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Richard Ashby Wilson
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Professor of #Anthropology at Princeton University. Co-Director of the Human Rights Initiative. I write about #HumanRights & #CivilRights
Views are personal, obviously.

Richard Ashby Wilson is an American–British social anthropologist of law and human rights. He is the Gladstein Distinguished professor of Human Rights and Professor of Anthropology and Law at the University of Connecticut. In 2021, Wilson became the Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Intellectual Life at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Wilson established the interdisciplinary Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut and was the Director of the Human Rights Institute from 2003 to 2013. Wilson is one of the founders of the anthropology of human rights and was editor and an author of Human Rights, Culture and Context (1997), the first edited volume in the field of the anthropology of human rights. .. more

Political science 48%
History 17%

Musings 3
Municipal Socialism
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This is very constructive…we need some self reflection and a new path that actually responds to people’s needs. Not that of the donor class

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The ruling class tried this in Louis XVI’s France and look how that ended
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamp Benefits
www.nytimes.com

When 1 in 8 Americans rely on food aid, it's time to recognize our economic system is not working.
#TimeForChange

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...
Families in Limbo After Supreme Court Order Interrupts Food Stamp Payments
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Vincent van Gogh ~ Mulberry Tree, 1889
Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC.

Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.

Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.

Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.

Is our economy working for the 99%, when 42 million people rely on federal food aid= one in eight Americans?
New York knows how to do Halloween!
More than 47 million Americans — including one in five children — don’t have reliable, affordable access to nutritious food. And as the cost of living skyrockets, more families are depending on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to put food on the table.
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

Ah, the enlightenment. Fond memories of a time when rationalism reigned.
The White House reveals their new logo.
there will be more joy in heaven over one nudger who repents than over ninety-nine sociologists who have no need of repentance.

*by hand

Walking the Delaware Raritan Canal today. 66 miles, hand by #immigrants
THey get the job done!
Good job, America!

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com

The #RightofAssociation is a core #humanright and citizenship right in the U.S. Constitution
#Protest is American!
#NoKings
"Media outlets committed to liberal democracy should take the side of liberal democracy against authoritarianism. Period. The end."
The New York Times and Anti-Anti-Fascism
On the burdens of solidarity.
www.thebulwark.com

I know, let's do regime change in Latin America again! That has always gone so well for the population.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Where the U.S. Is Building Up Military Force in the Caribbean
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Trump's FCC tried to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air...literally a month ago today! Do they think we are stupid?
Mike Johnson: "The last time I checked, Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took over ... it is the Republicans who restored your right to share and speak your mind."

#Penn rejects the #Compact which was a suicide pact.

Trump's Alma mater says no!

#DefendHigherEd
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And THREE stood up!

Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.

When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!

No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.

LET’S GO!

#DefendHigherEd
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Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
www.thedp.com
AAUP @aaup.org · 25d
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And THREE stood up!

Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.

When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!

No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.

LET’S GO!

#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
www.thedp.com
Make your plans for #NoKings. This Saturday, October 18th.
Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country.
I'll be there. Please join in.
www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Quoted in this piece in The Oregonian on the administration’s practice of withholding access from some journalists while granting it only to those who will spread pre-approved messages; "a hallmark of #authoritarianism.”

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Trump administration doling out access to select right-wing media personalities equates to propaganda, experts say
“That is a hallmark of authoritarianism," said professor who has studied the effects of propaganda.
www.oregonlive.com