Sam Jackson
@sjacks26.bsky.social
Researching right-wing extremism in the U.S, conspiracy theories, extremist language, etc.
Professing in Albany, NY
Black Lives Matter
he/him
My Oath Keepers book: bit.ly/2DOUuh7
CV: https://tinyurl.com/meyy6xpd
Professing in Albany, NY
Black Lives Matter
he/him
My Oath Keepers book: bit.ly/2DOUuh7
CV: https://tinyurl.com/meyy6xpd
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For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
The Trump administration does not care about homeland security in any meaningful sense.
NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two newly hired senior FBI staff, exempting them from polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information, officials said.
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The Trump administration does not care about homeland security in any meaningful sense.
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Montclair State University has with no reasonable justification replaced all departments in the humanities and social sciences with four non-disciplinary units, seemingly randomly chosen by uni executive leadership with no regard for faculty input or governance. Terrible & portentous
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Montclair State University has with no reasonable justification replaced all departments in the humanities and social sciences with four non-disciplinary units, seemingly randomly chosen by uni executive leadership with no regard for faculty input or governance. Terrible & portentous
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2. The very first entity listed is Antifa Ost (a.k.a. Antifa East or the Hammer Gang). The last attacks attributed to them by the State Dept occurred in Budapest in Feb 2023.
What State doesn’t say is that was during a *Neo-Nazi rally* that’s held every year.
What State doesn’t say is that was during a *Neo-Nazi rally* that’s held every year.
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
2. The very first entity listed is Antifa Ost (a.k.a. Antifa East or the Hammer Gang). The last attacks attributed to them by the State Dept occurred in Budapest in Feb 2023.
What State doesn’t say is that was during a *Neo-Nazi rally* that’s held every year.
What State doesn’t say is that was during a *Neo-Nazi rally* that’s held every year.
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I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.
Wow
Jim Ryan is a man of incredible character and this is a deeply troubling read. Gov. Spanberger and the legislature need to get those three members of the board to resign and reevaluate the university and state's ties with McGuireWoods drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
11.14.25_JER Resignation Facuty.pdf
drive.google.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Wow
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
Today in my masters Homeland Security course, we talked about how the Trump admin rescinded the near-prohibition on immigration enforcement in places of worship that had been in place since 1993.
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Do political science profs have to explain to their students that, for most of American history, it was actually borderline unthinkable that elected officials and their spokespersons would constantly talk like trashy reality show contestants?
After calling Schumer a "Palestinian," Leavitt refers to "Gavin Newscum." So she's just ripping off her boss's smears now.
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Today in my masters Homeland Security course, we talked about how the Trump admin rescinded the near-prohibition on immigration enforcement in places of worship that had been in place since 1993.
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Rubio is working on legal grounds to persecute antifa. Four foreign groups are now Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) and they hope to designate them FTOs. Only one is actually an antifascist group: Hungary has previously focused on Antifa Ost (Hammerbande).
www.state.gov/releases/202...
www.state.gov/releases/202...
Designations of Antifa Ost and Three Other Violent Antifa Groups - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State announces the designation of Antifa Ost, Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense...
www.state.gov
November 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Rubio is working on legal grounds to persecute antifa. Four foreign groups are now Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) and they hope to designate them FTOs. Only one is actually an antifascist group: Hungary has previously focused on Antifa Ost (Hammerbande).
www.state.gov/releases/202...
www.state.gov/releases/202...
Long shot request: a while back, a piece made the rounds on here from a writer (creative nonfiction, I think) who used an LLM to give her feedback. She kept giving it her writing, and it kept saying it had read her writing but it didn't even open the files/links.
Can anyone point me to this piece?
Can anyone point me to this piece?
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Long shot request: a while back, a piece made the rounds on here from a writer (creative nonfiction, I think) who used an LLM to give her feedback. She kept giving it her writing, and it kept saying it had read her writing but it didn't even open the files/links.
Can anyone point me to this piece?
