Been saying this since the 2012 Israel-Hamas war. State violence is violence. A state using social media to communicate a threat of violence is a violation of most social media platforms' policies, yet the platforms do no such enforcement. This calls into question platforms' definitions of violence.

That mean homeless teenager, upending the career of Matt Gaetz. What on EARTH is @nytimes.com doing?! She did not “have sex.” She was raped. Because she was a child below the age of consent. SHE did not “set off a chain of events.” MATT GAETZ set off that train.

Me peer reviewing a paper and making the same comment a reviewer just left about my own paper

Texas A&M is doing academic freedom the right way By Ezra Klein

You will understand a lot about the Epstein files and the bipartisan coverup by considering the fact that literal child rape - the monetized sexual exploitation of Black girls by white men - was the bedrock of the plantation economy. It was COMMON and very few people who are not Black women care!

Every day brings another scandal that would have severely damaged any other administration.

We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT

This machine kills fascists

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

Another reason why you can keep all that Paw Patrol, police-car-at-the-Touch-a-Truck, cop-costume-for-Halloween bullshit far the fuck away from me and my family.

How many kids first experience of the state will be of masked men grabbing people?

There's gonna have to be tribunals once we get through all of this. Accountability. Names named, no more masks. Who did what, and on whose orders.

Screaming for people to do more work on the political socialization of children.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Had an absolutely wonderful time chatting with @andyluttrell.bsky.social about tv, movies, sports, games (and of course brains) and what it’s all about. A very casual hang if you’re new to this, but some really insightful questions get at the heart of why researching entertainment even matters

“Media creators have a responsibility. Every story is a chance to reinforce a stereotype or to tell something deeper. Representation isn't just about inclusion. It's about accuracy, diversity, and balance.”

Manuscript Monday! New on our feed📲Social Processes in the Intensification of Online Hate: The Effects of Verbal Replies to Anti-Muslim and Anti-Jewish Posts Following 7 October 2023 - Zachary P. Rosen, Joseph B. Walther, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky

ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/... The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

Now would be a good time for everyone to read Why Americans Hate Welfare by Martin Gilens. *by ”Americans” he really means “white Americans,” and yes the answer is racism. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

It's funny that there are still people on here who think Israelis shouldn't be held to account in the international legal fora because of some so called independent judiciary. The judiciary is a subsidiary of the occupation system. Take a look at the timeline of events below re: Sde Teiman rape.

The chasm between actual Democratic Party policy goals and achievements and popular imagination of those goals and achievements is something to behold.

The United States, in which people are happy to spend $ millions on police overtime just to make sure that (checks notes) hungry children don’t get to eat.

The report is notable as it’s the first confirmation of the State Department’s acknowledgement of the scale of Israel’s violations in relation to the Leahy Laws. The Leahy Laws bar the U.S. from sending weapons to foreign military units credibly accused of human rights violations.

A classified State Department report released just days before the current ceasefire agreement went into effect found that Israel has committed “many hundreds” of potential human rights violations in Gaza that would render it illegal to continue sending weapons to many Israeli military units.

Do people actually understand the war waged against the Panthers by the U.S government? I think that most people really do not.

Many depolarization programs highlight the importance of acknowledging common ground, often assuming that democratic values are something we can all agree on. This paper underscores why that's a bad assumption—and how support for multiracial pluralistic democracy is itself related to group identity.

Tomorrow in #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics we're talking about music preferences, so of course I have to play this video of someone wearing a pro-police "thin blue line" flag while dancing to...Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddrF...

Whether it’s Cuomo condemning the elderly to die of COVID in nursing homes or Mamdani calling his dad’s cousin ”aunt,” both sides have track records that should concern older New Yorkers.

The Biden administration lied to cover up a murder committee by the Israeli government.

This was a great convo. @smettler.bsky.social is brilliant and here you can listen to her talk at length about an important topic - rural identity.

DEI aircraft would have stayed *on* the ship. apnews.com/article/navy...

Reminds me of how “government cheese” somehow got turned from subsidies for the dairy industry (i.e., the govt essentially giving them money) into free food for lazy poor people (i.e., the govt essentially giving THEM money).

This is a common refrain in my #CMN425: Entertainment and Politics class. Exposure to political information in entertainment contexts might be all people get. It might be a doorway *into* politics rather than a distraction from “serious” political content.

Grad students in political science and other social sciences! Consider applying to the great 2-week summer program in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse. Info is here: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

It’s one banana, Michael. How long could it take to grow, 10 minutes?

Incidents like this are why if news agencies are going to repeat what police say, they should at least be clear that it's what police CLAIM happened and whether they have been able to independently verify any of those claims.

"SOUTHCOM was concerned about the operations not being lawful," per CNN reporting. Not surprised. I served in Pentagon assessing counterterrorism operations. I explain constitutional and international legal problems with these Caribbean strikes.⤵️ youtu.be/DHXz_y6Updg?...

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

"What would you say if you saw this in another country" etc.

I know I have a few journalists following me...I hope some of you will stay on this. There are many organizations sitting on millions of dollars that people from around the world donated for the people of Gaza. This money needs to get to the people it was meant for so they don't have to beg anymore

I fear that schools being willing to drop diversity programs without a fight shows how flimsy their commitment to inclusion was in the first place. People fight for things they truly believe in.

Former military PAO here. I can say a lot of things about my service, but one thing I was definitely proud of—and took to heart since my first day at DINFOS—was dedication to providing timely, accurate information and a commitment to maximum allowable transparency. Those days seem to be over.

Once again, state violence constructs reality. Many people viewing these ICE videos of violent arrests are likely going to believe that the force and the arrest were necessary—after all, why else would ICE be doing it? It’s propaganda.

If you were an admin or member of one of the Facebook groups that the DOJ jawboned Facebook into censoring, we want to talk to you! Please shoot me a message,

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Like a piece of shit eating itself.

People gave a record amount of money to multiple organizations for the people of Gaza and all this money just sat there for the past 2 years because Israel blocked it. I hope this money gets distributed quickly now so that the people of Gaza don't have to beg anymore news.un.org/en/story/202...

Absolutely none of this makes any sense, and we’re gonna need some answers from ICE about how this all went down. I’m sure they will be fully transparent and forthcoming.