Reposted by Mik RosenhoferOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/04/2025fun historical fact: among the core political forces in the development of mass incarceration was the "Victims' Rights Movement". Its first major legislative national legislative victory was under President Reagan. The prison population doubled under his administration. 684201895
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 19/04/2025I'll add that Trump's entire political strategy is to be seen *defeating* the people and institutions the MAGA base has been trained to hate. If you fight back and deny him an easy victory, that unsettles his narrative about being an almighty conqueror, which is why he often scurries away. 122037
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 19/04/2025As I wrote this week, the situation at Harvard deserves attention, not because we should share the mainstream media's obsession with elite education, but because there's a lesson in this for everyone. He's a paper tiger. Fight back. Watch how he will often back down. www.salon.com/2025/04/16/h...salon.comHarvard stands up to Trump — they get that complicity will not save youOther institutions take note: It's delusional to lie low and hope Trump goes away in four years 426350
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 19/04/2025There are many reasons to fight back, but a big one: Trump is a paper tiger. Often, fighting back works. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...nytimes.comTrump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article)An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization. 20596127
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Trump's team backing down in front of Harvard should embolden EVERYONE to stand up to them. Do not comply in advance. Instead say "Fuck you, make me." 9679187
Reposted by Mik Rosenhoferkelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025I sure hope no one is still teaching information literacy and/or research skills with "you can trust sites with .gov" addresses because you sure as hell cannot. 16417110
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Omg yall sobbing after watching a clip of neighbors of all races and ages forming a human chain around a father and son to prevent an ice deportation. In Nashville. I’m struggling with my conviction that people are inherently good these days and seeing stuff like this is so moving. 342092309
Reposted by Mik Rosenhoferthe fool @agnoster.net · 18/04/2025Protect the most vulnerable, and I'll give you two reasons 1. It's the right thing to do 2. If you don't, you'll be next I think #1 really OUGHT to be enough for anyone, but if you think it's pie in the sky idealism then just do it for survival. Protect each other, and you protect us all 1238
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferMother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/04/2025RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.motherjones.comRFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet."I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week." 1288238926735
Mik Rosenhofer @mikrosenhofer.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Rough week to be the grocery buyer for a family, I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be shopping to prepare for Easter or for civil unrest. My grocery cart looks totally bonkers. 030
Reposted by Mik Rosenhofer🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 14/04/2025This makes me think of my question again: is fascism what we call it when white supremacy happens to white people? Cuz some people already were property. 3204
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferIndrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Calling a bunch of obscenely wealthy tourists taking a luxury jaunt to the edge of the atmosphere 'the first all-female space mission', fuck off. This isn't a 'mission', it's a gigantic ad for elite space tourism. 37822
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Roman sent us this pic from outside Watsonville CA. He shares, "we are weeding and thinning out the organic red and green leafy lettuce. We need to thin out the weaker plants to allow for maximum growth." #WeFeedYou 327737
Mik Rosenhofer @mikrosenhofer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Pawpaws are in bloom in south central Kansas! They don’t leaf out until the flowers are pretty much done, to make it easier for beetles to find their blossoms. #asiminatriloba #northamericanpawpaw #nativeplants #kansas 391
Reposted by Mik Rosenhoferebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Pawpaws blooming. Also heard a northern parula up in the trees. #nativeplants 0122
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferDr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Yet another way to set back research. Without international attendees at conferences, we can't be on top of the most recent developments in research. Conferences often include unpublished data and papers take years to publish, so this literally setting us back years. 🧪 411140
Reposted by Mik Rosenhoferalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 14/04/2025insane to repeat their self-propaganda like this, with nothing but a flimsy pair of single-quotes. i could call myself the world's hottest writer but they wouldn't put it in the headline bc it's not fucking true www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...npr.orgThe 'world's coolest dictator' heads to the White HouseEl Salvador's President Nayib Bukele heads to the White House to discuss further cooperation with the U.S., including the continued use of El Salvador's supermax prison for deported migrants. 623142
