Laurent Dubois

@soccerpolitics.bsky.social

740 followers 120 following 130 posts

Historian (Avengers of the New World/ The Banjo/ The Language of the Game/ Freedom Roots) & Musician (Traversées)

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Laurent Dubois is the John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History & Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. A specialist on the history and culture of the Atlantic world who studies the Caribbean, North America, and France, Dubois joined the University of Virginia in January 2021, and will also serve as the Democracy Initiative’s Director for Academic Affairs. In this role, Dubois will spearhead the Democracy Initiative’s research and pedagogical missions and will serve as the director and lead research convener of the John L. Nau III History and Principles of Democracy Lab—the permanent core lab of the Initiative which will operate as the connecting hub for the entire project. His studies have focused on Haiti. .. more

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Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 5h

This is so cool Stéphane! That was a wonderful speech.

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The City University of New York @cuny.edu · 9h

Our congratulations to Dean Fuleihan, a senior fellow at the CUNY Institute of State and Local Governance, who was appointed by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to serve as First Deputy Mayor. His appointment reflects the University's mission to advance public service.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Dean Fuleihan stand at a podium during an event. The podium has a blue sign with bold red and white text that reads: “A NEW ERA for NEW YORK CITY”

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Stéphane Gerson @sag111.bsky.social · 11h

Truly insightful portrait of @juliangerson.bsky.social in the Guardian. Love the insider's view of writing for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Zohran Mamdani’s writer on crafting a historic victory speech: ‘In New York, inspiration is everywhere’

The mayor-elect’s address pulled from Socialist titans, Astoria’s uncles and his rival’s father. Julian Gerson explains how the two collaborated on the ‘love letter to New York’

www.theguardian.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

here we are indeed.

(additional context for fans of other sports: Arsenal is currently at the top of the Premier League)

tweet from Zohran Mamdani on 11/22/2020 saying "never thought I'd be more hopeful about socialism than arsenal and yet here we are ."

Reposted by Malcolm MacLean, Laurent Dubois, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 2d

My latest @theguardian.com: As a genuine soccer fan & generational political talent, freshly elected NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani might be able to achieve the unthinkable: force the FIFA behemoth to share its lucre by targeting its tax exemptions & extreme privilege www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Zohran Mamdani has upended US politics. Now he should take on Fifa | Jules Boykoff

New York’s mayor-elect has taken on powerful institutions. With the World Cup taking place in his city, he should challenge Fifa next

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Laurent Dubois, Pádua Fernandes

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will turn to veterans of City Hall, nonprofit executives and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission — all of them women — to lead his official transition effort, he said on Wednesday. nyti.ms/4nHdyOP

Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

From the archive - this is pretty amazing to read today:

Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 5d

In 2020, a young socialist organizer & AIAC contributor sat down with us, sharing his vision for a world that empowers working people over the rich and powerful.

Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.

Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...

Roti and roses

Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.

africasacountry.com

Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

Great piece from my colleague @eriklinstrum.bsky.social

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 6d

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.

Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.

jacobin.com

Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

The focus on transparency as a basic cornerstone of democracy here is really important

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

transition2025.com

Reposted by Naomi Klein, Steve Peers, Tom Shakespeare , and 8 more Naomi Klein, Steve Peers, Tom Shakespeare, Rosemary A. Joyce, Cathy N. Davidson, Laurent Dubois, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Henry Jones, Jos Akkermans, Albin Wagener, Pádua Fernandes

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

transition2025.com

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 5d

"And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves."

Damn. 💜

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 5d

Ten things I took away from one remarkable, history-making moment. Turn the volume up. www.anildash.com/2025/11/05/t...

