Brittney Cooper
@profcrunk.bsky.social
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The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.
December 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.
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% Black tenure-track faculty doesn't increase--it declines between 2004 and 2024!
The Compact piece uses various subsets to highlight the small amounts of diversification in humanities & some social science. That's fine, but worth taking a step back to the complete data
The Compact piece uses various subsets to highlight the small amounts of diversification in humanities & some social science. That's fine, but worth taking a step back to the complete data
December 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
% Black tenure-track faculty doesn't increase--it declines between 2004 and 2024!
The Compact piece uses various subsets to highlight the small amounts of diversification in humanities & some social science. That's fine, but worth taking a step back to the complete data
The Compact piece uses various subsets to highlight the small amounts of diversification in humanities & some social science. That's fine, but worth taking a step back to the complete data
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Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024)
Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
December 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024)
Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
Attacks on academic freedom are off the chain right now. But we are a mighty bunch when we stick together.
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Attacks on academic freedom are off the chain right now. But we are a mighty bunch when we stick together.
She didn’t even say a disparaging word. Why are Black women the casualties of white men’s wars?
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
She didn’t even say a disparaging word. Why are Black women the casualties of white men’s wars?
Among the things I am thinking abt is how the left fared after Breitbart died, and after Scalia died. And wondering how things will go this time. And now going back to my fiber crafts and gardening. (I finally have some tomatoes.)
September 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Among the things I am thinking abt is how the left fared after Breitbart died, and after Scalia died. And wondering how things will go this time. And now going back to my fiber crafts and gardening. (I finally have some tomatoes.)
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“Oh I will just take a break until this blows over.”
THIS is all there is unless and until people make something different.
THIS is all there is unless and until people make something different.
June 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“Oh I will just take a break until this blows over.”
THIS is all there is unless and until people make something different.
THIS is all there is unless and until people make something different.
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If I can be real for a moment, what frightens me most right now is that David Brooks is more upset about Trump-Musk than many, maybe most, liberal pundits and Democratic leaders are.
June 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
If I can be real for a moment, what frightens me most right now is that David Brooks is more upset about Trump-Musk than many, maybe most, liberal pundits and Democratic leaders are.
Not the children out here believing Harriet Tubman wasn’t real. Jesus, help the children.
June 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Not the children out here believing Harriet Tubman wasn’t real. Jesus, help the children.
OK Y’all. 2 yrs ago I uploaded a pdf to Notebook LM, a Google AI that could convert pdfs into notes. Today I learned it has an audio feature where it will generate a “podcast” of two people talking about the article. I am now listening to a “podcast” abt the article I uploaded in 2yrs ago. WILD!
April 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
OK Y’all. 2 yrs ago I uploaded a pdf to Notebook LM, a Google AI that could convert pdfs into notes. Today I learned it has an audio feature where it will generate a “podcast” of two people talking about the article. I am now listening to a “podcast” abt the article I uploaded in 2yrs ago. WILD!
How somebody gonna protect the homeland when they can’t watch their purse at dinner? Also who carries 3 stacks to dinner?! WTF.
April 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
How somebody gonna protect the homeland when they can’t watch their purse at dinner? Also who carries 3 stacks to dinner?! WTF.
A bunch of women rode a hitachi magic wand to space and that is literally the only useful purpose for a hitachi. So I feel like that should be the convo.
April 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A bunch of women rode a hitachi magic wand to space and that is literally the only useful purpose for a hitachi. So I feel like that should be the convo.
Form Wendy Brown’s “Resisting Left Melancholy”: “But left melancholy is Benjamin's unambivalent epithet for the revolutionary hack who is…attached more to a particular political analysis or ideal-even to the failure of that ideal-than to seizing possibilities for radical change in the present.”
April 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Form Wendy Brown’s “Resisting Left Melancholy”: “But left melancholy is Benjamin's unambivalent epithet for the revolutionary hack who is…attached more to a particular political analysis or ideal-even to the failure of that ideal-than to seizing possibilities for radical change in the present.”
