Thom Ratkos's Avatar

Thom Ratkos

@thomratkos.bsky.social

Studying behavior, all the time. Antifascist. BCBA-D, PhD. Associate professor. he/him

1,218 Followers  |  482 Following  |  921 Posts  |  Joined: 24.06.2023  |  1.9373

Latest posts by thomratkos.bsky.social on Bluesky

That's exactly what I tell students when I teach sexuality and gender. I don't know my chromosomes!

13.02.2026 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

wow i can't believe trump did this starting 10 years before he ever ran for office

13.02.2026 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

My country kills children in concentration camps. I have no tolerance or respect for anyone who thinks this can be reformed

13.02.2026 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
a man is talking about dogs and cats living together in a movie . Alt: Bill Murray in Ghostbusters "dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria"
12.02.2026 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

From my perspective, the capitalist *class* might benefit from stability, but individual capitalists competing against each other ain't going to foot the bill

11.02.2026 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why would a capitalist, the ones employing people, ever see employing people as a social good? Why would they be interested in social good at all?

11.02.2026 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

It’s really hard to take people to concentration camps with flat tires.

11.02.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It should be illuminating that prosecuting sex trafficking, the thing that prosecutors and police across the country have been using as a cash cow to fund surveillance and weaponry, is actually not something government prosecutors care about at all.
The system does not hold people accountable.

11.02.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1301    πŸ” 413    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 12

Some people don't follow rules. The solution, obviously, is to make a rule that you have to follow rules.

10.02.2026 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You are useless. The clock is ticking to what? For you to roll over and show your little belly? Resign

10.02.2026 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

death to fucking amerikkka. if you believe in any way that this is justified than i genuinely do not believe we can ever be allies. i will not vote for any politician whose position on cuba is anything other than fully ending the blockade.

09.02.2026 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! I feel like this gets forgotten. Integration= mass firing of Black educators and forcing children into what were still culturally whites-only schools

09.02.2026 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How do you convince the average American blue maga liberal to move past "Give the slave catchers better training" as a genuine world outlook? How do you convince liberals that border fascism, especially on stolen indigenous land, is horrible, and a truly bad thing?

09.02.2026 05:18 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This nonviolent stuff will get you killed

07.02.2026 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why would they trust police in the first place??

07.02.2026 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The bourgeoisie have always had class consciousness

07.02.2026 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean no offense treating your post like student work, I've just been grading all morning and that was my reaction to seeing a numbered list of correct statements

06.02.2026 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

7/7, 100%, A

06.02.2026 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image 06.02.2026 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 184    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

that's what our prisons are and always have been

06.02.2026 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This arrest comes after a week of Fox News and other far-Right outlets turning out a stream of content about one person's Instagram videos.

If they can make someone into a "terrorist" simply for speech on social media they don't like - they can and will, do it to anyone.

05.02.2026 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 139    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.

06.02.2026 05:12 β€” πŸ‘ 9713    πŸ” 2934    πŸ’¬ 421    πŸ“Œ 190

Sitting in my little office sending my little emails while concentration camps are being built and filled all around me

05.02.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just waking up and going to work feels like I'm committing a moral injury to myself every day. I'm so sick of it

05.02.2026 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There's the more banal "I want to participate in a greater fool scheme" but yeah

04.02.2026 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.

03.02.2026 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3597    πŸ” 1970    πŸ’¬ 145    πŸ“Œ 321

πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈI hope she's miserable. DOJ lawyer, sucks to suck

03.02.2026 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok Mark I am very interested

03.02.2026 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think a fun idea would be to publicize a national "ice amnesty day." Any ice employee that resigns can live with their shame, but anyone who still works there after IAD will be promised to be executed for crimes against humanity. Just a fun lil idea I had.

03.02.2026 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How do you reconcile what you've written here with "Dem4Life"?

02.02.2026 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

@thomratkos is following 20 prominent accounts