I love this paragraph:

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Join us this week to kick off our weekly Gaza Solidarity Fast. Wear white and fast from sunset to sundown on Wednesday 10/8, and join us on the steps of the Graduate Center at 5:30 to bear witness to the ongoing genocide in Gaza (1/2). cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/...

Italy’s largest union just announced a general strike in protest of the stoppage of the Sumud Flotilla!

The Sumud Flotilla can be followed via Livestream: www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

Please keep the Sumud Flotilla's tracker open on a tab to show that the world is watching: globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/#help

Pls read the 161 page opinion.
I want to highlight some information that came out in discovery & at trial that folks might have missed.
(1) Asst Director Hatch, is the senior director in the Office of Intelligence. He oversees intelligence reports known as Reports of Analysis (ROA)....

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

Our little AAUP chapter went 2/2 vs. Trump!

Noem and Rubio…misused the sweeping powers of their offices to target non-citizen pro-Palestinians for deportation primarily on account of their 1st Am protected political speech. They did so in order to strike fear into similarly situated non-citizens…

"A Mayor cannot end these atrocities. But they can speak for the values of this city: a commitment to human rights for all people, including Palestinians, and a yearning for peace and justice. Even if those values are anathema to those in power now, they will endure."

Terrifying and enraging. Must read piece on the role of "colorblind constitutionalism" in securing white supremacy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

People: go see One Battle After Another. It truly is anti-fascist medicine for melancholia.

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

The depravity is limitless: "Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has said that on his orders, troops will broadcast his speech at the UN headquarters to Palestinians in Gaza from loudspeakers mounted on trucks on the Israeli side of the border."

CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring two tenured associate professors in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies! Review of applications begins October 1. See link for more info.

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3* days.

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.

This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.

Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

The Trump administration is doing everything they can to suppress academic inquiry. We cannot let them succeed.

The future of American higher education & our democracy depends on all of us fighting back together.

#defendhighered

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed