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PhD student: law, metaphor, and the far-right Associate Editor, Journal of Right-Wing Studies
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Craig Johnson
11 days ago
Check out today's episode of Fifteen Minutes of Fascism Episode 280: They Have Built Forced Birth Concentration Camps
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Episode 280: They Have Built Forced Birth Concentration Camps
Fifteen Minutes of Fascism is a sadly topical podcast covering the global rise of the radical right. Listen every Thursday for news, analysis, historical background, and celebrations of the deaths of
https://soundcloud.com/user-627234964/episode-280-they-have-built
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Marc Elias
15 days ago
A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Departmentās nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and statesā rights.
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Federal judge rules DOJ can āno longerā be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-judge-rules-doj-can-no-longer-be-trusted-in-voter-roll-crusade/
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)
25 days ago
When Keystone Kash's FBI raided the Georgia election office, they not only took all the ballots and equipment, they also took the back-up images of the ballots. Taking the back-up images means that they can tamper with the ballots without anyone being able to prove they did it.
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Racist & antisemitic fundraiser for ICE killer of queer mom raises over $250K
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Racist & antisemitic fundraiser for ICE killer of queer mom raises over $250K - LGBTQ Nation
Its creator asked if the queer woman killed by the ICE agent is a "negrophile."
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/quick-hit-fundraiser-for-ice-of-queer-mom-raises-over-250k/
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Jeff Sharlet
about 2 months ago
There have been nine ICE shootings. There will be more. I think it may be time to consider these actions in the historical context of the Central American death squads supported by previous iterations of U.S. imperialism. And ICE's hostile incursion into "blue" cities as a form of imperialism, too.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks
about 2 months ago
They literally cannot sack us all! WE are the university, and it's past time WE defended it. That goes all the way up to the admins who still like to think they're scholars. Colleagues, fascism is here and we need to STAND UP.
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God
3 months ago
Itās December 5th and Iāve already watched āHome Aloneā three times.
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Toby Earle šŗš¦
3 months ago
canāt believe Jared Kushner was unable to negotiate a meaningful and just peace with Putin
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Timothy Snyder
3 months ago
Genocide just as Lemkin defined it.
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Putin signs decree formalizing Russification of occupied Ukraine through 2036 - Euromaidan Press
Putin signs decree formalizing Russification of occupied Ukraine through 2036, setting 95% "Russian identity" targets for four oblasts.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/27/russification-of-occupied-ukraine-putin-decree-2036/
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Talia "'Brown/Trans/Les' OUT NOW!" Bhatt ā¢
3 months ago
"line go up is more important than preventing children from being preyed upon" - billionaire Mark Zuckerberg
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Andrew Lawrence
3 months ago
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helpedā¦.no not that one eitherā¦sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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So gross.
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Leah Litman
4 months ago
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
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Ida Bae Wells
4 months ago
The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row and the DoD has confirmed nearly $11 billion in fraud in just 7 years. But the concern is the poorest Americans abusing the average $342 monthly alotment.
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Larry Glickman
4 months ago
Iāve been writing for a long time about contested and evolving meaning of economic terms like āfree enterprise,ā and Iām struck that pollsters can ask people whether they have a āpositive or negativeā image of ācapitalismā or āsocialism,ā without defining the terms.
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Image of Capitalism Slips to 54% in U.S.
Fifty-four percent of Americans, down from 60% in 2021, have a positive opinion of capitalism, while a steady 39% view socialism positively.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/694835/image-capitalism-slips.aspx
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Waitā¦this is reverse exile. If professors are to be royally punished for their opinions, they should at least get to put that they were exiled on their CV. āCancelled:ā not as valid on the job market.
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5 months ago
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Amy Ash
5 months ago
So cool that whenever someone asks the president, ādid you eat the Lindbergh babyā heās like, āno but Iād be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it laterā
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When Trump starts deporting profs, can they at least still call it exile? Being exiled is how you know youāve made it. Bakunin: exiled Bernstein: exiled Marx: exiled Luxembourg: exiled!
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Hunter Walker
5 months ago
Shout out to
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for spotting this white supremacist meme on the DHS Twitter last night. I followed up and DHS responded with more memes.
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DHS Includes āWhite Supremacistā Meme in Video Promoting Deportation Blitz
A video posted on X by the Department of Homeland Security included...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-includes-white-supremacist-meme-in-video-promoting-deportation-blitz
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Kyle Cheney
8 months ago
DIDN'T TAKE LONG: One group suing over Trump's birthright citizenship order has refiled its lawsuit as a class action, noting that the court left open this option for nationwide relief. They're asking a Maryland judge for an emergency restraining order.
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David Shor
8 months ago
The mayor race on Tuesday saw massive turnout differentials - turnout in
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āsbstrongest precincts was up ~30% while turnout in Cuomoās best districts were ~ flat. These are big differences - essentially two different elections that happened to fall on the same day.
