Jonathan Feingold
@jpygold.bsky.social
law professor, critical race theory, co-host #RaceClass Podcast, critical legal collective
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Jonathan Feingold
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· Feb 21
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We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good.
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ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.
January 25, 2026 at 4:36 AM
ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.
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The AAUP continues to fight to protect noncitizen speech on campuses nationwide.
“Our chapter sued to protect the rights of everyone on our campus to speak their mind, even when their speech is unpopular. We will never stop standing up for our community.”
— Kirsten Weld, AAUP Harvard President
“Our chapter sued to protect the rights of everyone on our campus to speak their mind, even when their speech is unpopular. We will never stop standing up for our community.”
— Kirsten Weld, AAUP Harvard President
Judge Rejects Nationwide Relief in AAUP, MESA Lawsuit Over Noncitizen Speech, Issues Narrower Protections | News | The Harvard Crimson
A federal judge rebuffed a Harvard faculty group’s request to extend speech protections to noncitizens nationwide after it won a lawsuit against the Trump administration — instead issuing a special…
www.thecrimson.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The AAUP continues to fight to protect noncitizen speech on campuses nationwide.
“Our chapter sued to protect the rights of everyone on our campus to speak their mind, even when their speech is unpopular. We will never stop standing up for our community.”
— Kirsten Weld, AAUP Harvard President
“Our chapter sued to protect the rights of everyone on our campus to speak their mind, even when their speech is unpopular. We will never stop standing up for our community.”
— Kirsten Weld, AAUP Harvard President
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Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
January 25, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
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You all know I’m their biggest critic. Credit to @nytimes.com for reporting the truth and not the criminal regime’s lies this time. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...
January 25, 2026 at 2:42 AM
You all know I’m their biggest critic. Credit to @nytimes.com for reporting the truth and not the criminal regime’s lies this time. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...
I hope the athletes follow their lead today. We need them too.
Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Anthony Edwards, Steve Kerr.
They have the ability to significantly intervene in US history today, when they are needed most, by refusing to play and saying exactly why: ICE must be driven out of Minnesota and everywhere else.
Strike against ICE murders and abductions.
They have the ability to significantly intervene in US history today, when they are needed most, by refusing to play and saying exactly why: ICE must be driven out of Minnesota and everywhere else.
Strike against ICE murders and abductions.
January 25, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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1500-2000 DC residents gathered at ICE HQ to mourn and protest last night. Speakers mentioned George Floyd and the struggle for racial justice and then asked those assembled to call out other names: Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile (also a Minnesotan), and others.
We will not forget.
We will not forget.
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 PM
1500-2000 DC residents gathered at ICE HQ to mourn and protest last night. Speakers mentioned George Floyd and the struggle for racial justice and then asked those assembled to call out other names: Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile (also a Minnesotan), and others.
We will not forget.
We will not forget.
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
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The NRA is a gun rights organization the way the Ku Klux Klan is a speech rights organization.
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 AM
The NRA is a gun rights organization the way the Ku Klux Klan is a speech rights organization.
The daylight execution is an escalation. But it’s inseparable from the regime’s nostalgia for a mythological world where white Christian men dominated without apology. That’s why Critical Race Theory and the cross racial solidarity it emboldens scares them so much.
January 25, 2026 at 1:38 PM
The daylight execution is an escalation. But it’s inseparable from the regime’s nostalgia for a mythological world where white Christian men dominated without apology. That’s why Critical Race Theory and the cross racial solidarity it emboldens scares them so much.
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"A regime based on terror, on the other hand, deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:25 PM
"A regime based on terror, on the other hand, deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
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On Monday I’m going to call my two Democratic senators and ask them not to fund any spending package that includes ICE funding. I’m also going to call my Republican representative and tell his office that I will blame the shutdown on him and his support for ICE.
January 25, 2026 at 1:21 PM
On Monday I’m going to call my two Democratic senators and ask them not to fund any spending package that includes ICE funding. I’m also going to call my Republican representative and tell his office that I will blame the shutdown on him and his support for ICE.
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This bill was introduced in House and Senate a couple of months back:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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January 25, 2026 at 12:18 AM
This bill was introduced in House and Senate a couple of months back:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
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Now Noem says:
“This individual went and impeded their law enforcement operations...had a weapon on him, and multiple dozens of rounds of ammunition, wishing to inflict harm on these officers.”
So “had a weapon on him”, not brandishing.
Last time i checked they worked hard to make that a right.
“This individual went and impeded their law enforcement operations...had a weapon on him, and multiple dozens of rounds of ammunition, wishing to inflict harm on these officers.”
So “had a weapon on him”, not brandishing.
Last time i checked they worked hard to make that a right.
January 24, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Now Noem says:
“This individual went and impeded their law enforcement operations...had a weapon on him, and multiple dozens of rounds of ammunition, wishing to inflict harm on these officers.”
So “had a weapon on him”, not brandishing.
Last time i checked they worked hard to make that a right.
“This individual went and impeded their law enforcement operations...had a weapon on him, and multiple dozens of rounds of ammunition, wishing to inflict harm on these officers.”
So “had a weapon on him”, not brandishing.
Last time i checked they worked hard to make that a right.
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wrote about the camps for my newsletter this weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
January 25, 2026 at 12:01 AM
wrote about the camps for my newsletter this weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
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We have video of Renee Good and Alex Pretti being executed by ICE
We don’t have video of the torture in the ICE camps
We know Geraldo Campos was choked to death
We know Randall Gamboa was put in a persistent vegetative state and deported
We know 2025 was the deadliest year on record
Abolish ICE
We don’t have video of the torture in the ICE camps
We know Geraldo Campos was choked to death
We know Randall Gamboa was put in a persistent vegetative state and deported
We know 2025 was the deadliest year on record
Abolish ICE
January 25, 2026 at 12:22 AM
We have video of Renee Good and Alex Pretti being executed by ICE
We don’t have video of the torture in the ICE camps
We know Geraldo Campos was choked to death
We know Randall Gamboa was put in a persistent vegetative state and deported
We know 2025 was the deadliest year on record
Abolish ICE
We don’t have video of the torture in the ICE camps
We know Geraldo Campos was choked to death
We know Randall Gamboa was put in a persistent vegetative state and deported
We know 2025 was the deadliest year on record
Abolish ICE
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There is a template for this. You can call it a conference, a congress, a convention, an assembly, but they all amount to the same thing. It needs to be convened promptly, and Illinois would be a good choice for hosting it.
I am asking my fellow Republican and Democratic Governors across the nation to have a unified response.
We must all stand against the lawlessness being inflicted in our states.
We must all stand against the lawlessness being inflicted in our states.
January 24, 2026 at 7:15 PM
There is a template for this. You can call it a conference, a congress, a convention, an assembly, but they all amount to the same thing. It needs to be convened promptly, and Illinois would be a good choice for hosting it.
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an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars
Noem lies shamelessly: "An individual approached order Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic gun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 11:13 PM
an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars
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Keep calling to make sure it stays dead!!
5calls.org
5calls.org
January 24, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Keep calling to make sure it stays dead!!
5calls.org
5calls.org
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This is ok tho
January 24, 2026 at 7:32 PM
This is ok tho
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Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
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Yes yes
This is important. And partly why the entire rightwing infrastructure from GOP to Heritage to Manhattan to ALEC were so terrified of 2020. Millions of the folks marching for racial justice and demanding a racial reckoning were *white*
Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.
January 24, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Yes yes