Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline
Acting Dir. of Interdisciplinary Studies, Cal. Don't ask me what my field is, I'm not a donkey. Twisting Marx to make capitalism stronger since I got a mortgage isf.ugis.berkeley.edu/people/detail/… Berkeley, CA Joined October 2016-
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Some religious music we can appreciate over divides Here's Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Allah Hoo youtube.com/watch?v=QVDr7N… Here at 44:36 is Mendelsson's Richte mich, Gott (Psalm 43) youtube.com/watch?v=FYX1sG… (daughter is at the right corner)
.@Northeastern needs to investigate this student for incitement in a volatile situation and (self-) hate speech. On the latter it might be a matter for either a disciplinary committee or a committee for students of concern.
.@Northeastern needs to investigate this student for incitement in a volatile situation and (self-) hate speech. On the latter it might be a matter for either a disciplinary committee or a committee for students of concern.
*Don't understand how Lew's judgement could override Bureaus of Democracy Human Rights & Labor; Population, Refugees & Migration; Global Criminal Justice & Intl Organization Affairs *As 🇮🇱 can't be secure without US arms, why not use leverage? *Blinken should finalize ASAP
*Don't understand how Lew's judgement could override Bureaus of Democracy Human Rights & Labor; Population, Refugees & Migration; Global Criminal Justice & Intl Organization Affairs *As 🇮🇱 can't be secure without US arms, why not use leverage? *Blinken should finalize ASAP
If the ICC brings charges against top Israeli officials, the US may extend the Hague Invasion Act to them partly on the grounds that Israel, like the US, is not a party to the ICC. Biden could freeze the accounts of any ICC official involved in bringing charges against 🇮🇱
How long do you scroll down the “For You” tab before saying that’s enough <stupid provocation and propaganda> for the day?
For example, if Biden were running against Haley, he couldn't be counting on some of her votes to compensate for those alienated by his Israel policy. Is Trump's weakness as a rival one important reason Biden hasn't shifted his Israel policy?
For example, if Biden were running against Haley, he couldn't be counting on some of her votes to compensate for those alienated by his Israel policy. Is Trump's weakness as a rival one important reason Biden hasn't shifted his Israel policy?
If Biden were running against Haley (make the reasonable assumptions that she is well-funded and polling ahead of him), would that affect Biden's Israel policy and, if so, how?
Where would the Barenboim-Said orchestra perform 4' 33"? Perhaps multiple sounds from Gaza could be simulated, making it difficult but not impossible to hear the voice of Hind Rajab.
If people only understood that the ICJ did not find that plausibly a genocide may be happening but only that there is a real and imminent risk that a genocide is happening, heightened now by the threat of a military operation in Rafah soon, the protests would stop.
Darwin refers to Babbage's Economy of Machinery and Manufacture. I've long thought that CB's analysis of gluts, more than Malthus's population theory, anticipates Darwin's idea of nature's creativity out of competition from overpopulation. Schumpeter's creative destruction too
How due to this show of respect for students will UCLA deal with more than the 150K applications it already gets every year? And appreciation for former Cal Law Dean Edley for writing the UC guidelines on protest response. Heartened by Cal Vice Chancellor Mogulof's comments too
How due to this show of respect for students will UCLA deal with more than the 150K applications it already gets every year? And appreciation for former Cal Law Dean Edley for writing the UC guidelines on protest response. Heartened by Cal Vice Chancellor Mogulof's comments too
Alito: 'if presidents must fear prosecution after leaving office, they might prove more prone to resisting the transfer of power...' To prevent that outcome of Presidents resisting the transfer of power Alito will set the precedent that a Pres can resist the transfer of power
Alito: 'if presidents must fear prosecution after leaving office, they might prove more prone to resisting the transfer of power...' To prevent that outcome of Presidents resisting the transfer of power Alito will set the precedent that a Pres can resist the transfer of power
"I have publicly challenged and disagreed with Trump so that if he goes to jail, I won't have to go with him as his accomplice; I am also pledging my support of him so he does not punish me if he wins." --Bill "Should Be Behind" Barr(s)
For me the key point in a great thread.
Fun discussion in class comparing Silicon Valley hype narratives of tech with Hollywood pessimism: warnings of Promethean hubris from the pursuit of technical sweetness or wanting to break glass, a Faustian tradeoff of power for one's soul, Frankenstein creations turning on us.
It looks like it's made for entertainment or as an art installation. But this is what the most cost-effective, lowest error-rate, fastest manufacturing in the world looks like. Stunning.
It looks like it's made for entertainment or as an art installation. But this is what the most cost-effective, lowest error-rate, fastest manufacturing in the world looks like. Stunning.
Anton Jäger @AntonJaegermm
43K Followers 3K Following Historian of political thought | Lecturer @UnivOxford | Works on populism etc. Usual disclaimers.
