Natasha Lennard
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"No slouch when it comes to dribbling academic flapdoodle." Column @TheIntercept ; prof @TheNewSchool ; Author 'Being Numerous' Verso; @natashalennard .bsky.social
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Ok, yay, some me news that affects precisely none of you! But i'm excited. I've officially committed to writing a book for
@VersoBooks
On Un/Certainty, expanding on this essay, and much more
Behind endless talk of "uncertain times", we fail to attend to what is held certain – and it is contemporary certainties that give me most cause for concern... i went long on Big Uncertainty, via Wittgenstein, for the
@VersoBooks
blog
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This is on the citizenship test, just fyi. Not knowing this can hinder an immigrant's ability to become a citizen.
Amy Coney Barrett doesn’t know the five freedoms guaranteed in First Amendment.
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It’s not a “gotcha” to point out that I’ve never complained about the suspension of far right accounts, but do criticize banning of leftist accounts. My dream isn’t a world where fascism and anti-fascism have equal access to the public sphere. I want fascism to lose 🤷🏻♀️
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it's v unlikely to derail a citizenship application- there are 100 questions would-be citizens could be asked (you have to get 6/10 correct; the agent chooses which 10 to ask). Nervous applicants learn everything. This woman is a fuckin textualist and can't answer the most basic.
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The essay, “The Ongoing Nakba,” would have been the first from a Palestinian scholar published by the Harvard Law Review. The decision to pull it from publication is “unprecedented”.. my latest
@theintercept
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WE WON! we won our fair contract from the
@TheNewSchool
. Strikes work!! Solidarity works!!! and the bargaining committee from
@UAW7902
are superheroes.
You heard it here first: We have countersigned a tentative agreement and the strike is ending.
Stay tuned for the official joint statement from part-time faculty and New School management.
We look forward to returning to our students.
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Around a dozen NYT headlines rn are like "anxious times in New York around Trump indictment", "New York braces for Trump arrest"... sorry, it's completely normal here. very sunny, which is nice. i can't imagine how minuscule the number is of New Yorkers these headlines represent
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Imminent mass strike at The New School, unless the university offers a fair contract tmw. TNS' reputation rests on its progressive history & professed values - with which its treatment of workers fails to align. We proudly join this nationwide moment of academic worker struggle
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#ChelseaManning
has been remanded into federal custody, without charge or conviction, for refusing to comply with a grand jury. Here's some background to clarify why her resistance, like so many of her historic actions, is righteous and worthy of support
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Cops called on students?? Yeah. I do want Columbia University cursed by god.
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Ted Cruz just stated in a hearing on "anarchist violence" that his colleagues failed to condemn the "terrorists" who killed federal officer Patrick Underwood. Implication is that killers were of the left. The killer, air force sgt Steven Carillo, is far right.
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Artforum editor David Velasco has been fired over a letter calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Here’s the story on the shadow campaign to pressure the art world into compliance… from
@DRBoguslaw
& me.
@theintercept
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Last night 6 pro-Palestine Columbia students were suspended & evicted w/out due process. The uni hired a private investigator who reportedly attempted to enter dorm rooms, demanded to read students' private texts. The weaponization of 'safety' discourse.
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Based on mainstream news coverage alone you’d likely never know that organizers and tenants in New York are preparing the largest coordinated rent strike in nearly a century, to begin on May 1... my latest
@theintercept
#CancelRent
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Absolutely galling that Biden is being pitched as the “civility” candidate - he has shouted at and insulted working class voters /directly/ again and again on the trail; there are so many vids of this... And Bernie gets slammed as divisive. Fuck this whole noise.
.
@joebiden
touring auto plant in Detroit quickly gets into an argument with a worker over guns.
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While
@xyChelsea
Manning’s release is vastly long overdue and most welcome, the framing and timing of the decision are galling... especially as she remains under the yoke of state-enforced financial ruin... update
@theintercept
:
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"At this point the police seem to be charging every protester they arrest with ‘domestic terrorism’ regardless of the circumstances"... latest
@theintercept
column on repression efforts against
#StopCopCity
@defendATLforest
in Atlanta
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Has anyone written a good essay on Hims & Hers and the bundling/ curation of on-demand medication treatments to manage (gendered) expectations of contemporary life? / the securitization of profitable insecurities … seems like this essay would exist. If not, I’ll write it (maybe)
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I imagine I will not be alone in following up with
@Newsweek
and demanding accountability for how this trash got through fact checking.
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This is top of NYT homepage right now... this isn't a 'told you so' tweet - although I, and colleagues like
@rdevro
, have been writing on this at
@theintercept
for months. This is a "fuck you": NYT /happily/ participated in bogus two-sidesism, aiding Trumpian antifa obsession.
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After Harvard Law Review pulled this essay, which argues that we understand the assault on Gaza within and beyond the legal frame of genocide,
@thenation
thankfully published (see above tweet for back story on censorship)
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Huge solidarity. THIS is how faculty show concern for students' safety. I hope those of us faculty elsewhere can collectively commit to do the same should we need to for our students.
What i really hope, though, is that universities stop sicking the cops on their students. ffs.
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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If your local was part of
#BodegaStrike
, be sure to check in tomorrow, thank them and offer support & material solidarity going forward
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This year anti-trans liberal feminism — the sort championed by J.K. Rowling — has been mainstreamed in the very same opinion pages that once treated the position as an unpleasant British curiosity...
my final column for 2022
@theintercept
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More absurd malicious charging in Atlanta. Arrests of 3 Atlanta Solidarity Fund organizers- an unprecedented attack on bail funds & legal support, long-standing facets of social justice work. The latest desperate move against Cop City dissent
@theintercept
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Hundreds out The New School, rallying for Gaza and divestment 🥲
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Just a week had passed since the Club Q massacre, when the NYTimes decided to draw an equivalence between the fascists who threaten LGBTQ-friendly spaces with guns and the anti-fascists with guns who defend those spaces — a new low in bothsidesism. Latest
@theintercept
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When i wrote this
@theintercept
column on the weaponization and warping of "safety" for conservative & anti-Palestine aims on campus, i didn't imagine how grimly far it could go. calling in mass of cops against protestors camping on their own campus
Minouche Shafik just announced her decision to request NYPD to clear out the pro-Palestine student encampment
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Was just made away of this, but on Facebook Trump posted an upside down red triangle alongside his latest unhinged antifa tirade... the symbol has one major historical reference: it was used by Nazis in concentration camps to classify political prisoners inc. communists.
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I love my students
BREAKING: Students at The New School university in NYC are occupying the campus with a Gaza solidarity encampment, joining students at Columbia and Yale protesting higher education’s complicity in Israel’s war.
“No tuition for genocide!”
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"Humanitarian Pause" -- do you fucking hear yourselves?
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The largest offense here, if the backlash is to be believed, was that Glazer dared speak of context- of the Israeli occupation. He was so bold as to suggest that history did not begin on Oct 7... brief thoughts on the shameful letter. Latest
@theintercept
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Absolute disgrace that
@IGD_News
(It's Going Down) has been suspended from Twitter -- crucial news source on movement, anti-fascist politics. No one is surprised by hypocrisy on Musk's Twitter but this is extraordinary
Regardless of whether you identify as an anarchist or anticapitalist,
@IGD_News
has done important reporting on
#extremism
and the far-right. It's shameful to see Elon Musk banning outlets and journalists at the whim of bigots.
All journos should be considering backup plans.
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the /funniest/ version is this bonkers review of a Springsteen concert in which the author absolutely insists on Trump's arrest overshadowing the proceedings. except no single source cited cares, especially not Bruce... (NYT stop repeating what NYPD says verbatim challenge)
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In my first job, i “covered” events for Politico lol. Which I hated. Except the time I met Vincent D’Onofrio. I was feeling ill and got a little feint. Vincent got me water, took me to sit down and get air and helped me get a cab. I felt like a piglet looking at the night sky
Pigs can't look up.
But I could pick a pig up one night and raise it into the sky and tilt this pig ever so gentle. I can make sure this pigs eyes line up with the stars. Imagine seeing the stars 4the first time.I want 2b treated that kindly and see the stars for the first time.
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We need a General Strike. But to aim for late feb is absurd, gives workers little chance to organize and prepare. We should aim for May Day
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Anyone rightfully horrified on learning of the persecution Fred Hampton faced must reckon with the fact that a number of his contemporaries remain in cages, where, without intervention, they will die.
#BringSundiataHome
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Cops accused of raping a teen in custody say she consented. That shld read as an admission of rape! Me
@theintercept
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The willingness of the LAPD to release its toxicology report speaks to a much broader problem: faith in the public’s willingness to, like the cops, demonize and blame Black victims.. latest
@theintercept
column, on LAPD defaming Keenan Anderson killing him
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watching trans youth in florida /beg/ (with fierce, well-evidenced arguments) an indifferent florida board of medicine to not take away their healthcare (which they will do, any day now) - all the professional 'just asking questions' brigade, who invoke 'the children', i hate you
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Professor stoking fears of /existential/ threat to Jewish kids from Palestinian solidarity is so dangerous. Antisemitism is on the rise (islamophobia too!), but claims that we white Jews in NY now live under the yoke of oppressive violence? Untrue and will produce more violence
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There's been /significant/ movement in negotiations. But it's pretty bad form that
@TheNewSchool
had these tweets ready to send before they delivered this offer to the union (just now!). We've not had time to look at its details yet! it's movement - finally! - but we're not done
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The probable cause stated in the arrest warrants is extremely weak. Police cited arrestees having mud on their shoes — in a forest... my latest on 23 more domestic terrorism charges against
#StopCopCity
#defendatlantaforest
movement.
