Derek A. Houston, PhD

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Another instance of Trouillot’s unthinkable histories

WARNING:
The following content contains veteran Antifa protesters conducting operations during daylight hours.

Lmfao quite the warzone going on in Portland, huh?

A “self-deportation” sign

At the Asheville regional airport. Fuck these people.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

I can’t imagine the difficulties of being a Fascism scholar before we had the official definition provided by the eminence, Tom Nichols, as “fascism is only when you fear of posting things online”. It must have been just impossible!

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

Trump just ordered his secret police to arrest anyone who burns the flag and imprison them for a year. Stephen Miller just issued new threats to arrest leftists.

Every time the fascism escalates, the logic should be that Dem resistance stiffens, as Sen Chris Murphy says in our pod discussion:

ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN have left the building.

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

a person wearing a pair of nike shoes is getting ready to run on a track ALT: a person wearing a pair of nike shoes is getting ready to run on a track

Friday, 3pm. Having more or less caught up with the most pressing pending tasks, the researcher can now turn to their attention to own research and writing for the week.

ICE just tear gassed people near the grocery store Rico Fresh on Armitage - there are helicopters over our houses and armed agents stopping people in the streets, Walmart, Home Depot, all the places people congregate in Humboldt Park, Logan Square and Hermosa.

Illinois State Representative:

“ICE just tear gassed people near the grocery store Rico Fresh on Armitage - there are helicopters over our houses and armed agents stopping people in the streets, Walmart, Home Depot, all the places people congregate in Humboldt Park, Logan Square and Hermosa.”

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

I think what’s most frustrating right now for Black and Indigneous people is waiting for the bulk of white folks to catch up.

At some point the “this isn’t who we are” and “I didn’t have this on my bingo card” has to end and y’all will catch up, right? RIGHT?

WE NEED YOU TO CATCH UP.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

Sharing! And agreed... 🏳️‍⚧️

We absolutely cannot take NJ Gov race for granted. If you are interested -- esp if you live in the NJ/NJ/PA/DE/CT area -- and want to help in southern Cape May County, message me here!

Enough chaos. Enough conspiracies. Enough cuts to lifesaving cancer research. Enough of the skyrocketing health care costs. I’m drafting articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.

Pay close attention to who wants you to do The Reading and who only wants you to read their interpretation

Is it cool that I think you shouldn’t be murdered by the state even if you’re a drug dealer???

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly.

Democracy won 🙌🏼

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.

Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”

This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

There is no recession if you don't publish the data showing a recession

Congresswoman Jayapal, a longtime advocate, organizer, and leading progressive voice, has always preached nonviolence.
 
The Arizona lawmaker's comments aren't just despicable—they're antithetical to everything she stands for. The violent & hateful rhetoric must end.