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thrilled beyond words by this: just signed a contract with the University of Chicago Press for my next book, the extremely-long-in-the-making FILMS THAT EXPLODE LIKE GRENADES: ROBERT KRAMER AND THE SEARCH FOR A RADICAL CINEMA !!!

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POSTSCRIPT: WE FUCKING WON

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WE ARE ON STRIKE AT RUTGERS AND WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!!

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Tents are up at Rutgers-Newark encampment! From the river to the sea, and on to New Jersey, Palestine will be free!

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WE ARE ON STRIKE AT RUTGERS AND WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!!

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I'm on Montclair library board of trustees emergency meeting now & it's wild, people accusing Jewish Voice for Peace of terrorism, violence, claiming they'll feel unsafe if this discussion takes place. ridiculous--but also inspiring Jewish anti-Zionist speakers countering.

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this is deranged: Jewish Voice for Peace talk in Montclair NJ tmrw (endorsed by @NorthNJDSA ) under threat of cancellation by... the Montclair Civil Rights Commission?!? which calls it "hate speech"? sad that Palestinians don't count for civil rights

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don't see it elsewhere online but this 1979 open letter by lesbian critics of Women Against Pornography's march on Times Square is one of the best early feminist critiques of the antiporn movement IMHO, attentive to race/class politics of ostensibly universal claims

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10:40pm: results! Montclair Public Library Board of Trustees has voted to go ahead w/ tomorrow's Quaker-led Jewish Voice for Peace-organized event. I know this took real moral courage in the face of relentless, highly emotional pro-Israel propaganda, so solidarity with the board!

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Rutgers: day 3 of the largest public-sector strike in NJ history & the radical forefront of academic labor politics with grads, adjuncts, fulltime faculty all striking together NYT: yeah but have you heard about trigger warnings at Cornell tho?

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it's not just liberals but also most of the left who have walked way from "Abolish ICE" as a movement priority, but on a northeast regional call now w/4 dozen people & it is inspiring to see how many comrades are still committed to dismantling the detention/deportation machine!

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maybe it's cuz 4 consecutive days of being sequestered for 12+ hours in the governor's office with my beloved comrades of the @ruaaup bargaining team leaves one susceptible to a little emotion, but sniffling a bit at this. thanks Bernie, we're gonna win!

Bernie Sanders lends support to striking staffers at Rutgers

Sanders said employees at Rutgers have inspired higher education workers around the country.

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you have got to be fucking kidding me. pathetic, spineless, craven decision, McCarthyism in New Jersey

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Rutgers University has suspended Students for Justice in Palestine for disruptive/disorderly conduct and for failing to comply directives of university officials.

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@AIPAC the danger of . . . acknowledging Palestinian humanity?

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@k_artig genuinely baffled by purely-therapeutic left discourse of "complicity" with the goal of showing how one is personally not complicit. if you pay taxes, you fund IDF missiles. better lens IMHO is the question of how to build left power, which railing against Biden voters doesn't do

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this is deranged: Jewish Voice for Peace talk in Montclair NJ tmrw (endorsed by @NorthNJDSA ) under threat of cancellation by... the Montclair Civil Rights Commission?!? which calls it "hate speech"? sad that Palestinians don't count for civil rights

Montclair Civil Right Commission Calls For Library to Cancel 'Israel/Palestine Conversation'...

Some residents and the CRC don't want the organization using library space. Others say the group should be allowed to exercise free speech.

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I'd say this was one of the most abjectly craven things the Berlinale has ever done, but then, this is the same festival that tanked itself in 1970 because Michael Verhoeven's O.K. criticized American brutality in Vietnam, so keeping tradition alive by pandering to power

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Berlinale Files Criminal Charges Over the Spreading of Anti-Semitic Posts / Criticism of Statements Made by Artists at the Berlinale Award Ceremony See full press release via:

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my union went on strike this spring & there were intense and even vitriolic internal debates over strategy/tactics but one thing approx 100% of us all agreed on was not needing weird Trotskyists who weren't in our union to tell us how to strike

On Strike!

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Last week, political commentator @ryangrim blasted our broadcast for raising questions about strike strategy, and what it will take to win @UAW members' demands, like a 40% raise. We think it requires an all-out strike, not slow escalation. Last year, Grim defended @AOC & the

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@briebriejoy @BadFaithPod I think the PRO Act campaign is more grown up cuz it's based on coalition-building & seeks to win, vs FTV which literally aimed to lose but in so doing inspire a revolution based on procedural magic and screaming at other leftists?

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Ceasefire rally outside @CoryBooker office in downtown Newark, happening now!

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we won this strike through the work of every single adjunct who canceled class, every grad student worker who picketed, every tenured prof willing to take a modest raise to offset gains to the most vulnerable--

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presenting ReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay to Roberta herself today...whose very first words were "oh god, it looks awful," very on-brand!

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shameful cowardice in Newark as the school board pulls a Palestinian YA novel in the face of relentless lobbying from pro-Israel group that wants to silence dissent. @rasjbaraka who are the "deep connections within the City of Newark” that pulled this?

Palestinian novel pulled from curriculum in N.J. school district

Newark Public Schools removed the book "A Little Piece of Ground," from its classrooms and curriculum after complaints that it was antisemitic.

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pretty cool to go from writing about W.E.B. Du Bois to writing cheesy scare-emails about "unlawful strikes," @RutgersU President Jonathan Holloway this is shameful & you should support workers (where did Du Bois stand, again?). we don't want to strike, we want a fair contract!

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fantastic news--the Rutgers strike is over, we won a contract that is undeniably the new precedent for academic unions to strive for, and 93% of voting members support it. this was a very challenging time but it absolutely affirmed my belief in the power of a union.

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93% of members who voted across all 3 faculty unions voted YES to ratify the new contracts. We have strong new contracts thanks to the organizing effort of our members, who showed determination to fight for a better Rutgers for ALL of us. #WeRtheUniversity @ABhsnj @ruaaup_ptl

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sneak preview, not out til Feb. 2024, but it's (finally!) real: Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community from @RutgersUPress TOC here, & when it draws closer I will repost and tag a million people including amazing contributors <3

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until 3 minutes ago Macklemore was about five tiers below MC Paul Barman & barely above Asher Roth in my rankings of white rappers, but scratch that, this is top-shelf protest music, more courage than 99% of my most beloved indie rockers in their painful groveling silence

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HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.

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@jeremybernier alternately, just hypothetically as an idea, you could have some basic human decency and *not* go on Fox News to put your viral tweet to work supporting the rightwing media ecosystem

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It was such an honor to call Jeffrey Escoffier my friend, and such a loss to all of us that he's gone. While he was in the ICU then hospice care I re-read huge portions of his work, and paid my respects the best way I know how: by writing this tribute.

Remembering Jeffrey Escoffier, Queer Socialist Pioneer

With Jeffrey Escoffier’s passing this week, the world has lost a great thinker who took sex as seriously as politics and never lost sight of their intimate connections. Farewell to a titan of the...

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@SocialistMMA great point here--I, too, hear the horrifying news of Palestinian children murdered by Israel and immediately think "excellent opportunity to dunk on AOC and relitigate FTV." true solidarity, very productive.

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--but words cannot express how much I respect my @ruaaup pres @rkgwork & VP @ProfTWolf . having just sat in a hot miserable room in Trenton for 60 hours this week with them, I cannot believe what an impossible coalition they just steered to victory, absolute heroes in my mind

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@DonnaShalala with all due respect, I worked under you for a year at University of Miami and the main thing I remember is custodial workers driven to hunger strikes for basic subsistence wages under your administration, not sure you speak for the working class #JusticeforJanitors #Bernie2020

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@aravosis @DemSocialists hey John since you're so concerned with integrity, do you remember yet whether you supported the invasion of Iraq? you seem like a really important voice on matters of foreign affairs, would be great to set the record straight!

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absolutely vile and disgusting behavior from ICE: NJ released 2000 people from prisons today, a major victory. ICE immediately re-detains many. They were freed in the name of public health; putting people back in cages is detrimental to this. @NJGov we need action from you now.

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shout-out to New Jersey's @RepJoshG who took time out from being the largest Democratic recipient of donations from Nazi memorabilia-collecting definitely-not-antisemite Harlan Crow to join GOP bashing Rashida Tlaib like the amoral reactionary that he is, real class act Joshy!

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234-188-4: House votes to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), the only Palestinian American in Congress, "for promoting false narratives regarding the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for destruction of the State of Israel." She's the 26th House member to be censured.

