Just learned that my book, Touching Home: Baseball and the Liberal-Republican Tradition in America, was a SABR Seymour Medal finalist! If you want to read it, you can purchase it from the publisher for a reasonable $45 for a hardcover copy! upress.missouri.edu/978082622340...
People like to say that people in the US read too much theory. But you go to any org you will realize this isn’t that true. Be the person that educates yourself and doesn’t wait for others to do it for you. The more educated we all are the more truly democratic these orgs can be if that makes sense
The top 1% in America now hoard $55.8 trillion — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.
Everyone who perpetuated/fell for the "we need to liberate Iranian women" lies has a whole lot of reckoning to do.
In light of Kansas’ attempt to strip transgender people of their driver’s licenses, it’s important to understand something:
The legal attacks we are seeing on transgender people are genocidal.
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Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.
They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
If the lesser of two evils is propping up the greater evil, then it's just all the same evil.
A friend with Project HOME in Maine is asking for urgent help.
With ICE descending on neighborhoods, people are afraid to go to work—cutting off income and putting families at immediate risk of eviction.
This is a solidarity fund: 100% of donations go straight to rent.
Minneapolis has seen a stunning 1,646% spike in calls from families who can't pay rent because they're afraid to leave their homes to work.
This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time.
People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
Please let this produce a wildcat strike.
A large part of the New Deal's failure is due to it intentionally excluding the vast majority of Black workers by not applying to domestic and agricultural laborers.
MLB beat writer: talk a little about the rally in the 7th, what did you tell your guys with regard to changing their approach at the plate
NBA beat writer: in your estimation does the proletariat benefit from a properly educated and organized vanguard party in the nascent stages of revolution
I'm making all of my students read this at the start of the semester. LLMs are only inevitable if we decide them to be.
I’m only going to say this once: opening the door for widespread legal sports gambling led directly to this, and everyone who helped that push for the former needs to reckon with their role bsky.app/profile/peop...
Latin American Coups promoted by the United States
#OtD 1 Jan 1804 Haiti became an independent republic, the culmination of the Haitian revolution abolishing slavery and freeing itself from French rule. It began as a rebellion of the enslaved in 1791. Learn more about this and other Black revolts here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/a-h...
if anyone ever wonders why I stopped playing wordle or connections this is why. If you are looking for an easy way to put a little more good into the world this year - cancel your NYT subscription.
This thread efficiently and eloquently lays out the propaganda witch hunt of Mel Curth due to a potent combination of right wing cynical grifting and academic cowardice and collaboration. 🫡
“why don’t other professors strike or protest?”
because they’re cis and know it can’t happen to them. they know they’re safe as long as they don’t do anything in solidarity with the out group. at best they won’t take a risk for us, at worse they like an entire demographic of competition being erased
The basic truth is the University of Oklahoma fired an instructor because she had the audacity to do her job while trans. Media like CNN are complicit in simultaneously pushing the anti-trans narrative and covering up the brutal outcomes of this societal purge.
The NFL has no interest in protecting its Black players. What that fan said to Metcalf is far more violent than was Metcalf's response.
This thread by a former NYT editor documents how the NYT came to push the Cass Review so hard over other reviews. It was dictated from the top by editors. They sidelined their own London reporter to put Azeen Ghorayshi on it.
If you need a gift for a lover of baseball history and a hater of liberalism, might I suggest my book. At just $45, more expensive than a book should be, but it's shockingly reasonably priced for an academic book. upress.missouri.edu/978082622340...
Fascism eliminates trans people because trans existence reveals the falsity of gender essentialism. Without gender essentialism, there's no nuclear family and therefore no capitalism. Fighting for trans people isn't simply a good in itself; it is necessary for the liberation of all.
I am always early for things because my anxiety about being late overrides my ADHD. There are people who are chronically late simply due to being inconsiderate people, but the vast majority of people with ADHD, the frustration and shame they feel about constant lateness is a heavy weight.
There is a well coordinated national campaign targeting a single trans professor at Oklahoma University to get her fired. It's part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life entirely. It was never about sports.
Have you ever wondered why somebody went into college with conservative beliefs, and came out identifying as LGBTQ and woke, here is why. A student in 'Elements of Physchology' expressed their concerns over the university making her learn these topics in order to pass the class, "For our upcoming exam I don't want to receive a bad grade if I answer honestly in my opinion" said the student. This is unacceptable, these beliefs go directly against science. No student should be forced to learn or rewire their brain to believe that someone can change their gender. @ou_president , please fix this. #universityofoklahoma @uofoklahoma @ou_president @TPUSA
Tweet from TPUSA_OU: At the University of Oklahoma, the 'Office of Advocacy and Education' placed tampons and pads in men's restrooms across campus in an effort to appeal toward transgender individuals. Students are asking why the school isn't advocating for mental health resources for these individuals instead of affirming their mental illness. The school is telling students to "stop talking and listen" and to "believe them", in reference to transgenders. If a man identifies as a female, he can walk into the women's restroom, no questions asked. Here at Turning Point, we believe that there are only two sexes, male and female, and there's no changing what you were assigned at birth. We also believe it to be disgusting and inappropriate to put students or anybody for that matter in a situation where they are worried for their safety in these private areas. @UofOklahoma do better. #universityofoklahoma #woke #2genders #Igbt @ou_president @TPUSA
The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?
It's incredible how quickly people's rational thinking goes out the windows once a trans person is involved. Suddenly, a coordinated national smear campaign targeting a single trans instructor needs a "well, ackshually."
