This is the pernicious victim-blaming the nyt relentlessly pursues in virtually every story about trans ppl. The nyt’s leaders are determined to impose their biased political narrative in telling stories about our lives, Thomas didn’t die bc of a “debate.” Hatred, not “criticism” led her to despair.

Fascism, anyone? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Concern over population aging and decline while drastically curtailing immigration. I used to think this was just idiocy. Ever more convinced now it's about shaping a new "Volk" and controlling it politically. (Chart.)

If you work in higher ed, we need you in the fight. That means joining @aaup.org and organizing with friends. "Organizing" can sound like something only crazy charismatic activists do. It's not--it's a science and an art and anyone can do it. National has a new (remote) Core Skills training in Feb.

She was deeply loved by her wife who is presumably going to raise the six-year-old boy you just categorized as an orphan for some reason. And we didn't ✌🏾lose✌🏾 her. The government murdered her. Words mean things

I've mentioned before that I like reading Alan Furst's pulp novels about Nazi-era antifascism, and this is one reason why: Furst understands, and writes about, the fact that even if you're in the actual French Resistance, there are days when you do the work, and days when you do your job.

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

Very cool how her queerness and Actual Wife Who Was There When She Was Shot is being constantly erased by both the media and now elected senators. Not at all a chilling trend to set

checking in on elon musk, the guy who absolutely did not give a nazi salute last year

The pictures are awful and show a black person getting blasted in the head with those ‘less than lethal’ fucking guns. Take care when viewing. And also know- remind yourself over and over again- we will never end fascism without dismantling white supremacy.

My immediate take on Substack on the American regime change operation in Venezuela. It discusses among other things how such a FIRC is a predictable result of US FP towards Venezuela since the start of the 21st Century , to the likely wider long term damage /1 open.substack.com/pub/dovhlevi...

Pete Hegseth Wakes Up At 3 P.M. With Dozen Missed Calls From The Hague

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters. n.pr/3LT0ecL

It's true. I hope I'm wrong but Dems saw a groundswell of populist support and the culmination of months of effective organizing. I expect them to cave on the shutdown or the Epstein files to temper it.. Dems rely on the electoral threat of Republicans to get away with protecting the status quo.

It's not even this. The Democrats know that there is no football.

Our November 7 day of action to defend higher education has taken the country by storm! ✊ “There is only one way forward in saving higher education and democracy writ large and that is students, faculty, staff united...We have to become a new political force.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

“Roughly half of frontline warehouse workers at Amazon are having trouble making ends meet, a new report shows. … Fifty-three percent of workers said they experienced food insecurity in the previous three months, while 48% said they had trouble covering rent or housing costs over the same time”

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

The most Republican guy is the guy who owns the used car dealership, a tanning salon, and a boat in a place that has been economically decimated by deindustrialization See, for instance:

Bonobos: men’s clothing for a matriarchal society

for active military or if you know someone in the military: “The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.” www.nimj.org/top.html#/

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

And so we say “In every generation, each person must see themselves, personally, as if they were an inflatable frog in Portland.”

[reverent priestly voice] For just as Paul writes to the Ephesians that we are God's handiwork, so too are we called to be God's hands, God's plague of frogs, in the world

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

US conservatives under Obama would sometimes wistfully post training footage of Russian special forces, like "look at what the real manly countries are doing instead of our woke baby military" and then all those VDV guys got annihilated within the first 3 days of the Ukraine invasion

They want violence. They fear mockery.

“And in this respect, I’m coming to understand the AI hype machine as part and parcel of the fascistic project. That’s not an analogy. I’m not saying AI is similar to fascism, or parallel to it. I’m saying AI is fascism.”

Introducing “Faculty on the Frontlines,” a new series from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom that documents the stories of AAUP members! Over the next 2 weeks, we will spotlight the stories of 10 AAUP members fighting to defend academic freedom. Check out our teaser 🔥

I rarely share organizations in Gaza because it’s too hard to verify that they are doing the work they say they are but I know multiple people who were able to evacuate through the people working on this fund who are funding trips out of Gaza City (it’s $2100 a trip for 16 people).

When y’all cancel your Disney+ subs, please consider giving some of that money to your local NPR or PBS station, or other independent media like @boltsmag.org or @propublica.org

wokeness was our social immune system. maybe you got hay fever now and then but better than dying of 9000 opportunistic infections

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

No one wants to talk about how, under international law, even "journalists affiliated with an armed non-state actor [...] are considered civilians, not combatants, unless they are directly participating in the hostilities." Journalists are journalists. Protect them. cpj.org/special-repo...

Indifference by the press, lack of consistent coverage and a failure to speak forthrightly have made the media co-authors of this prolonged human catastrophe. By me. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about. Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.

i think this is right and to me the over arching idea is: we need to end the war on terror. we’ve been in a state of constitutional exception for 25 years, and it has eroded our democracy to the breaking point. dismantling the tools of the war on terror is a big piece

An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."

Finally, a more humiliating deployment then Grenada

A liberalism that maintains global racialized inequities will never be able to refute a reactionary movement that wants to not only maintain those racialized inequities globally but also restore them in the US. The failure of "woke" is not that it went too far, but that it didn't go far enough.

Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

If Mamdani had checked just Asian or say, Asian and white (bear with me) NYT would never have run that story. The only reason they ran that story is because of the cultural belief that being Black gives you leg up in society despite research that says that isn't true.

The Mamdani piece required the Times reporting hacked personal data. Hard to make the case that the story is of such newsworthiness that it should be published given its origins. The Pentagon Papers, it ain’t. It is also clearly rewarding the hackers. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

New, from me: The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission. They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”