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No one should be arrested for jacking off in a porn theater, that is included in the social contract of such spaces. Shame on everyone who temporarily destroyed Paul Reubens' career over nothing, & I'm glad he enjoyed a return before his sad & untimely passing <3

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scenes from today's (ongoing!) @ruaaup labor action at Rutgers-Newark: grad workers, faculty, community members, Sara Nelson, Chris Smalls, & management (that's the rat)

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hell yeah, thanks Bernie--that's solidarity! here we are at Rutgers-Newark an hour ago, marching for workers' rights. @ruaaup

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It is unacceptable that while Rutgers University has an endowment of nearly $2 BILLION dollars, their workers are struggling to get by. I stand in strong solidarity with @ruaaup and the Coalition of Rutgers Unions who are fighting for fair wages, healthcare, and job security.

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here's Rivette's all-time faves for Positif in May 1982... anyway I humbly submit myself to the better researchers of #filmtwitter to find his Top Ten of 1968 list, I'm stumped

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@Class_Unity lol, lmao, but I'm so happy for you that you can finally have the meetings with loud clapping and no gender pronouns that you've so long craved, maybe you can recruit Bari Weiss for your anti-woke revolution that's surely imminent

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@donaldp1917 this is a weird take, he's openly and unapologetically a fascist. partially agreed that he's mostly to be ignored, but it's worth openly & explicitly rejecting him in public ways so he doesn't infiltrate left spaces like he did with the naive organizers of the M4M4A debacle

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@AIPAC this tweet deserves an oral history of its making, would love to know more about your process

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my room may appear as some nightmarish failure of adulthood, but I find a cocoon of smut, VHS, scholarly monographs, & surly cats very comforting. for December, making a thread of forgotten low-budget (but non-exploitation) 1980s films to get better organized, here goes...

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learned that a colleague is a TERF fanatic, objected, & now the important issue for transgender rights is not the ongoing rightwing exterminationist campaign on which he has nothing to say, but me personally answering for some random quotes from trans/nb writers. TERF logic!

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Once again, I would like to ask my academic collegaues, @whitstrub , @nrduford , @thebirdmaniac , and @yarbsalocin to please suggest ANY context whatsoever in which these comments are not misogynistic and otherwise pretty sick. Any context. Just one. Come on.

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we have a cover! jazzed to co-edit the 1st book on Roberta Findlay, pioneering grindhouse/hardcore/horror filmmaker! for @EdinburghUP & w/ a galactic brain-trust of @FinleyFreibert @Ferbacious @kjbozelka @DerekGaskillNYC @bigsmashkierla @suspirialex etc!

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I dunno man, I wrote a dissertation at UCLA, published as a book by an Ivy League university press, with "rise of the New Right" in its subtitle, and I think the conservative intellectual tradition is entirely garbage that serves as transparent window dressing for racism/misogyny

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“Very few professors know much at all about the conservative intellectual tradition,” writes Jon A. Shields. “Many assume there is little of value in it.”

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@NorthNJDSA this really is resurgent McCarthyism and boy is it disappointing (if utterly predictable) how thin liberals' commitment to justice is, real mask-off heighten-the-contradictions moment

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thrilled to sign a contract with @RutgersUPress to edit book "Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community"! very excited to highlight work of a brilliant cohort of emerging & established scholars, as well as material from @QueerNewark oral history project!

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@rhodyDSA @UFWupdates comrades there is always the option not to keep digging

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I'm obsessed with the evasion of family wealth in NYT real estate multiple-choices, where people "saved" enough for a 35% Manhattan down payment while attending grad school in the humanities, & also--

Seeking a Perch Above Central Park for Less Than $800,000. Which Option Did They Choose? (Published...

Two first-time buyers set their sights on Morningside Heights and South Harlem, aiming for a two-bedroom or large one-bedroom in an elevator building.

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here we go: with 80% of @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl members voting (itself an historic high turnout), 94% voted to authorize a strike doesn't make a strike inevitable-- @RutgersU could still bargain in good faith, hope they will!

