Erik JM Schneider
@erikjms.bsky.social
wrong timeline. WRONG TIMELINE!
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those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Seattle No Kings from the monorail
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Seattle No Kings from the monorail
More bad news/reasons to pay attention.
CW: anti-trans violence, specifically against transwomen in prison.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
CW: anti-trans violence, specifically against transwomen in prison.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
More bad news/reasons to pay attention.
CW: anti-trans violence, specifically against transwomen in prison.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
CW: anti-trans violence, specifically against transwomen in prison.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Two (2!) essays, one written, one as video, on the complexities of "biological gender" from Julia Serano. For, you know, extra credit. And learning!
juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...
youtu.be/ZymYiwoRoC0
juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...
youtu.be/ZymYiwoRoC0
Transgender People and “Biological Sex” Myths
NOTE: In 2024, I released a talk-length YouTube video entitled Trans People and Biological Sex: What the Science Says that covers this…
juliaserano.medium.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Two (2!) essays, one written, one as video, on the complexities of "biological gender" from Julia Serano. For, you know, extra credit. And learning!
juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...
youtu.be/ZymYiwoRoC0
juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...
youtu.be/ZymYiwoRoC0
And some encouragement to speak out against attacks on trans rights from Rebecca Watson, geekily famous cisgendered woman:
youtu.be/mbyNLXgrgIw
youtu.be/mbyNLXgrgIw
Trans People are Under Attack and We Must Help Them
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
youtu.be
March 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
And some encouragement to speak out against attacks on trans rights from Rebecca Watson, geekily famous cisgendered woman:
youtu.be/mbyNLXgrgIw
youtu.be/mbyNLXgrgIw
Character limits can bite my..
If the template on commenting on passport policies for trans folks looked as garbled to you as it does to me, just go to the link in this next comment:
If the template on commenting on passport policies for trans folks looked as garbled to you as it does to me, just go to the link in this next comment:
March 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Character limits can bite my..
If the template on commenting on passport policies for trans folks looked as garbled to you as it does to me, just go to the link in this next comment:
If the template on commenting on passport policies for trans folks looked as garbled to you as it does to me, just go to the link in this next comment:
Crosspost from FB, slightly condensed:
I would say that if you give a damn about trans folk then it is time to speak up, but truly, if you give a damn about anyone who is being targeted by this administration, it is time to speak up. Because it will not end here.
www.facebook.com/genderlib/po...
I would say that if you give a damn about trans folk then it is time to speak up, but truly, if you give a damn about anyone who is being targeted by this administration, it is time to speak up. Because it will not end here.
www.facebook.com/genderlib/po...
Gender Liberation Movement
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD: until March 17th, the public comment period is open on the changes to gender markers on passports. Let's FLOOD the State Department with comments expressing why accurate...
www.facebook.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Crosspost from FB, slightly condensed:
I would say that if you give a damn about trans folk then it is time to speak up, but truly, if you give a damn about anyone who is being targeted by this administration, it is time to speak up. Because it will not end here.
www.facebook.com/genderlib/po...
I would say that if you give a damn about trans folk then it is time to speak up, but truly, if you give a damn about anyone who is being targeted by this administration, it is time to speak up. Because it will not end here.
www.facebook.com/genderlib/po...
It's Black History Month no matter who says otherwise.
Here is a short film from 1970 on James Baldwin. It will tell you whether you'd like to read more of him or not.
Myself, I have watched it more than once: I fall in love every single time.
blackfilmarchive.com/Meeting-the-...
Here is a short film from 1970 on James Baldwin. It will tell you whether you'd like to read more of him or not.
Myself, I have watched it more than once: I fall in love every single time.
blackfilmarchive.com/Meeting-the-...
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris — Black Film Archive
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris The tension between the filmmakers and James Baldwin in this short documentary is deeply distracting. However, the...
blackfilmarchive.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It's Black History Month no matter who says otherwise.
