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Inaugural Renberg Chair of Social Justice. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting & Fund for Investigative Journalism Fellow. Traveling the world writing on HIV/AIDS & LGBTQ health. Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS (pre-order now!) He/him

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Published: May 10, 2026 03:11

Name names! If something is true, say so (and who)! This is for the truth of whomever you are naming, but also to protect those you are not! No need to cast suspicion on those youā€™re not naming to protect who youā€™ve actually got beef with! [contains quoteā€¦

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Published: May 10, 2026 01:46

I write about Bowser in The Overseer Class. Sheā€™s been a target of Black youth organizers like BYP 100 for years because she literally painted the words ā€œBlack Lives Matterā€ on DC streets for optics but refused core BLM demands (like defunding police) ā€¦

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Published: May 9, 2026 16:14

If you pre-order the #overseer class I will mail you a PERSONALIZED bookplate, autographed for you to put in your copy, for free! Just fill out thus form šŸ‘‰šŸ½ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehgcn-kPfv7Pg5ngPadx_LLvuINl_mgLtgoYe09-IlqVI9ug/viewformā€¦

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Published: May 9, 2026 00:39

2020: I know retroviruses, better read up on respiratory viruses 2022: I know retro and resp viruses, better read up on orthopox viruses 2026: Time to learn about hantaviruses! (Note: no need for alarm. Most people donā€™t need read up on hantaviruses.) ā€¦

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Published: May 9, 2026 00:07

Looked at NYC theater listings. Ballroom drag CATS? Interactive PHANTOM OF THE OPERA? What year IS this? 1989?! Where's the immersive LES MIZ? Where audiences beat the ruling class to death w loaves of bread? The Vietnamese MISS SAIGON, where everyā€¦

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Published: May 8, 2026 20:13

Scene: Me boarding a 767 with a mask, two maskless flight attendants (FA) greet me. FA 1: Welcome aboard! FA2: Oh man, I forgot my mask! ME: Oh, I might have a spare if you want? FA2: Oh thanks man, but I have one...I just forgot to put it on. CUTā€¦

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Published: May 8, 2026 19:22

For the second time, StoryCorps has contacted me about "considering" an interview I recorded for broadcast...20 years ago! They called me a year ago "considering it" and I told them then that my conversation partner had been dead for 15 years! Today theyā€¦

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Published: May 8, 2026 16:34

Respectfully, I don't think this is a helpful call. This image has 2020s energy. Using black and white imagery when color imagery was available (WWII, Civil Rights Mvmt of mid 20th century) has long been used as a tool to make something present feelā€¦

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Published: May 8, 2026 14:22

A nice final act of the first Black president: being the first post president to displace a majority Black urban population with his library! (Wasnā€™t Obama complaining Democrats wonā€™t say ā€œthe rent is too highā€ to Colbert, likeā€¦yesterday???) [containsā€¦

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Published: May 8, 2026 01:08

I have missed teaching, but not the "AI" hype or the transphobia or the Canvas blackouts or the wholesale, generally batshit way academia has just handed itself over 100% to be devoured by private tech and surveillance and handed itself over to be censoredā€¦

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Published: May 7, 2026 19:39

be right back, gonna go cry @rcolesworthy.bsky.social is one of the most consistently generous and kind editors online, offering help to many (including to me!!!) on the publishing journey. it means so much to me that she's traveling to celebrate withā€¦

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Published: May 7, 2026 01:07

People have asked me if there are any online events for my tour, and thereā€™s just oneā€”a hybrid event at Charis in Atlanta, and I am DEEPLY honored to share we will be partnering to raise funds for the @refaatlibrary.bsky.social !ā€¦

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Published: May 6, 2026 19:02

I can speak from personal experience: speaking about (or even thinking about speaking about!!) Palestine at a college graduation leads to deeply annoying, sometimes career ending consequences. Still, itā€™s the best fucking company to be in. [containsā€¦

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Published: May 6, 2026 17:40