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ridiculous how much grief you can feel for a small ball of floof w/claws, but for 10 years Persimmon was my constant companion, hissing, swatting & once daily purring & rubbing her wet nose all over me. she departed this mortal hairball today. I loved her a lot & miss her already

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@RussOnPolitics @isabelle_leyva sir have you looked at public opinion lately? (spoiler: US funding for Israel's ongoing genocide is actually not popular; a ceasefire is)

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hard to overstate the joy of stepping out for a break from day 5 holed up in the gov's office w/the union team to see this amazing display of solidarity--bringing #RUOnStrike to Trenton! @ruaaup @ruaaup_ptl @CWA_NJ @NorthNJDSA @CentralNJDSA @dsasouthjersey @NewLabor @anakbayanru

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@thomaschattwill another example: "funky smells in NYC make me question marijuana decriminalization" (<--that was you and another American Enterprise Institute guy!)

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“We intend for this new contract to be transformative, especially for our lowest-paid and most vulnerable members,” Rebecca Givan, the president of one of the unions, Rutgers A.A.U.P.-A.F.T. @ruaaup

Rutgers University Faculty Members Strike, Halting Classes and Research (Published 2023)

The walkout is the first in the public university’s 257-year history and follows nearly a year of bargaining.

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@SocialistMMA literally Democratic Majority for Israel had a better take than this, my god

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Protest in the time of COVID-19: car caravan around Essex County Detention Center in solidarity with detainees on hunger strike for their lives. #ReleaseThemAll #AbolishICE @NeverAgainActn @NorthNJDSA @Joe_D_EssexExec take a stand, this is your crisis @mattkatz00 @MonsyAlvarado

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i'm a pretty distinctly second-tier academic, so it's very validating to be cited in this groundbreaking new dissertation from Liberty University on porn addiction that's dedicated to Jesus cited on very 1st page *and* my name's misspelled, hellz yeah, made it

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depressing to see: comes in 5th, polls in single digits w/POC, but punches left instead of, idk, at racist sack of shit Biden whose support for invasion of Iraq left a million dead and who invents stories about arrest on way to see Mandela? #DropOutWarren is right, sad to say

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Warren’s comments on Bernie Sanders tonight:

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@JayCarney Jay glad you care about justice, could you signal-boost this effort too?

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Current Vote Totals: 1518 Yes 1154 No 364 votes in ALU’s favor to wrap up today’s count. Counting will resume at 10am tomorrow. #UnionYes #ALUForTheWin

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this open letter by essentially the entire upper echelon of scholars of the Black freedom struggle to @RutgersU President Jonathan Holloway--also a scholar of said struggle--calling on him to abide by the spirit of the histories he teaches to stop his anti-labor stands, is pure🔥

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Open letter from prominent scholars asking @RutgersU president Holloway to rescind "the threat to use the power of injunction to punish, fine, & arrest workers taking job actions..."

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@mattpetersonnyc genuinely read this as god-tier shitposting, so of course it turns out to be actual. she is, if nothing else, an amazing psyop from reality itself.

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I've spent the past 6 years fervently promoting DSA & still consider it the greatest venue for the US socialist left in generations... but comrades, you can't publish the president of @RutgersU who is at war with our unions. @DemSocialists plz retract this

As Black History Month Ends, Another Look At "The Souls of Black Folk" - Democratic Socialists of...

This year, the end of the 53rd Black History Month coincides with the 155th birthday of W. E. B. Du Bois–one of the most influential thinkers of the last century, whose ideas enter into every...

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stuff like this just makes me feel hopeless for the future of the left. the idea that there's an existing base for mass socialist politics that's entirely to the left of AOC, the relentless fixation on demanding she/Bernie/Bowman become perfect anti-Zionists when--

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As part of our ongoing work to move our organization to stand in more effective solidarity with the Palestine liberation movement, East Bay DSA’s Steering Committee has the following statement on National DSA’s “Conditional” Endorsement of AOC

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today is official publication day for QUEER NEWARK: STORIES OF RESISTANCE, LOVE, & COMMUNITY from @RutgersUPress !! it was an honor to edit this book, & I'm really proud of the ways the various chapters combine to offer a rich view of LGBTQ Newark from 19th cent to present!

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new book has arrived & is already perverting the mind of Dusty the cat! it was such a joy to work with my dear friend, the brilliant scholar Peter Alilunas, on this, the 1st book about filmmaker Roberta Findlay, all-around lowbrow pioneer. I hope the internet will forgive me a 🧵

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Stand With Palestine rally, downtown Newark: remarkable turnout given awful weather (you can see the rain streaking across 3rd image) but very clear that New Jersey wants a ceasefire. marched on @CoryBooker office: do you answer to AIPAC or your constituents, senator?

