Reposted by Ben Manskinodraerjk.bsky.social @nodraerjk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026bsky.app/profile/dani... 292
Reposted by Ben ManskiRep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026I’m following news of a reported shooting of a legal observer by ICE agents in South Minneapolis. I’ll continue to monitor the situation closely and will update as soon as I receive information. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities and leave our city. 471104226
Reposted by Ben ManskiMark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 09/10/2025“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’ 24064801795
Reposted by Ben ManskiMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Turning DC into Moscow (or East Berlin from back in the day). 812453
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 02/08/2025I don't spend much time over here on Bluesky as of yet, but I just had to come back here to comment on that same prominent sociologist and New York Times columnist who backhandedly dissed GMU even as they pretended to defend us . . . I hope they are reflecting on their actions and hubris. 110
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 23/07/2025What really strikes me is that we met last year and Limerick and I spoke with her about GMU. We talked at some length. I'm not going to say anything more about this but Jesus what a waste of time and energy. 110
Reposted by Ben ManskiAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 10/06/2025Working people need our leaders in power to work for them and put their interests first. A wasteful birthday military parade does nothing to help working families pay their bills, lower their costs, or keep their health care. 415048
Reposted by Ben ManskiAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 10/06/2025The birthday parade money could pay for 4 million Meals on Wheels meals, enough to cover 10,000 hungry and isolated seniors for an entire year. 3347170
Reposted by Ben ManskiAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 10/06/2025$45 million could pay for GI Bill benefits for 3,000 veterans, showing our nation’s thanks to our brave soldiers with the college or vocational training we promised after their service. 113671
Reposted by Ben ManskiAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 10/06/2025$45 million could provide more than 10 million school lunches, enough to feed 56,000 hungry kids – whose only warm meal each day could be at school – for an entire year. 213179
Reposted by Ben Manskicraigborowiak.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Yes. Many thanks to Amy Cohen and @benmanski.bsky.social for hosting this webinar on our book. So many good vibrations and solidarities coming out of next system project @nextsystemstudies.bsky.social ! #solidaritycities @uminnpress.bsky.social 032
Reposted by Ben ManskiBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 15/04/2025In case you're wondering why Trump is censoring any discussion of climate pollution... It's only April and there's already Death Valley heat in India and Pakistan.accuweather.comExtended heatwave in India, Pakistan to test survivability limits, with temperatures reaching Death Valley levelsFor hundreds of millions of people living in India and Pakistan the early arrival of summer heatwaves has become a terrifying reality that’s testing survivability limits and putting enormous strain on... 44723
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 10/04/2025To be clear - I don't know whether the BLS # are correct. My colleagues don't know (I've asked around). And given what has just been done to the federal government, neither do you. 000
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Step 3: Issue government reports of a steep decline in inflation and of steady employment. Step 4: Count on cowed media organizations to uncritically report Step 3. 000
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Step 1. Fire hundreds of thousands of career civil servants at government agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Step 2: Hold universities hostage by cutting off tens of billions of dollars of federal funding for independent research. 200
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 08/04/2025GMU faculty call on school administration to protect students from ICE www.ffxnow.com/2025/04/08/g...ffxnow.comGMU faculty call on school administration to protect students from ICE | FFXnow 000
Reposted by Ben ManskiEman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below... 7027121061
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Read about their letter here: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/s...nytimes.comTrump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers SayNearly 2,000 scientists urged that Congress restore funding to federal agencies decimated by recent cuts. 000
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Read their letter here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comRead the LetterResearchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled. 100
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 01/04/2025"The quest for truth—the mission of science requires that scientists freely explore new questions and report their findings honestly, independent of special interests. The administration is engaging in censorship, destroying this independence."nytimes.comRead the LetterResearchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled. 000
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 01/04/20251900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering - the most respected scientists in this country - rise up against the war on science.nytimes.comRead the LetterResearchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled. 211
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 28/03/2025With the Next System Teach-Ins (Nov 1-16) and our April 3-4 online convergence, we’ll move toward the kind of next system we most want. #NextSystem #GlobalMovement #TeachIns2025 NextSystem.org 000
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Imagine hundreds of thousands gathering on campuses, in community centers, and public spaces worldwide—learning from social movements and taking responsibility for system change. 100
