this idea that the Ds haven’t articulated a positive vision of masculinity is just … it’s not totally devoid of merit, but it’s mostly a narrative concocted to avoid offending a bad-faith norm in media that the customer/voter is always right. iow: this is not a supply problem; it’s a demand problem

Once again, I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats do not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn 🤔🧐

Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account. n.pr/4bHoZDU

@grundrza.bsky.social goes into detail about censors avoiding putting directives in writing, making accountability harder to accomplish.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

And here's a secret of the past decade: a lot of the crucial organizing/resistance work is done by women who look like nice mom-type ladies, often suburban variety, sometimes through nice organizations like churches. Sorry if anyone needs it to look like Che Guevara.

Two epistemologists who keep coming up with reasons that undermine one another's claims know only one thing: their love for one another. Defeated rivalry

He has said this about every election since 2016, has always been heavy-handed in implying he will under no circumstances concede. An aspiring dictator from the beginning, he hardly ever pretended to believe in democracy. I’ll never understand why so many people averted their eyes from the obvious.

There’s a zone where supernatural belief, mental illness, and grifting all meet and it’s hard to fully distinguish them.

“For what”

regardless of your view of legacy media, billionaires buying up respected outlets and then censoring and gutting reporting is a part of the fascist playbook. the only way to fight back is through newsroom unions. back the @wbng.org WaPo staff facing down layoffs actionnetwork.org/letters/save...

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

"Senate Dems considered a requirement banning ICE agents from polling sites as a demand in negotiating the DHS funding bill. But that was not included in their final list..." Crazy idea: Given what Trump's said, update the "final list" to include it. politi.co/4t6pxt0

We are living in a *dramatically* improved world. It's up to us to defend that world, and make things even better.

Critica, the Latin American journal of philosophy, is seeking submissions to a special issue on social epistemology! For anyone interested in contributing, check out the details here:

"sovereign borders are biblical" lol, lmao, lmfao

Really looking forward to a future 30 day period where this piece is not in our top five most viewed www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

“No one can reasonably say that a Philosophy professor shouldn’t get to teach Plato in a philosophy class.” —Martin Peterson, AAUP Texas A&M @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org @cwa-tseu.bsky.social @movetexas.bsky.social

“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”

"Nearby, a six-year-old wondered if the unicorn she saw marching earlier was ok. "

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

Defund ICE. Disable the grift. Disempower the Epstein class. Defy authoritarianism. Discredit Trumpism. Deconstruct MAGA. Defeat the GOP. Thank you for your attention to these matters.

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

It's easy to see these men as individual bad apples. But I'd argue--they were enabled by "elite" universities' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name bad actors, and by the fact that, societially, we treat people associated with "elite" schools as automatically deserving of deference.

I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History Due by February 23rd munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...

pizzagate really overestimated the opsec of the pedophile ring that pervades our nation's elite

Man now I gotta find woke cardboard. The struggle never ends ✊

Getting upsetting news that rich people might not, in fact, be our moral and spiritual superiors worthy of their place as our betters. Will report back when I know more

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

the protests are feeling more spontaneous and organic and abundant which, to me, seems like a strong sign of sea change

Chairman of the Truth and Reconcilation 2030 committee "the Drizz". (He also has literal awards for bravery in hostage rescue, btw)

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

Not sure it’s possible to jam any more Fuck Yous into such a small space.

Millerism means Minneapolis times 100 for a decade. It would tend the United States apart. It is something close to Milosevic’s line.

The thing that gets me is that these statements are accurate, that is a correct description of US policy. And as @bretdevereaux.bsky.social likes to note it should be followed by "And then the US became the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world"!

Never been so obvious that people like this actually despise the very idea of “The West” despite the endless pretense that they’re acting in defense of it. It’s their deepest desire to erase the exceptional ideal of the Western liberal democratic way of life and return to empire and domination.

‘importing a foreign labor class’ is the slimiest euphemism for the transatlantic slave trade i ever heard in my life

If I were a blue state governor, I’d be looking into adding a bunch of tenure lines at my state schools. I know that seems like “kick ‘em when they’re down,” but it’s more like “let academics who can escape to where they can do real work.” Builds up your own schools AND protect US academic output.

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

There's 4, not 2. All Black. www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...

Between "clicktatorship" and "slopagandist," this has been a banger week for portmanteaus

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Here's a "holy shit" sentence for you: "In the past year, the federal workforce lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s, according to an analysis in Science." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...

I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.

actually monks put all their labor at the service of liturgy and leisure and would never dream of doing a 9-9-6