c.f. the time i begged other American writers during a bbc program not to repeat right-wing frameworks like "the border crisis"
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c.f. the time i begged other American writers during a bbc program not to repeat right-wing frameworks like "the border crisis"
The past is not even past.
The past is not even past.
thehill.com/policy/healt... Paul: Gay CDC officialâs âlifestyleâ disqualified him from government - Welcome to the Lavender Scare 2.0
Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips, surrounded by fellow survivors on Capitol Hill: "Congress must choose: will you continue to protect predators? or will you finally protect survivors?" Thanking these women for their courage. www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts...
"Week after week, month after month, they embarrass themselves, undermine their colleagues and demoralize their voters. Theirs is a record of cowardice and capitulation."
paraphrasing @russ41.bsky.social, the score is currently Fascists: 0 Sandwiches: 7 gotta firm up our run defense to keep things going our way
The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers
We just got notice the Trump administration will be sending four F-35s and four F-16s into a low altitude flight right near the US Capitol at 11am ET. Meanwhile, the Khanna-Massie press conference is happening right now. I'm sure this is just a random coincidence... đ§
Self-care is overratedâhelping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
to this point, i can definitely trace my ancestry in this country to at least the very early 19th century.
This only seems contradictory if you view MAGA types as concerned about Jews. But if you view them as using Jews as scapegoats, there's no contradiction at all.
Excited to see my article "Governing the Gilded Age City: Local Institution Building in the United States" w Lakshmi Iyer & Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social published at JPHE! www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...
America should be able to have nice things like this too. But too many of Americans are too selfish &/or bigoted to allow it.
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
"Bowser issued an executive order that requires local coordination with federal law enforcement âto the maximum extent allowable by law within the District.â The order gives no expiration date." I, for one, would like a new mayor (and statehood) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
this is a great point.
Move it to Alabama, well-known as a more democratic polity than Colorado!
While I am promoting ND searches, I should mention the search for the Annenberg Chair in Am Studies & Journalism. The successful candidate will run our Gallivan Program in Journalism. Field is open. Political communications folks please apply! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
This is because workers are "associated with diversity" by virtue of not being white guys, and to be anti-DEI is to be pro-segregation
Really appreciate this 'Fuck you, I'm following the law, not following your unstated vision of what you want the law to be already' in light of the Trump v. Boyle basically telling judges to do exactly that ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
Pritzker should mobilize the Illinois National Guard to oppose them. Extreme? Maybe. But I donât see why he should just let another state effectively invade his.
Câmon AP, Im gonna have to stop recommending you as a good alternative to NYT and WaPo if you keep this pro-fascist shit up. apnews.com/article/chic...
For real, child ownership was literally the right-wing mindset in the 19th century & it didnât go away. The white patriarch dominates his wife & kids much the way he dominates the Black people he enslaves. Rebecca Edwardâs writes about it in âAngels in the Machinery.â global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Yeah, honestly: âparental rightsâ are starting to sound more like âproperty rights.â
rare good news! @teenvogue.com Arkansas is the 2nd-most climate vulnerable state: extreme heat, tornadoes, and low investment in climate adaptation from its Republican legislatureânot to mention home to Walmart's Walton family and Tyson Foods. these young ppl launched a group to make the fight fun
again weâre seeing how the glide path toward authoritarian overreach here is disrupted by regular people than by big institutions or the powerful people who run them
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know weâre doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
Same goes for Moses, & so the Ten Commandments are suspect (as touted by Moses, at least).
Top Israeli officials also stated explicitly that they believe all Palestinians in Gaza are Hamas, so all talk of eradicating Hamas is also talk of eradicating Palestinians in Gaza.
this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request
It was always about controlling people of color, women, & the low-income people, never about extravagant waste or whatever tf else right-wingers, mainstream media, & too many academics pretended it to be about. Deservingness in right-wing minds depends entirely on advantaging the privileged.
