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Joe Feagin

@profjoefeagin.bsky.social

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Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M University; researcher on systemic racism and the white racial frame

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Joe Richard Feagin is an American sociologist and social theorist who has conducted extensive research on racial and gender issues in the United States. He is currently the Ella C. McFadden Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University. .. more

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 4h

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1 Min Ago: Canada Just Shocked the World: The $244 Billion Deal Changes Everything | George Conway

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 7h

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

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TSCUniversity 🎓💟 @tscuniversity13.bsky.social · 17h

Taylor Swift donated $2 million to #MusiCares which provides crisis relief, preventive care, recovery resources, and need-based financial assistance for people across all music professions. | December 23 2025

Taylor Swift Makes Another 'Generous' Holiday Donation, This Time to MusiCares: 'It Takes a Village'

Taylor Swift donated millions to various charities ahead of the holidays, including MusiCares, Feeding America and the American Heart Association.

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 17h

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What the fall of the Heritage Foundation says about the future of conservatism in the U.S.

Charlie Sykes questions the future of the conservative movement after an exodus of staffers from the once-influential Heritage Foundation.

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 17h

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African America kwanzaa today until the new year......

Kwanzaa | History, Traditions, Dates, Symbols, & Facts | Britannica

Kwanzaa is an annual holiday affirming African family and social values, celebrated primarily in the United States from December 26 to January 1. Both the name and the celebration were devised in 1966...

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 17h

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Opinion | Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18h

My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.

Screenshot of a tweet by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick criticizing a government official’s claim that due process should be ignored in immigration enforcement. The tweet argues that due process applies to everyone and is enshrined twice in the U.S. Constitution. Below it is a quoted tweet referencing a statement attributed to Stephen Miller about deportations, alongside a video still of a man speaking at a podium outdoors.

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Rethink the Wolf! (Don't believe the myth!) @rethinkthewolf.bsky.social · 19h

@sanders.senate.gov once got us so close to a social democratic country. So close to national health-care system..
I hope this organizationization can help us get there.

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2025’s Working Families Party Wave - Working Families Party

Working Families Party and our candidates powered a wave of winning working class candidates in the 2025 election cycle. WFP candidates ran on affordability and economic populism platforms — our north...

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canada-keith.bsky.social @canada-keith.bsky.social · 19h

Trump’s Traitorous Behaviour is Now on Full Display, Unfortunately for America 🇺🇸 in the World they talking just like this French Senator now Openly 😱😱😱😡😡👊🇺🇸😎 It is too Late for America. The Republican Party is the Problem, Trump just exposed their Wishes. The Whole is done with America 😱😱😱😡😡😡👊👊🇺🇸😎

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 20h

By all means, do share your decorating ideas, likely costing millions, while the American people are struggling to afford housing, food and health insurance.
What a piece of shit.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

Phang: If that happened in January, how in the actual hell is Blanche now telling the American people that they suddenly discovered a million more documents?

GTFOH. As far back as January, the entirety of the Epstein files were transferred to Main Justice at DOJ…

Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 23h

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December 25, 2025

The modern version of Santa Claus arrived in the United States in 1863, when he stopped at an army camp of Union soldiers in the January 3 issue of Harper’s Weekly. Cartoonist Thomas Nast drew Santa w...

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SuMo📞Congress 202-224-3121📞CSPAN 202-748-8000 @sumoh7.bsky.social · 23h

How Did Epstein Make
His Fortune? "He Stole It," Finds NYT Investigation

Democracy Now! 12/17/2025
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David Enrich, deputy investigations editor at The New York Times and lead author

How Did Epstein Make His Fortune? "He Stole It," Finds NYT Investigation

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 23h

I talked to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social about how this was the year when elites folded to fascism and regular people said "fuck no" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23h

Preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research showed the Kennedy Center Honors garnered the “smallest audience ever on the night of December 23, 2025." trib.al/VdukWAP

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

FUCK SMILLER: watch Sinatra attack bigots & stand up for immigrants in Albert Maltz's #TheHouseILiveIn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhPw....

Sinatra was not just a son of immigrants, but STOOD UP for others. And Frank *hated* men like SM & would've called him "one of these Nazi werewolves." 🗃️

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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 1d

Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives. Trump is running a criminal syndicate from the Oval Office.
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Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives

More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1d

Sanders' logic is straightforward: current US tax policy subsidizes AI and other automation. His proposal lengthens depreciation schedules for "automation capital" that demonstrably reduces full-time employment. Revenue would flow to an "Automation Dividend Fund" for large-scale worker retraining.

Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1d

Solutions for AI crisis: Robot Tax and Automation Equity: Senator Bernie Sanders released a detailed Senate report in October 2025 proposing a "Robot Tax and Automation Equity Act".

Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1d

White political authoritarianism like US has now, is one where the right wing state protects the increasing AI and other automated profits of the elite capitalistic few against the desperate demands of the many, including those recently college educated!

Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1d

They will blaming immigrants or "woke" education institutions for structural unemployment, deploying militarized police powers to quell inevitable unrest of white collar "cognitive precariat." This path leads not to a free market, but to a technologically advanced form of authoritarianism.

Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1d

Historically, overproduction of worker elite without corresponding employment roles is primary driver of political instability/revolution. In this case our rt-wing administration will likely pivot not to economic support but to scapegoating & repression.

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Josh Kluever @joshkluever.bsky.social · 1d

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Alice Hamilton (February 27, 1869 – September 22, 1970) was an American physician, research scientist, and author who is best known as a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.

Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1d

If Trump administration & allies reject AI "robot taxes" as anti-business &refuse to expand welfare for job displaced, we'll witness dangerous paradox: rapidly growing class of well-educated and downwardly mobile citizens locked out of economy by the very AI technologies they were trained to use.

Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1d

Next 10+years will see by more job recomposition rather replacement. Sharpest prediction is not "mass unemployment," but protracted job allocation crisis: over who captures the time saved by AI and who bears the cost of the transition. This is fundamentally a question of power, not just technology.

Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1d

The AI "explosion" we are witnessing is not mere product release cycle but fundamental retooling of economy's cognitive infrastructure. Moving from era of discrete tools—word processors, spreadsheets—to era of probabilistic reasoning layers mediating how knowledge is retrieved, synthesized, applied.

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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 1d

GOP redistricting could backfire as urban immigrant areas turn back to Democrats wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/12/25/r...

GOP redistricting could backfire as urban, immigrant areas turn back to Democrats • Wisconsin Examiner

GOP reversals in elections, especially in some urban and immigrant communities indicate Republican redistricting might backfire

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 1d

Stories of Black life in New Mexico and the United States-Mexico borderlands took center stage at Branson Library this month as NMSU students unveiled a new archival exhibit shaped by months of research, oral histories and hands-on work. newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/nmsu-st...