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The New Negroni

@omweekes.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, living in NYC / “It’s really hard not to mention, llamas.”

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 7d ago

Record outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite 20M eggs recalled due to salmonella Worst air quality in world from wildfire smoke UN says world risks HIV resurgence due to funding cuts Most measles cases in 35 years They’re going after Fauci to distract you from current public health failures

Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 2w ago

The president of my college is finally resigning in disgrace, but the situation remains bleak. Our search for a chief librarian was canceled and the adjuncts we hired as stop-gaps when we couldn't replace retired faculty have all been cut. How are we supposed to support students in these conditions?

Save Queens College: deep cuts hurting campus - PSC CUNY

Devastating cuts at Queens College are impacting workloads, services and education. PSC members are fighting back.

psc-cuny.org

Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 2w ago

Inspired by the reissue of Greg Tate’s "Flyboy in the Buttermilk" and New Eyes Collective, a new group of Black culture writers, we invited nine artists and writers to reflect on how the erudite critic influenced them. hammerandhope.org/forums/greg-...

Introduction | Hammer & Hope

Hammer & Hope — Nine artists and writers, including Joan Morgan and dream hampton, reflect on how the legendary critic and musician inspired them.

hammerandhope.org

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 2w ago

I Would Like To See It Smug

Alt: I Would Like To See It Smug

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gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Texas Republicans doing recruitment for us.

A post from the Comal County (TX) Republican Party:

Democratic Socialists of America

The DSA's mission is to replace capitalism with democratic socialism by shifting economic and political power from corporations and wealthy owners to workers and the public.

Is this what you want for America?

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 3w ago

My friend has been using my likeness in the promotional material for her CrossFit gym and I have to say these really tickle me

“RACE-DAY READY STARTS HERE

HYROX MEMBERSHIPS AT CHAKA CROSSFIT”

Omari wears an orange hat, glasses, a chain and green shorts as he pushes a sled in a hyrox competition

“HYROX MEMBERSHIPS AT CHAKA CROSSFIT

RACE-DAY READY STARTS HERE”

Omari wearing an orange hat, glasses, and green shorts on a rowing machine at a hyrox competition

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3w ago

today in journal special issues received! CULTURAL CRITIQUE features "Marxism, Form, and Futurity" special editors Liam Kruger, Oded Nir, and Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social @culturalcritique.bsky.social

white and green hard copies of the journal special issue

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3w ago

ICE killed another person.

Miami Herald@miamiherald.com · 3w ago

NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Poindexter”

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm going to become the Joker

The Atlantic: Brian Poindexter had just finished wolfing down a Reuben sandwich in a deli outside Cleveland when he delivered a message that, coming from a Democratic House candidate in the year 2026, sounded almost provocative. “There’s nothing wrong with being masculine,” Poindexter told me. It’s okay, he said, to be “a manly man.”

Poindexter’s own manliness credentials are fully in order. The 46-year-old started working in a machine shop as a teenager and spent years hauling furniture across the country before finding stability as a union ironworker. He drives a Ram Big Horn pickup truck and built, with his buddy turned campaign manager, a shed in his backyard. Now Poindexter is running for Congress, trying to flip a Republican-held seat in Ohio with a pitch aimed at a constituency that has abandoned the Democratic Party over the past two decades: men.

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 3w ago

You really just could have said nothing. That was an option.

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 3w ago

I got to know Senator Lindsey Graham traveling with him abroad in Afghanistan and Ukraine. We had just met to renew the fight for our Big Tech bill. Even though we disagreed on much, he was always willing to negotiate, with humor and wit. My heart goes out to his loved ones.

Vickie @vickiemass.bsky.social · 3w ago

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is the best one of these that they’ve done by far.

Opinion | Trump and the Democrats: 13 Black Democratic Voters Discuss

The group discusses Donald Trump, America today and the future of the Democratic Party.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4w ago

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Before GRANT, LAGOA, and WILSON, Circuit Judges.
GRANT, Circuit Judge:
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." U.S. Const. amend I. The First Amendment, incorporated against the States in 1868, is this country's written commitment to the idea that freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought, and that both are essential to maintaining our liberty. The Supreme Court has long been clear that teaching and scholarship are due some measure of protection under the Amendment. But how much? And in what contexts? That Court has not had to say, but this one is now put to the test. The State of Florida legislated a broad set of speech restrictions banning certain viewpoints relating to race, color, sex, and national origin in various settings. The provision at issue here bars Florida's educators from promoting or endorsing those distavored ideas when instructing students. Its prohibition applies not only in primary and secondary education, where states traditionally exercise a great deal of control, but also in public colleges and universities, where the state government's role has been far more limited.
When several groups of professors challenged Florida's new restrictions, the State cast about for an existing case or doctrine that could support its speech ban in the university setting. Finding none, it tried to marry public-employee speech cases with government speech doctrine, resulting in a new rule: if the

