This scumbag White House won’t put out a statement condemning Lang’s hateful attack either — because the entire reason Lang is free to carry out these hate crimes (as he has done against Mamdani as well) is because Trump pardoned him for his role in January 6th.

Jake Lang attacked a Diwali celebration while CHILDREN were performing. This is just after we were only a jammed gun away from a mass murder at a Hindu temple. And *zero* Republicans were asked to disavow their ties to these J6 bigots during this campaign. www.thestatesman.com/world/deport...

‘Deport all dot heads’: Far-Right activist Jake Lang targets Diwali event in Seattle, CoHNA issues alert - The Statesman

US Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Indian-American leaders and CoHNA condemned the incident, calling it racist and urging the community to remain vigilant.

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please pay attention to this hinojosa also specifically, painstakingly told the nyt she ran on the imbalance of economic power over any other form of progressivism

DrAnnD@drannd.bsky.social · 2h ago

Part of how Governor-Elect Gina Hinojosa won, and the SBOE flipped, was because they ran by reminding voters that they trust teachers and the incumbents didn't. It wasn't some generalized education platform, but a very specific, "Your schools and teachers aren't being respected by your governor."

When multiple spies seduce a whole polycule that's a Honeypotluck

Gift link: In Derf Backderf's "The Dissidents," plutocrats work hand-in-glove with white nationalists, spies have penetrated the political press, and the government prosecutes dissenting speech as treason and threatens its opponents with deportation. The year, of course, is 1916.

How a World War I Crackdown Predicted ICE

A new graphic novel makes the case that we’ve been here before.

foreignpolicy.com

I'd argue that Platner's defenders could be found across the entirety of the left/liberal spectrum (I'm told Matt Y had to delete a bunch of pro-Platner posts). What united them was mostly the belief that winning male voters was more important than anything else.

Bluesky lefties had him pegged. Normie lefties did not.

had to explain to my friend from Poland what a sundown town was. he thought it was slang for nursing homes. nope. my home country is full of organized racists actually.

This is a hilarious story and (unfortunately) well-reported. Come for schadenfreude and context stay for my debut as a neo-Nazi goon cave expert.

LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH@lcrw.news · yesterday

NEW from LCRW: We are the only news outlet in the world brave enough to report on Christopher Polhaus ruining his career as a Nazi leader by gooning on livestream. JOURNALISM 3.0 leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/nig...

I wonder if physicists will learn anything from this, regarding their “the machines can do all the calculating and proving for us” bit ⚛️

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈@patigallardo.bsky.social · 13h ago

I mean… Good luck, I guess?

As someone from the puget sound area, I’m both devastated but not surprised - we’ve got great progressives and the dude who started the march against “critical race theory”. May light triumph over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, and good over evil. Happy Diwali dosto.

'Vile and racist': Trump-pardoned activist's Diwali stunt backfires as crowd removes him

A far-right activist pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack tried to disrupt a Diwali celebration in Seattle on Saturday, and attendees quickly showed him the doo...

rawstory.com

A surprising number of people really want to memory hole how many elected Dems went along with this bullshit in 2025 #smh

BFSCR@bfscr.bsky.social · 8h ago

This is a complete whitewashing of Kirk, who died immediately after invoking an anti-Black trope to discredit a question. “The best way to honor Charlie’s memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse"

Addendum, because getting asked "which liberal gentry went along with this" and...c'mon y'all. Multiple governors (e.g. Newsom), a significant part of Dem congressional party, major pundits, even progressive candidates all joined in openly mourning/extolling Kirk. This was not subtle at the time.

Not only does he not become a national martyr, things swing hard in the other direction. Partly because plenty otg are sick of being told (especially by lib quislings) that everyone has to go along with this shit. Six months later trans women are making videos doing their shots on Charlie Kirk way.

I remember those doing this getting a lot of shit at the time, not just from the far-right. Not going along with making Kirl a martyr was going to "hurt us all" or some such nonsense. But mockery breaks fear. And because these networks were decentralized, gentry had less leverage to silence them.

