If any Bluesky people are on Twitter can you do a search for my name (Jennifer Ho) and see if I'm trending there? I'm getting some pretty vile hate mail and that usually means a right wing person has re-posted an old article I wrote from 2021 on white supremacy and anti-Asian racism. Thanks!
Movie poster for Dr. Strangelove
Anyone else feeling serious "Dr Strangelove" vibes happening in the US and around the globe?
When people complain about the youth of today I say you don't know the ones who are trying to make the world better--like these students UNC Chapel Hill
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
ICE said they were looking for a missing person and then entered a Columbia U apartment and kidnapped a student.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...
On this Day of Remembrance I hope you will all read this article by my friend and colleague Daryl Maeda who poignantly and powerfully writes about the legacy of incarceration and racial profiling of Japanese Americans and lessons we NEED to LEARN
www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...
Hoping someone with a larger following will see and amplify this call to establish an endowed poetry award in Renee Good's name at her alma mater, Old Dominion. I can vouch for the faculty who started this--he's a very good guy and this is a fitting tribute.
www.gofundme.com/f/good-troub...
Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate🧧
The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement.
May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.
Flyer advertising a March 3 talk with Professor Angie Chuang at CU Boulder
Friends in the Boulder area -- at 5pm at the Boulder Public Library I hope you'll come hear @angiechuang.bsky.social deliver a talk about her latest book, which offers a vital glimpse into politics, race, and journalism.
"This is a moment that demands courage, solidarity, and action. Waiting is not neutral. Inaction carries consequences."
These are the last sentences in the Boulder Faculty Assembly resolution condemning ICE and protecting our community.
@colorado.edu
www.colorado.edu/bfa/media/1682
I have so many colleagues that are being policed to a frightening degree. It's not happening @colorado.edu ... yet, and I hope our leaders will protect academic freedom come what may because we need university leaders of moral courage now more than ever
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
The kids are more than alright. They are using their knowledge, skills, and compassion to create tools that keep people informed and safe
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Do any lawyers out there know if state law will override federal agents?
“Colorado law also prohibits civil immigration arrests at courthouses, probation offices, medical facilities or schools, the district attorney’s office said.”
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Front cover of the book Citizen by Daisy Hernandez
Quote about immigrants to the US being in a colonial relationship to the nation and this are political citizens
I’m reading this incredible book by Daisy Hernandez about her experiences with and thoughts about citizenship. It is brilliant and eloquent and puts faces and names to the individual stories connected to larger issues of immigration and citizenship. And you should all read it and get your book clubs
A young Fred Korematsu
A photo of Fred Korematsu in his later years
"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu
Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
It shouldn't surprised anyone that this administration is going after Black journalists. The white Christian nationalist agenda is rooted in white supremacy and along with it a heavy dose of anti-Black racism. One only has to see the response to Minneapolis to see how this is being weaponized.
There are people waiting outside the Whipple building to help the people ICE has let out without coats and their phones. If you can help the helpers, I hope you will. The cruelty of this admin knows no bounds. And so does the kindness of strangers.
www.gofundme.com/f/safe-haven...
"Copaganda — the reproduction and circulation in mainstream media of propaganda that is favorable to law enforcement — has long been a tool to disrupt legitimate claims of anti-Black violence."
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CNN: Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost assaulted at Sundance Film Festival event, police say By Aleena Fayaz Updated Jan 24, 2026
NBC News: Man lunges at Ilhan Omar during town hall and tries to spray her with unknown substance January 27, 2026
Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.
Hearing folks are bummed they missed the Eyes on ICE training - but good news, it's all recorded and public! We'll be holding more live trainings soon, but if you aren't one of 200,000 who already watched it, find it here: www.youtube.com/live/zqka9fU...
Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
Rep Ilhan Omar was attacked by a man during a live stream town hall. And the comments on CSPAN are demoralizing because people don't believe it's real. This is what we've come to as a nation. And yet again a woman of color carries on with grace and grit.
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I'm attending No Kings's event, “Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Americans have a caricatured view of democracy of something that has just always existed, and this is an unfortunate oversight. American history has always been a conflict between democracy and authoritarianism. Hopefully we emerge more democratic on the other side. 9/9
Long story short, if you want to understand authoritarianism in America, you cannot view it as a foreign or unprecedented ideology. It has always been here. We've tamped it down, but it is an ongoing struggle. Hopefully we make progress after this madness is over, but it is never truly over. 8/x
The struggle between authoritarianism and liberal democracy is an enduring part of American history. We are currently living through another chapter of this long running conflict. We've made progress towards being a multiracial democracy, but democracy has never been universally accepted here 6/x
Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x
Not only is authoritarianism not new, it is still in our living memory. Southern racial apartheid is more recent than the Nazis, and more relevant to understanding our current politics. As American politics have nationalized, the South anchors one of the two parties and exported its politics 5/x
You can’t “we need our guns” your way to perpetuating school shootings while “he had a gun” your way to justifying public executions.
A nurse.
Someone who’s actually saved lives.