Eric Beckman
@erbeckman.bsky.social
Anti-racist History Educator | Online Tutor | Soccer fan: MN United FC, Liverpool FC
No Kings, No jesters
Lessons and reflections at ebeckman.org
No Kings, No jesters
Lessons and reflections at ebeckman.org
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this makes a lot of sense when paired with Kate Manne's discussion of entitlement and sexism. a sense of empowerment very often is dependent on oppressing others. this is why ppl "vote against their interests"; they see their status as linked to the subordination of others.
I was just reading about lynchings as acts of White freedom in Jefferson Cowie's *Freedom's Dominion*. Sadly, very relevant. Quotation here:
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December 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
this makes a lot of sense when paired with Kate Manne's discussion of entitlement and sexism. a sense of empowerment very often is dependent on oppressing others. this is why ppl "vote against their interests"; they see their status as linked to the subordination of others.
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wrote about Trump’s ableist xenophobic rant on Thanksgiving. He sounds desperate—and he actually alienated a key Republican supporter.
as he loses traction, he doubles down, which is very dangerous. He also faces more opposition, though. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-than...
as he loses traction, he doubles down, which is very dangerous. He also faces more opposition, though. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-than...
Trump's ugly Thanksgiving meltdown
It's getting so bad that even Republicans are starting to notice.
www.publicnotice.co
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
wrote about Trump’s ableist xenophobic rant on Thanksgiving. He sounds desperate—and he actually alienated a key Republican supporter.
as he loses traction, he doubles down, which is very dangerous. He also faces more opposition, though. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-than...
as he loses traction, he doubles down, which is very dangerous. He also faces more opposition, though. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-than...
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Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper.
WAPO: “.. Officials in Congress and the Pentagon said Monday they are increasingly concerned that the Trump administration intends to scapegoat the military officer who directed U.S. forces to kill two survivors of a targeted strike ..”
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December 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper.
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More pages straight from the authoritarian playbook
Increasingly concerning that the Trump Admin is obliterating data so we can’t document what they’re destroying. In this case, gold standard tracking of health care access, insurance coverage and costs. It’s a study that will help us understand the impacts of the Big Beautiful Bill.
MEPS seems to be gone as of now. This is very bad. These are critical pieces of data about health care and they belong to the American public.
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
More pages straight from the authoritarian playbook
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This Wednesday, stand with workers against deportation flights at MSP!
10:30am at the Terminal 2 light rail station.
10:30am at the Terminal 2 light rail station.
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This Wednesday, stand with workers against deportation flights at MSP!
10:30am at the Terminal 2 light rail station.
10:30am at the Terminal 2 light rail station.
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I know what she's doing. She's a grifter. One of the ways to undermine a grifter is to say their words back to them in a way that highlights that they are silly people saying incoherent things.
They don't care about being mean (they're into it) but they definitely care about seeming cool.
They don't care about being mean (they're into it) but they definitely care about seeming cool.
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I know what she's doing. She's a grifter. One of the ways to undermine a grifter is to say their words back to them in a way that highlights that they are silly people saying incoherent things.
They don't care about being mean (they're into it) but they definitely care about seeming cool.
They don't care about being mean (they're into it) but they definitely care about seeming cool.
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
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Time to move from me to we, Senator
Time to move from me to we, Senator
Until he starts calling for immediate resignations & impeachments, it's all sort of meaningless words. Shift the Overton window by calling it all what it is & demanding Congressional Republicans who also swore oaths to uphold the Constitution & control both houses fulfill them.
Sen. Kelly: “President Trump is trying to silence me. Threatening to kill me for saying what is true. And he sent his Secretary of Defense after me. And it's not going to work.”
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Time to move from me to we, Senator
Time to move from me to we, Senator
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All I'm saying is that in the 1960s, the white supremacist Louisiana Catholics Leander Perez and Una Gaillot were (at least temporarily) excommunicated for their revolting words and actions. There is precedent.
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
All I'm saying is that in the 1960s, the white supremacist Louisiana Catholics Leander Perez and Una Gaillot were (at least temporarily) excommunicated for their revolting words and actions. There is precedent.
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the use of "color revolution" here is like the spoor of the authoritarian internationale--the way that russian propaganda has slithered its way in to the american right
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
the use of "color revolution" here is like the spoor of the authoritarian internationale--the way that russian propaganda has slithered its way in to the american right
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Trump’s Immigration Forces Are Recklessly Deploying ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons. Protesters Are Getting Maimed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
Trump’s Immigration Forces Are Recklessly Deploying ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons. Protesters Are Getting Maimed.
