tamara nopper
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In a letter to Octavia E. Butler, Toni Cade Bambara wrote, “Take good care of your energies, my sister, and keep writing.” Great advice. I’m taking it.
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
In a letter to Octavia E. Butler, Toni Cade Bambara wrote, “Take good care of your energies, my sister, and keep writing.” Great advice. I’m taking it.
View from today’s gym. No matter what else happens today, I went running.
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
View from today’s gym. No matter what else happens today, I went running.
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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
In a review, Toni Cade Bambara said of a book, “It is serious, well written, effective in its demystification, valuable as a model of hardheaded but caring analysis, principled in its criticism, important.” Goals.
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
In a review, Toni Cade Bambara said of a book, “It is serious, well written, effective in its demystification, valuable as a model of hardheaded but caring analysis, principled in its criticism, important.” Goals.
June Jordan said, “I teach whether or not I feel like it, where I teach without stint because… I am no fool. It’s my job and either I work or I do without everything you need money to buy.” I appreciate this cuz educators and academics are often expected to see the work as only a calling, not a job.
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
June Jordan said, “I teach whether or not I feel like it, where I teach without stint because… I am no fool. It’s my job and either I work or I do without everything you need money to buy.” I appreciate this cuz educators and academics are often expected to see the work as only a calling, not a job.
James Baldwin said, “It is difficult to keep your mind and your eye on what you know to be complex, which everyone else wishes to make simple, to remain fixed on what you know to be the truth beneath… It is a matter of stamina.” This is why we train at the gym.
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
James Baldwin said, “It is difficult to keep your mind and your eye on what you know to be complex, which everyone else wishes to make simple, to remain fixed on what you know to be the truth beneath… It is a matter of stamina.” This is why we train at the gym.
Barbara Smith said, “Expectedly, the right wing is repulsed by identity politics… What is more disturbing is that a lot of people on the left also attack identity politics and are similarly unaware of the source of the term or what anticapitalist Black women actually meant by it.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Barbara Smith said, “Expectedly, the right wing is repulsed by identity politics… What is more disturbing is that a lot of people on the left also attack identity politics and are similarly unaware of the source of the term or what anticapitalist Black women actually meant by it.”
So who’s gonna critique the Catholic church for practicing identity politics when defending immigrants? Hopefully no one!
November 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
So who’s gonna critique the Catholic church for practicing identity politics when defending immigrants? Hopefully no one!
In a class where many are aware that deportations are happening, students said, after learning about it, we didn’t know Asian immigrants were getting deported. So much work to do. Onwards.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
In a class where many are aware that deportations are happening, students said, after learning about it, we didn’t know Asian immigrants were getting deported. So much work to do. Onwards.
It’s not just about recognizing class politics, it’s about refashioning class politics to be a critique of capitalism, exploitation, and privatization instead of reactionary, punitive, deficit-minded, equality in suffering bullshit.
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It’s not just about recognizing class politics, it’s about refashioning class politics to be a critique of capitalism, exploitation, and privatization instead of reactionary, punitive, deficit-minded, equality in suffering bullshit.
A lot of challenges to privilege end up demanding more deprivation, suffering, and punishment for everyone and calling it equality.
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A lot of challenges to privilege end up demanding more deprivation, suffering, and punishment for everyone and calling it equality.
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Rather than trivializing how much toilet paper Ghislaine Maxwell has access to behind bars, remember that most incarcerated people have little to their name.
Toilet paper isn't a luxury – it's a basic necessity.
Toilet paper isn't a luxury – it's a basic necessity.
Apparently, Ghislaine Maxwell is living it up in prison with unlimited toilet paper. Here’s what we know about her alleged special privileges at her new federal prison camp in Texas.
Ghislaine Maxwell Is Living It Up With Unlimited Toilet Paper
What we know about the special privileges Epstein’s accomplice is reportedly receiving at her new federal prison camp in Texas.
nymag.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Rather than trivializing how much toilet paper Ghislaine Maxwell has access to behind bars, remember that most incarcerated people have little to their name.
Toilet paper isn't a luxury – it's a basic necessity.
Toilet paper isn't a luxury – it's a basic necessity.
I don’t know if we‘ll politically win. I don’t think anybody can say that with certainty. But I think it’s important to try. We deserve better than this.
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I don’t know if we‘ll politically win. I don’t think anybody can say that with certainty. But I think it’s important to try. We deserve better than this.
