Kicking off 2026 in style — I just got my author copies of my book! After years of hard work, it surreal and exhilarating to hold my book! Thank you so much to @rblaifeder.bsky.social and @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org for making this a reality! Pre-order available: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

!! there's now a wiki page for reactionary centrism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactio...

ah yes, news focused on the concerns of the average american

Always read Victor Ray! Another banger.

today's collab w @victorerikray.bsky.social brought me back to our convo on the #RaceClass Pod two years ago. helpful reminder that Rufo Heritage & co. came for Critical Race Theory first bc facsists are scared of ideas, history and facts.

The fact that this has George Wallace (whom in a lot of ways was the Trump of the 1960s and 70s) as the photo is the icing on the cake.

Buckley is described by his Yale professor (who likes him, btw) as someone who was “very good at discussing books he hadn’t read.” And yikes, that says it all really.

This is consistent with the story @imarajones.bsky.social reported on her Anti-Trans Hate Machine podcast back in 2023: translash.org/podcasts/the...

Republicans are more hesitant to give out vaccines than firearms.

*looks directly at camera*

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

California bans single-use plastic bags. But our wise judiciary thinks guns have more rights than people, and that the constitution decrees we should live in constant fear of the next mass shooter.

Making the 2025 book list is a nice way to start the new year. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...

“Heritage Foundation—laid the groundwork with decades of curated discourse that recast desegregation as anti-white racism.” @victorerikray.bsky.social and Jonathan Feingold in @liberalcurrents.com on the DOJ ending disparate impact liability www.liberalcurrents.com/promoting-a-...

I am once again asking someone to write "The Vassar School of Race and Racism" tracing the incredible thinkers who taught and graduated there from like 2000-2010.

🚨In a new piece that I co-authored with @michaeldgreen.com for @bmj.com, we argue that Trump's war on DEI in medical education will damage the health of Americans We present research evidence showing that a diverse medical workforce improves population health outcomes www.bmj.com/content/391/...

For @liberalcurrents.com fellow @vassar.bsky.social alum @jpygold.bsky.social and I wrote about the Trump administration's gutting of disparate impact liability as another advance in their segregationist agenda.

With no algorithm here, I'm especially grateful to all who reposted this & also to those of you who pre-ordered (info is in the thread)! Since I am not Stephen King, unlikely bookstores will stock my academic book in physical form. Can you please ask your public or academic library to order? Thx.

tbh we passed this point long ago, when the outrage cycles over "Woke A.I." eclipsed Elon's all-but-ignored Daily Stormer cosplay

once "freethinking" pundits decided that one A.I.-generated Black George Washington was far more panic-worthy than the world's wealthiest man paraphrasing Camp of the Saints, it was already kinda over imho

Grok is not a human representative of X, therefore should not be quoted as if they are a human representative of the company. The company’s AI chatbot generated CSAM of users bc human beings programmed the AI to allow such things What are we doing here

Having my mom send all my grade school report cards to Harvard so they have to hire me as a biochemist

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

This may be the stupidest educational proposal I’ve heard yet. (There are lots of runners up,btw.)

It is this bipartisan “civility” that built up the military & prison industrial complex, that poured billions into border violence, that divested from our schools and healthcare systems to bring us to this very moment of fascism. I wish yall would learn the goddamn lesson.

I suspect transgender rights and higher education are two issues where NYT leadership is as opposed to the progressive left's positions as the right's. So they lean into right-wing framing of those subjects to rebut broader liberal bias charges. transnews.network/p/a-directiv...

Wearing SAT scores like varsity letter jackets from high school.

This right here.👇🏻 It’s a broad vision for a better America, backed by policies that will deliver it in combination. Not a bandaid on a bullet wound to defend the failed status quo. A $100 tax credit if you jump thru 3 hoops isn’t it.

Next iteration: replace SAT scores with IQ tests administered at age 12 (to eliminate confounding effects due to education).

Would not have predicted Curtis Sliwa defending Mamdani more aggressively than Hakeem Jeffries but here we are

This is the academic version of peaking in high-school or reliving your senior year as start quarterback now that your 45 and stuck selling used cars.

Starting the new year with the dumbest possible takes.

Excellent article making a bold, unsettling claim—the administration views the history of segregation and its influence on the nation as a threat to its nativist program—and backing it up with detailed technicality on the political stakes of disparate impact liability. Great work.

Obsessed with this juxtaposition

What a cover! In a world that often treats Black women with little regard, my new book defiantly & unapologetically declares that Black women are worthy & that Black feminist thought remains relevant & necessary. www.bloomsbury.com/us/spaces-fo... 35% off Discount code: GLR AT8

The Walz Administration will not get credit from the GOP for using this big AI program to stop payments; they will not find more fraud; they will hurt lots of people. It's a technocratic centrist trifecta.

How extreme is Jim O’Neill, Deputy Health Secretary who just froze federal childcare funding to every state based on a viral video? As a leader of the Seasteading Institute, he praised selling human organs on the free market b/c “There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused” 1/2

You've probably been following the story about fraud in MN. I wrote about the people who provide services who are being driven into bankruptcy, thanks to the Walz' administration decision to hire Optum AI to screen all payments. It's a disaster.

We live in a society where being anti-racist will get you labeled a troublemaker. And that tells you all you really need to know about the status of conditions as they stand

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What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

"The GOP now fuses myths of white male victimhood with censorship that erases decades of academic scholarship detailing how Black Americans—not white men—face systemic discrimination in America." www.liberalcurrents.com/promoting-a-...

Imagine asking someone for their handles and they give you their Truth Social one

Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not

Many people have not been invited at all. I’ve talked to a substantial number of Black speakers who have seen bookings plummet, who have been virtually frozen out from engaging in public talks on college campuses.

hitting 2026 running with @victorerikray.bsky.social @liberalcurrents.com "Many of MAGA’s forebears—including the Heritage Foundation—laid the groundwork with decades of curated discourse that recast desegregation as anti-white racism." www.liberalcurrents.com/promoting-a-...

Rarely do you find a better application. The underlying quote is just a very well constructed sentence that means exactly what it says.

by @liberalcurrents.com @jpygold.bsky.social @victorerikray.bsky.social 1/3 "the DOJ’s decision to eliminate disparate impact clarifies what rightwing attacks on affirmative action have always been about. The goal is to limit the capacity for civil rights to yield Black equality; and never about..

This Upton Sinclair quote never misses “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”