David Huyssen

@davidhuyssen

Historian. Migrant to the UK.

Joined May 2013
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    Jun 27

    We must now have mass voter mobilization and nonviolent civil disobedience.

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    Jun 27

    Good news: I've successfully got KCL to change the Lecture Capture guidelines to make clear that it can't be used without the lecturer's permission - so it can't be used to break situations.

    Replying to @leusavage @UniofNottingham @ucu
    This will kill off lecture capture - it's counter-productive. I sit on my faculty's Education Committee and will seek to rewrite the rules to explicitly exclude this, otherwise many staff won't use LC again.
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    7 hours ago

    A reminder that, according to HESA statistics covering 2015-6 and 2016-7, UK universities have been hanging onto total reserves of £44+ billion, of which £31+ billion is "unrestricted". Any reason why UK universities are doing this?

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  4. 7 hours ago

    "If [labor] militants in the 1920s had not persisted, even as they were marked as pariahs in their shops, the heroic 1930s would never have come about." A reminder for all those organizing in dark and darkening times.

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    10 hours ago

    Remember, liberals: For much of American history, the Supreme Court has been a deeply conservative institution, preserving racial hierarchy and the prerogatives of employers, says

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    Jun 27

    Can't wait to read all the stories about how Trump voters feel about Ocasio-Cortez.

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  7. Jun 27

    ICE T is just in a bad mood.

    The cold thing about Death.... It’s coming regardless.
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    Jun 27

    The income of the poorest US households fell from 42% of the poverty line in 1989 to only 29% in 2016. In 2016, the floor was equivalent to about $11,800 a year, or $9.40 a day.

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  9. Jun 27

    MC Market Forces

    Your rap name is "MC" plus your least favorite tentative explanation for some phenomenon
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    Jun 26

    This is the start of a movement. Thank you all.

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    Jun 26

    Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was one of the first candidates to support abolishing ICE. She led on the issue. Simple clear moral demands and tirelesss organizing wins elections.

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    Jun 26

    Crowley donors who lost tonight: Facebook, Google, Blackrock, Humana, Raytheon, Capitol One, AFLAC, Microsoft, CIGNA, TD Bank, H&R Block, Salesforce dot com, United Technology, Deloitte, Covington and Burling, Anheuser-Busch, Honeywell...

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    Jun 26

    Hey, journalists: want an inside story on the organizing for ? Talk to about all the students who went knocking door to door for her in the Bronx and Queens.

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  14. Jun 27

    Worth pointing out, also, that this story's understanding of how Ocasio-Cortez won is, shall we say, limited. It invokes the handful of endorsements she received and favorable lefty web news coverage, but not the army of campaign volunteers she built through organizing.

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  15. Jun 26

    Let's all hope that real change is coming to the Democratic Party, and that it won't be too late.

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    Jun 26

    Everyone should canvass way more. I’ve knocked on thousands of doors in the last decade. You get good at it with practice, and being good at it means learning how to actually connect with people in very little time, which is meaningful and powerful

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  17. Jun 26

    Welcome to a vision of higher education that transforms young minds & bodies ever-more systematically into vehicles for surplus value extraction.

    Not only are students now supposed to be "student-consumers", they are also "student-products"--their data can be harnessed/monetised by private companies like Pearson. Conveniently, the current chair of OfS Sir Michael Barber was a former Pearson employee
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    Jun 26

    I was at this special USS meeting of UCU & there were SO MANY ppl who had never attended or spoke at a UCU event like this before - me included. Genuinely felt like the buzz of change was in the air. Engaged, informed & with fire in our bellies. Gives me faith in our future.

    "I'm speaking for the first time" - a brilliant report on last week's special HESC on from 's
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    Jun 25

    I wrote dozens of stories between 2014 and 2016 about family detention and was often criticized by readers who thought the paper was giving too much space to advocates complaining about conditions in the centers. Here's a sampling.

    Such a difference in the media coverage of the same immigration policies between the Obama Administration and ours. Actually, we have done a far better job in that our facilities are cleaner and better run than were the facilities under Obama. Fake News is working overtime!
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    Jun 25

    I was skeptical until I verified these clippings at . In 1934, influential religious figures in US argued that Germans did not hate Jews but only supported Hitler out of economic anxiety, & that Jews would be fine if they'd just be civil to Nazis & show good will.

    Okay. I've found it. The absolute culmination of the "we have to build bridges with the far right" argument.
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