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Arlene Stein
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Sociologist thinking and writing about authoritarianism, democracy, LGBTQ issues, feminism. Author of The Stranger Next Door, Unbound, other books. Child of immigrants. Never Again for Anyone. #KnittyGrittyJC

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Arlene Stein is an American sociologist and author best known for her writing about sex and gender, the politics of identities, and collective memory. She is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and former director of the Institute for Research on Women. Stein has also taught at the University of Essex and at the University of Oregon. .. more

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 1d
Will Dems learn to fight? Replacing Schumer would be a first step.

Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 5d
Even in a world in which we have been numbed to Trump’s unlawful and outrageous behavior, calling for the death of opposition leaders is beyond the pale of civilized nations.

Robert Hubbell Nov. 21

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 5d
Shameful

Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents
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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 7d
These women are not famous or well connected, but they matter. Their pain matters. Their names matter.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
Opinion | How to Utterly Miss the Point of the Jeffrey Epstein Story
www.nytimes.com

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 9d
That emotional economy — the transformation of fear into cohesion — is both the origin of the authoritarian impulse and its creation.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | The Lesson We Teach Schoolchildren About the Holocaust Is Wrong
www.nytimes.com

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 9d
From the man who called Charlottesville Nazis “very fine people.”

Trump Defends Tucker Carlson After Nick Fuentes Interview www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Trump Defends Tucker Carlson After Nick Fuentes Interview
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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 10d
For those inside the circle, the rules of the outside world do not apply.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The banality of evil: how Epstein’s powerful friends normalised him
Long after his conviction for sexual abuse, people in royalty, academia, business, journalism and politics sought his ear
www.theguardian.com

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 10d
Now that state repression is here, pro-democracy forces will need to continue to show their courage by speaking out and building the broadest possible coalition – both nationally and in cities and states under threat – to defend institutions and rights.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How repression is born – and how to resist it | Javier Corrales and Daniel Altschuler
In a clear pattern, a machine designed to generate law and order morphs into an organization operating under lawlessness
www.theguardian.com

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 12d
Hannah Arendt's account of the rise of totalitarianism describes the usurpation of government by private interests (from Samantha Rose Hill, Hannah Arendt, Reaktion, 2021).

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 12d
They are not the Nazis of yesteryear who were skinheads and put swastikas everywhere and scared people. They know how to deliver this message in a way that’s palatable, or more palatable.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...
Opinion | Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and the Right’s ‘Groyper’ Problem
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12d
I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.
The Heritage Foundation, Groypers, and the Narcissism of Small Differences
Fuentes is the fly born of Heritage’s maggot.
www.liberalcurrents.com

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 15d
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Musk is paid $1tn. Nvidia’s worth $5tn. Yet America’s poor are struggling to eat | Steven Greenhouse
We may be in a golden age for the super-rich – but it doesn’t feel that way for the 42 million Americans who use Snap
www.theguardian.com

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 15d
The Mamdani movement added two crucial ingredients: anger and moral purpose — and in so doing actually expanded the electorate itself.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Opinion | Young Voters Are the Holy Grail. Zohran Mamdani Just Showed Democrats How to Win Them.
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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 16d
I suspect it is because popular opinion has dramatically shifted in favor of marriage equality, and the conservatives on the court know that. And yet they have take unpopular stands on other issues, such as abortion rights…

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 16d
Senators Schumer and Durbin should resign from their leadership positions on Sunday evening, as they are obviously incapable of leading the Democratic caucus.
Robert Hubbell 11.10

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 16d
More please!

Yesterday Trump attended an NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Detroit Lions after ESPN reported that he wants the Commanders to name their new stadium after him. Attendees soundly booed him.

Reposted by Henry Jones, Arlene Stein

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16d
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 17d
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
www.theguardian.com

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 18d
Shamelessly stealing our money.

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 18d
Rank-and-file Democratic voters now have far more positive views of democratic socialism than party leadership.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
Zohran Mamdani’s win shows the power of mobilizing non-voters | Ben Davis
Mamdani reshaped the electorate, bringing hundreds of thousands of non-voters out to the polls, from young people to left-behind immigrant communities
www.theguardian.com

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 18d
Trump’s response to the voters’ rebuke of his cruel policies has been to double down on the cruelty and the invective.
Robert Hubbell Nov. 8

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 19d
Another act of cruelty, brought to you by the Trump administration.

Supreme Court Clears Way for Trump Transgender Passport Policy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Supreme Court Clears Way for Trump Transgender Passport Policy
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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 20d
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 20d
May it implode.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...
How Nick Fuentes ignited a civil war within the Republican Party- and DC’s most prominent conservative think tank | CNN Politics
Nick Fuentes, the well-known White nationalist and Holocaust denier, has ignited a civil war within the Republican Party — and inside one of Washington’s most prominent conservative think tanks.
www.cnn.com

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 20d
Unconscionable.

‘Broken My Hope’: Trump’s Move to Slash Refugee Arrivals Ricochets Widely www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
‘Broken My Hope’: Trump’s Move to Slash Refugee Arrivals Ricochets Widely
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Moriah “Mo” Kinberg @mokinberg.bsky.social · 20d
A lot was done to get the landslide win for New Jersey Governor race. One that really has not been mentioned enough is the grassroots organizing that has been going on everyday since Nov. 2024.
We wiped the tears from our faces and kept on going, adding more people as we kept going.

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 21d
Finally, the tables are beginning to turn.

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 22d
This administration makes the United States look vulnerable. Americans under the spell of Trump’s charisma might imagine that strength is being projected. Not so. To prospective terrorists we look erratic and weak.
Timothy Snyder Nov. 1

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 23d
Goodbye 60 Minutes: Two months into her takeover of CBS News, Weiss arranged a friendly interview with Donald Trump, a president who attempted a coup, pardoned the insurrectionists who stormed Congress, and is an adjudicated sexual abuser.
Robert Hubbell Nov. 3.

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 23d
If we’re to remain a free society, those committed to the American experiment are going to need to start expressing our civic national ideals as effectively and compellingly as the ethnonationalists articulate theirs.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Opinion | There’s Still a Shared American Story, and JD Vance’s Blood-and-Soil Vision Isn’t It
www.nytimes.com