@ajdouglas
political theorist at morehouse | latest books = http://bit.ly/mlkcrc + http://bit.ly/duboisccs | in-progress books = du bois and political economy + theories of money in the black radical tradition | distance runner | posts ≠ employer
Brutal raids on campuses in the West Bank. Collective punishment of student athletes at Howard. Fucking ballistic missiles bearing down on schoolgirls in Minab. The scholasticidal depravity of western imperialism knows no bounds.
crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website
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I teach political theory. Students mostly want to talk about AI in the context of fascism and imperialism.
For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog:
truethings.naghmehs.com
Iranian schoolgirls spontaneously explode, Palestinian babies suffocate after their own NICU units decided to just stop, Lebanese buildings kinda implode of their own accord, and two Pennsylvania teenagers had their lives changed after not having a normal day enjoying NYC in abnormally warm weather.
Of course they do. They and seafarers are invisible...
Periodic reminder that there is no way out of fascism absent a reclaiming of the public—including, most fundamentally, public finance.
And collective punishment to boot.
“They communicated to us that if one person kneeled or did not stand, or protested in some way, that the entire athletics [department] could suffer from it, and that’s over 500 student-athletes.”
It's not widely known enough that the moment the UN formally recognized "genocide" as a phenomenon, Black Americans filed a petition charging the US with genocide against Black people. The conditions they describe have continued.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...
The Israeli military used white phosphorus during its ongoing war on Lebanon, a leading human rights group has found, as Israel continues to launch deadly attacks across the country:
Now as ever, to understand Israeli operations, Jasbir Puar's The Right to Maim is absolutely crucial, and has been so grimly prescient.
Which US and Israeli military companies are profiting from the Iran war?
Which US and Israeli military companies are profiting from the Iran war? https://aje.news/z0iez4
We ought to be outraged. Many of us are. But the American masses have never been sufficiently outraged at the basic principle of American imperialism -- the idea that some imagined “American way of life,” unattainable even for most Americans, is dependent upon continuous and catastrophic war making.
This is a war crime, but I can’t help thinking that the need to frame it, and the many other atrocities Americans have committed, around the idea that America has a soul is an exceptionalist tic that ultimately makes the rest of the world into the backdrop for our one very special pilgrim’s progress
This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d
The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths
(1) Gulf Kings
(2) Financial meltdown
(3) AI tech oligarchs
(4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions
Read our Polycrisis Dispatch:
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
hitting the same target twice is for killing emergency responders, and for making people afraid to help those who have been injured or maimed in a previous strike
the US did this to a schoolhouse
bsky.app/profile/hype...
Thinking of Du Bois’s open letter to Nkrumah. Nearly seven decades on, as empire’s missiles strike Ghanaian peacekeepers in Lebanon, as neocolonialism continues its plunder nearly everywhere, may we not forget freedom, peace, and socialism.
Great news - 1600 academic workers won their first collective bargaining contract at the University of Kansas @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org www.aft.org/press-releas...
The intensity of the Israeli bombardments in Beirut’s southern suburbs....
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
READ: Israel developed a doctrine of total societal destruction that is used in Gaza — and is now deploying it in Lebanon and Iran with full US backing.
This is one of the most important things you'll read today: mondoweiss.net/2026/03/isra...
Another school.
“Friday, UNICEF said that of the more than 1,300 people killed in the strikes on Iran so far, at least 181 were children.”
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
Virginia State University ignored tenure & procedural protections when they abruptly fired 6 faculty from the university's Agricultural Research Station.
In this episode of AAUP TV, @chenjerai.bsky.social and @proftwolf.bsky.social speak with two of VSU's Fired Six about this egregious decision.
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...
There’s a story to be told if we track Iran’s bombs of the fiction of the idea of national sovereignty & the international legal order based on it. The US physical empire is revealed by the fact that all of these countries host US bases. And of course these are just the ones in the SWANA region.
It’s tiring that we are increasingly stuck organizing our intellectual lives around arguing for the value of having an intellectual life
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
