Noliwe Rooks
@nrooks.bsky.social
Chair and Professor, Brown University, Africana Studies. Author of Integrated: How Schools in America Failed Black Children, available 3/18/25 and A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune.
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Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night.
He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night.
He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
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TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
apnews.com/article/affi... enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds
Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds
An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions.
apnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
apnews.com/article/affi... enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
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BREAKING
The Nashua Police Department in New Hampshire says that multiple people have been shot at the Sky Meadow Country Club.
One suspect has been detained, but the other remains at large, the police say.
The Nashua Police Department in New Hampshire says that multiple people have been shot at the Sky Meadow Country Club.
One suspect has been detained, but the other remains at large, the police say.
September 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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New publication:
Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters (forthcoming, Idaho Law Review)
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters (forthcoming, Idaho Law Review)
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
September 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
New publication:
Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters (forthcoming, Idaho Law Review)
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters (forthcoming, Idaho Law Review)
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Cuomosexuals in shambles lmao
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul endorses NYC Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
Opinion | Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Cuomosexuals in shambles lmao
Conservatives across racial lines have long argued for class-based affirmative action and “high achieving/low income” described the one group of Black and Brown kids elites were willing to help and welcome to elite campuses. Now, that path is also blocked, at least for now.
College Board Cancels Tool for Finding Low-Income High Achievers
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Conservatives across racial lines have long argued for class-based affirmative action and “high achieving/low income” described the one group of Black and Brown kids elites were willing to help and welcome to elite campuses. Now, that path is also blocked, at least for now.
Adams is polling at like 7-8 percent. His dropping out is not really impactful, right?
Today’s news confirms it: Cuomo is Trump’s choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field.
New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who’s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.
New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who’s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.
Trump Advisers Have Discussed a Job for Adams if He Quits Mayor’s Race
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Adams is polling at like 7-8 percent. His dropping out is not really impactful, right?
Apply!!!! “The Cornell Department of Literatures in English and the Society for the Humanities seek a two-year Mellon Postdoc Fellow for 2026-28. We aim to recruit a candidate specializing in African American literature and culture in any historical period.” academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30459
Cornell University, Society for the Humanities
Job #AJO30459, WDR-00046364 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Literatures in English, AY 2026-2028, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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August 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Apply!!!! “The Cornell Department of Literatures in English and the Society for the Humanities seek a two-year Mellon Postdoc Fellow for 2026-28. We aim to recruit a candidate specializing in African American literature and culture in any historical period.” academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30459
He will definitely make sure Minn is redistricted if called upon to do so, I think.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
August 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
He will definitely make sure Minn is redistricted if called upon to do so, I think.
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I think a major factor in so many people being kind of blasé or in denial about ~all this~ is that they’ve been waiting to be given some sort of paternal-ish permission to start freaking out.
So, here ya go. Here’s the permission.
So, here ya go. Here’s the permission.
Gov. JB Pritzker: “I am ringing the alarm.” @wttw.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I think a major factor in so many people being kind of blasé or in denial about ~all this~ is that they’ve been waiting to be given some sort of paternal-ish permission to start freaking out.
So, here ya go. Here’s the permission.
So, here ya go. Here’s the permission.
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Micro schools are one of the fastest growing segments of the education sector. In the U.S., education looks different depending on geography. The highly literate and educated are breaking off and doing their own thing. I wrote a book about why: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721962...
August 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Micro schools are one of the fastest growing segments of the education sector. In the U.S., education looks different depending on geography. The highly literate and educated are breaking off and doing their own thing. I wrote a book about why: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721962...
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
August 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
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My department at Princeton is hiring an assistant professor specializing in the study of early Christianity. First round materials are cover letter, cv, and writing sample. Letters will be requested for later stages. Deadline: September 30, 2025.
puwebp.princeton.edu
August 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My department at Princeton is hiring an assistant professor specializing in the study of early Christianity. First round materials are cover letter, cv, and writing sample. Letters will be requested for later stages. Deadline: September 30, 2025.
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I poked around for a more in-depth read about this and found this:
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
August 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I poked around for a more in-depth read about this and found this:
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
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I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.
August 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.
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Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
Exclusive | Rep. Hakeem Jeffries pays just $200 in property taxes thanks to sweetheart subsidy law
Public records show that Jeffries and his family reside in a condo unit in Prospect Heights, paying just $213 a year in property taxes.
nypost.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
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My current theory is enough powerful people prefer bigger share of a smaller pie to make this stable. And since the nature of capitalism is that it concentrates economic power in a relatively few people if that segment are on board such a conspiracy against the public can be sustained for some time!
I'm totally baffled abt the markets. Where is Capital? Trump is messing w/ govt data; imposing tariffs; flirting w/ default; meddling in corporate management.
Where are the CEO complaints? The bond vigilantes? Where are billionaire hedge funders who trade on good data? Was Capital's power a mirage?
Where are the CEO complaints? The bond vigilantes? Where are billionaire hedge funders who trade on good data? Was Capital's power a mirage?
"Antoni is the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation. He has been a relentless booster of Trump’s policies on social media. And he has demonstrated time and again that he does not understand economic statistics." With embarrassing examples from trade, employment, LFP, UI.... [Dominic Pino, NRO]
August 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
My current theory is enough powerful people prefer bigger share of a smaller pie to make this stable. And since the nature of capitalism is that it concentrates economic power in a relatively few people if that segment are on board such a conspiracy against the public can be sustained for some time!
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Concluding paragraph:
August 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Concluding paragraph:
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A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
www.compactmag.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”
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holy cow, it’s always important to track universities’ institutional debt, but this stat is wild: 85% of undergrad students’ tuition going to service debt at U Chicago
“The University of Chicago has now borrowed $6.3 billion, more than 70 percent of the value of its endowment. The cost of servicing its debt is now 85 percent of the value of all undergraduate tuition. (This is not normal. No peer institution has a debt-to-asset ratio greater than 26 percent.)”
August 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
holy cow, it’s always important to track universities’ institutional debt, but this stat is wild: 85% of undergrad students’ tuition going to service debt at U Chicago