Jacob Remes
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Labor, working-class, migration, and disaster historian of the US and Canada. Author of DISASTER CITIZENSHIP, professor at NYU Gallatin.
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DISASTER CITIZENSHIP, about working-class response to and experience of large scale urban disasters in the early 20th c.
CRITICAL DISASTER STUDIES, edited with
@andydhorowitz
on how disaster is understood, governed, and imagined.
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Not sure how I can possibly teach tomorrow after the administration called in the cops to arrest my students and colleagues.
NOW: NYPD arrests at least a dozen NYU faculty members in the ‘Liberated Zone’ at Gould Plaza
Police deployed the LRAD while protesters were praying
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I am absolutely not forgetting or forgiving that this week of violent repression of peaceful protest on college campuses began on Sunday with Joe Biden authorizing it all.
White House condemns "blatantly antisemitic" protests amid ongoing unrest at Columbia
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Hmmm…anyone remember who the senate committee chairman was whom Anita Hill was looking at in this photo?
If only there'd been some indication that Clarence Thomas was unworthy of the Supreme Court.
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The absolutely weirdest zionist talking point right now is “well, the allies firebombed German and Japanese cities, are you against that??” as if the answer isn’t unequivocally yes, of course that was also a war crime, you monster.
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I’m a historian, a Jew, and an American who only exists because his grandmother escaped Nazi Germany as a teenager in the 1930s. I’m far more offended by my government putting people in concentration camps—as it is doing—than I am by learning from history.
Please
@AOC
do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history. 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this.
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If it’s “offensive and objectionable” for a professor at an American university to criticize the British queen, what did we even fight the Revolution for? I’m begging Americans and our institutions to remember that we’re a republic and owe no allegiance to any king or queen.
A statement regarding recent social media posts by Uju Anya.
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It would behoove Democrats, I think, to start making sure that people remember that Mike Pence was in charge of the disastrously failed Covid task force.
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One of the things I repeat to my students all the time is how people fought and died--literally--for the 8 hour day and 40 hour week for 75 years before it was enshrined in federal law. And then it was standard for maybe 60 years before employers reneged again.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but any comparison between Marjorie Taylor Green and Ilhan Omar is absurd, offensive, and rooted in the very racism and Islamophobia Green traffics in. Anyone who does it would be ashamed of themselves if they were capable of shame.
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The correct solution to this “problem”—a man hoarded masks, hand sanitizer, and other supplies and now can’t sell them because Amazon busted him for price gauging—is that a mob should go to his garage, take the stuff, and deliver it to hospitals.
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Silent Sam was erected in 1913, 48 years after the end of the Civil War. For comparison, that’s like if neo-nazis had erected a statue to Hitler in 1993.
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It won’t surprise you to know that the “truckers” occupying Ottawa right now aren’t very representative of actual Canadian truckers, who are 90% vaccinated, heavily South Asian, and are worried about things like wage theft.
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I can think of no greater insult to my people than the claim that it is antisemitism to oppose the barbarity we saw last night in Rafah.
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At my university’s graduation they’re so afraid of flags and signs that they aren’t allowing bags, aren’t allowing students to arrive in their robes. Pointless oppression to silence symbolic dissent. Truly shameful.
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As an American Jew, I find it highly disturbing that the president I voted for is telling me I’m not safe here (or won’t be without a foreign country guaranteeing my safety).
Absolutely insane that the president of the United States just says this
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So is the plan by America’s university presidents “we’re gonna keep arresting our students until they all love Israel”?
President of
@Columbia
announces that student protestors must agree to plan to leave the campus by midnight tonight. Otherwise "we will have to consider alternative options for clearing the West Lawn."
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I'm so disappointed in Rosario Dawson--along with Janelle Monáe, Saweetie, Emily Ratajkowski, Daniel Kaluuya, Kim Kardashian, Timothée Chalamet, Michael B. Jordan, Mindy Kaling, Tiffany Haddish, Tyler Perry, Zoe Kravitz, and Questlov--for attending Jay Z's scab party for scabs.
Rosario Dawson was among the celebs to cross a labor union picket line. Dawson portrayed UFW cofounder Dolores Huerta in CESAR CHAVEZ, a movie about the labor movement employing boycotts to get better wages.
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It's been a long time--years?--since I first saw this tweeted, and I still think about it all the time.
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It’s notable how much pro-Israel discourse is about the discourse itself—“don’t call it ‘genocide’”; “don’t say ‘river to the sea’”; “don’t use watermelons”; “use specific, magic words to condemn Hamas”—rather than a defense of Israel’s actions. Maybe because they’re indefensible
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Intensely proud of my student.
Interview with
@nyupscoalition
student organizer Etta, who states this encampment follows the legacy of protest at NYU.
Asked about NYPD showing up & the possibility of police repression: “This is an issue we’ve been having all semester… It’s nothing new and we’re not scared.”
