Professor of Political Science, African, and Women's Studies. Lover of Nigeria. Proud Grandma.
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"Social housing is solidarity you can touch." "The U.S. failure to strengthen and expand public housing is owed not to some innate flaw in the concept, but rather to decades of racist stigma, state abdication, and sabotage by private real estate interests." #USA #Austria #Housing
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
Epstein survivors speak out. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Epstein survivors are going to have their day tomorrow to tell their story. It'll likely be the first time many Americans hear from them firsthand. It's important they get this moment, and we need to have their backs. What they're doing is very brave.
Our government tried to send a planeful of unaccompanied minors to Guatemala without due process. Fortunately a judge was able to block it before they took off. What fucking monsters the United States has become. Trafficking innocent children. www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbsn...
The Central Bank of Ireland is letting its ability to sell war bonds for Israel expire today. Now if you want to support genocide, you have to go through Luxembourg. Be like Ireland. Stop supporting the worst on our planet. That side of the planet, anyway. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Donald Trump is the most ruthlessly antilabor president since before the Great Depression. If the labor movement does not fight harder than it has since he regained the presidency, its future will be dire, Erik Loomis writes.
Assuming one believes this, which would be naive, who then is in charge? Trump says he didn’t sign proclamation invoking Alien Enemies Act www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/p...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
I called this segregationist way back in February: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
"The gap in confidence between high- and low-earners is now the widest it has been in the seven years of tracking the data." helluva time to be writing a book about middle class culture www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
I'm proud that @aaup.org has been on the front lines fighting this administration's abuses. Trump is, indeed, an aggressively anti-labor president, despite the "workers party now" bs. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Faux Versailles=transformation of elegance to grotesque.
My goodness! This guy…is appalling.
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
Heartbreaking!
🦋 US Health Secretary RFK Jr. says he wants to understand what causes Autism - a goal that reputable scientists have been pursuing for decades Bringing in vaccine critic David Geier as top researcher on the large federal study should be a shocking choice - he is infamous for flawed studies 🦋 #MMR
Thank you @sanders.senate.gov, on RFK Jr.: "It is absurd to have to say this in 2025, but vaccines are safe and effective. That, of course, is not just my view. Far more important, it is the overwhelming consensus of the medical and scientific communities." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
As a doctor, I am disturbed by what RFK Jr. is doing to America’s public health system. It is time for medical associations, Republican doctors, and all who believe in science to step up and speak out about the lack of science behind these moves.
Nation’s largest nursing union: Time for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go | National Nurses United www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
They're releasing the Epstein files?
I love these so much. 🥰 Hip hop is absolutely *loaded* with poetic devices and that’s one reason why it’s so amazing. It’s actively fun to listen to the lyrics.
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
Good grief! Anti-democratic fascism & authoritarianism in plain sight. It’s not even masked. Alarming! I’m reminded repeatedly that the most successful strategy against anti democratic regimes is for 3.5 percent of the population to be actively engaged in peacefully resisting. Protests imperative.
The talented @tarahaelle.bsky.social has a public facebook post setting out the timeline and explaining the events in relation to the CDC firings and resignations. www.facebook.com/tara.haelle/...
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
The impact of the first austerity policy in the 1800s: "From 1740s to 1810s in England, a strong improvement in mortality is evident, followed by 5 decades of stagnation. Only in the 1870s did life expectancy rise again; it continued to rise until 2010s, when a new austerity policy was unleashed"
Trump wants to ax an affordable housing grant that's a lifeline for many rural communities https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-wants-ax-affordable-housing-040259735.html
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...
Trump says museums focus too much on the “negative aspects” of American history, like “how bad slavery was.” And plans to purge cultural institutions. But be clear: he’s not talking about alternately uplifting Black inventors, builders, and leaders we were never taught about…
Terrible and dangerous for some.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Just your average Saturday night in southeast DC
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
www.propublica.org/article/alas...
Blue skies.
