“Anti-wokeism is about giving ideological cover to longstanding priorities on the right—dismantling the welfare state and ramping up the carceral state, especially in the form of immigrant deportation and detention.” Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen:

I wish I was committed and had enough coordination to be a professional gamer. A glorious dorky life.

What do you do with a toddler with Chucky doll tendencies?

I think he desperately wants to do something else and doesn’t know how to transition.

Yes because if Craig can get fired on his day off, I can definitely be fired on my birthday.

It’s frustrating as a movie lover to endure the age of streaming. Netflix REALLY doesn’t care about storytelling.

The merge part is so effective because we’ve been militarizing local police forces for years.

What happened to taking terrible dating advice from your human friends? At least then you could glare at them. Also, do you need a bot to tell you to say hi? 😂

It’s kind of maddening to think about how good Black folks have to be to get a sliver of opportunity. There are very few Black folks in academia but a full assault on the few that are here, by a white federal government that can’t even fire people correctly.

I teach college freshman, they don’t know where they stand on the political spectrum. We should resist the urge to label teenagers as leaning rightward because the fact of the matter is that none of this is a forgone conclusion because they are too damn young. They are children.

Trump can’t be in his right mind.

Parents have a responsibility to protect their children and too many are being incredibly stupid.

I’m happy for Texas Tech. They’ve forfeited being a university but at least they can be a proper football team academy.

Maybe it’s just because I like beer, but the Brewers have the best nickname and color scheme. I don’t like baseball but I can appreciate a good name and color scheme.

Many, many race scholars and state violence scholars have tried to explain this.

Two year olds are so fun. We took Ellington to see Halloween lights and his eyes were so big.

Mayhew has never let us down. Somebody is worried about reelection big time.

Pre wiping with a bidet finish is my guess.

They rely on the young, stupid, and naive.

Starting to think the best way to explain that I’m not off because I don’t teach class everyday, is explaining that I can produce or I can choose to get fired by doing only one part of my job twice a week. Professors aren‘t “off” y’all.

UT Dallas is hiring in international politics, emphasis on conflict. jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30535

Black folks are usually cops and they do that because it‘s a stable job with government benefits. A couple of my focus groups touch on this point but more extensive research has similar findings. I honestly haven’t seen many Black ICE agents but maybe those commercials will change that.

Oregon has the nicest football uniforms. You would think they weren’t laying off professors.

Trump is losing a lot of court cases because everyone knows his administration and the Supreme Court lack legitimacy.

I want undergrads and grads to go to citation boot camp prior to regular classes. You have to know how to cite. You have to know to cite. You ain’t come up with that.

Living off coffee and spite.

More and more, what state you live in is going to determine your life expectancy. What’s happening in South Carolina is inexcusable.

Congress could stop all of this anytime. sigh

We have to take Ellington and Miles back to the Dominican Republic to see family but they also need to go to Alabama to meet the 5 billion cousins they have. There’s going to be a lot of travel next year.

It’s already a federal holiday. Soooo…he’s doing nothing but putting his name on it again.

The answer is no. There‘s no mulling needed.

Life as a faculty to member has really sped up and I don’t see it slowing down anytime soon. I think this is just what it’s going to be until I’m dead or kicked out. 😂

A tale as old as time as Black folks look on, eat chips, and say, “I told you so.“ 😂

It's also true, btw, that some of the worst authoritarian regimes can have a rule of law, just not necessarily an ideal one (not that ours has ever been ideal - there are degrees). My spouse is a legal scholar of imperial Russia whose new book addresses exactly this, if I sound crazy. a.co/d/atffEVT

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Keep letting him incriminate himself. He wouldn’t be the first Trump lackey to end up in prison because he talks too much.

Lmao. We should show this video in methods courses.

My rule for social media is if you want me to argue with you, your thoughts have to at least be coherent. That’s the rule.

I stressed to the grad students that they have to take ownership of their research. I’ll advise but they have to be willing to try, fail, take critique, and try again. That’s the game students.

Trump relies so much on young idiots to do his bidding. People just happy to be in positions they know they are unqualified for.

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We have a two year old. How?!

UAlbany renewed my contract so you all are stuck with me as a professor at least until 2029. Ha! 😂

El Bear will be 2 tomorrow. 😭😭😭😭

One of my favorite scholars, and a friend!

Today a student asked me what I was teaching next semester. I told them my race course. They are hoping to join the class, schedule permitting (they major in business). I basically use intro to get the students to study about Race and Politics. I'm a big fan of indoctrination.

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I had to tell my 5 year old that the police aren’t inherently good guys because he was a little too gung ho on his little game he made up. He’s getting a glimpse of his professor dad. Poor thing. 😂😬

I’m otherworldly tired this semester. I just want the allusion of the protections of tenure before they go away next year. 😂😭

I get the itch to well-actually, but I’m talking about them nearly killing an entire demographic of people in a few short years regardless of whether it meets the exact definition of efficient.