Bedfellows matter, maybe now more than ever.

Brendan Cantwell@cantb.bsky.social · 5h ago

In which I identify the concept of “authoritarian entrepreneurs” to explain why some campus executives might see the administration’s agenda as an opportunity, even if they don’t fully subscribe it. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/is-the-com...

you're probably not quite paranoid enough

Felipe De La Hoz@felipedlh.bsky.social · 3h ago

I know there’s numbness to the authoritarian drumbeat but this is rubicon-crossing. DOJ subpoenaed years of records from some of the largest unions in the country, infiltrated protest groups & tried to engineer a takedown of the institutional left in MN/nationwide. It is making COINTELPRO look tame

Stuck on how pathetic and servile this is. FYI, the people publicly humiliating me actually stop kicking me when the cameras are off, guys. It's just for show!

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 15h ago

One you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you

Language matters whether you want to recognize it or not. Someone benefits from the way we talk about the world and you have to ask yourself, who benefits from downplaying the successes of previous social movements? Who benefits from redirecting our anger at Nazis towards marginalized people?

Metoo lasted a year and some change and put Harvey Weinstein in prison lmao. The BLM movement was the only thing mass mobilizing Americans for over a decade, culminating with the George Floyd protests in 2020, the largest protests in US history. That was "woke 1."

We have to ask who benefits from talking about successful social movements that had major impacts on the world that were killed off way too soon as if they were ineffective. It's like declaring reconstruction of failure while purposely ignoring how it was sabotaged.

Woke 2 came before woke 1 as a way to joke about how we're going to fuck up the Nazis and actually complete the promise of Nuremberg. Now it's used to describe herrenvolk democracy. Also the way we describe "woke 1" as being pronoun pins and check your privilege undermines the victories of BLM/metoo

they had to cancel an event in the heart of berlin, where they were to open a swimming pool just for black children for a few hours, because they got so many threats from nazis

rbb|24@rbb24.de · 5h ago

Grund seien Sicherheitsbedenken, nachdem die Aktion laut Volksbühne "zum Ziel rechter und rassistischer Hetze geworden ist". Die Exklusivnutzung hatte zuvor teils heftige Kritik ausgelöst. rbburl.de/volksbadeoto...

seeing a "leftist" woman talking about how much she "respects" some other woman for giving up her career ("girlbossing") for motherhood is giving me a real sinking feeling

Janan is a man standing athwart history, yelling “TAXI!”

explaining "knock-knock memes" to gen alpha

it's just gender guys

The NC-11 congressional race is turning into a contest over who can be more transphobic. Both Democrat Jamie Ager and Republican Jennifer Balkcom — who replaces the scandal-ridden Rep. Chuck Edwards — are open bigots, calling trans women "men" and supporting anti-trans laws. More, in our latest:

In NC-11 congressional race, both candidates go for anti-trans hatred | The Asheville Blade

It's bleak that the NC-11 congressional race is turning into a contest over which candidate can be more transphobic. At left are blatantly a

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i take a certain maybe pathological pride in putting a solid effort into folding fitted sheets at least sort of nicely

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michelle gave me the name gabriel avocado. shes a dear friend to me and a pillar of the community imo, please give what you can and share this.

Angel "Hot Angel" Perez@michelleperez.bsky.social · 22h ago

my name is angel perez. This is not an official crowdfund rn, Im being asked to leave my household as soon as possible, I got kicked off of medicaid and my cars radiator ate shit. Im rattling count brokeula's can right now. ty ty

the first gynaecologist in the united states to provide surgical clitoral restoration to survivors of fgm being a trans woman who does this free of charge is interesting

Holy fucking shit. www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...

imagine my surprise to see that this was janan ganesh (zero)

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · yesterday

Why must a socialist also be woke? ft.trib.al/YduTkTO

omg this person thinks sexualized video game designs are tasteless we should kill them. for being fascist

perpetual otaku media cycle of "this person expressed a slightly moralizing opinion abt something i like Which Makes Them Evil"

at least some people gotta realize that this is literally just gamergate verbatim right?

In France, the feminist movement has not fallen to the artificial divisions on immigration and trans rights that British feminism has. So as a result, guardian-style media has just collaborated with people demonizing feminism in general.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterday

‘Feminists need to push back’: how did the women’s movement become so divided – and how can it reunite?

feeling off but im not really sure why. maybe restless?

ICE recruitment pool

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 2d ago

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

every time some high school rapist attacks a girl we have to remember he has a bright future ahead of him and we cant let one or a dozen evil lying adult grown teenage women ruin his hopes and dreams. if trans girls were ACTUALLY cis boys this planet would trip over themselves to defend them

Mark Grimshaw@markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 2d ago

This post just popped up on my Facebook from a page with tens of thousands of followers. Behind the black box are the names of 10 children the OP is alleging to be trans. The post also include photos of all 10 children, and the name of the schools they attend. They’re now doxxing minors.

NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:

NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy

US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.

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after a kinda gnarly shot last week todays was pretty close to ideal

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not really surprising but what does surprise me is that we're not seeing rumblings about ppl slowly unwinding carry trade leverage in anticipation of future BoJ rate hikes. on one hand we're firmly in "it can only good happen" market conditions but also pricing in rate increases is pretty common