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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 4h

Like "polity failure" strikes me as more likely

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 4h

Pretty close to ruling it out though

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 4h

High variance agreed, possibility of a Third Reconstruction...I can't rule it out is the most optimistic I can get

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 4h

I keep telling people who want prognostications that we're at a moment of extremely high variance. The future could plausibly go in a wider variety of directions--from full-on authoritarianism to backlash promoting a Third Reconstruction--than at any time in recent history.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 7h

Culture might seem a less consequential right than free assembly+ its infringement makes less spectacular news than repressive violence. But the repeal of the right to culture is grave.

honored to be with @isanchezprado.bsky.social in @hyperallergic.com today!

hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

How to Protect Your Right to Culture

The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.

hyperallergic.com

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 7h

Some context: the authors published one of the most important law review articles about law and left social movements ever written. it’s shaped my work ever since

ARTICLE
Movement Law
Amna A. Akbar, Sameer M. Ashar & Jocelyn Simonson* Abstract. In this Article we make the case for movement law, an approach to legal scholarship grounded in solidarity, accountability, and engagement with grassroots organizing and left social movements. In contrast to law and social movements—a field that studies the relationship between lawyers, legal process, and social change— movement law offers a methodology to scholars across substantive areas of expertise to work alongside social movements. We argue that it is essential in this moment of crisis to cogenerate ideas alongside grassroots organizing that aims to transform our political,
economic, and social landscape. We identify four methodological moves in the work of a growing number of scholars organically developing methods for movement law. First, movement law scholars attend to modes of resistance by social movements and local organizing. Attending to resistance is in itself significant, for it meaningfully diversifies the voices and sources within legal scholarship. Second, movement law scholars work to understand the strategies, tactics, and experiments of resistance and contestation. By studying the range of these approaches-including but not limited to law-reform campaigns-movement law scholars engage with new pathways to and possibilities for justice. Third, movement law scholars shift their epistemes away from courts and siloed legal expertise and toward the stories,
strategies, and histories of social movements.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

I feel thrown by the widespread proclamations of a glorious, lasting peace in Gaza. A lot even treats “now that it’s all over” as the unquestioned premise.

It still looks like a disaster to me. Am I way off? Are my domestic politics distorting my view? Either the consensus is wrong or I am.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9h

What would you say if you saw it in another country? What would you say if you had been told in 2015 that this is where we would be?

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 1d

The President is announcing more extrajudicial killings today.

A reminder that the administration has provided no limiting principles and these killings are completely untethered from the law (there was no "armed attack," there's no "armed conflict," and these aren't "unlawful combatants").

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 7d

hmmm I guess the primary reason is when students only begin to *discuss" the idea of occupying their own campus (never mind Lujiazui) or workers begin to discuss organising in WeChat groups, they'd be arrested or reprimanded.

Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 8d

Wang Hui: "But...this expected “revolution” [Occupy Wall Street] has not yet appeared in China...Why?...China is vast and regions are unevenly developed has ironically acted as a buffer in the context of the financial crisis... Second, China has actually been in a constant process of adjustment..."

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 9h

Seems like poor design that breadboards don't have like pale striping/color variation as a reminder of which dots are electrically linked. "It's by row" is easy enough to remember but build it into the actual device!

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 13h

There was that one kid that put a Sonnenrad in the Ron DeSantis campaign video and people found his name relatively quickly.

If you put the names out there, the Internet will do its work.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 13h

I am geninuely kinda confused why they are so afraid of the chats leaking.

Elon kicked off day one of this administration with a nazi salute.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 13h

Having a hard time getting over that this bumpy ride hasn't really experienced serious turbulence yet.

Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 23h

IMF warns of rising odds of 'disorderly' global market correction
www.reuters.com/business/fin...

"Global markets are too comfortable with risks, including trade wars, geopolitical tensions and yawning government deficits"

Also 👀
Non-banks "now holds roughly half of the world's financial assets"

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 19h

@grayathena.bsky.social said it better

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

This is not morally or legally different than lining up two dozen men and shooting them in the face.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

I think the human brain is just subject to information overload in general these days. We're trying to run Elden Ring on a Commodore 64 meant to run "Where monkey get next banana?"

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1d

my best guess as to what’s going on with gender and society is that all the discourse around abortion + trans rights bubbled up and caused heterosexuals to start thinking about gender en masse, along with all the other stuff, and the untenability of it all just isn’t something normies can handle

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22h

George W Bush and his party were ravenous war criminals and ardent reactionaries. They were not Nazis. *these guys* are Nazis

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22h

again, the problem with rhetorical maximalism (all Republicans since Barry fucking Goldwater were Nazis) is that you end up believing it and saying absolutely unhinged shit thinking it's normal

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Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 1d

There are so few folks working on interstate security in the developing world. There are folks doing insurgencies and terrorism, Latin America, South/Central/East Asia, and Sub-Saharan and North Africa. But I don't know anyone even in DC studying them as a whole, looking at interlinkages and at GPC.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 1d

Today in "they're all Nazis" www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely impressed by this www.idinsight.org/article/six-...

Six reflections on doing cost-effectiveness analysis

IDinsight Senior Economist Jeff McManus's reflections on how the development sector approaches (and should approach) cost-effectiveness analysis.

www.idinsight.org

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

Americans proved themselves unable to reject ruinous authoritarianism on principle in 2016 and 2024 and now we all get it good and hard

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

this is why the only option left is the raging hot Stove

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

The thing is there are no guardrails that can withstand the full force of 45% of the electorate polarized into either accepting authoritarianism or not finding it a dealbreaker. Whatever system you design, if you don’t figure out how to push that number down, your guardrails can’t meet tolerances.

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