@theintercept
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Wait, you didn’t know that we’re out of money at
@theintercept
? You thought the layoffs were for…? The right funds hegemony; the left - no such investment. I love writing a column at TI. I’ll go as long as we can. & It’s been home to some of the best journalism around for years.
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Also learned that Maggie Nelson criticizes another of my essays, in a wilfully careless misreading. She claims I state & argue things that I wholly do not about sex & porn. It's funny, but also fucked, cuz more ppl will read her version of me than will ever read my work directly.
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Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer Got Punched—You Can Thank the Black Bloc. A dispatch from
#DisruptJ20
@thenation
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Chants of “free Palestine” reverberating throughout the march made clear that Stop Cop City sees the struggle over the forest acreage outside Atlanta as one among many fights to see land & territory liberated, rather than violently bordered & occupied.
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The police failed at protecting the schoolchildren, yes, but we should not be under the illusion that this is an example of the cops failing at their jobs… latest
@theintercept
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My book "Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life" is coming out with
@VersoBooks
this year. Sometimes its about punching Nazis, sometimes it's about ghosts, sometimes it's about the limits of rights, sex and the self. Which is to say: it's illiberal.
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To say the former NYPD detectives got away with rape by virtue of a legal loophole would be too generous to the prosecutors... My latest
@theintercept
on the charges dropped against the cops who raped
@annaaachambers
'
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and, to repeat: no i don't think Trump himself posted the triangle, or would know concentration camp classification symbols. this FB page is official but it's not like his twitter account. the point is that the Trump machine is crawling with, undergirded by, explicit fascists.
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Lol i literally shit on awful Biden, whom i nonetheless will be voting for, in most every Intercept column i write. But sure.
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#ChelseaManning
's lawyers will be working overtime to get her out and make clear to the judge that this brutal effort to coerce her will not work. please support getting her free, give to the legal fund:
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So
@theintercept
is one of the only places covering (w/ a spine) the laundering of Israel's US-backed genocide & repression of Palestinian voices; one of few covering Cop City; among few covering anti-trans assault. w/ layoffs, & future bleak, not clear how this work will go on.
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Jalil Muntaqim, an elderly former Black Panther, was ordered released by a judge who recognized the extreme risk Covid-19 posed to him... the government appealed. Jalil remained in prison. Now he's in hospital, having contracted the virus
@theintercept
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Good morning ESPECIALLY to the students who are occupying the New School university center -- over 100 slept over night, in solidarity with their striking professors and in defense of the school's radical legacy, which the admin has so threatened
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The stakes are high. To ensure Cop City will never be built. Thursday’s action also makes clear that efforts to criminalize whole movements will only invite further resistance... me
@theintercept
on solidarity following RICO charges against
#StopCopCity
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If James Deen was where you went for feminist porn male performer, dont. There are other, non-rapists to watch. Solidarity w
@stoya
.
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so she no longer has high breasts? at only 27? that's weird.
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Co-optation doesn’t really tell us anything about the /inherent/ usefulness of a term/concept — all linguistic posits are contingently useful to different ends. That’s just how meaning works... you wanna cede the determination to the CIA? that's on you
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Well, also, forever, fuck you, Vice management. P.s. I had sex with my shitty ex-boyfriend in the bear room.
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unreal what trans comrades, the vast majority under/unemployed working class, have to deal with on here every fucking day. in the name of a bad /figuration/ of the working class. but don't worry, it's not like legislatures are trying to devastate trans lives, too, or anything.
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Beautiful!!!! i never think too fondly of being a columbia alum; it was a short masters, framed by conservative assumptions. but the association i want are with /these/ wonderful, solidaristic students and comrades.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE ❤️🔥 Join us outside our encampment all night long. Bring a friend, blankets, and snacks!! Follow our telegram for updates:
#cu4palestine
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The idea of seeing my students, amazing people i see & think with & work with every week, being grabbed, ziptied, dragged away by cops - makes my blood boil to even imagine... Shafik & Columbia admin must not give a shit about their students, or that sight would be intolerable.
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When we fail to support prison strikes, we reinforce the violence imposed by the prison system itself, allowing the voices of incarcerated people to go unheard and their lives unrecognized. My latest
@theintercept
#prisonstrike
#august21
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I miss my students awfully.
@thenewschool
admin’s messaging suggests that WE want to jeopardize them, or time with them, by seeking inflation-reflecting pay, healthcare benefits that aren’t worse than our previous contract, and recourse if harassed. It’s unreal.
