An eminent public intellectual has their CV posted in Comic Sans! I'm wondering if it's just a generational knowledge gap, or if it's a commentary of sorts on the pretensions of academia.

I'm disappointed about Platner, dammit.

One of the most sickening but important things about writing my copaganda book was digging more deeply into how elite universities are so deeply connected to manufacturing consent among educated liberals for many of the ugliest and most depraved things about our world.

the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way: I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

When the conflict expands in scale & scope, the good feelings help propel people to do hard things. Shitting on the public rallies is fucking dumb. It's also ahistorical and lacks any serious engagement with the history of social movement successes in the US. It's just trashy demobilization.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

To make history you have to risk something, to fight fascism you have to *fight.* An authorized march demonstrates opposition but does little more. Please get that straight or else this march tomorrow is doing nothing but absolving your guilt about being part of a system brutalizing millions.

Block and move on. Don’t engage with filthy little trolls who have no game. Let them wallow in their squalor and they’ll get bored and leave back to their Nazi bar.

Luckily you only teach a 2/2, right? LOL JK !!!!!!!!

Ever wonder why so few athletes in North America have spoken about Israel's genocide in Gaza? We did too... so we asked some to find out. Answers include "fear of losing sponsorships," "the McCarthyist response from government,” and “Zionists gaslighting and doxxing people."

this is a prime opportunity for democrats to explicitly tell their voters "they say you're a terrorist, but youre just a patriotic american who is trying to get by in this world."

Behold the ChatGPT-free midterm exams. 👍🏼

If you're the Dems and you were scared of immigration as a topic before, I might try making it an issue now that masked goons are beating the shit out of innocent people in the streets on a daily basis. A lot of people are probably not down with this whatever their views on immigration are

Normies absolutely have no idea that there are any of the concerns or negative externalities with the major AI platforms, because media absolutely refuse to cover the topic.

Yes. Fully grown white women get infantilized too, as permanent "damsels in distress," needing protection ... often from men of color. Sexism & racism in mutual support of each other.

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go, …but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

Or they could just, you know, fucking pay taxes

I'm a bit of a dissent apologist for this reason I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.

Scenic traffic jam: looking at the I-way bridge from the Point St. bridge while we wait to cross the (half-broken) Washington Bridge.

I’m having so much fun - you jealous?

Brown is out! They had to do more dancing in their letter because they previously capitulated and needed to reference their previous agreement but, at its core, this reiterates MIT's letter. The clock is now on for all other institutions. www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

It's so tempting to get defensive. I really respect this:

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

<nods> I have a kid in college and on a parents' facebook group, a father reposted a flyer for a campus anti-fascist reading group. He called it un-American. Hellllloooooooooo.

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act. I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

What if we could channel all our frustrations over our country’s rapid slide into authoritarianism into advocacy for policies that work for all of us? We can. Welcome to @americandemands.bsky.social #DemandBetter

I've just been introduced to my university's new "Faculty Misconduct Sanction Ladder Matrix," and let me tell you, things are going GREAT in higher education right now.

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

I’m so hoping after we get rid of this clown regime we will actually demand some major change. Like major. Like free healthcare, free eduction, universal basic income for all type changes. We deserve it after all this trauma. Generations of trauma for many. I’m done funding their Utopia.

Know Your Rights canvassing and education at work!!! Knowing the difference between a judicial warrant (that has to be filled out correctly!) and a nonsense DHS warrant (that is useless for entering private property) can save lives.

People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

And the Washington post and The Atlantic. And when it comes to higher education they’ve been doing this bullshit for so long it’s only more of the same for them, but with a little extra anti-intellectual fascism cherry on top

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

To the person who threw away flowers in Wayland Square: IDK why you did that. But if you think my mother isn’t going to fish something usable out of a sidewalk trash can, THINK AGAIN.

If the baby is in her placenta, tylenol is the least of her problems.

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

I know the labeling of their enemies as “Antifa” is a cynical move to justify punishment under some abstract collective, but it’s also very funny that they are positioning themselves as anti-antifa, or, you know, as fascists.

I liked how TNC linked the Kirk Mourning Mandate to the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. In a similar vein, holidays & place names as well as monuments are in dispute (still/again). Thoughts for the upcoming holiday weekend: thesocietypages.org/socimages/20... by @lisawade.bsky.social

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.

Spotted in Woonsocket RI. The sun sets on the 1st Amendment? lolsob

if I'm not mistaken, this is the first UBI scheme where they aren't in some stupid endless "study" and finally have enough data to just simply DO it, and of course like all the studies showed, the result is a huge boost for the economy

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