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@jacksonhinklle you've devoted years of your youth to chasing clout on the internet only to wind up a sixth-rate Charlie Kirk with less than 10% of his followers, can't feel good

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Lovely night at the Newark Palestine solidarity encampment (after watching, uh, Claude Sautet's 1983 comedy Garçon!{!?!}) except that at 12:13am I am dying to go to bed with 2hrs 45min left on my shift, let the good times roll

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@333333333433333 "got my driver's license..."

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@SocialistMMA yes the rally populated by the Fox News judge, the LaRouche freaks, the misogyny-bro streamer, the sex offender who preys on teenagers, & the random Wu-Tang-periphery guy, that is the face of a serious movement.

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@SocialistMMA what the left needs is fewer clout-chasing podcaster/streamer types who offer nothing but endless sloganeering and zero useful strategy, respectfully

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every ICE detention is unjust but rushing to deport a witness to yr agent shooting a man in the face is esp. heinous #freeGaspar solidarity w/ all outside Hudson detn cent today incl @NorthNJDSA First Friends @NewSanctuaryNYC and @Oseguera2020 who is gonna unseat Albio Sires!

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Third World Gay Revolution manifesto, Chicago 1970: yes to revolutionary socialism, no to TERFs before TERFs were a thing

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"I'm all about the First Amendment, but I'm against this event because [JVP] is supporting hate speech" says local woman who's held library card for 50 years. "would library let Hitler speak?" trope of "this makes me feel unsafe" is the strongest recurring through-line.

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holy crap, here it is: flyer for my Newark History Society talk, “Newark After Dark: Sex Work, Gay Bars, Porn Theaters, and the Archives of Illicit Sexuality”!! Oct. 26 at 6pm, register here: I'm super psyched tho no way it can live up to that title tbh

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wait, the head of the NJ AFL-CIO showed up at the picket line today and said of @RutgersU President Jonathan Holloway "I think it's time for him to go"???!??? holy crap 🔥🔥 damn (around 2:00)

Rutgers Strike Day 2: Classes Canceled, Still No Deal

Negotiations are continuing over faculty contracts as the second day of strikes continue at Rutgers University. Brian Thompson reports.

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speaker just invoked his donor status, against "unsafe situation" of meeting & also says "from the river to the sea" is call to violence, hmm

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...because you're a morally bankrupt ghoul who thinks some human suffering counts and some, such as Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, does not?

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I think part of the reason I cringe so hard at the posturing leftists who attack AOC without ever offering any concrete strategy beyond "do revolution" or "general strike now" is that deep down I know I was this useless & annoying when I supported the Green Party & it kinda hurts

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I'm running for office!(?) Essex Co NJ freeholders board, dist. 1, on a @BernieSanders slate I stand for #AbolishICE #M4A socialist feminism etc if you're in North Newark or the Ironbound plz sign to get me on the ballot, need 100 ASAP #NotMeUs

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my god this is a grim reflection of what "Progressive Democrat" means in New Jersey: "support for continued U.S. military aid to Israel, without conditions." shame on you, @suealtman . we deserve better than this.

New Jersey’s Sue Altman, breaking with progressive allies, expresses support for Israel

Altman pledged support for continued U.S. military aid to Israel, without conditions, and stated her opposition to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement

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11 months

new speaker says American Muslims for Palestine have "proven ties to terrorism," goes downhill from there

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3 years

today in my politics of porn class, one of my absolute favorite books: Samuel Delany's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue! still can't believe some students did an organized walkout when I assigned this in 2008--at UCLA of all places! think it'll go better tonight...hopefully

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3 years

Facebook destroyed democracy & rotted brains probably including mine, but without its Memories feature I might never have recalled this hot-and-horny squirrel threesome seen on the Rutgers-Newark campus precisely five years ago today, so that helps a little, thx Zuck

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for leftists celebrating Cornel West's presidential run, here's People's Party endorsing a LaRouche cult leader. they also often retweet Tucker Carlson, Jackson Hinkle, & Jimmy Dore. love & respect to Dr. West but if that isn't disqualifying, I don't know what's wrong with you

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2 years

powerful editorial in support of @RutgersU workers & unions in New Jersey's largest newspaper, the Newark Star-Ledger. I'm on the faculty bargaining committee & can tell you, we don't want to strike, we just want a fair contract!

