James McCorkle
@jamesmccorkle.bsky.social
2024-25 Kinghorn Global Fellow at HWS. . . teaching/working/writing in Africana Studies on the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee. My books include Evidences, The Subtle Bodies, and In Time. Poet/writer/bird watcher/still a teacher
Nominees to sit before the ICC: Trump, Hagueseth, Vance, Netanyahu & Putin.
December 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Nominees to sit before the ICC: Trump, Hagueseth, Vance, Netanyahu & Putin.
American travelers may soon discover what it is like to be unwanted and suspect.
Tourists from 42 countries may soon need to also disclose email accounts, extensive family history and biometrics.
US plans to ask visitors to share 5 years of social media history to enter
Tourists from 42 countries may soon need to also disclose email accounts, extensive family history and biometrics.
www.aljazeera.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
American travelers may soon discover what it is like to be unwanted and suspect.
Straight from the anti-Jewish playback of the 1930s. Owens is the
ironic mouthpiece of white supremacist and Russian world ideologies...who pay her.
ironic mouthpiece of white supremacist and Russian world ideologies...who pay her.
Owens is weaponizing her fanbase against Ukrainian refugees.
It’s not a singular event:
- NSS focuses on partnering with RU
- Luna meets RU Amb on Capitol Hill
- United4Ukraine program ended with many self-deporting (after being legally here, paying tax & fees)
- Ukrainians being detained by ICE
It’s not a singular event:
- NSS focuses on partnering with RU
- Luna meets RU Amb on Capitol Hill
- United4Ukraine program ended with many self-deporting (after being legally here, paying tax & fees)
- Ukrainians being detained by ICE
December 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Straight from the anti-Jewish playback of the 1930s. Owens is the
ironic mouthpiece of white supremacist and Russian world ideologies...who pay her.
ironic mouthpiece of white supremacist and Russian world ideologies...who pay her.
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My book The Afterlife Is Letting Go came out 1 year ago today.
Love to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and to everyone who made the first year of its life transcendent and beautiful.
The most important place to get it is @workshops4gaza.bsky.social. All proceeds fund direct aid to Gaza: t.ly/LGg3M
Love to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and to everyone who made the first year of its life transcendent and beautiful.
The most important place to get it is @workshops4gaza.bsky.social. All proceeds fund direct aid to Gaza: t.ly/LGg3M
December 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My book The Afterlife Is Letting Go came out 1 year ago today.
Love to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and to everyone who made the first year of its life transcendent and beautiful.
The most important place to get it is @workshops4gaza.bsky.social. All proceeds fund direct aid to Gaza: t.ly/LGg3M
Love to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and to everyone who made the first year of its life transcendent and beautiful.
The most important place to get it is @workshops4gaza.bsky.social. All proceeds fund direct aid to Gaza: t.ly/LGg3M
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⭕️ The US military which claims it controls humanitarian aid entry into Gaza, especially after the UN Security Council res. passed last month, declined to comment on Israel’s denial of entry to American & foreign medical workers trying to reach Gaza.
A CENTCOM spokesperson told the The Washington...
A CENTCOM spokesperson told the The Washington...
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
⭕️ The US military which claims it controls humanitarian aid entry into Gaza, especially after the UN Security Council res. passed last month, declined to comment on Israel’s denial of entry to American & foreign medical workers trying to reach Gaza.
A CENTCOM spokesperson told the The Washington...
A CENTCOM spokesperson told the The Washington...
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Should be noted that the Palestinian Authority is actively opposed to the idea of his release because it is a quisling admission and an Israeli vassal regime.
The source said Barghouti's condition was described as “extremely difficult and very dangerous”.
The Palestinian Authority’s Commission of Detainees’ Affairs said it had gathered information that appeared to corroborate the report of a recent attack.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/marwan-...
The Palestinian Authority’s Commission of Detainees’ Affairs said it had gathered information that appeared to corroborate the report of a recent attack.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/marwan-...
Marwan Barghouti brutally assaulted in Israeli prison, family told
Fatah leader reportedly has part of his ear cut off and his teeth and ribs broken in what sources describe as a 'slow, gradual assassination attempt'
www.middleeasteye.net
December 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Should be noted that the Palestinian Authority is actively opposed to the idea of his release because it is a quisling admission and an Israeli vassal regime.
FiFA will have to explain this to the relatives of the hundreds of thousands who have perished due to the Trump regime's cuts to USAID, the CDC, and other programs. Totally disgusting.
This is an all-time great, world historic level of ass kissing from FIFA. What an embarrassing body.
The logical end of a project based on fictional victimhood that has spent considerable time complaining about participation trophies in sports.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
FiFA will have to explain this to the relatives of the hundreds of thousands who have perished due to the Trump regime's cuts to USAID, the CDC, and other programs. Totally disgusting.
