I give to this group every month. You should too.

I'm going to post this alot--free concert, dance party, ritual of healing, urban gathering, sunset ceremony in Flint, MI withe the LEGENDARY Mama Sol. You gotta register--link in poster.

I didn't think this was real when I heard it, but I guess some developers want to turn Belle Isle in Detroit into some gated community for rich people. Listen to the two white guys talk about what's best for Detroit to gullible local media. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Pg...

My cats are cool, but I know deep down they'd cross a picket line. Dogs on the other hand know what solidarity is all about.

The PITT of academia needs to set at a school like mine, where the vast majority of students actually attend. Unionizing efforts by faculty, evil consultants, students who can't come to class because they can't get off work, classrooms with dripping cracks in the ceiling. . . ..

I'm teaching a class with a dance professor which culminates in a free public performance in Flint. Anybody who wants to a) see a free performance by Flint hip hop legend Mama Sol and a number of other dancers/artists; b) watch an old dude and his students dance, should register and attend.

You bet Nancy has an ambivalent relationship to Habermas-at various times she told me to add more, and completely cut, his work from my dissertation.

I'm teaching a class with a dance professor which culminates in a free public performance in Flint. Anybody who wants to a) see a free performance by Flint hip hop legend Mama Sol and a number of other dancers/artists; b) watch an old dude and his students dance, should register and attend.

Welcome to Detroit MC5

all cats are anarchists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RLb...

Once again, it's tempting to do the "enemy of my enemy thing" but . . .

The idea that Israel could force the US, the Trump admin, or the foreign policy establishment to do anything that it wasn't already inclined to do is, as Joel says, the "worst kind of conspiratorial antisemitism"

So many post about Habermas today. Part of my first book is a deep dive into his work. What I most remember about writing it is waiting in front of Bobst before it opened so I could get the good table on the 8th floor that looked down upon Washington Square. search.worldcat.org/title/813844...

We deserve better and Standing Together deserves your support.

Star Trek is a very serious sci-fi show about exploring space and the human condition. Also: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3vl...

I give to this group monthly. Read this and you can see why I think they are the best hope for peace and justice in Israel/Palestine.

@bonniehonig.bsky.social A great thinker, person, and UM-Flint Grad passed away recently--William Connolly. I invited him to speak at school and we went to the Sit Down Strike Memorial and saw the brick with his dad's name on it. Here are some pictures.

Almost every elite either gained elite status or keeps it using networks-ethnic, private school, sports. There's nothing inherently jewish about it, like this article implies.

This is so sad. I invited Bill to come to UM-Flint to speak and surprisingly, he came. We drove all around Flint and he showed me where his old house used to be (sadly, like so much in Flint, it's now a vacant lot. His path from son of a sit down striker, to BA at UM-Flint, UM-Ann Arbor 1/

I'm sure historians already know this but I was blown away how this article states that the Morrill Land Grant Act, which could only pass Congress after succession, "was essentially a "just and holy punishment from a vengeful nation" on the South. 1/ www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

My buddy Sean, an autoworker at GM,and long-time leader UAWD (Unite All Workers for Democracy-a reform caucus in the UAW) has been doing powerful international solidarity work for years is interviewed in this piece. Yous should read it! mexicosolidarityproject.org/archives/258/

I thought my daughter wanted to come to my class to watch me teach. I found out she had other intentions.

My buddy Sean, an autoworker at GM,and long-time leader UAWD (Unite All Workers for Democracy-a reform caucus in the UAW) has been doing powerful international solidarity work for years is interviewed in this piece. Yous should read it! mexicosolidarityproject.org/archives/258/

I was asked by my old grad school friend Francisco Carballo to write something about Mamadani's win--take a look if you have time: postcolonialpolitics.org/mamdanis-new...

I was asked by my old grad school friend Francisco Carballo to write something about Mamadani's win--take a look if you have time: postcolonialpolitics.org/mamdanis-new...

I gave to Temple Beth Israel in Jackson, MS, the synagogue that suffered a fascist arson attack yesterday. Watch the history video-in 1967 it was bombed due to the Rabbi's support of Civil Rights. The video also has some expert alter kaker k'vetching about the heat. www.bethisraelms.org/history

I geeked out on Great Lakes Shipping yesterday. My family somewhat tolerated it.

