In the past week, the Trump-Vance admin: –Bombed Nigeria –Bombed Venezuela, abducted its leader –Bombed more ships in the middle of the ocean –Threatened military action in Iran, Colombia, and Cuba –Accepted the “Israel Prize” & hosted Netanyahu in Mar-a-Lago (despite his soldiers killing Americans)

A historic moment: The President, head of CIA and Secretary of State nervously await Secretary of Defense Hegseth's efforts to persuade Grok to provide images of a naked Sydney Sweeney

“Narcotrafficking” is an interesting conceptual category used by officials in a country where people die because they can’t afford insulin

The U.S. invasion of Venezuela is authoritarian bullshit 101. It does several things for Trump: Distracts from the abject failure of their policies Throws red meat to the base by blowing shit up and waving the flag abroad Lends pretext for further erosion of civil rights and democratic governance

We Bombed a Country, Took Its President, and the Corporate Media Calls It 'Capture' www.commondreams.org/opinion/we-b...

if i was running a political party and every time my opponents held power they started illegal wars for oil and crashed the economy i would simply say that repeatedly

"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."

Trump thinks he is going to run Venezuela. Bush thought he was going to run Iraq. They have no clue.

just saw a billionaire pack all his things in a bindle and start leaving new york city on foot. he turned and looked at me with tears in his eyes and said “maybe one day when this city is safe we’ll return” before walking away

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

“I’m honored to be your ancestor and believe that disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

The ‘One Piece’ flag has been recorded at protests in at least 16 countries around the world including Nepal and Indonesia. The flag from the popular manga show is seen by young people raising it as symbolic of fighting illegitimate authority www.ft.com/content/69ba...

I am telling you that a large part of their dysfunction is that several Trump officials imagine themselves, constantly, as being in a social media sizzle reel where they display status and dominance over others. Their online personas are driving their actual behavior.

what a shocking turn of events who could’ve seen this coming

You can pre-order my dad’s 1948 book! It’s back in print and coming out next month: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2616-n...

Sometimes I think about how even when Trump and his crew are overthrown, the rest of the world will never trust American voters and politicians again and soft power was its most successful foreign policy, and while the ideologues in charge don’t understand that, Putin does

The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid. I’m not making this up.

I'm overjoyed by the publication of this open-access journal issue themed around my book, Beyond Education. I'm honored to see these brilliant contributions to how we think about intersecting struggles across K-12, higher ed, and beyond. works.swarthmore.edu/critedpol/ The contents include: (1/5)

New collection of essays, edited by Jonneke Koomen, @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social , and @erindyke.bsky.social, at #CritEdPol on Eli's book "Beyond Education" asking: "How can we study to make a new world in and against the limits on studying in this world?" works.swarthmore.edu/critedpol/

I wish the legacy media would talk about the fact that almost no one under 40 can buy a house, insurance premiums are set to skyrocket, and most Americans are living from paycheck to paycheck instead of *checks notes* the finer feelings of billionaires.

That’s our FIFA Peace Prize Winner

Christopher Caldwell is a regular contributor to the @nytimes.com by the way, if you want to get a sense of what opinions the intelligentsia think are respectable and intriguing and which they think are beyond the pale.

"If a city can be turned into a kind of cell, this is how it begins ... a long, slow shrinking of what is possible, until you wake up one day and realize that almost no one you love believes that 'things will get better soon' anymore."

i just did it all scared

2000: You need to have a website. 2008: Actually you need to be on our website. 2017: Our website has caused a genocide. 2024: And we think that’s good.

late stage capitalism

There is no murderous fascist of the past 100 years that The New York Times has not exalted

Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism gets at why it's not something that can be ignored: "the state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death". --- THE PREMATURE DEATH part is not something that can be "ignored"

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

I appeared on American Campus podcast to discuss my new book, High School Students Unite!, with historian @llassabe.bsky.social. Check it out: americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Excited to share my new @smithsonianmag.bsky.social article, drawn from Chapter 10 of my upcoming book High School Students Unite! @uncpress.bsky.social Newly Declassified Records Suggest Parents Collaborated With the FBI to Spy on Their Rebellious Teens... www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...

#tdih 1521: enslaved Africans on a Santo Domingo sugar plantation owned by Christopher Columbus's son attempted to free themselves and take over the land. This was the earliest recorded slave uprising in the Americas. ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/en...

This administration is animated by abuse

well she does have moxie “I gave my opinion…God created male and female, and anything that's not from God, is glorifying to God, is glorifying to the enemy… I should have gotten 100. I've gotten 100 on every single essay in this class, and I write them all the same—exactly the same.”

ICYMI: Olive Demar and @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social 's Reckoning with the Alma Mater is still live on our website.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Where is the damn oversight over ICE folks? Where is the DHS Inspector General, GAO, and Congress?!! This type of brutality should not ever be normalized or go unregulated. It’s a stain on all LEOs. Mask wearing thugs dragging and abusing pregnant women is a bridge too far. Do something now.

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers. "These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."

not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.

Don’t read my new book if you ain’t ready for this. www.commonnotions.org/buy/my-city-...

Why you need to stop using ChatGPT reason 100000000 people.com/resident-liv...

I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems. And it’s already pretty fucking bad! bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

Congrats again to everyone for pretending the far right authoritarian party’s assault on higher education was really about fighting antisemitism

This is a very reasonable goal! I donated. Can you help them make it happen too?

The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE. www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...