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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1236 comments

How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out. doi.org/10.1017/S000... 🧵 1/9

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Again, earnest sociological question - I'm wondering what threshold neds to be reached for corporate media to begin using the words "fascism" "authoritarianism" or "oligarchy" in reference to our current situation? This also refers to the Nazi salutes, plural at this point.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

One of the leading scholars of democracy is struggling to process what is happening just like everyone else: "Is democracy dying in the United States?"

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

A person on Reddit claiming to be a former worker at the National Parks says "irreversible damage" is being done, especially after Trump decided to fire a huge amount of staff: "The wildlife is suffering, the plants are suffering, and the experts who are there to mitigate the destruction are gone."

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

NEW - Children as Public Goods: At What Cost? - cup.org/4i1N0Fn "I argue that viewing children as public goods places important limits on the total costs to be fairly shared by non-parents" - @liamshields.bsky.social

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Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

submitted 5 days ago • 819 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 118 comments

From Mike Pence - too little, too late

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By definition.

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Yep. The Sun King, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin…

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AP kicked out of White House Press Briefings for not changing name of Gulf of Mexico, now this. Welcome to the the clampdown on free speech. Punishment for those who dissent.

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"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

submitted 7 days ago • 290 comments

No.

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Out now! A timely piece w brilliant colleagues. We offer a critique of humanitarian aid when delivered as paternalism, especially when tied to securitised migration. But recognise its role if protection centres on migrant women autonomy and meaningful inclusion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Very fun bonus pod—two of my favorite players, Puka Nacua and Kyle Hamilton, joined the show to break down the Super Bowl, talk Ravens and Rams, and more. These dudes are the best. 📺: youtu.be/jKMhVPnx0fo?...

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

submitted 11 days ago • 56 comments

The environmental crisis gets serious.

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Kentucky bourbon relies on barrels from white oak trees — giving the bourbon its color and signature caramel & vanilla flavor. America's white oak population, which grows best along the East Coast, is under threat due to climate change, land use, an invasive insects. www.axios.com/local/richmo...

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“maternal death rate isn’t as bad if you don’t count Black women” says sitting senator without explaining why you wouldnt include some people in the maternal death rate www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-...

submitted 14 days ago • 54 comments

His administration is literally composed of men who beat and batter women.

submitted 17 days ago • 332 comments

Going to repost this daily until death

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 21 days ago • 312 comments

Within 24 hours of September 11, 2001, Canada's Ambassador to NATO unflinchingly rallied to the aid of the United States, and invoked NATO's Article 5, the only time it's ever been used in NATO's history. "Hell, this is an Alliance," he said. "We've got Article 5." www.nato.int/docu/review/...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. My advice, take the first step, start with something small and see what works for you. Here are ten things all of us can do. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

submitted 21 days ago • 189 comments

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

submitted 95 days ago • 457 comments

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

submitted 31 days ago • 835 comments

Re stoppage of external communication from CDC, FDA, NIH - FDA cannot send out alerts abt contaminated food, incl allergens -CDC cannot alert re pandemics, flu - NIH cannot communicate w researchers on clinical trials, slowing the development of life-saving treatments Call your congress reps

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Evergreen— one of the most personally impactful pieces anyone’s written over this past decade. I highly recommend all of Sarah’s work to better approach our present with context and humanity:

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

FFS. You’re the opposition party. Oppose.

submitted 32 days ago • 32 comments