The idea that there are no protests in the US and no one is standing up to Trump is proving incredibly hard to kill over here in Germany. It’s become dogma, utterly detached from empirical reality. I wonder if the people who keep talking like that understand they’re perpetuating regime propaganda.

One day I will do this for Butters bsky.app/profile/theo...

Also, its illegal to discuss gender in some American universities now.

A new Yale–Columbia study confirms what many have feared: the Supreme Court is increasingly ruling for the wealthy, with GOP-appointed justices siding with the richer party 70% of the time this decade, up from ~45% in the 1950s.

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The Senate Dems who voted to end the shutdown without extending ACA subsidies took in a third of airlines’ PAC-driven election spending last year. levernews.com/airlines-fav...

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Trump is trying to rule like a king. Sending masked agents into our cities. Targeting immigrant families. Terrorizing our communities. But this country does not belong to kings or dictators. It belongs to us. On October 18, we rise to say #NoKings ! social.demcast.com/s/mcvGYsMF. Find your event

Thanks for posting this prequel to the current attack on higher Ed @gerts-michael.bsky.social. I’d forgotten that I had summarized it so concisely before it happened! @aaup.org members may find helpful?

The one good thing about the time we’re in is it *should* now make crystal clear for the doubters how the a significant faction of the Republican Party has cynically deployed “colorblindness” to further an explicitly racist agenda. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments. Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

Feigning concern about supposed anti-white racism, the Supreme Court is poised to return the country to the 1960s. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

On the spectacle and reality of power.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/drawing-ou...

@JohnGanz continues to be one of the most original thinkers on our times...Drawing out Leviathan www.unpopularfront.news/p/drawing-ou...

Well, that rings painfully true... (From "Toward a New Sociology of Rights: A Genealogy of 'Buried Bodies' of Citizenship and Human Rights," by Margaret Somers and Christopher Roberts, 2008)

Weaving together Margaret Somers' concept formation work with Nancy Fraser's research on capitalism, care and social reproduction, Doucet offers a compelling alternative framework for understanding domestic labor.

Margaret Somers has a really moving chapter in her book Genealogies of Citizenship called Genealogies of Katrina that I think is an excellent companion read to any of the documentaries people are mentioning here

Just published! escholarship.org/uc/item/1jb6...

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

"Economists attribute 20% of the racial wealth gap to disproportionate criminal justice interactions. A bold proposal for repairing this collective injury is universal basic income…recidivism rates in the pilot’s first year were 7% – and 3% in the second year – compared to the state average of 43%."

the thought police are here...I don't recognize my country.

Sounded better in the original German

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder... Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed. Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.

@joyannreid.bsky.social is asking the right question.This may be the most dangerous period.When the dog catches the car & realizes he can’t open the doors or satisfy its hunger. Now there’s rage, snarling and vicious humiliation at having exhausted itself pursuing something that has no real meaning.

Charlie Kirk was a bad person.

If Charlie Kirk had been a liberal activist, the mere idea that anyone would get fired for speaking ill of him after his death would've been decried by the right as a terroristic attack on free speech.

if you read one piece on Charlie Kirk, let it be this:

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

If I see one more white dude out here canonizing Kirk I am going to lose it. We can stand against all gun and political violence without making the guy who spewed so much hatred into a saint. I promise it’s possible.

In which Charlie Kirk said that the "savage" Leticia James needed to go to prison for "castrating" the NRA.

Charlie Kirk loved to blame disasters and tragedies on Black people:

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...

Trump's Medicaid cuts are a betrayal of the American people. He promised to protect our healthcare, but instead he's trying to destroy it. We won't forget this. We won't forgive this. #DontKillOurMedicaid

Zohran Mamdani is standing up to the oligarchy and fighting to make one of America’s most expensive cities affordable for the working class. If you’re a New York City voter, I urge you to rank him #1 on your ballot by next Tuesday. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Medicaid isn’t “welfare.” It’s chemo. It’s oxygen. It’s a child’s seizure meds. You kill Medicaid, you don’t just “cut spending.” You kill people. #DontKillOurMedicaid

New york please for the love of god do not elect this motherfucker. one thing. can we get one thing right.

I’ll finish with this. The last time people outside New York City thought they understood the City’s Mayoral candidates better, it was when you all dubbed Rudy Giuliani “America’s Mayor.” Some of us tried to tell you….

In Jim Crow Atlanta, even the courtesy of being called “Mr.” or “Mrs.” was denied to Black people. But in one overgrown cemetery, headstones quietly pushed back – restoring dignity in death where it was denied in life. A powerful story of memory, respect and resistance: buff.ly/6SMTYIE #Juneteenth

This is something a section of the Covid-aware community would do well to take on board.

Political violence must always be condemned.