Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women. @aclu.org’s Cecellia Wang & @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s @janainelson.bsky.social. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day.

Check out today's episode of Fifteen Minutes of Fascism Episode 280: They Have Built Forced Birth Concentration Camps

A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s 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 states’ rights.

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.

Racist & antisemitic fundraiser for ICE killer of queer mom raises over $250K www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/quic...

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.

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.

It’s December 5th and I’ve already watched ‘Home Alone’ three times.

can’t believe Jared Kushner was unable to negotiate a meaningful and just peace with Putin

Genocide just as Lemkin defined it. euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/27/r...

"line go up is more important than preventing children from being preyed upon" - billionaire Mark Zuckerberg

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…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

So gross.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

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. foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-...

I’ve been writing for a long time about contested and evolving meaning of economic terms like “free enterprise,” and I’m struck that pollsters can ask people whether they have a “positive or negative” image of “capitalism“ or “socialism,” without defining the terms. news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...

Wait…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. “Cancelled:” not as valid on the job market.

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

When Trump starts deporting profs, can they at least still call it exile? Being exiled is how you know you’ve made it. Bakunin: exiled Bernstein: exiled Marx: exiled Luxembourg: exiled!

Shout out to @eyesontheright.bsky.social for spotting this white supremacist meme on the DHS Twitter last night. I followed up and DHS responded with more memes. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-inc...

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. www.politico.com/live-updates...

The mayor race on Tuesday saw massive turnout differentials - turnout in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’sbstrongest precincts was up ~30% while turnout in Cuomo’s best districts were ~ flat. These are big differences - essentially two different elections that happened to fall on the same day.

"Right-wing reactionaries have spent the past few decades insisting that the Constitution’s meaning is fixed in time so that they can...undo civil rights gains while maintaining a semblance of respectability. And Damsky’s paper turned their subtext into text." @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Did the last download of @dedoose.bsky.social work for everyone? Mine is being extremely wonky.

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

They really took it all the way 😂

“Only a counter-elite can challenge our…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 lion’s share of its political energies.” -Jeremy Carl, 5/19/22 1/

1/x doing a democracy! I’m 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. menlopark.gov/agendas

JUST IN: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues interim US Attorney Alina Habba for "false arrest and malicious prosecution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Timothy Snyder: Midwesterner at large : ).

Dystopian, especially and not only because Peter Thiel is basically a comic book villain newrepublic.com/post/195904/...

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....

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?!

Follow along as @reportbywilson.bsky.social of Radical Reports "Track[s] the Far Right Groups Targeting LGBTIQ Events During Pride Month" www.radicalreports.org/p/tracking-t...

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.”

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 — which does not allow the religious charter school — stand. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Pedro Pascowl

I'm tracking the far right anti-LGBTIQ activists, Christian Nationalists, White Supremacist, and violent extremist groups targeting LGBTIQ events during Pride Month:

This should be the end of Noem’s career in public life. It almost certainly won’t be, however, which is itself damning.

Responding to the mass cancellation of NSF grants, Fazio (@lkfazio.bsky.social), a researcher who studies misinformation: “What can US researchers do in this situation? One thing is clear: do not surrender to political pressure or abandon crucial research questions.”

Infuriating.

My whole academic career, I’ve 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!