I gave to Temple Beth Israel in Jackson, MI, 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 gave to Temple Beth Israel in Jackson, MI, 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/

It's always a challenge trying to figure out how hard/honest one can be on local media. You can't straight up and say Trump is a fascist and Schumer is a coward, but you have to imply it. Tell me how I did. www.abc12.com/video/democr...

Buy this dope photography book from my friend Karen. In an age of phonies and sell outs she's the real deal, at true artist.

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family. It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support. Thank you for your consideration.

Teaching parties today and I wanted to talk about the left wing insurgents of the Dems. Watched Mamdani's scavenger hunt video and noticed a DOPE call out to Tribe Called Quest. "Mr. Dinkins will you please be my MAYOR, you'd be doing us a really big FAVOR." www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_DO...

It's Roger and Me day in Intro to American Government at the University of Michigan-Flint, where I show excerpts from our most famous drop out's first movie. Often when I drive to work through town past scenes like this, I have this song going through my head. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM43...

My buddy @robmickey.bsky.social basically calls masked cops Klan members in the NYT. Yeah, he's got chuztpah--but yous gotta know he learned it from me. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Once again, I bestow a cosmic Yawp to the universe that she and I have the same sized hands.

Labor Day Time Machine dispatch from Flint, MI. "We'll see if they can get through 10,000 men," says UAW Regional Director Jack Holt. Can anybody guess what book this is from? Clue, the title is in the paragraph.

If anyone is like me and occasionally suffers from anhedonia, watch this video, or really any of the Miles in Transit videos. You don't have to like trains, but is is amazing to watch a cool diverse group of people remind you how to enjoy the everyday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLNs...

Of course most of us teach at and go to colleges where people teach a lot in smallish classes--community colleges and regional publics. George Will sucked in the 1980s when I first read him in the Post growing up and it seems his suckage has grown. So glad canceled my subscription.

It's so sad that the NYT thinks it has to run this to educate it's readers that all colleges aren't Penn, Oberlin and UVA. The comments make me think that interventions won't stick with the typical Times reader

I love this not just because it's a big fuck you to Nixon, but also because it's made of totally dope hippie leather (or perhaps suede--in my book pretty much the same thing!)

We are approaching a PATCO like inflection point in the labor movement. We need to be aware that our national leadership might not be up to the challenge. Without the NLRA direct action is the only tool we have. I don't relish this new age for unions. www.law360.com/articles/237...

Resistance in it's most tasty, scrumptious form.

Great idea. In my specific context, I think that many regional publics in non red states like mine should start to transform themselves into New New College of Florida like schools-- flexible curriculum, democratic education, community focus, Let 1000 New Colleges Bloom!!

@beckychb013.bsky.social Hey look at my daughter's book project. She's manifesting the novel becoming a movie. After the buckets of cash start rolling in, you can give her a big tip. Or put her in the movie.

I have always been, and will forever be, proud of the fact that Lily Tomlin and I have the same sized hands.

It's so uncanny how Flint, MI is such a city of firsts. Birth of industrial unionism, first fair housing law, and, sadly, take over of local government by right-wing, neoliberal fascists.

I don't like this approach--we all face the prospect of administrators taking away our rights--whether the impetus comes from the federal government or within the institution. We need to organize national actions--like a week long faculty strike--addressing the threats to higher education.

@bookstorememoir.bsky.social Hey you seen this? bsky.app/profile/pghg...

I was in Scotland last week. I was afraid people would be angry at me because of Trump. They were refreshingly sympathetic. I told everyone I met to go and fuck his shit up. I see my directives were followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/w...

Statement from our local on repression of student protest at U Michigan.

One of the great honors of my life was going around Summerville MA in 1996 with some of these strikers, handing out flyers to neighbors of a Knight-Ridder board member warning them that they had a corporate criminal living in their neighborhood. deadlinedetroit.com/articles/333...

Dad selfie from union camp. (some squares call it the IFT Great Lakes Union Leadership Institute, not cool kids like me). Took the grievance class and now I wanna write grievances against everybody. Wanna grieve your Dean-hit me up. Wanna grieve your kid-hit me up. Endless possibilities.

I am proud to say that I was once a resident of the Commie Corridor.