John Weeks

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment

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i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

"Democracy Gets Choked Out In Broad Daylight"

Portland writer's perspective on antifascism amid protests and looming National Guard troop deployment Podcast Episode · Think Out Loud · 10/07/2025 · 17m

I went on Think Out Loud at @opb.org today to talk about antifascism in the second age of Trump he brings national guard troops into the streets of American cities.

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

Mark Bray, author of the Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, moving to Europe after threats to his position at Rutgers.

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The nazis themselves were not some clever masterminds where everything they did went perfect. They were also comical idiots who did ridiculous things, like invading Russia in the winter.

They gained power because the opposition couldn’t understand that the fascists were not rational agents.

its a picture of a ballerina teaching future young ballerinas!!!

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

@laurenshof.online

Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.

My Gen X friends frequently feel overwhelmed / isolated and often want to respond to the totality of things. Really useful to show people of like mind pushing back.

Picture of an elderly black woman sitting at home with a rifle. This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible Paperback – by Charles E. Cobb Jr.

100% concur that we want to make the brutality obvious.

Not sure I want to seek out the effects of that brutality as was done in the Salt March.

Also not sure a deeply armed USA citizenry will suddenly seek nonviolent options.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Jimmy Kimmel more popular than Trump after show suspension, poll finds Economist and YouGov poll finds president had a 16-point deficit in terms of popularity compared with late-night host

I'm sure he'll take this normally.

wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this

Maya Angelou: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

Actually it did begin with a parade of tanks

Van Jones just chilling with Jared Kushner

*smokes on a blunt* Mastodon and Bluesky are both social media Linuxes but at two ends of the "homelab to enterprise" spectrum

Leave Twitter for Bluesky. Leave Bluesky for Mastodon. Leave Mastodon for Klerb. Leave Klerb for Chunk. Leave Chunk for Goobus. Leave Goobus f

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

It's a spell, you have to banish him three times

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Would honestly not be surprised if he instigates a war to try to stay in power.

now @ladyjimrockford.bsky.social is banned? not sure what I’m supposed to get from this place when they keep banning my fucking friends.

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar.

Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
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Biden: Fund The Police

Biggest anti-police protests in history swayed the election, and once it was over:

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

i just can’t get over ICE going into the streets of the city i live in, throwing gas at citizens, invading people who live here. this is state sponsored terrorism being enacted on americans

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary