“Eighty years ago, deep inside a Warsaw ghetto cemetery, Israel Milejkowski gathered fellow physicians with whom he co-authored a clandestine ‘hunger disease’ study.”

If a former Israeli PM can say this, I think it’s legit to criticize what’s going on without being labeled anti-Israel.

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

Maybe this is all a brilliant gambit to stave off climate change by collapsing global production and consumption.

Have you all heard the clip where Pres. Trump is being asked about what DOGE will cut from the DoD and he keeps pivoting to “we’re going to go into Ft. Knox to make sure the gold is there”? He really sounds like he is not all there.

www.boycott-tesla.org

Protesters gathered in front of a Tesla showroom on Van Ness Ave. Wednesday evening to protest Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. 📸: Dan Hernandez/The Chronicle

"America has no king" seems like a good theme to rally around

Tesla is particularly vulnerable to a boycott and anti-fascists should make every effort to make the brand as toxic as possible www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/02/boyc...

Tomorrow is the #TeslaTakeover, and there will be protests nationwide at Tesla dealerships. If you live in the Bay Area or anywhere else with a lot of Teslas on the road, you can get #BoycotT bumper stickers from boycott-tesla.org to pass out to Tesla owners who want to stand up for democracy.

Alright everyone, Christmas is over and here's a sign that you should be working on your syllabi.

I recognize that, as a Nicaragua scholar, everything reminds me of Nicaragua. But let me explain why this reminds me of Nicaragua

from @thomasjwood.bsky.social x.com/thomasjwood/...

my take talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/debat...

The lesson that the open convention people are going to learn real fast is that, in a coordination game, you can't beat somethin' with nothin'

“Across demographic groups, Harris outperforms Biden. On the chart, dots shown to the left on a given line indicate the candidate who fares better against Trump. Notice that the solid circles—those indicating Harris’s margins against Trump—sit consistently to the left.” Gift link: wapo.st/4cpPriQ

Dear Joe Biden: 2024 is not about the foreign policy, stupid. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/what-joe-b...

Yes, the French just showed us that strategically resigning to consolidate anti-far right coalitions is a winning strategy. There's a winning anti-Trump majority in US, too, but it requires a candidate other than the one who 75-80% feel is too old to do job. bsky.app/profile/tani...

New article from me on civil war violence in Nicaragua, focusing on violence by FSLN govt forces in 1980s, the need to look at violence committed by more restrained groups, & need to consider different explanations at different levels of analysis. polisky conflictsky academic.oup.com/jogss/articl...

One of my favorite in-class exercise ideas that I've stolen -- introduces surveys but really makes them think about operationalizing concepts. #TeachLearnSky

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