Andrew Feffer
@feffera.bsky.social
American historian, US education, anticommunism, US left, NYC, liberal tradition, author “Bad Faith: teachers, liberalism and the origins of McCarthyism” (Fordham U Press, 2019), AAUP/AFT 6741)
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And here is some advice for civil servants from @protectdemocracy.org
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
Dear civil servant
A guide to the new executive actions on the federal workforce and what you can do now
open.substack.com
January 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
And here is some advice for civil servants from @protectdemocracy.org
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
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In a day of terrible news thing that scares me most--because even now I think it might have gone another way--was Stewart Rhodes of the Oathkeepers, just released from his 18-yr J6 sentence, on platform behind Trump at his Vegas rally. Not "just" commutation; full promotion of paramilitary force.
January 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
In a day of terrible news thing that scares me most--because even now I think it might have gone another way--was Stewart Rhodes of the Oathkeepers, just released from his 18-yr J6 sentence, on platform behind Trump at his Vegas rally. Not "just" commutation; full promotion of paramilitary force.
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« Les sommes qu’on n’investit pas dans l’environnement, il est démontré par les économistes que ça nous coûtera au moins 5 fois plus cher. »
Budget 2025 : Marine Tondelier dénonce les coupes sur l’écologie et promet de voter la censure du gouvernement Bayrou
La cheffe des écologistes a dénoncé le manque d’investissements dans l’écologie figurant dans le projet de budget de l’État pour 2025, qui doit être adopté jeudi au Sénat.
www.lemonde.fr
January 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
« Les sommes qu’on n’investit pas dans l’environnement, il est démontré par les économistes que ça nous coûtera au moins 5 fois plus cher. »
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AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸
December 22, 2024 at 4:24 AM
AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸
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25 wealthiest Americans “saw their worth rise a collective $401 billion from 2014 to 2018. They paid a total of $13.6 billion in federal income taxes… it amounts to a true tax rate of only 3.4%.”
The median family paid a far, far higher rate on their incomes.
US’s inequalities in stark detail:
The median family paid a far, far higher rate on their incomes.
US’s inequalities in stark detail:
Between 2014-2018, Elon Musk's wealth grew by $13.9 billion but tax records obtained by @propublica.org show that during those same years he repeatedly paid relatively little (or nothing) in federal income tax:
2015: $68,000 in federal income tax paid
2017: $65,000
2018: $0
(published June 2021)
2015: $68,000 in federal income tax paid
2017: $65,000
2018: $0
(published June 2021)
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
www.propublica.org
December 21, 2024 at 8:01 PM
25 wealthiest Americans “saw their worth rise a collective $401 billion from 2014 to 2018. They paid a total of $13.6 billion in federal income taxes… it amounts to a true tax rate of only 3.4%.”
The median family paid a far, far higher rate on their incomes.
US’s inequalities in stark detail:
The median family paid a far, far higher rate on their incomes.
US’s inequalities in stark detail:
How about internalized oppression?
There’s probably a term for this but in my head I call it racist assimilationism and there’s plenty of it in America bsky.app/profile/hilz...
People keep saying this. But the mystery is not: how could an AfD supporter have done this?, but: what is up with a Saudi immigrant supporting the AfD? Or, in terms of this post:
TERRORIST: I hate immigrants. I love Nazis.
EVERYONE ELSE: Dude, you ARE an immigrant, and a recent one at that. Wtf?
TERRORIST: I hate immigrants. I love Nazis.
EVERYONE ELSE: Dude, you ARE an immigrant, and a recent one at that. Wtf?
December 22, 2024 at 3:45 PM
How about internalized oppression?
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Look at this joyful walk off content 🥰🥰
Breaking: Amazon warehouse workers at DBK4 in Queens, New York, join the strike.
December 22, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Look at this joyful walk off content 🥰🥰
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“Organizing for labor protections and academic freedom is crucial to combat higher education’s creeping authoritarianism.” Indeed.
"The protests over Gaza have catalyzed resistance to the corporatization of the university. Yet in the long term, the most effective challenge to the creeping authoritarianism in higher education may be organizing for labor protections in tandem with academic freedom."
truthout.org/articles/its...
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It’s Becoming Harder to Protest Gaza War on Campus — and Also to Teach About It
Organizing for labor protections and academic freedom is crucial to combat higher education’s creeping authoritarianism.
truthout.org
December 22, 2024 at 2:50 PM
“Organizing for labor protections and academic freedom is crucial to combat higher education’s creeping authoritarianism.” Indeed.
