Three of my colleagues UMass Amherst Department of History were arrested for peaceful protest. We should all fear and oppose the ideology of administrative authoritarianism at work here & many other places, which is deeply destructive to the purpose of higher education and antithetical to democracy.

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¡Aún estás a tiempo!

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Was thinking about this today. Like all y'all just waited for Macklemore to do you like that? Also let him wrap up the KDot/Drake episode in freaking passim, without skipping a beat. Sleep at the wheel. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

If you are mad about Zadie Smith's essay, Steven Salaita is madder: stevesalaita.com/our-your-pitif…

Word. Presente.

Faculty across the country stands with our students in peaceful protest against genocide.

these institutions and their leaders are evil.

Ok. Your red line has been crossed, Mr. President. Israel goes harder on Rafah. Make the call. Red line, right? Ok. Any minute now.

The folks who first called me doctor right here.

Oh, man.

Students being loaded into police buses at ucsd

Please read (my former colleague) Anahid Nersessian in LRB on recent mob, police, and university and violence at UCLA: 'Under the Jumbotron' lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…

The NYT won the international reporting category for the pulitzer?!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I feel bad for the rest of you in the batch of 2024. Y'all just got handed a dud.

Maybe I should've noticed before... when mainstream media talks about Free SpeechTM they highlight how someone doesn't know about how someone else thinks. How would we ever found out? It always starts from that position of ignorance... which is a... fantasy.

Presidential powers return as administrative power. Enlightening essay on Columbia, university governance, the function of endowments, and campus free speech norms and rules. balkin.blogspot.com/2024/05/seeing…

'Reversing this drift [toward presidential administration], and developing a more democratic model of internal governance, may be a prerequisite not only for rebuilding intellectual community but also for avoiding future campus conflagrations.' balkin.blogspot.com/2024/05/seeing…

Just when you thought no new low could be reached in this mess.