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Imagine being a college freshman and taking down your university president. Truly inspiring.
BREAKING: Stanford president to resign his post, retract “at least” 3 papers, after our reporting in
@StanfordDaily
exposed multiple papers with data manipulation and his refusal to retract studies when given opportunities over the course of 2 decades.
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A key motif in (Anglo-)American politics is the belief that you influence poor people’a behavior with negative incentives (i.e. punishment) and you influence rich people’s behavior with positive incentives (i.e. rewards).
starting to think a lot of VC guys want their risk without risk and also have some interesting attitudes about how behavior happens, how it should or shouldn't be incentivized, what should be celebrated or ensured or preserved and what shouldn't, etc etc etc
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A man who perjured himself to get on the Supreme Court and whose wife abetted an attempted coup tells the author of memos giving legal clearance for torture, “I wonder how long we’re going to have these institutions at the rate we’re undermining them.”
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I have such respect for the brave protesters at Columbia right now and nothing but disdain and disgust for the administrators who are going to have them arrested.
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You cannot hope to understand academia—peer review and its crises, fights over academic freedom, the decline of the liberal arts, anything—unless you center two material facts: the huge rise in tuition and the casualization of academic labor.
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It turns out that if you spend 40-50 years devaluing the idea of society and the public good, actively attacking the institutions that seek to build solidarity and the public sphere, and establishing systems and cultures that emphasize only private gain, things stop working.
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Now is the time for Jews who, like me, are not committed to Sanders, to defend him from scurrilous charges of antisemitism. We must learn from the UK and refuse to let antisemitism become a political football.
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I'm old enough to remember with the congressional Democrats said they'd boycott any organization or consultant who worked against a Democratic incumbent.
BREAKING at
@J_Insider
: The organization representing Jewish Democrats announces its endorsing against Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and Cori Bush (D-MO) in their primaries.
First time in group’s history they’ve endorsed against any Dem incumbent.
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The way for journalists to report this nativist, racist bullshit is to repeat over and over that presenting yourself as an asylee at the border IS the motherfucking legal process. It’s the Trump administration’s refusal to process asylum applicants that is illegal.
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Your reminder that Kiefer Sutherland is the proud grandson of the creator of the Canadian health care system, the social democratic politician Tommy Douglas.
When I was a waitress, Kiefer Sutherland would come in to dine and ask “what’s your rent?” and then write that amount on the tip line of the check.
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The way they laugh off her saying that fighting for bodily autonomy is serious enough that one should consider violence to defend it is exactly what has happened to Jane Fonda and her serious political activism her whole life.
Joy: “Besides marching and protesting, what else do you suggest?
Jane: “Well, murder.”
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Almost exactly 38 years ago, Yale President Bart Giamatti to have anti-apartheid student protesters arrested. His presidency never recovered.
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I'm sorry, the person people are citing as an outside agitator at Columbia is Lisa Fithian. Shouldn't Columbia administration be proud that students called in one of the most brilliant leftist tacticians of the past 50 years for advice? Seems like a very Ivy League thing to do.
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I spent two hours at the NYU encampment late last night. It was something I’ve never seen before at NYU: a real community, driven by shared ideals and filled with conversations about ideas. We need more of it, not less.
if you are a professor at a university where there is currently an encampment, I am begging you to actually spend some time there, talk to student organizers, get to know their community guidelines etc, before forming an opinion of what is happening
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Every state and municipality should be doing this.
If you think you have the symptoms of COVID-19, do not worry about the cost of testing or treatment. We will take care of you even if you have no insurance or cannot pay. Call 311 for assistance.
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One of the things workers are (re)learning now is that legal requirements for short hours won't cut it. The Fair Labor Standards Act was not the first law to limit working hours. Many others had been passed and ignored. What gets workers shorter hours is power--that is, a union.
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I note also how the *reason* workers need shorter hours is the same now as it was in the second half of the 19th century: the need for rest, the need for recreation, the desire to have time to better themselves, the demand to have time to be full and free citizens.
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It's fascinating to see the demand for shorter and more predictable hours--8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, and 8 hours for what we will--reassert itself as a major struggle at Nabisco, Kellogg's, Deere, New York Magazine, etc., etc.
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The worst part of the Nate Silvery nonsense today is that every epidemiologist, especially every infectious disease epidemiologist, is exhausted right now. They’ve been worried and overworked since January. Everything they’ve worried about, warned about, has come true.
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There’s something particularly disgusting about people simultaneously insisting the Trump’s concentration camps aren’t concentration camps because they’re not Auschwitz while also refusing to learn the lesson of the St. Louis and refusing entry to refugees.
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And you can't engage in free society--in education, in politics, in family life, in leisure--if you only have time for work and sleep. We need 8 hours (at least!) for what we will.
