Between Paige Harden's new book and now Nicholas Wade's Ventner obit, it's another big week for scientific racism discourse, so as a reminder, I have a starter pack featuring people who research and write on the topic

This thread 💯 Podcast bros complaining about falling birth rates under the guise of pseudoscience to justify misogyny and male entitlement

The alt-right’s fantasy Britain Right-wing culture warriors have concocted a new myth of Britain’s “Christian” origins By Ella Dorn

Every damn day

Tbh this is symptomatic of how white anti racists often look past orientalism as a key form of imperial racism and violence

This is the type of conference I attend in my darkest nightmares.

Some of the most chilling 2 minutes you've ever seen. Look at what's being said, openly, on one of the most popular TV channels in Israel. History is happening in front of our eyes. Don't look away. Please help share this widely. Read the full story here: zeteo.com/p/inside-the...

Loading the catapult with the latest nightmare headlines and launching them into the void.

The star turn of the 'Dissident Right/New Right' is NOT organic - it's seeded by Silicon Valley types like Marc Andreesen, who’s bankrolling these cringe imprints. But hey if Harry Potter fanfic spawned the Rationalist cult, which in turn spun off the Zizians.. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

Reports from Gaza confirm that people are now literally dying of starvation. Western leaders have issued words of condemnation, but words are not enough. They have the power to stop this genocide now.

On Twitter, there's a lot more vocal advocates for 🇵🇸 Here people mostly seem to talk about fascism within the US, like it's happening in some sort of vacuum.

tired: people AI-generating rando images of themselves as anime WIRED: AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, new analysis has found

I wish more people would be this principled!

This is some far-right, great replacement stuff being normalized because of Starmer. Incredibly dangerous.

We've reached the phase of Fascist Transatlanticism where the UK right have identified last year's riots and pogroms as their own potential January 6th moment. And, never to be outdone on being outdone, Starmer has seen fit to fan the flames and say they were actually, spiritually, correct.

Israel has dropped more bombs in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden & Hamburg combined during WWII [𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴]. Read that & consider that Gaza is, on average, only 5 miles wide & 25 miles in length. Life expectancy has dropped from 75.5 years in 2023 to 40.6 years now [𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘵]. Genocide.

This is worth your time reading

Bari Weiss’ “The Free Press” is teaming up with Trump’s DC prosecutor to go after Wikipedia’s nonprofit status to pressure it to be more pro-Israel. Bari could not have chosen a more Orwellian term for her authoritarian news outlet taking a wrecking ball to Western institutions on behalf of Israel

I’m so sad about the pope. My advice to the next pope and also people and other animals in general is that JD Vance does not seem to be good for your health.

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has inflicted widespread sexual violence on women and girls throughout Sudan’s two-year civil war to humiliate, assert control and displace communities across the country. New report, out now.

I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever

Areas receiving levelling-up funds show smaller Reform UK vote share, study finds

Gaza's Health Ministry says 602,000 children in Gaza are at risk of “permanent paralysis and chronic disabilities” due to Israel’s prevention of polio vaccines in the besieged enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/afxnsl

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

In an unprecedented move mimicking Trump's crackdowns in the U.S., Germany is moving to deport four foreign residents for alleged participation in pro-Palestine protests. @hahauenstein.bsky.social reports with @theintercept.com

going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

The White House, not even DHS, the White House itself apparently, is directly deciding which permanent residents should be detained and deported based on their political speech. If this doesn’t scare you about the state of our democracy and liberties, I don’t know what will.

open.spotify.com/episode/5Vcy... Public version of my latest episode is now available

70% !! Jfc. Horrifying.

This isn't a joke. A sovereign nation is not "fertile ground" and it's direct provocation of colonial expansion and a bloody war with a key ally. Fox News is trying to normalize the concept of Donald Trump's Lebensraum

The president of the United States is loudly, publicly calling for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. While the guy genociding them sits next to him and smiles. I have never seen anything this openly evil in my whole life. Will any western media report this for what it is?

I know we can’t run around on fire every time Trump says something but he appears to have just announced the new US policy on Gaza which is to take ownership of it, ethnically cleanse it of the 1.8 million Palestinians there and maintain a long term ownership stake as it’s “developed.”

A crucial route to normalization is electoral success. This can increase expression of far-right views in conversations, attending rallies or committing crimes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... by @alessioromarri.bsky.social 3/8

On this note, here is a thread with recent research on what normalization is and how it happens. It includes links to references, from my work and that of others. I tried to tag the authors whenever they are on here, in case you are interested in following their work. 1/8

The tech industry needs to be smashed into dust.

Elon Musk and JD Vance publicly supporting the neo-Nazis of Germany's AfD, just as an AfD supporter/Elon Musk fan kills 5 and injures 100+ in a terrorist attack at a Christmas market in Germany. Vance's pro-AfD statement came *after* the attack. It's bad. Not sure what else to say. Dark times ahead.

“Social murder” is a term created by Friedrich Engels to describe the premature death of marginalized people due to political, social, or economic oppression. What is happening right now in America is the premeditated, calculated, & planned extermination of children who are trans. This is genocide.

Happy Thanksgiving, dear Americans (and everyone else). What are you thankful for? I'm definitely thankful for rodents - the largest mammalian order. Supremely adaptable and globally spread, they also comprise some of the cutest species out there. Visual: Peppermint Narwhal Collective 🧪🌏

Another important conversation on @techwontsave.us

For this fourth day of #Garytober, flashback to the great squirrel vs owl debate of 2022! #art