Interesting polling data: Those with unfavorable views of Donald Trump are the LEAST LIKELY to support political violence.

The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus. We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/

A better response from the teacher might be, "This may be contrary to your religion, but you're not required to believe it, only to understand it - in fact if you can refute it, more power to you."

You can have the fighty Newsom vibe without the transphobia, meme coin grifting and law and order bullshit.

it really is the 'ah, we can use this brash young "Hitler" hands-rubbing"

Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...

How it started and (in post below) how it's going. Or, when the federal government goes from imperfectly anti-racist to sloppily fascist.

oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing

My councilwoman @janeese4dc.bsky.social put out a plea to neighbors to not order food delivery because of law enforcement targeting delivery drivers.

Pritzker does have a sense of the lessons of the twentieth century. Mitläufer should be told now that they will be held accountable.

All of this has got me wondering if, when I teach Locke's 2nd Treatise next semester, I'll get into trouble for promoting radical ideas contrary to the American regime ...

👇👇👇👇👇 Hungary's Fidez is currently unpopular but if they held an election today it'd still control the government through extreme gerrymandering and malapportionment

The ICETrump Korean Hunters continue their courageous crackdown on immigrant classical musicians, engineers and researchers who are threatening the American way of life by existing and breathing

Good poster, but I think it'd be more effective to portray him in uniform.*

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

Connect the dots. It's likely that in 2026, we'll see ramped-up military maneuvers in Dem strongholds or swing areas—whether to intimate voters or to fabricate a crisis atmosphere—and whatever limits on voting he can impose, all justified with pretexts that he invents out of nothing. More here:

Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his “American Carnage” inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.

Koh: If he were serious about cutting crime he wouldn't be proposing cutting $400 million from the ATF or cutting $500 million from the FBI, 700 agents or the DEA with with drug enforcement or the office of violence against women, 100 million from there

So Trump is ordering the FBI and the National Guard to DC. May I remind you the same guy refused to do anything on January 6th 2021 against the violent Capitol Hill insurrectionists even when Congressmen from his own party were begging him? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...

Clearly this is not about making DC, or any of us, safer.

Jeez, I leave DC (for Baltimore) and the next day it gets militarized by presidential fiat ...

Welp. This seems bad.

This places Hegseth's firing of senior leaders of the nation's armed forces in perspective. Trumpers want a pliant military leadership that will support the use of troops against the American people.

Very glad that, after literally years in the pipeline, this special issue (initiated by Sarah Collins, w/contributions from Jason Ferrell, Steven Smith, Alicia Steinmetz, and the editors, is finally out in MIH!

come for the extended intro where i call jd vance a loser, stay for my analysis connecting vance's argument to the most reactionary antebellum views of citizenship

A very good piece by @joestieb.bsky.social One particularly irksome claim by Moyn: "Putin’s invasion has been treated in much the way many liberals have treated Trump’s rise—as an unprovoked aberration, an alien force from nowhere." Not only is this, as Stieb notes, "a double straw man" ...

Am I being hyper-sensitive/paranoid, or is the fact that what seems to be causing many in MAGAland to finally face the gross immorality of their hero-god is his association, and their obsession, with a Jew who preyed on children indicative of ... something?

A detailed and astounding report on ICE’s meteoric rise of funding and hiring and how it is creating an undertrained, overly aggressive massive masked police force. Great work, Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is why they didn’t want him back: He is a witness.

NEW: The nominee to run the Office of Special Counsel shared a 911 truther video last year on *911*, has ties to a holocaust denier, and said in a video we uncovered that straight white men are the smartest group and should be prioritized. He’s 30. www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/p...

Sure they're opening concentration camps and threatening to deport American citizens and bankrupting the country while slashing healthcare for millions and the president is openly taking bribes while violating the Constitution but at least the economy is also doing poorly

The cruelty of separating someone from a 3-month-old *whom she’s still breastfeeding* is unfathomable. The physical and emotional toll is hard for me to even write about. I can’t imagine her pain.

This is an administration that intentionally and unlawfully deports people to places where they may be tortured or killed. There is every reason to think that it will act to make that happen. I think it fair to say that this order will leave the court with blood on its hands.

Trump had somewhat different motives for attacking Iran, but they were similarly cynical and self-interested. www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...

Well, I, for one, am glad that unlike in all previous wars of choice this time, we finally have a clear end goal, an exit strategy and meaningful Congressional oversight to make sure our elected leaders don't do some crazy shit

that there is no way to know whether masked g-men who snatch and disappear civilians at random without warrants are, in fact, federal agents or deputized as such and not self-appointed vigilante pretenders, appears unambiguously to be a feature, not a bug, of the Trump Terror

The whole idea of Trump as antiwar rests on a confused reading of his hatred of multilateralism, the international order and the Deep State. He doesn't hate those things for good "dovish" reasons. He hates them for degenerate, corrupt reasons. Here's a corrective. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/1969...

The Fulbright Scholarship board resigned due to political interference from the Trump administration. The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, is canceling scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers based on their research topics, which include climate change, gender, and race.

Wow. New Quinnipiac poll finds Trump's approval at 38-54. And note this: Trump approval on immigration: 43-54 Approval on his deportations: 40-56 Can we say Trump isn't winning on this issue yet?

U.S. citizen rammed, detained by government thugs. Not the sign of a free country.

Sometimes, ignoring what the government is doing is a form of protest (and it humiliates the caudillo doing it)

Journalists are learning the hard way that the two principal sources of disinformation about the developments in Los Angeles are DHS and DOD, both of which are spreading false reports and are keen to incite violence. America has not experienced anything like this before. Other countries have.

Stefan Zweig wrote in The World of Yesterday that he knew everything was over in 1930s Germany when squads of young uniformed thugs began to jump out of trucks to beat up protesters. Someone organized, trained, provided uniforms, and provided trucks. Someone let them legally terrorize society.

Civic courage.

Another banger from Greg Sargent. Images of FBI, DEA, & ATF participating in ICE raids against restaurant dish washers is a powerful way to highlight this (in addition to the inherent evil of the raids themselves). Win Win. But Dems got to show up.

Historians of early modern political thought/religious thought and politics: check out this new article by our department's star PhD student @nbarden.bsky.social on Calvin and the (much-needed) project of constraining rulers.

this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .