Free Palestine; use public transportation; support (academic) labor rights; read fiction; look away down Gower avenue (sic); yes, Marx did consider (BLANK)
The Israeli military retaliation will be wildly disproportionate, quasi-genocidal, and a massive war crime but the white supremacy of the political order will have heads of state and people on Twitter cheering it on.
Academia loves diversity and inclusion so as long they mean trainings, workshops, hiring language, and required statements for applications. Don’t ever suggest making it could mean paying graduate students a living wage, or unionizing faculty, or anything that might work.
I really dislike Tim Walz for many reasons. That said, he’s been identified in the discourse as the VP pick whose pick means “better on Gaza, big gov liberal policies, Bernie-like vibes.” So if he is the pick, I think it’s a big, long overdue vibe shift within the party.
@AndrewMannix
If your profession requires you to endanger people of color and brave citizens standing up to injustice maybe it has some real problems and shouldn’t be associated with “ethics”
Every two years, Ilhan Omar's Democratic primary challenger is somehow even worse than the one two years back, so I'm sure probably Jacob Frey himself will try to unseat her in 2024.
@MathProfPeter
As a professor myself I’m still astonished by the lengths faculty will go to police and punish “cheating” rather than, you know, design better assignments for evaluating student learning.
Minneapolis is a major city. It has crime. It has noise. It has young people out after dark. If any of that scares or upsets you, move to the woods and shut up.
James Baldwin pointed out in 1963 that violence is only ever condemned when it's used by oppressed peoples, against nations who have themselves not only used violence but celebrate violence as central to their founding moments (USA in 1776, Israel in 1948). 1/2
@thrasherxy
And administration is giving in to the wishes of 3 Zionist faculty members and an outside political lobby despite hundreds of local community members, nearly a thousand scholars from across the globe, and numerous UMN faculty supporting Raz Segal's hire.
If you want to make a compelling argument for getting drug users off of public transit, make one that centers the interests and priorities of the users, who are the only "victims" of their activities. Stop focusing on the aesthetic preferences of other riders.
If I hear that a Twin Cities restaurant (or brewery, or coffee shop, etc) doesn't treat its workers well or doesn't support their right to unionization, I will never eat there no matter what. Restaurant reviews in local media like
@RacketMN
should disclose such in coverage.
I've said it before, but it would be nice to see local media in Minneapolis not just review restaurants' food and talk about how "creative" or whatever the restaurant's capitalist is, but actually criticize restaurants that don't support unionization.
@HelloCullen
Don’t forget owner of the town’s only diamond mine - much better job than when you gotta compete in small towns with multiple diamond mines
@maxnesterak
So basically: you got her title wrong, and she corrected you. Then she answered your question. And then, because you're...what? feeling insecure? you decided to whine about being "scolded" on Twitter?
The
@UMNews
gloating over having the first PhD program in American Indian Studies, while refusing to hire a scholar of genocide who's worked with Native groups and wants to expand the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies to include histories of Native genocide, is gross.
The University of Minnesota is in crisis. In the span of a few days, it rescinded an offer to Raz Segal, a Jewish Israeli historian it planned to hire as director of Holocaust & Genocide Studies bc he called Gaza a “genocide.” Then it announced a PhD in American Indian Studies!
Remember, Ann Kim proudly stood with Mayor Frey at his press conference announcing his opposition to fair compensation for Minneapolis rideshare drivers. Now she comes out as anti-union. Extremely disappointing betrayals from a “progressive” putting profits over principles.
@maxdubler
We should have those sites. But we don't. And someone "feeling unsafe" is not a justification of...anything, really. After years of Black people being murdered by cops who "felt unsafe" around them, we should know better. If you "feel unsafe" but aren't, that's a you problem.
Her wage theft aside for a second, is it just accepted that all Kim Bartman’s restaurants are bad? I feel this aspect of her whole enterprise isn’t emphasized enough
O'Hara: "A lot of violence against groups of people, whatever groups of people it is—by religion, by ethnicity, or otherwise—starts with words."
Anti police rhetoric is "equally as ignorant as if it was against someone just because of their religion or their ethnicity."
LMFAOOOO
biden faces wrong way at d-day ceremony
french president macron, his wife brigitte look so confused. then they turn and face wrong way with biden
Today in Minneapolis politics: charter commission member Jana Metge gave an anonymous interview to Alpha News (our local ultra-right rag) making hateful and racist comments about the homeless. She was outed by her GoFundMe, where conservative MPLS types are giving her money. Nuts
Over 800 scholars from around the globe (including Israel), the
@umn_tc_aaup
, and numerous UMN faculty strongly opposed President Ettinger's "pause," last week, of the hire of Raz Segal to direct the Center for Holocaust/Gender Studies
@UMNews
. Admin today revoked the offer 1/
Every Minneapolis city council vote:
SHOULD WE DO AWFUL THING X?
