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Jonathan Feingold
@jpygold.bsky.social
law professor, critical race theory, co-host #RaceClass Podcast, critical (legal) collective

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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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Video of her being dragged by authorities in Ghana:

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November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
$8.75M Investment Supports ‘Research Resilience’… | Maryland Today
UMD, MPower Funds Combine to Help Preserve Institutional Capabilities, Lab Operations and More
today.umd.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.

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British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
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November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
i spoke w @wgbh.org about #MA antisemitism commission that's enlisting Dems into a MAGA/ADL campaign to push authoriarian policies into Blue states.

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State antisemitism commission finalizes findings, drawing praise and pushback
The Massachusetts political establishment has broadly endorsed the commission’s work, which is the first of its kind.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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The mutinous mood of the senators — who include Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Tina Smith of Minnesota, Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts — reflects the widespread doubts among the Democratic base that party leaders in Congress have…
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Apple is anti-union.

Tesla is anti-union.

Amazon is anti-union.

McDonald's is anti-union.

Starbucks is anti-union.

Google is anti-union.

Walmart is anti-union.

These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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BOYCOTT AMAZON, TARGET & HOME DEPOT
This Black Friday weekend, I’m skipping Amazon, Target, and Home Depot and shifting my spending to the people building real community.

What local businesses are you supporting instead? Tag them—I want to help boost as many as possible.

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Boycott Target, Amazon, and Home Depot from Black Friday to Cyber Monday! Leave small business below
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November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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This Black Friday weekend, I’m skipping Amazon, Target, and Home Depot and shifting my spending to the people building real community.

What local businesses are you supporting instead? Tag them—I want to help boost as many as possible.

youtube.com/shorts/tux7s...
Boycott Target, Amazon, and Home Depot from Black Friday to Cyber Monday! Leave small business below
YouTube video by Eliza Orlins
youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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James Carville, in his NYT Op-ed, says it's time for Democrats to "embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic, and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage. The most populist platform since the Great Depression."

I can dig it.

Resistance. Reformation. Revolution.
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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The New York Times, where the popular mayor-elect of their city is a fringe figure, but the QAnon podcaster who asked him a racist question comes out as a "winner"

This newspaper hates its readers as much as Republicans hate their voters. And if you're still supporting either, you deserve it.
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Here's the second:
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes, in dismissing Midway Blitz-related charges against Dana Briggs last week, said he was lifting restrictions on relevant video.

Today he made the video available through the clerk's office at no cost to the public. Here's the first.
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Spotted at Harvard today. Not great at all at how this nazi is being mainstreamed and normalized. This shit is absolutely not welcomed here. Used water from my water bottle to erase part of it.
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The judge noted that ICE repeatedly shot pepper balls at protesters & clergy at close range; tear-gassed expectant mothers, children, & babies; and pointed guns at people exercising their First Amendment rights--conduct that she concluded “shocks the conscience.”

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How Conservative Judges Turned a Throwaway Line Into a Free Pass For ICE Violence
For these judges, the White House not getting its way is a legal crisis that requires immediate intervention.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Yes obscene but how is this a surprise. This is the entire point of the GOPs war on diversity equity inclusion.
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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In a public transportation induced moment of insanity, I did this; wow, is grok the most misogynist AI ever.

“her pussy probably smells like expired yogurt and broken dreams…She’s got the sex appeal of a moldy gym sock and the brain capacity of whatever’s stuck to the bottom of it.”
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Yes obscene but how is this a surprise. This is the entire point of the GOPs war on diversity equity inclusion.
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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ICE point gun at father in front of son—drag him out of truck by smashing window.

"Please put the gun down! That's my dad!" son cries. "You're hurting him... Look he's bleeding!"

"Why did you break window? He wasn't doing anything."

Club Heights neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina.
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Troubling to see members of the MA Special Commission on Combatting #Antisemitism unable even to abstain, let alone vote no, on a report some of whose provisions made several of them visibly and audibly uncomfortable. Troubling but not surprising, the way this process has gone.
BREAKING: Shadow Report from @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social detailing how the #MA Antisemitism Commission is inviting an ADL/MAGA crackdown on civil rights and civil liberties. @marisakabas.bsky.social

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November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.

Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right

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Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
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November 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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MTG has been in Congress since 2020 & is resigning Jan 5, 2026. I just want to point out one thing.

She spent 5 years attacking the left & never feared for her life.

She spent 5 weeks mildly critiquing MAGA & the backlash is so severe she is resigning.

5 years vs 5 weeks. That says it all.
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM