been thinking about this a lot and want to (again) plug Astoria Food Pantry which will need extra funding to help our neighbors if/when SNAP benefits are cut off. we've already been running out of food faster than usual this month—any donation amount will help! givebutter.com/afp2025

#NoKings #Hartford

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

MIT, by emphasizing data and merit, rather than politics, set out a standard for the rest of academia.

Anchoring academic resistance politicsoutdoors.com/2025/10/17/a...

At the Third U.S. Congress against War and Fascism in 1936, Langston Hughes declared: “Fascism is a new name for that kind of terror the Negro has always faced in America. . . . This kind of terrorism is extending more and more to groups of peoples whose skins are not black.”

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 ☀️

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amazing, can't wait!

This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!

PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...

The South Korean government said it will look into whether human rights violations were committed against the 317 South Koreans who were detained by ICE agents in Georgia earlier this month.

A United Nations commission of inquiry has determined that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, concluding in a 72-page report that Israel has committed four of the five genocidal acts defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention, just one of which would legally constitute a genocide.

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Zohran Mamdani and I will both be fearless in confronting Donald Trump’s extreme agenda — with urgency, conviction, and the defiance that defines New York” Gov. Kathy Hochul writes in an endorsement of the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City.

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York endorsed Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, on Sunday night, providing critical support ahead of the November election.

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

"The Supreme Court's ruling doesn't only apply to Latinos," Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman writes. "If you are in the US and you're reading this, you, too, could be arrested and required to prove your citizenship at any moment if you look or sound like you fit some hypothetical profile."

Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
My latest in @thenation

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

many thanks 🙏🏼

On the terrific documentary, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat and two compelling books about Lumumba and Africa in his era. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Understand this fact—Trump isn’t just anti-science or anti-vaccine—He’s something far worse: Pro Structural Eugenics.

Once you realize his every policy is ingrained in Structural Eugenics, you’ll see the Goal is mass death of Black, brown, & low income people.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-is-e...

Japanese Americans protest Fort Bliss, former WWII incarceration site, as largest ICE migrant detention center

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I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time.
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