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferChris (or Kess) @theghilliedhu.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Truly @prisonculture.bsky.social, Jane Ball, and @ollycostello.bsky.social are all geniuses at their craft and everyone should have a copy of Prisons Must Fall! The visuals and the poetry of the message are exquisite! www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2588-p... 1356
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025there’s a style of reporting that’s basically like “the left hasn’t been duped by the transparently bad faith framing of the right, but I, the reporter, very much have.” 7467651159
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12/04/2025AI is contributing to the need for more computing hardware, which puts a strain on the supply of rare earth minerals, which is why we’re deep sea mining. So those fake AI videos of deep sea “creatures” are not only bullshit, they are contributing to the destruction of real deep sea ecosystems. 8622204
Mik Rosenhofer @mikrosenhofer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Me when I was 12 days postpartum & the only time I got to myself with both hands free was on the toilet, & I read a headline about how you should NEVER blow your nose on the toilet if you want your pelvic floor to heal, literally as I was finally blowing my nose after needing to for hours 020
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferDorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025halfway through reading the Hundred Years War on Palestine and I had heard it mentioned Joe Biden was worse than Reagan on curbing Israel, I had no idea just how bad being worse than Reagan on anything is an embarrassment holy fucking shit 16619
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferHeather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Well I suppose this is one way to move past the extractive, exploitative capitalist world system that we’ve lived under for the past 500 or so years… www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comClimate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurerAction urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure 32710
Mik Rosenhofer @mikrosenhofer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Love that The Beach Boys wrote a song about the ritual transition from father to boyfriend occupying the role as gatekeeper of a teenage girl’s freedom of movement, and entitled it Fun Fun Fun 193
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferGil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/04/2025Tech Fascists: We shall weaken the nation, destroy the economy, replace the dollar with crypto, replace people with AI, and create new Network State cities everywhere. Normie Journalists: Folks, this is total chaos and incompetence with no structure or plan. 471642532
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferHarry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 03/04/2025I am one of the authors whom Meta stole (sorry, ‘scraped’) from, by using their books to train Libgen. So I’m biased. But this from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social is👌 321430531
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again 146232197079
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/04/2025Inbox: "A Jewish-led group of Columbia students have chained themselves to the locked campus gates in solidarity with Palestinian students, with 1 demand: the Uni provide the names of the trustees who reported Mahmoud Khalil to ICE... [they] refuse to unchain themselves until [they are answered]" 5602165
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferMayday Trippe @maydaytrippe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025you can teach compliance or morality but not both 06517
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Adobe is backing the GOP attack on click-to-cancel. Last year the FTC ruled that any subscription you sign up for with a click must be cancel-able with a click. Now Republican politicians want to roll back this rule, and Adobe is supporting their push. 591894695
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferDan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery. 5959341909
Reposted by Mik Rosenhoferminty tear gas 🏳️⚧️ @nihilamacabre.bsky.social · 01/04/2025This is what the people complaining about GoFundMe campaigns didn't want you to read It was never about scams It was always about silencing Palestinian voices and covering up fucking Israel's hideous crimes against every HUMAN BEING You can look away but you can't say you didn't know 01315
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Jesus Christ, this is horrifying. slate.com/news-and-pol... 841308507
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferGallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Regarding Trump, Musk, their crew, the current govt: THEY ARE NAZIS they are not communists. they are not tankies. they are not stalins or lenins or castros or xis THEY ARE NAZIS. this is a very important distinction and i need everyone to start getting this right 734090
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferMiranda Schmidt @mirandarschmidt.bsky.social · 29/03/2025In these novels, you can feel the folklore reaching out to pull you in. I loved writing about works by @arielgore.bsky.social, @rachelyoder.bsky.social, @alissahattman.bsky.social, @poingu.bsky.social, and more incredible authors for @electricliterature.com! #booksky 282
Reposted by Mik RosenhoferPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/03/2025SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.zeteo.comSCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students. 17369684229