Here is a short film from 1970 on James Baldwin. It will tell you whether you'd like to read more of him or not.
Myself, I have watched it more than once: I fall in love every single time.
blackfilmarchive.com/Meeting-the-...
Here is a short film from 1970 on James Baldwin. It will tell you whether you'd like to read more of him or not.
Myself, I have watched it more than once: I fall in love every single time.
blackfilmarchive.com/Meeting-the-...
@stevenhenryfisk.bsky.social found you.
January 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
@stevenhenryfisk.bsky.social found you.
The NYT article does not link to the report itself, so I went looking. Here is the DOJ announcement with a brief summary. A link to a page where you can download the full report is in the first sentence.
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
January 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The NYT article does not link to the report itself, so I went looking. Here is the DOJ announcement with a brief summary. A link to a page where you can download the full report is in the first sentence.
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
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This is excellent and worth reading right now that you just got a boring Wrapped that didn’t even do good numbers. It is relatively painless to move your playlists to another streaming site and they’re all, every single one, superior to Spotify.
A few thoughts on spotify, streamers, etc. because I realised I'm just shouting them on here and I keep forgetting stuff:
blogaboutsatan.blogspot.com/2024/12/what...
blogaboutsatan.blogspot.com/2024/12/what...
"what were the skies like when you were young?"
Co-workers asked me the other day "why do you hate spotify?" and truly, I could've gone on for hours. I didn't (much to their relief) but th...
blogaboutsatan.blogspot.com
December 22, 2024 at 8:32 PM
This is excellent and worth reading right now that you just got a boring Wrapped that didn’t even do good numbers. It is relatively painless to move your playlists to another streaming site and they’re all, every single one, superior to Spotify.
December 18, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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San Franciscan since 1980, regular user of public restrooms, probably shared them with more trans women than most people out there, also nothing to report. We're fine. Wrote about that four years ago. All still true. Damn this persecution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trans women pose no threat to cis women, but we pose a threat to them if we make them outcasts | Rebecca Solnit
Growing up in San Francisco, the loudest, proudest queer town around, made it clear to me that gender was what you made of it
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:38 PM
San Franciscan since 1980, regular user of public restrooms, probably shared them with more trans women than most people out there, also nothing to report. We're fine. Wrote about that four years ago. All still true. Damn this persecution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Five minutes after I created my first email address (1994, I think: catdoc@u.wasington.edu, which is no longer a functioning domain, much less an email address) I checked my inbox several times to see if the internet would find me right away.
It did not.
I maybe should go eat lunch.
It did not.
I maybe should go eat lunch.
November 20, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Five minutes after I created my first email address (1994, I think: catdoc@u.wasington.edu, which is no longer a functioning domain, much less an email address) I checked my inbox several times to see if the internet would find me right away.
It did not.
I maybe should go eat lunch.
It did not.
I maybe should go eat lunch.
I suppose I should say something so it is apparent that I am here.
If I believed that I were anywhere--or anyone--in particular, this would be much easier. So:
"Hi. I am called Erik."
That's all I got at the moment.
Oh. It's raining in Seattle.
Also, I have never done short-form posting well.
If I believed that I were anywhere--or anyone--in particular, this would be much easier. So:
"Hi. I am called Erik."
That's all I got at the moment.
Oh. It's raining in Seattle.
Also, I have never done short-form posting well.
November 20, 2024 at 10:54 PM
I suppose I should say something so it is apparent that I am here.
If I believed that I were anywhere--or anyone--in particular, this would be much easier. So:
"Hi. I am called Erik."
That's all I got at the moment.
Oh. It's raining in Seattle.
Also, I have never done short-form posting well.
If I believed that I were anywhere--or anyone--in particular, this would be much easier. So:
"Hi. I am called Erik."
That's all I got at the moment.
Oh. It's raining in Seattle.
Also, I have never done short-form posting well.