tamara nopper
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W.E.B. Du Bois said, “We must rapidly come to the place where the man all brain and no muscle is looked upon as almost as big a fool as the man all muscle and no brain.”
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
W.E.B. Du Bois said, “We must rapidly come to the place where the man all brain and no muscle is looked upon as almost as big a fool as the man all muscle and no brain.”
I don’t appreciate how when I search “W.E.B. Du Bois exercise,” mostly what’s provided are assignments rather than his workout routine.
November 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I don’t appreciate how when I search “W.E.B. Du Bois exercise,” mostly what’s provided are assignments rather than his workout routine.
On the benefits of long walks, André 3000 said, “It’s a good way to solve a problem. And I think it’s a good way to write, too. You walk, you write, have a beat on for a long time. I usually walk… five, six miles. It’s a good time to think of what you got to do for the day. And it’s good exercise.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
On the benefits of long walks, André 3000 said, “It’s a good way to solve a problem. And I think it’s a good way to write, too. You walk, you write, have a beat on for a long time. I usually walk… five, six miles. It’s a good time to think of what you got to do for the day. And it’s good exercise.”
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In a meeting about academic self-defense, a speaker said to literally avoid saying “DEI” and use universal statements. When some pushed back, we were told that comms consultants found “average” people don’t like hearing about DEI.
Stop having consultants tell us what our politics should be!
Stop having consultants tell us what our politics should be!
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
In a meeting about academic self-defense, a speaker said to literally avoid saying “DEI” and use universal statements. When some pushed back, we were told that comms consultants found “average” people don’t like hearing about DEI.
Stop having consultants tell us what our politics should be!
Stop having consultants tell us what our politics should be!
If higher ed survives this, let’s have a serious conversation about how the frame of academic freedom, while having its uses for defense against authoritarianism, needs to be interrogated for how it can conceal how reactionary politics and bad treatment of minority faculty are common in academia.
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
If higher ed survives this, let’s have a serious conversation about how the frame of academic freedom, while having its uses for defense against authoritarianism, needs to be interrogated for how it can conceal how reactionary politics and bad treatment of minority faculty are common in academia.
Been in meetings where, when organizing comes up, people try to stop the momentum by saying “the community” or x/y/z group are too “exhausted.”
Why not say, “I’m too exhausted,” then move out the way of those who wanna try instead of hiding behind or speaking for others? Bring back I statements!
Why not say, “I’m too exhausted,” then move out the way of those who wanna try instead of hiding behind or speaking for others? Bring back I statements!
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Been in meetings where, when organizing comes up, people try to stop the momentum by saying “the community” or x/y/z group are too “exhausted.”
Why not say, “I’m too exhausted,” then move out the way of those who wanna try instead of hiding behind or speaking for others? Bring back I statements!
Why not say, “I’m too exhausted,” then move out the way of those who wanna try instead of hiding behind or speaking for others? Bring back I statements!
Stuart Hall took up cultural studies cuz “I didn’t think life was purely economically determined... I lived my life as an argument with Marxism.” But in its challenge to economic reductionism, cultural studies “sort of forgot that there was an economy at all.” We need to understand these together!
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Stuart Hall took up cultural studies cuz “I didn’t think life was purely economically determined... I lived my life as an argument with Marxism.” But in its challenge to economic reductionism, cultural studies “sort of forgot that there was an economy at all.” We need to understand these together!
Political organizing scholar Marshall L. Ganz, who worked on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and advised Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, said Mamdani won because of “the humanity of it.”
“James Carville was famous for saying it’s the economy, stupid. I’d want to say it’s about the people, stupid.”
“James Carville was famous for saying it’s the economy, stupid. I’d want to say it’s about the people, stupid.”
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Political organizing scholar Marshall L. Ganz, who worked on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and advised Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, said Mamdani won because of “the humanity of it.”
“James Carville was famous for saying it’s the economy, stupid. I’d want to say it’s about the people, stupid.”
“James Carville was famous for saying it’s the economy, stupid. I’d want to say it’s about the people, stupid.”
They held the line for more than three years. Three fucking years. Incredible.
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
They held the line for more than three years. Three fucking years. Incredible.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of the prison-industrial complex (PIC) is so useful.
As Gilmore and Craig Gilmore note, equating industrial with profit can disappear the state, and "the outcome of capitalist activity stands in for the complicated relationships that enable or change that outcome."
As Gilmore and Craig Gilmore note, equating industrial with profit can disappear the state, and "the outcome of capitalist activity stands in for the complicated relationships that enable or change that outcome."
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of the prison-industrial complex (PIC) is so useful.
As Gilmore and Craig Gilmore note, equating industrial with profit can disappear the state, and "the outcome of capitalist activity stands in for the complicated relationships that enable or change that outcome."
As Gilmore and Craig Gilmore note, equating industrial with profit can disappear the state, and "the outcome of capitalist activity stands in for the complicated relationships that enable or change that outcome."
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Want to organize around NYC public libraries to secure stable & expanded funding? NYC Public Library Action Network’s next meeting is this Sunday Nov 16 from 2 to 4:15 pm in Brooklyn. If interested, email info@nycplan.org.
