Cancel culture warriors should be up in arms over a college student demanding that a college instructor be fired because she taught things the student found offensive, but as I discuss in my new essay, Little Fascists Everywhere, their outrage is highly selective: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

More from the important research by @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social @salmamousa.bsky.social & @kylepeyton.bsky.social: The backlash to CRT and DEI was concentrated among educated & professional class centrists & Republicans. Working class, who Yglesias says backlashed, didn't actually care

the vice president is a klansman

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

That was really the plan newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...

How @theatlantic.com enabled MAHA.

The TikTok algorithm is about to be handed to right-wing billionaires.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

NEW ISSUE from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - Perspectives on Politics - Special Section: The Politics of Policing - Volume 23 - Special Issue 4 - December 2025 - https://cup.org/49caKFe cc @apsa.bsky.social

Smedley Butler is screaming, crying, throwing up

TIMELINE CLEANSER!!

TIMELINE CLEANSER!!

“I Was Pepper-Sprayed”: Rep. Adelita Grijalva on ICE Raid, Epstein Files, Rising Health Costs & More

Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff

NYC folks: Please take this 5 minute survey to support a class project we are doing. We need more numbers so we can do some statistical analysis. forms.gle/C4fE5yNpPjy8...

RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

I’ll never forget liberals chuckling the stupid “cats and dogs” parody song around me and how much I knew that it was an actual serious threat and that the talking point came directly from white nationalists

i think this video is pretty good and you should watch it

Today in #LaborHistory 12/4/1969: Chicago #BlackPanthers #FredHampton & #MarkClark assassinated by Chicago #police & #FBI. Hampton founded antiracist, #workingclass Rainbow Coalition: Black Panthers, Young Lords & Young Patriots (radical poor whites). #policebrutality #chicago #assassination

@heyitsmurad.bsky.social, a member of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team, comments on how the incoming mayoral administration can protect New Yorkers from Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.

I’m relieved that the media are finally calling out Trump’s racism. More of this, please.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who came to the U.S. from Somalia, about President Trump's racist tirade against Somali immigrants. n.pr/4oxkCha

The Olivia Nuzzi affair is a media scandal tailor-made for media sickos, so Katelyn and Christine invited @marisakabas.bsky.social onto the show to talk about the latest developments and what this all says about the rotten core of access journalism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.

Since I published, other federal employees have reached out with examples of overt Christianity in the workplace. Before Thanksgiving, Director of the US Marshals sent out this message to all employees: "Your work is not just a job; it is an opportunity to contribute and to honor God." Full text:

Public perception of Israel began to steadily decline, albeit on a much slower scale, after 2014. This was also the last year that the Israelis ever attempted even a symbolic direct series of negotiations with the PLO.

Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny. (via @kuow.org)

This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.

Teaching thing I find useful: if a student stops showing up for class, make the subject line of your email "Is everything OK?" When people are overwhelmed they'll often avoid even opening bad-news emails (cf. me & my bank statements). This way, they know I'm reaching out to help, not chastise.

"People want the humanities. People want to care about literature. People want to be able to talk to each other about how art works in complex and skilled ways." I said this in the interview and I mean it!

the question is not “will this happen everywhere” right now. rather the questions are “why is oklahoma university doing this, why this student and why turning point”

Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs

I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”

Trends from The Economist and YouGov tracking showed a 46 percent approval rating and 51 percent disapproval in May-June 2025 survey that went down to 38 percent approval and 56 percent disapproval rating in November 2025.

I call this a technology of coercion because it is almost entirely an upper-elite phenomenon being forced on unaccepting organizations, which frames how I approach “might as well learn how to use it” discourses

Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌

I know our inclination is to buy this weekend from companies touting lower prices (Amazon, Target & Walmart). Resist the urge. The only way to force greedy corps to lower prices to acceptable levels, paying living wages, & end discriminatory practices is to withhold your money. #WeAintBuyingIt

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Workers across the country are on strike ✊🏽 demanding a fair contract. Stand in solidarity by demanding #NoContractNoCoffee alongside workers at a Starbucks ☕️ store near you. #WeAintBuyingIt www.nocontractnocoffee.org?link_id=3&ca...

One of the points Joshua Davis makes in *Police Against the Movement* is that COINTELPRO was started by the police and all the FBI did was federalize it. And SNCC and CORE did a ton of organizing around police brutality specifically. #BookSky

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

Have we considered that the current state is captured by Billionaires and they own the means of production?

Excited to talk with the Center for American Studies and Research at American University of Beirut today on racial politics in the US and my recent work - the event is on zoom and will be recorded. Please join us if you can! 11 am EST (zoom link in QR)

I had a recent similar experience. I was invited to submit a topic and preview of a TED X talk at my university only to be told “democratic backsliding“ and “systemic racism” were “polarizing“ and “divisive” concepts - needless to say I withdrew. boycott spaces that don’t uphold academic freedom!

It's getting really dark...

Excited to talk with the Center for American Studies and Research at American University of Beirut today on racial politics in the US and my recent work - the event is on zoom and will be recorded. Please join us if you can! 11 am EST (zoom link in QR)

that whole 'this country isn't ready for a woman president' line is really upsetting because it shows exactly how neoliberalism works, redirecting blame from issues of policy (or lack thereof) onto a flattened, vague type of sexism in a way that ultimately doesn't even challenge sexism!

This open-access article by @abregoleisy.bsky.social and Lucia León is an incredibly useful overview of how immigration policies shape families' lives. Great reference for scholars, students, policymakers, journalists – everyone, really. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...