Jonathan Feingold

Why the Resistance Matters Anti-authoritarian “neighborism” and cross-racial solidarity from below are a massive problem for the regime, exposing Trumpism’s weaknesses and ideological blind spots

“For MAGA, this form of cross-racial solidarity and anti-authoritarian “neighborism” is acutely dangerous.”

Constantly impressed by @thomaszimmer.bsky.social sharp analysis of the racial dimensions shaping/constraining MAGA’s fascistic ambitions.

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The sheriffs….

#BULawProf @jpygold.bsky.social recently met with Atinuke Adediran (@fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social) to discuss her new book, "Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress." Adediran will join #BULaw on 2/9 for our Barbara Jordan Speaker Series.

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Conference on the Jewish Left, Feb. 12, 2026 at Boston University http://www.bit.ly/jewishleft

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WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.

According to FOX 9, a Minneapolis federal judge demanded to know why DOJ is missing deadlines & AUSA Julie Le said, "The system sucks, this job sucks" & asked to be held in contempt so she could sleep.

PACER shows she got assigned to defend the govt in 88+ cases since Operation Metro Surge started.

holy shit

Timothy Snyder on Vance working with extremist group Blood Tribe to whip up anti-Hatian sentiment:

"We confront no historical analogy, but actual twenty-first century Nazis who took action in the public sphere, shaped the public conversation, and are getting the policy outcome that they desired."

And from Omer Bartov @omerbartov.bsky.social “We know from the past, including from how the Nazi regime came to power, and other fascist regimes around the world, they come with armed militias, intimidating populations, breaking the law and telling blatant lies as to what is reality and what isn’t.”

Walz's Anne Frank comment shows how Holocaust remembrance has become contentious (RNS) — Educators and museums are conflicted on whether the lesson of the Holocaust should be understood as a tragedy with universal implications for humankind, or one more narrowly, pertaining to the...

Ben Ratskoff @bratskoff.bsky.social on analogies between ICE-inflicted terror and Anne Frank:

“If you are going to go around and say, ‘Everything you’ve learned here is completely unavailable to you for understanding current events,’ I mean, what is the point?”

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This entire answer from Mike Johnson — the speaker of the House and a lawyer — must be seen.

It is fundamentally wrong on both points: as to administrative warrants (which need not be signed by immigration judges) and as to judicial warrants (which are not "new" for authorizing home entry).

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Defendant contacted police before freeway shooting Charles Glen Simmons, 53, of Dillard, is in the Douglas County Jail on $1 million bail after Thursday morning’s alleged crime spree. According to a press release from the Oregon

A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.

the government is gassing our children.

‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."

"Only traitors help invaders."

This statement & graphic from Illini Republicans is grotesque in its own right and dripping with antisemitism -- the glue that binds ICE's gleeful xenophobia, racism and white nationalism.

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‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
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Illinois College Republicans are Doing Politics the Right Way—By Ezra Klein

A not-‘toned down’ Trump regime prepares for ethnic cleansing in Ohio A plan for immigration raids this week on thousands of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio shows that nothing has changed.

Trump's immigration human-rights nightmare isn't pulling back. It's about to get much worse

A planned op this week in Springfield, Ohio targeting hard-working Haitians who came here the right way is nothing less than an ethnic cleansing on U.S. soil

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein: ‘You’re amazing’ Department of Justice documents detail relationship between head of Wall Street law firm and child sex offender

The king of law firm capitulators was also apparently an Epstein fanboy. www.ft.com/content/e12a...

In November of 2024, two weeks after voters returned President Donald Trump to office, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. summoned employees of the U.S. Supreme Court for an unusual announcement. Facing them in a grand conference room beneath ornate chandeliers, he requested they each sign a nondisclosure agreement promising to keep the court’s inner workings secret.

Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..."

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Ep. 55 | The Culture War is an Actual War Jon and Arnie chat about Ta-Nehisi Coate’s observation that “Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war.” The actual war manifests physically in ICE, the $85 billion ent

New #RaceClass Pod is out. We chat about Coates piece on culture war and actual war — turns out they are the most definitely the same thing.

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From: Larry Summers < To: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:54:40 +0000 Jamaica very good Kids great though tired of some of their admiration for Bernie sanders. How ru? Sent from my iPad

Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

The New York Times Does PR for Segregationists The paper of record casts a legal movement that is repealing Civil Rights era reforms as one committed to anti-discrimination.

I wrote about the New York Times refusing to call Neo-segregationists by their true names, the DARVO style of writing about race, and some great articles and books I read this week.

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“People don’t understand what this job is,” he said, adding, “You cannot pick and choose, because among the very rich is a higher percentage of unpleasant and not very attractive people. Capitalism is a rough system.” In defending his pursuit of Mr. Epstein and candidly describing the burden of raising money, Dr. Botstein gave insight into how the need to attract dollars can appear to run headlong into an academic institution’s stated values. Mr. Epstein gave prolifically to many charities and universities, including Harvard and M.I.T., and the Wall Street Journal report showed that his network of contacts was wider than had been thought, including prominent figures like the linguist Noam Chomsky and Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury secretary and president of Harvard. Dr. Summers sought money for a poetry foundation, led by his wife, Elisa New, a Harvard literature professor. Mr. Summers declined to comment. “Would we accept money from Jeffrey Epstein today? No,” Dr. Botstein said, describing the former donor as a “monster” and “truly evil man.” “We had no idea, the public record had no indication, that he was anything more than an ordinary — if you could say such a thing — sex offender who had been convicted and went to jail.”

As more academic names keep coming up in the Epstein files, I keep thinking about this NYT interview with the Bard president from a few years ago, and wondering how many people were rationalizing in similar ways.

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JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.

Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.

With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.

Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

It should not surprise us that the people who want to resurrect the Confederacy don’t want Americans to learn about the Confederacy.