Reposted by Eric BeckmanRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15hCowboys past and present are: Black, Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, queer, trans, radical, female (and the ones in rodeos rely on rodeo clowns to keep them safe). And that pro-democracy pro-Constitution patriots despise this dimwitted pile of hatreds. I've met cowboys and you, sir, are no cowboy. 561237243
Reposted by Eric BeckmanLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 18hThis blackout is not silence. It is remembrance. It is solidarity. It is a community standing together and saying that Nolan Wells will not simply become another name we scroll past and forget. #BlackoutForNolan #NolanWells #SayHisName 28732
Reposted by Eric BeckmanI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18h“Texas Republicans redrew several House districts last year with the assumption that the Hispanic voters who moved toward their party were part of a new, durable coalition. But many of those voters have turned against the Republicans.”nytimes.comHispanic Voters on the Texas Border Have Soured on Trump (Gift Article)In 2024, these voters were an essential part of the winning Republican coalition. Now, many feel abandoned and furious, complicating the party’s chances in November. 1424943
Reposted by Eric BeckmanKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 18hI'm positively obsessed with corporate journalistic simulacrum. It looks and smells like journalism, but it exists exclusively to prop up the agenda of an extraction class that wants to accumulate wealth completely free of ANY meaningful public interest guardrails 25114
Reposted by Eric BeckmanRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 148157705252
Reposted by Eric BeckmanSahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The complaint says Quentin Williams was pinned down by Border Patrol agents who came on school property following a car chase on Jan. 7. Written by @bzosiad.bsky.socialsahanjournal.comMpls. educator files claim alleging attack by Border Patrol agentsRoosevelt High special ed assistant Quentin Williams has filed a claim against the federal government over a Jan. 7 incident where he was pinned down by Border Patrol agents on school property. 02114
Reposted by Eric BeckmanDan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I don't usually make endorsements anymore. But this year, I’m making a few exceptions for people who I’ve gotten to know a bit over the years, and who I think very highly of — in their work and as people. Go get 'em @markbecker.bsky.social @emtseffos.bsky.social @reprobynvining.bsky.social 0104
Reposted by Eric BeckmanI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026We’re living through a period where the federal government, along with many state and local governments, has been pushing to normalize white supremacy while codifying it in policy. This effort has been aided by the world’s richest people and the most prestigious institutions in the country. 08926
Reposted by Eric BeckmanMary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's so odd how the rapist turned out to be unconcerned about law. 1105
Reposted by Eric BeckmanJack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don't disagree. But, as I wrote back to these reporters, I am most optimistic about projects that respond to the expressed concerns of students and teachers. These are the people who spend 180 days inside schools each year, and they're the key actors in the process of teaching and learning. 1/n 16323
Reposted by Eric BeckmanChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It is, strangely, an anti-patriarchy. No elders would ever choose these men to succeed them. They are a postmodern accident in ill-fitting suits 954756
Reposted by Eric BeckmanYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026new toon: morning briefing www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...dailykos.comMorning briefingA cartoon by Tom Tomorrow. 1124452
Reposted by Eric BeckmanLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026reminiscent of spacexai (xai) in greater memphis… 47317
Reposted by Eric BeckmanIndivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ready to make a real impact? We are hitting the pavement to have those critical face to face conversations that win elections! Join your Indivisible Metro area friends doorknocking on October 3, 1-4pm. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblet...mobilize.usDoor Knock for Jim DeMay for House · Indivisible Twin CitiesReady to make a real impact? We are hitting the pavement to have those critical face to face conversations that win elections! Join your Indivisible Metro area Friends. Whether you are a seasoned can... 043
Reposted by Eric BeckmanHolly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The responsibility lies with the people who provide the orders. Full stop 2174
Reposted by Eric BeckmanJessica Marie Johnson @jessicamariejohnson.com · 25/09/2026research post 2026-09-25 www.kitchentablehistory.blog/p/research-p...kitchentablehistory.blogresearch post 2026-09-25Spanish New Orleans enslavers, strategy vs. consent, and Black woman-themed affirmations. It’s time for a research post. 021
Reposted by Eric BeckmanMinnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social · 25/09/2026ICE Air flight coming to MSP, Fri Sep 25, estimated arrival: 1:15 PM. Shackled detainees will board the plane at Signature Aviation. Since January 1, MN50501 has tracked 138 ICE Air flights through MSP, taking away 4,637 people. 📑 ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp 📡 adsb.lol/?icao=a82a75 173
Reposted by Eric BeckmanStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Coming around to the idea that the biggest priority for Americans interested in keeping liberal democracy alive for the next several decades is whole scale reform of the Supreme Court and the judiciary. We can't afford to have Reconstruction 2.0 hampered by the SCOTUS like Reconstruction 1.0 was. 626562
Reposted by Eric Beckman🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121715158
Reposted by Eric BeckmanMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Imagine the AfD or Fidesz or the Polish PiS had gone full Nazi like this. One can be certain the NYT would not be writing euphemisms about sort of/maybe hinting they supported far right authoritarianism & extremism. 16525
Reposted by Eric BeckmanGil Durán @gilduran.com · 25/09/2026Politico’s owner gave Peter Thiel an award today. Hardly surprising, since Peter Thiel gave the guy’s son $50 million. Have you heard of “The German JD Vance”? www.thenerdreich.com/politico-pet...thenerdreich.comPolitico's $50M Peter Thiel ProblemIs Axel Springer CEO's son the 'German JD Vance'? 14369171
Eric Beckman @erbeckman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Nate can say whatever he wants, but others can't say things that irritate Nate. Got it. 000
Reposted by Eric BeckmanAdam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The pollsters know it. The forecasters know it. The media knows it. Roger Marshall knows it. This is one of the most competitive Senate races in the nation. 25825
