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joanbraune.bsky.social
She/her - Lecturer in Philosophy at Gonzaga University. Research and community education countering fascist movements, hate, and Christian nationalism I also really like rivers and trees http://joanbraune.com
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Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

Note: When right-wing activist Sean Feucht held and impromptu evening worship service in the Capitol Rotunda back in 2023, police occasionally walked in to speak with lawmakers participating, but no one was arrested. religionnews.com/2024/07/08/t...

JD Vance just followed “reactionary fascist” Curtis Yarvin on Twitter. Yarvin preaches the need to replace democracy with dictatorship/monarchy and has suggested a “humane alternative to genocide” is needed to deal with “unproductive people.” Vance considers him a brilliant thinker.

Just received my paperback copy of The Ethics of Researching the Far Right, co-edited with @antoniavaughan.bsky.social, @joanbraune.bsky.social and Meghan Tinsley - still so pleased with how it turned out! You can order it here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173874/

love to get letters from the government asking if i’m jewish

Has AI heard of the categorical imperative?

"Gaza's Christians 'heartbroken' for pope who phoned them nightly" www.reuters.com/world/gazas-...

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

Another story of 1. Admin sends fascist order 2. Media reports on it 3. People are outraged, say no 4. Admin says “actually that order was a mistake” Lesson is defy fascist orders kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcas...

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

We have to remind people over + over again, as reporting from @michaelehayden.bsky.social showed: Stephen Miller - at the center of Trump's push for massive deportations - is rooted in white nationalist ideology that wants to remove people of color from the US. itsgoingdown.org/what-you-nee...

This bullshit gives the public a false impression of protesters

They want us all to die.

U.S. citizen arrested and held by ICE

With deep sadness, I have to share the news that IREHR’s founder, Leonard Zeskind, passed away Tues morning at his home in Kansas City. He was a righteous intellectual/organizer, a role model and mentor, and an anti-fascist way before it was cool. He will be greatly missed.

Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges. Good luck! 🫡

Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do

maybe I should have yelled at him on bluesky

I mean yes, the Harvard website thing is good. Universities must elevate and support the research happening on their campuses rather than capitulating in advance. But it would be nice if they did that less selectively.

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

It's exhausting honestly

Because people are talking abt Hanania again, here’s my story exposing his white supremacist past - and, I would argue, present. Straight-up eugenicist who wrote for Richard Spencer. Wtf are we doing here, why are people so determined to make him respectable www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...

“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you

Less than a week to go until our next ethics of researching the far right webinar with @crexuio.bsky.social and CASEI. Sign up below for our session on activism, knowledge production and dissemination. reacpol.net/webinar-7/

Ideas

the goal, if it is unclear, is to kill people

Dartmouth reporting tonight that two of our int'l students have had their visas terminated without notice www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...

sometimes I feel like a dinosaur, cause no one looks anything up anymore 🦕

If you know anyone at Gonzaga willing to speak to a reporter my signal is 208-870-4429

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-uo-...

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

A sad and telling outcome—Momodou is leaving the country to escape persecution. We owe him a debt for his steadfast activism and moral clarity. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

NEW: GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers. Then the company started expanding into deportation flights. “They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”

This is who Tucker Carlson just had on his show. Unabashed antisemites now given a platform by one of Trump’s top allies & loudest voices in MAGA. The movement that says it cares about fighting antisemitism

speaking of politics bleeding across borders

NEW: A new, unusual report issued by U.S. Catholic bishops and a group of evangelical Christian orgs claims 1 in 12 Christians live in households that could be impacted by Trump's mass deportation plans. That includes nearly *1 in 5 Catholics.* religionnews.com/2025/03/31/e...

A magical afternoon in the great outdoors of western mass yielded the best photograph I’ve probably ever taken.. #photography #nature #trees

I think about this article a lot--

Harvard is obeying in advance. Absolute cowards. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

bring woke back www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/u...