Adam Tooze @adam_tooze
215K Followers 8K Following History - Economics - Theory Columbia University. Born UK, raised FRG. Mensch mit Migrationshintergrund. Chartbook Newsletter: https://t.co/liMOT0CGJK
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15K Followers 6K Following Political economy, Russia, Public Finance @pubenterprise
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New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews
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Paddy @paddyqpr
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Transnational Politic.. @_PolEcon
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Save a Life Today @Save_aLife_2day
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215K Followers 8K Following History - Economics - Theory Columbia University. Born UK, raised FRG. Mensch mit Migrationshintergrund. Chartbook Newsletter: https://t.co/liMOT0CGJK
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táí.. @OlufemiOTaiwo
69K Followers 10K Following Associate Professor of Philosophy and African Studies at Georgetown. Author of Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture, @cpluscp member.
Terence Renaud @terry_renaud
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BO @bo_austin_
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13K Followers 2K Following I teach history of science & labor at Harvard. Proud @hgsuuaw alum, associate editor @thedrift_mag. Writing MAKE YOUR OWN JOB for @harvard_press.
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JP Pardo Guerra also .. @pardoguerra
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HUPD Chief Victor A. Clay: “You can see in the Yard right now — we are keeping our students safe and they are protesting peacefully and it’s their right and we are going to support that.” @HarvardAlumni
The tide is turning: HUPD Chief Says Harvard Yard Encampment is Peaceful, Defends Students’ Right to Protest thecrimson.com/article/2024/4…
Amy Cooper again! So vile and dangerous!!!
Great knows great. Yes, this is *the* @davidrliu. He had developed a neural network model of visual attention, which (unknown to him) was similar to something Hinton was working on. He was only 16 at the time. Did they meet? I don’t know yet.
Shame on them! God bless her!!!
This Black student singing gospel (which emerged from the souls and spirits of slaves) while the Black police (who likely heard the same song in church but are doing work descended from slave patrols) is truly something to behold.
Apparently OSU claims that a police sniper on the roof is standard procedure during football games. I can’t tell if it is funny or horrifying OSU’s excuse is that protestors received the same assassination threat that the college routinely offers all crowds on campus
Just got word that the last of my remaining family members in Gaza have made it to Egypt after more than 6 months sheltering in a church in the north. I am glad for their safety but it is also tragic: my last familial link to Palestine gone, an exile that began in 1948 complete
It took a while, but the hysteria over campus protests finally led to journalists talking to the protesters (rather than caricaturing them)
Here’s an interview with a Columbia protester named Ava where she talks about why she’s there, anti-Semitism, and the historical echoes of this movement.
“Indifference is the raw material that ruins intelligence. Some whimper piously, others curse obscenely, but nobody, or very few ask themselves: If I had tried to impose my will, would this have happened?” Antonio Gramsci died OTD in 1937, the best, the only, Albanian communist.
One of the greatest, if not the greatest, threat to academic freedom in the United States comes from anti-Palestinian U.S. politicians. The ADL, AIPAC and other Zionist anti-Palestinian lobby groups and organizations are desperate to censor and crush free expression in US…
You literally can not make this up. "A pro-Israel House Democrat and Republican plan to introduce legislation creating federally sanctioned "antisemitism monitors" for select college campuses." axios.com/2024/04/26/ant…
Proud of my campus leadership for the first time in a long while. ——> At USC, arrests. At UCLA, hands off. Why pro-Palestinian protests have not blown up on UC campuses latimes.com/california/sto…
There is little doubt Rafah will be the scene of a massive casualty event if the Israelis go in for a full scale attack, irrespective of whether or not a 'plan' is implemented to evacuate civilians. DC, and London, have to pull out all the stops to halt this before it happens.
So the IDF will soon attack Rafah. Innocent women and children will be killed. Some Hamas forces will fight & die. Most will move to safety or merge into the population. The hostages won’t be recovered and Hamas won’t be eliminated. Pointless. Utterly pointless.
This reflection on USC’s decision to cancel Asna Tabassum’s valedictorian speech is very good and worth reading. By my friend @JonCohenNYC, one of Asna’s advisors. forward.com/opinion/606655…
I'm leaving hopefully one last message on the thread I posted 24 hours ago. Apologies - to do this quickly, I typed up on a word processor and extracted two images.
What does the Harvard faculty think of Israel, Gaza, protests, and bias on campus? Interesting survey of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences there by the Crimson. H/t @sfmcguire79 thecrimson.com/article/2024/4…
If you can't tell, I have basically no patience for these sectarian "revolutionary" "socialist" organizations. When they show up, I think it's a good idea to tell them to leave. What they bring in numbers and simple protesting capacity is outweighed by how shit they are.
Unions are good at keeping these people out. But, that's because unions are formally organized institutions where people know each other and with hierarchies that allow for the weeding out of these provocateurs.
But this is also an Achilles heel b.c members of these orgs / cults are pretty experienced at commandeering protests. They will then introduce chants and other actions that are often so maximalist and disruptive as to be alienating.
These orgs don't give two shits about the actual struggle. They are just there to recruit members. Nothing matters but their own organization. So, really, they are sort of cults because they're much MUCH more narcissistic & detached from reality than your average college student.
Back in the 90s in California, I remember By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) using the fight over affirmative action (prop 209) to try to recruit people. I'd wager they were a government front. Or maybe they were a cult. Hard to tell. Anyway they sucked.
Something people w/ no background in protests don't realize is that there are a ton of pretty shady sectarian groups allegedly on the left - Trotskyists, weirdo commies, etc. - who regularly attempt to hijack actions around Israel and Palestine.
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