government pays a professor's salary, it has total control over her classroom speech.
That is not a blessed union. Florida's salary-for-speech rule is a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse in the very places the State's own statutes recognize as centers of inquiry-classrooms where students are trusted to puzzle through ideas that are good and bad, easy and hard, ideally getting ever closer to the truth. This new rule also runs headlong into the Supreme Court's repeated, if imprecise, endorsements of academic freedom. If the First Amendment offers any boundary of protection at all for public university classrooms, this statute crosses it.
Nor does this Court's leading academic speech precedent,
Bishop v. Aronov, demand the outcome Florida seeks. 926 F.2d 1066 (11th Cir. 1991). In fact, it counsels the opposite. The restriction in that case was imposed by one university, against one professor, relating to speech about one thing— personal religious views that got in the way of the course's well-understood parameters.

That precedent makes clear that universities and even other government entities have crucial authority to shape curricular content, discipline teachers, and take other steps to guide and govern postsecondary education. But the speech ban Florida's political leaders seek to impose here is different in both nature and degree from these ordinary concerns. The rule Florida developed for this case does not withstand scrutiny.
11 Case: 22-13992
Document: 156-1 Date Filed: 07/07/2026 Page:
22-13992
Opinion of the Court
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The ideas Florida targets may well be noxious. Or maybe
not.
Either way, in this context the First Amendment trusts students to figure it out for themselves. We affirm the district court's preliminary injunction.

Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · last mo.

2 years ago, Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard was arrested at @ucirvine.bsky.social as UCI chose to repress its Palestine encampment & fail its constitutional obligations. Her disciplinary case now rests w/the Chancellor. Let's ensure he knows what's right, sign/share! sites.google.com/view/withdra...

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On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine G...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last mo.

Pisses me off to no end that they’ll consume our art while denigrating our humanity. You should be trapped in the digital hell of the politics you choose.

Craig R. Brittain@craigbrittain.com · last mo.

Peak irony: Playing "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince (his estate has been asking Trump not to use his music for about a decade now) without considering what any of the lyrics mean at all.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · last mo.

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · last mo.

But not on Sundays.

The New Negroni@omweekes.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I can eat a limp chicken sandwich in my car while I telework.

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I can eat a limp chicken sandwich in my car while I telework.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

UN Ambassador Matt Whitaker: "People are enjoying the United States of America because it's an awesome place. We have extraordinary things like Buc-ee's and Chick-fil-A, very convenient to eat in your car while you're having a phone call. It's an amazing country."

The Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · last mo.

Serena Williams steps on court to play her first singles match in 1428 days at Wimbledon. Almost 4 years have gone by. But here she stands again. Undoubtedly one of the greatest athlete of all time… the Queen is back. Chills. 🥹👑

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · last mo.

We do not have competent leaders

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · last mo.

Despite Trump’s best efforts to bully them, the Supreme Court just reaffirmed that if you are born in America, you belong in America.

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · last mo.

5-4 actually has me livid

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.

The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · last mo.

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

The Most Versatile Majors Chart, TOPPED BY ENGLISH and VISUAL&PERFORMING ARTS

Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · last mo.

A guy who stood on Fordham Rd 18 months ago & literally could not get people to look at him is now the biggest power broker NY has seen in a long time.

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · last mo.

This last name is cursed

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · last mo.

Dolezal said he and “a number of friends” deliberately submitted mail-in ballot applications with altered signatures — including forms signed by children — and then used the fact that they received ballots to argue that Georgia’s system facilitates fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · last mo.

“i love a cracker” — some genius probably

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m the one reading Capital on the F train.

The New Negroni@omweekes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hot dudes reading come find me lololol

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hot dudes reading come find me lololol

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Don't worry, they mention Middlemarch www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This Bloomsday, come to this article for Rooney’s wonderful thinking on Joyce and Ulysses but stay for a damningly withering quote from Virginia Woolf that truly made me howl.

Although Ulysses was not yet widely available at the time—its initial print runs were minuscule and it would be banned repeatedly by censorship boards—Eliot was writing in defense of a novel already broadly disparaged as immoral, obscene, formless, and chaotic. His friend Virginia Woolf had described it in her diary as “an illiterate, underbred book … the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are.”

Gabriel Hankins@gabrielh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just remembering this great response to Ulysses as a book also for and about women www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/12...

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thinking white people are better is "being opposed to racial preferences" is more or less how Trump supporters see it. Unclear to me why the times editorial board sees it that way bsky.app/profile/jame...

Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

That Trump is “opposed to racial preferences,” is news to me, and hard to square with, well, basically everything. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Chuffed to say I’ll be a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center for the next academic year! All I have to do is learn how to sail, visit wine country, and finish my book manuscript. 🙃

Stanford Humanities Center Announces 2026–27 Fellows | Stanford Humanities Center

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The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why are they doing this interview in front of Vivacious?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads