My article on activism and coalition building is out now at Time! Shout out to the folks at Made by History. We need multiracial coalitions now more than ever! time.com/7307042/hist...

In the dark dark tragicomedy of the second Trump term, the State Department described a call to not kill people incendiary, reckless, and inciting violent. Violence is not violence, only nonviolence is violence.

The FBI has fired a group of agents who were photographed kneeling with protesters in Washington during the 2020 racial justice protests that erupted in response to the police killing of George Floyd.

that Harper's letter just keeps aging worse and worse

Birds and Snakes are out, too (not XX / XY). Algae and amoebas, too. Probably also worms.

This also affects horticulturists, biologists etc

Suddenly medical schools can’t teach about intersex conditions or gender dysphoria.

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

So it turns out ‘originalism‘ was just a front for reluctance to reinterpret when that meant redressing social injustice, but now if reinterpreting means increased power to inflict social injustice, it’s totally fine.

I can’t imagine going to law school and trying to learn or teach anything now.

Remember, SCOTUS conservatives said it was an abuse of power for Joe Biden to forgive student loan debt without express authorization from Congress.

SCOTUS is so clearly untethered from the law and the constitution that sitting justices are expressly saying “this is worse than Calvinball.” That’s an invitation for other judges to say that. And, I hope, some of the lawyers arguing doomed cases before them—don’t let them hide.

A domestic terror organization that does not exist is a tool of a tyrant. Nobody is a member so anyone can be branded as a member.

Clear grounds for removing Trump from office. He’s sending America’s military against a domestic terror organization that does not exist fighting a war that is not happening. He’s gone completely and dangerously mad.

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

These people genuinely know nothing of the history—white conservative state & vigilante violence has been arguably *the defining feature* of U.S. history. They apparently also know very little of the present, in which, again, the very opposite is the case.

What was incredible to me about this press conference is that nowhere did anyone mention that the victims were all detainees. Even if it turns out the suspect intended to target ICE employees, which we still don’t know is true, doesn’t that seem like important information?

Yep. The empirical majority isn’t getting glowing profiles in the media all the time but they do have power. And I think it is a trend.

Researchers in Spain have developed a new intranasal COVID-19 vaccine that eliminates the virus in mice. One dose gave 60% protection, but two intranasal doses achieved 100% protection with no detectable virus in nasal or lung tissue, suggesting sterilizing immunity. www.csic.es/es/actualida...

BREAKING: In place of Jimmy Kimmel’s return, Sinclair and Nexstar will broadcast 90 minutes of Ezra Klein criticizing you for not reading “The Bell Curve”

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

A small but important victory against RFK Jr’s attempts to make vaccines difficult, if not impossible, to get. People are fighting back & defending public health. #IllnessPolitics

if there is any "ideological indoctrination" on college campuses it is through meeting other kids from other places and realizing your own worldview comes from your own world and others have equally valid worldviews

Maybe things have really changed in the past decade. I doubt it. 18-22-year-olds wanted to drink and smoke and play video games and eat too much pizza and maybe learn some stuff; ideological indoctrination wasn't exactly on the menu.

The gap between what the right thinks happens on college campuses and what actually happens is absurd. I had some great students and some awful ones; we talked about some difficult topics, from sexual violence to capitalism to exploitation; it was fine. Nobody lost their shit, because we're adults.

We can get into specifics soon, but I mean, a lot of it won’t work but that is not mutually exclusive to the federal govt flexing its muscle on repression even a little, with the measures it has available, can easily ruin already countless lives

1) even just forcing foundations/orgs into endless litigation and potentially stripping them of tax exemptions will have disastrous effects on progressive and liberatory organizing 2) if they decide to make an example of you, your life will be hell

Said essentially this a few days ago.

AAAAAAAAHH

Terrific piece by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for @theguardian.com. The country desperately needs congressional Democrats to get their shit together, and it needs to happen sooner rather than later.

Most colleges don't have a campuswide AI policy, leaving the crafting of such statements up to individual faculty members.

"Cuomo is such a bad candidate that he needs Donald Trump to clear the field for him" is an amazing yet true fact.

My department is hiring an office admin position. Full-time, union job, good benefits, great staff colleagues (and me, YMMV), great faculty, great students.

🚨 Job! 🚨 Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived). Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655 Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!

“Prove the benefit of these lifesaving shots that I myself touted for years as one of my accomplishments.” Comical if it weren’t so disastrous.

On the pod this week we spoke to the fantastic @marisakabas.bsky.social about the not-so-fantastic military occupation of Washington, DC. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Sending soldiers into cities under the guise of fighting crime is an unprecedented abuse of power. And it’s illegal. bit.ly/4m6TG77

THIS! OMG I've been SHOUTING THIS. It's Newsom's fucking PLAN to piss off trans ppl to please centrists to make himself more electable. If his plan works to make trans ppl not vote for him but doesn't pick up centrist votes, that's not our fault. We followed the plan & the centrists didn't.

Nearly 1,000 ‘worker over billionaire’ actions planned for Labor Day in US Rallies from Alaska to Hawaii will highlight cuts to wages, unions and social safety nets under Trump policies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So many white people, including white leftists, desperately want there to be some grand overarching conspiracy to explain why this country supports genocide because that is easier to swallow and easier to fight than the truth: that no one makes us support genocide and we're all complicit in it.

When I get texts like this I know someone’s up to no good & it’s not a “Gang of illegals”. I also see the race for New Jersey Gov is heating up & fear mongering outrage among the gullible is all Jack & the Republicans have to offer.

They got the memo to exaggerate crime. It is so transparent it is childish. Same people brought you immigrants eating dogs and cats.

Thank you, 3rd Circuit www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader? I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.

Quite literally, in that you can find this language in a history textbook covering pre-WWII fascism, with no changes.

Trust science! American Academy of Pediatrics breaks with CDC advice for the first time in 30 years over Covid vaccines for children. HHS, a.k.a., RFKjr calls it "politically motivated." He really does not understand how science works. www.denverpost.com/2025/08/19/a...