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True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

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All the “just asking questions about metaphysics” philosophers who have helped bring about this current siege on trans people: you can still admit you were wrong and it was a bad project that has helped ruin peoples lives dailynous.com/2025/02/10/w...

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

People are mostly not experiencing what Trump is doing yet so the problem is not the poll it’s this deeply dishonest framing.

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German KPD initially opposed the general strike against the Kapp Putsch and only got on board by the time the strike was virtually over and the entire working class had mobilized

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

A huge indictment of how pathetic the Democratic response has been: even Doug Ford, a pea-brained rightwing lummox hoser who had to be shown how to use a laptop three years into his first term as Premier of Ontario, is doing a better job standing up to Trump (who is his hero!)

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

I knew university administrators weren’t prepared for this moment but “you can’t even send any emails about diversity, equity, or inclusion without permission from our lawyers” is even worse than I expected. Calling for anticipatory obedience that is also literally impossible to comply with!

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

One of the most important things playing out in real time is how lawyer brain is actually an impediment to political action. We see this in movement when we often have to override what our lawyer friends tell us in order to pursue a necessary strategy.

submitted 29 days ago • 43 comments

1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care. While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 29 days ago • 52 comments

They have names.

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A custom BlueSky feed dedicated to coverage of local protests would be a good use of this site.

submitted 29 days ago • 16 comments

Not only conducting mass raids, ICE has posted notices for contractors to provide surveillance tech to enlarge, transform, and modernize capabilities to track, monitor & surveil noncitizens. Migrants are at nexus of surveillance tech & expansion of racial state power. truthout.org/articles/ice...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Tomorrow in DC we’re protesting DC Children’s Hospital for ending all care to trans people under 19 I would love to see my followers join me in protesting a move that’s already impacting folks very close to me If not now, when?

submitted 30 days ago • 32 comments

You cannot explain social outcomes, or elite action, on the basis of public opinion.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

these guys are all rapists

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 31 days ago • 510 comments

Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care. The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care. This one at UVA Hospital.

submitted 31 days ago • 72 comments

I am genuinely, viscerally terrified of what might happen to PubMed.

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

Deconstructing fascist normalization - a thread. Yesterday’s collaboration between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU/CSU) and the AfD was nothing but a symbolic confirmation of a process that started long before. 1/

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a key thing that should probably be higher up in the article is that this mirrors almost exactly a dip in adult reading skills. my analysis: a direct result of the multi-pronged, decades-long (and essentially bipartisan) attack on the unique value of books. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...

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“There is a general folk belief… that political stability is… the result of time, circumstances, prudence, experience, wisdom… Nothing is, I think, farther from the truth… Political stability, when it comes, often happens to a society quite quickly, as suddenly as water becomes ice.” — J.H. Plumb

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For The Emancipator, I expanded on an argument I’ve been making on Bluesky. The so-called anti-DEI movement is segregationist, and we should state that plainly. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

submitted 34 days ago • 157 comments

I really didn’t care for the Schmitt revival the first time around, so it’s going to be a long rest of my life

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On one hand, Trump is moving at breakneck speed to accomplish a project that is generational in scale, which the country didn’t ask for, doesn’t want, and which won’t solve any of its problems. On the other hand there’s no opposition so who’s to say

submitted 35 days ago • 35 comments

my Proustian madeleine is my kid’s Flintstones vitamin that fell on the floor

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We now have a fix for this: If you've been affected by communications freezes at the NIH, CDC, FDA, HHS, etc., please reach out at the form below! Or feel free to contact reporters (our emails are on the @statnews.com site) or via Signal (mine's btrang.01) 🧪🧫🧬🖥️🩺🔬 www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

In 1953, Eisenhower signed an order banning queer people from working in the government. Agencies encouraged employees to report colleagues they suspected of being queer based on how they acted, spoke, dressed, or had masculine/feminine characteristics like wide jaws in women or small hands in men

submitted 40 days ago • 27 comments

I've always thought Debord's Society of the Spectacle is a wildly underused text within academic political theory and I'm finally getting around to writing about it. Do folks have any recommendations for good secondary literature? Is there any consensus on which translation to cite?

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

"It is the capitalist form of the state that underlies the political influence of capitalists, rather than vice versa." — Simon Clarke

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I think a lot of people make the mistake of thinking disability rights (such that they currently exist) are a closed issue in this country. the ADA passed with GOP votes thanks to a very well run public shaming campaign. All the major conservative interests opposed it.

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Hier nochmal Impressionen aus #Riesa Gerne teilen, denn die Aktivist*innen haben jede Reichweite verdient! ❤️ #rie1101 #Polizeigewalt

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In the city of Karlsruhe it seems like AfD members put these "deportation tickets" in the mailboxes of people with migration background. Among other things we read "only remigration can save Germany". The ominous date on the ticket corresponds to the election day, February 23d 2025.

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we’re cooked

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Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

submitted 52 days ago • 64 comments

Who was it who said something along the lines of “capitalists will always try to do formal subsumption if they can”?

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