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Arlene Stein

@ajoystein.bsky.social

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Sociologist thinking and writing about authoritarianism, democracy, LGBTQ issues, feminism. Author of The Stranger Next Door, Unbound, other books. Child of immigrants. Never Again for Anyone. #KnittyGrittyJC

Arlene Stein is an American sociologist and author best known for her writing about sex and gender, the politics of identities, and collective memory. She is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and former director of the Institute for Research on Women. Stein has also taught at the University of Essex and at the University of Oregon. .. more

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 1d

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As American Views of ICE Dim, Warehouses Become a Symbol of Resistance www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/n...

As American Views of ICE Dim, Warehouses Become a Symbol of Resistance

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 3d

@AIPAC: Bad for the Jews.

A Pro-Israel Group’s Move Backfires as Gaza Tensions Flare in Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

A Pro-Israel Group’s Move Backfires as Gaza Tensions Flare in Midterms

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 3d

This is a president who will destroy as many symbols of national unity as he can to satisfy his bottomless ego, cruel appetites and unquenchable desire to “win” at the expense of the people he purports to lead.

Common Ground Is for Suckers www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

Opinion | Common Ground Is for Suckers

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 3d

Trump’s Stifling of Dissent Reaches a New Level www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | ICE and Minnesota Have Pushed the U.S. Closer to Autocracy

Measuring America’s slide toward democratic erosion.

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 5d

The Trump administration is fighting a war of attrition on America’s soul, but it has vastly underestimated the strength, endurance and conscience of the people against whom it is waging this war.

The Risk We Face in Opposing Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

Opinion | The Risk We Face in Opposing Trump

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 8d

“As popular discontent with the Trump administration’s actions deepens, Americans should brace for heightened militarized domestic repression and more imperialist aggression abroad.”

History Shows Trump’s Worst Impulses May Backfire on Him www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

Opinion | History Shows Trump’s Worst Impulses May Backfire on Him

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 8d

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Federal Courts Undercut Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

Federal Courts Undercut Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 9d

'It was their game to catch the girl' 2021
Jeffrey Epstein was Donald Trump's 'wingman' and the pair would 'run wild' at beauty pageants and seduce young women with their money, says survivor Jill Harth. Accused Trump of sexual abuse www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Jeffrey Epstein was Donald Trump's 'wingman'

Celebrity make-up artist and former pageant organizer Jill Harth tells DailyMail.com that Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump shared a love for women.

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 9d

The killing of two white American citizens—Renee Good and Alex Pretti—by federal agents hammered home to white Americans that they are as much at risk from the authoritarian system Trump is building as are Black Americans and people of color who are not citizens.
Heather Cox Richardson Jan. 30

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 9d

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Sherrill Urges New Jersey Residents to Record ICE Action on Their Phones www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/n...

Sherrill Urges New Jersey Residents to Record ICE Action on Their Phones

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 10d

Making America Stupid Again.

Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 13d

More, please! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/a...

Philip Glass Withdraws From Kennedy Center, as Its Symphony Vows to Play On

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 13d

“These people used to be in the dark corners of the internet,” said Jessie Daniels, a sociologist at Hunter College who has studied online extremism for 30 years. “Now, they are holding public office.”

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Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 14d

‘The national government is becoming functionally lawless, and the legal system is struggling to contain his corruption.’

Three Columnists on Minneapolis. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

Opinion | ‘We Are Creating the Conditions for a Catastrophe.’ Three Columnists on Minneapolis.

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 15d

The agents had no capacity to maintain order or much apparent interest in doing so. Their presence was a vector of chaos, and controlling it was not in their job description.”

Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/m...

Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 17d

We all live in Minnesota.

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 17d

A new poll out today from the New York Times and Siena University shows that nearly two thirds of Americans, 63%, disapprove of how ICE is handling its job, while only 36% approve.

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 18d

Instead of figuring out a real way to make life easier for families, all the HeritageFoundation does is propose razing what little government support exists while scolding young people for their decadence because they want fewer children and more bathrooms.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Opinion | The Heritage Foundation Wants to Send American Women Back Half a Century

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 19d

“We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done,” journalist Garrett Graff wrote: “A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.”

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 19d

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American democracy on the brink a year after Trump’s election, experts say

Scale and speed of president’s moves have stunned observers of authoritarian regimes – is the US in democratic peril?

