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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 7 hours ago • 122 comments

Placed a jar upon a hill in Ohio and felt nothing. Does it have to be Tennessee?

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Hegseth's tattoos got a lot of attention, but of course he denied they were racist. What probably should have gotten more attention: He belongs to a church that teaches slavery was the pinnacle of race relations. dougwilsonbelieves.com/beliefs/sout...

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 hours ago • 271 comments

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 19 hours ago • 184 comments

More than 1 in 3 people were first arrested before their 16th birthday – does this look like a society that cares about uplifting youth, or imprisoning them?

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Millions of seniors and working families wouldn’t be able to see a doctor without Medicare or Medicaid. Our leaders should be fighting to protect AND strengthen workers’ health care, not threatening to gut it. www.newsweek.com/white-house-...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

If a president were to openly disobey a court decision, it could be an impeachable offense, but it would be up to Congress to act—& up to the people to demand that it does...we make the government.... if we don’t resist or speak up in our organizations, in our towns, then we’ve conceded"

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Evangelical is a really fascinating term. It meant a hundred different and politically flexible things for decades, and then it came to be the common shorthand for MAGA Protestants, which erases lots of people and politics, while also letting other groups of MAGA Christians sneak by

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Those Who Say (X) Agency Should Be Eliminated: DOGE: 25% USAID: 21% DOE: 17% IRS: 13% FEMA: 11% EPA: 8% CDC: 7% CFPB: 7% ICE: 5% FBI: 4% NWS: 2% DOD: 1% YouGov / Feb 18, 2025 / n=1603

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

at some point if you're willing to admit that this salute mimicks another recent famous salute you might as well just say which historical salute both are mimicking. but apparently nobody wants to be the first to say "Nazi"

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 855 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

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“NSF fired about 10 percent of its staff at the end of Tuesday, removing 168 people who included most of the agency’s probationary employees and all of its experts, a class of contract workers who are specialists in niche scientific fields.” — www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Fascinating new book..

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Posters! "Faculty and students majoring in liberal arts fields have consistently had to fight back against the idea that these majors are career dead-ends, or, worse. ... [If] you care about the humanities, you need to push back." humanitiesworks.org/posters/

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Oh it’s an extended stay, is it? Do they get late check-out?

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

No reason this can't happen everywhere

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Literally today someone said we needed to be reminded of the JA incarceration so "it never happens again" and I was beside myself. IT IS HAPPENING. if you're willing to listen to a Japanese person talk about it but not a Hmong or Honduran or Haitian person you're a 🎶fuckinnnnggg racist🎶

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Today is the #DayOfRemembrance commemorating Executive Order 9066 and the government's mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Eight years ago, I wrote about visiting Manzanar, what life was like in the camp, and how the National Park Service plays a role in teaching civil rights.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 998 comments

If you can’t successfully message against this you don’t deserve another cent in fundraising and should go the way of the Whigs.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

The Freedom of Information Act is an essential pillar of transparency and democratic accountability for the US government. Eliminating the capacity to comply with laws in general, and FOIA specifically, is a ticking grenade under our democracy.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Finally have my book in hand! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

“What can we do? We don’t have that power!” At the outer limits of the law, where symbolic authority becomes concrete or dies, where even the highest are officially subject to the law but there is no clear order of command to enforce it, to “have” power just means having the audacity to act like it.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I Just finished recording an episode with Dr. Kate Lawson on The Life & Philosophy of Simone Weil & it was fantastic. Kate was such a generous guest, humble, brilliant & passionate about Weil's philosophy. This will be a special episode! Check out Kate's wonderful scholarship on Weil!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

submitted 4 days ago • 819 comments

This was never a front page story in a single U.S. newspaper

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this is the way

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

There is a massive power grab going on. And Congress is just letting it happen.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Over 650 political scientists who have dedicated our lives to the study of democracy & government, have signed this letter enumerating our deep concerns about this administration’s actions that undermine the Constitution and the rule of law. Please share. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

My latest piece at @thenation.com takes issue with the conventional wisdom that the Dems don't know how to fight Musk's GOP brownshirts effectively. They know how. We know this because they've been waging that kind of ruthless fight against the left for 25 years. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

Right-wing media is so effective because, against stereotype, conservatives are concrete optimists about human nature—but only given direct interaction. They trust whoever directly lies to them about people they don’t interact with. Counter-efforts fail partly by talking about rather than to them.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for meaningful opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

NEWSY: The White House confirms tonight that Elon Musk is NOT the administrator of DOGE and is not even technically part of it. He's a "senior adviser to the president" like Anita Dunn, they say. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 632 comments

Actually, Canada will technically become a province.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

When Democrats basically claim they can only exercise political power under optimal conditions, they’re admitting they’re useless since the U.S. political system is set up to almost always be difficult/less than optimal. That’s why big political achievements/disruptions require struggle and resolve.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

There’s an underlying assumption that non-voters simply don’t enter into the equation here at play as well. Once you decide anyone who sat out isn’t someone worth talking to then you’re left with “how can we convince people actively supporting the opposition?” as your only option.

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 5 days ago • 126 comments

Our “late” fascism is an ideology of crisis and decline. It enlists supporters, as Ruth Wilson Gilmore puts it, on the basis of “explicit domination set against the local reality of decreasing family wealth, fear of unemployment, threat of homelessness, and ... capitalism’s many toxicities.”

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments