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feffera.bsky.social
American historian, US education, anticommunism, US left, NYC, liberal tradition, author “Bad Faith: teachers, liberalism and the origins of McCarthyism” (Fordham U Press, 2019), AAUP/AFT 6741)
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In a day of terrible news thing that scares me most--because even now I think it might have gone another way--was Stewart Rhodes of the Oathkeepers, just released from his 18-yr J6 sentence, on platform behind Trump at his Vegas rally. Not "just" commutation; full promotion of paramilitary force.

submitted 37 days ago • 23 comments

« Les sommes qu’on n’investit pas dans l’environnement, il est démontré par les économistes que ça nous coûtera au moins 5 fois plus cher. »

submitted 37 days ago • 34 comments

AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸

submitted 72 days ago • 1708 comments

25 wealthiest Americans “saw their worth rise a collective $401 billion from 2014 to 2018. They paid a total of $13.6 billion in federal income taxes… it amounts to a true tax rate of only 3.4%.” The median family paid a far, far higher rate on their incomes. US’s inequalities in stark detail:

submitted 72 days ago • 56 comments

How about internalized oppression?

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Look at this joyful walk off content 🥰🥰

submitted 71 days ago • 7 comments

“Organizing for labor protections and academic freedom is crucial to combat higher education’s creeping authoritarianism.” Indeed.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re willing to fuck your union and your own paycheck over trans people being able to use the bathroom I don’t really know what to say www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...

submitted 102 days ago • 161 comments

Trump and his entourage want fo claim a mandate for the most extreme elements of their agenda. But a lot of people who voted for Trump were delusional about what that agenda actually is, and voted for him believing he wouldn’t do those things. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 101 days ago • 140 comments

New from me: in his 2020 book American Crusade, Trump’s Pentagon pick wrote that if Democrats won that year there would be a “national divorce” in which “The military and police … will be forced to make a choice” and “Yes, there will be some form of civil war” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

submitted 101 days ago • 12 comments

No justice in Trump’s America. Probably no peace either.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

I straight up think it is dishonest to make this claim without noting that a) the mobilization against the Muslim ban involved a thousands of actual people flooding airports and b) coincided with a massive mobilization of people on the ground in Washington D.C.

submitted 101 days ago • 52 comments

I’m firming up speaking dates this winter & spring for The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. Came out in ‘23 & I’m onto the next book, but it’s, um, relevant. So far, Penn State, College of Charleston, & NYU. If you’re interested in adding to that, let me know. www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/b...

submitted 101 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: Trump has tapped for his cabinet, two GOP legislators—Rubio & Stefanik—who have each confirmed that Putin attacked the 2016 election to help Trump. In 2020, Rubio even produced a 966-page report detailing this. So there's no hoax, and they know Trump's lying. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 109 days ago • 46 comments

Aujourd'hui s'ouvre le procès de Squarcini, qui m'a espionné. Mais c'est surtout celui de Bernard Arnault. Qui a utilisé la police de la République et ses services de renseignement pour ses intérêts privés. Pour les intérêts de LVMH. Et qui a acheté la justice pour étouffer ses méfaits.

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments