I forgot to share this here. My mistake!
Great new essay by @benmanski.bsky.social
This Is Not a Drill: Bravery as Strategy in the Face of American Tragedy
www.commondreams.org/opinion/this...
This Is Not a Drill: Bravery as Strategy in the Face of American Tragedy
www.commondreams.org/opinion/this...
This Is Not a Drill: Bravery as Strategy in the Face of American Tragedy | Common Dreams
In recent memory, the prospect of a president preventing congressional elections from taking effect has been unimaginable. But today, it is not at all hard to imagine that this could happen.
www.commondreams.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I forgot to share this here. My mistake!
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“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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Turning DC into Moscow (or East Berlin from back in the day).
Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped.
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
August 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Turning DC into Moscow (or East Berlin from back in the day).
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June 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Working people need our leaders in power to work for them and put their interests first. A wasteful birthday military parade does nothing to help working families pay their bills, lower their costs, or keep their health care.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Working people need our leaders in power to work for them and put their interests first. A wasteful birthday military parade does nothing to help working families pay their bills, lower their costs, or keep their health care.
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The birthday parade money could pay for 4 million Meals on Wheels meals, enough to cover 10,000 hungry and isolated seniors for an entire year.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The birthday parade money could pay for 4 million Meals on Wheels meals, enough to cover 10,000 hungry and isolated seniors for an entire year.
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$45 million could pay for GI Bill benefits for 3,000 veterans, showing our nation’s thanks to our brave soldiers with the college or vocational training we promised after their service.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
$45 million could pay for GI Bill benefits for 3,000 veterans, showing our nation’s thanks to our brave soldiers with the college or vocational training we promised after their service.
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$45 million could provide more than 10 million school lunches, enough to feed 56,000 hungry kids – whose only warm meal each day could be at school – for an entire year.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
$45 million could provide more than 10 million school lunches, enough to feed 56,000 hungry kids – whose only warm meal each day could be at school – for an entire year.
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Yes. Many thanks to Amy Cohen and @benmanski.bsky.social for hosting this webinar on our book. So many good vibrations and solidarities coming out of next system project @nextsystemstudies.bsky.social !
#solidaritycities @uminnpress.bsky.social
#solidaritycities @uminnpress.bsky.social
Many thanks to @nextsystemstudies.bsky.social at George Mason University for hosting a discussion of our book #SolidarityCities at Online Convergence conference. Here is the video from this session: youtu.be/8kqsl16fSRE?.... Thanks to Amy Cohen and @benmanski.bsky.social for organizing the panel!
Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation
YouTube video by Next System Studies
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April 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Yes. Many thanks to Amy Cohen and @benmanski.bsky.social for hosting this webinar on our book. So many good vibrations and solidarities coming out of next system project @nextsystemstudies.bsky.social !
#solidaritycities @uminnpress.bsky.social
#solidaritycities @uminnpress.bsky.social
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In case you're wondering why Trump is censoring any discussion of climate pollution...
It's only April and there's already Death Valley heat in India and Pakistan.
It's only April and there's already Death Valley heat in India and Pakistan.
Extended heatwave in India, Pakistan to test survivability limits, with temperatures reaching Death Valley levels
For hundreds of millions of people living in India and Pakistan the early arrival of summer heatwaves has become a terrifying reality that’s testing survivability limits and putting enormous strain on...
www.accuweather.com
April 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
In case you're wondering why Trump is censoring any discussion of climate pollution...
It's only April and there's already Death Valley heat in India and Pakistan.
It's only April and there's already Death Valley heat in India and Pakistan.
Step 1. Fire hundreds of thousands of career civil servants at government agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Step 2: Hold universities hostage by cutting off tens of billions of dollars of federal funding for independent research.
Step 2: Hold universities hostage by cutting off tens of billions of dollars of federal funding for independent research.
April 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Step 1. Fire hundreds of thousands of career civil servants at government agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Step 2: Hold universities hostage by cutting off tens of billions of dollars of federal funding for independent research.
Step 2: Hold universities hostage by cutting off tens of billions of dollars of federal funding for independent research.
GMU faculty call on school administration to protect students from ICE
www.ffxnow.com/2025/04/08/g...
www.ffxnow.com/2025/04/08/g...
GMU faculty call on school administration to protect students from ICE | FFXnow
www.ffxnow.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
GMU faculty call on school administration to protect students from ICE
www.ffxnow.com/2025/04/08/g...
www.ffxnow.com/2025/04/08/g...
