Author of Racial Exhaustion @ralinajoseph.bsky.social on the need for collective accountability for community success.

I wish this didn't seem so relevant so often: "In mainstream discourse, it's become standard to blame the excesses of the right on liberals, the left, feminists.... It's a way that the right is granted masculine prerogatives and the left feminine responsibilities for the right's behavior."

Boss, it's the fascism.

Milkshake puck

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Conservative and reactionary centrist media is trying to set up a narrative in which GLP-1s are some kind of existential threat to body positivity and fat activism. It's bullshit. If you want to lose weight, go for it. But not everyone can or wants to — and they deserve equal treatment regardless.

During freezing temperatures in Port Arthur, Texas, a 61-year-old homeless man was found dead in his wheelchair outside a convenience store. He was wearing a hospital gown and no shoes. Authorities say he had been released from a hospital the previous day. This is a diseased society.

This year's contribution to the Super Bowl party: stroopwafel choco tacos

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.

“Political organizer @jbethiejean.bsky.social connects her Appalachian upbringing to her career in social justice, in this deeply felt debut... A refreshing, clear-eyed chronicle of a political awakening.” SONGS FOR A HARD-HIT PEOPLE coming in April

They’ve been on this for a minute. More teaching + post tenure review (and contracts) plus ai supercharged productivity surveillance tools also makes professors more vulnerable to student evals, which gives admin more power to fire you. That’s the plan.

BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

we at last came to something which there was no mistaking

I will not do a new class prep. I will not do a new class prep. I will not do a new class prep. But if I did do a new class prep, it would be an undergrad lecture on culture called "The Sociology of Cringe."

Imagine peddling a class with lectures like “Why Capitalism Rocks!" in today's modern neoliberal university and then finding out that virtually no one wants what you are selling.

This is a mask *very* specifically associated with Atomwaffen and Nazi Terrorgram (as OP notes downthread)

What if they gave a culture war and nobody came?

An interview that answers the question, what if Eichmann was a cinematographer?

Nice review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/9780063484320

And you can do so forever. I still fly into Washington National.

«The unveiled force of Nadella’s statement is: All those who have power over workers and consumers are going to need to use it to make them start accepting and using the Generative AI tools our industry has collectively invested trillions in.»

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

In which Palantir recruits high school students for fellowships by telling them to skip college because its holds little value and then puts them through a cherry-picked curriculum that oddly resembles… college

The Producers II: Springtime for Grifters

This kind of intellectual firepower is usually only found at unaccredited colleges in Austin

I think what a lot of folks miss is how profitable deportation is for the corporations involved & the politicians they're backing. Holding people, physically removing them, is cost for the taxpayer & profit into the pockets of the worst people you can imagine.

The Washington Post sports section — Jenkins, Kornheiser, Wilbon, Povich, Boswell, Feinstein, Kindred, Culpepper, Clarke, Svrluga, Sheinin, on and on and on and on. The best of the best. Imagine throwing away that legacy. For nothing. For money. When you already have the most money.

And methodists

Mutual aid builds trust. Trust builds relationships. Relationships build organizing. Organizing builds power. Power is how we ultimately win.

I was just thinking of this song last week. It's haunting.

This fish rotted from the head down

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

Hoping to have this one ready for law review soon. It's an effort to think critically about a point that student loan supporters sometimes make: that it provides most funding for higher ed given the political realities of the US. Building on @sarahquinn.bsky.social & Suzanne Mettler, among others

Narrator: one month later www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It also means they've lost the wine mom voters for at least a generation. If this democracy survives, they are in deep, deep trouble electorally.

His next lawyer will just be an ostrich in a suit

If you *must* get the I-told-you-sos out of your system, you have many good options. Bitch to your friends, scream it into the abyss, roll your eyes when you are off screen on zoom. You don't have to hold it in, just be thoughtful about how you let it out. And then shake it off and move forward.

Those of you teaching theory: what is your favorite text to teach students what theories *do*?

In 1994 I took an anthropology class called "Cultures of Terror." It was about power and violence in authoritarian regimes. I think about that class daily. Here are some of the lessons that have kept me grounded because they help sense of the US right now.

Toni Morrison on US-style racism and fascism

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

relevant starter pack as usual: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

I'm hearing fireworks so I think Seattle won?

I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.

Strange situation: the border is everywhere and the Constitution is nowhere.