ICE is firing pellets and pepper balls at journalists in Broadview outside Chicago today, but they're local journalists so it feels like the national media will not care at all. I hope I'm wrong.

It took just three days to get Sinclair to back down, and what it got in exchange for agreeing to put Kimmel back on the air was...nothing. This is not what happens every time you stand up to a bully, but if you don't fight back, you'll never know if you would have won.

DHS is barely 20 years old. It was thrown together by a bunch of unsupervised interns in the chaotic wake of 9/11 (that's barely an exaggeration if you read about how inexperienced so many of its creators were). It can easily be disassembled as well. We don't have to live like this.

It’s official!! After months of planning, the Realizing the Promise of Public Good U barnstorming tour raises its 1st regional tent at Onondaga Community College next Friday! It builds on February’s #PublicGoodU conference, and focuses on shared governance and student success. suny.edu/PublicGoodU

It's not fascist to call fascists fascist. It's not "dehumanizing" to say that terrorizing entire groups of people - which ICE does - is evil. No executive order can change these facts. However, people *can* mess things up for fascists by standing up for community and truth. Like this.

All right everybody, time to read (or reread) The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon. Ground rules: we are not reading for the history of 1848-1852 France, but we're also not looking for direct parallels to the contemporary US. We are looking for broad lessons on politics and just generally good lines.

If they can be this radically anti-democratic and oligarchical and so on, there is in fact an opening to build something radically better. And also IMO the best way for anti-Trump candidates to win is by aiming for that radical better - real programs to actually bring people out of poverty, etc.

Reposting this rather than the post with the video in it, on the principle that we don't need to all see more violence all the time (it's in the post above the one below). This should not be happening, and yet it's happening all the time. We should all be doing what we can to stop it.

I started doing this thing where when I read a book I admire I try to find the author’s email & send a quick message saying I appreciated it. No big deal, not trying to be weird, but like: thank you for helping me think something new. It’s hard writing books. It matters when people read them.

It is bad when bad people are unfairly/unlawfully persecuted/prosecuted. It is good when bad people get on the side of good. More people doing good things is good. (Also pretty much no one is wholly good on all dimensions and few people are wholly bad either, but the above applies regardless.)

History is so instructive. It teaches you that tyrannical institutions are bad for everyone, even, ultimately, those complicit in tyranny. No compassion, empathy, or forgiveness is necessary, but it’s true and that analysis has been useful for political organizing and critique for all of time.

Me: forever mad about the FBI’s surveillance, propaganda, violent work to destroy everyone from Du Bois to BLM Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad. It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

"I want to encourage a sense of solidarity in my relationships with my authors, and in the ways that we recognize all sorts of disruptions are happening for people right now and how we have to accommodate the work that we do to account for that." newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/alyssa...

one thing i think about @moiradonegan.bsky.social's point is that you never hear people go from "male loneliness" -> why don't we get men involved in collective projects of meaning for the most part. instead it's usually a discussion about how society is too "feminine"

BDS works! also, they're still letting the IDF use their other cloud services, but they're starting to move on this, keep pushing.

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

Curse of private equity. After US hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency depts rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals. PE cut staffing, wages, investment; hiked profits. People killed for profit. Yet UK handing healthcare to PE.

Jackbooted government thugs declaring in advance that they will break the laws of a sovereign state. thehill.com/national-sec...

in a weird way, the GOP’s efforts to turn American society into a giant crypto scam is sort of working in our favor at times

As a child of the Reagan years, the fact that the *Republican Party* is expropriating shares in companies and shaking companies down while saying stuff like this is wild

this musician and elder I came on this trip with, Douglas Ewart said “we gotta stop resisting and start persisting. keep working, don’t get slowed down by their bullshit. you gotta do judo, use their strength against them.” douglas might have the coolest vibe of anyone i’ve ever met #ClimateWeekNYC

I want to emphasize how unusual it is for an FBI director to be putting out evidence like this on Twitter within hours of a shooting. This is not normal. This is the kind of stuff that can compromise investigations.

Some news.

Pour la rédaction de Sociétés Contemporaines j'ai eu la chance d'interviewer Alison Gash et @daniellaurison.bsky.social à propos du collectif @wearehighered.bsky.social Il y est question de ce qui se passe sur les campus US (😨) et c'est dispo ici en accès libre shs.cairn.info/tap-1zlyiwxo...

When your claims of executive authority to harm people are too broad for John Yoo: "a broad, amorphous military campaign against the illegal drug trade ... would violate American law and the Constitution"

in addition to these, the amicus brief submitted by philosophers on Supreme Court cases considering trans athletes also contains one additional reference to Plato's Phaedrus and a disclosure that "The Witherspoon Institute made a monetary contribution to the preparation or submission of this brief."

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

I am Pro Se in a lawsuit against three unemployed nazis with $1800/hr white-shoe attorneys that are funded by a billionaire. The only well-funded terroristic infrastructure I've ever encountered is explicitly right wing. Maybe that's the point of this charade.

The Lancet today published an essay––"The clinical and the political: care under authoritarian threat"––I wrote in response to the widespread conflation of political and clinical care as the Trump regime seeks to inject itself between patients and doctors. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

It looks like it was actually 11 kids out of 283 that they followed up with that stopped identifying as trans, or 4%—which is still wildly low! Meanwhile, 28 of 285 kids that entered the study as cisgender now identified as trans or gender diverse on follow-up—10% of the cis kids were really trans!

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

The regime has been overextending itself for a while, now. But now that it has openly DEMONSTRATED that weakness, I think we are going to be seeing a lot of folks suddenly growing a spine

For anyone who needs to hear this, by virtue of being a “human being” with “empathy” and a concern for “the dignity of others,” well, I regret to inform you that you are and always have been a part of antifa.

You fail to cancel one comic and the NYT remembers how to write headlines.

We're going to be in movement for the rest of our lives, there's a world to win & so much between us and freedom. How do we make struggle sustainable? So ask yourself, what is the best use of my skills and resources. Limit yourself to that work, because you can't be everywhere.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/e...

good reminder that while many of us on here know this stuff is nonsense, most people around the world don’t know much about it. and many will hear this misinfo from usgov and other media platforms they trust for reliable health information. it’s so dangerous

To all of my Jewish friends, a blessed and happy Rosh Hashanah 🥰

many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl

Add me to those saying it’s crucial to acknowledge anti-authoritarian successes. Harvard and NYT are fighting in court instead of folding. Pritzker and other IL leaders kept Nat. Guard troops out of Chicago. Grand juries reject frivolous charges; many lower court judges uphold the law. And more

It’s all about control. From your local Starbucks to the corporate highrises. Support @sbworkersunited.org — and all the working and non-working poor, chained by the coffee giant or any other oligarchical institution.

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

I was hardly online all weekend and woke up this morning in a good mood, can recommend!

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...