James McCorkle
@jamesmccorkle.bsky.social
2024-25 Kinghorn Global Fellow at HWS. . . teaching/working/writing in Africana Studies on the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee. My books include Evidences, The Subtle Bodies, and In Time. Poet/writer/bird watcher/still a teacher
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Mood in Nuuk, Greenland today.
January 26, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
January 24, 2026 at 5:42 PM
This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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This is a breaking news story.
US federal agents shoot another person in Minneapolis: Governor
Footage circulating on social media shows US officers wrestling a person to the ground before several shots ring out.
www.aljazeera.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
This is a breaking news story.
This is a distraction. Unless such an investigation can assist in impeachment ( don't ask me how) the focus must be on impeachment and pursuing the best path to end the careers of everyone in this regime. A dimwit knows this was a scam.
January 24, 2026 at 12:57 AM
This is a distraction. Unless such an investigation can assist in impeachment ( don't ask me how) the focus must be on impeachment and pursuing the best path to end the careers of everyone in this regime. A dimwit knows this was a scam.
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Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
January 22, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
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ICE is kidnapping children in our name.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:30 PM
ICE is kidnapping children in our name.
Under Trump the US is rapidly un-developing itself.
The most important technological revolution of our lifetime has nothing to do with AI:
Important to realize also that, once constructed, solar infrastructure just keeps working*, for decades, with very little additional cost. There's no need for a constant stream of inputs like fossil fuels.
Important to realize also that, once constructed, solar infrastructure just keeps working*, for decades, with very little additional cost. There's no need for a constant stream of inputs like fossil fuels.
Check this one fact out:
"In 2024, the total installed electricity capacity of the planet—every coal, gas, hydro, and nuclear plant and all of the renewables—was about 10 terawatts. The Chinese solar supply chain can now pump out 1 terawatt of panels every year."
"In 2024, the total installed electricity capacity of the planet—every coal, gas, hydro, and nuclear plant and all of the renewables—was about 10 terawatts. The Chinese solar supply chain can now pump out 1 terawatt of panels every year."
January 21, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Under Trump the US is rapidly un-developing itself.
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And so it begins…
January 21, 2026 at 4:49 AM
And so it begins…
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"I'll speak today about the rupture in the world order, the end of the pleasant fiction and the dawn of a brutal reality in which great-power geopolitics is unconstrained."
An extraordinary speech from Canada's prime minister.
An extraordinary speech from Canada's prime minister.
Remarkable speech from Mark Carney today at Davos, worth reading in full. Thanks to Paul Wells for transcribing (and translating the French portion): paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:22 AM
"I'll speak today about the rupture in the world order, the end of the pleasant fiction and the dawn of a brutal reality in which great-power geopolitics is unconstrained."
An extraordinary speech from Canada's prime minister.
An extraordinary speech from Canada's prime minister.
The best news of the week would be that T never returned from Davos.
January 20, 2026 at 6:45 PM
The best news of the week would be that T never returned from Davos.
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What the ‘Dude’ Who Shot Renee Good Couldn’t Hear www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
Opinion | What the ‘Dude’ Who Shot Renee Good Couldn’t Hear
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:52 PM
What the ‘Dude’ Who Shot Renee Good Couldn’t Hear www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
RFKjr., the haigography around the d
grifter Charlie Kirk, Vance, and the pedo-king himself, Trump have made the US a failing state. How embarrassing to have these jerks in office along with their clownish hangers-on.
grifter Charlie Kirk, Vance, and the pedo-king himself, Trump have made the US a failing state. How embarrassing to have these jerks in office along with their clownish hangers-on.
January 18, 2026 at 11:50 PM
RFKjr., the haigography around the d
grifter Charlie Kirk, Vance, and the pedo-king himself, Trump have made the US a failing state. How embarrassing to have these jerks in office along with their clownish hangers-on.
grifter Charlie Kirk, Vance, and the pedo-king himself, Trump have made the US a failing state. How embarrassing to have these jerks in office along with their clownish hangers-on.
I would say it has no place in education period.
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No, these are very serious comments.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
January 18, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I would say it has no place in education period.
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January 15, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip as federal support for research dries up or the atmosphere for research has become repressive. We've seen this before: German universities in the 1930s. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip as federal support for research dries up or the atmosphere for research has become repressive. We've seen this before: German universities in the 1930s. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
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ICE only hires the stupid, the racist, & the cruel. Tell me I'm wrong, & I'll want to see your evidence.
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is trying to locate four members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis.
Tribal leaders say ICE is detaining American Indians during immigration sweeps
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is trying to locate four members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis.
bit.ly
January 12, 2026 at 8:55 PM
ICE only hires the stupid, the racist, & the cruel. Tell me I'm wrong, & I'll want to see your evidence.
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Imagine if every leader in the academic, scientific, and business communities had responded to pressure from the president in the way that Jerome Powell has, and their colleagues had supported them the way the financial industry is supporting Powell. If only they'd been brave...
January 12, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Imagine if every leader in the academic, scientific, and business communities had responded to pressure from the president in the way that Jerome Powell has, and their colleagues had supported them the way the financial industry is supporting Powell. If only they'd been brave...
Those that rule by extortion will fall.
The president of the United States is extorting the Federal Reserve Board Chairman by threatening criminal prosecution if he doesn't lower interest rates.
DOJ is compromised, legacy media is cowed and Big Law is AWOL. As I wrote last year: "We are on our own."
DOJ is compromised, legacy media is cowed and Big Law is AWOL. As I wrote last year: "We are on our own."
We Are on Our Own
From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.
www.democracydocket.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Those that rule by extortion will fall.
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With no self-awareness, Trump says of Iran's leaders: "They rule through violence."
January 12, 2026 at 1:43 PM
With no self-awareness, Trump says of Iran's leaders: "They rule through violence."
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“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 AM
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Could not agree more.
“The truth is that police do lie, all the time, about issues big and small. They lie to their supervisors and on police reports. They lie to prosecutors, juries, judges, and the public about perceived threats—the dangers posed by motorists, e.g., and the use of force necessary to deter them.”
January 10, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Could not agree more.
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.