"What did you like best about the course?" "For a 4 hours lecture she kept it entertaining!"

Abdul El-Sayed can bench press 315 pounds. As he noted, “Just like gaining muscle, building a better future takes time, effort, and discipline. You’ve got to put the reps in.”

Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, “Researchers spend too much time either proving trivial things or beating back hostile critiques, and activists devote immense resources to fighting scandals rather than sources.”

André Gorz said non-reformist reforms were "anti-capitalist reforms."

Saw a video of Vozinha doing a plank and I might have better form, lol.

When W.E.B. Du Bois delivered a first draft of Black Reconstruction––around 1,100 pages!––he lamented his effort read too much like a dissertation and not “a piece of literature.” I love this man. He understood that academic writing is storytelling, narrative, drama, comedy, and suspense, i.e., art.

Sometimes I have to remind myself that I am creating a body of work and that everything doesn't have to go into one publication. That I write now and will write again.

During Reconstruction, “taxpayer” used against Black people. Toni Morrison said, “If you are only a taxpayer, you are worried about who’s got some money that you pay...You don’t want the government to, you know, distribute its own resources that are based on taxes to anybody. You’re sort of angry.”

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Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Let's have a panel about how Marisa Tomei is aging like a fine wine.

"Dr. Nopper was knowledgeable, organized, and consistently encouraged participation and open discussion, which made the class feel engaging rather than passive." "This was a great summer class and the professor was very funny and down to earth."

I keep thinking of Jalen Hurts saying to keep the main thing the main thing. Cuz it's easy to let our writing go in so many directions to note all the connections or things we know about the topic.

Realizing that the article that, years ago, introduced "baby bonds" as a policy agenda cites my scholarship. Nice.

Like James Baldwin said, “Love. Write.”

Dr. Johanna Fernández was writing a book on the historical roots of U.S. fascism. An article related to the book is here: manifold.umn.edu/read/ces0701... BTW, George Jackson, in an interview about writing in prison, noted he was working on a detailed study of fascism sweeping the Western world.

On the Historical Roots of U.S. Fascism | On the Historical Roots of U.S. Fascism | Manifold@UMinnPress

The University of Minnesota Press is known for its boundary breaking editorial program in the humanities and social sciences.

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George Jackson was a major inspiration for Black August. Here is an interview he gave about his reading and writing practices in prison, which involved spending 45 minutes a day learning new words. www.nytimes.com/1971/06/13/a...

A Talk With George Jackson (Published 1971)

G Jackson int by J Mitford; text

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Fannie Lou Hamer said she didn’t know much about communism, but “if we push just a little farther than they think we should push... then they say, ‘This is communism.’ So I began to wonder about communists because from what the people is really telling us, it must be very good.”

James Baldwin said, “My own condition, as a black man in America, tells me what Americans really feel and really want, and tells me who they really are. And, therefore, every bombed village is my hometown.”

Amilcar Cabral said, “To have ideology is to know what you want in your own condition.” “We are not preoccupied with labels you see. We are occupied in the content of the thing, what we are doing, how we are doing it, what chances are we creating for realizing this aim.”

Note to self: Bitch, get your writing done. And remember, each time we write is an opportunity.

I think free mobility and proprioception classes, taught by trained professionals who are not obnoxious, should be a non-means tested public good. And offered in the spirit of nurturing wellbeing that is about improved quality of life, not about maximizing productivity for profits.

A friend said that people often think a degree in Public Administration is not that relevant and we talked about how that misses how so many political battles are waged over what is government, whether government should exist and at what scale, and how it should operate.

It is the start of Black August. If unfamiliar, you can learn about Black August from this brief overview by the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI). baji.org/our-work/baj...

In a recent interview, Dr. Johanna Fernández details her political genealogy. She notes that her mentor, Dr. Manning Marable, encouraged her to write a history of the Young Lords. Both Dr. Fernández and Dr. Marable gone too soon. bcrw.barnard.edu/political-or...

Political Origins: An Interview with Johanna Fernández | Barnard Center for Research on Women

At the end of May, BCRW hosted its first Feminist Freedom School on the subject of feminist abolition. The Freedom School was facilitated by Sarah Haley, Associate Professor of History at Columbia…

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I dig the swoletariat. But being swole isn’t everybody’s thing. We can also do functional training, lift light weights, and focus on walking like Ho Chi Minh, Lula, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

Abdul El-Sayed can bench press 315 pounds. As he noted, “Just like gaining muscle, building a better future takes time, effort, and discipline. You’ve got to put the reps in.”

When you watch a video of Jalen Brunson doing a mobility workout and realize you do many of the same moves and tell yourself, no excuses, lol.

“You seem to be taking social-policy mistakes we are now making to their logical conclusion––whether it’s abandoning education, our environment or roads and other facilities, and letting them go to hell.” Octavia E. Butler: “That’s exactly what I did. I paid a lot of attention to the news.”

The sun is back! Finally.

Being a person who is well-pleased with oneself for having a snarky response to everything seems like a miserable existence.

New York Chinatown residents and activists protested outside a town hall event at the Museum of Chinese in America, condemning the leadership's acceptance of a $35 million grant from the city that they believe is tied to the construction of a borough jail.

Protesters Decry Chinatown Museum’s Acceptance of “Jail Money” at Town Hall

Leaders of New York’s Museum of Chinese failed to persuade protesters that a $35 million grant from the city was not tied to the construction of a borough jail.

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