Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
@esglaude
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor | Find more of my thoughts at https://www.anativeson.org
“It is ‘in the going toward’ that salvation can be found…. To be vulnerable, to tend and to love, to rip off the mask that blinds us to the beauty of the human being right in front of us. To recognize…disfiguring effect of hatred and fear, and the exacting power of love.”
What's stunning about this hunger crisis in Gaza is that it is not unfolding in some remote part of the world, allowing leaders to feign ignorance; no, this starvation is in the headlines, on television and much discussed -- yet still the world shrugs and the US is complicit.
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
It's not just that Israel is imposing a policy of starvation on Gazans; it's also that the U.S. is underwriting this horror and is utterly complicit in it, in both the Biden and Trump administrations. nytimes.com/2025/07/24/opi…
The Republican Party is destroying the Department of Education because it needs stupid people. By dismantling the hub of America’s access to education and replacing it with a rogue’s gallery of white nationalists, conspiracy theorists, and Bible-thumping cave people, the GOP is…
Venezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S. for World Series washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/07…
WHY IS BABY FORMULA NOT ALLOWED INTO GAZA?
NEW: 🇮🇱 Israel confiscates baby formula from foreign doctors at Gaza checkpoints — British surgeon Nick Maynard 'No formula allowed in. Every carton seized'
Immigrants face deportations surge as legal resources dwindle - Axios apple.news/ADrRurPy1T4Sua…
HUD is shutting down 7 major housing discrimination cases — some with proven civil rights violations. The move abandons Black and Brown communities harmed by toxic zoning, segregation, and displacement. brnw.ch/21wUqNr
“Columbia’s decision to settle is understandable, but it’s also evidence of how badly the Trump era has numbed the conscience of the American elite. To protect its funding, Columbia sacrificed its freedom” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs" according to a {Human Rights Watch} report." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Good Trouble Lives On: A message of hope to disillusioned Americans msnbc.com/ali-velshi/wat…
How Trump Primed His Base to Turn Against Him The president spent years undermining voters’ belief in the government. Now he’s asking them to just trust him theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
The Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week—are set to expire theatlantic.com/health/archive…
So the Supreme Court said Biden couldn't cancel student loans without congress but Trump can dismantle the entire fucking Department of Education?
“What is so striking in Mr. Trump’s second term is how much he is trying to undo changes that happened years and even decades before Biden’s tenure. At times, it seems as if he is trying to repeal much of the 20th century” nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/…
The public backlash to anti-immigrant fever has arrived. The Gallup poll released yesterday shows some of the biggest short term moves on public sentiment on immigration that I’ve seen in decades. And it’s really bad news for Republicans. 🧵
I told you that the SCOTUS's ban on national injunctions would supersize Trump's lawlessness. Well, it's starting. 1/ Let me break some news for you: Trump is stealing money to build facilities like Alligator Alcatraz - from an account earmarked for the OPPOSITE of detention.