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I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...
1900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering - the most respected scientists in this country - rise up against the war on science.
Read the Letter
Researchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled.
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
1900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering - the most respected scientists in this country - rise up against the war on science.
Imagine hundreds of thousands gathering on campuses, in community centers, and public spaces worldwide—learning from social movements and taking responsibility for system change.
March 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Imagine hundreds of thousands gathering on campuses, in community centers, and public spaces worldwide—learning from social movements and taking responsibility for system change.
Reminder: Next System Speaker and law professor Anthony Cook joins us at 1:30 EDT today on "Breaking Barriers: Racial Capitalism and the Unfinished Work of Martin Luther King Jr." You can still register and get the zoom link here : nextsystem.gmu.edu/events/16730
Anthony Cook - Breaking Barriers: Racial Capitalism and the Unfinished Work of Martin Luther King Jr
Thursday, March 20, 2025 1:30 PM to 2:45 PM EDT: Using Dr. King’s life and legacy as a guide, Anthony Cook will explore what King’s vision for...
nextsystem.gmu.edu
March 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reminder: Next System Speaker and law professor Anthony Cook joins us at 1:30 EDT today on "Breaking Barriers: Racial Capitalism and the Unfinished Work of Martin Luther King Jr." You can still register and get the zoom link here : nextsystem.gmu.edu/events/16730
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“An organization of intellectual workers can have the greatest significance for society as a whole by influencing public opinion through publicity & education. Indeed, it is the proper task to defend academic freedom, without which a healthy development of democracy is impossible.”
November 22, 2024 at 5:10 PM
“An organization of intellectual workers can have the greatest significance for society as a whole by influencing public opinion through publicity & education. Indeed, it is the proper task to defend academic freedom, without which a healthy development of democracy is impossible.”
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this guy really hates his trans kid so much that he decided to destroy liberal democracy
March 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
this guy really hates his trans kid so much that he decided to destroy liberal democracy
This is 1990s Russia post-coup: The Trump demand that federal workers resign en masse? He intends to liquidate most of our federal agencies and use our taxes to award massive contracts to himself and his loyalists. Short-term prediction.
January 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is 1990s Russia post-coup: The Trump demand that federal workers resign en masse? He intends to liquidate most of our federal agencies and use our taxes to award massive contracts to himself and his loyalists. Short-term prediction.
Clearly, STEM is the problem and we should invest in the Social Sciences and Humanities instead. Or hadn't we noticed that it's not sociologists, historians, or artists who are shooting people, hijacking planes, or sending bombs in the mail?
December 10, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Clearly, STEM is the problem and we should invest in the Social Sciences and Humanities instead. Or hadn't we noticed that it's not sociologists, historians, or artists who are shooting people, hijacking planes, or sending bombs in the mail?
@POTUS has the authority, responsibility, & opportunity to certify this critical protection ahead of the Trump administration. We need a mass movement urging him to take action. Take action at bidenpublishtheera.org #BidenPublishTheERA #ERANow
Biden Publish the ERA
bidenpublishtheera.org
December 6, 2024 at 7:35 PM
@POTUS has the authority, responsibility, & opportunity to certify this critical protection ahead of the Trump administration. We need a mass movement urging him to take action. Take action at bidenpublishtheera.org #BidenPublishTheERA #ERANow
3 weeks ago, dozens of police officers from multiple jurisdictions, led by federal law enforcement, broke down the front door of a Fairfax County home at 6:00am and began an ordeal that one of my students and their family have been dealing with ever since. theintercept.com/2024/12/03/g...
Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation
Police raided the home of a George Mason University Students for Justice in Palestine co-president in an FBI-led investigation into graffiti.
theintercept.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:02 AM
3 weeks ago, dozens of police officers from multiple jurisdictions, led by federal law enforcement, broke down the front door of a Fairfax County home at 6:00am and began an ordeal that one of my students and their family have been dealing with ever since. theintercept.com/2024/12/03/g...
"Who started it is not the point. Proportionality and discrimination don't say that you don't have to worry about these rules if the other guy is a bad guy and the other guy started it." tinyurl.com/ujk77pnp
Rashid Khalidi: 'Israel has created a nightmare scenario for itself. The clock is ticking'
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tinyurl.com
November 30, 2024 at 1:54 PM
"Who started it is not the point. Proportionality and discrimination don't say that you don't have to worry about these rules if the other guy is a bad guy and the other guy started it." tinyurl.com/ujk77pnp