Patricia D. Posey’s “A Race and Capitalism Framework to Study Financial Access” reveals how race and capitalism shape financial access. Three mechanisms—exclusion, extraction, and valuation—perpetuate racial inequality and profit. Read it: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #Race #Capitalism

A Race and Capitalism Framework to Study Financial Access | Polity: Vol 58, No 1

Racialized economic inequality remains a central concern across the social sciences, yet the role of financial access in reproducing inequality has been comparatively underexplored. Existing scholarsh...

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I’m excited that an article I co-authored w/ Erica Townsend Bell on BACKLASH is finally out in the new issue of @polityalsberuf.bsky.social! We read every article mentioning “backlash” to show how it’s currently used & propose how to think of it moving forward www.scilit.com/publications...

Absolutely incredible.

Apoorva Mandavilli@apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by the NYT Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

Columbia will never be free of this stain.

The Barbed Wire@thebarbedwire.com · 6mo ago

When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever. By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her. thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/09/l...

Our political science colleague and friend Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is being targeted by anti-speech and anti-academic freedom forces after defending her student’s right to protest. Consider donating to her legal fund if you have the means to do so.

Robin L Turner@robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

Please donate if and as you're able to help Tiffany Willoughby-Herard defend herself from UC punitive discipline for her solidarity with students and Palestinians and address the health problems arising from her violent arrest. chuffed.org/project/1562...

Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.

My college macro economics class was right before lunch (and over 20 years ago) so I might be wrong but I don’t think gold prices creeping on $5k is a good sign.

Transphobia destroys your capacity to evaluate the world and politicians. This is what it leads to: voting for a man who hates you, because he swears to destroy those queers you despise.

Chris Ingraham@cingraham.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...

Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

Vague resemblance to the plot of the 2011 film, Contagion. Except in this case the deadly virus is the federal government (in the form of Proud Boys with badges).

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

Valuable analysis and it will be necessary to create an archive of these actions. After 2 years of watching a genocide life streamed on our phones (and ~5 after watching Floyd murdered by police just blocks away) I’m sadly not too optimistic about any future systemic changes.

Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This has multiple angles of video from the murder scene, for anyone who doesn't wish to see it. But the NYT has excelled at this kind of video forensics in recent years, and it very convincingly debunks the Trump regime's version of events.

Charlottesville, remember Heather Heyer

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

Elad Nehorai@eladn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular. From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

If only there were recently a movement calling for the exposure of lies that governments tell to justify extrajudicial assassinations 🥲

I remember when an avowed white supremacist killed Heather Heyer like it was yesterday because it’s also today.

There are people who still don't understand that you can do everything right--you can do everything they tell you--and you will still be shot in the face.

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.

Can’t help but think that if our fellow MAGA citizens can dehumanize a white mom in a Honda CRV, we are well beyond “first they came for the communists”

one net effect of this will just be to make life a little harder for Americans in ways, they can’t quite put their finger on, because some of these organizations do the invisible work of multilateralism that enables contemporary life; another will be to hold up progress on most shared global goal…

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

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I lived in Minneapolis just short of a decade and I can tell you that if a Minnesotan drops an f-bomb on national TV then they are PISSED.

Tina Smith@smith.senate.gov · 7mo ago

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

People don’t talk enough about how Trump’s anti-trans witch hunt is deeply offensive to trans AND non-trans women. Just look at his impression of women weight lifters to see what he and the GOP really think about you and your mothers, sisters, wives, and gfs.

Reuters@reuters.com · 7mo ago

President Trump mocks transgender athletes while addressing Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives, using examples from weightlifting and boxing as he argued against transgender participation in women’s sports.

NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans

Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.

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The context here btw is he's mocking a transgender woman

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

checking in on the president: