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NEW: Elon Musk is trying to buy Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, spending millions to install bought-and-paid-for MAGA extremist Brad Schimel. Today, @WisDems launches a campaign to punch back: The People v. Musk.🧵

submitted 3 hours ago • 64 comments

to paraphrase the Old Man, the state is now a tool for one bourgeois to mismanage his own affairs

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

IMO a key part of the eventual state rebuilding project on the other side of this crisis should be the creation of an autonomous federal university system

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A couple of years ago, I posted that if people wanted to understand how to operate in hostile "information environments" they would be much better off listening to union organizers than disinformation experts. I still basically believe that.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

democrats are really going to convince themselves that “a return to normalcy” is what people want when its really “rebuild, investigate, imprison”

submitted 3 days ago • 171 comments

If you have an hour to spare and want to understand how #TeslaTakedown can materially change the political situation, please listen to this interview. This is a unique opportunity. Elon Musk is vulnerable. Spread the word, and let's take him down!

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

one of the most effective things that can be done to remove musk from power and break the republican party is destabilize and destroy tesla's market position, because wrecking tesla's largest shareholder means wrecking the republican party's primary financier

submitted 5 days ago • 55 comments

A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

submitted 6 days ago • 147 comments

It's an important demand to make, there have to be consequences for the subversion of American democracy. A consistent trend in American history, whether in 1865 or 2021, is that allowing malign actors back in on a "forgive and forget" basis always means giving them more opportunities to wreck havoc

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

I think the possibility of a Tesla/Musk death spiral has been underrated as of yet. His power comes from the tight linkage between his image and his wealth, damage to one damages the other, and oh boy with his growing instability and unpopularity there is more damage to come.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

My original opinion remains unchanged; but it is only an opinion.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

The whole article is worth a read but woof, here's a big chunk of the vibecession story I think www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

submitted 14 days ago • 167 comments

A big problem with American politics is that a third generation hvac company owner is seen as more working class than a teacher’s aide

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

Data show clearly that humanities majors have very comparable career outcomes to other fields, but many falsely believe otherwise because median salary is artificially depressed by humanistically trained monomaniacs who go on doomed whaling voyages.

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 16 days ago • 385 comments

it is beyond clear that for many americans trump is a blank slate who stands for whatever they personally want

submitted 18 days ago • 448 comments

My low stakes prediction: the centrality of vice signalling for the modern right will create a surge of interest in civic republicanism and virtue ethics among the center and left

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

"Musk’s stake in Tesla comprises the lion’s share of his wealth. He can laugh off a few protesters, but if consumers launch a sustained boycott, both Musk and his car company could find themselves in dire straits."

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

I want an anti Trump coalition obvs but we watched state & private power come together to crush basic forms of dissent and attack universities with the blessing of Democrats for a year plus while the majority of civil society looked away. That had causal consequences.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

it is incredible to me that after the Gaetz revelations there are still political figures w/ public venmo accounts... it's evidence of the same toxic combo of arrogance, incompetence and stupidity that all of these people have

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

aaaand now it all makes sense

submitted 27 days ago • 152 comments

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

submitted 27 days ago • 211 comments

holy hell someone in an SUV did a hit and run on sociologist Michael Burawoy and killed him!!!! www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Is there a word for when random people show up at a government building and announce that they're in charge

submitted 29 days ago • 109 comments

I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

I'm glad that America is doing real classic end of empire stuff. A king who is visibly losing his mind declaring a war based on a dream he had. Greedy courtiers feuding over access to the treasury. Some looks are timeless.

submitted 30 days ago • 78 comments

few men’s courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

This @thepolycrisis.bsky.social newsletter first paragraph omg (“imperial gangsterism” 🔥) — and does not even include everything

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

what are you even doing man

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The people in charge of many things, not just the White House, think that working people are a hindrance to be overcome. There are Trump’s everywhere, and we need to beat them all.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

in my first act as President I’m issuing an Executive Order renaming all bodies of water The Gulf That Yawns Between the Object of Our Desire and Our Experience of Satisfaction in Getting It

submitted 34 days ago • 29 comments

“How long must the South kick us,” shouted a stump speaker to a crowd of black-caped, torch-bearing Wisconsinites, “before we shall all be Wide-Awakes?”

submitted 34 days ago • 14 comments

his shipmates called him mad

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

"we're tuning out the noise" - the thing a .500 team says right before they lose 8 straight to miss the playoffs

submitted 35 days ago • 34 comments