failed intellectual

anti arab racism was really bad after 9/11 but the mamdani stuff is worse, at least at the elite level

I regret to inform you I have returned to posting

Who is Keir Starmer if not Young Joe Biden? (This is not a positive comparison)

20 years ago.

Shawn Fain's comments on this is are good as hell.

The Media's Role in 20 Years of Islamophobia Notes on a weekend in Doha and my prepared remarks to a panel discussion on Islamophobia that Georgetown University convened. PLUS: Your War on Terror news roundup

“Media is a permission structure as much as a communication mechanism,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social. His latest:

We used to be a country

Governor Hochul Announces $63.6 Million in Funding to Support Critical Infrastructure Improvements a... Governor Hochul announced $63.6 million in capital grants at 30 colleges and universities across New York State through the Higher Education Capital Matching Grant Program.

$5 million for Columbia, $5 million for Cornell. Each has an endowment of $13 billion and $10 billion, respectively. SUNY New Paltz has an $8 million budget deficit 🤷‍♂️ https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-636-million-funding-support-critical-infrastructure-improvements-new

‘The Untouchables’: How Columbia and N.Y.U. Benefit From Huge Tax Breaks As New York City’s budget tightens, its wealthiest universities are bigger and richer than ever. Now, some officials think it’s time for the schools to pay more in taxes.

"The law saves Columbia more than $182 million annually, according to an analysis by The New York Times." www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/n...

Walking into the bar with this on a t-shirt and everyone thinking I'm an asshole until I get closer and they realize I'm a different kind of asshole. x.com/scottheisel/...

White House told U.S. ambassador to Japan to stop taunting China on social media Rahm Emanuel has mocked Chinese President Xi Jinping, speculating about the recent disappearance of a top official.

What could go wrong with Ambassador Ari Gold https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/rahm-emanuel-mock-china-ambassador-rcna105982?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=650b3a2ed651b4000102c277&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Biden Aides and Saudis Explore Defense Treaty Modeled After Asian Pacts Despite U.S. fatigue over Middle East wars, the White House sees a security agreement resembling those with Japan or South Korea as an incentive for Saudi Arabia to normalize relations with Israel.

Allies uber alles and the rules-based order are mutually exclusive https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/us/politics/biden-saudi-defense-treaty.html

Italians on social media are now posting about asking their partners whether they think about the Roman empire every day

Might as well be SUNY, just add "revamp General Education and ignore local faculty concerns even when directly communicated to statewide administrators"

Elon Musk is a lesson in the dangers of unchecked corporate leaders | Siva Vaidhyanathan When rich people convince themselves that they’re rich because they’re smart – instead of lucky and ruthless – they misapply their talents to areas beyond their expertise

Concentrated economic power enables concentrated political power. Liberals who profess allegiance the republican principle of non-domination must embrace redistribution and asset confiscation or they forfeit their own commitment to the public good www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There are DC people who take Elbridge Colby seriously. None of us should have imposter syndrome.

Eric Adams Will Meet With Netanyahu and Protest Leaders On the second day of his trip to Israel, New York City’s mayor will try to strike a balance.

I need ordinary Democrats to think about what it means when party officials legitimize autocrats and racists who are close allies of Donald Trump and the Republicans

The US and China must unite to fight climate change, not each other | Bernie Sanders Cooperation is not only in the best interests of all countries, but is absolutely necessary for the survival of the planet

"[T]he US and China should come to an agreement to mutually cut their military budgets and use the savings to move aggressively to improve energy efficiency, move toward sustainable energy and end our reliance on fossil fuels."

The senator from Vermont

When you have no analysis of capitalism and it’s crisis-generating contradictions

Few things mark someone as dangerously out of touch like “assuming that everyone under 40 still uses Facebook.”

A Political Battle Within Political Science: Which Side Is the APSA On? The hotel workers’ strike in Los Angeles will force members of the American Political Science Association—and Taylor Swift fans—to decide whether or not to cross union picket lines.

Do you think APSA even understands what just happened? https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/apsa-convention-unite-here-strike/

At the Roosevelt Library, an Unflinching Look at Race A new exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library explores the president’s “mixed” record on civil rights — and the charged debate over racism in the New Deal.

Important to remember FDR without uncritical hero worship and acknowledge his own racial egalitarian failures (including Japanese internment, which the @FDRLibrary has also focused on previously)

Southern California Hotel Workers Are on Strike Against Automated Management On top of issues like low pay, workers are up against faceless algorithmic management that can punish them for various offenses — including for refusing to cross picket lines. Workers at a hotel in ...

In case you haven’t seen this one yet: I wrote about Thomas Bradley, who signed up for a hotel shift via Instawork, a temp-job app. When he arrived to work, he saw he was being used as a strikebreaker. He joined the picket line, the app suspended him, and now the workers are striking over it.

Aid conditionality for democracy and constitutionalism in Niger is good, but invites a new question about why we don't apply the same standard to the other allies, especially in the Middle East and (gasp) Eastern Europe https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/29/niger-coup-us-aid/