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Blaming antifa is a move as cynical as it is predictable for the president and his bootlickers. Meanwhile, liberals have been offering support for this pernicious, racist “outside agitator” narrative... my latest
@theintercept
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In the lexicon of a personified pink pussy hat, the women are framed with the trappings of white liberal feminism..”a band of sisters” who “moved from hard no to hell yes on starting an impeachment inquiry.” moderate realpolitik dressed up as
#resistance
.
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Fans of this tweet: consider supporting abolitionist mutual aid! I work w Community Care NYC, a mutual aid network supporting those in need of groceries & basics across the city; as well as formerly incarcerated NYers getting on their feet after release. Venmo: communitycarenyc
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the latest thing i can't believe needs pointing out: it's not anti-feminist to say that the consequences of rape even if committed by a group of people should not be the collective punishment, genocide and ethnic cleansing of an entire already oppressed population.
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journalists getting arrested or hit with rubber bullets is terrible - but it doesn't make me more angry than seeing non-journalists getting arrested or hit with rubber bullets. obsession w fourth estate is lame... love from, a journalist
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For Facebook to treat even militant, antiracist, antifascist organizing as a violence comparable to that of white supremacist militias is a statement, in no uncertain terms, about which lives it deems to matter.
My latest
@theintercept
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I know how hard it is some days to sweep the clouds away and get to sunnier days.
Our friend Elmo is right: We have to be there for each other, offer our help to a neighbor in need, and above all else, ask for help when we need it.
Even though it's hard, you're never alone.
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Speaks to the vile extremity of current campus repression against pro-Palestine actions, that the sister of a murdered Kent State protester feels the need to speak out ...
Sister of murdered Kent State protester Allison Krause speaks out against use of militarized police responses on college campuses amidst nation-wide pro-Palestine protests.
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This infirm mass arrest and process ruined lives; thank fuck it’s done. But let’s never call this ordeal “justice”
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can't watch this crap, Dems celebrating peaceful protest, while suggesting it would be fine if it /were/ anarchists being arrested; GOP decrying "anarchist terrorists". No surprise of course.
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@ryangrim
i've worked at home for 5+ years. Now I zoom teach. At no point, even during the longest meetings, have i nor anyone i know, considered getting our junk out. "in his own home" argument is an insult to those of us who know how to treat colleagues w respect while working from home
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Oregonians have taken a historic step in recognizing that if a carceral approach to drug use is harmful, it is harmful regardless of the drug in question... silver lining from Tuesday. latest
@theintercept
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My piece for
@commune_mag
on Willem Van Spronsen's attack on ICE infrastructure in Tacoma. Whatever you think of his actions, they should be understood as targeting how ICE terror circulates. The opposite of by-standing is not up-standing; it's obstruction
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The Letter from a Birmingham Jail isn't abt the "silence" of the white moderate. It's an indictment of what the white moderate is LOUD about- "devoted to" ('order' rather than justice). MLK writes abt the "silence" of "good people"; he doesnt call the white moderates good people
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Eric King’s allegations against federal prison guards and white supremacist gangs paint a chilling picture of the brutality anti-fascists -- many facing hefty felony charges from last year's uprisings -- could face... my latest
@theintercept
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#J20
offered a lesson in collective resistance, and a refusal to allow government and law enforcement narratives about “good protesters” and “bad protesters” to prevail. My latest
@theintercept
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Throughout
@NYTmag
article, a sharp line is drawn between police officers and the white supremacists they interact with — it’s a profound category mistake... my latest
@theintercept
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the gap is... ten years? sorry, no, that's not an "age gap", grow up
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Mainstream outlets characterizing
#Berkeley
clashes as "Pro-Trump v anti-Trump" w/out SINGLE mention of MANY Sieg Heiling white supremacists
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@ggreenwald
Dear god there are so so many legit ways of skewering the terrible lib media
#resistance
treatment of this whole narrative without retweeting and boosting the truly godawful and untrustworthy Michael Bloody Tracey
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Every day
@xychelsea
has spent in a cage has been a consequence of principled political action. For this, the state has shown a consistent willingness to reduce her to bare life: stripped of legal rights but held under law... a sad update,
@theintercept
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This is not an open letter. This is a commitment by The New School Faculty for Justice in Palestine on Academic Freedom to stand by students & colleagues, in and beyond our institution, calling for liberation:
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3 Stop Cop City activists face 20 years in prison for posting flyers that identified a cop linked to Tortuguita's brutal shooting death... latest from me & the great
@akela_lacy
at
@theintercept
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Reminder that Biden could cancel student debt right now;
@StrikeDebt
laid out an actionable legal blueprint for making it happen, immediately, if he had the political will
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