Trump’s FBI wants you to believe that in a world full of fascist ideologues whose progenitors were responsible for 10s of millions of deaths, that #antifascists are the main threat to the USA. The statement is asinine, unbelievable, and shameless. share.google/R4tWW1uQLLHq...

Showing up in Boston! #nokings

@Antifa spotted at the @nokingsinunitedstates rally on the Boston Common.

Oh look, another White House Signal scandal. This time it was an aide to Stephen Miller who was using Signal so openly in a public space that a bystander captured images of the chat. Oh and the messages were about sending the *82nd Airborne* into Portland. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one." - Omer Bartov www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

And so it begins. Wag The Dog. From the man who promised those who voted for him peace on earth. Who knows how this will end. But it won't be good for any of us. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

If Trump is throwing a $50 million military parade for himself even the most rabid MAGA person has to understand that cutting funding for public radio and television has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility. It has everything to do with keeping you in the dark. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

What intimidating visits from the FBI signal @phillipgbhnews.bsky.social

Here is a clip from a panel I was part of alongside @fredpeabody.bsky.social and @phillipgbhnews.bsky.social, chaired by Susan Ormiston, following Fred's new film 'Digital Tsunami.' More on my latest Substack article 'Democracy versus AI': open.substack.com/pub/johnrals...

Given the ICE arrests on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard this week I can't think of a better time to reintroduce listeners and readers to this 2017 award-winning series from GBH News and myself: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

In some parts of the country you find Trump signs everywhere. Here in Lexington, Massachusetts on the country's 250th anniversary this clear as day anti-Trump message is ubiquitous.

DHS told her to leave the country. She's a citizen — and an immigration attorney www.nbcboston.com/news/local/m...

"The Trump administration is using a Biden-era policy to investigate protesters as potential terrorists, and intelligence sources are alarmed by the new strategy." www.rawstory.com/counterterro...

The Disappeared. One high-profile incident was caught on video this week in Boston, when a Turkish woman in the US on a student visa was surrounded by plain-clothed agents wearing masks and taken away in handcuffs. theworld.org/segments/202...

Colleagues: If you're teaching this Spring or next Fall, please let me know if I can help. Happy to talk with you & your students about immigration, free speech, ideological exclusion & deportation, Cold War/McCarthyism, War on Terror, & "Threat of Dissent." 🗃️ www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

I just renewed my subscription to @theatlantic.com It's indispensable. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Nuff said. Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

BREAKING @wgbh.org News. From GBH News: Harvard Medical School doctors sue Trump administration to restore censored articles | GBH www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

This is not a presidential speech. It is a disinformation operation.

Haiti On The Line, now, 844 744 TALk. www.wgbh.org/foundation/p...

The Boston Association of Black Journalists is hosting a panel discussion this Thursday (2/27) with @tianarochon.bsky.social, @kwanialunis.bsky.social, @phillipgbhnews.bsky.social, @sueoconnell.bsky.social, and Malcolm Johnson of @nbcboston.com ....check it out.

NEW: The Trump/Musk blitzkrieg aims to destroy government to advance oligarchy & autocracy—and to crush the Democrats & the progressive agenda. It's an existential crisis. Yet so many Dems are missing in action. In my OUR LAND newsletter, I ask, WTF? Pls share. link.motherjones.com/public/38721...

Folks, I just broke this story for @gbhnews State Department erases LGBTQ victims from human trafficking report www.wgbh.org/news/news-pr...

The AHA & the @oah.org have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.” 🗃️

Racial McCarthyism. Federal health workers terrified after 'DEI' website publishes list of 'targets' search.app/T91pbPurJWsC...

My latest @GBH News story is about attempts by the Trump Admin to strip nonprofits of funding and power. Nonprofits serve as the linchpin of Civil Society, a buffer against authoritarianism.

WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Such an obvious Wag The Dog decision. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

From GBH News: 6 people with ties to Boston area skating club killed in DC plane crash | GBH www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Love or hate Harvard Square in Cambridge? Some say one moneyed landlord is holding up progress. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social @phillipgbhnews.bsky.social

I am thankful to outgoing @washingtonpost.com columnist @Jen-rubin.bsky.social for standing up to authoritarianism and rampant "bend the knee" obsequiousness. She's heading to the aptly named "The Contrarian." I'm subscribing. And you? www.rawstory.com/washington-p...

Syria? It's important to remind ourselves of how the U.S. partnered with the Assad regime:

One of the dumbest headlines ever. "Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg told Fox News that both Russia and Ukraine are ready for the war to end." No kidding. As though both countries want to continue a fight that's taken thousands of lives and injured thousands more. The question is, "end" on what terms?

"Elon Musk...on Friday endorsed Germany’s far-right party, a group with ties to neo-Nazis," which begs the question: Why is Bill Ackman, who targeted Harvard's Black president and campaigns against anti-semitism, so tightly in Musk's embrace. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/w...

Victor Orban's Hungary is coming to America on Jan 20, and targeting the Ford, Soros and McArthur Foundations, etc. Here's further proof. And obeying in advance (ABC News, LA Times, Jeff Bezos, et. al) will not make one authoritarian-proof, when it arrives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

There's a LOT of troubling facets of U.S. and European history that feel disturbingly relevant right about now.

Because it was never about eggs.

kakistocracy That's the word you were searching for. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...