Arlene Stein

by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 5h

What a role model for children.

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JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 16h

More, please!

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 22h

Ciattarelli is promising to create an N.J. DOGE, modeled on the disastrous department that has decimated critical federal functions under the Trump administration.

Who Should Be Governor of New Jersey? 11 Leaders Rated the Candidates. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | New Jersey Governor Candidates: Who Would Be Best?

Times Opinion convened a panel to weigh in on the race.

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 1d

Understand the new visual language of the right.

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The not-so secret language of fascist fashion

Today’s rightwingers want their message to go mainstream, so it’s coming to a store near you

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 1d

via Dale Vince

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 2d

More, please.

Letitia James and Zohran Mamdani Unite to Fight Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/n...

Letitia James and Zohran Mamdani Unite to Fight Trump

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 4d

While young people “preferred to live in a democracy over a dictatorship by 57% to 27%”, only 35% said they would consider getting involved in organised politics.

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France is not alone in its political crisis – belief in a democratic world is vanishing | Simon Tisdall

The populist right offers a solution in the form of turning back the clock. Macron and his counterparts need to find a different answer fast, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

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Reposted by Arlene Stein, W. Andy Knight, Bessma Momani , and 1 more Arlene Stein, W. Andy Knight, Bessma Momani, Aviel Roshwald

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 6d

Just hit 50 verified #NOKINGS events in #NJ !

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No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Reposted by Arlene Stein, Anne Applebaum, Joanna Bryson , and 44 more Arlene Stein, Anne Applebaum, Joanna Bryson, Joe R. Feagin, Brendan Nyhan, Jesse H. Kroll, Patrick A. Jansen, Daniel L. Millimet, David Feldman, Eric Goldman, Fabián Muniesa, Jacob Montgomery, Bruce D. Baker, Juan Cole, Erwin Dekker, Sanford F. Schram, John Foot, Devon Greyson, W. Andy Knight, Nazita Lajevardi, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Scott A. Imberman, Caroline Fohlin, Florian Keller, Michael D. McDonald, Jason Lyall, Kate Starbird, Victor Pickard, Thomas Masterson, Nils Zurawski, Nelson Flores, Henrik Skaug Sætra, Federica Genovese, Richard M. Carpiano, Olivier Jourdan, Klaus Oschema, Meredith Farkas, Brandon Whitcher, Daxton R. Stewart, Albin Wagener, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Manisha Sinha, Aviel Roshwald, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Bruce Buchan, Southern Africa

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 9d

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 10d

There are only two paths out of our current situation, and we must take both.

The first is a national uprising of the American people that forces Trump’s enablers to recognize that they [will] lose by supporting him.

The second path is to vote in overwhelming numbers in 2026.

Robert Hubbell

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 10d

A sad day for American culture.

Paramount Buys The Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Paramount Buys The Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News

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by Arlene Stein — Reposted by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 13d

When it comes to our own history of far-right movements, Americans have an exceedingly short memory. My latest.

@sas.rutgers.edu

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Sociologist Explores a Dark Moment in 1930s America and Asks: 'Why did we Forget?'

Rutgers sociologist Arlene Stein explores a pro-Nazi movement that operated openly in 1930s America and questions why such groups so easily slipped from public memory.

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 15d

No citizen who simply settles for being a consumer of democracy should expect to have a real democracy ever again.

When Silence Is the Only Logical Choice, Are We Really Free? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | When Silence Is the Only Logical Choice, Are We Really Free?

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 15d

Hypocrites.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15d

"Under pressure from Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and prominent right-wing activists in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Anti-Defamation League is removing from its website the Glossary of Extremism and Hate, one of the organization’s signature anti-hate resources."

ADL deletes Glossary of Extremism under pressure from conservatives over Charlie Kirk entry

The organization stands by a separate resource that describes Kirk’s Turning Point USA’s ties to ‘extremists’

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15d

"Under pressure from Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and prominent right-wing activists in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Anti-Defamation League is removing from its website the Glossary of Extremism and Hate, one of the organization’s signature anti-hate resources."

ADL deletes Glossary of Extremism under pressure from conservatives over Charlie Kirk entry

The organization stands by a separate resource that describes Kirk’s Turning Point USA’s ties to ‘extremists’

jewishinsider.com

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 17d

Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 18d

I-70 in Western #Maryland
#VisibilityBrigade

Letters on overpass spelling out: Speak Up Democracy Needs You Now

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 18d

The smartest piece you will read about Kirk.

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 19d

“I was working on my Kafka manuscript, and then the Kafkaesque interrupted me,” Professor Judith Butler said.

Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump.

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 19d

These are the faces and stories of some of the dedicated Federal employees who Trump forced out of their jobs. We will all pay the price.

Who Left the Federal Workforce www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Former Federal Workers on the Cost of Trump's Cuts

The New York Times photographed and interviewed two dozen former federal workers from across the country to get a sense of what they left behind and what they face next.

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 20d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Why Corporate America Is Caving to Trump

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by Arlene Stein

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 21d

The simple truth is that never before in our history have so few had so much wealth and power while so many live in economic desperation.
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The American system is badly broken | Bernie Sanders

What we are witnessing right now is the rise of two Americas. One for the billionaire class. And one for everybody else

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by Robert B. Reich — Reposted by Arlene Stein, Timothy Snyder, Richard E. Lenski , and 30 more Arlene Stein, Timothy Snyder, Richard E. Lenski, Michael Wagner, Koen Frenken, Stefan Reis, Thomas Agoritsas, Gavin L. Foster, Leigh Sparks, Amir Attaran, Jacob Montgomery, Donald Tomaskovic‐Devey, Cathy N. Davidson, Alison Phipps, Sanford F. Schram, Enzo Rossi, Nancy T. Ammerman, Peter Schöttler, Jonathan Hopkin, Laurent Pech, Leonhard Dobusch, W. Andy Knight, Rory O’Connell, Aurélien Mondon, Peter Stegmaier, Henry Jones, Henrik Skaug Sætra, Greg Linden, Pam Jarvis, Dan Immergluck, Annalee Newitz, Bill Hare, Robert B. Reich

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?