Joel Stillerman

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

"The Peace President."

Thou Shalt Not Start A War Because Everyone Hates You The 'Board of Peace' started WW3 so fast.

CAN GOD GET A MOTHERFUCKING AMEN?

People in the US arguing that it ok for a country to bomb another country because the second one has an oppressive, autocratic regime that hurts vulnerable populations might want to rethink that.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

I used to teach “The African Roots of War” as well — also useful analysis/critique of imperialism.

Taught an excerpt last semester. Great stuff as expected.

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.

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So the court that granted the guy presidential immunity ruled against him. So when he defies them, there will be no consequences.

MAHA was always a con. It was always about the ego and ambition of a drug-addled narcissistic fraud.

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Must be nice to have a functioning Supreme Court.

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

Home Appraised With a Black Owner: $472,000. With a White Owner: $750,000. (Published 2022)

I’m teaching about wealth inequality today and remembered this shameful story from 2022 about Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott’s home appraisal.

LGBTQ U.S. Athletes Strike Gold at Milano Cortina Breezy Johnson makes history in downhill while Amber Glenn and Team USA’s hockey stars add to the medal count.

LGBTQ athletes struck gold at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games. Breezy Johnson made downhill history, while Amber Glenn helped secure gold for Team USA’s hockey team.

For nearly a year, the administration has said that DOGE had no unauthorized access to your Social Security data. A new government filing admits that was false.

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

In a country with a bad president, be a Bad Bunny. [Cartoon by Matt Davies]

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte

If this doesn’t deep-six his Presidency I don’t know what will.

This is vile. This is ugly.

This perpetrator must be held accountable.

No longer is this right versus left.

It’s about right versus wrong.

America’s morality will be tested like never before in nearly 250 years.

Vance Acknowledges Armenian Genocide, Then Deletes Post, Igniting Outrage By deleting the social-media post, Vice President JD Vance upset Armenians after a historic visit.

The Armenian Genocide is a historical fact. Vice President Vance can delete his post, but he can't erase history. His decision to ignore the facts is beyond disrespectful to the Armenian community and the millions killed in the Armenian Genocide.

in fact you do not have to show your ID when you board a train in the united states, you only need to show your ticket (which can be purchased without an ID)

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Leslie Wexner is one of the 10 co-conspirators named by the FBI during the 2019 arrest of Epstein.

He gave Epstein millions of dollars and the $70 million NYC townhouse.

Leon Black gave Epstein over $170 million.

Both men are alive.

How come they've never been asked to testify?

What's the Matter with Florida? An Interview with Zachary Levenson A discussion about Florida's censorship of sociology and teaching under authoritarianism

There is lots more in the full interview: groupthreat.com/p/what-s-the...

Mother's immigration arrest leaves Madison soccer standout reeling Federal immigration agents detained a Madison soccer player's mother while she was in Minnesota for her son's games. Now, he's struggling.

Martin, an 18-year-old citizen and soccer player, traveled with his Madison-area team to Minneapolis for a Futsal tournament (which my kid's team was going to play in, then opted out). While there, ICE stopped Martin and took his mom, who has been detained since.

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