The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.”

The past two hours in #Palestine and #Lebanon.

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

This was never about targeting violent criminals. This was always a wind up to the full attack on Black, Brown and Muslim immigrants we’ve seen burst wide open this week. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Guardian interview with Babson College Student, Any Lucia López Belloza, deported to Honduras in defiance of court order. Her resilience in the face of all this is stunning. At Babson, we are furious and look to support her and the family any way we can. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

"If you believe a Palestinian child is equal in dignity and worth to an Israeli or American child, it is no longer possible to support this Israeli government while hiding behind platitudes about peace." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

Whenever the right screams "Western Civilization" just replace it with "great replacement theory" with all its racial, colonial and gendered implications. White settler masculinity performing victimization and violent domination in one stroke.

This is the result of the CIA using children to kill people and yet a whole lot of people don’t want to recognize *American* culture, and in particular the culture of the War on Terror, at work here.

Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.

BREAKING: A new wave of union baristas are joining the longest ULP strike in Starbucks history! 2,500 union baristas across 120+ stores in 85 cities are now on an open-ended ULP strike. We're SIXTEEN DAYS in and only getting stronger ✊

The real NVIDIA earnings are the friends we made along the way

Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!

“Iowa City eliminated bus fares in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions… The two-year pilot program proved so popular that the City Council voted this summer to extend it another year, paying for it with a 1% increase in utility taxes and by doubling most public parking rates to $2 from $1”

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

After the NYTimes published the op-ed "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", I remembered that a NYTimes Guild report in 2021 found "Overall, median pay for women was $10,000 less per year than for men, meaning women earned roughly 92 percent of what men earned." nytimesguild.org/papers/2021-...

Mamdani Wins, Cheney Dies...a Chef's Kiss Day! ❤️❤️👨‍🍳💋

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

I have to say, in the long history of “Marx failed to consider” takes by internet reply-guys, “Marx failed to consider the use-value of warm coats” should win its own category of award

Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.

“During a lengthy back-and-forth in which he & Carlson found common ground… Fuentes said that “your wife ultimately is subordinate to you” and intimated that no-fault divorce gets in the way of relegating women to their supposed natural lower status. (“I’m a little sexist,” Carlson openly admitted)”

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

Another fundamentally cynical aspect of this narrative is the idea that pundits like Douthats wouldn't *also* accuse Democrats of radicalism if they passed a bunch of 'kitchen-table' policies. Are we really gonna pretend the NYT op-ed page would support a $20 minimum wage?

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

oh just straight up gutter racism!

Cuomo’s closing pitch is just gutter racism against his opponent bsky.app/profile/bfis...

Reuters: DEMOCRATIC-LED STATES FILE LAWSUIT TO BLOCK TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM SUSPENDING SNAP BENEFITS DURING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

complete batshit insanity

Finally able to listen to this fantastic episode on this important specific topic with some other great insights on links between anti-trans-ness and fascism and anti-intellectualism with the brilliant Sheree Becker & @annaposbergh.bsky.social I look forward to their article‘s publication

An amazing story of this decade was the ADL turning all its fire on Israel critics while tech companies dismantled their censors and Hitler-lovers came roaring back.

Yes, all of this - I teach the exact same social movement principles/practices in a radical politics class - 👇 - it's clear some of these commentators have never studied social movement history.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

The @nytimes.com produces a lot of "brown liquid" coverage.

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

I realize that all the "we are going to win" inspiration posting codes as aesthetically liberal (being left is being unimpressed) and invites the responses you'd guess from a certain genre of more radical than thou poster but still surprised at the particular condescension strategies people go for

BREAKING: At least 51 Palestinians have been killed across Gaza by Israeli attacks since the ceasefire came into effect less than two weeks ago, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/z1q2d3

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

"White people have come to see victimhood as a kind of currency — something you can accumulate, trade, and spend politically."

There seems to be a concerted, coordinated effort from the White House and various governmental agencies to join Bluesky en masse prior to the "No Kings" protest and flood the zone. A reminder that the Trump admin is monitoring social media platforms to find excuses to revoke visas:

Here's a slide from one of my courses - kinda sums it all up really. Quotes from the wonderful Anthea Butler whose book White Evangelical Racism everyone should read.

Quite a day for football's soft power in Egypt. Trump shaking hands with Man City owner Sheikh Mansour as he talks about how his state has "limitless cash" and then Infantino appearing at the end of the photo of world leaders.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Many are saying we live in bad faith times badfaithtimes.com/motivated-on...

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

I theorize abolitionist political thinking and activism as “realist”: oriented to practical realities in pursuit of radical change and indispensable for fighting back against strongman politics.

Thanks so much, Mary! Deadline 10/10 to apply for the free seminar for junior faculty and grad students on Native peoples and the Constitution.

The "I would never be at peace" part is really telling. Work addiction has always been encouraged by capitalists as a way of productively weaponizing our own misery and loneliness for their profit. Don't fall for it

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...