The first time I got one of these, I was so confused. I thought it could be phishing but felt guilty wondering if I was blowing off a true fan? I even looked up the author, and wondered if the author were "AI" generated (not realizing until later theā€¦

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Published: May 6, 2026 17:25

A question I often get: "Is Obama an overseer?" Yes. See Exhibit A below. An overseer, obviously, of the American empire. But also an overseer of decorum, an overseer of repspectability politics, an overseer of tamping down criticism of the genocide inā€¦

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Published: May 6, 2026 16:13

My 5 city book tour will conclude at Politics and Prose (Conn Ave) on May 28, where Iā€™ll chop it up with the great @victorerikray.bsky.social, who is one of the most cited people in The Overseer Class https://politics-prose.com/steven-thrasher-052826

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Published: May 6, 2026 15:34

The Overseer Class launches in TWO WEEKS on May 19 at @strandbooks.com NYCā€¦ get your tickets now, theyā€™re going fast & we sold out for The Viral Underclass! https://www.strandbooks.com/steven-w-thrasher-samhita-mukhopadhyay-the-overseer-class.html

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Published: May 6, 2026 03:16

I will never get over how I went from never having met a single person person whoā€™d ever written a book over the first half of my life to knowing multiple people who release books every Tuesday and several Pulitzer Prize winners every year lol

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Published: May 5, 2026 21:08

15 years ago today, I took this picture at Ground Zero. 3 days before, President Obama had killed Osama Bin Laden. A year later, Black lesbian cop Stephanie Moses had a fight with her retired NYPD detective girlfriend, then killed herself. I callā€¦

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Published: May 5, 2026 03:46

About a decade ago, a mutual acquaintance asked me to meet with a recovering PhD for whom academia wasnā€™t working out who wanted to iltry earning a living asā€¦a journalist instead????!!! We met at the Scratcher & clicked, tho I had my doubts about his planā€¦

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Published: May 4, 2026 02:18

Michael B. Jordan just won an Oscar. He literally could take on any role. Yet after playing Oscar Grant, who was killed by police in Fruitvale Station, heā€™ll now sanitize the police by playing a cop in Miami Vice ā€˜85. Again, the Black cop isā€¦

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Published: May 4, 2026 01:55

I hate the Democrats. The Republicans say theyā€™ll kill you. The Democrats piously and sanctimoniously say theyā€™re trying to help you while theyā€™re obviously killing you and then get annoyed youā€™re not being grateful enough for being killed and they tut tutā€¦

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Published: May 4, 2026 01:10

His first wife turned out to be his cousin. When he was leaving his second wife (mother of his kids) for his third (who used to kill puppies in a med device demo) he stayed with two gay guys, before dedicating himself to demonizing gays. His NYPD was aā€¦

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Published: May 4, 2026 00:38

This is a @lisahajjar.bsky.social (right) appreciation post. Since we met in 2014, sheā€™s probably done more to support me in the academy than any other professor. She invited me to give my first solo lecture EVER (in Beirut, Lebanon, abroad of all places)ā€¦

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Published: May 3, 2026 22:32

On World Press Freedom Day, I am thinking of the nearly 300 journalists killed by my government, but especially of Hossam Shabat, who was a senior in journalism school when the genocide came. I got to correspond with him a bit. He gave the ultimateā€¦

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Published: May 3, 2026 16:42

If you follow the careers of media reporters, youā€™ll notice that typically, not only do they not cover the outlets where they work, but they also donā€™t write critically about the editor who hires them into their next job šŸ¤” [contains quote post or otherā€¦

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Published: May 3, 2026 16:24

I think literally everyone should have podcasts, and line up lots of guest and conversations with people the host likes for them, every day, except the conversations shouldnā€™t be recorded, and also instead of being called ā€œpodcastsā€ they should probably beā€¦

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Published: May 3, 2026 00:41

Even tho I know multiple people who have worked for Anna Wintour, I have never seen The Devil Wears Prada. But the more I read about how it (and its sequel) are informative about labor in America in general and media labor specificallyā€”onscreen and offā€”theā€¦

