Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD
@taoleighgoffe.bsky.social
Writer • Associate Professor @ CUNY• PhDJ• order my book 📒🏝️DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday, 2025). Manhattanite. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/
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Harvard Kennedy School fellow
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I’m SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES official!! My book #DarkLaboratory. A thrill to be read and understood. Feels like seeing my name in lights. Ran to the news stand with Dragon Baby 🩵🐲 to buy some hard copies yesterday.
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all this is both foolish and unnecessary
January 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
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Since there has been a lot of "what are Americans even doing" talk on the timeline today, my gentle reminder that none of you better be posting the exact details of what you are doing on bluesky dot com, it is more important to safely do the work than prove to strangers that you are doing something!
January 5, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Since there has been a lot of "what are Americans even doing" talk on the timeline today, my gentle reminder that none of you better be posting the exact details of what you are doing on bluesky dot com, it is more important to safely do the work than prove to strangers that you are doing something!
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If you are a CUNY doctoral student in your second through sixth year, you can likely get up to $1,500 for research, travel, accommodations, conference fees, a research assistant, etc. Deadline: Jan. 31. See guidelines for more info:
www.gc.cuny.edu/sites/defaul...
www.gc.cuny.edu/sites/defaul...
January 5, 2026 at 2:58 PM
If you are a CUNY doctoral student in your second through sixth year, you can likely get up to $1,500 for research, travel, accommodations, conference fees, a research assistant, etc. Deadline: Jan. 31. See guidelines for more info:
www.gc.cuny.edu/sites/defaul...
www.gc.cuny.edu/sites/defaul...
We fossilize the future when we turn to fossil fuels for our liberation.
January 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM
We fossilize the future when we turn to fossil fuels for our liberation.
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"It said on Sunday that there would be two days of mourning on January 5 and 6 in honour of those killed and said funeral arrangements would be announced."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
Cuba says 32 Cubans killed during US raids on Venezuela
Havana declares two days of mourning for the Cubans killed in US's raid to capture Nicolas Maduro.
www.aljazeera.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:58 AM
"It said on Sunday that there would be two days of mourning on January 5 and 6 in honour of those killed and said funeral arrangements would be announced."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
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#OtD 4 Jan 1901 CLR James, anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado, was born in Trinidad. We have made available a number of his lesser-known works here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
January 4, 2026 at 8:40 PM
#OtD 4 Jan 1901 CLR James, anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado, was born in Trinidad. We have made available a number of his lesser-known works here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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“Gulf of America,” just like “Department of War,” was not a simple name change. It was a test to see public reaction. Imperialism doesn’t need to hide in plain sight.
This has always been America.
Hence we urgently need a shift from solidarity to sovereignty, as I have long said.
#Venezuela
This has always been America.
Hence we urgently need a shift from solidarity to sovereignty, as I have long said.
#Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 11:20 AM
“Gulf of America,” just like “Department of War,” was not a simple name change. It was a test to see public reaction. Imperialism doesn’t need to hide in plain sight.
This has always been America.
Hence we urgently need a shift from solidarity to sovereignty, as I have long said.
#Venezuela
This has always been America.
Hence we urgently need a shift from solidarity to sovereignty, as I have long said.
#Venezuela
Cuba. 🇨🇺
It has been hard not to notice the Caribbean travel bans and U.S. pressure to isolate Cuba. Antigua caved.
What's to stop the whole region from falling?
With Rubio as our man in Havana. The fall guy.
It has been hard not to notice the Caribbean travel bans and U.S. pressure to isolate Cuba. Antigua caved.
What's to stop the whole region from falling?
With Rubio as our man in Havana. The fall guy.
Marco Rubio on Cuba during the press conference: "If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I'd be concerned ... at least a little bit"
January 3, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Cuba. 🇨🇺
It has been hard not to notice the Caribbean travel bans and U.S. pressure to isolate Cuba. Antigua caved.
What's to stop the whole region from falling?
With Rubio as our man in Havana. The fall guy.
It has been hard not to notice the Caribbean travel bans and U.S. pressure to isolate Cuba. Antigua caved.
What's to stop the whole region from falling?
With Rubio as our man in Havana. The fall guy.
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Marco Rubio on Cuba during the press conference: "If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I'd be concerned ... at least a little bit"
January 3, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Marco Rubio on Cuba during the press conference: "If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I'd be concerned ... at least a little bit"
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trump to southern neighbors: remember the sudetenland?
Hours after the U.S. invaded Venezuela to seize President Nicolás Maduro, President Trump sent a warning to the governments of Mexico, Cuba and Colombia that their countries could be next.
www.axios.com/2026/01/03/t...
www.axios.com/2026/01/03/t...
Trump signals more Latin American invasions could be next after capturing Maduro
"Something's going to have to be done with Mexico," Trump told Fox and Friends.
www.axios.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:07 PM
trump to southern neighbors: remember the sudetenland?
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Hours after the U.S. captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, President Trump said the U.S. would “run the country” and access Venezuela’s oil reserves. Follow live updates. trib.al/KvlfOwL
January 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Hours after the U.S. captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, President Trump said the U.S. would “run the country” and access Venezuela’s oil reserves. Follow live updates. trib.al/KvlfOwL
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📢 TODAY, SATURDAY JANUARY 3, 2025
No war on Venezuela! Stop the bombings!
