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Professor of Political Science at The College of New Jersey. Europe, social movements, the history of American teachers' unions...I'm all over the place, really.
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Helpful maps and data 2/2 www.dw.com/en/german-el...

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Helpful maps and data 1/2 www.politico.eu/article/germ...

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I still remember when the Dems thought they were dealing with fascists.

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Yes, this. I'm surprised to see so much attention to Linz in the current moment.

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In modern Germany, politicians from any other part of the political spectrum were expected to refuse any collaboration with far-right parties, under what the Germans call the "firewall." Merz's willingness to ignore this consensus has led to...Olaf Scholz...saying that the "firewall" has fallen"

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This is...a problem.

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I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

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Everyone seems to be framing Trump's freeze on federal grants as a Constitutional fight over powers of the purse & whether presidents can disregard Congressional appropriations. It is that. But also at stake is the fundamental validity of government contracts! I see much less discussion on this... 🧵

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Yes, the world’s a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

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Until this evening, I'd never read or heard this. I won't quote any of it here. Instead, do yourself a favor and read it in its entirety. No matter how much I appreciate Toni Morrison, I don't appreciate her enough. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

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www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

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Philadelphia is now very loud.

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NYT reporting mass immigrant ICE raids have begun in Chicago. I'm an immigrant & Chicago based human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, actions to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate. No paywall. Please share widely. www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...

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I like Philadelphia so much that I am watching their football team.

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in retrospect I think it may have been a mistake to make the work machine and the procrastination machine be the same machine

submitted 33 days ago • 30 comments

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you. Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

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There is a lot of football shit in Philadelphia right now, and it's alienating.

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This is Orwellian (first time for me to ever invoke that term). Trump administration is calling people in the country "unlawful" who are: immigrants who signed all the paperwork, entered the country legally, and have remained here documented and lawfully. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

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I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

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"It'd be a very unfriendly act if they didn't allow it to happen" is DJT acting tough about Denmark/Greenland, and everyone should be laughing at him.

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we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths

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90 years ago, in the Philadelphia teachers union journal: "Schools and newspapers are now campaigning against reckless motorists and careless pedestrians," and we need more playgrounds.

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A passing thought.... one of the funniest things I ever heard was when in-character Stephen Colbert told Bill O'Reilly that there's so much spin in the world that being in the No-Spin Zone "actually gives me vertigo."

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From Theda Skocpol. newrepublic.com/article/1905...

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Not that most of my followers here need reminding of it, but this is well put.

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"Could?" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

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A friend who works for a federal agency describes the EO regarding remote work as "better than what a room full of monkeys could generate, but was written by someone who doesn't understand how telework and remote work actually function, or really how to write an effective or sensical EO."

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I checked for myself, and this is no fake. White House now run by drunk frat-boy xenophobes.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Kevin Drum's roundup of Trump's Executive Orders is great. Basically, a lot less here than you would expect from a former president with three years and a $20 million personal think tank to write them.

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'He was Trump before Trump' Great #LePen obit by Art Goldhammer

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An outstanding piece. Everyone should read it.

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Biden’s popular vote margin in 2020 was 3X the size of Trump’s in 2024 and folks were *not* talking about his mandate like this

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Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/ www.psypost.org/male-victimh...

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"By all of these measures America is not, and perhaps never has been, a healthy democracy. This would have been true even if Vice President Harris had been elected President, just as it was true despite the election of President Obama...."

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www.france24.com/en/americas/...

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Are you interested in U.S. legislative history? Newly-available complete dataset on all persons serving as legislators in the 50 state houses between 1900 and 2016: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

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Wait, what?

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D.C., getting swampier. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...

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Some genius level stuff from a British cabinet minister. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Holy shit yes. I need to figure out how to mention this in my book. How? Does it matter? Are there bad ways to bring this up?

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As I work on my Philadelphia teachers book, this reminds me to pay close attention to the unemployed teachers in 1930s, and not just because the CPUSA targeted them.

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Going to be tricky to pull this off politically, although - speaking as someone who wrote a PhD thesis that majored on the performative politics of the scrapping then reimposition of prescription charges - all too familiar from a Labour government seeking to appease 'the markets'. 🧵1/2

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Are we sure it'll be him? It could be AI Rahm Emanuel. How could we know for sure?

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