke Ozturk's visa copied language directly from the Canary Mission website. Is DHS just following the "deport list" from an anonymous website? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

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Add the 24-25 Celtics (61-21) to this list -- the 12th 60-win defending champion since the ABA-NBA merger in 1976.

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Mayor Michelle Wu has declared April 10, 2025, as Ayo Edebiri Day in the City of Boston, in honor of the actress, comedian, television writer, and Dorchester native. ❤️

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Paul Volcker tho

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Union households are less supportive of tariffs than non-union households. Suggests an unforced error by UAW leadership via @jdcmedlock.bsky.social

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In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Asheesh Kapur Siddique, about his recent book, The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World (@yalepress.bsky.social).

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Central bank independence is in the long run bad for democracy and, in this particular conjuncture, possibly the only thing capable of saving it. This is, as Marx might say, a contradiction.

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"History doesn't stop moving. That's why modern-day leftists should take their talking points from a political party that collapsed in the 1850s."

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Shawn Fain's fall-off is approaching Ben Simmons levels

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An old rich guy is trying to destroy the world before he croaks, and the success of his plan depends in significant part on something called "the algorithm" that works in a way no one can adequately explain. Is TENET the most unexpectedly prescient film of all time???

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Coretta Scott King was a relentless freedom fighter in her own right and Martin Luther King’s political partner—the “family leader” on peace and global justice. Why don’t we know this? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Filed our taxes from start to finish during the baby's nap LFGGGGGGGG

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In 2015, University of Cincinnati police killed Samuel DuBose—not a university affiliate—miles away from campus after a routine traffic stop. This doesn’t just make Columbia students and faculty less safe; it makes all New Yorkers less safe.

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Many thanks to Miranda Melcher for interviewing me about THE INTERNAL COLONY for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: newbooksnetwork.com/the-internal...

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