Can anyone point me to this piece?
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Long shot request: a while back, a piece made the rounds on here from a writer (creative nonfiction, I think) who used an LLM to give her feedback. She kept giving it her writing, and it kept saying it had read her writing but it didn't even open the files/links.
Can anyone point me to this piece?
Can anyone point me to this piece?
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
Fun, frivolous science communication based on lots and lots of very serious research is the best.
What if ALL the sun's power was focused in one place?
What the latest What If? video in collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!
youtu.be/qu8nx1qUwEU
What the latest What If? video in collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!
youtu.be/qu8nx1qUwEU
What if ALL the sun’s power was focused in one place?
YouTube video by xkcd's What If?
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Fun, frivolous science communication based on lots and lots of very serious research is the best.
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Brand is of course still awating trial on UK rape charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty; this is evidently not an impediment to appearing at gatherings with Republican officials including the vice president and HHS secretary. His trial is currently set for June 2026 www.npr.org/2025/05/30/g...
Russell Brand pleads not guilty to rape, sexual assault charges in U.K.
On Friday, Brand pleaded not guilty to five counts of rape and assault that date back more than 25 years. He says the charges are politically motivated. His trial is set for 2026.
www.npr.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Brand is of course still awating trial on UK rape charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty; this is evidently not an impediment to appearing at gatherings with Republican officials including the vice president and HHS secretary. His trial is currently set for June 2026 www.npr.org/2025/05/30/g...
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Are you an early career humanities scholar looking for next year's plans? Have you dreamed of having an office only a few doors down from mine?
Great news - the Whitney Humanities Center is hiring a postdoc working within the broader theme of 'Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration'
Great news - the Whitney Humanities Center is hiring a postdoc working within the broader theme of 'Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration'
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Are you an early career humanities scholar looking for next year's plans? Have you dreamed of having an office only a few doors down from mine?
Great news - the Whitney Humanities Center is hiring a postdoc working within the broader theme of 'Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration'
Great news - the Whitney Humanities Center is hiring a postdoc working within the broader theme of 'Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration'
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
In case I’m wrong, go buy my book so you know what they were like the first time around.
bit.ly/2DOUuh7
bit.ly/2DOUuh7
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
In case I’m wrong, go buy my book so you know what they were like the first time around.
bit.ly/2DOUuh7
bit.ly/2DOUuh7
I’m gonna go out in a limb and say there’s a negligible chance of OK meaningfully relaunching. Rhodes’s leadership was always a point of contention, I doubt anything he’s the face of will have much impact moving forward.
(God I hope a monkey paw didn’t curl somewhere)
(God I hope a monkey paw didn’t curl somewhere)
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I’m gonna go out in a limb and say there’s a negligible chance of OK meaningfully relaunching. Rhodes’s leadership was always a point of contention, I doubt anything he’s the face of will have much impact moving forward.
(God I hope a monkey paw didn’t curl somewhere)
(God I hope a monkey paw didn’t curl somewhere)
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I think Rhodes has said a dozen times this year he was relaunching the OK.
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I think Rhodes has said a dozen times this year he was relaunching the OK.
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
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I wrote a whole book on tshirts like this. Did not expect to see one for sale at Walmart. You can report it (as I have) by scrolling down on the item’s page and reporting it for offensive or prohibited content.
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I wrote a whole book on tshirts like this. Did not expect to see one for sale at Walmart. You can report it (as I have) by scrolling down on the item’s page and reporting it for offensive or prohibited content.
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locked in a parlay with the Polymarket app. If the Civil War is officially renamed the War of Northern Oppression, drone strike capability is added to DoorDash, and the concept of free healthcare is purged from the American imagination, I get $7 and my choice of which parent doesn't go back to India
November 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
locked in a parlay with the Polymarket app. If the Civil War is officially renamed the War of Northern Oppression, drone strike capability is added to DoorDash, and the concept of free healthcare is purged from the American imagination, I get $7 and my choice of which parent doesn't go back to India