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glennmackin.bsky.social
Political theorist at a music school, writing about politics and aesthetics; runner, cyclist, dog-lover, tea obsessive; will likely post about some or all of these. Or maybe something else!
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and there is more of this for democrats to do! demand to see the other people renditioned to this prison! conduct on camera interviews with people who have lost social security, veterans benefits and medical care because of DOGE, hold rallies against the administration’s lawlessness!

submitted 7 minutes ago • 14 comments

Shelly-Ann racing in her kid's Parents Day race at the school is the funniest thing I've seen all week LMAO

submitted 1 day ago • 181 comments

i love when tea leaves look like hamster fur

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

A reimagining of Lord of the Flies where the kids are left alone in the federal bureaucracy

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

I am autistic. I pay taxes, I have a job. I dated. I get the desire to push this narrative autistic people DO accomplish these to rebut Kennedy. But there was a time when I DID NOT have a job. And non-speaking autistic people or thise with intellectual disabilities don't. They have worth as well.

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

I feel this so very much and also simultaneously feel like one way we're going to get through all of this is to have artists and writers and musicians chucking in to create space for others to experience joy and rest for a moment before going out to fight again in the world. Creation is resistance.

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

Another important reminder: The Alien Enemies act is supposed to be operative only in times of war or when a foreign government threatens/undertakes an invasion. As this condition is clearly not being met, the entire deportation to El Salvador stuff is pretty clearly illegal

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

submitted 2 days ago • 193 comments

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

submitted 3 days ago • 369 comments

Again, if the idea is that when someone in custody leaves the nation’s airspace there’s no way for a court to compel the state to return them—or exert any jurisdiction at all—then you’re simply saying whoever’s in power can fly people 100 miles offshore and push them out of helicopters into the sea.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 104 comments

Wow. The polling on this is slowly starting to reverse as the Trump administration ramps up the cruelty for the MAGA base. Most people really, really don't like the idea of imprisoning people without due process.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

submitted 3 days ago • 212 comments

Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

submitted 3 days ago • 320 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 3 days ago • 1339 comments

Can't slam "repost" on this hard enough

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Yet one more entry into the "Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it themselves" file

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I've seen some people saying how "AI"-generated text is now as good as certain published authors, and honestly I think it's really brave for these folks to admit in public how poor their reading comprehension has to be

submitted 4 days ago • 123 comments

This is what a hero looks like in the bureaucratic age

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

submitted 4 days ago • 1179 comments

Was not expecting to open the main CBC page this morning and see this! In today’s climate, I feel our message is even more relevant than even just a few months ago when the interview was recorded. www.cbc.ca @christelvaneck.bsky.social @lydiamessling.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

The answer is solidarity. The answer is always solidarity.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

submitted 5 days ago • 618 comments

i wonder what this looks like when there's a likely recession in the next couple of months along with mass protests that are shaped by said recession and autocratic backsliding

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Unpopular opinion here but I think it’s less appalling that a still-employed scientist might have to clean than that other people lost their jobs or aren’t getting hired. It’s all about solidarity, science types, not horror at being asked to do things out of the norm while getting a paycheck.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

as @joshtpm.bsky.social says, if big-endowment universities won't stand up to the fascists when it's their turn, what are they for talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/power...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 7 days ago • 135 comments

Many years ago, in a class on contemporary political theory, I had students read Carl Schmitt (an actual Nazi) and IM Young (a feminist critical theorist). I was shocked how much more angry Young made my students than Schmitt: a Nazi? Fine. Someone arguing for more democracy and inclusion? Hell no.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I just . . . what . . . well, just read it.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Here's my piece in Foreign Policy about how we've seen radical changes in tariffs or trade rules in the past (1819, 1837, 1890, 1930) & it ain't pretty. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/11/t...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This is a really important thread you all should read

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’m just gonna say it’s not rules and regulations that’re displacing Treasuries.

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

Posted quite a bit from Habermas and McCarthy late yesterday, and the discussion on technorationalism and the death of politics struck a chord. Decades old theorizing taking in fresh relevance.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

It was never about “free speech on college campuses” and anyone who claimed otherwise—left, right or center—should be ignored in perpetuity.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments