Perry Bacon

Anti-Corruption Politics Are the Way for Democrats to Crush Trumpism Stanford political scientist Adam Bonica says trying to be more moderate is a dead end for Democrats and the solution is for the party to be seen as fighting against corruption, oligarchy, and other i...

Re-upping this @perrybaconjr.bsky.social convo w Adam Bonica on running against Trump's corruption in '26. Big lifts ahead for those in areas where Dems' own corruption saddles voters w unfavorable maps and dullard candidates newrepublic.com/article/2030...

The reason this was a serious race in the first place is @aftynbehn.bsky.social and the people-powered movement she built. The result of this overperformance: a lot of Republicans in so-called "safe seats" are scared tonight, and Trump's redistricting push will take another huge hit.

Appreciation post for @aftynbehn.bsky.social! What an incredible candidate, organizer, and leader. She scared the entire regime and all their donors. The swing we're seeing tonight implies a blue tsunami next year if Dem voters choose fighters like Aftyn in the coming primaires. Thank you Aftyn!!!

Courage in the streets. Capitulation among the elites.

And if you want techno-feudalism it would help greatly to have a population that are dependent and lack the ability to think critically. AI is a tool to facilitate the end-to-end wipeout of critical thinking.

I'd encourage educators to work from the standpoint that AI was, from the off, intended as an assault on their institutions. The Venn diagram between AI evangelists and people who want to replace democracy with techno-feudalism is a circle.

And it would be a relatively easy transition. The program is already in place; you just need to open the gates to the people under the current age threshold. They're already paying towards it, too. A slight adjustment to payroll taxes might be needed, but totally doable!

Lol. This is a great question!

"Identity politics are not about dividing groups and comparing them. It's about building solidarity across groups and coalition-building, recognizing the commonalities across different forms of problems and what you do together," says @louiseseamster.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2033...

"Democrats buy into that stereotype of because they're college graduates, they must be also white, cosmopolitan, wealthy elites, instead being like, "No. To be part of the working class these days often still requires like some form of college education," says @louiseseamster.bsky.social.

"Michiganders are good people. They care less about how you pray than what you pray for. They care less what your name is, and more about whether or not you cared to figure out their name. Barack Hussein Obama won Michigan twice," says @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

"This is a Rorschach test. If you can't name the murder of 20,000 children and tens of thousands more adults, the destruction of basic infrastructure, homes, universities,
hospitals....a genocide, you are morally corrupt," says @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

"Utilities, housing, groceries. The right approach [to affordability] is understanding it's all a function of the same broken system. Corporations keep getting richer, buying each other up and consolidating across sectors to both suppress wages and raise prices," says @abdulelsayed.bsky.social.

"Medicare-for-All would guarantee baseline health coverage for every single American, without co-pays, deductibles, or premiums. It's just there for you," says @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, explaining why it's better than a public option. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

This:

Dogs don’t bark on parked cars.

Why So Many Key Institutions Have Folded Rather Than Challenge Trump Yes, they’re under pressure. But maybe a lot of these leaders kinda like what Trump’s doing. Just remember: Trump was defeated once before.

Here is the original article I meant to reference by Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for The New Republic @newrepublic.com

newrepublic.com/article/1987...

The orientation for my PhD dissertation is grounded in intersectionality because it so spoke to me. Just so thankful for Kimberlé Crenshaw and all the thinkers who have built the framework

"Dogs don't bark at parked cars" is an all-time great line

Kimberlie Crenshaw is so right, and so wise about these things. Us white people have to hear this and listen, and see how it's clearly happening. Take the couple minutes to watch this, and just let it soak into your spirit so you are aware it's real and stand up for what is right.

I needed to hear this today. Maybe you will find it lifegiving too.

Thank you for words of truth, wisdom, struggle, solidarity & authentic reason for hope.

It's the same with their attack on the academic study of Palestine. They want to ensure people don't have the analytical tools to understand what they're seeing:

bsky.app/profile/dana...

Watch this...

If you wondered why #Arizona Supt. Of Ed and AZGOP go after DEI so hard…

to non-feminists & non-critical theorists, it’s hard to articulate or explain the massive impact that Kimberlé Crenshaw has had on these fields. she’s a living legend!!!

So , so true

also, relatedly, I'm trying to get Professor @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social to use Bluesky. I am hoping all y'all who have shared this is enough to inspire her to believe that this is the social media place for her.

Loves me some Black intellectuals.

Right-wing lawmakers wouldn’t be trying to ban ideas, concepts, books, and words if they weren’t powerful.

this is what ten years of obsession with "wokeness" in the media was trying to get to btw bsky.app/profile/mari...

People were gaining a language, sense of history and set of conceptual tools that delegitimised both white supremacy *and the wider systems of capitalism and colonialism-imperialism* that it's bound up with.

The 2020 racial reckoning threatened the legitimacy of *the entire social order*.