More from my walk to Flatbush Avenue—other people’s flowers. Next season I’m planting sunflowers and more blackeyed susans. #sunflowers #Flatbush #summer #beautyoftheearth #blackeyedsusans
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
🎓 As students return, professors and staff members across the nation stand with administrators to defend education from political interference. Students must be free to learn, explore, and question without fear. Protecting academic freedom means protecting the future. #AcademicFreedom #madc
Glad to be living in NY for this and other reasons. Love our Attorney General too.
Amid the justified media coverage of COVID booster access, we may have missed this. RFK’s damage to public health extends to raising the risk of food-borne illnesses. FYI, campylobacter infection is a way more common cause than vaccine injury of Guillain-Barré syndrome. apnews.com/article/cdc-...
Just astounded at how much golf he plays, how much golf business he does, despite emoluments clause, and how much he had criticized other presidents for playing golf while they should be doing the people's business, and how all this does not seem to matter in assessments of his fitness for purpose.
I'm cautiously optimistic. I also can't imagine how dreadful the tarriff roller coaster is for small businesses in export-dependent sectors of the economy. Consumers will also suffer pocketbook-destroying effects that increase precarity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The depth and breadth of pulchritude among these top Trump admin officials is breathtaking! They are also racist, exclusionary and divisive. The US has a toxic combination of oligarchic bad faith actors committed to anti-democratic white Christian nationalism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Institutionalized racism is already a significant problem in the US. Also, his own convictions notwithstanding,Trump is further intensifying it and weaponizing existing tropes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
RFK Jr needs to be removed from office. Hard stop.
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
Important.
I do not understand why government officials resign when asked to do something bad. The resignations will no longer be treated by the public like a scandal. It’ll be out of the news within 24 hours. People should stay and force the White House to fire them. Do not make it easy.
Gov. Wes Moore: “I’m not a simp. I’m a soldier, and I’m not just going to kowtow…And if you are deliberately coming after our folks…my job is to make sure that our people are going to be okay…I will work with anyone, but I will bow down to no one.”
Measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, polio, tetanus. Diseases that used to terrorise families, killing children & babies in their thousands. Now we have vaccines - safe & miraculous life savers. Please, parents, use them. Protect your precious children 🩷 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
NEW: Dozens of staff members and leaders at the CDC staged a walkout today in response to the internal shake-up of top federal health officials.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/slav...
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is asking a federal judge for a gag order against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Good move. It's important to resist authoritarian overreach. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
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I say again: we don’t have a shortage of workers; we have an abundance of businesses unwilling to pay people for their expertise and work
California Supreme Court Rejects Latest GOP Redistricting Challenge www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
100% true.
Worn down by hundreds of days of military service, fewer Israeli reservists are turning up for duty. Others are refusing to fight in a war they no longer believe in.
Ah, yes, for all you young people: there was a relentless effort to manufacture a consensus that Columbine was caused by Goth culture, industrial music, and videogames. The neo-Nazism was buried, and anyone who pointed to easy access to guns was denounced as a liberty-hating tyrant.
"All of these actions could be adopted by the [UN General Assembly] with a two-thirds majority, thereby circumventing the U.S. veto." "Once mandated, let the protection force be deployed by air, land, and sea, accompanied by international media." #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide
Tesla: yeah our cars explode but they do lock you inside right before then. Everyone: oh my god that is dogshit Tesla: don't worry, the CEO is able to unlock it Everyone: why does it require the CEO to- Tesla: Don't worry, we handed the cops the surveillance footage we take of all charging.
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
David Dayen nails it on Trumponomics, it is not a carefully crafted strategy, it is government by whim prospect.org/economy/2025...
Reminder to the reading public: if you report a book to Kindle for "typos" Amazon may yank it off publication completely and demand the author fixes the "typos". Even if the typos are vernacular English and YOU are the idiot who didn't check a big enough dictionary.
One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.
Wait, there's a Committee of the Business Roundtable whatever and they're just now chiming in on this immigration bullshit? Better late than never I guess...
CDC chief Susan Monarez refuses to resign amid ‘targeted’ ousting – US politics live
Even if you've never set foot in Oklahoma and likely never will, this is a hell of a read
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