for all the shit that normal people get, jurors seem infinitely more brave and clear-eyed about trump and trumpism than the democratic leadership.

One of the many reasons faith based components of social movements are important in the US (from abolition to anti war to civil rights)

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

It’s simultaneously “not concrete proof” of academic dishonesty at our university and the only tool we are given. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m Jewish. I lived in New York for a decade. I am very, very concerned about antisemitism. I have no doubt that Zohran Mamdani would fight to protect my life and my rights. I have no doubt the ADL has entirely failed to protect me and my family from fascists. I know where my allegiance lies.

Very happy that two of my PhD students successfully passed prospectus defenses recently. Cagri Gokcek will be conducting fieldwork in Türkiye looking at independent unions and Ahmed Alotaibi will be in Saudi Arabia looking at transformations in the rentier economy and employment.

I dunno man seems like one take away from last night could be to run moderates in D+5 states and progressives in D+40 states and old sex pests in none of them.

I’ve seen Mamdani called “rootless” twice in the past two days. They know what they are doing.

The 'Kavanaugh Stop' stuff has him rattled, doesn't it?

We’re about a month from the next holy day of obligation for Catholics. Maybe our very Catholic Supreme Court would like to explain why the federal government is holding people and refusing them their religious freedom?

I’ve never seen “Young Sheldon” but I’m 100% sure Wally Shawn is the best part of it. Also he’s like 82 and a pretty serious socialist writer so good for him for putting his walking shoes where his values are.

Mamdani is not a radical. He has run a tight, smart, fairly standard local campaign. He'll probably get 20 or 30 percent of his platform if he's lucky. The one radical thing he's done is told the Times to go to hell. He has campaigned every step of the way like he doesn't need them, and he's right.

He forgot the difference between the World Series and the Hall of Fame.

This is the thing I always try to remind myself. Lots of people engage with politics like I engage with US football. I find out who is competing at the Super Bowl Party. I'm mostly paying attention because some of my friends are. I'll cheer if my hometown is playing. Lots of years I stay home.

Pretty pretty good!

Better political instincts than most the people who rose with his campaign. Just the reality of it. Frankly, that's true of a lot of political figures. Bernie is a better politician than 90% of his hangers-on. And so is Trump.

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

Can you see in THIS headline how philosemitism is a subtype of antisemitism? Like. What the hell is this.

My parents were an interfaith couple and I guess nominally my wife and I are (though atheist wasp academic and secular Jewish academic feels more the same than different) and boy howdy I feel bad for their kids.

"Dear Sir, Your good name has been bought to my attention as a trustworthy man and a believer in God. I am the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My mother left me forty-five million pounds and the city of York but I am unable ..."

I’m pretty skeptical of folks who have supposedly “de-radicalized” but one thing I know is that when they do one of the first things they do is cover up the tats. Racist, gang affiliated, whatever the group, they cover up the tats.

Men can have breast tissue (duh). It can get cancer (duh). I thought these people were in favor of “biological reality.” If anything is “gender ideology” it’s denying self evident medical realities for your imagined idea of “manliness”

Why do I feel like I’m going to be troubled by the answer no matter what it is.

This is correct. Lots of jobs are much more dangerous. Logging. Transportation. Fishing. Ranch/ag. Roofers.

The way they’ve got NOTHING on Mamdani is hilarious. Like honestly would do better just making fun of his corny YouTube raps.

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

Ditched Amazon Prime. Ditched Spotify. Gonna break out a Compact Disc to listen to.

I realize this isn't breaking news but it's insane that voting has begun and Chuck Schumer — leader of the Democratic party — is straight-up refusing to endorse the Democratic nominee for mayor, whose opponent is an alleged serial sexual abuser funded by Trump-allied billionaires

I assume this is coming out of the Cuomo campaign which last week confused Bangladeshis and Vietnamese.

What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food?

I have a project where I read every website and every stump speech for every candidate from 2020. The closest any got to any of this is “community policing” and maybe something specific on refugees like “support victims of ISIS”

When I was a kid my family was on SNAP and WIC, programs these people want to cut. What exactly would they have had me do as a child? Get a job? Or just starve? Maybe the state should have taken me from my parents but surely that would have cost more. What’s their plan exactly?

Most days I think I’ve divested myself of all “woo-woo” I learned by having a witchy mother. Then I see an ad like this and say out loud “people shouldn’t mess around with opening their chakras with an amateur” and surprise myself.

Folks who spend their time talking about US Politics and don't already have a good background in Latin American politics should try to fix that, because I think it's a lot more insightful than European politics at this particular moment.

Can't replace my workout bands that I use to rehab my shoulder when it gets sore (old ones are busted up) because of the tariffs. Cool cool cool.

I am worried about this BUT I want to note that I Googled this today to donate. I'm sure others did too.

We're going to need people of national stature to join pro-democracy movements, and I think it might be beneficial for people like Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris to think about doing that instead of running for office again as either very elderly or mult-time losers.

Cuomo is going full islamophobic but as best I can tell the only person in the campaign we can be 100% certain is influenced by a major Islamist group is....Eric Adams.

The evidence of Andrew Cuomo's Islamophobia is substantially greater than the evidence of Zohran Mamdani's antisemitism, and the former deserves far more media coverage than it is getting.

One of my students has joined this great group Dr Hintz has been running and really benefitted.

2025 is producing new and exciting ways to be antisemitic and new ways to weaponize existing and real antisemitism.

Fandom is bad. Don’t be a fan of things. That’s my nuclear take for the 2020s.

This guy won’t be in his position in 6 months.

Folks are gonna ride for her in 2028 but she’s showed Fettermanism over and over again.

Someone give me a reasonable alternative explanation because the Epstein thing feels conspiracy-ish but u can’t work out anything else.

I can never remember if this is the one where they yell at @davidfaris.bsky.social for being too radical or the later one where they agree with everything he said.

Unhinged Sliwa FTW.

My skull is off white almost grey. And yes I’ve seen it and it was a bad day!

There is an academic disability accommodation discourse brewing on a post here and it’s as unhinged as the worst days of twitter.