Proud of my colleagues and students who caused admin to pause the pride flag removals. As we look hopefully to a future of genuine input into what our campus looks like, it's a good time to reflect on how we got here.
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I'm in The Blog today on the turmoil in higher education finance. 🧵
The Trump Admin is simultaneously trying to get things back to normal (pre-COVID status quo, but more punitive) and to dismantle the whole system (selling off the portfolio, closing Dept of Ed)
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“In a feat of legal engineering, the president stressed the Constitution’s support structures past what experts considered their maximum load.”
I wrote about the Prairieland trial, the first to pilot the White House’s theory that antifa is a vector for terrorism. The case is a dangerous escalation in the admin's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history...
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25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.
If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.
Today, @azohra.bsky.social explains how the recent conviction of Anti-ICE protestors represents a dangerous and increasingly common form of guilt by association that is antithetical to collective political action.
Shout out to @kenklippenstein.bsky.social for helping the public understand the importance of National Security Presidential Memorandum 7. It's the White House telling the FBI to spy on the left, without suspicion. RIP to the 4th Amendment. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
After Prairieland, it’s not difficult to imagine Trump’s DOJ interpreting sharing political pamphlets or hosting a party as recruiting and soliciting others to commit crimes—even terrorism—if there is a prosecutor motivated enough to advance such a case.
Imagine attending a protest, and because some people engaged in conduct a prosecutor could plausibly assert as criminal, you too are charged with a crime for being present & sympathetic. That's exactly what happened in ATL in the case against Stop Cop City activists www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Retweeting a video associated with a gang or ISIS propaganda is treated as material support for an unlawful cause. Over the past 4 decades, legal actors have built an architecture well suited for repression that complies with the letter of the law but still effectively imputes guilt by solidarity.
The laws and practices the Trump DOJ deployed in this case have been laid down by successive generations of lawmakers and prosecutors, in name of fighting gangs and terror. In those kinds of cases, prosecutors focus not only on what the defendants did, but what they thought, wore, and even sung.
I wrote about the Prairieland trial, the first to pilot the White House’s theory that antifa is a vector for terrorism. The case is a dangerous escalation in the admin's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history...
lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-...
one is not meant to have favourites, but this is definitely up there: a CTTB episode with @azohra.bsky.social and @nasiahadjigeorgiou.bsky.social on foreign military bases, international law and imperialism. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...
Boston University's removal of Pride flags from faculty offices follows a forty-year-long pattern of silencing political speech on campus and violating the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act.
The most recent op-ed in BU AAUP's multipart series with #TheDailyFreePress discusses this history⬇️
Forty years ago, and again today, Boston University finds itself on the wrong side of Massachusetts law and history when it silences student and faculty dissent.
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Boston U's AAUP uncovers a campaign of censorship on campus. A series. dailyfreepress.com/03/30/21/219...
“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."
Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...
"What distinguishes his latest regime is its effort to reimagine and remake the borders of American state power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic in a single domain of impunity: call it ‘Homeland Empire’." www.equator.org/articles/hom...
Happening Now: Hundreds of protesters are holding a noise demo outside of the Graduate by Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis where ICE agents are reportedly staying. Drums, guitars, pots and pans are in-tune to "fuck ICE" and "ICE out" chants. Riot police are currently in the lobby.
As U.S. reasserts itself in the Caribbean, "for small states, the cardinal sin is not choosing the “wrong” side but collapsing strategic ambiguity."
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He was in Iraq. Everytime we talk about defunding ICE and the police, we must talk about defunding the US military.
Look what finally came! @cambridge.org
thx ben. appreciate this thread.
