NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED! Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold. Please click below, sign, & share. #DefendHigherEd

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

The @washingtonpost.com should be doing daily stories about the regular people in DC who are getting detained and deported. The impact on their families. The tears in the fabric of the local community.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

“All of it bears Trump's signature, but the president is not the one spending his nights writing executive orders and bending legal theory to his will; nearly all of this bears the authorship (or, at least, co-authorship) of [Stephen] Miller.“ www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

With faces, too

At least everyone’s electric bills are going up for the good cause of letting a handful of creeps run an art stealing business

the electrical grid in Louisiana and Texas. nope, don’t see anything to worry about there 🤡 apnews.com/article/meta...

this is all that explainer journalism™️ is capable of

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

I went on the Virginia Humanities show "With Good Reason" to talk about the Haitian Revolution: withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/lafa...

statehood for DC

“after dropping his child off at John Lewis Elementary School, our neighbor and friend was suddenly detained by federal agents on his way to work.” - Fundraiser: www.popville.com/2025/09/afte...

every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards

A vital record of Black life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is now online. Hancock County Library System, with help from Community Webs & @InternetArchive, has digitized the Mississippi Star. Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/09/03/l... 🧵

Long week and thus a late Friday post. I spent days digging into the pro-Israel and genocide denying complaints about the IPC Famine and Int'l Association of Genocide Scholars reports about Gaza ... and, man, the excuses are really getting embarrassing. New Racket. theracket.news/p/denial-ain...

Excited to share the launch of the Global Africa Transcontinental Seminar-- a partnership between: UW African Studies Cheikh Anta Diop University (Dakar) Sciences Po (Paris) Our monthly seminar will connect learners across Africa, Europe, and North America to explore Global Africa. More soon! 📚

🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US. Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.

D.C. is pounding pavement! ✊🏼 Power to the People ✊🏼

More people in DC than in Wyoming or Vermont. Coming up on Alaska and North Dakota. Per capita, we pay more federal income tax than any of the states. (Incl NY, CA, CT, etc.) Voice in Congress: Zero. Have never before felt as much DC-specific patriotism—across race and class—as now.

My own little hill to die on: If Bari Weiss is going to be running all of CBS News, maybe she should start by correcting her reporter @olivia-reingold.bsky.social's lie that the IPC cut its threshold for malnutrition in half. They didn't, as I explained here: theracket.news/p/no-the-un-...

We also now watch Raoul Peck’s Exterminate All the Brutes as part of the intro to the Caribbean. Class poll revealed no one knew what HBO stood for 🤷‍♀️ www.hbomax.com/shows/exterm...

Thousands protest for a ‘Free DC’ on the 4th week of federal control in Washington

The “We Are All DC” March is massive. Thousands of people marching down 16th Street NW against the occupation of DC.

Bookmarked for my Atlantic Piracy class which, since I last taught it, now no longer ends with the guerrilla open access manifesto, but with the bad-faith pirating of massive datasets of digitized material to train LLMs and other AI tools. Oof. “progress” etc

blueskyism whatever, this place was better before the many, many people we know went offline earlier this year, rightly fearing being targeted for their views. they’re still not back on here and the discourse is worse/narrower/stupider because of it

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

It's from Getty Images. The photographer is Majdi Fathi. There are a bunch of other shots from the burst:

Some thoughts on the genocide underway in Gaza. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/04/i...

En direct, Gaza : le nombre de morts dus à la famine et à la malnutrition dans la bande de Gaza depuis le début du conflit s’élève à 370

DC residents and allies across the country will rise up on Saturday to demand an end to DC's occupation. BE THERE! Get your friends, neighbors, congregation, and community to join the national event this Saturday at 11 AM in Malcolm X Park. Sign up at bit.ly/we-are-all-dc

“FYI another checkpoint” www.popville.com/2025/09/fyi-...

495 overpass protests Labor Day DC #freeDC

It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime

In 1876, white terrorists attacked Black members of a militia company at Hamburg, SC. They killed half a dozen Black men, executing several after their surrender. In 1916, the state erected a monument to the 1 terrorist killed in the assault, lauding his sacrifice for "Anglo-Saxon civilization."

::taps Stephen Miller sign:: africasacountry.com/2019/03/camp...

10 yr old told me this was my card 🥹🤓

And if you want a longer read, you can check out my new biography of the Haitian revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

234 years ago, enslaved men and women rose in revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. They secured the first permanent abolition of slavery, and eventually declared Haitian independence on January 1, 1804. 🇭🇹 www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...

That 17% of strongly support and somewhat support is high for DC though…?

Signs of the Times: The Sandwich Man edition - Enjoy the scroll: www.popville.com/2025/08/sign...

Preface by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Not my 10 year old starting to formulate a genuine politics for the current moment via our old Green Day CDs 😭😭

Listen I’m guilty of the occasional erroneous possessive Adam’s Morgan, but it’s Dupont. Not DuPont. Just ya know, for those wanting to claim credibility to speak on DC jewelry theft etc