I fear that, in order for the US & Israel to avoid further retaliation & humiliation by Iran, they may see the use of a nuclear weapon as the only way to hide the weaknesses Iran revealed & reestablish a position of strength that’s clearly dwindling. A dying empire has no limits.

Whether Netanyahu is dead or alive won’t change the fact that Israel is a genocidal settler-colonial state. But don’t think I won’t celebrate the day he joins Kissinger in hell.

“if language is the means of the exploiter, what then can serve as the defense of the exploited? And if the exploiter goes beyond the exploitation of language used to obtain his own objectives, then what is to be the strategy for the exploited?” www.insurgentthoughts.com/p/ghassan-ka...

I’m appealing my tenure denial.

It is standard for Western academia to support imperialist aggression. —Ali Kadri

What is happening now is only the labour pains of something great that will be born from the rubble of defeat like a volcano born from under the cold ashes of a forsaken mountain. —Ghassan Kanafani

There’s nothing like looking at the list of those who got tenure and realizing that your publication record is stronger than most of them yet you’re the one who was denied tenure. So much for the meritocracy administrators love to defend.

We're trying, compañero! Always open to proposals, suggestions, collaborations, and donations! www.contemporarycriticalthought.org

This.

Academia will not save us, so we better start creating autonomous spaces to think, organize, and fight against these fascist and genocidal institutions that will dispose of us once we step out of line.

I’ll never regret speaking out against genocide. These institutions on the other hand are complicit and active participants.

Academic freedom is not an abstract concept

solidarity with Jairo and all colleagues who use their voice to challenge colonial logics and legacies in the very universities that we work and teach in. Jairo's case reminds us that job offers and tenure decisions are not objective assessments but political decisions.

Academia in the West is a racist institution that seeks to protect colonialism via oppression.

The denial of tenure was never about scholarship. It was a retaliatory move from @texastechlib.bsky.social to send a chilling message: dissent that threatens institutional power will be punished. Shame on Ron Hendrick, Brendon Creighton, Lawrence Schovanec turned tenure into a political tool!

Come along on Friday and show solidarity with Palestine, with decolonial and global south scholars whose work comes from their lives, and with @insurgentthought.bsky.social whose work with @anadiazbetran is a model for us all 👇🏽❤️‍🔥

I received over 90% of the votes at the department and college levels, yet the provost denied me tenure. I met and exceeded the promotion and tenure guidelines and expectations as well as my annual and mid-tenure reviews.

Truly sorry! Absolutely dispiriting.

With relentless attacks on academic freedom @ttu.edu has positioned itself to perpetuate harm against scholars whose use their academic freedom to provide dissent against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. This denial targeted one of the brightest minds in the Curriculum and Instruction department.

Tenure has never been a measure of merit, it is a carceral logic used to discipline and control. Sending lots of solidarity your way.

Less than two years ago, Texas Tech University suspended me for speaking out against genocide. Today I found out I was denied tenure.

I was denied tenure.

I was denied tenure.

Registration is filling quickly for the Decolonial Conference! Join us in building coalitions and dialogues across struggles, practicing solidarity, and putting radical thoughts into action. #decolonialconference

Discourse about to get annoying now that we know the Border Patrol agents who murdered Alex Pretti have Latine names, huh. With great reluctance, let me say the following for those who are shocked by or want to make something out of this fact: 1/

1. It is common wisdom in the southern borderlands that Latine BP agents are some of the most racist and abusive in practice. You get stopped by one of them, and you are almost certainly in for a bad time. 2/

Chile’s President-Elect, Jose Antonio Kast, not only had close ties to the Pinochet dictatorship that tortured & disappeared thousands of people, but his father was also a Nazi officer. Expectedly, many liberals & conservatives have congratulated Kast for defeating “communism.”

Here’s Trump’s official pardon of Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former Honduran president responsible for shipping hundreds of tons of cocaine to the US.

The scariest part of AI isn’t that it will dominate humans but that humans will use it to discredit all evidence that proves horrifying things are happening. Real audio recordings, images, and videos become AI & AI becomes real. Reality is thus denied. AI is counterinsurgency.

Wait, I thought bombing Venezuelan boats was to stop drug running. But we're pardoning one of the worst drug runners? How could hypocrisy be so blatant with no press calling it out and Congress ignoring it? What has happened to this country?

The Trump regime pardons the drug kings and corporate embezzlers, while committing war crimes against people on boats, and kidnapping workers.

The narco-state president Juan Orlando Hernández, who shipped hundreds of tons of cocaine to the US, was apparently released yesterday after Trump pardoned him. This is a reminder that narco-states are right wing and that the US has always supported them.

Central America will soon have two Palestinian presidents. Nasry “Tito” Asfura in Honduras and Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, both of whom will serve US imperialism and the neocolonial reconfiguration of the region. A person’s identity is never a guarantee of their politics.

Amilcar Cabral’s words are more relevant than ever: “Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.”

Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security. —Alexander Haig, US Secretary of State under the Reagan Administration.

Du Bois wrote this piece during the Nakba in 1948. open.substack.com/pub/jairofun...

Hey I recognize that article 😉

George Jackson’s critique of liberalism’s counterinsurgency is more relevant than ever. “When any election is held it will fortify rather than destroy the credibility of the power brokers.” open.substack.com/pub/jairofun...

...the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.” Therefore, it is indispensable that an insurgency’s political cause aligns with the people’s demands... open.substack.com/pub/jairofun...

Call it simplistic I don’t give a fuck but keeping a staunch supporter of an ethnonationalist genocidal state as the Commissioner of the NYPD is extremely problematic, to put it mildly.

☕😶 ... #TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver #MetaGame #LiberationLit

The State certainly rules by wielding its sword but it solidifies its dominion with pen and paper, codified into laws that structure all spheres of social existence, including knowledge producing institutions. open.substack.com/pub/jairofun...

It’s cold and heavy rainfall flooded tent camps. Please donate what you can! linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Israel has become a laboratory to test weapons, surveillance, and techniques for dispossession, genocide, and population control, all of which serve US imperialism greatly for these are then deployed within the US and in regions linked to its "national interests"… open.substack.com/pub/jairofun...

“the left’s history includes a parade of rhetorically brave figures — Sanders, AOC, and other Squad members — whose supposed courage dissolved when tested, leaving only theatrical posturing and habitual compromise.” tehrantimes.com/news/519943/...

Critics of decolonial thought say that decolonial scholarship essentializes western thought. These critics, however, never really give an honest answer why their favorite philosophers outright supported colonialism. It’s not surprising that philosophers today justify genocide.

Historically, enslaved and colonized people refusing and resisting the liberal reforms legal frameworks constitutive of international law was used as evidence that they were not ready to rule themselves. It was taken as evidence of their non-Western backwardness.