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
- 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.
- Reposted by David TeminOk I need to spell this out more slowly, clearly: Greenland is Inuit land and nobody but Inuit should be getting to decide what happens to it
- 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.
- Reposted by David TeminI saw the “using children as human shields” line used by someone in the admin the other day with reference to Minneapolis and wondered if people might finally get it.
- Reposted by David TeminThe federal government has occupied Minneapolis. And everyone can see the abuses that come from this situation day in and day out. Even people not protesting cant keep their kids safe. Now imagine 77 years of this.
- 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.
- 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
- The resonances with personal elder care experience are sooooo familiar.
- Gotta enjoy one more ridiculous Adams administration folly on the way out the door.
- You will be visited by three spirits
- 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”
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5: @davidtemin.bsky.social's piece draws on W.E.B Du Bois show illustrate how imperialism and ecomodernism reproduce themselves through a gendered and racialised 'imperial bargain' with some sectors of the imperial core's working class. brill.com/view/journal... - Reposted by David TeminOur special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵
- If this isn’t a winning frame I’m not sure what is.
- Reposted by David TeminI'm counting the hours to tell you all about this Special Issue that I had the privilege of co-editing with comrades @kaiheron.bsky.social and Nemanja Lukić for JLSO. Meanwhile, you can already find many of its articles on the journal's site, some open access, including our intro.
- 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.
- I'm counting the hours to tell you all about this Special Issue that I had the privilege of co-editing with comrades @kaiheron.bsky.social and Nemanja Lukić for JLSO. Meanwhile, you can already find many of its articles on the journal's site, some open access, including our intro.
- 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.
- Reposted by David Teminhey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
- 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
- Reposted by David TeminTrump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
- Reposted by David Temin"Thousands are escaping El Fasher with nothing but the clothes on their backs — help us raise $50,000 to keep them alive." #KeepEyesOnSudan www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...
- 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.
- Traji works very hard to make these videos to talk to people gofund.me/8bc2934b
- My colleague Annie with a 🔥🔥🔥 new article out in APSR soon. Go read it!
- Turns out you can’t build bananas at all.
