The President of Rutgers continues to dismantle DEI despite the fact that we are a state school and the voters of New Jersey roundly rejected all things Trump last November. It is infuriating. He and the entire leadership team at Rutgers are all Black people btw.

I have taken up quilting. Unfortunately that puts you in proximity to sympathizers. Just this morning I told somebody “the confederacy lost,” not knowing i was right on time. As I usually am. Happy Happy indeed!

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

Perfect combo here.

Domination is the only thing that gives emotional meaning to having all that power. They have more money than can be spent in a million lifetimes, but money can’t buy happiness. It can buy the power to induce collective misery, which will feel something when too much money still feels like nothing.

It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

% Black tenure-track faculty doesn't increase--it declines between 2004 and 2024! The Compact piece uses various subsets to highlight the small amounts of diversification in humanities & some social science. That's fine, but worth taking a step back to the complete data

Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024) Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.

Attacks on academic freedom are off the chain right now. But we are a mighty bunch when we stick together.

She didn’t even say a disparaging word. Why are Black women the casualties of white men’s wars?

Among the things I am thinking abt is how the left fared after Breitbart died, and after Scalia died. And wondering how things will go this time. And now going back to my fiber crafts and gardening. (I finally have some tomatoes.)

“Oh I will just take a break until this blows over.” THIS is all there is unless and until people make something different.

If I can be real for a moment, what frightens me most right now is that David Brooks is more upset about Trump-Musk than many, maybe most, liberal pundits and Democratic leaders are.

Not the children out here believing Harriet Tubman wasn’t real. Jesus, help the children.

OK Y’all. 2 yrs ago I uploaded a pdf to Notebook LM, a Google AI that could convert pdfs into notes. Today I learned it has an audio feature where it will generate a “podcast” of two people talking about the article. I am now listening to a “podcast” abt the article I uploaded in 2yrs ago. WILD!

How somebody gonna protect the homeland when they can’t watch their purse at dinner? Also who carries 3 stacks to dinner?! WTF.

A bunch of women rode a hitachi magic wand to space and that is literally the only useful purpose for a hitachi. So I feel like that should be the convo.

Form Wendy Brown’s “Resisting Left Melancholy”: “But left melancholy is Benjamin's unambivalent epithet for the revolutionary hack who is…attached more to a particular political analysis or ideal-even to the failure of that ideal-than to seizing possibilities for radical change in the present.”

it is so deeply gratifying that Elon Musk stumbled upon a race that he'd never heard of before in a state he was probably only vaguely familiar with, made it his whole personality for a month, claimed that western civilization was on the line, committed felonies, spent millions, and FUCKING LOST

Really jarring reading this piece at The Guardian abt the ICE Detention Center in Jena Louisiana where Mahmoud Khalil is being held, and thinking abt my genesis as an activist 18 years ago in Jena, when my fellow PhD students and I chaperoned a bus of Emory undergrads to the Jena 6 protests.

To the conversation about “exiled academics” I would just say some of us academics of a darker hue definitely pointed out that a lot of the radical academic set would flee the minute things got bad.

Democrats even *thinking* about joining Republicans to censure Al Green for having the courage to stand up while they sat down do not deserve to be able to generate a single fundraising dollar from a person of moral character ever again.

Conversation is excellent! stateofthepeople.media

Same. I’ll be joining these folks tomorrow at 4pm.

Counterprogramming in response to the Orange menace’s address tomorrow.

Democrats should boycott the State of the Union. Democrats keep calling this man a unique and dangerous threat, but never ACT like it. For once, Democrats' *actions* should match their words. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I miss the days when billionaire vanity projects were, like, commissioning nude sculptures and buying sports teams… instead buying every means of communication we can think of

There is just no end to this elite capture of the news media and use of it to seed their intellectually vacuous, fundamentally corrupt failing neoliberalist ideology. This shit sickens me. Free markets don’t free anybody but the white boys who have been free forever. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...

#WeNeedJoy #TVOff I am just sending a personal note of thanks to Joy, for always being a great supporter of my work and career and for consistently bringing excellent news coverage and commentary and doing so with integrity.

@profcrunk.bsky.social on a Banned for Life panel in Brooklyn noting w/ attacks on the federal level, we need to be local—when states rights have never been our friend. Also on the panel: @toure.bsky.social, @elienyc.bsky.social, @zerlinamaxwell.bsky.social (by video) & @drjasonjohnson.bsky.social

Homework or debate team practice. Or riding around with my teammates in my friend’s 1993 aqua green Honda Accord. And you?

If you’re in line to sack Patrick Mahomes, STAY IN LINE

@jmjafrx.bsky.social lays out the stakes of these “resegregation orders” clearly here. open.substack.com/pub/jmjafrx/...

So we’ve moved to the next stage. Either an incompetent Black person is to blame, or a white person who was made incompetent by the stress of working with a Black person.

New - Elon Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Re-segregation is the word. Thanks to @jmjafrx.bsky.social for this helpful language.

I wrote a thing on @jmjafrx.bsky.social’s Substack today about how to think of this moment as the Digital Equivalent of The Great Migration. open.substack.com/pub/jmjafrx/...

From shithole countries to welfare queen countries. And for everyone who thought this could be understood without understanding anti blackness, I invite you to consider the epistemology of Reagan’s “welfare queen” stereotype.

The latest episode of #UNDISTRACTED is live—almost as live as the group chat 😭😭 @drdavidjohns.bsky.social, Dr. Brittney Cooper and I on rest, resistance and rage. Link below 🙏🏾

The grief is real: "The 20th century project died yesterday. It started dying on November 5th. It started dying on an escalator in 2015. It started dying on November 4, 2008, on August 29, 2005, on September 11, 2001, on December 4, 1969, on April 4, 1968." @profcrunk.bsky.social

“and all our heroic efforts cannot exorcise him. And we are forced to deal. To fight or flee or freeze or fawn. We will see every version of a trauma response in these coming terrible days.” awareness of trauma response can create the short pause response needed for the non-trauma part of the

open.substack.com/pub/theremix... Wrote a something this morning.

Excited for my book talk with @profcrunk.bsky.social tonight at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn. ❤️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-event...

Currently crocheting a shawl. I know I could be saying more about politics, but honestly what is there to say? So I’m focused for the moment on what brings me joy and gives me reason to be in community with folks. And limits my doom scrolling. I’m sure my blood pressure thanks me.