Two bright comrades give us our marching orders 💕 @kutalik.bsky.social @surj.org

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

Fascism only works if it has a social base. I wrote a book about efforts across the country to organize predominantly white communities away from this base. How? By showing them their shared stake in fighting for racial and economic justice. The book is out Jan 2026. @surj.org

This looks like a great opportunity! @ucsbkalfou.bsky.social is such a fantastic journal.

Powerful and beautifully rendered reflection from @kutalik.bsky.social

A powerful manifesto from someone who has the courage to walk the walk. Thanks for this beautiful model @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social

Important and always nuanced insights from @insurgentprof.bsky.social. Powerful stuff

One child an hour has died in Gaza since this war began.

What an amazing gift for our loved ones fighting the good fight this coming late fall/early winter!

The full issue is finally out, thanks to the incomparable Enid Logan. Here is her great introduction!

New work by @bryanbrasmussen.bsky.social and @apattison.bsky.social. Love these guys and this great project.

Critique as you will the NYT. I still very much appreciate the work of Daniel Martinez Hosang and colleague Joseph Lowndes. This interactive seems an accessible and interesting way to present their work, particularly to students. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

When democracy challenges their preferred status quo, too many of these folks shamelessly turn to authoritarian tactics to overturn its outcomes. The current climate only emboldens these fascist fools. Those of us who still believe in the promise of democracy must not give up the fight!

May we all be so brave as to keep our wits about us in these times.

“he argued that racism was intended to establish a “nobility of the skin.” Whiteness, Sumner understood, was a class hierarchy—an insight that is still resisted by people on every part of the political spectrum”

another day, another asset-stripping overlap between Michigan’s Emergency Manager law and this administration

I wish someone would make a compilation of all the unusual places, the small towns, rural counties, the South, etc. I went to one of those rallies. It was big. And I don’t think it was an outlier.

This part. There are practical benefits to resistance to disappearing people off the street & they are evident. It’s not that protestors are winning it’s that they’re stopping democracy from losing completely.

While current immigration policies chase ever more people into conditions of despair, danger and death these dear friends and comrades have been drawing our attention to conditions on the border for decades. They are literally walking the walk again this week.

Lessons from environmental and other social movements can help researchers to protect scientific integrity from attack, says Fernando Tormos-Aponte https://go.nature.com/3YecbNR

These are the grassroots networks (special shout out to Denver) who taught me my earliest lessons about organizing and interlocking injustices and what it means to stand up to injustice. It was a different era (circa 2005-2010), but “those who believe in freedom will not rest.”

#ERSNew #SpecialIssue🐣🔓 @chandrarusso.bsky.social shows that organizing white people—especially working class—toward racial justice requires moving beyond liberal antiracism to collective, strategic action. Article: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2482715

I keep waiting for a better time to share new work, as if the world will be a little less on fire in a few days. Honored to join @aishaua.bsky.social @daniellaurison.bsky.social @profsamperry.bsky.social @jessienyc.bsky.social and many others I admire for this special issue edited by Enid Logan

Heartbreak, hope and great reporting from @marisakabas.bsky.social Our small town is not so far from Sackets Harbor, and we’ve been following this terrible story closely.

I’m pretty sure that @astra.bsky.social has my favorite book title for our times. But is it too long for a protest sign? “Democracy may not exist, but we’ll miss it when it’s gone.”

Let’s celebrate the W! And get back to work👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Sure, the U.S. has always targeted and imprisoned dissidents. But this is next level…

If you are a member of the AAUP (American Association of University Professors), please sign. If you are not, please join! Let's get in formation, join unions, leverage our voices, stand side by side. We are stronger together.

Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free." - For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza. 23 and he knew to leave a death note.

(A strange post when everything feels crisis level unstable, but I know many are looking for somewhat stable employment): Colgate is hiring. Our department is lovely 😊 careers.colgate.edu/postings/6274

“Don’t be scared. Fight back.” (My version, and admittedly under much less immediate duress: it’s understandable to be scared. Fight anyway.)

How to Fight ICE Raids With Your Smartphone newrepublic.com/article/1926... via @newrepublic.com

“Imagine if the government shut down in March isn’t driven by the Democrats. It’s driven by the workers.” From @maryharris.bsky.social

I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

“For rural freedom fighters who are feeling alone, you aren’t.” @jbethiejean.bsky.social and Steven Smith of West Virginia Can’t Wait on a political strategy that centers rural folx.

Discussing Marx today, students in my intro to social theory seemed to believe that huge majorities need to resist for real change to happen. I suspect theirs is not an unusual perspective. And so I taught them about the 3.5% rule.

And pro tip: “If you have a recent iPhone, you can press and hold the side button and the top volume button to quickly lock your phone; this also disables Face ID and Touch ID until you reenter your passcode. So you can have the best of both worlds!” Thanks @jelmore.crystalwind.org

Thanks to @jbethiejean.bsky.social for sharing some good news and encouraging us to "Never Stop Resisting." Movements for justice and freedom can win, and sometimes they do, even in these dire times.

Jose Antonio Vargas’ writing has been central to my work in the classroom. Great for introducing folks to the human impacts of how the US immigration system works (or, really, does not for anyone but the capitalist class.)

“When the idea of solidarity has been under relentless assault for decades, it is impossible for the class to recognize its shared interests or stand up for others with whom they may not have identical interests… The only way out of this mess is learning to think like a class.”

@eshever.bsky.social welcome!

This 🧵 is powerful. What I particularly admire is the wisdom (and guts) it takes to model what it looks like to question our priors. The rules of contemporary punditry, public-facing identity work (ie social media), academia, etc., create few incentives to reflect in this difficult if crucial way.

Check it out! @4heartsnminds.bsky.social (Kristen Brock-Petroshius) has been organizing for decades and does research to inform and improve movement strategy and tactics. Amazing stuff!

So many gems here. Among the condensed wisdom I am taking away: we imperil ourselves when we mistake 1. imperfections among allies for the organized power of our enemies; 2. social media as our political home/ center of action. 3. Collective action can offer real sustenance and healing.

Good morning, 2025. Today I am holding this sentiment spoken by Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What right do we have to our fears? We have promises to keep.” Here we go! www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Thinking through how to turn this into something actionable in solidarity with pre-tenure and non-tenure track colleagues🤔 it certainly resonates with my experience!

This is interesting. Without using another context to excuse how whiteness works in the U.S., there is something distinct and specific about South Africa…

I have always been sporadic in how I use social media; a bit apprehensive of how creating a clear and consistent “voice” seems to take me away from my other real time priorities; quickly exhausted by being online; and therefore slow to make it to the latest platform. This is helpful.

My most brilliant life partner co-wrote a thing. So thrilled to see it out in the world as this issue’s cover article! jsw.arizona.edu/issues/issue...