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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Is there any humiliation worse than putting a meme you thought would bring the house down in your lesson slides, only to have your students sit silently and blankly when it appears? 🫠😅

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I graduated straight into the housing crash with a Religious Studies degree and no plan. Good thing I’m not about to graduate into an even bigger recession with the Most Woke of all unemployable degrees (sociology, with a focus on defeating the far right), because that would SUCK lololol

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Remember ladies, no matter how bad your day may be going, at least you didn’t have a kid with Elon

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

What’s wild to me is now Congress is so willing to give up anything they have in terms of power, influence and governance. Like I know the majority of them couldn’t care less about us or democracy, but I would have assumed they’d at least recognize they’re bowing themselves into irrelevancy.

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I passed my dissertation proposal defense! Whoooo!

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Here I discuss what we’ll need to do to save democracy. Based on the incredibly accessible and worthwhile read, How Democracies Die. youtu.be/I8F54hDbkX8

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How Do Democracies Die?

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Good news for folks who are feeling hopeless in this moment, hard won from my experience as an activist + some wise insight from Greta Thunberg.

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Lenny Zenith 🏳️‍⚧️ @lennyzenith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Haircuts. They wanna regulate f*cking haircuts 😡🤦

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 17/03/2025

" “The biggest weapon against Al Qaeda and Islamic extremism is ‘Sesame Street,’” [conservative Republican and former USAID Administrator] Mr. Natsios said in an interview, recounting how successful the show had been in Egypt when the American government helped fund it during his term in office."

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Why the Arabic ‘Sesame Street’ and Other Cuts Are Not Really About Fraud

As President Trump and Elon Musk cut federal programs, they often equate political and policy differences with corruption.

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

What dystopian film in your opinion best describes the current moment? V for Vendetta is mine

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Democrats as they’re lined up against the wall by fascists: “Remember everyone - set a good example and abide by the rules of decorum”

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Why hate on yourself when you could hate on spineless #Democrats?

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Friendly reminder that before the EPA was created and went after corporations for polluting, rivers ✨literally and routinely✨ CAUGHT ON FIRE in this country

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I encourage you to - every so often - take a scroll through rightwing news headlines. Just to understand that these people live in the Upside Down. The things we hear about on the left of the spectrum, they don’t at all. Until they are impacted personally, they will remain in a bubble of lies.

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Dems look like they're bidding on fascism at a silent auction

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

These limp d*ck performative protests by the Dems just show that they’ve never had to actually fight for anything in their lives. They think they can make a dignified gesture of disappointment and have someone rush to address their complaints, like the useless rich people they are.

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Do you have any additional refills on antibiotics that you could fill? Get them now.

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Genuinely confused by the game plan of crashing the economy? What is this supposed to do…? So many people voted for Trump because of the eggs…?

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Play stupid games, receive stupid prizes

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

While I never thought I’d find myself defending bureaucracy, for an easy way to think about the positives and negatives of bureaucracy, here’s a chart fone the SOC101 textbook I’m using this semester (SOC, Witt 2024).

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Bureaucracy is actually the most efficient form of government. Max Weber argued it replaced systems of promotion due to loyalty and connections, rather than expertise and achievement. In a bureaucracy you have rules and regulations.

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

There’s a professor who has repeatedly informed me I am not a genius (thanks, am very aware) and will never get a prestigious job because I’m not in a particularly fancy department… …and to that I say, I think you deeply underestimate how successful a person can become out of pure spite ✨

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NPR @npr.org · 11/02/2025

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

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Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hi, like I get that cancer research matters and should be funded but ALSO pulling research funding for the social sciences is also catastrophic to our society??? Hello? We’re the people who can tell you how to change the systems of power and get out of this mess.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 06/02/2025

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs. www.science.org/content/blog...

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Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

FYI, USAID is actually really important for maintaining a peaceful world, and works to nurture things like democracy and human rights through the world. Shuttering USAID means the US will no longer have “carrot and stick” diplomacy. It will just have a stick. Call your reps.

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Millennials of Bluesky - stop being weirdly huffy about TikTok and Gen Z, you guys are seconds from sounding like boomers who post minion memes about how in MY day we showed some reSPECT

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I saw a post saying that ICE is pausing its tip line, so I decided to call myself to verify. The recorded voicemail said they are not currently accepting immigration status tips. Good job, friends.

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Brace yourselves for a truly grotesque abdication by university administrators and many faculty to the new regime. In Italy and Germany they didn’t even have to try that hard, academics were lining up to curry favor. With the threat of grants being withheld they’ll capitulate even faster.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

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Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

“Do not obey in advance” does not apply to trans people and immigrants. If you are directly targeted by fascism, you have one job and one job only and that is to survive. Do what you have to do to protect yourself.

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Gentle reminder, loves, to not pin your hopes on the law for salvation. Under fascism there is *only* the law of the Leader. Accepting this will help you manage the horrors. Everything socially constructed - like laws - can be deconstructed. But that goes both ways. We can rebuild it better.

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Day 1 of fascism in power done ✅ only 2000 more years to go

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This multi-year, multi-country analysis shows that right-wing populist politicians spread more online misinfo than their mainstream counterparts and explains how “the rise of political misinformation is associated to the recent wave of radical-right populism.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Screenshot of a paper in the International Journal of Press/Politics. Title: When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries. Authors: Petter Törnberg and Juliana Chueri. Abstract: The spread of misinformation has emerged as a global concern. Academic attention has recently shifted to emphasize the role of political elites as drivers of misinformation. Yet, little is known of the relationship between party politics and the spread of misinformation—in part due to a dearth of cross-national empirical data needed for comparative study. This article examines which parties are more likely to spread misinformation, by drawing on a comprehensive database of 32M tweets from parliamentarians in 26 countries, spanning 6years and several election periods. The dataset is combined with external databases such as Parlgov and V-Dem, linking the spread of misinformation to detailed information about political parties and cabinets, thus enabling a comparative politics approach to misinformation. Using multilevel analysis with random country intercepts, we find that radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation. Populism, left- wing populism, and right-wing politics are not linked to the spread of misinformation. These results suggest that political misinformation should be understood as part and parcel of the current wave of radical right populism, and its opposition to liberal democratic institution.

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Josh Stein @steinekin.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

it feels like TikTok got bitten by a zombie and is hiding the bite

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Let’s all take a moment to remind #Democrats saying they lost because the party was “too woke” what Dr. King said about white moderates.

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Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

MLK this MLK that. MLK was arrested 29 times

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

MLK day is actually my favorite federal holiday. It’s the one time a year everybody celebrates an activist who changed the country for the better. His writings and actions remain as radical, anticapitalist and powerful as ever.

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

May we always remember that the dream of America can be greater and braver and more generous than what small minds would have us believe.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.

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Nope Brigade @nopebrigade.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Fellow #tiktokrefugees, we need to bring the same chaotic gremlin energy we did to 📕 over to 🦋 right now it feels like we’re sitting in a parlor room decorated with stylishly uncomfortable chairs, talking with people who say stuff like their paid housekeepers are “really just part of the family”

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