On this day in history, John Brown was executed for attempting to lead a slave revolt in Virginia. Some of his last words were: “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood.”

🚨New Publication Alert! 🚨 Ecopolitical Psychology at the Capital-Climate Nexus: A Research Agenda for the Capitalocene - by yours truly* Article in Special Issue on "The Next Big Ideas in Psychology" in Review of General Psychology *Link to free download, end of 🧵 1/n doi.org/10.1177/1089...

Check out our new article in the Journal of Environmental Psychology!

Do conservatives oppose all environmentalist initiatives, or does the compatibility of conservatism with environmentalism vary by sociocultural context? (more below!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My heart is with my Iranian friends and their families. May everyone live.

Dr. Noor Abdalla should be together with her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, adjusting to life as new parents together. Instead, Mahmoud is detained in Louisiana for his political advocacy in support of Palestinian rights. We won't stop fighting until Mahmoud is reunited with Noor and baby Deen.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

“IDF materials show that soldiers reloaded their magazines multiple times while shooting at 12 aid workers who tried to identify themselves” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Yale punishing students for protesting a leader of a government internationally accused of genocide comes one day after the school signed a statement saying their campus was where students are free to exchange ideas and opinions without fear of retribution or censorship

Wild— Mohsen Mahdawi asked Columbia to publicly admit what they did privately: that he & other students were not "threatening"—and that he in fact *confronted* an antisemitic disruptor. They ignored him. Weeks later, the Trump admin cited Columbia's own unretracted lie to justify arresting Mohsen.

A person told me they changed their research agenda because of conservative threats on certain subjects. I wrinkled my nose, because I’ll be damned if I’m going to be scared away from doing my research because some white folks don’t like it.

From the 2003 preface of Said's Orientalism. "For all it's often noted defects and problems, the American University - and mine, Columbia, in particular - is still one of the few remaining places in the US where reflection and study can take place in an almost-utopian fashion." Welp.

Social science gives us the tools to understand the very forces that fear it. Kudos to @marahalkire.bsky.social for leading this piece, in which she, @clarawilkins.bsky.social, and I share how, to many people, recent pushes to root out “anti-Christian bias” serve to signal pro-White allegiance.

Hundreds of students and graduates who have protested or shown support for Palestine have had their visas revoked by immigration officials since US President Donald Trump took office for a second time, with several also arrested. Here's what we know aje.io/f193q0

It shouldn't matter if Trump’s victims have criminal records. If we only defend the “innocent,” the fascists will argue that their victim “was no angel.” An anti-fascist rhetoric that carves out exceptions for imperfect victims is a gift to our opponents. New from me for @us.theguardian.com:

Free Mahmoud Khalil, free Rumeysa Ozturk, free Kilmar Abrego Garcia, free Mohsen Mahdawi, free Dogukan Dunyadin, free Andry Hernandez Romero, free them all and close the camps! Hard to express in words how horrifying this all is.

🎉 Just published in Nature Human Behavior 🎉 Do liberals or conservatives in the US trust scientists more? You might assume it's liberals, but studies often fail to consider the diversity of scientific disciplines! 🔬 nature.com/articles/s41... [1/6]🧵

Undermine their “peace process” that entails flattening Gaza and its ethnic cleansing? In that case they’re absolutely right.

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Mohsen Mahdawi at a Nov 2023 rally: "The first to stop an act of antisemitism was 5 of us—to go and tell the guy, ‘You don’t represent us because we have Jewish brothers & sisters who stand with us," arguing neither admin nor pro-Israel crowd moved to intervene Mahmoud Khalil standing right behind

Ask the right questions, white folks!

Here's my piece on this in the Guardian almost two months ago where I wrote that Laken Riley was just the first step in Trump's mass deportation plan and sounded the alarm that democrats were going along with it. This has never been just a Republican agenda. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Of course the jackass has no comment. The thing about both Mohsen and Mahmoud is that they did everything by the book. Their faces weren’t covered, they repeated again and again their hate for all hate, including antisemitism. They spoke to people who disagreed with them. They took the best of us.

🚨The Trump admin is completely ignoring the courts. It's rounding people up in the streets. It's saying "homegrowns" next. If you work for the government or Congress & have any info or tips or feelings to share, please Signal me premthakker.35 Your anonymity will be protected

Mahmoud Khalil was a breaking point, the vertex of so many contradictions. Now, Mohsen Mahdawi presents one more chance for all of us in this country to look at each other, and to know this is not what we choose to be part of. There is nothing to be done in this moment except everything.

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

Many national parks sidestep the opportunity to educate millions and to “inspire civic engagement” around the issue of climate, according to @universityofkansas.bsky.social research appearing in the @spssi.bsky.social journal Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. news.ku.edu/news/article...

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Every actor, director, and member of the Academy be like

This is absolute insanity. US is one of the most dangerous places to visit at the moment. Armed masked people can simply kidnap you at broad daylight. I hope Rumeysa is safe and not experiencing torture atm. It’s horrifying. DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE US.

Realize how cruel we have become to even start counting anew since March 18 as if the +60,000 people who were killed over the past 17 months died somewhere else or by different killers.

UPDATE: Palestine Studies Search is back up! They could delay us and annoy us, but they could not keep us down. Please apply, share with friends, cannot wait to meet our new colleagues. hrsa.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp/erecruit...

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

NEW EMAIL FROM COLUMBIA ADMIN: DHS agents were in two university residences tonight — with two warrants "I am writing heartbroken to inform you that we had federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in two University residences tonight." No arrests made.

Free Mahmoud Khalil

Super easy way to support/make demands re: the illegal detention of Khalil... actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

NEW—Mahmoud Khalil's wife: "I was born & raised in the Midwest. My parents came here from Syria…They believed living in the US would bring a sense of safety & stability. But here I am…weeks before I’m due to give birth to our first child…I feel more unsafe & unstable than I have in my entire life."

Mahmoud Khalil was abducted from his home for speaking out and organizing against the institutions that seek to annihilate his people.

There is no world in which it is acceptable for a professor to work so assiduously to try and get students studying at his university arrested, kidnapped and deported. And I cannot believe this man actually trying to suggest he is under threat.

This fucking liberal discourse solely focused on defending “legal residents” and citizens as opposed to “illegal aliens” shows how the Democratic Party creates the conditions for more explicit fascist policies.

Mahmoud Khalil emailed Columbia interim president Katrina Armstrong, basically begging for help because of all the threats he received during a coordinated campaign against him.

The Onion is the only trustworthy media outlet.