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The thing about this “origin story” is that it as an obvious and easily checkable lie. Prior to 2020, Rufo worked for the rightwing Discovery Institute (which invented “intelligent design”) and ran for Seattle city council on a platform of “reinstitutionalizing” the homeless.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

A moment of normality on the academic timeline. I'm sure this research is well done and I don't fault the researchers for the term, but I'd argue providing a third space for people to gather and eat and socialize is "productive" just not in the sense econ can quantify and measure.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I’m gonna disagree. Dems should say: “You know damn well Republicans don’t care about women’s sports. And you know they get arrested every single day for preying on kids. No wonder they make laws where they get to look in your kid’s pants. They wanted to make a child predator Attorney General.” …

submitted 6 days ago • 63 comments

Also, if you don't think this is a test case for an even worse future use, idk what to tell you. This is all so f*cked

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

first yglesias now noah smith, look assholes I could have just stayed on fucking twitter

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

"If defending social security from a billionaire trying to steal your money makes me a socialist, then I'm proud to be one." is such an obvious line. Its the type of thing I *thought Fetterman was going to do and I'm so disappointed over and over by 6'5 Sinema.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

If a university spokesperson was doing this it would be national news, and used as justification for the federal government to defund the university. The truth is that antisemitism is just one of the excuses they are using to justify destroying independent institutions.

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

the vice president of the united states is a groyper who spends his online time following nazis and esoteric reactionary influencers is true and yet the press seems completely disinterested in it

submitted 9 days ago • 155 comments

Speak to a leftist or tech/ai skeptic challenge ezra klein. Ffs.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The need to reprove that measles is bad reminds me of the incredible resources spent disproving any connection between vaccines and autism. I think, sometimes about where that energy might have gone.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Maybe it was a real goofy idea to dismantle entire DEI programs over the threat of pulling federal funding considering he’s going to just keep coming up with other reasons.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

This is also why I think it is a mistake for universities and corporations to simply re-brand DEI policies. They need to defend the underlying principles (integration is good, diversity makes us better) rather than trying to outrun a fascist assault that will be trained on the re-brand

submitted 13 days ago • 37 comments

How many times is the inquirer going to publish basically the same anti-public school screed from the commonwealth foundation?!?!? Why do it? There's nothing new in any of them. And always the same misleading numbers. Statewide average of school spending. Uggggggh

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The American Sociological Association joins the American Federation of Teachers in filing suit over the Dear Colleague letter. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

The introduction to our special issue on racism of omission is live and open access. Pitched writing this to @victorerikray.bsky.social based on a tweet of his right after Jan 6, but i think/hope relevant and useful even in this changed context: academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

excited to see this special issue #SocialProblems intro on the Racism of Omission is out! by @victorerikray.bsky.social, @rorykramer.bsky.social and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. I've been telling people about this long before it was published academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 23 days ago • 762 comments

corporate DEI was always ~90% wokewashing, though the government versions of it had more teeth. but even it it was a smokescreen, the anti-DEI movement is also a smokescreen for bringing back explicit white supremacy

submitted 35 days ago • 38 comments

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

submitted 35 days ago • 574 comments

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that actual racism and discrimination divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

submitted 35 days ago • 503 comments

I really wish socialist critiques of corporate DEI emphasized corporate more than DEI given how much harm is coming to workers (but not corporations!) in the guise of anti-DEI politics. Stop being like "well, at least they got rid of that bad training" instead show its all the same f*cking problem.

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submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

It was totally predictable that the "cancel culture" and "free speech" charade from right-wing grifters ended up supporting a regime that has done more to censor speech in a week than the Oberlin students they relentlessly lied about did ever.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

denying unanimous consent for some nominees is good; denying it for all nominees is an order of magnitude better. denying it for everything altogether is even better still. grind the senate to a halt until this reaches a resolution you're satisfied with

submitted 37 days ago • 10 comments

This is the case where dems really need to twist the politics. Spend the entire confirmation asking about right wing extremism and Jan 6 and terror attacks in the US and then "so why meet with people who support/condone/agree?" At the end. This should be Gaetz level easy to sink and embarrass

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The Senate takes 3 votes this afternoon: 1) Go into executive session to consider Russell Vought to be OMB Director 2) Cloture vote for Pam Bondi for Attorney General 3) Confirmation of Christopher Wright for Energy Sec These should be 3 easy NO votes for Dems. Watch yours and provide that input.

submitted 38 days ago • 69 comments

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: Court injunction protecting USAID Dems demand hearings on Musk's role Someone introduce articles of impeachment Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

submitted 38 days ago • 361 comments

Hi @democrats.org! You could not have asked for a more softball Benghazi than this. Do your job!

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Beginning to doubt that wokeness is the biggest threat to higher education

submitted 44 days ago • 22 comments

Someone else said this but I can't find the post... But if it's AGAINST THE LAW for him to fire them, then why is everyone accepting that they've actually been fired? Democrats should just say the inspectors general are still in office and those inspectors general should keep doing their jobs.

submitted 47 days ago • 45 comments

Wrap it up, bluesky yggy is shitposting reactionary centrist hot takes here telling us to stop pointing out elon did a nazi salute. Welp, It was fun while it lasted.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments