Beginning on Dec. 10, @lkatfield.bsky.social, the author of “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right,” will teach a 6-part class on the conservative intellectual movement and how it has shaped Donald Trump’s presidency as a part of the Lawfare Lecture series.

Once mocked as unsophisticated, Donald Trump in his second term has put forward an ambitious vision to reshape America. Surrounding the president is a loose network of intellectuals who provide his policies with a philosophy. An important new book maps it out.

“Few books in political theory foreground the author’s biography this much. But it lands.” My LARB review of Furious Minds by Laura Field. A terrific book. @princetonupress.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-mo...

I'm a few chapters into @lkatfield.bsky.social's great new book on MAGA intellectuals and I thought the close of her introductory chapter made a very important point about the dangers of talking about MAGA as it it is an intellectual desert. It's more like a refulgent swamp of shitty, toxic ideas.

BREAKING: A federal court blocked the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to cut off food assistance for 42 million people during the ongoing government shutdown. We'll keep fighting to ensure that federal programs serve their lawful purpose: to help, not harm, people and communities.

When doing research for my book, I spoke to mothers who felt ashamed to use SNAP at farmers’ markets, because it’s perceived to be too posh for the poor. But it’s smart budgeting. #SNAP dollars often go further at these markets because of special programs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

As a Canadian in the U.S. this is 💯 accurate.

Calling it “chemophobia” gets it wrong. It sweeps valid concerns under the rug at a time when we have very solid science showing that many of the pesticides and chemicals in our food and consumer products are not safe. This framing plays right into the hands of the chemical industry. #greensky

It's gonna be hard to enforce this at hockey games.

Our new research estimates that 2.8 million people aged 13+ in the U.S. identify as transgender. This includes 724,000 youth (13 to 17) and 2.1 million adults 18+. bit.ly/TranspeopleUS

It can be done.

Was talking to a friend about Chicago. She was there last year for the DNC. I’m headed there soon. 5 minutes after hanging up, my head exploded 🤯 when I realized that circus happened only LAST year. Not a decade ago, which is how it feels in my bones. 💀Dang, fascism moves quickly.

State & local programs make it easier for food pantries to access fresh produce that would otherwise go to waste. Some ingenuity and hard work at play after devastating federal cuts. #food #foodinsecurity #foodbank

UAW Region 9A Director Brandon Mancilla: “We cannot sustain the high levels of attrition, burnout, and turnover in our workplaces. This is a fight for justice for poor and working-class people all over New York City.” More: nycclc.org/news/strikin...

Solidarity with striking public defenders in NYC! They’re demanding a more manageable case load and pushing back against salary freezes. ✊ #UAW #NYLAG #publicdefenders

Went home 🇨🇦 recently and got to try new products because of this boycott. Learned that it's okay to buy 🇺🇸 if: 1. It's cheaper and you're low-income (lots of 🇺🇸 stuff is on sale, maybe because they can't sell it). 2. 🇨🇦 doesn't make it. But ya better be sure you NEED it! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity make them shut down the hotline use all your best Borg jokes

So, a rising age at first birth & rising shares of people who childless at a given age - & thus low birth rates - aren't a *cause* of all these problems cited by pronatalists. They're a *symptom* that contemporary society is not functioning in a way that lets people achieve their family goals. 9/

Can’t read the news right now, so am going to do this instead (or throw my phone in the river?) ⬇️

This morning, my kids—teenagers—who have grown up under Trump 1.0 and 2.0, were hopeful about political leadership. That’s a first! I don’t take these hopeful moments for granted. #mamdani #NYC

Okay, I guess. If you reject feminism, then, yes, cooking all the family meals from scratch and having lots of babies while your man gets an education and goes out to work can be understood as "liberating." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/s...