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If you’re willing to fuck your union and your own paycheck over trans people being able to use the bathroom I don’t really know what to say www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
Social issues drove some Teamsters to ‘take that risk’ and vote for anti-union candidate Trump
Republicans elevated culture-war issues alongside economic ones to siphon working-class support from Democrats in a way longtime Teamsters said was unprecedented.
www.inquirer.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:57 AM
If you’re willing to fuck your union and your own paycheck over trans people being able to use the bathroom I don’t really know what to say www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
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Trump and his entourage want fo claim a mandate for the most extreme elements of their agenda. But a lot of people who voted for Trump were delusional about what that agenda actually is, and voted for him believing he wouldn’t do those things. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump-Trumpist Divide
The incoming president wants to do things his voters have not embraced.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Trump and his entourage want fo claim a mandate for the most extreme elements of their agenda. But a lot of people who voted for Trump were delusional about what that agenda actually is, and voted for him believing he wouldn’t do those things. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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New from me: in his 2020 book American Crusade, Trump’s Pentagon pick wrote that if Democrats won that year there would be a “national divorce” in which “The military and police … will be forced to make a choice” and “Yes, there will be some form of civil war” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Trump’s Pentagon pick Hegseth wrote of US military taking sides in ‘civil war’
Defense secretary pick said in 2020 that should Democrats win election the military ‘will be forced to make a choice’
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:34 PM
New from me: in his 2020 book American Crusade, Trump’s Pentagon pick wrote that if Democrats won that year there would be a “national divorce” in which “The military and police … will be forced to make a choice” and “Yes, there will be some form of civil war” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
No justice in Trump’s America. Probably no peace either.
🇺🇸 Le juge au procès de Donald Trump à New York pour paiements dissimulés à l'actrice de films X Stormy Daniels a reporté indéfiniment le prononcé de la peine prévu le 26 novembre.
November 22, 2024 at 9:13 PM
No justice in Trump’s America. Probably no peace either.
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I straight up think it is dishonest to make this claim without noting that a) the mobilization against the Muslim ban involved a thousands of actual people flooding airports and b) coincided with a massive mobilization of people on the ground in Washington D.C.
November 22, 2024 at 5:13 PM
I straight up think it is dishonest to make this claim without noting that a) the mobilization against the Muslim ban involved a thousands of actual people flooding airports and b) coincided with a massive mobilization of people on the ground in Washington D.C.
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I’m firming up speaking dates this winter & spring for The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. Came out in ‘23 & I’m onto the next book, but it’s, um, relevant. So far, Penn State, College of Charleston, & NYU. If you’re interested in adding to that, let me know. www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/b...
One Man’s Foray Into the Heartland of the Far Right (Gift Article)
Alarmed by the country’s political divisions, Jeff Sharlet embarked on an anguished quest to understand the rise of antidemocratic extremism. In “The Undertow,” he documents his findings.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:27 PM
I’m firming up speaking dates this winter & spring for The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. Came out in ‘23 & I’m onto the next book, but it’s, um, relevant. So far, Penn State, College of Charleston, & NYU. If you’re interested in adding to that, let me know. www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/b...
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NEW: Trump has tapped for his cabinet, two GOP legislators—Rubio & Stefanik—who have each confirmed that Putin attacked the 2016 election to help Trump. In 2020, Rubio even produced a 966-page report detailing this. So there's no hoax, and they know Trump's lying.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump cabinet picks Rubio and Stefanik once confirmed Putin attacked the 2016 election to help Trump
So much for the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2024 at 3:32 PM
NEW: Trump has tapped for his cabinet, two GOP legislators—Rubio & Stefanik—who have each confirmed that Putin attacked the 2016 election to help Trump. In 2020, Rubio even produced a 966-page report detailing this. So there's no hoax, and they know Trump's lying.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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yes and there’s congress and the courts and even if they’re compliant this things can still be time consuming and hard to pull off. And it’s the work of an opposition to make it as hard and time consuming as possible. And make the consequences visible, not stick to this knowing cynicism.
November 14, 2024 at 2:26 AM
yes and there’s congress and the courts and even if they’re compliant this things can still be time consuming and hard to pull off. And it’s the work of an opposition to make it as hard and time consuming as possible. And make the consequences visible, not stick to this knowing cynicism.
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Aujourd'hui s'ouvre le procès de Squarcini, qui m'a espionné.
Mais c'est surtout celui de Bernard Arnault.
Qui a utilisé la police de la République et ses services de renseignement pour ses intérêts privés. Pour les intérêts de LVMH.
Et qui a acheté la justice pour étouffer ses méfaits.
Mais c'est surtout celui de Bernard Arnault.
Qui a utilisé la police de la République et ses services de renseignement pour ses intérêts privés. Pour les intérêts de LVMH.
Et qui a acheté la justice pour étouffer ses méfaits.
November 13, 2024 at 8:55 AM
Aujourd'hui s'ouvre le procès de Squarcini, qui m'a espionné.
Mais c'est surtout celui de Bernard Arnault.
Qui a utilisé la police de la République et ses services de renseignement pour ses intérêts privés. Pour les intérêts de LVMH.
Et qui a acheté la justice pour étouffer ses méfaits.
Mais c'est surtout celui de Bernard Arnault.
Qui a utilisé la police de la République et ses services de renseignement pour ses intérêts privés. Pour les intérêts de LVMH.
Et qui a acheté la justice pour étouffer ses méfaits.