People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

hilariously, given its role in where we are now, it feels like Reddit is about all that’s left of classical Internet culture, at least among big platforms

USAID was absolutely part of manufacturing consent for US empire. thing is, the critique of consent manufacture is usually because the thing being consented to is bad, not because the benefits conceded to maintain consent are…

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

It is, in fact, the stuff of populist campaigns! Everyone means everyone!

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

On Thursday, Florida's Board of Governors removed sociology from the general education curriculum of every university in the state. Chancellor Ray Rodrigues attacked the @asanews.bsky.social as illegitimate. On behalf of sociologists everywhere, I respond to them in today's @miamiherald.com:

the Trump admin is best understood as a criminal insider trading and patronage scheme with a clique of racist extremists at its core, similar to how underground white supremacist orgs evolved into bank robberies, guns, and racketeering, except in this case they won control of a superpower

again why it feels like the model is partly 1950s Spain: theocratic and intensely patriarchal authoritarianism and economic autarky, but with oil reserves and a planetary military

i believe snakes should wear gloves

NIMBYs you have trained for this moment

as a Durham resident, this is pure poetry

your grandparents voting for reagan

ugly politics aside richard wagner was an autistic freak who spent his life in debt peonage to his friends. jk rowling is one of the richest people in the world. both are equally antisemitic somehow so your point is already moot

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

the fact that ICE, the paramilitary wing of a party obsessed with Ruby Ridge, "federal overreach," and "liberty," operates in this fashion tells you everything you need to know - Republicans firmly support an unaccountable authoritarian state as long as it cages and/or kills their political enemies

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

widespread private autonomous vehicle adoption would be a social and infrastructural catastrophe, the equivalent of a cigarette that gives the smoker just the nicotine but everyone around them a pack's worth of smoke with every puff

it's inexplicable why American democracy is collapsing into fascism and we're about to have our first trillionaires h/t @chriscmooney.bsky.social

when we win, this generation’s Nazi hunters will know exactly where to start

This really is an encapsulation of what being an American is: experiencing something needlessly cruel and profoundly stupid while propaganda you can’t turn off blares about how free and lucky you are

reshare for alt text, republicans and rich people who want to privatize mail have been lying about the USPS and trying to push this narrative longer than I've been alive, and imposing massive financial burdens on it to make it "insolvent"

I am sick to death of ivy-educated hacks trying to dismantle higher ed. Ramaswamy doesn't know the first thing about the mission of public regional colleges or the communities who rely on them. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

with lots of little would-be Thanoses popping out of the woodwork today, here’s a good early critique of Ehrlich’s thinly disguised eugenicism www.jstor.org/stable/142863

Not great how the project of both the worst antisemites in the world and the prime minister of Israel is to convince everyone that the Jewish faith and the state of Israel are one and the same

The ICE warehouse in Western Maryland, up close. It’s hard to explain how enormous this place is until you’re standing right in front of it.

the Bastiat theory of military strategy

if you gave amtrak 5% of the military budget every year it would have received more money in two years than it has in its entire existence up to that point

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...

The far right's new politicized higher ed accreditor is illegitimate. "Rather than protecting educational quality, the CPHE appears designed to give partisan political actors a powerful new tool to pressure universities to conform to a narrow ideological agenda" — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Florida’s Board of Governors is made up of “political appointees from the business world, from insurance executives to roofing contractors, who are dictating how professors must teach their courses and even providing state-created textbooks for doing so.” My new piece in @truthout.bsky.social

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

it is the explicit position of this administration that indiscriminate murder and torture are not just necessary evils but celebrated virtues. is it possible to imagine William Calley or Lynndie England even facing a reprimand in today's US military?

banging the "Nietzsche's Paradox" sign with a hammer here. "my superior genius and talent is being limited by the resentful mediocrities"

wrote most of my dissertation in the cafe that used to be one block down from here. best city ❤️

while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article

To be clear I do not think it would be justified to murder schoolchildren even if Iran had been planning an attack on the US, but this makes it clear that this is a purely elective war that they haven't even bothered pretending to lie about this time.

Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime, as is the whole of Spanish society, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

donald the dove

In the history of Taylorism it's never been about making the machine do what human workers can do, but making the workers act like machines. Similarly, we should recognize this isn't about punishing service workers for not being courteous, but for not behaving like AI. Their humanity is the problem.

I wish Nietzsche and Freud were here to witness the extent to which violence workers are plagued by fantasies of persecution

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

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Without the ability to import weapons from the US, fund themselves with cash from American narcotics users, circulate illegal tobacco in Canada or launder money through European-controlled tax havens then CJNG and other Mexican cartels would never have amassed this military power

invention is the mother of necessity

From AAUP NC President Belle Boggs's blog, an explanation of the importance of academic freedom and a call to sign our petition to the UNC BOG not to pass the proposed Code revisions frogtroubletimes.substack.com/p/academic-f...