Reposted by Eric BeckmanManisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Historian of Reconstruction here I have been sating that for quite some time! Glad it’s getting a full public hearing now! 15723
Reposted by Eric BeckmanAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 23/09/2026This is a great piece that shows, in microcosm, how the right-wing is capturing the humanities in higher education and how private corporations like the College Board are going along with it. 17540
Reposted by Eric BeckmanJulia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 23/09/2026but if you're interested in the connection between impeachment and these periods of lawless racial backlash (including legislator caution on impeachment) i do literally have a book for you 04413
Reposted by Eric BeckmanAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The CW idea impeachment backfires isn't true. Nor is there any value in surrendering in advance on conviction. But there's a more important long-term consideration. Looking at all this and saying nope, we're not even going to say he should be removed, is locking in a message for future presidents. 517346
Reposted by Eric Beckman🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Why would you tout this? Well, the unique MAGA position is to aim entirely for division, for public displays of dominance, for hurting the people your voters want to hurt. 2455
Reposted by Eric BeckmanNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026it's not notable or new that reactionary straight white male bounders get in their feelings when marginalized people achieve recognition of any kind. it is notable that the NYT is printing pro segregationist gibberish in support of an openly white nationalist administration. 1 213032
Reposted by Eric BeckmanEric Beckman @erbeckman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Fascinating article from the reliably interesting @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social digs into the connections between an Icelandic volcano eruption and the French Revolution: ageofrevolutions.com/2026/09/14/t... #TeachWorldHistory #TeachEuropeanHistory #TeachEnvironmentalHistory #ITeachSocialStudies 🗺️ageofrevolutions.comThree Volcanoes: Two Revolutions, One Mountain, and the Emotional EnvironmentBy Charlton Yingling and Marissa Yingling “It shows, in a strong light, the heaves and throes of the burning mountain, three years, at least, before the explosion of the volcano in Massachusetts or… 012
Eric Beckman @erbeckman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Fascinating article from the reliably interesting @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social digs into the connections between an Icelandic volcano eruption and the French Revolution: ageofrevolutions.com/2026/09/14/t... #TeachWorldHistory #TeachEuropeanHistory #TeachEnvironmentalHistory #ITeachSocialStudies 🗺️ageofrevolutions.comThree Volcanoes: Two Revolutions, One Mountain, and the Emotional EnvironmentBy Charlton Yingling and Marissa Yingling “It shows, in a strong light, the heaves and throes of the burning mountain, three years, at least, before the explosion of the volcano in Massachusetts or… 012
Reposted by Eric Beckmanashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/09/2026your regular reminder that all is not well for those of us living in red states that women are still bleeding out in parking lots and dying because they can’t access abortion care we deserve not to die 2371136
Reposted by Eric BeckmanYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026reposting for the evening crowd, because despite its deceptive simplicity, I worked a lot harder on this one than usual 427850
Reposted by Eric BeckmanAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor. 13638341785
Reposted by Eric BeckmanJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...thedartmouth.comOp-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector PangramSchnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.” 711481490
Reposted by Eric BeckmanSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20/09/2026Holy smokes I fuckin' did it. As promised, I hard launched before Yom Kippur, with hours to spare! I am going to take a nap.soraya.pressAllow Me To Reintroduce MyselfLook at me. I’m the publisher now. 521206174
Reposted by Eric BeckmanJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 20/09/2026There is no sector of society or the economy that is immune from the costs of democratic backsliding. Your aspiring autocrat might pay lip service to helping your sector, but what they're really doing is cutting the wires holding up the whole economy. 310116
Reposted by Eric BeckmanRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization. 292396728
Reposted by Eric BeckmanUp with a quist @kquist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Capitulating on trans rights is fascist appeasement, pass it on! 042
Reposted by Eric BeckmanMark @markoftheeast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This team is so poorly coached in defense. Largely the same group of defenders and there are just open spaces everywhere. No shape. No discipline. Just random and lost. And it’s gotten worse the longer this coaching staff has been in charge. #MNUFC 151
Reposted by Eric BeckmanDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026One aspect of living in a personalist form of government is that people no longer expect the laws or norms to protect them. If the king is rumored to be thinking of demolishing a believed institution, people assume they must defend it in person 402327536
Reposted by Eric Beckman🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Recent American history is fucking bonkers. 1263
Reposted by Eric BeckmanKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A mostly invisible force shaping politics in the Trump era—esp since 2025—is his ability to summon threats of violence & death against his opponents to such a degree it's become a material factor in political actors' decision making. I think a good term for this is "stochastic brownshirtism." 11517158
Reposted by Eric BeckmanJulia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Today’s post at Good Politics/Bad Politics - the discussion around Democratic candidates and trans rights got me thinking about party asymmetry… goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/what-if-we...goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.comWhat if we’re wrong about party asymmetry?Join me on this journey of speculation 1146
Reposted by Eric BeckmanDr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026One of my favorite things abt my job is looking through the incredible images enslaved people used to stake their claims to legal equality in their petitions to Congress. Going to put these together in my next tattoo. 0336
Reposted by Eric BeckmanNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Bessent is trying to suppress interest rates while the Trump-appointed Fed chair raises them, and Sean Duffy is trying to make gas-powered private vehicles the only transportation option while the Trump team's foreign policy is causing the cost of driving to skyrocket. Amazing stuff. 323542