EMERGENCY ACTION:
Times Square, NYC
2:00 PM
This violence is not in our names. We must refuse another endless war for profits!
No war on Venezuela! Stop the bombings!
EMERGENCY ACTION:
Times Square, NYC
2:00 PM
This violence is not in our names. We must refuse another endless war for profits!
January 3, 2026 at 6:17 PM
📢 TODAY, SATURDAY JANUARY 3, 2025
No war on Venezuela! Stop the bombings!
EMERGENCY ACTION:
Times Square, NYC
2:00 PM
This violence is not in our names. We must refuse another endless war for profits!
No war on Venezuela! Stop the bombings!
EMERGENCY ACTION:
Times Square, NYC
2:00 PM
This violence is not in our names. We must refuse another endless war for profits!
Four horsemen of the apocalypse.
January 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Four horsemen of the apocalypse.
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Feeling the bite: is Greggs on a roll or is its expansion overbaked?
Feeling the bite: is Greggs on a roll or is its expansion overbaked?
UK pastry chain has plans for two new factories and 800 more branches, despite sales falling in 2025 and analysts questioning brand’s direction
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Feeling the bite: is Greggs on a roll or is its expansion overbaked?
“Gulf of America,” just like “Department of War,” was not a simple name change. It was a test to see public reaction. Imperialism doesn’t need to hide in plain sight.
This has always been America.
Hence we urgently need a shift from solidarity to sovereignty, as I have long said.
#Venezuela
This has always been America.
Hence we urgently need a shift from solidarity to sovereignty, as I have long said.
#Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 11:20 AM
“Gulf of America,” just like “Department of War,” was not a simple name change. It was a test to see public reaction. Imperialism doesn’t need to hide in plain sight.
This has always been America.
Hence we urgently need a shift from solidarity to sovereignty, as I have long said.
#Venezuela
This has always been America.
Hence we urgently need a shift from solidarity to sovereignty, as I have long said.
#Venezuela
#Venezuela This is happening simply because so many Americans believe Latin America and the Caribbean are “America’s Backyard.”
Teaching Caribbean Literature this past semester, I realized many students have never heard of the Monroe Doctrine (1823).
Teaching Caribbean Literature this past semester, I realized many students have never heard of the Monroe Doctrine (1823).
January 3, 2026 at 11:18 AM
#Venezuela This is happening simply because so many Americans believe Latin America and the Caribbean are “America’s Backyard.”
Teaching Caribbean Literature this past semester, I realized many students have never heard of the Monroe Doctrine (1823).
Teaching Caribbean Literature this past semester, I realized many students have never heard of the Monroe Doctrine (1823).
The quick turn to “experts” on Latin America and the Caribbean… shows how the apparatus of Area Studies was developed in the Cold War for just this: conquest, war studies.
Caribbean studies, at its best when anchored in Black studies and indigeneity, is the opposite, a decolonizing project.
Caribbean studies, at its best when anchored in Black studies and indigeneity, is the opposite, a decolonizing project.
January 3, 2026 at 10:24 AM
The quick turn to “experts” on Latin America and the Caribbean… shows how the apparatus of Area Studies was developed in the Cold War for just this: conquest, war studies.
Caribbean studies, at its best when anchored in Black studies and indigeneity, is the opposite, a decolonizing project.
Caribbean studies, at its best when anchored in Black studies and indigeneity, is the opposite, a decolonizing project.
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This article advocates for the “Faculty Merit Act” that would — get this — require all faculty applicants to submit their *SAT* scores. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy shirts that’s hilarious.
January 2, 2026 at 4:08 PM
This article advocates for the “Faculty Merit Act” that would — get this — require all faculty applicants to submit their *SAT* scores. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy shirts that’s hilarious.
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Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.
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GW Bush is one of the worst Presidents in US history and there are many contenders. He was the worst of my lifetime until Trump 2. Worse than Reagan who I loathe.
January 2, 2026 at 2:54 AM
GW Bush is one of the worst Presidents in US history and there are many contenders. He was the worst of my lifetime until Trump 2. Worse than Reagan who I loathe.
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Today is Haitian Independence Day.
January 2, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Today is Haitian Independence Day.
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Garlic, Ginger, and Soy Sauce Stir-Fried Soba Noodles With Roasted Sweet Potatoes, Roasted Carrots, Roasted Golden Beets, Roasted Eggplant, and Braised Collard Greens and Red Onions 🍽🍜🥡🥬🧄
January 2, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Garlic, Ginger, and Soy Sauce Stir-Fried Soba Noodles With Roasted Sweet Potatoes, Roasted Carrots, Roasted Golden Beets, Roasted Eggplant, and Braised Collard Greens and Red Onions 🍽🍜🥡🥬🧄
2025 - what a year! My first book, my first baby. A lot in between. Cheers to 2026! I’m feeling good about what we’re building and transforming at my Lab. 🐲🐍🐎
January 2, 2026 at 2:18 AM
2025 - what a year! My first book, my first baby. A lot in between. Cheers to 2026! I’m feeling good about what we’re building and transforming at my Lab. 🐲🐍🐎