redstateprof.bsky.social

redstateprof.bsky.social

@redstateprof.bsky.social

Red state historian's anonymous account.

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redstateprof.bsky.social
@redstateprof.bsky.social

I mean, the latter is pursuing a kind of Working Class that hasn't really existed (if it ever did) since 1975, so you just end up with frauds like Platner.

lastpositivist.bsky.social@lastpositivist.bsky.social

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

redstateprof.bsky.social
@redstateprof.bsky.social

The thing I always find amazing about racism is how it's always explicitly built on easily debunked, obvious lies. And yet it works.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

I am old enough to remember when politicians felt the need to hide behind euphemism and obfuscation. As frustrating as these obfuscations were I hope it is becoming clear to all that they were an advance, historically speaking

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

redstateprof.bsky.social
@redstateprof.bsky.social

More substantively, one of the biggest problems we face is the power of trans-national capitalism, which props up fascist forces across borders. I don't know how you fight that other than international solidarity.

redstateprof.bsky.social@redstateprof.bsky.social

That most recent Yglesias troll feels like something out of a bygone era.

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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Chris Ingraham@cingraham.bsky.social

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

independent.comICE Detains Special Needs Student, U.S. Citizen Near Santa Maria High SchoolRapid Response volunteers witnessed the student being tackled and left with injuries requiring surgery.

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Matt Brown
@mattbrown.bsky.social
Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

helenwebberley.comAre transgender sports bans really about protecting women? | Dr Helen WebberleyThe data says no. Those most hostile to women are most in favour of banning trans athletes.
redstateprof.bsky.social
@redstateprof.bsky.social

I still can't get over certain people who aggressively went after people (including Palestinians!) who refused to vote for Harris in 2024 who are now (and have been for a while) saying people shouldn't vote for certain candidates b/c of their stance no trans issues!

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mtsw
@mtsw.bsky.social

Everyone thought Lula was cooked, hopeless. Then he bought a phone and started posting and now he's gonna get a 4th term. The lesson is to never stop posting.

redstateprof.bsky.social
@redstateprof.bsky.social

I think it's also b/c you can yell at them online, and they might respond whereas the folks actually w/ power (i.e. the politicians) are just going to ignore you.

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

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Joshua Erlich
@joshuaerlich.bsky.social

here, write it down so it’s easy to repeat: an illegitimate supreme court allowed an insurrectionist barred by the 14th amendment to take office and his pardons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com

New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff

washingtonsun.comWhite House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior StaffConservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.

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Stephen Nuñez
@socio-steve.bsky.social

If the "Constitution" allows this then it is a bad Constitution and it should be changed

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

washingtonsun.comWhite House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior StaffConservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.
redstateprof.bsky.social
@redstateprof.bsky.social

Many people are saying. More seriously, I always stress to my students that, in the US, we functionally had open borders until the 1920s (working-class Chinese excepted). I was talking to my mom just yesterday about how easy it was to go back and forth Mexico as recently as the '90s.

LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social

Freedom of movement is the most fundamental human right; everything else is built on top of it. The 20th century was a campaign to smother that freedom and we should not let it win

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Ted McCormick
@tedmccormick.bsky.social

our institutions have stopped hiring, we've been telling students not to pursue advanced study, and to the extent that humanists have mounted a defence, it's been by pleading our utility as an adjunct of STEM disciplines and professional schools in short, it all worked

Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com

Humanities dissertations have fallen by 49 percent since 2015, compared with a drop of 4.5 percent in the social sciences, according to a new analysis of nearly 445,000 dissertations in these two fields over 65 years. Explore the data: https://chroni.cl/4yxUZ4S

chronicle.comHumanities Dissertations Have Declined Far More Steeply Than Those in the Social Sciences, Report FindsThe American Academy of Science and Letters analyzed 443,543 dissertations over 65 years, looking at how the numbers changed over time and the language they used.

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Mom for Ghoulberty👻
@fakegreekgrill.bsky.social

Yglesias really gets under my skin, because he paints himself as practical rather than idealistic, and a lot of idealists tell at him for not being idealistic, which reinforces the idea that he is just so practical so he doesn't have to face that he is also a dumbass.

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Matthew Sheffield
@matthew.flux.community

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II
@antlervel.vet

this is not a person. you cannot watch this and think that thing sitting across from Mehdi is a real human being. it feels nothing and believes nothing. it has no immortal soul. there is nothing inside it. if you cut it open you'd find old fiberglass insulation and mouse skeletons.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

redstateprof.bsky.social
@redstateprof.bsky.social

Yglesias just seems hellbent on being the poster child for what has gone wrong in our society.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com

I kinda suspect American voters are likely dumber than average in democracies because our system is so complicated and nonsensical

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

Main takeaway from the NYT Iowa focus group is that none of these voters really know what’s going on and they barely know anything about the candidates running in either statewide election lmao

redstateprof.bsky.social
@redstateprof.bsky.social

I would just name one of my coworkers. Easy.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com

Every year, Research!America does a poll that asks, "Can you name a living scientist?" In January 2026, 76% of respondents said "no." Of those who said "yes," 5% named a scientist who was, in fact, dead. www.researchamerica.org/blog/can-you...

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David M. Perry
@lollardfish.bsky.social

GOP: we believe in indoctrination and a little job training DEMs: we believe in job training

Taulby Edmondson@taulby.bsky.social

Democrats are still stuck in "workforce readiness" and the transactional job training paradigm of the neoliberal university. The Republican Party, conversely, as it's moved toward fascism and authoritarianism, has rediscovered that the things we believe about our country and its people matter.

redstateprof.bsky.social
@redstateprof.bsky.social

I think the simple answer is they (or at least their donors) buy into the market-oriented idea of education pushed over the last several decades. They are ideologically opposed to this.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org

Do Democrats not see that the effort to build civic centers using taxpayer dollars and private funding at public universities is an effort to shape future voting preferences against them? Why aren’t rich Democrats counter the Right and funding normal humanities departments?

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
@asheeshks.org

It’s striking how much of the higher ed organizing on the political Right is focused on the epistemic content of teaching and scholarship - and how there is basically not much of a response to that from either scholarly associations or the political Left.

redstateprof.bsky.social
@redstateprof.bsky.social

I know this is petty, but that's what he sounds like? Wow. I've never heard him before.

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

"What do you want me to say? You got me." - @mattyglesias.bsky.social From an exchange on Hasan Piker from my new Zeteo interview with the top centrist pundit Matthew Yglesias - on the left, Michigan, Gaza, immigration, polls, electability, and more: zeteo.com/p/matt-ygles...

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Eric Rauchway
@rauchway.bsky.social

Pretty nearly the whole actual point of getting white college students to go to Mississsippi for Freedom Summer was to draw national media attention

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets." Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.

redstateprof.bsky.social
@redstateprof.bsky.social

The Civil Rights Movement was "performative stunts" (laudatory) meant to draw media attention all the way down.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets." Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.

redstateprof.bsky.social
@redstateprof.bsky.social

As a historian of the American South, I always found it fascinating the lies southerners told themselves to make their world "work:" our slaves love us, the war wasn'ta bout slavery, just white supremacy itself. I think people have always been "like this," although it's definitely more blatant.

lastpositivist.bsky.social@lastpositivist.bsky.social

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

redstateprof.bsky.social
@redstateprof.bsky.social

So they're doubling down. I guess I can't say I'm surprised.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "Now the media and the Democrats in the state of Ohio are obsessed because Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is and call Amy Acton a liar"