I mean, we should focus on the unique monstrosity of this one listing, but Ann Arbor and it's neolib YIMBY political class (bought and paid for by tech bros) has created a whole TOWN filled with slightly mini versions of this.

glad to know that I'm not the only one that "starts local and then goes intergalactic" with their feelings and ambitions, (for good or ill) after cooking latkes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIxA...

Doctorow with a perfect recent history of facebook-at appx. 12min "Zukerberg decided the future wouldn't consist of you arguing with your most racist uncle using a primitive text interface that he created in his Harvard dorm to non consensually rate 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA0Y...

Why am I learning about a huge data center and the massive subsidies (one of FOUR proposed near Ann Arbor) from the Guardian? The local online "paper" has run next to nothing. Of course our shitty Dem. Gov. is totally on board with this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I agree but what happens is Unis hire their own bullshit consulting firms to produce their own numbers. In a personal cruel irony, Huron Con. was used both at the NS, where I'm an alum, and my current school, to produce reports recommending gutting humanities, soc. sci.

Nostalgic for the old, crazy, meaningful and important New School for Social Research, which is currently under attack by it's own admin. (I showed my daughter this picture and she asked, "what did you take THAT with") Got an email from a current faculty who is encouraging alums to write 1/

Nostalgic for the old, crazy, meaningful and important New School for Social Research, which is currently under attack by it's own admin. (I showed my daughter this picture and she asked, "what did you take THAT with") Got an email from a current faculty who is encouraging alums to write 1/

Typical and infuriating. We students were saying the same thing when Kerry decided to tear down the 5th Av. building to build his gilded tower. Not only did that send the NS down the NYU we want to be a real estate firm not a U. path, but also I really dug the escalators in the old building.

Why care about a little school of malcontents (as an alum I'm in that category)? Because the "lets kill stuff that doesn't make us rich (anthro, etc.) so we can buy stuff that makes us and our friends rich (more buildings, high admin salary) attitude is a virus that spreads to everything.

You know the New School wasn't the perfect place (when someone on your dis. com. says "this part was so bad it made me laugh out loud"--that hurts) but the students and their stubborn belief in the animating values of the place was was kept me there and still make me proud. Read this.

So grateful for the amazing graduate students who wrote this 'Open Letter on The New School’s “Restructuring” Plans', published on @eflux.bsky.social (including link with petition to condemn admin!) @newschoolaaup.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/notes/678343...

Ever since I started at the New School, there was talk about financial troubles. It finally looks like the axe is about to fall. The name will still be on the building, but it's spirit will be dead. So many of us left other more stable institutions because we believed in that spirit.

"Flowers, by themselves, have no power whatsoever, other than the power of men and women who protect them and take care of them against aggression and destruction." H. Marcuse

I was reading about the collapse of Podemos in Spain and was confused by this: "Our leaders, like those of Syriza, were deeply influenced by the Argentinian political theorist Ernesto Laclau, 1/ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The most Detroit thing about this story is not that a goat escaped from the "Psychedelic Healing Shack" and terrorized a family, but at the end of the story that Colbert agrees with Grace Lee Boggs that "Detroit is the city of Hope," and commits to retiring there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAtF...

When the great Stanley Aronowitz said at the school where I work in Flint MI that workers deserved to read Plato just as much as the rich, the crowd, packed with workers and students whose parents are workers, stood up and applauded.

What's crazy about this is that money problems at the New School aren't new. Money was tight when I was there in the 90s, and guess what, it's still tight. Total failure of the people in charge--admin after admin.

More on the debilitating cuts at my former school.

So it's happening again at my old school-threatening to shut it down. In lieu of any national higher ed policy or any move by the large foundations (Yo Carnegie) perhaps, crazy ideas unions should invest in the Grad Faculty and turn it into a national labor University?

@jjoque.bsky.social ??

The kids are alright edition #24958409--from my 11yr old daughter "I don't think I would like a robot as a friend cuz you have to program it to like you & their is not real friendship or opinions about each other. I mean its just metal, rubber, glass, & a mother board when real humans have so 1/