Deva Woodly
@devawo.bsky.social
Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
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KF Research Fellow @devawo.bsky.social suggests gradually developing an egalitarian democracy, which emphasizes fairness and equality for all, is the best way to combat anti-democratic opponents in the latest edition of #FromManyWe: bit.ly/4agNJ3g
Reconstructing Democracy: Changing Our Minds About Who We Are and What Is Possible
What must we aim to do to nurture more egalitarian democratic relationships and build new parallel institutions in which they can be supported? How are people already taking steps to do so? What will ...
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February 5, 2026 at 5:01 PM
KF Research Fellow @devawo.bsky.social suggests gradually developing an egalitarian democracy, which emphasizes fairness and equality for all, is the best way to combat anti-democratic opponents in the latest edition of #FromManyWe: bit.ly/4agNJ3g
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My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
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Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
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Ascent in elite circles is typically a selection process for maintenance of some pretty fucked norms.
this selection was disrupted, by demands for diversity, equity and inclusion and the inclusion of more marginalized people, and we are living through the backlash
this selection was disrupted, by demands for diversity, equity and inclusion and the inclusion of more marginalized people, and we are living through the backlash
February 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Ascent in elite circles is typically a selection process for maintenance of some pretty fucked norms.
this selection was disrupted, by demands for diversity, equity and inclusion and the inclusion of more marginalized people, and we are living through the backlash
this selection was disrupted, by demands for diversity, equity and inclusion and the inclusion of more marginalized people, and we are living through the backlash
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We are watching an attempt to resegregate and defeminize (right word?) elite spaces in real time because white women and people of color question these norms and often demand something better, which is often an improvement for everyone (except those in power who want to maintain these norms)
February 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
We are watching an attempt to resegregate and defeminize (right word?) elite spaces in real time because white women and people of color question these norms and often demand something better, which is often an improvement for everyone (except those in power who want to maintain these norms)
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The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.
February 5, 2026 at 11:03 AM
The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.
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Now, I say decimate because the goal isn't to destroy white collar work entirely. It's to make those "good jobs" so rare that people will do anything to get and keep them. Including and most especially—working to quell public resistance and bolster billionaires' power.
February 5, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Now, I say decimate because the goal isn't to destroy white collar work entirely. It's to make those "good jobs" so rare that people will do anything to get and keep them. Including and most especially—working to quell public resistance and bolster billionaires' power.
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This desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving the billionaire class's efforts to cut, curb, and control higher education. Because academia is the machine that produces the white collar class.
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Most of this applies to academia too!
February 5, 2026 at 11:17 AM
This desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving the billionaire class's efforts to cut, curb, and control higher education. Because academia is the machine that produces the white collar class.
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The desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving billionaire attacks on DEI. Because marginalized students/workers have led the questioning of white collar alignment with billionaires, and bigotry makes it easy to get privileged workers not to care if the marginalized are pushed out
February 5, 2026 at 11:40 AM
The desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving billionaire attacks on DEI. Because marginalized students/workers have led the questioning of white collar alignment with billionaires, and bigotry makes it easy to get privileged workers not to care if the marginalized are pushed out
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For billionaires, attacking DEI also creates a new set of allies. It gets blue collar workers (especially White men) to side with billionaires rather than against them, by fueling blue collar workers' anger at the fact that they didn't benefit from efforts to expand access to white collar prosperity
February 5, 2026 at 12:26 PM
For billionaires, attacking DEI also creates a new set of allies. It gets blue collar workers (especially White men) to side with billionaires rather than against them, by fueling blue collar workers' anger at the fact that they didn't benefit from efforts to expand access to white collar prosperity
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This is an important point.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project.
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February 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
This is an important point.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
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New from @devawo.bsky.social. Looking at recent survey data, Deva sees opportunities for democratic transformation. To confront authoritarianism, we must imagine new, unapologetically inclusive institutions and possibilities. kettering.org/reconstructi...
