joseph p. derosier
@derosierjoseph.bsky.social
medievalist always thinking about the present, gender, and race.
this account has no affiliation and reflects my perspectives, not those of my employer or any professional organizations to which i belong.
this account has no affiliation and reflects my perspectives, not those of my employer or any professional organizations to which i belong.
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we should not refer to federal officials as "czar."
February 6, 2026 at 1:26 PM
we should not refer to federal officials as "czar."
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Abolish ICE.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
February 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Abolish ICE.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
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“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932
February 3, 2026 at 2:05 PM
“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932
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“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”
Greetings from inside the economic blockade zones of Minneapolis and St Paul! Don’t look away, please. We need you. It’s been a month and they’re trying to destroy us.
February 2, 2026 at 12:38 PM
“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”
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For decades Republicans have pulled this bad faith who me bullshit
We simply don’t have to accept this
We simply don’t have to accept this
“[R]easonably this graphic does not glorify nor valorize any incident because it lacks any reasonable connection.”
February 2, 2026 at 12:46 PM
For decades Republicans have pulled this bad faith who me bullshit
We simply don’t have to accept this
We simply don’t have to accept this
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Do people understand that some version of this is currently happening at EVERY university in the US?
Breaking News: Texas A&M ended its women’s studies program and changed hundreds of courses over race and gender to comply with new policies limiting how race and gender ideology may be discussed in classrooms.
Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Hundreds of Classes on Race and Gender
New policies limiting the teaching of race and gender issues led administrators and professors to change hundreds of courses. School leaders say the rules could hurt A&M’s reputation.
nyti.ms
January 31, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Do people understand that some version of this is currently happening at EVERY university in the US?
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My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you
Merovingian cursive:
Merovingian cursive:
January 31, 2026 at 2:00 PM
My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you
Merovingian cursive:
Merovingian cursive:
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Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors
Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground
January 31, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Can confirm. Nothing has changed on the ground. ICE still attacking people, kidnapping, all that stuff—and the city is still out protecting and helping neighbors
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Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)
Perry: Abolish ICE? How about DHS altogether.
"We have models for how to structure federal immigration oversight that doesn't rely on an unaccountable masked secret police force running rampant in our streets," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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This angle is so reminiscent of the death squads many of us studied and fought against in the last century. Slave catchers and death squads, here we are.
He was shot while on his knees protecting a woman. He was unarmed… say what you want… we can see.
January 25, 2026 at 5:04 PM
This angle is so reminiscent of the death squads many of us studied and fought against in the last century. Slave catchers and death squads, here we are.
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it's domestic terrorism to film the fascist paramilitary
it's domestic terrorism to flee the fascist paramilitary
January 24, 2026 at 11:03 PM
it's domestic terrorism to film the fascist paramilitary
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As someone who has spent over 35 years trying to explain that violence is inherent to policing only to have most people be OK with this, I could be excused if I decided to just give up. But I'm not. I knew we would be where we are today. I still think that we do not have to live like this.
January 24, 2026 at 8:39 PM
As someone who has spent over 35 years trying to explain that violence is inherent to policing only to have most people be OK with this, I could be excused if I decided to just give up. But I'm not. I knew we would be where we are today. I still think that we do not have to live like this.
I know this country has always been fucked up, but I still didn't foresee government thugs murdering VA nurses in cold blood on the street.
January 25, 2026 at 2:18 AM
I know this country has always been fucked up, but I still didn't foresee government thugs murdering VA nurses in cold blood on the street.
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It is hard for me not to regard the failure to recognize that the AI boom is inextricable from totalitarian creep as willful ignorance, as either the delusions of those who believe they are immune or an endorsement that doesn’t require a vulgar red cap.
But AI boosterism is Trumpism now. Full stop.
But AI boosterism is Trumpism now. Full stop.
it is an incredible coincidence that the tech sector going all-in on AI is also owned by people that want to destroy the institutions of democratic life
"If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than artificial intelligence." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
January 17, 2026 at 1:34 PM
It is hard for me not to regard the failure to recognize that the AI boom is inextricable from totalitarian creep as willful ignorance, as either the delusions of those who believe they are immune or an endorsement that doesn’t require a vulgar red cap.
But AI boosterism is Trumpism now. Full stop.
But AI boosterism is Trumpism now. Full stop.
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release information on 3 detained Oglala Lakota tribal members who are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp for Native people, unless the tribe enters into an immigration agreement with ICE.
Oglala Sioux Tribe accuses federal authorities of treaty violation after four members detained by ICE
“Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are United States citizens. We are the first Americans.”
www.wjtv.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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I started as a “what do you mean syllabus day I’m not wasting a day of instruction on that” teacher and now I have lost it entirely and we spend a full week at the beginning of class analyzing syllabi as a genre
January 14, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I started as a “what do you mean syllabus day I’m not wasting a day of instruction on that” teacher and now I have lost it entirely and we spend a full week at the beginning of class analyzing syllabi as a genre
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The reason MAGA thinks this video shows Renée Good‘s murderer as justified is found in the Margaret Atwood quote: "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."
In their minds, these two things are equivalent. #3E #EndImpunity #GoodVsEvil #RenéeGood
In their minds, these two things are equivalent. #3E #EndImpunity #GoodVsEvil #RenéeGood
Renee Good’s murder was not just a homicide, it’s a hate crime against women, called femicide.
Good told ICE, "That's fine, I'm not mad at you" and was shot 3 times in the head point blank, Ross yelled the misogynist slur, "fucking bitch" after killing her. #3E #endimpunity
Good told ICE, "That's fine, I'm not mad at you" and was shot 3 times in the head point blank, Ross yelled the misogynist slur, "fucking bitch" after killing her. #3E #endimpunity
January 10, 2026 at 4:28 AM
The reason MAGA thinks this video shows Renée Good‘s murderer as justified is found in the Margaret Atwood quote: "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."
In their minds, these two things are equivalent. #3E #EndImpunity #GoodVsEvil #RenéeGood
In their minds, these two things are equivalent. #3E #EndImpunity #GoodVsEvil #RenéeGood
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I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount
January 10, 2026 at 4:07 AM
I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount
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It’s hard to know if people outside MN understand how much of life is grinding to a halt here because of Trump’s occupation. Schools have shut down, businesses are scaling back hours or closing because their employees aren’t safe. The whole city is weighted down.
January 10, 2026 at 4:36 AM
It’s hard to know if people outside MN understand how much of life is grinding to a halt here because of Trump’s occupation. Schools have shut down, businesses are scaling back hours or closing because their employees aren’t safe. The whole city is weighted down.
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there is strange insistence — an implicit one — that fascism must be a coherent system
January 8, 2026 at 11:27 AM
there is strange insistence — an implicit one — that fascism must be a coherent system
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From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!