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Reminder: Next System Speaker and law professor Anthony Cook joins us at 1:30 EDT today on "Breaking Barriers: Racial Capitalism and the Unfinished Work of Martin Luther King Jr." You can still register and get the zoom link here : nextsystem.gmu.edu/events/16730nextsystem.gmu.eduAnthony Cook - Breaking Barriers: Racial Capitalism and the Unfinished Work of Martin Luther King JrThursday, March 20, 2025 1:30 PM to 2:45 PM EDT: Using Dr. King’s life and legacy as a guide, Anthony Cook will explore what King’s vision for... 010
Reposted by Ben ManskiAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 22/11/2024“An organization of intellectual workers can have the greatest significance for society as a whole by influencing public opinion through publicity & education. Indeed, it is the proper task to defend academic freedom, without which a healthy development of democracy is impossible.” 1162
Reposted by Ben ManskiJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 02/03/2025this guy really hates his trans kid so much that he decided to destroy liberal democracy 728130
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 31/01/2025This is 1990s Russia post-coup: The Trump demand that federal workers resign en masse? He intends to liquidate most of our federal agencies and use our taxes to award massive contracts to himself and his loyalists. Short-term prediction. 020
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/w... #deportmusknytimes.comMusk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s ElectionIt was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe. 020
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 10/12/2024That's sardonic humor, obviously. But it is true that the very fields devoted to building inclusion and democracy are the ones under authoritarian attack. 010
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Clearly, STEM is the problem and we should invest in the Social Sciences and Humanities instead. Or hadn't we noticed that it's not sociologists, historians, or artists who are shooting people, hijacking planes, or sending bombs in the mail? 120
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 06/12/2024@POTUS has the authority, responsibility, & opportunity to certify this critical protection ahead of the Trump administration. We need a mass movement urging him to take action. Take action at bidenpublishtheera.org #BidenPublishTheERA #ERANowbidenpublishtheera.orgBiden Publish the ERA 021
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 06/12/20243 weeks ago, dozens of police officers from multiple jurisdictions, led by federal law enforcement, broke down the front door of a Fairfax County home at 6:00am and began an ordeal that one of my students and their family have been dealing with ever since. theintercept.com/2024/12/03/g...theintercept.comPolice Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti InvestigationPolice raided the home of a George Mason University Students for Justice in Palestine co-president in an FBI-led investigation into graffiti. 010
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 30/11/2024"Who started it is not the point. Proportionality and discrimination don't say that you don't have to worry about these rules if the other guy is a bad guy and the other guy started it." tinyurl.com/ujk77pnptinyurl.comRashid Khalidi: 'Israel has created a nightmare scenario for itself. The clock is ticking'*** 010
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Children should not be used as props for their parent's idiosyncratic legal-political agendas, I generally agree. But in this case, I'll make an exception. 030
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Is this what they have planned for our country? Is making war on unions, students, your neighbors what you signed up for? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...theguardian.comTrump’s Pentagon pick Hegseth wrote of US military taking sides in ‘civil war’Defense secretary pick said in 2020 that should Democrats win election the military ‘will be forced to make a choice’ 010
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Source - Carsie Blanton - www.carsieblanton.com/shop/carsieblanton.comShop | Carsie BlantonBands In TownHi, I’m Carsie. I make songs, records, videos, blog posts, and mischief. 010
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 21/11/2024(or at least, without some kind of commentary to the effect that this is something that many Jews are sharing) 010
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 21/11/2024And by the way, probably best not to repost this unless you're a Jew/Jewish. 210
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 21/11/2024A little early, but human liberation is a constant and universal struggle. 110
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 21/11/202419 Senators believe that the laws they pass are worth the paper they are printed on. The rest of the Senate? Unworthy of the public trust. I'm glad to see Senator Kaine among those who give more than platitudes to the promise of a republic. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...commondreams.orgSenate Rejects Sanders' Bid to Halt Arms to Israel Over Gaza Atrocities | Common DreamsThe U.S. Senate rejected Bernie Sanders' resolutions to block the sale of offensive weapons to Israel over Gaza atrocities. 010
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Were the U.S. still the world hegemon, you would be hearing more about this. But the criminalization of democracy is no longer a subject of geopolitical posturing. This to me is more evidence for the rise of the new hegemon: a global class, not a nation state. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/w... "nytimes.comDozens of Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Leaders Sentenced in Mass TrialThe 45 defendants, including Joshua Wong, were at the forefront of the opposition movement crushed by Beijing. Many had already been in jail for years. 010
Ben Manski @benmanski.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Here's a gift idea for the winter holidays: www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/the-... 110
Reposted by Ben ManskiBlair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 16/11/2024This speech by NZ Greens member Chloe Swarbrick is not to be missed! Real leadership. Stop & watch! #nzpol #treatyprinciples @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social 47626