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 19d

You Can’t Denaturalize Me www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Opinion | You Can’t Denaturalize Me

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 19d

A Headline that says it all.

Trump’s E.P.A. Has Put a Value on Human Life: Zero Dollars www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...

Trump’s E.P.A. Has Put a Value on Human Life: Zero Dollars

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Reposted by Julia Lynch, Arlene Stein, Prokla Redaktion , and 1 more Julia Lynch, Arlene Stein, Prokla Redaktion, Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 19d

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!

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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota

I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 20d

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Replica of Trump’s Birthday Message to Epstein Appears on National Mall www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

Replica of Trump’s Birthday Message to Epstein Appears on National Mall

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 20d

@aarpny.bsky.social What are you doing to stand up for retired Americans and fight this?

Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 20d

As we mark one year of the second Trump Administration, this deeply reported story on the chaos they wrought at the Social Security Administration is well worth your time. 🧵

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How Social Security has gotten worse under Trump

Customer service deteriorated by key measures as the agency enacted sweeping cuts in Trump’s second term, internal data and interviews show.

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Joanna Bryson, Marc Lynch , and 80 more Stephen M. Walt, Joanna Bryson, Marc Lynch, Tobias Bunde, Anupam Chander, Rebecca Solnit, Jennifer Bussell, Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, Brian J. Enquist, Richard E. Lenski, Andreas J. Bäumler, Tobias Kuemmerle, Will Jennings, Jon Pierre, Stefan Rahmstorf, Peter Thorne, Brendan Nyhan, Timon McPhearson, Linda J. Skitka, Du Toit, Julie L. Lockwood, Elena Litchman, Scott L. Greer, John Horgan, Steve Peers, Christopher Wright, Michael A. Clemens, Matthias Doepke, Lewis R. Gordon, Michael J. Allen, Martin Tomko, David W. Kerstetter, Marianne Hundt, Juan Cole, Cathy N. Davidson, Gernot Wagner, Jerry H. Ratcliffe, Edgar Morgenroth, Tuomas Mattila, Michael Kevane, Devon Greyson, Smith, Jonathan Hopkin, Michael W. Kraus, Silvia Secchi, Aaron Sojourner, Vincent Noël, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, William A. Allen, Robert B. Reich, Michael D. McDonald, Craig R. McClain, Jason Lyall, Michael Müller, Michael Jones‐Correa, Mark Rice, Anthony Burke, Juanjo Medina, Arlene Stein, Jack Stilgoe, James Connelly, Georg Weizsäcker, Ted Temzelides, Richard M. Carpiano, Nathan Richardson, Guy Pe’er, Hisham Zerriffi, Tim Stephens, Blair Fix, Karen O’Leary, Taku Ito, Sylvain Genevois, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Dietmar Fehr, Karin Wulf, Juliet Johnson, Vincent Foucher, Jeannette Sutton, David R. Shumway, Elise Thomas, Carly D. Ziter

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20d

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 20d

As we mark one year of the second Trump Administration, this deeply reported story on the chaos they wrought at the Social Security Administration is well worth your time. 🧵

wapo.st/4qVjA04

How Social Security has gotten worse under Trump

Customer service deteriorated by key measures as the agency enacted sweeping cuts in Trump’s second term, internal data and interviews show.

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 20d

I am interviewed about why Americans know so little about the history of our own interwar fascist movements, and relevance for today. www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...

Trump saison 2, épisode 1 : le trumpisme est-il un fascisme ?

Depuis le retour au pouvoir de Donald Trump, certains s'inquiètent d'une dérive fasciste de son administration. Par le passé, les idées d'extrême droite ont déjà essaimé aux États-Unis, notamment à la...

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 20d

Trump has used the office of the presidency to make at least $1.4 billion.

How Much Can One Man Make From Being President? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion

The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 20d

Remarkable passive voice/both sides combo by Peter Baker. It is a ‘brazen violation” and not a “serious proposition” that is being debated.

But it is a measure of how much Mr. Trump has changed the definition of normal that his appetitive for seizing land that does not belong to him is debated as a serious proposition rather than dismissed out of hand as a brazen violation of U.S. treaty obligations and international law.