Reconstructing Democracy: Changing Our Minds About Who We Are and What Is Possible
What must we aim to do to nurture more egalitarian democratic relationships and build new parallel institutions in which they can be supported? How are people already taking steps to do so? What will ...
kettering.org
February 5, 2026 at 2:47 PM
New from @devawo.bsky.social. Looking at recent survey data, Deva sees opportunities for democratic transformation. To confront authoritarianism, we must imagine new, unapologetically inclusive institutions and possibilities. kettering.org/reconstructi...
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Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
February 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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The Washington Post news is awful.
Since I’ve been laid off, I’ve had so many conversations with people who want to organize, create, FUND and support real journalism. I’m not giving up. I know things seem dire, but we have to join forces and collaborate. Time to get more organized.
Since I’ve been laid off, I’ve had so many conversations with people who want to organize, create, FUND and support real journalism. I’m not giving up. I know things seem dire, but we have to join forces and collaborate. Time to get more organized.
February 4, 2026 at 8:18 PM
The Washington Post news is awful.
Since I’ve been laid off, I’ve had so many conversations with people who want to organize, create, FUND and support real journalism. I’m not giving up. I know things seem dire, but we have to join forces and collaborate. Time to get more organized.
Since I’ve been laid off, I’ve had so many conversations with people who want to organize, create, FUND and support real journalism. I’m not giving up. I know things seem dire, but we have to join forces and collaborate. Time to get more organized.
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Public funding for journalism. Public funding for elections. Public funding for healthcare. Public funding for science research. Public funding for schools, parks, museums, libraries, universities.
We need to start using our tax dollars to make our lives better.
We need to start using our tax dollars to make our lives better.
I don't see any way out of this without a state-funded media system like other civilized countries have.
February 4, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Public funding for journalism. Public funding for elections. Public funding for healthcare. Public funding for science research. Public funding for schools, parks, museums, libraries, universities.
We need to start using our tax dollars to make our lives better.
We need to start using our tax dollars to make our lives better.
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I love the delighted kids jumping up and down with excitement at the end. Science!
Here’s an experiment for y’all with the kiddos. Always science
February 4, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I love the delighted kids jumping up and down with excitement at the end. Science!
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Sending solidarity and good wishes to those laid off at WashPo. You deserved so much better.
February 4, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Sending solidarity and good wishes to those laid off at WashPo. You deserved so much better.
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Today is a good day to follow, subscribe, and support independent, worker-owned, and reader-funded media: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
February 4, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Today is a good day to follow, subscribe, and support independent, worker-owned, and reader-funded media: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
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The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
February 3, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
As folks think about the way news will need to be organized going forward as the legacy institutions pass out of relevance, nonprofit community trusts or worker co ops seem a good way to go. Ad revenue and clicks can’t be the model.
In 2016, the Philadelphia Inquirer, emerging from a messy bankruptcy, was acquired by Lenfest and donated to a nonprofit community trust. The Graham family, meanwhile, sold the Post to the richest man in the world.
Today, Will Bunch has a job at the Inky, and Karen Attiah was fired from the Post.
Today, Will Bunch has a job at the Inky, and Karen Attiah was fired from the Post.
The Washington Post is worth more to Jeff Bezos dead than alive
February 4, 2026 at 6:32 PM
As folks think about the way news will need to be organized going forward as the legacy institutions pass out of relevance, nonprofit community trusts or worker co ops seem a good way to go. Ad revenue and clicks can’t be the model.
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one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
February 4, 2026 at 4:07 AM
one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
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Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
February 1, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
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Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.
TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
February 4, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.
TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
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I’m teaching a 1 credit class “America at 250: The Revolution” and the final paper asks students to pick one of the grievances in the declaration and assemble primary sources to tell a story of how the issue has played out since in US history.
Fair to say the students are fired up.
Fair to say the students are fired up.
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 AM
I’m teaching a 1 credit class “America at 250: The Revolution” and the final paper asks students to pick one of the grievances in the declaration and assemble primary sources to tell a story of how the issue has played out since in US history.
Fair to say the students are fired up.
Fair to say the students are fired up.
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This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.
A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.
Minneapolis Council committee delays liquor licenses for 2 hotels over hosting federal agents
The City Council will hold a public hearing on the liquor licenses for the Canopy by Hilton in the Mill District and Depot Renaissance Hotel.
www.startribune.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:57 AM
This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.