Zach Samalin
@zachsamalin.bsky.social
antediluvian new yorker; english prof at nyu; vp, aaup-nyu; wrote a history of disgust, The Masses Are Revolting; now writing about anticolonial theories of civilization; censorship; the “Controversial Discussions”
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(If you don't know, the *BIG* NYC protest against ICE is Friday at 4pm in Union Square, here's the flyer, please come, and let me know if you'd like to meet up. I'll be with a 3-year-old trying to find a spot that's high-energy, high-chanting, relatively-low-noise)
January 20, 2026 at 3:56 PM
(If you don't know, the *BIG* NYC protest against ICE is Friday at 4pm in Union Square, here's the flyer, please come, and let me know if you'd like to meet up. I'll be with a 3-year-old trying to find a spot that's high-energy, high-chanting, relatively-low-noise)
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I've been tracking Trump's attacks on the First Amendment -- & the broader federal govt ethos of retaliation -- all year. I've seen roughly 200 incidents of attacks on dissent & free speech, w/ particular aggression towards press, protesters, public servants: www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...
Chokehold: Donald Trump’s War on Free Speech & the Need for Systemic Resistance
This Free Press report examines the Trump administration’s hostile relationship with dissent and free expression in 2025. It analyzes how Trump and his political enablers have sought to undermine and ...
www.freepress.net
January 14, 2026 at 4:31 PM
I've been tracking Trump's attacks on the First Amendment -- & the broader federal govt ethos of retaliation -- all year. I've seen roughly 200 incidents of attacks on dissent & free speech, w/ particular aggression towards press, protesters, public servants: www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...
Definitely worth reading! I'm doing a similar research project about 1950s firings at NYU -- we'll have an exhibition in the fall, will keep you posted!
January 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Definitely worth reading! I'm doing a similar research project about 1950s firings at NYU -- we'll have an exhibition in the fall, will keep you posted!
His whole testimony was fire. This recent report about CUNY and McCarthyism is really good: academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcont...
academicworks.cuny.edu
January 7, 2026 at 3:35 PM
His whole testimony was fire. This recent report about CUNY and McCarthyism is really good: academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Don’t forget the various voids and vortexes where our essays have disappeared
December 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Don’t forget the various voids and vortexes where our essays have disappeared
“Written it? I haven’t even published it”
(updates “read it? I haven’t even taught it”)
(updates “read it? I haven’t even taught it”)
December 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
“Written it? I haven’t even published it”
(updates “read it? I haven’t even taught it”)
(updates “read it? I haven’t even taught it”)
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Thank you @bradlander.bsky.social!
Please take two minutes and join our letter writing campaign, demanding the Board of Trustees take immediate action to STOP the MAGA-inspired violent austerity at The New School: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Please take two minutes and join our letter writing campaign, demanding the Board of Trustees take immediate action to STOP the MAGA-inspired violent austerity at The New School: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Stop the Cuts at the New School
The restructuring proposed by the New School’s upper administration
will harm faculty, students and the larger New School community. Faculty
and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the un...
actionnetwork.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thank you @bradlander.bsky.social!
Please take two minutes and join our letter writing campaign, demanding the Board of Trustees take immediate action to STOP the MAGA-inspired violent austerity at The New School: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Please take two minutes and join our letter writing campaign, demanding the Board of Trustees take immediate action to STOP the MAGA-inspired violent austerity at The New School: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...