Understand more data is better than less but yeah the people inviting Milo Y. and staging mock border crossings actually *aren’t* afraid to speak their minds isn’t a revelation.

I fucking hate it here.

No shit.

It wasn’t just the shooting at Brown The FBI also apparently had to delay flying its team to Utah after the murder of Charlie Kirk because Kash Patel was using a plane for personal reasons They are so inept. And it’s costing this country big time

The right has become incredibly dumb in a way that frightens me. Here's why I spent so much time promoting rumors about immigrants eating pets. by Chris Rufo

TBR!

“But where Elliot sees the future in Rubio’s vision of a united Western civilization, I see the bloody past. Rubio’s speech indulged in a kind of brain-dead nostalgia for an imperialism that, as the sociologist W.E.B Du Bois warned over a century ago, brought the world to the brink of ruin. Rubio’s

On the to-read:

"Rubio’s rhetorical jump-cut elides that destruction was visited on Europe when, as Césaire claimed, fascists brought colonialism’s brutality home to the continent. America’s shiny-new concentration camps & murderous mobs of secret police are evidence of this imperial boomerang, & show its folly."

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Very good piece

How will the killing of a cartel leader and shelter-in-place order impact your #SpringBreak2026? New York Times has some travel tips!

Stockholm! Get ready to #ManUp next month, can’t wait to be there. www.linkedin.com/posts/lucas-...

LFG

There's an evidence-based reason I call authoritarianism authoritarianism. But also, I do it because it's reality and I'm not playing this epistemology of ignorance game.

I can't speak to this being THEE solution, but everything I've read says it certainly can't hurt.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

“Yesterday, I reviewed unredacted evidence logs at the Department Of Justice. Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes." - Rep. Robert Garcia in a new statement

A lot of people do not read.

I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this. I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it. I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.

The empirical evidence supports this claim. Back in 2019 @profsamperry.bsky.social & I showed Americans who embrace Christian nationalism hold much stronger patriarchal views. This relationship holds across religious traditions--incl. more egalitarian groups. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Personally, I’m combatting every message that I see like that by chatting with folks who I know care deeply about everything that has happened. They aren’t hard to find. There are a lot of us—no matter what anyone else would like us to believe.

We are capable of so much more when we are in solidarity with each other. The idea that no one cares as much as you do is inherently isolating and supremely beneficial to an oppressor.

One of the messages I see most on social media is some variant of: “no one cares as much as you do.” Living in Minnesota through the ICE occupation has taught me that it’s untrue. It honestly might have been disinformation the whole time.

I had an interview recently with an asylum-seeker, and he said that the options are to work in delivery, to temp as building security, or to enlist in the military. And only one of those promises a semblance of a quality of life.

Also @sofaptekar.bsky.social's "Green Card Soldier" is so good on this. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204789...

So I think it's fair to say that only a tiny, tiny percentage of the US population was tied up with Epstein. But weirdly maybe 70% of the people in the field of evolutionary psychology.

Some of the most leftist people are formerly enlisted, because in a country where you sign up at 18 *because* you have limited other options for a decent life, only to be treated as disposable, neglected when you return traumatized, that shit is radicalizing. War is bad for everyone.

this is some bullshit. the Court is giving sovereign immunity to postal workers who allegedly engaged in intentional racial discrimination Thomas's rationale is that you can't sue the government over lost mail, but there's a difference between mail that's lost and mail that's withheld bc of racism!

groupthreat.com/p/the-souls-... "...Rubio’s speech indulged in a kind of brain-dead nostalgia for an imperialism that, as the sociologist W.E.B Du Bois warned over a century ago, brought the world to the brink of ruin..." @victorerikray.bsky.social ❤️🖤💚

A rough beginning this morning, but we got going recorded 74 pages

this is an absolutely astonishing feat of independent journalism, top to bottom, and proves that the only way to truly fight billionaires is not being funded by them. just…read the whole thing.

In this weeks Group Threat @victorerikray.bsky.social writes about the resurgence of unabashed defense of white supremacy & colonialism in Rubio’s Munich speech & how DuBois anticipated exactly this over 100 years ago. groupthreat.com/p/the-souls-...

new piece up at @victorerikray.bsky.social and @hebagowayed.bsky.social's blog, Group Threat! incorporating one of my favorite Du Bois essays

lmfao "my politics are NOT inscrutable, i think everyone should have healthcare but some people should starve"

I wrote about what W.E.B. Du Bois' Souls of White Folks can tell us about Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference.

racialized administrative burden, Reconstruction edition (h/t @victorerikray.bsky.social, @pamherd.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social ) academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

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Love this piece from Shervin Malekzadeh on what it's like to be an Iranian expat, watching an authoritarian U.S. threaten his authoritarian homeland. "We live our lives as Iranians and Americans between existing and emerging autocracies, unrepentant regimes devoted to violence at home and abroad."

The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

“The biggest obstacle is affordability. Home prices have surged about 50 percent since the pandemic. Today, buyers need to earn roughly $93,000 to afford a typical home with a 20% down payment, up from the $52,000 needed in February 2020, according to data from the real estate marketplace Zillow”

Oh, it sucks when someone steals your shit, doesn't it www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...

One curious thing about philosophy is that we had an internal MeToo a few years before actual MeToo, sparked by a blog called "What's it like to be a woman in philosophy". During that anonymous websites were set up by resentful young men to complain, and this exact sentiment was common and explicit.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

'For too long, the threat of the far right and reactionary politics has been externalised and exceptionalised. It is time to accept that the current system can indeed accommodate the far right if its survival is threatened by other crises' This is why we need Red Lines reacpol.net/why-red-lines/

Report provides helpful data showing what we knew: students do not feel faculty impose their beliefs on them. Cost of college matters. My additional explanation: the wedge driving public perception of college is anti-black/brown/LGBTQ/intellectual discourse. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

In my experience, the "swaggering asshole shtick" is usually cover for more serious, targeted assholery. Because that way, if the targets of the worst assholery (usually people from marginalized groups) try to complain, others dismiss them as exaggerating, saying—oh, he's just like that to everyone.

This is also a story about caste! Hindutva apologists are far more likely to buy into this kind of MAGA-adjacent eugenicist horseshit if they are also caste supremacists! (Special fuck you to Gavin Newsom for vetoing the bill that would have banned caste discrimination in California.)

Every now and then, I remember that JD Vance smashed the "like" button after reading this tweet, then went back and unliked it five years later when he ran for the Senate.

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