It's the party/nominee's job to build a winning coalition. They make choices about who to serve & alienate, & that may keep them from winning. Atrocious nominees lose good ppl who don't owe anyone their vote. Choose nominees who are decent humans & who work to lift ALL up, or shut up after losing.
In this week's @runforsomething.net feel-good update, we hit a HUGE milestone. More people have signed up to run for office since the election in November than did in the *entirety* of Trump's first term. The present is bleak, the future could be bright. Read it all.
Single member legislative districts are just such a bad system, especially when parties are polarized (i.e., in any modern political system) Forthcoming APSR shows firms, not just voters, are gerrymandered into/out of districts for partisan gain ungated SSRN version papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
So much of this preemptive crap about needing to vote for the eventual Dem nominee no matter how bad they are is just people trying to manufacture consent for exactly such a candidate. I say no.
Got excited until I realized it wasn't Knight-Ridder.
Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
The market (for enriching justices) has spoken.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
This op/ed is dangerously wrong. There are elections in Iran & Russia & they are meaningless. Republicans want the same for the US- gerrymandering to keep their party in power. One party no longer believes in democracy. That is the real problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
Does it just delay the intervention by 9th/SCOTUS until 9/12 when it takes force? Is a 'more sympathetic' stay just doing their work for them?
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
Parallels between Trump and AI are endless. Both overpromise, underdeliver. They put people out of jobs. They lie and steal constantly. They think they know way more than they do. Both backed by techbro billionaires. Neither are any fucking good at their job. And everywhere you turn, there they are.
At some point, you have to defend democracy, not just pivot to talking points, or there won't be fair future elections to win www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/p... What I told @ronbrownstein.bsky.social (joking/not joking):
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Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale co-founded the University of Austin Texas (UATX) in 2021. UATXâs recent âConvocation Addressâ was titled, âIn Defense of Inequality.â âTo the class of 2029: you have chosen to rebel. Not against hierarchy, but against its abandonment.â 1/ x.com/uaustinorg/s...
U.S. Army veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II has been charged with âconspiracy to impede or injure officersâ for participating in a mild anti ICE protest where he wasn't even arrested. The current acting U.S. attorney, Pete Serrano, has described the J6 rioters as âpolitical prisoners.â
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
On the moon. I'm sure space cadets (or whatever they're called) won't mind relocating.
Notre Dame is investing in democracy research in lots of exciting ways, including these hires. Happy to talk to senior folks about working at Notre Dame and living in South Bend. (Spoiler: There are lots of good reasons I've spent my entire career here).
16 years ago, I was heading to APSA (on the job market! So nervous!) & a guy pulled a đ˝ out of his briefcase at 7am at RDU and proceeded to eat it. A đ from the universe. Every Sept 2nd, I celebrate corncob man.
They like Trump and are trying to help him
A must-read by Mike Wishnie on why even tenured faculties of private universities should be able to unionize under EXISTING law!! lpeproject.org/blog/why-not...
Science is not, and never will be, apolitical. Like I'm sorry, but you can't make that a true statement when it just isn't. Your research has impacts beyond just discovery. Likewise, the term "useful," is loaded. Who determines what's useful? What is the metric by which they do this?
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
âNearly 70% of people said they believe the American dreamâthat if you work hard, you will get aheadâno longer holds true or never did, the highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys.â
Damn, I know that guy!
From tonight's @lecturesontap.bsky.social at @caveatnyc.bsky.social.
The military has no place in domestic law enforcement. Full stop. But also this - obviously pretextual.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-labor...