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MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
Trying to psyche myself up to go to the gym by reminding myself that W.E.B. Du Bois said, “We must rapidly come to the place where the man all brain and no muscle is looked upon as almost as big a fool as the man all muscle and no brain.”
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Trying to psyche myself up to go to the gym by reminding myself that W.E.B. Du Bois said, “We must rapidly come to the place where the man all brain and no muscle is looked upon as almost as big a fool as the man all muscle and no brain.”
If higher ed survives this, let’s have a serious conversation about how the frame of academic freedom, while having its uses for defense against authoritarianism, needs to be interrogated for how it can conceal how reactionary politics and bad treatment of minority faculty are common in academia.
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
If higher ed survives this, let’s have a serious conversation about how the frame of academic freedom, while having its uses for defense against authoritarianism, needs to be interrogated for how it can conceal how reactionary politics and bad treatment of minority faculty are common in academia.
They held the line for more than three years. Three fucking years. Incredible.
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
They held the line for more than three years. Three fucking years. Incredible.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of the prison-industrial complex (PIC) is so useful.
As Gilmore and Craig Gilmore note, equating industrial with profit can disappear the state, and "the outcome of capitalist activity stands in for the complicated relationships that enable or change that outcome."
As Gilmore and Craig Gilmore note, equating industrial with profit can disappear the state, and "the outcome of capitalist activity stands in for the complicated relationships that enable or change that outcome."
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of the prison-industrial complex (PIC) is so useful.
As Gilmore and Craig Gilmore note, equating industrial with profit can disappear the state, and "the outcome of capitalist activity stands in for the complicated relationships that enable or change that outcome."
As Gilmore and Craig Gilmore note, equating industrial with profit can disappear the state, and "the outcome of capitalist activity stands in for the complicated relationships that enable or change that outcome."
Respectfully, many of us, including leftists, need to become more literate of how the political economy is organized and operates. It’s not enough to say everything’s about profit.
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Respectfully, many of us, including leftists, need to become more literate of how the political economy is organized and operates. It’s not enough to say everything’s about profit.
Two things:
The federal government is starving the public but plans to buy warehouses for mega detention centers.
The plan is for detention centers to be run and staffed by the government. We can’t limit our critiques of the prison industrial complex to privatization!
apple.news/A-w34SnpqSzq...
The federal government is starving the public but plans to buy warehouses for mega detention centers.
The plan is for detention centers to be run and staffed by the government. We can’t limit our critiques of the prison industrial complex to privatization!
apple.news/A-w34SnpqSzq...
'Mega detention centers': ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants — NBC News
The Trump administration is exploring a plan to buy warehouses designed for companies like Amazon, sources said, which would drastically increase the Trump administration’s capacity for detaining immi...
apple.news
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Two things:
The federal government is starving the public but plans to buy warehouses for mega detention centers.
The plan is for detention centers to be run and staffed by the government. We can’t limit our critiques of the prison industrial complex to privatization!
apple.news/A-w34SnpqSzq...
The federal government is starving the public but plans to buy warehouses for mega detention centers.
The plan is for detention centers to be run and staffed by the government. We can’t limit our critiques of the prison industrial complex to privatization!
apple.news/A-w34SnpqSzq...
André 3000 noted that OutKast started in a little room. Like he said, “Great things start in little rooms.”
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
André 3000 noted that OutKast started in a little room. Like he said, “Great things start in little rooms.”
“Ganz, a political organizing scholar who played a central role in Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, said Mamdani’s team was keen to avoid a widely reported misstep of Obama’s: sidelining the organizing base that elected him.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
HKS Lecturer Advised Zohran Mamdani on Sustaining Momentum, Avoiding the ‘Obama Trap’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Marshall L. Ganz ’64 met with incoming New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani in August to advise his campaign on how to sustain a grassroots movement once in office.
www.thecrimson.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
“Ganz, a political organizing scholar who played a central role in Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, said Mamdani’s team was keen to avoid a widely reported misstep of Obama’s: sidelining the organizing base that elected him.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Some people would rather be starving and racist rather than be okay with welfare.
November 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Some people would rather be starving and racist rather than be okay with welfare.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, ”At stake is not only how we fight to win, but also how prepared we are for victories. Prepare to win means be ready for the morning after.” Stay ready for victories!
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, ”At stake is not only how we fight to win, but also how prepared we are for victories. Prepare to win means be ready for the morning after.” Stay ready for victories!