When Charlie Kirk died, conservatives tried to make him a national martyr. Liberal gentry enthusiastically joined in. If successful it would have been a significiant cultural victory for fascism, entrenching its power. Instead he became a laughingstock. In retrospect this was a turning point. 🧵

For awhile, due to gentry influence, it looked like that was working. Prominent Dem politicians joined in praising Kirk. People were fired for just pointing out his record of hate. But networks (often online) of Black, immigrant and trans folks refused the elite consensus. Loudly. Raucuously.

“We’re ecstatic about the results in Texas,” Wolfson said…”We have a real mandate here to reverse years of damage to the Texas higher education system, ensure and enshrine students’ right to learn and faculty’s right to teach, and rebuild a system that serves the public good.”

What do the US midterm election results mean for HE?

Following the Democrats’ crushing victory in the United States midterm elections, their House and Senate majorities can use their appropriations and...

universityworldnews.com

Rage-inducing pet peeve: institutional neutrality is NOT NOT NOT any kind of obstacle to standing up for academic freedom, for the research and teaching enterprises, and for a robust research policy environment. I know some lying liars use it as an excuse for that, but they're lying liars.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h ago

Good story about how one American born scientist resolved she has to leave the US to keep doing meaningful work. She lobbied to reverse cuts, but her Chancellor at Vanderbilt was calling for institutional neutrality www.nytimes.com/2026/11/07/s...

Of course I want Hegseth, a fascist murderer, to face accountability. But that is deeply secondary to me. Don’t believe fascist lies about exceptional men, good OR bad. There’s a deep bench of Hegseths. Trump’s not going to replace him with better. Let’s think about systems, not personalities.

Rep. Robert Garcia asserts that AG Todd Blanche is attempting to hinder Democratic oversight of the Trump administration, vowing that lawmakers will not be deterred.

Rep. Garcia: Attorney General Blanche is ‘threatening our committee’

Rep. Robert Garcia asserts that AG Todd Blanche is attempting to hinder Democratic oversight of the Trump administration, vowing that lawmakers will not be deterred.

cnn.com

They were truly feeling themselves 2 years ago. And then got to work terrorizing us while university presidents preached neutrality. Being neutral on racism ain't it.

We’re wishing our union family a happy and safe Diwali. May the Festival of Lights bring you and your loved ones happiness, hope, peace and prosperity!

As a lib texan, i enjoyed the times video about conservative Texans sad about texas going blue. The problem with the original souls of white folks stories was that they were trying to justify or obscure the sentiments driving trumpism. Texas is central to a lot of their identities it’s worth a story

Also there was this incredible audio doc about latino business owners in the rio grande valley bsky.app/profile/mims...

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is the most powerful audio documentary I can ever recall listening to. Don’t be put off by the length, or the source. Some reporters spent a year in the Rio Grande Valley, earning the trust of the people most likely to swing the hardest in this election. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/02/p...

What this underscored was how truly out of touch they were/are from general society. When Kirk turned into joke memes by Gen A and Z, there were no reported stories about why. Fast forward to the Midterms of Turning Points USA was less than irrelevant. Doesn't this merit some introspection?

Something I have been thinking about for months is that after Charlie Kirk was killed, the elites in this country ABSOLUTELY believed that this was going to be one of the most significant events in recent U.S. history. But when it wasn't, they were not curious at all to analyze why.

I'm seeing so many posts from the Politics Knowers saying "we" need to stop with the fractionalism as if running the country is just a game and all that you should think about is the next Presidential election and not, you know, trying to make life better for people.

As Chuck Schumer fights to remain leader of the Senate Democrats, his daughter remains a top lobbyist for OpenAI.

Why OpenAI Hired Chuck Schumer’s Daughter Away From Amazon - The American Prospect

The AI industry has a greater need for government influence than anyone else.

prospect.org

I swear the Bush era has been memory-holed even harder than covid--even folks who were DEFINITELY paying attention at the time seem to have forgotten the free-speech zones, the kettling, the mass protest that was treated as an annoyance by a media that loved the accolades war coverage produced.