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I’m getting really sick of the president of my country telling me that my safety here depends on a foreign country. I’m a citizen of the United States, not of Israel, and it’s Biden’s job to keep me safe.
“Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world that is safe,” Biden says at the White House Hanukkah party as he reaffirms support for Israel against its war against Hamas.
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There's a reason the short hour movement started just after Emancipation: it was part of a nationwide movement to define what it would be to be free workers. Freedom has to mean not just the ability to quit, but the ability to fully engage in free society.
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Also strategic bombing didn’t work! It didn’t actually destroy civilian morale, not in Japan, not in Germany, not in England, not in Vietnam. The only reason to bomb civilian population centers is to murder civilians.
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The monument Durham folks toppled last night was erected 59 years after the Civil War. It's like neo-Nazis building a Hitler statue in 2004.
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We are one senator away from having the government impose a rule that 75% of university instructional staff be tenure track. I am mystified why this isn’t all academic Twitter is talking about.
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Tell me more about how pushing from the left is somehow counterproductive.
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US labor law is so broken that it's news when a big company announces that it will follow the law.
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A debate between Biden and Trump is a waste of time, but if there's going to be one, there should be two topics: Covid and climate change. That's it. Those are the world historical challenges that this country faces for the next four years.
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The whole letter from former and current de Blasio staffers is good, but their list of demands is especially spot on.
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Truly disgusting for a sitting congressman—a non-Jewish one at that—to be trying to police who is and isn’t a Jew.
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We’ve heard a lot recently about the impending return of the Roaring ‘20s. People saying this often meant flappers and the Great Gatsby, but remember it’s really the Klan, a red scare, and shutting down immigration.
NEW in
@PunchbowlNews
Midday
An America First Caucus is recruiting lawmakers calling for "common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and a return to architectural style that “befits the progeny of European architecture.”
linked to
@mtgreenee
and
@RepGosar
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This is exactly what’s at issue. If a university is just an educational services corporation selling its product to customers, sure, this is right. But exactly what’s at issue is whether that’s the right way to think of a university. I, and student protesters, say otherwise.
Studying at a university doesn’t give you an unrestricted right to control its space, just as patronizing a bookstore doesn’t give you an unrestricted right to camp out in the nonfiction section
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That is not a “trope”; it’s literally what AIPAC exists to do. If AIPAC isn’t influencing congressional leaders it’s donors ought to demand their money back.
The organizers of this DSA-sponsored rally display trope that “AIPAC money” is influencing congressional leaders
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I am told my nephew tonight scorned the very concept of tradition as “peer pressure from dead people,” and I can’t say he’s wrong.
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I am not interested in sending him (or basically anybody else) to jail. Just take the stuff, redistribute it, and don’t compensate him.
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Let us say unequivocally that there is nothing antisemitic in saying that all Jewish children deserve a secular education in math, science, English, and history; that Jewish children deserve not to be beaten at school; and that Jewish families should have the right to speak out.
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I hope we get a bunch of Quaker-owned corporations demanding a religious exemption from taxes that pay for war.
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Weird how few threads of favorite tweets have included this classic exchange.
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A thing I’ve learned in the last 5-2 years is that a huge amount of this country’s problems boil down to a culture that celebrates being an asshole, to the extent that many Americans will act like assholes even when it hurts themselves materially.
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Seriously. All these people, some of whom claim to have good politics, crossing hotel workers' picket line so they can party it up with other celebrities. Stomach churning. Big ups to Casey Affleck for refusing to sully himself by hanging out with scabs.
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Update. Upon learning belatedly about Casey Affleck, I revise my statement to, "Even Casey Affleck wouldn't cross the picket line."
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*watching Grave of the Fireflies and taking notes for your next airwar*
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This is especially subtle because I hear there's lots of snow on the ground in Houston this time of year.
A hyperpartisan conservative site used a photo from 2015 to falsely claim that Black Lives Matter blocked
#HurricaneHarvey
rescue efforts
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Claiming not to understand the phrase “settler colonialism” is like claiming not to understand the word “neoliberalism”: it’s a claim to being so stupid, anti-intellectual, and incurious that you don’t wish to understand major structures that shape the contemporary world.
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1. One of the things I teach my disaster studies students is that disasters replicate whatever structures of inequality exist in a society.
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Indeed, he is the exception that proves the rule in the literal sense of that phrase. His getting out of jail took a wildly successful, genre-defining podcast, a second podcast, and multiple books, and it still took 8 years from the first podcast.
Take away from the
#AdnanSyed
case: it’s really easy for police & prosecutors to jail & convict someone, even to hide misconduct, but almost impossibly hard for defense attorneys to free innocent people. Adnan is an exception, not the rule, and he still spent 23 years in prison.
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Remember: the three crises of higher ed (unaffordability/debt, adjuctification, and the decline of the liberal arts) are all linked and if you try to solve one without the others you’ll make things worse.
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Remember: historically, US authoritarianism doesn’t look like Mussolini or Hitler; it looks like Jim Crow.
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This is a chart from
@splcenter
of when Confederate monuments were erected. They were, overwhelmingly, built in the 20th century as part of an explicit and intentional campaign to build support for Jim Crow.
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Every new university or college that announces a vaccine mandate is doing the right thing for its students, its workers, and its community. Better late than never.
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The idea that Hillel is not explicitly pro-Israel, or that it supports non-zionist Jewish students is absurd. When I was in college 25 years ago our Hillel had an Israeli flag over the door in the place of honor. So I almost never went.
Calling for a “complete boycott” of and to “cut ties” with Hillel — the center of Jewish life on most campuses, where students attend Shabbat & holidays, do social justice & interfaith work, and come together as a Jewish community — is antisemitic. And ridiculous.
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This is why I'm trying to build a course on airports: a crucial space of organized labor, of movement, of surveillance, and of architecture.
The airport as a locus of government contact with middle-class life is so totally the story of this shutdown
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If you call me (and I always welcome calls from my friends, although I get antsy when people think of me as their “Jewish friend”) what I’ll say is, no, I’m not okay, because I’m watching a genocide and I’m hearing people lie about me and my students to distract from it.
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I love it when zionists tell me I have to line up behind Israel because I'm a Jew but also that I'm not allowed to have opinions about Israel because I'm not Israeli.
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These tweets from Irish abroad coming
#hometoveote
to repeal the 8th amendment are amazing.
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The word you’re looking for is strike. That’s what you call the collective withdrawal of labor. Professional athletes are workers, and when they collectively walk off their jobs they’re striking, not boycotting.
Inter Miami and Atlanta United stand together in solidarity as they boycott their match tonight.
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Worth remembering every time DeSantis or Abbott says "illegal immigrants" when they describe asylum applicants that they are very literally lying. It is never illegal to enter the country to claim asylum.
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Duke’s history faculty, history alumni, and student body have won: the history department building will no longer be named for noted white supremacist Julian Carr.
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This perfectly captures why more than being “anti-Israel” or even “anti-zionist,” I’m a diasporist. I do not want my religion, my people, attached to states and their violence. The only Judaism I can recognize or want is the
Judaism of exile, of refugeehood.
Right now there are two claims being made upon the Jewish future, two paths in formation before our eyes. And we’re all going to have to pick one
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I keep seeing people say that it’s too bad the UNC administration didn’t take down Silent Sam before protesters but, I dunno, I think it’s better when monuments to tyranny and oppression are taken down by popular movements.
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There is something weirdly pathological about Dinesh D'Souza, of all people, making this argument. Not only has he, literally, been convicted of fraud, but he is (having been fired from running a Christian college for adultery) now a professional huckster.
No one is saying you shouldn’t have a job. Go work at Costco or a tattoo parlor or wherever. But should you be TEACHING in the very area where you proved yourself a fraud?
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Less discourse about The Slap, more discourse about these fucking disgusting scabs.
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1. The question of whether to serve Sarah Sanders in a restaurant is a question of whether we allow systematized child theft and imprisonment to be a political option in this country.
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All the “respect the troops who died so you could be free” types should really be all over this slight.
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Good morning especially to the Columbia protesters. I was sure when I went to sleep last night that they’d be in jail this morning, and I’m thrilled I was wrong.
Good morning from Columbia University, where the Gaza Solidarity Encampment is now on day 2.
Yesterday, administration threatened to suspend all students in this demo & the specter of an NYPD sweep loomed among the rain clouds.
Protestors are starting to emerge from their tents
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Meanwhile when university education puts students in obscene, life-destroying debt, of course students insist on treating college as job training and look for majors that they think will immediately pay off financially.
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The whole system of academia outside the university—journals, scholarly societies, etc.—relies on professors being employed full time, and that service to the profession is part of those jobs. Universities broke that when they destroyed tenure.
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Maybe this is just me as a historian talking, but, uh, this part seems really important.
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Sophomore year I discovered that my roommate had been using my toothbrush for six weeks. The weirdest thing was that he claimed not to understand why I was upset.
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It sure is hard to escape the conclusion that inaction on climate change is linked to our gerontocracy.
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The whole
@JortsTheCat
story is great, but I especially like that the twitter account, apparently run by the AITA OP, is vocally pro-union.
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I don’t understand why any editor would assign (or accept) yet another article about how hard it is for restaurant owners to find staff without hearing from restaurant workers about why they’re not taking the jobs.
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I love that this thread includes discussion of labor law in multiple countries.
It’s against the law for your boss to prohibit you from discussing your wages with your coworkers, and also remember there are more workers than there are bosses
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