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The “man with butterfly” meme, where the man is “Ezra Klein” and the butterfly is “doxxing college professors for studying and teaching about anti-fascism” and the question is “Is this doing politics the right way?”

Happening in one hour at 11:30am ! #UHA2025LA

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Session 107 • Sat. 11:30 am-1:00 pm Roundtable: Urban Uprisings after the 1970s Athenian Chair: Max Felker-Kantor University of Wisconsin-Madison Elizabeth Hinton Yale University Ashley Howard University of Iowa Tyler Parry UNLV Alexander M. Stephens University of Michigan V.N. Trinh The Ohio State University

TOMORROW at @urbanhistorya.bsky.social. Chop it up with us over urban insurrections and—spoiler alert—a mass deportation campaign that the LAPD and INS carried out in the middle of the Rodney King Uprisings.

#UHA2025LA

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Me walking into the feed, seeing the baseball comments, grabbing my hat and walking back out

throw the ball, hit the ball, catch the ball. that's the name of the game right there

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product

Flock is preparing to roll out a new feature: Its gunshot detection devices will begin listening for voices in “distress.” www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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TOMORROW! hear how urban and rural histories of policing are DEEPLY connected. Friday, 3pm, Athenian

#UHA2025LA

This headline is sexy af

Goose meme with text of “Who were the Antifascists fighting in Weimar Germany?”

you can’t even occupy an american city without getting laughed at anymore, because of croak

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush? Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

“While the material consequences of refusal may be significant, the alternative is far worse. Sacrificing our values and principles would irreparably damage the foundations upon which our university has been built. We must, together, find another way.” ✊

An Asian dude with amber sunglasses, headphones, and a baseball cap that says “LACAB” stands in front of a park in a downtown area.

Back on my bullshit, and my bullshit involves looking dang good.

We tried to get into the Chad Powers TV show on Hulu, but they used the same slur as a punchline like 4 times in 5 minutes so we dipped pretty fast after that.

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it

Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

wizard frog is insane

Hide the existence of your identical twin for decades so you can do a stage magic act in which it seems like you teleported.

Some Democrats share Trump's goal of forcing more homeless people into medical care President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.

Some Democrats share Trump's goal of forcing more homeless people into medical care

www.npr.org/2025/10/05/n...

"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members." Another useful piece from friend Moxon.

there is a real “guy who has only seen the boss baby” aspect to TCW’s work. the 2020 protests appear to be his only frame
of reference for the world, and so everything must be made to fit into his (incredibly stupid) idea of what they were.

Turn off location permissions for as many apps as you can. (3/4)

Turn off your phone’s “advertising ID” to make it harder for location data brokers to track you. (2/4)

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

Once again, please tell your friends who want to study the modern US but not live in it about this job

Applications close on Oct 27
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...