I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

I hope every journalist, comedian, professor, podcast/talkshow host, and politician that did "both-sides" takes about "cancel culture" and "free speech" for the past decade loses sleep over how absolutely ridiculous they have been while we see that censorship has fully become foundational GOP policy

The UN officially determines that Israel is committing genocide. How many reports need to confirm what Palestinians have been saying for years? Does international law protect anyone from Western imperialism? I want to be something other than cynical today. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

This is why these jokesters should never be cops: they always try and make the evidence fit their narrative instead of just following the evidence.

So apparently people are losing their jobs for literally responding to CK's death by quoting things he himself actually said. Idk, if using the man's own words that he stood behind repeatedly is "speaking ill of the dead" then maybe that says something about the dead.

New faculty page headshot is up and for the first time in my career the photo makes me smile more than the text. What a wonder of a cocktail of makeup, a new haircut, and hormones is for gender dysphoria.

Things that are "political violence": -When people die due to lack of healthcare -police violence against Black, Brown, trans, and disabled people -ICE raids -Raiding houseless encampments -mask bans -Cop cities -Supporting literal genocide in Palestine -Prisons -anti-trans bathroom bills

Raiding homeless encampments is a form of political violence, btw.

The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away

If you haven't condemned a literal genocide without qualification for the last two years you can STFU about "political violence" today.

"There are not only two genders" is a legitimate expression of a fairly uncontroversial, centuries-old viewpoint held by cultural traditions found around the globe. It is in fact the statement "there are only two genders" that is the imposition of a partisan view. TA&M''s pres's decision is horrific

Black & Pink Prison Abolition Syllabus we.riseup.net/plsn/black-p...

Hello C19-ers! The deadline for submitting panel/roundtable or individual paper proposals for 2026 conference in Cincinnati is TODAY! And the deadline for submitting a proposal to one of our seminars is SEPT 15TH! www.c19society.org/2026-confere...

Always read Robin D.G. Kelley: "We need to create a new university. And we will never change anything unless we are organized," and, how? in the style of Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, "putting...body and...future on the line" www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...

I love this new haircut I have NEVER IN MY LIFE been happy with how my own face looks in the way that I am now

Solidarity against racial capitalism, always #LaborDay

My health insurance is dropping gender affirming care coverage for both children AND adults soon because the US government thinks trans people shouldn't exist, BUT I just got huge gender euphoria from this haircut so THERE ☺️

Congrats, @jessagoldberg.bsky.social!! Can’t wait to read and teach!!! 👏🏼

When this program started, I was like - this is basically race-based, not safety-based enforcement program and here is the logical outcome. Mayor Bowser and MPD set this ball on the tee for ICE and they are hitting it: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser. One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.

Hi, just echoing the point that Trump's attack on museums teaching about "the bad parts" of US history, especially how horrific racial chattel slavery, specifically, was, is not a distraction and should be fought loudly and vigorously.

much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.

"Republican-led states send troops to militarily occupy Democrat-led city in which African Americans make up the largest racial demographic" is quite the fucking reality to live in.

Liberals' obsession with "debate" & faith in out-reasoning people who aren't arguing in good faith has been pissing me off since i was 18yo. You don't debate people who are wrong. You correct them. And if they make policies that hurt & kill people based on their false reality, then you fight them.

Yup. And also this is how you should behave towards all cops all the time (if you're white and cis and not disabled) ☺️

And we're implementing work requirements for Medicaid at the same time.

If nine political appointees can decide if you have rights or not, that's probably not a good system regardless of who those nine specific people are. Not trying to sound like a smartass. Genuinely pissed and furious. I'm also just tired of screaming about SCOTUS every single year of my adulthood.

Yes layers but really most anti-urban discourse in the US is fundamentally based in racism. Whitestream culture teaches people that cities are where Black people & immigrants live, and that those people are "scary." Short leap from that to rabid pro-cop society to deploying national guard in cities.

Ummm, this is bad. Very very bad. www.texastribune.org/2025/08/07/t...

"It's this person's job to hurt and kill you & your family" is a pretty good opener for talking with people about the alternative (a publicly owned grid) & utility justice in general, IMO

Of course. For all the mythology about "cultural Marxist" colleges, it remains true that universities are fundamentally conservative institutions run by capitalists. It is consistently the students who lead in the historically right direction against the currents of their institutions.

On my syllabi! ⬇️

Finished my syllabus for my American Lit I survey today. Turning what was an in-person class the last two times I taught it into an online class. Thankfully I did American Lit II online last year so I had a model. Anyway, I love teaching both halves of the survey. Very traditional, I know 😂

As we approach a new academic year, I'd like to humbly ask you to consider teaching from my new book *Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice,* published by the University of Minnesota Press in December 2024.

Teaching unions (K-12 and Higher Ed) need a hard line against A.I.

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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Obviously yes you should read Andrea Long Chu’s latest for all the usual reasons (thrillingly blistering assessment of worthy target) — but these two somewhat standalone paragraphs exploring the true nature of American free speech left me absolutely gobsmacked www.vulture.com/article/post...

Educate and enforce: How universities are deepening ties with federal immigration agencies ICE and CBP are merging with institutions of higher education to form a new academic police state prismreports.org/2025/07/31/h...

As a society, we either all decide to band together to destroy Amazon or we wind up living in the part of every sci-fi plot of the last 100 years that begins its world building by scaling up the capitalist horrors of the early 20th-century company town with militarized police and corporate fascism.

Wow. Had not realized that Columbia’s settlement with Trump admin included a commitment to decrease international student enrollment. In what way does this help “combat antisemitism,” which is supposedly the administration’s objective? www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Felt very pretty this weekend while taking a couple of days fully away from work and organizing. One of my partners and I had a lovely weekend date. A lovely #t4t relationship dynamic is how they help me think through how both non-binary and trans-femme feel right to me and what that means.

Really good response to that pro-genocide "correction" in the NYT. I was reaching for Jasbir Puar's *Right to Maim* to figure how to say what I wanted to say, but Alejandra's thread here is perfect.

Release Chris Smalls.

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Here is a link to donate to the Sameer Project, an organization doing all that can be done by a grassroots organization to help people on the ground in Gaza: chuffed.org/project/1132...

I don’t have commentary for this… it is just horror.