Moderna vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 2/2
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. âI donât know what to say at this point,â he said. âI canât defend what Israel is doing.â www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Yep. As one study eg found⌠âmost Black respondents lived in fear of the police killing them and hurting their family members. Approximately half of Black respondents preferred to be robbed or burglarized than to have unprovoked contact with officers.â onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Despite what some political consultants advise, anti-Trump candidates canât just focus on the economy. They need to put preserving democracy front and center. Worth reading @davidoatkins.bsky.social âď¸
A tension in President Trump's deportation agenda; an aporia in his deportation agenda; a dispositif; an antimony; a fissure; a lacuna; a topos; a symptom; an alterity; a noème; an actually you know what, headlines about reckless deportations are no place for pretending you are in a Theory seminar.
Iâm sorry but facts donât care about your feelings. If you are blaming Democrats in 2025 for COVID policy in 2020 you have been brainwashed by Trumpism and the death of expertise. The basic point is that Trump associated COVID with his fate in office. Thatâs it. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
You can read a whole book about it if you like. @sgadarian.bsky.social @saragoodman.bsky.social and I took notes as it was happening, and we tell the story straight. No bullshit, no dissembling. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
CHICAGO IS IN THE STREETS! #LaborDay #DefendHigherEd #WorkersOverBillionaires
Because, but their definition of âtyranny,â it isnât tyrannical. Cowieâs Freedomâs Dominion should be one of those everyone-must-read books. To some ppl, freedom = freedom FROM oppression. For others (like MAGA), freedom = freedom TO oppress. Thereâs nothing hypocritical here.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Bluesky is now among and often *the* highest referer to @motherjones.com. Thatâs traffic that has been additive. Only Twitter has dipped btw, the rest as fairly steady state (and instagram impressions and video views on all platforms up enormously.)
@gelliottmorris.com is doing the kind of data informed election analysis that Nate has abandoned. Also Elliott isn't a fucking Maga-curious dipshit.
@50501movement.bsky.social Santa Clarita, CA turned out on this hot Labor Day morningâŚ
I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
100% accurate. Much of organized labor is betraying its 20th century commitment to economic democracy, electoral democracy, and civil rights. But I still have hope.
With Operation Warp Speed in the news again, I want to again share this article about the two paths to the mRNA Covid vaccine. My Intro students read it last week as an opportunity to think about government versus private power when problems are inherently collective. www.nytimes.com/2020/11/21/u...
(Obv, helping is the only moral choice too, not just the instrumental benefits.)
If youâve got their back, then theyâll get yours.
Solidarity across all marginalized groups & their allies is hard but essential for defeating the fascists in power. This is exactly why you donât start picking groups to sacrifice because 52% of Americans said yes in a poll to something they havenât given any thought about.
âThe community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention center built on their ancestral lands.â
Their new ai law database is probably called futureLawâfLaw for short.
This is why âjust doing scienceâ doesnât cut it. Research ethics require you to plan for how your work may be weaponized, and act to stop it, esp with public facing work.
Their elites have been there for a while
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
I don't play around with collective action
Yet another reminder (if anyone remains unconvinced) that the past is not even past.
So glad to see him reelected, and y'know *in* office since they literally changed the locks on him I wrote about this town last year bc there was a lawsuit to make it have elections, which coincidentally stopped around when the Voting Rights Act was passed đ ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
got some holiday reading for you all. Our system puts a lot of weight on vetting public officials before they gain power. The constant lying puts some strain on that system. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/the-failur...
Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
the thing that was terrifying to them about FDR wasn't so much the policies themselves (which were, of course, far short of socialism or communism) but that they were incredibly popular and lead to electoral dominance until FDR's death (and even somewhat after)
In our latest digital history column, Scott Hippensteel examines the ways in which terrain features of Civil War battlefields helped dictate both the nature of combat and the number of casualties. Read it here: bit.ly/3JMQMqp
Happy Labor Day! Today, we celebrate workers and the power of the labor movement in securing fair wages, safe workplaces, and better lives for people across the country. đ ď¸đŞ #UnionStrong
I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Laughing at Antonin Scalia is illiberalism on par with Trump targeting law firms. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The worldâs leading genocide scholarsâ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.
Weâre only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jrâs eugenicist ideology.