The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

KF Research Fellow @devawo.bsky.social suggests gradually developing an egalitarian democracy, which emphasizes fairness and equality for all, is the best way to combat anti-democratic opponents in the latest edition of #FromManyWe: bit.ly/4agNJ3g

My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

Ascent in elite circles is typically a selection process for maintenance of some pretty fucked norms. this selection was disrupted, by demands for diversity, equity and inclusion and the inclusion of more marginalized people, and we are living through the backlash

We are watching an attempt to resegregate and defeminize (right word?) elite spaces in real time because white women and people of color question these norms and often demand something better, which is often an improvement for everyone (except those in power who want to maintain these norms)

The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.

Now, I say decimate because the goal isn't to destroy white collar work entirely. It's to make those "good jobs" so rare that people will do anything to get and keep them. Including and most especially—working to quell public resistance and bolster billionaires' power.

This desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving the billionaire class's efforts to cut, curb, and control higher education. Because academia is the machine that produces the white collar class. bsky.app/profile/loui...

The desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving billionaire attacks on DEI. Because marginalized students/workers have led the questioning of white collar alignment with billionaires, and bigotry makes it easy to get privileged workers not to care if the marginalized are pushed out

For billionaires, attacking DEI also creates a new set of allies. It gets blue collar workers (especially White men) to side with billionaires rather than against them, by fueling blue collar workers' anger at the fact that they didn't benefit from efforts to expand access to white collar prosperity

This is an important point. Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist. The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes. So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.

New from @devawo.bsky.social. Looking at recent survey data, Deva sees opportunities for democratic transformation. To confront authoritarianism, we must imagine new, unapologetically inclusive institutions and possibilities. kettering.org/reconstructi...

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

The Washington Post news is awful. Since I’ve been laid off, I’ve had so many conversations with people who want to organize, create, FUND and support real journalism. I’m not giving up. I know things seem dire, but we have to join forces and collaborate. Time to get more organized.

Public funding for journalism. Public funding for elections. Public funding for healthcare. Public funding for science research. Public funding for schools, parks, museums, libraries, universities. We need to start using our tax dollars to make our lives better.

I love the delighted kids jumping up and down with excitement at the end. Science!

Sending solidarity and good wishes to those laid off at WashPo. You deserved so much better.

Today is a good day to follow, subscribe, and support independent, worker-owned, and reader-funded media: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

As folks think about the way news will need to be organized going forward as the legacy institutions pass out of relevance, nonprofit community trusts or worker co ops seem a good way to go. Ad revenue and clicks can’t be the model.

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

I’m teaching a 1 credit class “America at 250: The Revolution” and the final paper asks students to pick one of the grievances in the declaration and assemble primary sources to tell a story of how the issue has played out since in US history. Fair to say the students are fired up.

This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

The whistles are the entry point. But the long game is the community that is being formed every time someone who has never really been engaged before decides to do This One Thing that gives them a reason to talk to their neighbors. Community is what saves us in the end. That is my belief.

I think people often wonder this, and it's a great question, so let me explain the advantages of 3D printing whistles. There are many. The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.

we say this guy chases polls or the Baileys or whatever, but the reality is that he’s just misaligned with Democrats. the polling is clear that this is not what Democrats want. Chuck is an ideological, pro-cop centrist. He’s saying this because it’s his policy preference. It’s what he wants.

One of the best parts of my job these days is getting to reflect on how we're building the organizational nuts and bolts at the core of the public power movement...this one got me fired up for the year we have ahead!

We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

We need institutions and it’s best for them to be well designed and for the people who fill the roles within them to cultivate civic virtue. But the only guarantee of democracy is a free people who understands they have only lent their authority & can organize to take it back.

Wrote a whole book about how social movements are what ensures democracy. Everything else tends toward oligarchy.

"People stepping up to protect the country when Congress and the Supreme Court won’t *is* democracy. Democracy isn’t simply being defended. It’s being reorganized — out of unfortunate necessity, but effectively. So much so that the huge centers of power are finally starting to notice."

I'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded

“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $ NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$ Harvard: no Trump: 1B Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations intensify Trump: 200 million NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal Harvard: no Trump: 0$ Harvard: ok NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses. Trump: How about 1B$ Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations resume!

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

Just to be clear, for the last several cycles it has looked like NY was tending purple. But that looks to be a trend decisively (at least temporarily) reversed and, if Mamdani is successful, perhaps generationally reversed. Unfair that so much is riding on the NYC administration but here we are.

Zohran Mamdani's STATEWIDE favorability rating is 48/32, with a positive rating among independents (43/31). Within New York City (via a crosstab), Mamdani's favorability rating in this poll is 68% to 20%.

Hey look it's Charles Murray in the Epstein files, with good ol' Jeffrey noting how he once flew to visit him

yeah seeing the "Minneapolis took off because the so-called 'activists' got out of the way and let normal people in" takes is really frustrating. that's not at all an accurate look at what's happening in Mpls or anywhere else. All these movements rely on cores of people who have experience.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

It really bums me out that Klobuchar, who was instrumental in normalizing Trump as just another political adversary, is almost certainly going to be the next governor of Minnesota, a state currently paying a severe price for that normalization of fascism.

A federal judge stayed Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status, thank goodness. But it's still vital to understand how "they're eating the pets" participatory propaganda was used to motivate and justify that policy change. This article gives a detailed breakdown of that effort.

The fact that so many of the ICE and CBP guys who have been terrorizing Latino communities are themselves Latino and often immigrants themselves should be something we think about, especially with all the ‘this is just about white supremacists terrorizing people of color’ talk flying around

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

I am a middle aged college professor. My mom does this every semester. And it is one of very favorite things.

sorry maybe this is an unnecessary level of stating the obvious, but sometimes when someone says they don’t think puerto ricans are “american,” it isn’t an opportunity to do a little civics gotcha & tell them about the insular cases. they just mean they think real americans are white.