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lisa lowe
@driftinghouse.bsky.social
prof & author ~ the intimacies of four continents; immigrant acts: on asian american cultural politics; critical terrains: french & british orientalisms; coeditor, the politics of culture in the shadow of capital
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OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵
New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed
A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...
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“A settlement with this administration does not get them off your back." “It’s strange to students, faculty, and alums: Why are you so eager to settle?” 🤔 @yaleaaup.bsky.social
Yale caught between Trump administration pressure and a campus that wants to fight
Leaders are weighing a settlement over reverse discrimination claims amid criticism from students, faculty and alumni.
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Yale students and faculty fight to stop deal with Trump's DOJ www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sSx...
'Whiff of JIM CROW:' Yale students and faculty fight to stop deal with Trump's DOJ
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The University of Chicago law school has banned AI and electronic devices from its classrooms for first-year students. Why won't the college do the same for its first-year undergraduates?https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/13/university-of-chicago-ai/
The AI effect: University of Chicago Law School opts to prohibit electronic devices in some classrooms
Come fall, first-year students at U. of C. Law School will be prohibited from using electronic devices like laptops, tablets and phones in the classroom.
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Former NU professor files lawsuit against university, federal officials
Former NU professor files lawsuit against university, federal officials - Evanston RoundTable
Steven Thrasher, the former Northwestern University professor whose employment was terminated in 2025 after his involvement in a 2024 pro-Palestine
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“Mahmoud Khalil filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing administration officials, pro-Israel groups and a conservative think tank of colluding to suppress his constitutional rights.” Read the full story below. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/n...
Mahmoud Khalil Accuses Trump Officials of Conspiring Against Him (Gift Article)
Mr. Khalil will now have to convince a judge that the defendants coordinated to take action against him and other pro-Palestinian activists.
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The Roberts Court campaign to re-segregate public life is proceeding apace. Unlike their other racist rulings, this one to segregate higher education has shocking amounts of buy-in from mainstream society thanks to decades of propaganda amplified by sloppy or unethical media coverage.
Nearly 70% of Selective Colleges Lost Racial Diversity After Admissions Ban
Three years after the Supreme Court ruled against the use of race in such decisions, institution-level changes are starting to emerge.
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"The decision by the university’s AAUP chapter to retain outside lawyers is the latest example of faculty members and other groups choosing to fight settlements with Trump in ways that the colleges themselves often seem reluctant to." @aaup.org @yaleaaup.bsky.social
Yale Professors Vow to Fight Trump if the University President Won’t
The opposition to a potential deal with the government reveals a strategy that Yale groups have spent a year honing.
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DSA-backed Wisconsin State Representative Francesca Hong is running for governor—and she could win. https://bit.ly/4y2QJLP
Can a Democratic Socialist Win Wisconsin? Fran Hong Says “Yes!”
Amid all the talk of “electability,” a Midwestern state's radical history points to what's possible.
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How did abolitionists view the Declaration of Independence? We speak to renowned historian Robin D.G. Kelley.
“The American Revolution Was Hardly an Anti-Colonial Movement”: UCLA Historian Robin D. G. Kelley
Ahead of the July Fourth holiday and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we speak with the acclaimed scholar Robin D. G. Kelley, who examines how Black radicals have interpreted ...
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Friends of Exeter, former students and alumni, can you please sign the petition below: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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The upcoming midterm elections are going to be contested amid a broken Voting Rights Act, "rigorously" invalidated campaign-finance laws, and federal election commissioners who can be fired for no reason. The only people who voted for this absurd legal regime are the unelected justices on the Court
Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · last mo.I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.
I saw the gorgeous new mural dedicated to Wong Kim Ark in SF Chinatown today! He’s the Chinese American who sued the U.S. government in 1898 and established birthright citizenship for all babies born in the U.S. It’s a huge mural and I could not get it all in one shot.
This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.
Supreme Court holds that all persons born in the United States are US citizens because, as anyone who can read could tell you, the 14th Amendment that says so. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social
Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.
www.democracynow.org/2026/6/24/he...
Mamdani-Endorsed Progressives Sweep New York House Primaries
In a major blow to the Democratic establishment, three progressives backed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani won primary races in New York City. Former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander beat incumb...
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Darializa Avila Chevalier joins Democracy Now! in her first live broadcast interview since her upset win. After weathering a vicious campaign by her AIPAC-funded opponent Adriano Espaillat, Avila Chevalier is projected to become the first Dominican American woman to serve in the U.S. Congress.
“Babies, Not Bombs”: DSA’s Darializa Avila Chevalier Beats 5-Term Rep. Espaillat. 1st Post-Win Intvw.
A wave of progressive candidates endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won big in New York last night. DSA members Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila C...
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📣"on the endless enfoldments of empire and corner infrastructures of living," by minh huynh vu in GLQ 32:3 (2026)🌟 a must-read brilliant & elegant examination of the cardboard box as infrastructure, logic, aesthetic design & archive of US militarism & capitalism read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-...
On the Endless Enfoldments of Empire and Corner Infrastructures of Living
This article is an extended consideration of the cardboard box, elaborating upon various experiments of inhabiting the endless enfoldments of empire and its tetrising structures of violence across the...
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‘“I no longer consider Columbia University a safe place to work for Jews who dare to dissent from the political agenda of its most ardently pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian donors and trustees,” wrote Joseph Howley, a classics professor, in his claim.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘We were attacked as bad Jews’: Columbia faculty who supported Gaza protests file claims with Trump’s antisemitism fund
Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions
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my paper "Hyperscalers as logistical regimes" was published last week! Read on for a story about how Silicon Valley adopted ideas from the world of shipping to make (and to some extent, fulfill) promises about scale and the fluidity of the circulation of capital www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hyperscalers as logistical regimes: software containers and the circulation of cloud capital
This article analyzes the software container as a device central to the rise of cloud capitalism. Firms like Google pioneered software containers internally as infrastructure for their own producti...
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Pope calls for “disarming” AI; identifies mining of rare-earth minerals under dangerous conditions as digital colonial extractivism, & grueling work of millions of data labelers in the Global South as the “new slaveries” of the digital economy. www.commonwealmagazine.org/spadaro-leo-...
Pope Leo and the ‘Babel Syndrome’
What Leo XIII did for wages and the right of association, Leo XIV does for the human person in the era of the algorithm.
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Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95
Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95
One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was an genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others Sonny Rollins, one of the greatest jazz saxophonists of all time, has died aged 95. His death was announced on his website on Monday, “with deep sorrow and profound love”. His publicist Terri Hinte also confirmed the news. Continue reading...
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excellent discussion of AI, rationality, & violence, particularly warfare &. militarism: www.bostonreview.net/articles/art...
Artificial Reason
A conversation on AI, rationality, and violence.
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New Dig interviews w great left-wing candidates running at every level of US politics @abdulelsayed.bsky.social , @justinjpearson.bsky.social, @darializaforny.bsky.social, @oregontammy.bsky.social, @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social, @aparnafordc.bsky.social. More soon! www.thedigradio.com/podcast/prim...
Primary Struggle w/ Abdul El-Sayed and other insurgent candidates
Featuring Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, Tennessee US House candidate Justin Pearson, New York US House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, Oregon state Senate candidate Tammy Carpent...
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