More about our work here: nycplan.org
More about our work here: nycplan.org
NYC Public Library Action Network
Send our letter to all the mayoral candidates demanding increased funding for our public libraries! Fill out this Google Form and we’ll follow up with a how-to guide on meeting with your City Council…
nycplan.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Want to organize around NYC public libraries to secure stable & expanded funding? NYC Public Library Action Network’s next meeting is this Sunday Nov 16 from 2 to 4:15 pm in Brooklyn. If interested, email info@nycplan.org.
More about our work here: nycplan.org
More about our work here: nycplan.org
Respectfully, many of us, including leftists, need to become more literate of how the political economy is organized and operates. It’s not enough to say everything’s about profit.
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Respectfully, many of us, including leftists, need to become more literate of how the political economy is organized and operates. It’s not enough to say everything’s about profit.
Two things:
The federal government is starving the public but plans to buy warehouses for mega detention centers.
The plan is for detention centers to be run and staffed by the government. We can’t limit our critiques of the prison industrial complex to privatization!
apple.news/A-w34SnpqSzq...
The federal government is starving the public but plans to buy warehouses for mega detention centers.
The plan is for detention centers to be run and staffed by the government. We can’t limit our critiques of the prison industrial complex to privatization!
apple.news/A-w34SnpqSzq...
'Mega detention centers': ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants — NBC News
The Trump administration is exploring a plan to buy warehouses designed for companies like Amazon, sources said, which would drastically increase the Trump administration’s capacity for detaining immi...
apple.news
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Two things:
The federal government is starving the public but plans to buy warehouses for mega detention centers.
The plan is for detention centers to be run and staffed by the government. We can’t limit our critiques of the prison industrial complex to privatization!
apple.news/A-w34SnpqSzq...
The federal government is starving the public but plans to buy warehouses for mega detention centers.
The plan is for detention centers to be run and staffed by the government. We can’t limit our critiques of the prison industrial complex to privatization!
apple.news/A-w34SnpqSzq...
André 3000 noted that OutKast started in a little room. Like he said, “Great things start in little rooms.”
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
André 3000 noted that OutKast started in a little room. Like he said, “Great things start in little rooms.”
Trying my best to live intensely and well, as Toni Morrison put it.
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Trying my best to live intensely and well, as Toni Morrison put it.
Back at it. View from today’s gym. Much more exhilarating than the stair climber.
November 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Back at it. View from today’s gym. Much more exhilarating than the stair climber.
“Ganz, a political organizing scholar who played a central role in Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, said Mamdani’s team was keen to avoid a widely reported misstep of Obama’s: sidelining the organizing base that elected him.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
HKS Lecturer Advised Zohran Mamdani on Sustaining Momentum, Avoiding the ‘Obama Trap’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Marshall L. Ganz ’64 met with incoming New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani in August to advise his campaign on how to sustain a grassroots movement once in office.
www.thecrimson.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
“Ganz, a political organizing scholar who played a central role in Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, said Mamdani’s team was keen to avoid a widely reported misstep of Obama’s: sidelining the organizing base that elected him.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
About taking sociology classes, June Jordan said, ”It gave me a new way to think about everything.”
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
About taking sociology classes, June Jordan said, ”It gave me a new way to think about everything.”
Did the Rocky Run. I ended with a run up the museum steps. I love Philly, the city that played such a big part in making me who I am. Yo, Adrian, I did it!
November 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Did the Rocky Run. I ended with a run up the museum steps. I love Philly, the city that played such a big part in making me who I am. Yo, Adrian, I did it!
Today’s energy.
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Today’s energy.
Some people would rather be starving and racist rather than be okay with welfare.
November 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Some people would rather be starving and racist rather than be okay with welfare.
Dr. Jonathan Metzl, author of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland, on how white working class people's health is negatively impacted by "backlash politics" and opposition to taxes towards a strong social welfare state.
www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpou...
www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpou...
Jonathan Metzl on "Dying of Whiteness"
In his new book, “Dying of Whiteness,” physician Jonathan Metzl details the dire consequences of some right wing policies for the populations they claim to help. From gun control to healthcare, Metzl ...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Dr. Jonathan Metzl, author of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland, on how white working class people's health is negatively impacted by "backlash politics" and opposition to taxes towards a strong social welfare state.
www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpou...
www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpou...
I saw a photo of Zohran Kwame Mamdani looking tired and bored and I refuse to believe it‘s real. It must be AI.
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I saw a photo of Zohran Kwame Mamdani looking tired and bored and I refuse to believe it‘s real. It must be AI.
This administration DGAF about you.
Like Elaine Brown, of the Black Panther Party, said, “If you don’t eat you will die, it’s not complicated. So, if there is a price tag to eating, then there is a price on your head, because the minute you don’t have enough money to eat, you’re slated for death.”
Like Elaine Brown, of the Black Panther Party, said, “If you don’t eat you will die, it’s not complicated. So, if there is a price tag to eating, then there is a price on your head, because the minute you don’t have enough money to eat, you’re slated for death.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration turns to Supreme Court to block order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This administration DGAF about you.
Like Elaine Brown, of the Black Panther Party, said, “If you don’t eat you will die, it’s not complicated. So, if there is a price tag to eating, then there is a price on your head, because the minute you don’t have enough money to eat, you’re slated for death.”
Like Elaine Brown, of the Black Panther Party, said, “If you don’t eat you will die, it’s not complicated. So, if there is a price tag to eating, then there is a price on your head, because the minute you don’t have enough money to eat, you’re slated for death.”