The more I learn about Reconstruction-not as a foregone conclusion but its genius& contingency,the movement coalitions and tactics;political insights& policy proposals;the race/gender/economic egalitarian vision for the abolition democracy,the more I understand why the period is not widely studied.

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

Two big reasons the Federalist Society fringe has made so much progress are 1) they are embraced by the Republican Party in a way even mild legal liberalism is not 2) the counterweight within the legal academy / nonprofit space cannot (or will not) cohere into an effective political force.

The Big Lie in the phrase 'don't mix sports and politics' is that it's not sports & politics they object to. It's sports and a certain kind of politics. Speak out against police violence or Israel's war on Gaza and it's 'stick to sports.' But bleat pro-war patriotic bombast and you're a hero.

The Democrats sense that they're gonna cruise to midterm victory by doing nothing and offering nothing and are using it as a freebie to punch left to make sure the voters don't get any ideas.

Some people have misunderstood this. We literally saw how Claude itself, coded by Claude, turns one API call into a DOS of thousands upon thousands of API calls done in the sloppiest fucking way possible. This postmortem shows Bluesky vibecoded a function to DOS itself, in a similarly stupid way.

I honestly think the "violent"/"non-violent" framing is not all that helpful. Malcolm X never seriously tried to start an armed insurgency, and plenty of mass mobilisation movements are successful without major use of violence. But people like this who talk of "non-violence" don't really mean that.

When people say they’re afraid of crime and in favor of harsh treatment towards criminals they’re more often than not expressing a sentiment totally divorced from legal statutes and people’s actions.

It's really obvious at this point that decades of pro-Palestine activism, culminating in the 2024 encampment movement, are now achieving the fruits of their labor.

I wonder if some leftists and liberals will pay attention to this. I've seen folks overly praise Rightwing organizing as if it is not subject to the same social forces and interpersonal dynamics as Left organizing. In fact it is: we often just don't have the same visibility into their groups.

Not to excuse him or anything, but I'm pretty sure someone else would have stepped up to vote no if they thought Golden was voting yes.

I am very, very thankful he did not get elected to the DSA NPC (national leadership) in 2017.

It is for this reason that JVP and JFREJ and IfNotNow leading very public and very publicly Jewish protests against the genocide in Gaza have done more to fight antisemitism this decade than every communal-establishment organization combined.

It is extremely despairing and also like...yeah we're here for a reason, and that's mostly Israeli conduct.

Goes without saying: this is a feature, not a bug By the time they throw out your case, you've been brutalized by cops. You spent hours or possibly days in jail. Your family had to scrape together bail money. You miss work to go to court. You spend months terrified of months or years in jail

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Twist: So many university leaders took the bait because they agree with the right wing grift. They don’t think fascists or racism is bad & are annoyed by students, staff & faculty that say otherwise because it forced them to take stands they don’t believe in. Now they can ignore fascism & racism

I find Joan Robinson very useful here, when she talks about how that Marx followed Smith and Ricardo and then Marx asked big questions of value, while Marshall turned them into little questions of price. www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2019/05/joan...

FYSA, the lead story is not "current GenXers brains are bad because lead", it's that lead poisoning disproportionately impacted poor and minority communities and those voters died younger. Also AIDS killed a lot of young progressive GenXers.

People who work for Zohran should talk to child care workers. You cannot build a system based off of a parent survey, or by talking to a handful of program owners and big nonprofit administrators. Child care teachers and providers are workers and they make less than almost every job in NYC.

This is where we sociologists and historians of technology just scream "It isn't the technology itself but the social conditions and relationships of the time that determine if and how it will be used." It's such a simple concept, but so many people can't grasp it.

Millennial are aged 30-45, so I don't know why this is supposed to be newsworthy.

This article doesn't mention that many of these jobs being filled by women that it's referring to are low-wage healthcare jobs (nurse aids, receptionists at doctor's offices, etc.), and it's especially women of color being stuck with those jobs. White people largely haven't needed to find new jobs.

This post was written by a Cubs fan.

We need to teach about the Civil Rights Movement more and in more detail. One reason is to get people out of the idea that the goal of civil disobedience is martyrdom. It's quite the opposite.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

“Amazon, Microsoft & Google ​have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition & now the companies are coming under shareholder pressure over ‌the environmental impact” Lose the passive voice—PEOPLE are doing this💫 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Which is why folks talking 2024 are so silly to me. When have we ever had any consequences for any of the evil shit republicans do? "they don't owe you anything" or "they told us everything in 2024 and we didn't listen" rings hollow

Prosecuting and purging the Republican Party was Biden’s one job. When he failed to do his duty it was just a waiting game to this moment.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

I think it's a good thing for politicians to call for his removal from office. They need to get to work on removing him.

There is no future for humanity in which the basic conditions for life for millions of people can be destroyed on one person’s whim.

At Dr. King's funeral, Harry Belafonte lost his cool with a NYT reporter: “this grievous moment was in part the result of a climate of hate & distortion that the New York Times & other papers had helped create.”It wasn’t just Southerners who laid the ground for King’s death—Northern papers had too.

break them

Look at what the good folks @readlux.bsky.social are doing as an example. They don't have the big money behind them that Turning Points has and they are still doing this. Why can't others do the same? They can.

Broke: Arguing about "voter ID" or "proof of citizenship" - loads of voters think this just sounds reasonable. Woke: Stating they want to "keep people from voting" and "force us to show passports or birth certificates" - which most people think is fucked up.

Yall, she's running against Platner too. Look at how easy it is for a candidate not to suck when they authentically champion progressive policies. Please give her platform a look, support if you can, and if youre in Maine, a vote.

I dunno I think neoliberalism’s grand plan of dismantling the welfare state and the social contract and replacing them, respectively, with nothing and nothing created a pretty fertile breeding ground for fascism and this isn’t even particularly controversial anymore.

Dems don't care if Newsom has Charlie Kirk, Steve Bannon, and Ben Shapiro on his show to talk about how much he admires them, but holding an event with someone passionately opposed to the Israeli government - a position held by 91% of Dem voters - is beyond the pale

when i was organizing in higher ed a decade ago, i would tell skeptical workers that the the same patterns of exploitation that had hit K12 were coming for universities and we needed to be prepared. much of what is currently being attributed to technology is better understood as part of that plan.

And while this has definitely slowed things down, protests still happen. All the time. But when federal and state governments seem to collude with your own college to oppress a (literal) teach-in and poetry reading in condemnation of genocide, it tens to have a chilling effect.

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

There's a much wider world of people who never voted for him to be organized.

Statements of "concern" or "condemnation" of Israel's war on Lebanon are utterly meaningless. The only meaningful action is to sanction Israel. We need economic boycotts.

Latest article from me: What does antifascism look like when it has to take on a far-right that has power in the government? It looks like those blocking ICE, defending against police and national guard overreach, and those creating community self-defense groups. #meltICE #fuckice

Imagine what it was like to be publicly opposed to the Patriot Act & to the establishment of DHS as a Black Muslim after 9/11, 😂 I remember clearly that it took less than 2 months for Congress to pass the Patriot Act with almost no debate. When you called to register opposition, there was disbelief.

The fact that they named the 2025 Project in a direct rebuttal to the 1619 Project still doesn’t get enough thought.