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Jeanne Timmons
8 months ago
"Right-wing reactionaries have spent the past few decades insisting that the Constitutionās meaning is fixed in time so that they can...undo civil rights gains while maintaining a semblance of respectability. And Damskyās paper turned their subtext into text."
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe
8 months ago
amtrakās marketing team gets it
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Did the last download of
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8 months ago
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What is Juneteenth and Why Does it Matter: A Short History | Journey to American Democracy
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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8 months ago
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Timothy Snyder
8 months ago
#NoKings
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
8 months ago
We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
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They really took it all the way š
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9 months ago
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Jenny Cohn
9 months ago
āOnly a counter-elite can challenge ourā¦managerial masters, & it is to the unashamed development & cultivation of that counter-elite, particularly among white voters excoriated by the Democratic regime, that the right must devote the lionās share of its political energies.ā -Jeremy Carl, 5/19/22 1/
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Judd
9 months ago
1/x doing a democracy! Iām at a special meeting of the Menlo Park City Council discussing a low-income housing project on large flatland parking lots that dominate the downtown landscape.
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Joe Walsh
9 months ago
thehill.com/homenews/cam...
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Kyle Cheney
9 months ago
JUST IN: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues interim US Attorney Alina Habba for "false arrest and malicious prosecution."
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Timothy Snyder: Midwesterner at large : ).
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Jonathan Cohn
9 months ago
Dystopian, especially and not only because Peter Thiel is basically a comic book villain
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Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American
Trumpās dystopian plan is already underway.
https://newrepublic.com/post/195904/trump-palantir-data-americans
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Tal Lavin
9 months ago
its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....
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Mueller, She Wrote
9 months ago
BREAKING: ICE RAID reported at Buona Forchetta tonight about a mile up the road in San Diego. Smoke bombs were used to disperse the crowd. FUCK ICE. WTF?!
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Follow along as
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of Radical Reports "Track[s] the Far Right Groups Targeting LGBTIQ Events During Pride Month"
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Tracking the Far Right Groups Targeting LGBTIQ Events During Pride Month
Far right groups, emboldened by the Trump Administration, represent a direct threat to the safety of LGBTIQ communities, and various far right groups are expected to target events during Pride Month.
https://www.radicalreports.org/p/tracking-the-far-right-groups-targeting-pride-month?r=2dmt8y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Chris Hayes
9 months ago
mikekonczal.substack.com/p/the-house-...
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The House Just Passed The Biggest Medicaid Cut in U.S. History, Twice the Size of Reagan's Cuts
So much for realignment. New analysis from UnidosUS shows the Houseās cuts to Medicaid and SNAP are unprecedented, twice as large as anything under President Reagan,
https://mikekonczal.substack.com/p/the-house-just-passed-the-biggest
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Deborah Pearlstein
9 months ago
Judge: The "hasty arrest...suggests a worrying misstep by your office...An arrest...is not a preliminary investigative tool. It is a severe action, carrying significant reputational & personal consequences & should only be undertaken after a thorough, dispassionate evaluation of credible evidence.ā
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Chris Geidner
9 months ago
BREAKING: Supreme Court sidesteps religious charter school question for now with 4-4 vote, creating no national precedent and letting the Oklahoma Supreme Court decision ā which does not allow the religious charter school ā stand.
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Paul Frazee
9 months ago
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Teddy Wilson
9 months ago
I'm tracking the far right anti-LGBTIQ activists, Christian Nationalists, White Supremacist, and violent extremist groups targeting LGBTIQ events during Pride Month:
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Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month - Google My Maps
Tracking the far right anti-LGBTIQ activists, Christian Nationalists, White Supremacist, and violent extremist groups targeting LGBTIQ events during Pride Month. Project of Radical Reports: https://w...
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Chris Geidner
9 months ago
This should be the end of Noemās career in public life. It almost certainly wonāt be, however, which is itself damning.
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Kate Starbird
9 months ago
Responding to the mass cancellation of NSF grants, Fazio (
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), a researcher who studies misinformation: āWhat can US researchers do in this situation? One thing is clear: do not surrender to political pressure or abandon crucial research questions.ā
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Infuriating.
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In Defense of Despair
The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesnāt have to be so.
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BostonJoan š³ļøāš š¦«
10 months ago
My whole academic career, Iāve been inspired by the leadership of Alondra Nelson. She became more to me than an author and a scholar, but a model for professional development and integrity. While I may never live up to her legacy, just cheering her on makes me feel like a champ!
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Kate Starbird
10 months ago
Since 2022, my colleagues and I have been targeted by political attacks. Early on, we worried that political actors would specifically target our projects & universities for defunding. But in the end, they came after everyone. The strategy of keeping heads down was never the right one.
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