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Published: May 2, 2026 23:59

When he was fired from BuzzFeed (for rampant plagiarism, not for rampant racism), EIC Ben Smith said: ā€œBenny is a friend, colleague, and, at his best, a creative force, but we had no choice other than letting him go.ā€ā€¦

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Published: May 2, 2026 16:44

I know driving is an inherently dangerous activity, but I look at people in driverless Waymos or Teslas and think ā€œHuh, youā€™ll risk EVERYTHING you are? Youā€™re willing to entrust your LIFE toā€¦Elon Musk? Silicon Valley? To ppl who want to maximizeā€¦

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Published: May 2, 2026 16:42

I know driving is an inherently dangerous activity, but I look at people in driverless Waymos or Teslas and think ā€œHuh, youā€™ll risk EVERYTHING you are? Youā€™re willing to entrust your LIFE toā€¦Elon Musk? Silicon Valley? To ppl who want to maximizeā€¦

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Published: May 2, 2026 06:08

Just putting this out there: this account has a scant 802 followers, only follows 2 people, and I can find literally no single reported story on this, NOT ONE, yet people are sharing and celebrating it bc ā€œPopstonoxā€ (????) said so? [contains quote postā€¦

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Published: May 2, 2026 01:15

ā€œBetter Faggot Than Fascistā€: And thatā€™s a wrap! After visits with brilliant faculty & students at šŸ‡¬šŸ‡·U Athens, šŸ‡¬šŸ‡§Cambridge, šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡øReed, Pitzer, USC, UCLA, UCSB & UC Irvine, Iā€™ve completed 10 lectures in 3 countries warming up to my publication. A coupleā€¦

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Published: May 1, 2026 14:52

Happy May Day from UC Irvine, the last day of my pre-publication book tourā€¦itā€™s also the last day to enter the #sweepstakesentry to win two free copies of my booksā€¦ just head over to Insta, tag a friend and leave a comment for a chance to win!ā€¦

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Published: April 30, 2026 17:10

Reminder! The good folks at my two great publishers, Celadon and Amistad, are giving away šŸšØ5 FREE SETS OF BOTH OF MY BOOKS!šŸšØ To be eligible, all you have to do is comment on Insta by the deadline FRIDAY, May 1! šŸ‘‰ā€¦

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Published: April 30, 2026 16:28

UC Irvine (and Orange County): I am giving two lectures, today at 5 PM (on my travels reporting about USAID, from the lens of my first book), and tomorrow at noon on my new book, The Overseer Class. Both free and open to the public.

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Published: April 30, 2026 14:28

How do journalism schools exist if the industry has had the worst job cuts of 532 industries? Journalism education must be rethought as political organizing educationā€¦otherwise there wonā€™t be any journalism industry! [contains quote post or other embeddedā€¦

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Published: April 30, 2026 03:44

2 yrs ago ā€œWhat is that like when you feel like you are being pulled right to the edge of the unknown? How many times have you pulled back & then gone right back to the edge & pulled back because itā€™s a little too unknown, itā€™s too big of a risk?Thatā€¦

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Published: April 29, 2026 16:00

āœ…Greek Natl University, Athens āœ… Cambridge University, UK āœ… Pitzer College āœ… UCLA āœ… USC āœ… UCSB Now, just two colleges to go on the pre-publication tour and I can šŸ˜“ take a nap before the May 19 launchā€¦

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Published: April 28, 2026 23:21

A true honor to be given a personal tour of the Cedric and Elizabeth Robinson Archives at UCSB by Elizabeth Robinson herself. BLACK MARXISM was one of the most important books I read in grad school, and I really admired the Robinsonsā€™ combination ofā€¦

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Published: April 28, 2026 19:22

Spending this beautiful lunchtime with THE Prof. Sherene Seikaly, at the weekly Palestinian Poetry Reading in the middle of UCSBā€™s campus. Rain or shine, every Tuesday, UCSB students & faculty meet to read Palestinian poetry in the quad