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Man! What an honor to be listed as one of Time Magazine's top 100 podcasts of all time! hope Uncivil's popularity demonstrates that people can appreciate history even when it challenges myths & tells hard truths. Maybe even especially when it does that.
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At the AAUP/AFT 2025 Summer Institute, we are developing the tools we need to help build a movement to truly realize our vision for higher education & democracy.

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Former NYPD Commissioner Accuses Mayor Adams of Running “Criminal Enterprise” and Cites ProPublica Investigation A lawsuit filed by former Commissioner Thomas Donlon alleges that the NYPD’s Community Response Team was a “rogue” unit that answered “only to City Hall.” The complaint draws extensively from ProPubli...

NEW: Former NYPD Commissioner Thomas Donlon has sued Mayor Eric Adams and other top police officials, accusing Adams of running the force as a “criminal enterprise."

The suit draws extensively from a recent ProPublica investigation into a NYPD unit Adams championed.

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Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether? Peabody Award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika takes listeners on a journey to uncover...

‪I’ve learned an awful lot listening to the podcasts of @chenjerai.bsky.social over the years.

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Everybody listen to @chenjerai.bsky.social’s “Empire City” podcast for more of this history.

An honor to connect and build with you!! 💪🏿💪🏿

So great to get to kick it with @chenjerai.bsky.social at #Socialism2025!

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universi...

The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism.

@labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

AAUP v. Rubio Press Conference & Rally YouTube video by Knight First Amendment Institute

RIGHT NOW:

We are holding a press conference & rally outside the Federal Courthouse in Boston on our lawsuit against the Trump administration’s policy of ideological deportations.

Livestream Here:

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Chenjerai Kumanyika of the AAUP Governing Council kicked things off.

First they came for the students.

POWERFUL RALLY today in Boston at the conclusion of our first day of trial in our case against the Trump administration to end the practice of ideological deportations of students & faculty they disagree with.

#DefendHigherEd

Caroline Light, Harvard professor & AAUP member: “Not in my name.”

Hands off our students.

#DefendHigherEd

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Red book cover: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

This book is incredible.

His perspective as an Egyptian, raised in Doha, who emigrated to Canada, gives him such a unique aperture to critique liberalism in the West and the regimes he departed from.

“We’ve got about 26 Republican targets. We need four of them. This is not a done deal.“

@ezralevin.bsky.social highly encourages you to stop doomscrolling and start contacting your representative. We can still defeat Trump’s Tax Scam and save Medicaid and SNAP: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Check out this new special issue on Citizenship and Migration co-edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social for the Journal of American and Ethnic History!

The introduction is open access and available to all for free.

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Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD Podcast · Wondery | Crooked Media · The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether? Peabody Award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika tak...

If you haven’t already, this podcast is worth a listen. @chenjerai.bsky.social open.spotify.com/show/0ciniOD...

June 27, 1954: Elected Guatemalan Leader Overthrown in CIA-Backed Coup Democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was deposed in a CIA-sponsored coup.

#tdih 1954, democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz was deposed in U.S. CIA-sponsored coup to protect profits of United Fruit Company.

Arbenz was replaced by decades of brutal U.S.-backed regimes who committed torture & genocide. #TeachOutsideTextbook

Art by Diego Rivera.

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Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress

Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..."

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Tehran is coming back to life, but its residents are deeply shaken As Iran's capital resumes its old rhythms, the BBC's Lyse Doucet meets locals who wonder if peace will last.

Good report on the impact of the war on everyday people in Tehran. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Screenshot of a New York Times post: "As donors try to assess their next moves in the mayoral race, one of the biggest donors to Andrew Cuomo’s super PAC, the investor Mark Gorton, said he is likely to back Mamdani. That is because of the support that Mamdani had gotten from Brad Lander, who Gorton said he ranked first. “I feel like people misunderstood my $250,000 for Cuomo for real enthusiasm,” Gorton said in an interview. “It was basically, ‘Oh, looks like Cuomo is coming back. We don’t want to be shut out. Let’s try and get on his good side.’ That’s kind of how things work with Cuomo. It’s sad political pragmatism. I wish we lived in a world where those sort of things were not useful things to do.”

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These Los Angeles tenants are saying no to rent hikes How one complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city's housing crisis.

How one Los Angeles complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city’s housing crisis.

“I didn’t know how to explain it to her. I just said, ‘No, we aren’t going to move.'”

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Democratic Primary, Cuomo Concedes The primary is going to a second round but it won't matter after Cuomo conceded Tuesday night.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani Wins NYC Democratic Primary, Cuomo Concedes

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Mamdani Wins Stunning Upset in Democratic Primary as Cuomo Concedes Race The democratic socialist state Assemblymember from Queens is on track to be the Democratic nominee for mayor in a ranked-choice election.

The name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I

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We spy Bellisario alum @tccorrigan1.bsky.social, @aaronhere.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, and Alex Nutter among this illustrious group!