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Isaac Kamola

@isaackamola.bsky.social

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Higher education & African anticolonialism. Professor at Trinity College. Wrote "Making the World Global" and "Free Speech And Koch Money." Director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (AAUP). Views=my own.

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@isaackamola.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:15 PM

It’s here! @mishmoshk.bsky.social and Heike brought together an amazing collection of essays to map the influence of the ADL.

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@isaackamola.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 9:56 PM

@jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social are right once again. While the @nytimes.com swoons over Chris Rufo and treats him as a "very serious person," they call him out as the fascist and "turd polisher" he is. PTI is #1 source for news (and music)!

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@isaackamola.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 9:46 PM

<world's smallest violin emoji>

@tressiemcphd.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 7:02 PMReposted by @isaackamola.bsky.social

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before

www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

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@victorerikray.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 9:15 PMReposted by @isaackamola.bsky.social

That so-called mainstream outlets see the bigoted ghouls at The Manhattan Institute as worthy of interviews and profiles (rather than derision, scorn, and exile) is evidence of their debasement and an indictment of the mainstream.

@isaackamola.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 2:36 AM

Nazis taking over the Republican Party? How'd that happened? Lie to the media for years, chastise experts who knew invading Iraq would lead to catastrophe, stoke racism for short term political gain...hmmm...you reap what you sow, ass hat. <smallest violin emoji>
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@abbieboggs.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 7:13 PMReposted by @isaackamola.bsky.social

Shipping from Fordham now. My thanks to @isaackamola.bsky.social and Grace Hong for their generous reviews of the manuscript and these blurbs! Use EMPIRE26 for 25% off too! Degrees of Empire - Abigail Boggs share.google/IFCGRIBTTh2G...

Powerful, timely, erudite and rigorously researched, Degrees of Empire is incredibly prescient in this moment as the Trump regime targets international students for deportation. Readers of this book will come away with an understanding that such authoritarian orientations are inherent to the structure of international education. Indeed, Boggs gives us a framework for understanding the entire sweep of US empire.—Grace Kyungwon Hong, author of Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference

Abbie Boggs offers a profoundly structural but simultaneously humane account of the American university. In organizing her study around the figure of the noncitizen student, Boggs reveals how tensions and contradictions between university, state, capital, and empire evolve over time, shaping the very fabric of the institutions we inhabit.—Isaac Kamola, Professor of Political Science, Trinity College, Hartford
@isaackamola.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 5:02 PM

@aclu.org & @amnesty.org just published a massive report "Student Speech Under Attack." 300pp & 2 years in the making it offers the definitive account of how the speech of students (faculty and staff) was silenced, and continues to be policed, on campus. @aaup.org
www.aclu.org/publications...

@isaackamola.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 3:13 PM

@abbieboggs.bsky.social book just arrived!! Can confirm that—in addition to an amazing cover— the book itself is 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Reviewed and blurbed if. And still thinking about it all the time!

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@isaackamola.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 6:00 PM

Trump called accreditation "our secret weapon"--better take him at his word! Sign up for this AAUP webinar tonight and learn how you can help fight back. @aaup.org

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@isaackamola.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 5:08 PM

Great breakdown of what is at stake in the MAGA/Heritage Foundation efforts radically rewrite the accreditation standards for academic institutions! Submit your comments please! @aaup.org

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@uncivilcollective.bsky.socialJun 28, 2026, 2:11 PMReposted by @isaackamola.bsky.social

We tracked the right-wing funding networks behind the civility-industrial complex. At @theguardian.com, @alicesperi.bsky.social uses our research to explore the explosive growth of "civility" and "dialogue" programs on campuses across the U.S.: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project
@asheeshks.orgJun 25, 2026, 3:15 AMReposted by @isaackamola.bsky.social

I beg of you: please read @uncivilcollective.bsky.social's new report on the "civility industrial complex" that is pushing a right-wing version of the humanities into public higher ed while defunding actual humanistic teaching & research. www.uncivilcollective.org

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