Incredible stuff from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/igno...

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.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

This reminds me, I had a thought the other day that someone like Verso or Haymarket should do a series where they put out critical editions of classics that are public domain, with the intros and critical essays and whatnot by left scholars, to institutionalize left approaches to great books.

The archbishop of Santa Fe takes on Speaker Mike Johnson theologically corrupt justification of Trump's secret police tactics against immigrants: " it is deeply concerning when theological language and sacred texts are used to diminish the fundamental dignity of human beings created in the image of

The first big fascist wave in Germany and Italy was driven by the humiliation and suffering of WW1. Our current wave of American fascism is largely driven by rich guys who want it to be illegal for you to laugh at them.

(gift substack) Jeffrey Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

always disorienting when you say it out loud that minnesota is still under occupation

Last night we had 2 ICE agents get out of a car, pepper spray legal observers, shout something to the effect of "I'm fucking ICE motherfucker" and drive away.

I think they're just readjusting to the fact that "woke is out" is out.

Just a bizarre fucking country, you can do pogroms and still get invited to the Aspen Ideas Festival, as long as you don't say the wrong slur.

Ross Don’t Douthat is at it again

still comes across as idk.. servile? you’re a US congressperson. the response to “you can’t [exercise your legal rights as a representative of the people]” should be “ever been in front of a congressional committee? held in contempt? i hope you have a good lawyer”

Fortunately for Musk, his corporate boards are a bunch of Oompa-Loompas

BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK TO FOCUS ON MARSHMALLOW FARM INSTEAD OF GUMDROP CITY www.wsj.com/science/spac...

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

Ever see something and be like, "Well. At least the scathing @defector.com article will be fun to read"

Here is Tim Wise and I on the hidden history of murdered white civil rights figures. For more on this, register for our virtual lecture on Feb.10th, at 6:00 pm! buy.stripe.com/28EfZi7VN6RA...

Columbia cancelled my 2024 class on Race and Media, so I decided to teach it independently anyway. I made a conscious decision to include whiteness in discussions about race. What we learned is how much white people have been kept in the dark about white martyrs for civil rights.

I hope the abyss in @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter becomes a returning character

For many immigrant families in Minnesota, sending a child to school each day requires faith that one of the thousands of federal immigration officers deployed around the state won’t detain them. Thousands of children are staying home, often for lack of door-to-door transportation — or simply trust.

it's so, so, so frustrating how they act like people applying for asylum are subject to removal proceedings. that is not the law!!!!

Tom Malinowski talking exactly like [checks notes] Rashida Tlaib today

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

Do you think this is the first time Bartolome de las Casas has been labeled part of the "woke mob"?

Extremely ironic that, while AIPAC appears to have claimed a big scalp, they did so by inadvertently delivering a win to a far more committed opponent of their priorities. We’ll see if it leads to a shift in tactics (and with multiple Chicago open-seat primaries coming up in March, we’ll know soon)

This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.

Here’s a story published yesterday, the day before the current president posted a video depicting the first black U.S. president and First Lady as gorillas. mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

Woke 2: You’ll get what you deserve! (Free healthcare, walkable cities, public transit and student loan relief).

Counteroffer: he can have the Dulles rename for the duration of his term (not a big downgrade, John Foster was also terrible) if he sends Miller, Vought, and RFK on a one-way trip to an Antarctic research base

"We would never know about these assaults on our morality if not for witnesses like Alex Pretti. Though we are not all called to be martyrs, we are all called to be witnesses." www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...

I think Zohran understands, unlike a lot of his very online supporters, that actually running a functional NYC administration is going to be a lot more effective victory for "the Left" than anything else he can do, and that doing that is in no way, shape, or form something you can take for granted.

This is the kind of gutter racist shit that you'd only see reposted by the worst white supremacists 10 years ago. Nobody with any meaningful power would have this associated with them. In 2026 the POTUS posts it. That's where we are. That said, it smells of desperation.

embarrass the administration and they will do everything in their power to ruin your life, even if the embarrassment is the result of their own cruel overreach vicious sadistic bullies all the way down

Here’s a link to the fundraiser from the family for this student. It’s not the typical gofundme content I expected - but rather a full life story give.thetrevorproject.org/fundraiser/6...

What Dillon Brooks has done to the Golden State Warriors: -Injure GP2 on a dirty play -Lose two playoff series to GSW after talking some real big talk

I wish I could tell people like me, who first came to Bluesky and felt pummeled by performative scolding, that now it feels a lot less like that and a lot more like that brief window when Twitter was pretty good: useful, occasionally ridiculous, a place to discover new thinkers & writing

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

krugman is spiking the football and doing an end zone dance

Virginia Dems' map (left) would likely elect 10 Dems in 2026, but District 2 (Harris+1) could've been 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 bluer by unpacking District 3 (Harris+31). On my hypothetical map (right), District 2 was Harris+12 & District 3 was Harris+17. My map was also more compact & split fewer counties/precincts

Anti-woke messaging is a net negative among Democrats

after years of smug comments from silicon valley accelerationists about how artists should “learn to code” it kind of seems like code assistance is one of the few things AI can do really well? whoopsie. thank you for inventing a good email organizing tool though

The FEC is broken - sweeping fixes to it must be part of the next democracy reform package

A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”

he's so close to figuring it out!

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’