Do something good for your mental health today by looking at this post and reading the amazing comments. 💚🧡

I teach this in my food studies classes. SNAP is a powerhouse social program. (Quiz: Guess who lobbies for SNAP? Corporate grocers like WalMart. They reap profits from SNAP spending in their stores and their workforce depends on those benefits because their wages are so low)

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

May I present further evidence of how the Left has radicalized students in dangerous ways. Subversive graffiti in a bathroom at Rutgers University! #liberals #radicalleft #academiclife #empathy

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SELF magazine has a great cover story on MAHA. This movement would love nothing more than for women to be back in the kitchen and away from public life. They’re gunning for a world of traditional gender roles for men and women, which they see as “natural”. www.self.com/story/how-th...

Never would have guessed that my book would be relevant because of what's happening on the far right. I was happy to talk to Erica Sloan of @self.com who does a nice job here of tracing the problematic threads of #MAHA. MAHA + MAGA want to send women back to the 19th Century.

Yup, a lot to unpack. The thing is, our exposure to some chemicals in our food and consumer products are making us sick. That claim is based on solid evidence. But make no mistake, this administration is going to kill us all—by decimating public health and fueling the climate emergency.

hey! Haymarket is making our book No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement FREE in ebook form for the next 12 days! hopefully it's very clear this book is not about making money (& it won't 😂) lol so please tell everyone to download it if they want!

The same day the Hard Fork posts a very friendly interview with a former DOGE employee, @propublica.org actually investigates his specific work ... and finds that it was poorly done (none of which came up in the Hard Fork pod) www.propublica.org/article/insi...

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

Example # 15,801 of why academics can’t pretend what we do is not political. Budget reconciliation bill would slash federal aid that makes college affordable and possible for lower income students. Further limits access to financial aid among citizen kids with noncitizen parents Details below

I think about this every day

Proposed SNAP changes: reduce the age definition of “dependent” to 7. Except if you’re married. Then you can have dependents up to age 18. It also ups work req’ts. Except if you’re married & live with someone w/ someone meeting the work req’ts. This privileges a breadwinner-homemaker marriage.

Do you field online surveys and experiments? Ever get back text responses that look unusually diplomatic and polished? In this paper, now out at Sociological Methods & Research, we study the emerging use of AI among online study participants.

My team wrote a blog post about the challenges of prescribed fire smoke in the context of Clean Air Act attainment for pm2.5. open.substack.com/pub/cepp/p/b...

Am so proud of the American Sociological Association for joining this fight! 🙌@asanews.bsky.social

Posted this a while back & even w/in the last 8 days it's been scarily on point. LSA did create a somewhat virtual option for attendees, which: good. Every other such conference needs to do the same or similar. And ppl—even if you expect to gain entry, pls be careful abt technology you're carrying.

Confirming reports from @sciguyspace.bsky.social and @joelachenbach.bsky.social about proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. It doesn't look good, folks www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Canceling the local food purchasing program for food banks makes zero sense. No matter your politics, you support local food producers. The motivation for this is cruelty, plain and simple. #localfood #foodsecurity www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/09/f...

Excellent thread on a clever study using natural history collections to study the rise of #microplastics and #pollution. Turns out caddis flies were incorporating microplastics ~50 yrs earlier than previously documented. #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1016/j.sc... 🧪🌍

When it comes to disasters, news headlines & scholarly research tell us the same thing: social structure & social processes set the stage for disasters & their attendant losses. In the end, there is no such thing as a “natural” disaster. Don’t miss Kathleen Tierney’s new edition OUT NOW ↓

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

Yes! So now we need to take seriously all that senator Chris Murphy has to say about the risk to free and fair elections in 2026 and 2028.

In NYC it costs... * $4-5M to build a park bathroom * $70-$100m to make a subway station accessible (elevators etc) * $600k-$750k to build a single unit of affordable housing These costs threaten our future. How did this happen? 🧵 1/

I ❤️ Rutgers Faculty Senate.

Turns out weather forecasts will soon be for the rich.

Canadian retailers are actively boycotting US goods and leaving valuable shelf space empty to further hammer the point home. I've seen so many signs like these ones in various stores. Radio ads boast about which products are made in Canada with a fervour they never have before. It's noticeable.