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2 years

solidarity w/this tweet. I once gave reading at great Boxcar Books in Bloomington IN, talking obscenity/porn in the shadow of the Kinsey Inst, & zero people attended. kind staffers were like "well you could begin reading & maybe people will show"... but nope. 2013 author pic lol

Chelsea Banning UPDATES ONLY🛡👑

@chelseabwrites

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Only 2 people came to my author signing yesterday, so I was pretty bummed about it. Especially as 37 people responded "going" to the event. Kind of upset, honestly, and a little embarrassed.

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lmao I was one of them, come deport me @nj1015 you sniveling racist shitheads

Deport every single protester that blocked NJ Turnpike (Opinion)

The majority of illegal immigrants are not even paying federal income tax. And now they're going to make demands?

nj1015.com

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3 years

I love THE WATERMELON WOMAN so much, every time I assign it, I find myself scrutinizing the VHS boxes here with love, desire, and nostalgia (TLA Video Philly!)--only just realized you can see CHAN IS MISSING, which I also assigned earlier in the semester. six degrees of syllabus!

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4 years

this dapper little gent (cat, not my disheveled ass) needs a home. Smokey's human passed away; he's 13, chatty & independent but also good for headbutting and love-bites, & @rizzo_pubhist & I will drive him basically anywhere in PA, DE, NJ, NYC, even CT if that's what it takes!

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@whitstrub

9 months

There was a time when John Fetterman posting Fox News articles might have been surprising but that time is long long gone. What a complete moral failure of a person and politician this swine is.

Senator John Fetterman

@SenFettermanPA

9 months

I am truly appalled that the Kennedy School would platform an individual who celebrates and justifies Hamas' October 7th killing of Israeli citizens—babies, children, the elderly, and the systemic, rape, mutilation, and torture of young girls and women.

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I don't entirely understand why sexual reactionaries are so hellbent on posing as leftists, like just go be conservative it's where all the money is & people there won't dunk on you as much for writing drivel like this

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@darelmass

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The Permanent Sexual Revolution spreads a kind of sexual neoliberalism in which sexuality is privatized while any costs from unleashing desire are socialized.

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2 years

I absolutely love how deranged TERFs & SWERFs constantly attack Billy Bragg & he just keeps on keepin' on with displays of solidarity because he seems like a genuinely good dude with good politics

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@billybragg

2 years

Bit of night time industry solidarity after the show tonight in Wellington where the local strippers are out protesting for fair contracts and labour rights outside Calendar Girls strip club. #ThereIsPowerInAUnion

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2 years

about once per decade I side w/the cops on something, & this footage of one refusing to be intimidated by Jersey City machine politician Amy DeGise--she of the recent hit-and-run of a bicyclist--pulling rank as he tows her expired & illegally parked car, is my pick for the 2020s

John Heinis

@HeinisHardNews

2 years

Jersey City Councilwoman DeGise had her vehicle towed in Hoboken in Nov. for parking in an illegal spot and having a registration that expired in 2019, police body cam shows. “I was endorsed by the police in Jersey City, I’m a councilwoman." FULL STORY:

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4 years

you and me both, kid, you and me both #nye2020 #AbolishICE

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@whitstrub

1 year

i regret that you guys pay bret stephens and david brooks to churn out some of the worst drivel ever written by mankind. happy to elaborate with 800-1200 words, just dm me

Cornelia Channing

@nina_channing

1 year

Hi! @nytopinion is looking for personal essays about regret. If you have a *specific* regret that haunts you and continues to shape or inform your life, pitch me! We're looking for unexpected, compelling, instructive stories and great writing. cornelia.channing @nytimes .com

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@suealtman did anyone ask why you continue to support the genocide Israel is committing in Gaza, which is very unpopular among young people?

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RIP William Friedkin, true wildman of cinema while time (& Robin Wood) have vindicated CRUISING, the historical context of rising New Right genocidal homophobia helps explain gay protest: "plays like a recruiting poster for an Anita Bryant parade"!!

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4 years

@Eve6 late-period soul asylum albums that sound like dentist-office music > twitter-left dead-enders fixated on AOC but not on actual organizing for power

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10 months

I think the boomerfication of facebook rocks, just joined a suggested group called Things That Aren't There Anymore Northern NJ Edition & it's cooler than 99% of the rest of the internet these days, just pics of bars where dudes saw twisted sister in 1987 that closed

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