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it is so deeply gratifying that Elon Musk stumbled upon a race that he'd never heard of before in a state he was probably only vaguely familiar with, made it his whole personality for a month, claimed that western civilization was on the line, committed felonies, spent millions, and FUCKING LOST
April 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
it is so deeply gratifying that Elon Musk stumbled upon a race that he'd never heard of before in a state he was probably only vaguely familiar with, made it his whole personality for a month, claimed that western civilization was on the line, committed felonies, spent millions, and FUCKING LOST
Really jarring reading this piece at The Guardian abt the ICE Detention Center in Jena Louisiana where Mahmoud Khalil is being held, and thinking abt my genesis as an activist 18 years ago in Jena, when my fellow PhD students and I chaperoned a bus of Emory undergrads to the Jena 6 protests.
‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish
Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courts
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Really jarring reading this piece at The Guardian abt the ICE Detention Center in Jena Louisiana where Mahmoud Khalil is being held, and thinking abt my genesis as an activist 18 years ago in Jena, when my fellow PhD students and I chaperoned a bus of Emory undergrads to the Jena 6 protests.
To the conversation about “exiled academics” I would just say some of us academics of a darker hue definitely pointed out that a lot of the radical academic set would flee the minute things got bad.
March 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
To the conversation about “exiled academics” I would just say some of us academics of a darker hue definitely pointed out that a lot of the radical academic set would flee the minute things got bad.
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Democrats even *thinking* about joining Republicans to censure Al Green for having the courage to stand up while they sat down do not deserve to be able to generate a single fundraising dollar from a person of moral character ever again.
March 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Democrats even *thinking* about joining Republicans to censure Al Green for having the courage to stand up while they sat down do not deserve to be able to generate a single fundraising dollar from a person of moral character ever again.
Same. I’ll be joining these folks tomorrow at 4pm.
For my part, I will be joining a bunch of other Black folks in a 24-live stream of countering programming we're calling the State of the People. I'll be on at 1 am.
stateofthepeople.media
stateofthepeople.media
State of the People | 24 Hour Marathon
The State of the People is a 24-hour livestream where we will center the truth for the people instead of letting disinformation go unchecked.
stateofthepeople.media
March 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Same. I’ll be joining these folks tomorrow at 4pm.
Counterprogramming in response to the Orange menace’s address tomorrow.
March 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Counterprogramming in response to the Orange menace’s address tomorrow.
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Democrats should boycott the State of the Union. Democrats keep calling this man a unique and dangerous threat, but never ACT like it.
For once, Democrats' *actions* should match their words.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
For once, Democrats' *actions* should match their words.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Democrats Should Boycott Trump’s Speech to Congress This Week
Refusing to attend the speech would be the first indication that Democrats are not just playing politics—and playing them badly—but resisting.
www.thenation.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Democrats should boycott the State of the Union. Democrats keep calling this man a unique and dangerous threat, but never ACT like it.
For once, Democrats' *actions* should match their words.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
For once, Democrats' *actions* should match their words.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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I miss the days when billionaire vanity projects were, like, commissioning nude sculptures and buying sports teams… instead buying every means of communication we can think of
February 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I miss the days when billionaire vanity projects were, like, commissioning nude sculptures and buying sports teams… instead buying every means of communication we can think of
There is just no end to this elite capture of the news media and use of it to seed their intellectually vacuous, fundamentally corrupt failing neoliberalist ideology. This shit sickens me. Free markets don’t free anybody but the white boys who have been free forever.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
Washington Post Opinion Editor Exits as Bezos Steers Pages in New Direction
Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, said that the newspaper’s opinion section would focus on “personal liberties and free markets.”
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
There is just no end to this elite capture of the news media and use of it to seed their intellectually vacuous, fundamentally corrupt failing neoliberalist ideology. This shit sickens me. Free markets don’t free anybody but the white boys who have been free forever.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...