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The U.S. is now a... Kleptocracy: rule by thieves, officials use political power to steal national wealth & resources for personal gain Kakistocracy: rule by least qualified, most ignorant & unprincipled citizens Plutocracy: rule by wealthy, using their riches to influence policy for own benefit

We end up micro-dosing hate when we let fear masquerade as safety. We have an administration who uses our fear to justify violence against immigrants. We must learn from history: “Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power” Hannah Arendt

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

We want MEI at work: Merit, Excellence & Intelligence 👉 But we hire thru word-of-mouth 👉👉 We fill positions internally 👉👉👉 Social events after work get you the tap on the shoulder Don’t let the anti-DEI folks fool you: MEI protects resources, power & status for select few. #science 🧪

👉 We spend 90,000+ hours or about 1/3 of our lifetime at work 👉👉 Imagine spending that time at a place with a culture of exclusion & unfairness 👉👉👉 Or imagine spending that time in a place that has a culture of inclusion & fairness DEI done right = legal, ethical & strategic #science 🧪

"Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same." Miles Bruner

Mike Fanone Is A Hero Of J6, Don Old Chump is a ZERO......

Yesterday, we made history. Around 7 MILLION people across the United States stood up to say #NoKings, with allies around the world in countries like Japan, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia joining us in solidarity. BUT OUR FIGHT IS NOT OVER.

KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right? MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

Block list for Trump regime government accounts. How to Dismantle a Dictatorship, Step 4: Block validation. #3E bsky.app/profile/did:...

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We have a choice: 👉Deploying National Guard to D.C.: over $1.8 million per day 👉👉Deploying National Guard & Marines to LA: over $2.2 million per day 👉👉👉Deploying 20,000 National Guardsmen for one year: projected to cost $9.9 million per day Voting in midterms 🗳️: Priceless and you #savedemocracy

From our ongoing book and research into the origins of the DEI backlash 👉Dogmatic approach to DEI ↪️ reactive resentment 🟰shutting the door in your face 👉Appreciative inquiry to DEI ↪️ opportunity to understand 🟰rolling out the welcome mat @academic-chatter.bsky.social #science 🧪

A bit of good news www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties. Hello? Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party. Enough of the false equivalence.

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DO NOT normalize: 👉ICE arresting US citizens 👉👉Deploying National Guard to intimidate 👉👉👉Administration posting partisan messages during shutdown “Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” - spoken by Nemik in Andor

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7." @timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50! #FightFireWithFire

The 4 stages of Republican Censorship 1: Fire employees 2: Rough up citizens 3. Jail Citizens And the most requested of them all; 4. Public Executions

I know this sounds extreme. It is. I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am. Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever. But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

We’re in the United States of Upside Down: This administration has convinced people that the “business case for diversity” is scarier than the “business case for fascism”…which is unfolding in real time with the help of tech billionaires 💙 #democracy #diversity #inclusion #fascism #business 💙

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

The Supreme Court will rehear Louisiana v. Callais on Oct 15—a case that could reshape voting rights nationwide. At stake is Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the core protection that stops racial discrimination in redistricting. If it falls, one party could control Congress for a generation. 🧵

Y'all, this is a white supremacist regime intent on re-segregating the United States and removing Black people from positions of authority and access to opportunity. This must be stated as a simple 'matter of fact' and condemned at every turn.

This administration is best described by Hannah Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’: 👉Normalization of immoral acts 👉Conformity as test of loyalty 👉Weaponized bureaucracy Even if you’re not an ‘evil’ person, you will be unrecognizable to yourself as you support in more and more extreme ideas and lies

How many felons do you think are working for ICE at this point? I definitely think it's a a non-zero number. If they weren't a felon when they started, I suspect many of them are...now.

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

it’s all just a grift

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan. Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Last night, my team filed a motion to defend voters in California. DOJ sued 8 states. My firm has filed to protect voters in all 8 states. We will never back down from the fight to protect free and fair elections.

From our ongoing book and research into the origins of the DEI backlash 👉Dogmatic approach to DEI ↪️ reactive resentment 🟰shutting the door in your face 👉Appreciative inquiry to DEI ↪️ opportunity to understand 🟰rolling out the welcome mat @academic-chatter.bsky.social #science 🧪

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California. I urge anyone in the state to vote yes. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

More coded language from the far right about who belongs in the US or more appropriately, who the US belongs to: Heritage Americans www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I came to the Capitol, ready to be sworn in and get to work for the people of Southern Arizona. Instead, Speaker Johnson chose to delay, denying our community the representation we deserve.

This is an important interview. A couple stopped and profiled by border patrol comes to a realization: who they voted for lied to them. It takes courage to admit it, and more to go public. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Posting nuggets from our ongoing book and research into the origins of the DEI backlash - Extreme wealth and extreme prejudice colluded to fund anti-DEI euphoria: Tech Billionaires, America First Ideologues, and White Supremacist Right Wing Groups @academic-chatter.bsky.social #booksky #nonfiction

Academic colleagues, any advice for writing a mass market book? What’s worked for you? Trying to reach an audience beyond academics and would welcome input 📕 @academic-chatter.bsky.social #booksky #nonfiction