This story is part of a collaboration between FRONTLINE and ProPublica that includes an...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Trump’s Immigration Forces Are Recklessly Deploying ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons. Protesters Are Getting Maimed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
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So glad to catch @csschmitt.bsky.social's JCB Reads discussion of her rich, multilayered, absolutely brilliant (and heartwrenching) The Predatory Sea. (Thankful for the holiday sale, too!)
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So glad to catch @csschmitt.bsky.social's JCB Reads discussion of her rich, multilayered, absolutely brilliant (and heartwrenching) The Predatory Sea. (Thankful for the holiday sale, too!)
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The thing about laws and legality is once you reach the tipping point, the fascists rewrite the laws. The Holocaust was strictly legal under German law.
similarly "torturing prisoners" is the kind of thing that you'd assume is an illegal order...except these freaks made sure to create a legal justification for it. not illegal now!
"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The thing about laws and legality is once you reach the tipping point, the fascists rewrite the laws. The Holocaust was strictly legal under German law.
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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Every NYT writer is like the dumbest ass on the planet. "Why golly gee! I just can't figure out why he says he's interested in fighting drug trafficking by bombing Venezuelan fishermen, but he pardons rich and powerful drug dealers!"
November 30, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Every NYT writer is like the dumbest ass on the planet. "Why golly gee! I just can't figure out why he says he's interested in fighting drug trafficking by bombing Venezuelan fishermen, but he pardons rich and powerful drug dealers!"
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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"Saying He Won't Invade Czechoslovakia, Then Invading Czechoslovakia, Hitler Displays Contradictions: Reichskanzler Hitler's statements on radio less than 24 hours apart shows dissonance in his Munich promises."
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"Saying He Won't Invade Czechoslovakia, Then Invading Czechoslovakia, Hitler Displays Contradictions: Reichskanzler Hitler's statements on radio less than 24 hours apart shows dissonance in his Munich promises."
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And this is Hegseth’s response. The war crimes will continue. A regime of sociopathy.
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
And this is Hegseth’s response. The war crimes will continue. A regime of sociopathy.
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There is a metric shit-ton of problems our society is facing, but I'd argue this is the one they pretty much all stem from:
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
There is a metric shit-ton of problems our society is facing, but I'd argue this is the one they pretty much all stem from:
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Suspensions are ricocheting around the legal immigration system in the last 48 hours. The broader picture so far has built out Trump's travel ban (the impact of which has been drowned out by other news).
Tl;dr: Miller and his team are working to block entire nationalities from getting legal status.
Tl;dr: Miller and his team are working to block entire nationalities from getting legal status.
The Trump administration has announced it is halting all asylum decisions in the wake of the National Guard shooting in Washington, D.C. Here's what we know.
Trump administration says it is halting all asylum decisions after National Guard shooting
The Trump administration has announced it is halting all asylum decisions in the wake of the National Guard shooting in Washington, D.C. Here's what we know.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Suspensions are ricocheting around the legal immigration system in the last 48 hours. The broader picture so far has built out Trump's travel ban (the impact of which has been drowned out by other news).
Tl;dr: Miller and his team are working to block entire nationalities from getting legal status.
Tl;dr: Miller and his team are working to block entire nationalities from getting legal status.
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Five Points on the Gradually-Emerging Picture of the Post Shutdown U.S. Economy talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/f...
Five Points on the Gradually-Emerging Picture of the Post Shutdown U.S. Economy
Maybe President Donald Trump is calling his economy “The Golden Age” because...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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The White Christian Supremacism of this administration is so extreme that it seems like it’s got to resolve with either a massive rejection of such illiberalism, or a violent, authoritarian imposition of it.
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The White Christian Supremacism of this administration is so extreme that it seems like it’s got to resolve with either a massive rejection of such illiberalism, or a violent, authoritarian imposition of it.
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Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake
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What DHS is posting for the holiday -- where the idealized "future of plenty" is a sea of happy, smiling white faces, clustered around a white table. This is the "homeland" they crave. The nostalgia for Norman Rockwell's America that never really was. White nationalist fever dreams.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
What DHS is posting for the holiday -- where the idealized "future of plenty" is a sea of happy, smiling white faces, clustered around a white table. This is the "homeland" they crave. The nostalgia for Norman Rockwell's America that never really was. White nationalist fever dreams.
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