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Andrew J Douglas

@ajdouglas.bsky.social

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political theorist at morehouse | latest books = http://bit.ly/mlkcrc + http://bit.ly/duboisccs | in-progress books = du bois and political economy + theories of money in the black radical tradition | marathoner | posts ≠ employer

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · Dec 29

Since I’ve now completely abandoned the other site and am still relatively new here, I’ll flag a few pieces I published this year.

For @aaup.bsky.social on Du Bois, higher ed labor, and the idea of the university as a member cooperative. 1/
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Toward the Cooperative University: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Membership in the AAUP

In 1937, at the tender age of sixty-nine, W. E. B. Du Bois paid a $4 membership fee and joined the American Association of University Professors. Du Bois was several years into his second stint as a p...

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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 27m

Sign and pass on!

AAUP @aaup.org · 20h

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

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University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 1h

Giving local cops, who in ATL’s case are literally trained by IDF soldiers, free rein to brutalize Black and working class residents on behalf of capital is not exactly a bulwark against ICE escalation.

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Likewise!

Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 14h

Reminder that it was a Morehouse student making this point at City Hall yesterday (full speech👇) and it was the students standing up against fascist incrementalism and genocide in recent years. Atlanta Way politicians just couldn’t get out of the way… and here we are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fScw...

I Was Going To Be Used As Political Propaganda For The City Of Atlanta. Here's How I Responded.

YouTube video by Thinkpiece Tribe

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

My goals for the coming year include more ultras and finally figuring out how to function on a vegan diet. Not sure where that leaves the Taco Bell 50k on my running calendar.

The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 1d

PHOTOS: At the Taco Bell 50k Ultramarathon, runners eat across Denver trib.al/W3OL3vW

PHOTOS: At the Taco Bell 50k Ultramarathon, runners eat across Denver

The 8th edition of the International Taco Bell 50k Ultramarathon took place in Denver on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 1d

"Now Wired — which has become indispensable and deserves your subscription dollars (🙏) — reports that DHS wants to create dedicated centers to mass monitor social-media in real time."

"Authoritarian Capacity" and the Trump Regime - Lawyers, Guns & Money

In May of 2022, the Department of Homeland Security tried to stand up a group to coordinate government anti-disinformation efforts. As Deepa Shivaram wrote at NPR, the “decision” resulted from a “coor...

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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone could track how a well-compensated cadre of bad-faith idea-merchants have poisoned the information ecosphere. But what makes it tragic is how so many of them have the means to hit eject from the world they have created. The new version of private fallout shelters for the ultra-wealthy.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's neo-fascist guru—plans to Flee USA.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

The Stop Cop City movement was so clearly one of the last potential off-ramps to full-blown fascism.

Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlpresscollective.com · 1d

White says that Cop City and other policing infrastructure will be used against the city if Trump takes federal action against the City of Atlanta.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

My worry is that the secretary of war has authorized payouts in the psychological wages of whiteness and that too many of his chosen warriors are all-too gratified by that prospect.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

ok I didn't mention this in my piece on friday but one of the things the judge asked about was whether the guardsmen were going to get paid during the shutdown

the doj was like "idk"

the state of oregon was like "we looked into it and the answer is no"

Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 1d

I keep forgetting the government is shut down bc Trump admin is so focused on sending troops to US cities

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI's Sora gambit is somehow even more reckless and arrogant than we've grown accustomed to with the company. OpenAI is betting that it can spit in the face of creatives, workers, and the largest media companies on the planet—and bend copyright law to its whims.

The incredible arrogance of OpenAI

With Sora 2, OpenAI is betting it can spit in the face of workers, creators, and the biggest media conglomerates on the planet — and win

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 1d

“We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context,” said Solomon Cyr, spokesperson for Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation.” — Love it when people take advantage of political opportunities.

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Individual bankruptcy filings have jumped 15% in the first 9 months of 2025.

Chapter 7 Individual Bankruptcy Filings Jump 15 Percent in First 9 Months of 2025

There are also growing concerns about rising credit stress among Americans.

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

Good piece.

What I just can’t shake these days is the specter of “end times fascism.” The thought that certain oligarchs foresee only crisis with no viable fix. That their abandonment of the future, so stupid by our standards, has a certain rationality for those who can provision some kind of exit.

n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 1d

It’s hard to identify anything functional about Trumpian stupidity, which is less a form of organizational inertia than a slash-and-burn assault on the very things—universities, public health, market data—that help make the world intelligible. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Stupidology | William Davies

The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

Michel DeGraff, a tenured professor of linguistics at MIT, discusses how his proposal to teach a class on language & decolonization in Haiti, Israel, and Palestine was denied. He faced significant repercussions: he was removed from his department, had a pay raise withheld, and his salary frozen.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

Israel has killed more than 100 Palestinians since Hamas agreed on Friday to release all captives as part of the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal.

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

At least the faculty have a counter-event. Heightening the contradictions of the “Black University,” as it were.

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Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Liberal Arts Tradition

As an alumnus of Morehouse College, Martin Luther King, Jr. ‘48 is the product of a rich and vibrant “circle of culture” encompassing the various places and means by which Black peoples examined, disc

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve learned so much from your work on ed tech — including the stunning extent to which my school’s enterprise systems have been quietly captured by a certain PE firm.

And, with no mention of such, admin is again rolling out the carpet for them at an event week. 🫠

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

Particularly pessimism-inducing when labor, perhaps our last best hope for any organized mass resistance, a) imagines there’ll even be another election at this point and b) is still prioritizing mobilizing and elite brokerage over deep organizing.

Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

Attended a meeting last week with some union brass whose only political vision was to mobilize for the Dems. We’re so cooked. Just stunning levels of detachment from reality, past and present.

W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 1d

I don't want to be a pessimist here but if we are actually serious about this, it would require a deep confrontation with the fact that Biden just aggressively used ICE for four years, then Kamala Harris campaigned on expanding ICE funding while a bunch of Dems voted for a bill that doubled ICE $$

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.

Every single one.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 3d

Tremendous thanks to Cory Doctorow for helping us get the word out about Blue Bonds, MotL's fiscal strategy for mobilizing sub-federal debt financing to defeat authoritarian sabotage & extortion.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d

Listening to this for the first time since it came out, partially to review my own research on Vista Equity, now a seeming target of kleptocratic antitrust suit.

But, omg, @ajdouglas.bsky.social, Jared Loggins, @kgrotke.bsky.social Crystal Sanders, Jelani Favors, & @bakerdphd.bsky.social are 🔥🔥🔥.

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Podcast Episode · The American Vandal · S11 E7 · 1h 34m

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 3d

the decline of organized labor in the US is a large problem

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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