Yes: Palmisano, Johnson, Osman, Koski, Vetaw, Rainville, Goodman, Jenkins.
No: Wonsley, Payne, Chughtai, Chavez, Ellison
@GovTimWalz
This is, what, the 5th time you could have also acknowledged civilian death in Gaza and stood in support with Minnesota’s Arab and Muslim communities against racial violence and just decided not to?
Hey so
@AngieCraigMN
voted to censure
@RepRashida
so if you live in whatever random Minnesota area Angie represents you should be livid, or if you’re not, you should stop being such a racist
@MomodouTaal
Ofc, because “Marxist analysis of” is a polite way of saying what you really mean, which is “accurate understanding of.” Marxism is the science of sociopolitical reality!
Hot (🙄) take: leftists in the US can and should debate union strategy. Treating labor activism like a narrow bourgeois identity politics, where non-union members can’t opine on the union, is a technique for suppressing the left.
Too many online socialists replying to this equate solidarity with doing whatever the union leadership says. As socialists we should be out discussing socialist ideas with striking workers. If that’s controversial in your eyes you’re probably going to be more comfortable as a Dem
@JordanSCarroll
This is why I tell everyone I know in academia to look up their colleagues’
federal campaign finance contributions: with few exceptions, the most left anyone gets is giving money to Elizabeth Warren
@andraydomise
Lots of historians and cultural scholars of the US left today still idolize this Popular Front period as some kind of clever populist strategy. In reality, it just meant deradicalization and political status seeking - a revolutionary party turning itself into DSA.
Student resolution to disinvest from Israeli-linked companies, and end University of Minnesota participation in discriminatory Israel study abroad programs, passes 4125-864, with 523 abstentions. More than a 3-1 ratio of victory.
UMN students with the morality liberals lack
Max Nesterak could have responded normally, by apologizing to
@aishaforward10
and thanking her for her answer to his question. But apparently he is a sexist dolt who feels being corrected is being "scolded."
Got a scolding from Council *Vice President* Aisha Chughtai for calling her Council Member and I — just want to know what’s going on with the labor standards board proposal
The new Zionist Twitter fad is boasting about how many children and other innocents you'd slaughter if your child/loved one was taken hostage. Great job guys, you're really distinguishing Zionism from lynch mobs here...
This seems to be unclear, so: yes, Ann Kim "supports" the 6/27 union vote at Kim's. It's a legal right and not something she can stop. What she *refused to do* is voluntarily recognize the 80%+ of workers who asked for a union as a union - which would have precluded a vote. 1/
@themediawitch
@JoyceCarolOates
Our healthcare system is still broken and dysfunctional, a fact that doesn’t change regardless of you hating Bernie Sanders.
@GoodVibePolitik
This list is ridiculous: much of it is "a time the USSR intervened in any way whatsoever in another country" recoded as some kind of pseudo-racial "Russian aggression"
This was all clear in their original statement to anyone able to read. And issuing this isn’t going to convince cynical DFL figures and leaders who just want to purge DSA.
If there was ever a time and place for powerful faculty to actively and publicly work to undermine their own university, surely that is now at Columbia
@swiftyloo
@NathanJRobinson
They did, actually, at multiple points in history. The party associated historically with the IRA won the majority of seats in Northern Ireland’s election two years ago. Maybe read some books before blathering?
“Human trafficking” and “fentanyl” are the two things white liberal moderates just spew when they want to convince everyone that cities and the unhoused are scary and must be brutalized.
Raz Segal is sick of
@UMNews
bs:
“What the university should do now is before it descends more into this hole that it has dug itself into, it’s best to retract, to apologize, to offer me the job that I received in a completely legitimate process”
@Jacob_Frey
Someone with an ounce of humility might ask why so many do and will continue to believe Wonsley’s word over yours, but that’d require you to do introspection.
Being poor in Minneapolis sucks, because on top of the obvious reasons, you apparently generate Discourse about what makes middle-class people feel safe any time you just step on public transportation.
@StarTribune
Rainville, Vetaw, and Koski would prefer to vote against the health and well-being of marginalized constituents without having to feel bad about it.
We got legally married today.
Celebrating my new U of MN health insurance with friends in the park!
These are just some phone snaps. My super talented friend/coworker Zophia took some gorgeous photos that I can’t wait to get back ❤️