David Huyssen
@davidhuyssen.bsky.social
Historian (political economy, class, culture), writer, editor, teacher.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674281400
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674281400
Consider the context for "The UK thinks you're treating people in boats too harshly":
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Consider the context for "The UK thinks you're treating people in boats too harshly":
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The United States expended 25% of its entire missile defense capacity to prevent Israel from facing consequences for its war of aggression against Iran! The US Navy pushed maintenance schedules back years to kill Yemenis on behalf of Israel! They poured F/A-18s into the Red Sea for Israel!
I don't want to directly quote tweet but there are apparently still people who think the US is somehow only "indirectly" involved in the genocide in Gaza. We've spent probably $50+ billion to make sure it happens! American soldiers have killed and died making sure it continues!
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The United States expended 25% of its entire missile defense capacity to prevent Israel from facing consequences for its war of aggression against Iran! The US Navy pushed maintenance schedules back years to kill Yemenis on behalf of Israel! They poured F/A-18s into the Red Sea for Israel!
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Come for the cowardice, stay for the corruption.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Come for the cowardice, stay for the corruption.
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It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.
Breaking MSNBC:
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
U.S. Attorney investigating alleged grand ‘conspiracy’ calls unit-wide meeting after two prosecutors resign
Career prosecutors on “pins and needles” after flurry of subpoenas approved.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.
Isabella Weber on Mamdani’s “antifascist economics,” a useful term:
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Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber
Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians
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November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Isabella Weber on Mamdani’s “antifascist economics,” a useful term:
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This is how scabs justify breaking strikes.
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This is how scabs justify breaking strikes.
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Orwellian levels of political interference in academic affairs: Under pressure from right-wing press and the Minister of Education the prestigious Collège de France cancels the conference ‘Palestine and Europe’ - in the name of academic freedom and neutrality … read this statement by the organizers:
"En cédant à la pression du ministre, Philippe Baptiste, l’administrateur du Collège de France compromet l’indépendance d’une institution fondée il y a plus de quatre siècles, qui a accueilli les plus grands noms de la pensée française, de Foucault à Bourdieu.
Communiqué de presse : le Collège de France cède aux pressions et annule le colloque « La Palestine et l’Europe »
Le Collège de France annule le colloque « La Palestine et l’Europe » sous pression politique. Des universitaires dénoncent l’ingérence ministérielle et un article diffamatoire de Le Point, alertant su...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Orwellian levels of political interference in academic affairs: Under pressure from right-wing press and the Minister of Education the prestigious Collège de France cancels the conference ‘Palestine and Europe’ - in the name of academic freedom and neutrality … read this statement by the organizers:
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
“For all the rhetoric, this is not Trotsky here...This is stuff New York has done, not just talked about, but actually executed on.”
h/t Eliza Shapiro, among the best reporters at the NYT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
h/t Eliza Shapiro, among the best reporters at the NYT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“For all the rhetoric, this is not Trotsky here...This is stuff New York has done, not just talked about, but actually executed on.”
h/t Eliza Shapiro, among the best reporters at the NYT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
h/t Eliza Shapiro, among the best reporters at the NYT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
50-year mortgages sound like great materials for financial firms to bundle and repackage into tranches, forming highly rated, bespoke securities.
November 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
50-year mortgages sound like great materials for financial firms to bundle and repackage into tranches, forming highly rated, bespoke securities.
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"Police dishonesty, even on the stand and under oath, is so common that it has its own name (“testilying”), and it has forced prosecutor offices to create what are called “Brady Lists” of officers they will not put on the stand out of fear they’ll commit perjury."
My latest, in @msnbc.com, on how ICE, CBP, and Bovino may be overplaying their hand in Chicago.
Also: this will only make hiring go ICE harder.
And: I hope ppl appreciate that the lying Judge Ellis calls out is NOT an aberration, but a very consistent problem w police claims.
Also: this will only make hiring go ICE harder.
And: I hope ppl appreciate that the lying Judge Ellis calls out is NOT an aberration, but a very consistent problem w police claims.
Opinion | ICE and CBP's aggressive tactics may have finally gone too far
A federal judge dealt federal agents a setback – and shed light on a much more persistent, deeper problem with policing.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Police dishonesty, even on the stand and under oath, is so common that it has its own name (“testilying”), and it has forced prosecutor offices to create what are called “Brady Lists” of officers they will not put on the stand out of fear they’ll commit perjury."
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Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Richest nation in human history
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Richest nation in human history
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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These are crimes against humanity. None of us is capable of truly internalizing suffering at this scale. Elon Musk and many other members of the Trump Administration should be put on trial at The Hague.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
These are crimes against humanity. None of us is capable of truly internalizing suffering at this scale. Elon Musk and many other members of the Trump Administration should be put on trial at The Hague.
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
Demanding the bailout before the crash, a new frontier in business strategy.
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Demanding the bailout before the crash, a new frontier in business strategy.
Brett Kavanaugh: "If the officers learn that the
individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise
lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the
individual go."
Teacher in ICE-terrorized day care: "Yo tengo papeles."
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise
lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the
individual go."
Teacher in ICE-terrorized day care: "Yo tengo papeles."
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
'Yo tengo papeles': Teacher detained by immigration agents in North Center day care
Video purportedly showed two federal agents pulling the woman out of Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center at 2550 W. Addison St. about 7 Wednesday morning.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Brett Kavanaugh: "If the officers learn that the
individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise
lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the
individual go."
Teacher in ICE-terrorized day care: "Yo tengo papeles."
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise
lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the
individual go."
Teacher in ICE-terrorized day care: "Yo tengo papeles."
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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This lede for this story about the Supreme Court’s
”skeptical” take on the Trump administrations tariffs presents an extremely one-sided view, given that it is inaccurate to describe many of the “deals” he has announced—as, e.g., with China—as Trump successfully “bending other nations to his will.”
”skeptical” take on the Trump administrations tariffs presents an extremely one-sided view, given that it is inaccurate to describe many of the “deals” he has announced—as, e.g., with China—as Trump successfully “bending other nations to his will.”
November 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This lede for this story about the Supreme Court’s
”skeptical” take on the Trump administrations tariffs presents an extremely one-sided view, given that it is inaccurate to describe many of the “deals” he has announced—as, e.g., with China—as Trump successfully “bending other nations to his will.”
”skeptical” take on the Trump administrations tariffs presents an extremely one-sided view, given that it is inaccurate to describe many of the “deals” he has announced—as, e.g., with China—as Trump successfully “bending other nations to his will.”
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all the other things aside the Daily News asserting that Zohran Mamdani has never indicated any position on any kind of nationalism other than Zionism when a) he has been a very vocal opponent of Hindu nationalism and b) his father is a world famous postnationalist scholar is so damn lazy
i try not to be hyperbolic but this NY daily news editorial board piece saying mayor-elect mamdani better support israel OR ELSE is one of the most appalling things i’ve ever read
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 AM
all the other things aside the Daily News asserting that Zohran Mamdani has never indicated any position on any kind of nationalism other than Zionism when a) he has been a very vocal opponent of Hindu nationalism and b) his father is a world famous postnationalist scholar is so damn lazy
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I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.