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@DrJenHo
@drjenho.bsky.social
Director, Center for Humanities & the Arts
Professor, Ethnic Studies
Faculty at CU Boulder
Scholar of Asian American Studies & Critical Race Theory
Corgi Mom & Anti-Racism Educator
Love: Stevie Wonder, YoYoMa, Irises, Soft Serve Ice Cream
Hate: Haters
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"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Black thinkers & activists have been saying the same thing for more than 150 yrs: the rights, laws, & programs passed by Congress are meaningless if white Americans remain unwilling to enforce them.
After the police chief in Columbia, SC murdered a Black resident in cold blood, an anonymous Black woman wrote to the govt in May 1866: "Our friends in Congress are wasting time & breath, & all the bills they may pass, will do us no good, unless men are sent here that will see these laws enforced."
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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the obsession with how history remembers…leaving the “record” to time insinuates the future record has a “neutral” author that won’t censor, distort, or willfully ignore the truth.

“history” & willful remembering is the responsibility of us all, not for unnamed people for a under-regarded future.
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."

Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
@colorado.edu Journalism professor @angiechuang.bsky.social just wrote a brilliant piece for @us.theconversation.com -- and you should check out her just released book "American Otherness in Journalism"

theconversation.com/overwhelm-th...
Overwhelm the public with muzzle-velocity headlines: A strategy rooted in racism and authoritarianism
The unrelenting diet of chaotic, contradictory headlines that Americans face today echoes an antidemocratic playbook from the past.
theconversation.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Our grotesque split-screen:
starving the poor / gorging the ultrarich

"With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars to giant private-equity firms, crypto companies, foreign real-estate investors, and a variety of multinational corporations."
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
For anyone in Boulder, CO -- St. Aidan's Church, which is pretty much on @colorado.edu's campus (adjacent to the football stadium) is in need of volunteers to help pack food for hungry families on Friday, Nov 7, 1-3pm -- I'll be there and I hope others will too!

www.saintaidans.org/volunteer
Volunteer — St. Aidan's Episcopal Church
www.saintaidans.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
If you're in Boulder and want to hear about resisting fascist authoritarianism through joy, I hope you'll swing by Humanities 250, 5:30-6:30pm on Monday, November 3--and if you come at 5:00pm you can grab a slice of pizza compliments of @colorado.edu College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program
October 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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UVA Faculty Senate with a clear statement of values: facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-o...
Resolution Opposing the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" | Faculty Senate, U.Va.
facultysenate.virginia.edu
October 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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There are so few people actually asking, “is this any good for what we do?” Instead people give lip service to “responsible use” while plowing ahead with punching “AI” into everything. This isn’t just about selling a product; it’s about co-opting humanities researchers to train “AI” models.
October 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Over 400 faculty and staff from the #uva College of Arts and Sciences convened for an emergency vote. 97% of eligible voters endorsed a resolution demanding President Mahoney refuse to consider the Trump admin's Compact for Academic Freedom!!
October 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Today’s the first day of Banned Books Week! Take a look at the thread and see if there’s something you can do to protect our freedom to read!
Banned Books Week starts on Sunday, October 5—there are a ton of ways to support!

Find ways to get involved here: www.ala.org/bbooks/banne...

(If you're overwhelmed, even just checking out, buying, or elevating a banned book is helpful! Talking about them w/ the ppl in your life is an action!)
October 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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This is the way. Phenomenal.
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“President Trump’s cuts to humanitarian assistance abroad have hurt all kinds of people. But from what I see on the ground, those suffering the most are women and girls — and that will leave all of us, including men and boys, worse off,” @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.
Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl
In Uganda, desperation has eroded the social fabric and left women particularly vulnerable.
nyti.ms
September 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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I wish people cared about the first amendment rights of authors and artists who are getting their works banned in schools and libraries across the USA as much as they care about the rights of white male comedians to be on national TV
September 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I saw Goody Smith talking to a Chinese international student at the old wishing well.

www.wgbh.org/news/educati...
Local colleges targeted amid growing campus culture wars
National media and conservative groups are seeking syllabi and student information from public colleges; professors say they feel targeted and harassed.
www.wgbh.org
September 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This is the state of higher education under fascist authoritarianism.

#UnderHisEye

www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Slightly diminish a book

The Gentleman of the Rings
Slightly diminish a book

Becky
Slightly diminish a book

Expectations
September 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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We told you. Hell, they told you.
September 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Walmart spent $35.3B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024, enough to give each of its 2.2M employees annual bonuses of $2,719.

Last year, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay of just $29,469.

Textbook corporate greed.
September 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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None of what's happening at the US Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is surprising. I don't know what those 52 Republican senators who confirmed RFK Jr. were thinking, but this is on them.
We’re all gonna die of something from the 19th century.
September 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Doctors I trust more than RFK Junior...
September 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM