A post by @ebonyteach.bsky.social made me realize a lot of people don’t know this: Places that were more racially segregated experienced *more* Black lynchings. Segregation in and of itself did not insulate Black people from anti-Black violence, it enabled it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are in hell.

It’s wild when the Economist is pulling their card. Shows you how far gone we really are.

Yeah man. Also, this isn’t real life. What did I do this crazy week? Talk to like real actual friends and family. On the phone. At the bar. People that I trust with my thought and emotions. I suggest this for you too. Social media is cool for some shit, but talk to real life in person loved ones.

These were the same ones three years ago literally crying in meetings about racial injustice and bragging to everyone about how much work they put in “to be a good ally.” Now they are yelling at these same black folks in defense of fascists literally arguing to the mass murder of homeless people.

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

Man I think it’s time to go dawg.

I am sad. Why do we still live in this country? Family I guess. But things are bad and getting worse. It is hard to imagine this doesn’t end in a lot more violence. And I am near the top of the list of enemies of the state.

No, no, no. It's not about the white guy who shot the white guy. It's about the white guy who got shot. Any time a white guy who hates Black people gets shot, it's the fault of Black people. That's even/especially true if the white guy who shot the white guy also hates Black people.

Man this. Especially people normally alienated from politics man. There are black folk from the south side of Chicago that don’t like racism and are deeply suspicious of white folk but are so anti vaccine and xenophobic that that will lay it all on the line for the klansman that wants them dead.

Tillis finally acting with decency and speaking out now that he’s not running for office is telling. Our political parties are captured. I think this is much bigger than Trump alone. There are powerful institutions throwing their weight behind fascism that they feel like they gotta do this.

My fat ass just made a southside of Chicago food mural in my office.

JFC man

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...

This might be unpopular but I’ve always felt yelling back shit like “immigrants create jobs and pay taxes!” and “we aren’t all thugs!” is mostly pissing in the wind. Black and brown people doing well with opportunity is actually the thing that bothers those mfs most.

It kind of drives me crazy how little liberal pundits have cared about voter suppression in the south. I’m not sure how democrats are going to ever win any election again in these “purple south” states, most of which would be deep blue but for shenanigans. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/nort...

Trump: "I won because Latino voters shifted to support me!" Trump, six months later: "If you're Latino I will have armed paramilitaries harass you relentlessly, and gloat how they're going to purge your foreign culture and inferior genes from this country" Democrats: "I see no opportunity here"

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Politicians of this magnitude I know are generally a craven bunch optimizing their own power. I already know this. It’s how it works in this system. But man it’s a special kind of soulless to smile through these jeers as you help tear the country into a violent fascist descent.

This is excellent. Maybe the only real useful piece of thinking on the AI crisis in education I’ve read. I’m doing this in my classroom this semester, incidentally. We are using blue books, but also impromptu “free writes” where I ask them to connect the material live in certain ways.

My sentiments exactly. People are talking about elections and the “blue wave” and these are fascists on some entirely other shit…with the backing of the richest and worst people in the world, the papers, and the courts. They aren’t gonna just take election results and go home.

Underrated tweet.

Call it whatever you want but call it something so that the pattern isn’t lost on folks. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...

I’m annoyingly fatalist about democracy being done here cuz I don’t think a lotta liberals understand what we are up against. This is a coalition of the richest people in the history of the world and tens of millions of genocidal white supremacists.

Lol us democracy is toast.

This is how we end this

Agreed! It’s just…your administration cowered to this too, for whatever reason. You tried to appoint a Supreme Court justice and they told you to go fuck yourself and yall just sat there. It’s hard to argue we shouldn’t have seen this coming.

Agreed. Problem is, might not matter. They are occupying cities and basically making voting moot.

This is so so bad man.

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Gonzalez: I don't care what your job is. I don't care what part of the state you live in. I don't care where you came from. You have more in common with an undocumented farm worker than you did with the fucking billionaires who are causing this problem in the first place

In my little field/subfield/whatever of public management, it is surely right coded. I swear to god, during a campus visit once I was asked “how I square my emphasis on metrics with my clear left wing politics” as like one of my formal interview questions by a senior faculty member.

This country’s problem is with corruption. It’s so much bigger than the orange dude. He’s a symptom. blog.ucs.org/science-blog...

Man this kind of cruelty and evil is difficult to fathom.

We had this problem at NC State. With a state legislature that shit on us non stop, many of the engineers used to eye role anything not hard stem and cheer on the political damage. Meanwhile their salaries were also 60% of those at peer institutions. Why are human like this?

It seems pretty obvious to me that the answer to “why aren’t the people that run major institutions doing more to resist?” is that they are on board with this stuff. We saw an example last year of how protests were handled on these same campus. They happily handed out beatings and arrests.

I. Have. Been. Saying. This. For. Years. We are so complicit in facilitating this terrorist shit. Big papers are the biggest culprits.

Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover

I marvel at how right wingers control the narrative man. These are violent fascists marching into cities to maximize political control over groups of people that are likely to be black, brown, or progressive. But they say it’s about crime and we debate crime as if that was the actual motive.

Shocker.

Lolol her net worth went up *30 times* in four years. She’d have to be the greatest mathematical finance mind in the history of the world. American corruption is comically grotesque. This country is done man.

JFC man

This is top notch.

My brother majored in philosophy, has a grad degree in more philosophy, and makes an ungodly amount of money. He can critically evaluate problems, speak multiple languages, and write like a god. All of these things help his organization solve big problems and communicate the solutions to others.

The thing is this was totally predictable. I had an argument with one of my colleagues lecturing us on “needing to tech innovate our degree” years ago: what happens to wages when you have a massive shift in the labor supply curve? I really wish these admins were less myopic.

💯 deep denial man

I share this sentiment. I think people are still in deep denial. We have a violent hard right fascist party in charge, an openly corrupt and fascist court system, rigged legislators and no opposition party. Without mass revolt this is checkmate.

It’s weird so many liberals shoot the messenger on this. It’s as clear day to me that as far as post democracy, we are just about all the way there. I wonder if so much of the denial is folks are taught that Jim Crow was about water fountains and not violent political and economic repression.