@debraraecohen.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina; former co-editor, Modernism/modernity. Modernism and media, especially the BBC; women's writing in war and crisis. Fuck ICE and all its works. Eat the rich. Protect your neighbors. 🍉
Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.
Still no censure of Tommy Tuberville, Randy Fine, or Andy Ogles, who are openly promoting hate against Muslims while the US is bombing Iran, killing the Ayatollah, and people like Lindsey Graham are calling it a "religious war" DURING RAMADAN.
How do you think this all ends, folks?
Interesting how all the right-wing and pro-Israel accounts here remain obsessed about Mamdani and his wife but barely a peep about the Manhattan Institute poll that revealed a majority of young Republicans are Holocaust deniers and love Nick Fuentes, who praises Hitler and is an open anti-semite.
Jesus. Fucking. Christ. This kid wants to get out of detention in time for his school spelling bee. What the fuck are we doing.
I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is.
People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)
Immediately disqualifying for the job for which he has been nominated. The 4th Amendment specifies it’s “the right of the people,” not of citizens.
We cannot allow someone who doesn’t understand the 4th Amendment to be the head of DHS.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.
Never forget who Trump appointed to be the head of our domestic anti-terrorism people.com/trump-admin-...
Minneapolitans: "Why should we elect you, Julie Le?"
Le: "When the city was being invaded by murderous, masked thugs, I became famous for representing the thugs in court so that they might prolong their campaign of terror, but also for complaining unprofessionally about how hard my work was."
1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.
An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.
It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.
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There are more instances of United States Citizens being detained by ICE than there are of illegal immigrants voting in elections.
The damage Trump has done to the rest of the world in just over a year is incalculable. Billions wasted, lives lost. Not going to be forgotten.
A lot of what people lump together with NIMBYism is actually built on the infrastructure created by environmental racism organizers
plantationstopollution.selc.org/memphis-tn/
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
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Niche but cool. I mentioned in class that there was little evidence that #18thc readers had ever responded to the invitation tendered by the blank page in Tristram Shandy & drawn the Widow Wadman. & then a student revealed the portrait of Slawkenbergius she found inscribed into her copy of our novel
america is the land of opportunity. you could become a navy seal, and then even a US senator, and before you know it you’re breaking a marine veteran’s arm with no repercussions. greatest country on earth.
Your regular reminder that normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform
oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
Might be time to bring back war criminal trials that include rich people this time
saying that trump is giving “conflicting signals” here really, really sanewashes how completely incoherent this is, but everyone’s looking for the barest shred of something to hold onto rather than admit the obvious
Yay Sam
Highly readable review of what promises to be one of the most "urgent" books of the year.
“Cohen describes books as ‘the oldest and best place where opinions and impressions and whole worlds are captured and recorded.’ He’s right.”
John Downes-Angus on “Banning Books in America.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/banning-books-america-samuel-cohen-censorship-libraries-education/
we joke but we're going to end up learning hegsgeth and/or his staff are really doing this
Pretty soon they're gonna need to release the Epstein files as a distraction from the price of gas and the dropping Dow.
If someone breaks the law and nobody enforces it because of the offender’s power, then the law does not apply to the powerful, and the law, subordinated to power, is revealed as illegitimate in its helplessness and/or corruption.
If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.
People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.
This is what ecocide looks like.
Graduate students! Are you planning to attend the BAMS/ MSA conference in Loughborough. See below for a great opportunity.