David Temin
Author, Professor, mostly Dad || interests: political theory, Indigenous politics, intellectual history, global enviro justice, conservation, development, decolonization || book: REMAPPING SOVEREIGNTY (2023) || Currently writing: WAGES FOR EARTHWORK
- Yale is launching a new Presidential Senior Fellowship to expand access to the transformative work of universities. As part of this program, author and columnist David Brooks will join the Jackson School of Global Affairs starting February 1. Read more in Yale News: bit.ly/49QpJoY
- How does this, in any conceivable world, “expand access” to universities?
- The fact that he’s not running again suggests that this is Walz’s real preference for less spectacular ways of snatching our neighbors from their communities.
- I am reminded, yet again, of how often the people the fascist state executes are already in jobs that involve caring for others and holding worlds together—and that they still spend their time off caring for our neighbors.
- Right by my old apartment in Minneapolis. I love you, I love you, I love you. To all the people standing up against fascism
- When u r a true MaVErick, u vote for the gestapo at the door.
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- I sure hope not
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- I don’t disagree with you. The discontinuities matter too of course. but your argument is different from his, which is “we used to be the good guys and now we are the bad guys.”
- We don’t have to tell stories that are false to opposed bad things, and we are more likely to get more bad things if we tell stories that cover over continuities with all the other same bad things.
- A century that includes the US navy using gunboats to literally pilfer the Haitian treasury. Wtaf are they talking about?
- The willful historical illiteracy among pundits about American imperialism is still shocking, no matter how predictable.
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- Ask Liz about her mentorship and teaching. She has directed just a huge range of different amazing projects, but no one seems to ask her about it.
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- 🤣🤣🤣
- Absolutely no one: “I wonder what Emily Oster thinks about all this?”
- Abolition is the reform
- Reminder that for US foreign policy elites contemplating intervention since 1945: “democracy” means right-wing dictatorship “dictatorship” means left-wing dictatorship, social democracy, or democratic socialism
- I can’t be the only one who thinks that the timing is partly motivated by Trump being envious at the media attention lavished on Mamdani.
- Guatemala - 1954 Chile -1973 Venezuela - 2025
- 2026
- Bombing Venezuela and kidnapping Maduro is completely consistent with US Imperialism’s long and bloody history in Latin America.
- Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
- The US’ aspiring tyrant just abducted the leader of another sovereign state because oil! Why in god’s name are you leading with “but Maduro”?
- Tasks of the US left are to stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan people and make sure this war becomes deeply unpopular at home.
- The US is a rogue state. The US has always been a rogue state.
- In the immortal words of Hugo Chavez, “Eres un donkey, Mr. Danger.”
- Imperial war, again
- I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.
- 100%. One important aspect of how anti-black racism is so integral to perpetuating those other structural pathologies.
- The resonances with personal elder care experience are sooooo familiar.
- Gotta enjoy one more ridiculous Adams administration folly on the way out the door.
- BREAKING The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community. Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
- “We won’t provide childcare but we sure can run a fake investigation into childcare”
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- Exactly…and so good riddance
- You will be visited by three spirits
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- Oh for sure. You can just imagine how quickly they figured out that her shtick was just dressing up the most banal reactionary talking points as deep insights into the human condition.
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- Congratulations, Loubna! Well deserved. It is such a moving essay.
- Every white academic grievance article is like “I didn’t get hired because I’m white and also unrelatedly I refused to apply and also unrelatedly I was later found to have made up the central claim of my research from thin air”
- If this isn’t a winning frame I’m not sure what is.
- I was thrilled to contribute an essay to this special issue of JLSO on anti-imperialism and ecological modernity. It’s one of the more robustly cohesive special issues you’ll see anywhere, with awesome editing and introduction by @alejopedregal.bsky.social, @kaiheron.bsky.social, and Nemanja Lukic.
- Here’s the synopsis of my little contribution to this collective endeavor.
- If you are (or know) a graduate student @umich.edu interested in empire, colonialism, and decolonization, I'm teaching a seminar on these topics this coming winter entitled Postcolonial Political Theory. I'm excited to teach a whole new slate of new work by some amazing scholars.
- What is fascinating and delulu here is the effort to re-animate the corpse of a unified pro-Israel American Jewish constituency that is already gone. It’s too late for that; the condescension of course won’t win anyone back into what was the imperial consensus on Israel.
- A lot like Reagan, just not in the way you might think
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- It’s quite the mental gymnastics having a hard time telling the difference between a politics based around feeding and housing people and one based on deporting their friends and family.
- Congratulations to @brunoleipold.com and co! Important project on popular government, with Mamdani’s win only two days in the rear-view.
- Can't say how thrilled I am that this grant will allow @welpita.bsky.social @uditbhatia.bsky.social and I to properly investigate popular government at a moment when representative governments are increasingly captured by oligarchic elites
- At U of Michigan’s Department of Political Science, we will make 3 admissions offers for the PhD in political theory. That’s 3 open slots! Apply early and often. Deadline December 15. Feel free to reach out to me directly with questions. Here’s a picture of a dinner I was proud of cooking.
- Such an inspiring book.
- Donated and boosting. Please donate if you can. Aside from all the other horrors, all I could think in watching this is how I never could’ve kept my own sweet baby from picking up rubble and eating it.
- My colleague Annie with a 🔥🔥🔥 new article out in APSR soon. Go read it!
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- Oooo yes, please!
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- Had the identical reaction. As if there was some way of containing reactionary backlash by “not going too fast”
- Turns out you can’t build bananas at all.
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- So true. I’ve withdrawn all my New Leftish criticisms of bureaucracy.
