Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol

"Viewpoint diversity" about whether human activity is warming the planet, or whether vaccines work, is like "viewpoint diversity" about whether the sky is blue or whether the Earth is round. It falls outside the range of good faith scientific and academic discourse. #ScienceUnderSiege

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this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Really useful blog by @mohanjdutt.bsky.social getting to the heart of what's going on... "When academics can't invoke settled patterns of far-right mainstreaming without hitting up against coordinated harassment campaigns sanctioned by elected officials, we've already lost something important."

Six days ago, the Trump administration strong-armed ABC and Disney into suspending Jimmy Kimmel. Thousands of Americans spoke out to protest this blatant attack on free speech, and now Kimmel will return to television tomorrow. Never doubt the power of collective action.

Last blog post for the week before returning to manuscripts that are waiting. Because silence is complicity. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/09/mart... “And here is the danger: silence.”

Crowd funding campaign now live! I'm raising money for a limited series podcast investigating how the campaign to quit the Paris Climate Accords went from the fringe to the mainstream www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...

Joseph Mooney, National MP, goes on Plunkett to whine about Mohan Dutta. What a loser, trying to appeal to the alt-right vote. He's one of a handful of National Party MPs, including Simeon Brown, who are doing so. #nzpol #kiwi

Last blog post for the week before returning to manuscripts that are waiting. Because silence is complicity. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/09/mart... “And here is the danger: silence.”

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

It’s special to deliver this lecture at the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice in honour of one of my heroes Erik Olin Wright! Registration link below: www.tickettailor.com/events/haven...

How a National Party MP Weaponized Violence to Target Academic Criticism culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...

"When academics can't invoke settled patterns of far-right mainstreaming without hitting up against coordinated harassment campaigns sanctioned by elected officials, we've already lost something important." culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...

Pub Alert! Introducing new JoC SI publication: “Anticolonialism and qualitative methods for culture-centered interventions”, by Mohan Jyoti Dutta et al. Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

@mohanjdutt.bsky.social Ka Pai my colleague and friend Mohan here critically analysing the communication techniques of the far right as they attempt to silence him. #nzpol youtu.be/DhwwXjFf8y4?...

Jacinda Ardern has called the situation in Gaza what it is: Genocide She has also called for more countries to recognize Palestine, wonder if that will have any influence on our current governments decision www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jacinda-a...

Fascinating research. Well worth a read for academics working on dangerous speech.

Don’t let the white supremacists silence you. Honour Te Tiriti.

#BHN Tonight at 9pm Guest host Paul 'the other one' Barlow - @mohanjdutt.bsky.social on NZ far right ecosystem - Weekend dualling marches, one in Auckland for Palestine and one for white Englishmen - 'Red Flags' in local body elections #nzpol #nzpolitics youtube.com/live/-d1If2G...

This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.

“Generational trauma rises in me every time I think of Nana as a little girl being violently punished for speaking the only language she knew. Generational aroha pushes me forward to the mic.” — Marama Davidson on her reo journey.

"After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The right is so open about their strategy being to deprive their critics of livlihood This isn't just an American thing either, I'm aware of this happening in Aotearoa

Posting the academically informed opinion that Charlie Kirk was a far right white supremacist gets me doxxed again, and National Party MP of the ruling coalition wants to get me fired from the University. Thanks for proving my point about the presence of the Trumpian far right in Aotearoa NZ.

“Children have a human right to a quality education that equips them for effective participation in a strong democracy — not one that simply shapes them into cogs for the economic machine.” — Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn.

As I guess (hope) is plain to everyone by now, the USA isn’t a reliable place to travel to -

“As I witness the hunger in Gaza today, I’m struck by the chilling parallels. Like Bengal, Gaza’s hunger is manufactured. And like Bengal, it demands our outrage and resistance.” — Dr Mohan Dutta.

Have seen entire livestream, & most violent parts of it - which are sections that are the most remixed, & reused by those who hero worship perpetrator - hundreds of times. Every time, need a break after the study of what it frames. Ordinary NZ’ers will vomit. Video has no place on anyone’s device.

Sharing here my latest CARE lecture on Hunger and Violence, arguing that the colonial construction of famine sits within the broader structure of genocide. youtu.be/4VVhypO9vLc?...

“We will no longer be tasked with local service design and delivery. Instead, our job will be to ‘engage’ and ’advise’. These changes take us from active partners to passive recipients.” — Louisa Wall on changes to Pae Ora law.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a "fraud crisis" because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people. Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7

Oh i hate this a LOT

Woman in Tel Aviv Israel thinks opposing genocide is a hate crime. Complains to #NZpolice about Facebook posts by Whakatāne district councillor and former Green MP Nándor Tánczos. 🙄 NZ police call Nándor to let him know. This is not a hate crime in Aotearoa NZ. #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Communication lies at the core of good public policy. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/07/comm...

My blogpost on the latest far-right campaign targeting me. The disgraced National Party campaign operative running a narrative around reputation is rich. The powerful want to deceptively control reputation while silencing academics that critique them. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/07/hami...

Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history. This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide. “One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad. #Gaza

“Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die” - AFP. International media is barred from entering Gaza by Israel. The only ones who have borne witness are local reporters, 185 of whom are now dead. The last remaining, like all Gazans, are being systematically starved.

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

I'm skeptical about whether changes to the Terrorism Suppression Act will make us safer Since it's inception, the act has been used by police to raid the homes of Tino rangitiratanga activists, and to spy on Muslim communities It didn't stop the biggest terror attack on NZ soil

Why I am starting to say no to more service responsibilities internationally. The body and its wellbeing must take precedence. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/07/intern… Internationalizing the discipline further entrenches the US status quo while perpetuating harm.

Studied VFF's handbook for the upcoming local govt election. Unaware of any mainstream political party that's done a comparable production to mobilise partisans. A far-right, white supremacist ideological signalling is written into handbook which weaponises democratic processes against democracy.

My blogpost on the latest far-right campaign targeting me. The disgraced National Party campaign operative running a narrative around reputation is rich. The powerful want to deceptively control reputation while silencing academics that critique them. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/07/hami...

I am wholly unsurprised a far right eugenicist has likely turned out to be another Dude Who Failed At His Original Science Dreams