Kelly Jones
@kellysjones.bsky.social
PhD student: law, metaphor, and the far-right
Associate Editor, Journal of Right-Wing Studies
Associate Editor, Journal of Right-Wing Studies
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I’ve made the executive decision to not decide that any one thing will sink them and to instead kick back and eat some popcorn while they try to explain that every honorable guy has an extensive correspondence with pedophiles.
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I’ve made the executive decision to not decide that any one thing will sink them and to instead kick back and eat some popcorn while they try to explain that every honorable guy has an extensive correspondence with pedophiles.
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
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The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row and the DoD has confirmed nearly $11 billion in fraud in just 7 years. But the concern is the poorest Americans abusing the average $342 monthly alotment. foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-...
November 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row and the DoD has confirmed nearly $11 billion in fraud in just 7 years. But the concern is the poorest Americans abusing the average $342 monthly alotment. foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-...
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I’ve been writing for a long time about contested and evolving meaning of economic terms like “free enterprise,” and I’m struck that pollsters can ask people whether they have a “positive or negative” image of “capitalism“ or “socialism,” without defining the terms.
news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...
news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...
Image of Capitalism Slips to 54% in U.S.
Fifty-four percent of Americans, down from 60% in 2021, have a positive opinion of capitalism, while a steady 39% view socialism positively.
news.gallup.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I’ve been writing for a long time about contested and evolving meaning of economic terms like “free enterprise,” and I’m struck that pollsters can ask people whether they have a “positive or negative” image of “capitalism“ or “socialism,” without defining the terms.
news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...
news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...
Wait…this is reverse exile. If professors are to be royally punished for their opinions, they should at least get to put that they were exiled on their CV. “Cancelled:” not as valid on the job market.
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Wait…this is reverse exile. If professors are to be royally punished for their opinions, they should at least get to put that they were exiled on their CV. “Cancelled:” not as valid on the job market.
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So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
When Trump starts deporting profs, can they at least still call it exile?
Being exiled is how you know you’ve made it.
Bakunin: exiled
Bernstein: exiled
Marx: exiled
Luxembourg: exiled!
Being exiled is how you know you’ve made it.
Bakunin: exiled
Bernstein: exiled
Marx: exiled
Luxembourg: exiled!
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
When Trump starts deporting profs, can they at least still call it exile?
Being exiled is how you know you’ve made it.
Bakunin: exiled
Bernstein: exiled
Marx: exiled
Luxembourg: exiled!
Being exiled is how you know you’ve made it.
Bakunin: exiled
Bernstein: exiled
Marx: exiled
Luxembourg: exiled!
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Shout out to @eyesontheright.bsky.social for spotting this white supremacist meme on the DHS Twitter last night.
I followed up and DHS responded with more memes. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-inc...
I followed up and DHS responded with more memes. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-inc...
DHS Includes ‘White Supremacist’ Meme in Video Promoting Deportation Blitz
A video posted on X by the Department of Homeland Security included...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Shout out to @eyesontheright.bsky.social for spotting this white supremacist meme on the DHS Twitter last night.
I followed up and DHS responded with more memes. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-inc...
I followed up and DHS responded with more memes. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-inc...
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DIDN'T TAKE LONG: One group suing over Trump's birthright citizenship order has refiled its lawsuit as a class action, noting that the court left open this option for nationwide relief. They're asking a Maryland judge for an emergency restraining order. www.politico.com/live-updates...
June 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
DIDN'T TAKE LONG: One group suing over Trump's birthright citizenship order has refiled its lawsuit as a class action, noting that the court left open this option for nationwide relief. They're asking a Maryland judge for an emergency restraining order. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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The mayor race on Tuesday saw massive turnout differentials - turnout in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’sbstrongest precincts was up ~30% while turnout in Cuomo’s best districts were ~ flat.
These are big differences - essentially two different elections that happened to fall on the same day.
These are big differences - essentially two different elections that happened to fall on the same day.
June 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The mayor race on Tuesday saw massive turnout differentials - turnout in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’sbstrongest precincts was up ~30% while turnout in Cuomo’s best districts were ~ flat.
These are big differences - essentially two different elections that happened to fall on the same day.
These are big differences - essentially two different elections that happened to fall on the same day.
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"Right-wing reactionaries have spent the past few decades insisting that the Constitution’s meaning is fixed in time so that they can...undo civil rights gains while maintaining a semblance of respectability. And Damsky’s paper turned their subtext into text." @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
One minute, you're an originalist Trump judge; the next minute, you're the subject of national scrutiny for having given a best-in-class award to a law student who argued that the Constitution is only for white people ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
A Law Student’s Award-Winning White Nationalist Paper Holds Up a Mirror to the Conservative Legal Movement
How originalism led to Trump judge John Badalamenti handing out a law school paper arguing that the Constitution is only for white people.
ballsandstrikes.org
June 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"Right-wing reactionaries have spent the past few decades insisting that the Constitution’s meaning is fixed in time so that they can...undo civil rights gains while maintaining a semblance of respectability. And Damsky’s paper turned their subtext into text." @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
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amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
Did the last download of @dedoose.bsky.social work for everyone? Mine is being extremely wonky.
June 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Did the last download of @dedoose.bsky.social work for everyone? Mine is being extremely wonky.
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We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
June 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
They really took it all the way 😂
June 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
They really took it all the way 😂
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“Only a counter-elite can challenge our…managerial masters, & it is to the unashamed development & cultivation of that counter-elite, particularly among white voters excoriated by the Democratic regime, that the right must devote the lion’s share of its political energies.” -Jeremy Carl, 5/19/22 1/
June 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
“Only a counter-elite can challenge our…managerial masters, & it is to the unashamed development & cultivation of that counter-elite, particularly among white voters excoriated by the Democratic regime, that the right must devote the lion’s share of its political energies.” -Jeremy Carl, 5/19/22 1/
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1/x doing a democracy! I’m at a special meeting of the Menlo Park City Council discussing a low-income housing project on large flatland parking lots that dominate the downtown landscape. menlopark.gov/agendas
June 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
1/x doing a democracy! I’m at a special meeting of the Menlo Park City Council discussing a low-income housing project on large flatland parking lots that dominate the downtown landscape. menlopark.gov/agendas
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thehill.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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JUST IN: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues interim US Attorney Alina Habba for "false arrest and malicious prosecution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
June 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
JUST IN: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues interim US Attorney Alina Habba for "false arrest and malicious prosecution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Timothy Snyder: Midwesterner at large : ).
It took me a while, but I can now see a purpose in speaking to the discussion of my departure from Yale for the University of Toronto. Here I address four public framings of last year’s move that arose in recent weeks, which tell us something of our present moment
snyder.substack.com/p/last-years...
snyder.substack.com/p/last-years...
Last Year's Move to Toronto
And This Year's Politics (video and commentary)
snyder.substack.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Timothy Snyder: Midwesterner at large : ).
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Dystopian, especially and not only because Peter Thiel is basically a comic book villain
newrepublic.com/post/195904/...
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Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American
Trump’s dystopian plan is already underway.
newrepublic.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Dystopian, especially and not only because Peter Thiel is basically a comic book villain
newrepublic.com/post/195904/...
newrepublic.com/post/195904/...