Turn the volume up. - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

www.anildash.com

Reposted by Melissa R. Michelson, Fabián Muniesa, Laurent Dubois , and 2 more Melissa R. Michelson, Fabián Muniesa, Laurent Dubois, Nancy M. Wingfield, Monisha Bajaj

Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 5d

Mamdani announces transition team:

All-female team led by Elana Leopold, a known Dem strategist; also Melanie Hartzog, who once led the NYC’s health and human services and budget offices; former dep mayor Maria Torres-Springer, and Lina Khan, the former FTC commissioner who campaigned with Mamdani

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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 5d

For real though: the Zohran organizing and field operation was legendary. Absolutely setting the bar. Extraordinary work that can be learned from and emulated by any campaign with an actual theory of change.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

"Others will take time in catching up to that." whew

"There’s no question in my mind that I’m Indian. And there’s no question in my mind that I’m a New Yorker. And I’m all of these things, yet in each of these places I’ve been made to feel that it’s not actually my home to call– in Uganda, I’m told this guy is actually Indian, in India, I’m told this guy is actually Muslim, and in New York I’m everything but a New Yorker.

But I’m realizing that it’s not a determination I should be outsourcing to others. It’s something that if I know and feel, then I need to become comfortable in asserting. Others will take time in catching up to that. It also helps to understand that if you’re part of any diaspora you have to live in multiple worlds at once, and have multiple sets of cultural references and histories–so that if you were to describe yourself in one singular term, it doesn’t really capture the different ways in which you think about the world."

Reposted by Catherine Baker, Juan Cole, Laurent Dubois , and 3 more Catherine Baker, Juan Cole, Laurent Dubois, Prakash Kashwan, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Southern Africa

Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 5d

Roti and roses

Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.

africasacountry.com

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Laurent Dubois

Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 5d

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

Larry Sabato of @center4politics.bsky.social with some straightforward lucidity here, saying what is somehow difficult for many others to understand .

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 5d

This isn't the only takeaway of Mamdani's victory, but it is the most important one www.ft.com/content/92bf...

Reposted by American Library Association, Laurent Dubois

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d

They broke the republican supermajority in the Mississippi state senate

respect to the organizers and power to the people

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Scott L. Greer, Erica Chenoweth , and 10 more Anna O. Law, Scott L. Greer, Erica Chenoweth, Jonathan Hopkin, Mirya R. Holman, Laurent Dubois, Jacob T. Levy, Robert B. Reich, David L. Anderson, Manisha Sinha, Colin Woodard, Kevin Grant, David Darmofal

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Reposted by Laurent Dubois, Southern Africa

Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 5d

Mamdani's victory wasn't only a repudiation of an old and exhausted political establishment in the city, it was also a triumph over the framing power of the political press, and none more so than the New York Times, whose coverage and editorials worked relentlessly to dampen his appeal.

Reposted by Laurent Dubois, Southern Africa

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 5d

Democrats contested all 100 Virginia House of Delegates races. Part of the party’s statewide success is due to the synergies between the legislative and statewide campaigns—even the losing ones. This is a big reason why Jay Jones won comfortably. This is a model the Dems should emulate everywhere

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 5d

From the foothills of Appalachia to the Blue Mountains of Northern Virginia

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 5d

Blue Crush 2025
Source:
www.washingtonpost.com/elections/re...

Graphic showing shift to Democrats in Virginia Governor election from 2021 to 2025. County shifts are represented as spikes on a map. The map is covered with blue spikes that get taller as you move eastward.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d

be stoked, stay stoked, all around the country the people are back at it

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5d

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 5d

This isn't the only takeaway of Mamdani's victory, but it is the most important one www.ft.com/content/92bf...

Reposted by Robert C. Richards, Laurent Dubois, Aaron Sojourner , and 7 more Robert C. Richards, Laurent Dubois, Aaron Sojourner, Julia Lynch, Henry Jones, Karen L. Cox, Manisha Sinha, Stella M. Rouse, Timothy D. McBride, James M. Thomas

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 6d

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.

Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
buff.ly/nTvLlFI

Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.

www.mississippifreepress.org

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Anna O. Law, Laurent Dubois , and 5 more Joanna Bryson, Anna O. Law, Laurent Dubois, Stuart White, Brooke Harrington, Ben Kaden, Michael Larkin, Olivier Mannoni

Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 6d

This person took this when they called the race

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 6d

Every new post tonight is like Dems have flipped the Mehaden town sewer authority, long dominated by conservatives, by a +38 margin

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