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“Any scholar who does not avenge himself and bear a grudge like a snake is no scholar.” — Rabbi Yohanan (B. Talmud, Yoma 22b-23a), who would have been awesome on Twitter.
Jeffrey Sachs
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Jeffrey Sachs
@JeffreyASachs
Acadia University. Judicial politics, authoritarianism, Islam, free speech and education. Tweets do not represent the views of my Employer.
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Joined June 2014
- Maybe my memory sucks but this feels more evil than any one thing he did in his first term.
- This is so unconstitutional I don’t even know where to begin.We are urging Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to take decisive action to cut off federal funding from any elementary, secondary, and post-secondary educational institution refusing to hold teachers or administrators accountable for celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk. We
- We all need to accept that the President probably raped kids and that's not going to cost him his job.
- Well that backfired.This is Columbia’s campus this afternoon:
- With Haniyah, Nasrallah, and now Sinwar dead, Israel can finally end its brutal war and resume negotiations toward a two-state solution. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to leave for the Most Gullible Person in the World competition.
- This is obviously a different person. I swear @EYakoby you are so recklessly dumb, it's honestly breathtaking to witness firsthand.
BREAKING: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student, has just been detained by DHS. Before anyone says that he is being arrested for "speech," this is his instagram account. - Screaming "Shame!" at students on their way to a sociopath's lecture is, in fact, protected speech.Jewish students being screamed at for attending a lecture at Yale
00:00 - Russia can’t just invade Poland’s airspace and get away with it. Who does it think it is? Israel?
- An Ohio teacher, who was reading The Sneetches to her Grade 3 class, was abruptly cut off by an admin when a student said "It's almost like what happened back then, how people were treated. Like, disrespected. Like, white people disrespected Black people.”
- They are so impossibly out of control on this. 5 alarm fire.
Stunning interview with DHS deputy secretary Troy Edgar and Michel Martin just now. The conflation of protest and terrorism stopped me cold. npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-… @NPRMichel - Holy shit. I had no idea how serious this was. Straight up attempted murder of a whole family.Extensive fire damage inside Pennsylvania Governor’s residence after arson attack overnight, seen here in a series of photos provided by @GovernorShapiro officers.
00:00 - I really dislike this argument. If the word "colonialism" is going to do any analytic work (and it should), we need to distinguish it from conquest and social assimilation. When we use the word, we mean something very modern (c. 1500) and politically specific.The impact of Arab colonialism should be recognised in the same way and using the same tools as the impact of Roman colonialism, the impact of British colonialism, and the impact of Mongol colonialism, etc.
- This account has 300k followers and it is utterly deranged.
