Ajantha Subramanian
@ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social
CUNY Graduate Center Prof interested in class/caste/racial/spatial politics.
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Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.
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What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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this literally made me cry. my god, what a person and a campaign.
A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
November 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
this literally made me cry. my god, what a person and a campaign.
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Tomorrow (10/30) will be our fourth weekly fast in solidarity with Gaza. Then next Weds (11/5) will mark one month of weekly fasts! We will be joined by special guest Robin D.G. Kelley in front of the GC, and then proceed indoors for an Iftar potluck. Sign up here tinyurl.com/CUNYSolidari...
October 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Tomorrow (10/30) will be our fourth weekly fast in solidarity with Gaza. Then next Weds (11/5) will mark one month of weekly fasts! We will be joined by special guest Robin D.G. Kelley in front of the GC, and then proceed indoors for an Iftar potluck. Sign up here tinyurl.com/CUNYSolidari...
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DARTMOUTH OUT!
We are at 6 rejections. Vanderbilt is the only private left standing "considering" the compact along with UT Austin and the University of Arizona.
We are at 6 rejections. Vanderbilt is the only private left standing "considering" the compact along with UT Austin and the University of Arizona.
Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!
October 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
DARTMOUTH OUT!
We are at 6 rejections. Vanderbilt is the only private left standing "considering" the compact along with UT Austin and the University of Arizona.
We are at 6 rejections. Vanderbilt is the only private left standing "considering" the compact along with UT Austin and the University of Arizona.
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Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.
October 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.
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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...
Anchoring academic resistance politicsoutdoors.com/2025/10/17/a...
Anchoring academic resistance
Last week the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) rejected the “Compact” offered by the Trump Administration, crossing a line into resistance and (implicitly) inviting other uni…
politicsoutdoors.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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...
Anchoring academic resistance politicsoutdoors.com/2025/10/17/a...
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BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.
October 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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I am thrilled, once again, to be lawsuit free!
For the last year, I've been a named defendant in a lawsuit challenging the Rutgers caste report. The judge threw it out of NJ court this week, no leave to amend.
It's a win for civil rights, academic freedom, and the anti-caste movement.
For the last year, I've been a named defendant in a lawsuit challenging the Rutgers caste report. The judge threw it out of NJ court this week, no leave to amend.
It's a win for civil rights, academic freedom, and the anti-caste movement.
October 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I am thrilled, once again, to be lawsuit free!
For the last year, I've been a named defendant in a lawsuit challenging the Rutgers caste report. The judge threw it out of NJ court this week, no leave to amend.
It's a win for civil rights, academic freedom, and the anti-caste movement.
For the last year, I've been a named defendant in a lawsuit challenging the Rutgers caste report. The judge threw it out of NJ court this week, no leave to amend.
It's a win for civil rights, academic freedom, and the anti-caste movement.
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I love this paragraph:
“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”
“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”
October 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I love this paragraph:
“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”
“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Join us this week to kick off our weekly Gaza Solidarity Fast. Wear white and fast from sunset to sundown on Wednesday 10/8, and join us on the steps of the Graduate Center at 5:30 to bear witness to the ongoing genocide in Gaza (1/2). cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/...
October 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Join us this week to kick off our weekly Gaza Solidarity Fast. Wear white and fast from sunset to sundown on Wednesday 10/8, and join us on the steps of the Graduate Center at 5:30 to bear witness to the ongoing genocide in Gaza (1/2). cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/...
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Italy’s largest union just announced a general strike in protest of the stoppage of the Sumud Flotilla!
October 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Italy’s largest union just announced a general strike in protest of the stoppage of the Sumud Flotilla!
The Sumud Flotilla can be followed via Livestream: www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
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October 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The Sumud Flotilla can be followed via Livestream: www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...
Please keep the Sumud Flotilla's tracker open on a tab to show that the world is watching: globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/#help
Flotilla Tracker - Global Movement to Gaza
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October 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Please keep the Sumud Flotilla's tracker open on a tab to show that the world is watching: globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/#help
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Pls read the 161 page opinion.
I want to highlight some information that came out in discovery & at trial that folks might have missed.
(1) Asst Director Hatch, is the senior director in the Office of Intelligence. He oversees intelligence reports known as Reports of Analysis (ROA)....
I want to highlight some information that came out in discovery & at trial that folks might have missed.
(1) Asst Director Hatch, is the senior director in the Office of Intelligence. He oversees intelligence reports known as Reports of Analysis (ROA)....
October 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Pls read the 161 page opinion.
I want to highlight some information that came out in discovery & at trial that folks might have missed.
(1) Asst Director Hatch, is the senior director in the Office of Intelligence. He oversees intelligence reports known as Reports of Analysis (ROA)....
I want to highlight some information that came out in discovery & at trial that folks might have missed.
(1) Asst Director Hatch, is the senior director in the Office of Intelligence. He oversees intelligence reports known as Reports of Analysis (ROA)....
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WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
October 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
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WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.
October 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.
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Our little AAUP chapter went 2/2 vs. Trump!
Noem and Rubio…misused the sweeping powers of their offices to target non-citizen pro-Palestinians for deportation primarily on account of their 1st Am protected political speech. They did so in order to strike fear into similarly situated non-citizens…
Noem and Rubio…misused the sweeping powers of their offices to target non-citizen pro-Palestinians for deportation primarily on account of their 1st Am protected political speech. They did so in order to strike fear into similarly situated non-citizens…
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Entered: 09/30/2025)
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September 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Our little AAUP chapter went 2/2 vs. Trump!
Noem and Rubio…misused the sweeping powers of their offices to target non-citizen pro-Palestinians for deportation primarily on account of their 1st Am protected political speech. They did so in order to strike fear into similarly situated non-citizens…
Noem and Rubio…misused the sweeping powers of their offices to target non-citizen pro-Palestinians for deportation primarily on account of their 1st Am protected political speech. They did so in order to strike fear into similarly situated non-citizens…
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"A Mayor cannot end these atrocities. But they can speak for the values of this city: a commitment to human rights for all people, including Palestinians, and a yearning for peace and justice. Even if those values are anathema to those in power now, they will endure."
As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
September 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"A Mayor cannot end these atrocities. But they can speak for the values of this city: a commitment to human rights for all people, including Palestinians, and a yearning for peace and justice. Even if those values are anathema to those in power now, they will endure."
Terrifying and enraging. Must read piece on the role of "colorblind constitutionalism" in securing white supremacy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court
Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Terrifying and enraging. Must read piece on the role of "colorblind constitutionalism" in securing white supremacy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...