Trump is rotting before our eyes and there's hardly a whisper.
It is kinda wild how the president is evidently receiving some kind of regular medical care that requires IVs and we don't know what's up
Trump's bandaged and discolored hand was visible today during an event where he again at times struggled to keep his eyes open (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Trump is rotting before our eyes and there's hardly a whisper.
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NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
Peace through personal profit. Actually there will be no "peace" but someone in the Trump circle will make an immense profit.
US follows up on Congo-Rwanda peace deal with plan to secure minerals reut.rs/4iGoOtH
US follows up on Congo-Rwanda peace deal with plan to secure minerals
The United States' development lender announced plans on Friday to take a stake in a new partnership to market Congo's minerals which could give U.S. end users the right of first refusal on copper and cobalt supplies.
reut.rs
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Peace through personal profit. Actually there will be no "peace" but someone in the Trump circle will make an immense profit.
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people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
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Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Wonderful thread.
6) Rosa Parks wasn't meek. A lifelong believer in self defense, her politics were expansive. She loved Martin & Malcolm & Stokely, Ella Baker & Queen Mother Moore, fought for reparations, Black history in every curriculum, prisoner defense, welfare rights—"any move to show we are dissatisfied."
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Wonderful thread.
Of course Witkoff & Kushner think they are playing Putin. They'll still think that when they are mysteriously falling from the tenth floor. Putin may not get the last laugh but he'll destroy anyone who thinks they can screw him.
November 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Of course Witkoff & Kushner think they are playing Putin. They'll still think that when they are mysteriously falling from the tenth floor. Putin may not get the last laugh but he'll destroy anyone who thinks they can screw him.
Narco-Lord and Pedo-Prez Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Narco-Lord and Pedo-Prez Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Close reading is fundamental to the humanities (at the very least)--aside from noticing and attentiveness, and providing the space for agency, for love, it is also a place or process of care. Lovely essay.
Close reading is fundamental to the humanities (at the very least)--aside from noticing and attentiveness, and providing the space for agency, for love, it is also a place or process of care. Lovely essay.
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Close reading is fundamental to the humanities (at the very least)--aside from noticing and attentiveness, and providing the space for agency, for love, it is also a place or process of care. Lovely essay.
Close reading is fundamental to the humanities (at the very least)--aside from noticing and attentiveness, and providing the space for agency, for love, it is also a place or process of care. Lovely essay.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
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There is a reason why Witkoff did not want any officials with the State Dept or anyone else present during his many meetings w/Putin - he didn’t want witnesses to his treasonous behavior. Highly unusual, but makes perfect sense when you consider that he only cared about Russia.
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
There is a reason why Witkoff did not want any officials with the State Dept or anyone else present during his many meetings w/Putin - he didn’t want witnesses to his treasonous behavior. Highly unusual, but makes perfect sense when you consider that he only cared about Russia.
Not unlike the burning of the Bronx by white slumlords.
Malicious failure to provide livable conditions is often an attempt to get rid of tenants so the building/land can be sold to developers. This makes me think even more that the owner called ICE on the tenants.
NEW — South Shore residents who still live in the apartment building that was raided by ICE nearly two months ago in Chicago spoke out about the unlivable conditions there.
“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came.”
thetriibe.com/2025/11/buil...
“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came.”
thetriibe.com/2025/11/buil...
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Not unlike the burning of the Bronx by white slumlords.
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Trump, Musk, and the GOP killed hundreds of thousands of kids around the world.
That should be a major story and talking point.
They cut USAID to "save" from "waste," but gave 40 billion to Argentina and threw a Great Gatsby party and let Kash Patel burn our money for his honeypot GF.
That should be a major story and talking point.
They cut USAID to "save" from "waste," but gave 40 billion to Argentina and threw a Great Gatsby party and let Kash Patel burn our money for his honeypot GF.
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Trump, Musk, and the GOP killed hundreds of thousands of kids around the world.
That should be a major story and talking point.
They cut USAID to "save" from "waste," but gave 40 billion to Argentina and threw a Great Gatsby party and let Kash Patel burn our money for his honeypot GF.
That should be a major story and talking point.
They cut USAID to "save" from "waste," but gave 40 billion to Argentina and threw a Great Gatsby party and let Kash Patel burn our money for his honeypot GF.
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"The 'ceasefire' is a diplomatic sham – a cover for the continuing extermination, displacement and erasure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and a distraction for the international public and the media."
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
No, there is no ceasefire in Gaza
Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not a ‘violation of the ceasefire'. It is a continuing genocide under diplomatic cover.
aje.io
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
"The 'ceasefire' is a diplomatic sham – a cover for the continuing extermination, displacement and erasure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and a distraction for the international public and the media."
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
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RFKjr is the Josef Mengele of our times.
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
RFKjr is the Josef Mengele of our times.