Kenneth Vaughan
@kennethvaughan.bsky.social
Sociologist of religion and politics. Research on the far right and social change. Professor at TLU.
Digs: Pro-wrestling, beer, lifting weights, riding bikes, video games, and non-violence.
Digs: Pro-wrestling, beer, lifting weights, riding bikes, video games, and non-violence.
National Guard in each state is ordered to create ‘quick reaction forces’ trained in civil unrest
Mind you, they're perfectly willing to call people dancing in frog suits "terrorists," so any protest is fair game for a militarized response.
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Mind you, they're perfectly willing to call people dancing in frog suits "terrorists," so any protest is fair game for a militarized response.
apnews.com/article/nati...
National Guard in each state is ordered to create 'quick reaction forces' trained in civil unrest
Military leaders have ordered the National Guard in every state to develop a “quick reaction force” of troops trained to deal with civil disturbances and riots that can be ready to deploy with just ho...
apnews.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
National Guard in each state is ordered to create ‘quick reaction forces’ trained in civil unrest
Mind you, they're perfectly willing to call people dancing in frog suits "terrorists," so any protest is fair game for a militarized response.
apnews.com/article/nati...
Mind you, they're perfectly willing to call people dancing in frog suits "terrorists," so any protest is fair game for a militarized response.
apnews.com/article/nati...
I hope Daniel Hale is doing well.
Exclusive: US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Exclusive: US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
November 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I hope Daniel Hale is doing well.
Exclusive: US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Exclusive: US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
You want a new country? I'll give you a new country. Repeal the Hague Invasion act. Join the ICC. Prosecute this case. Use it as precedent to investigate and prosecute Obama, Bush, Clinton, and those that made similar actions under their tenure happen.
November 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
You want a new country? I'll give you a new country. Repeal the Hague Invasion act. Join the ICC. Prosecute this case. Use it as precedent to investigate and prosecute Obama, Bush, Clinton, and those that made similar actions under their tenure happen.
Art display at the cafe
November 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Art display at the cafe
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Still two slots open for my International Office Hours of November 12. Please let me know if you have problems signing up.
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November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Still two slots open for my International Office Hours of November 12. Please let me know if you have problems signing up.
I hope all the really cool sociologists who celebrated the mass deportation of the Latina/os they don’t like get some awesome instagram pics at #NoKings this weekend!!!!
October 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I hope all the really cool sociologists who celebrated the mass deportation of the Latina/os they don’t like get some awesome instagram pics at #NoKings this weekend!!!!
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Hangman Adam Page: F*ck ICE Airing Commercials During AEW Dynamite
Hangman Adam Page: F*ck ICE Airing Commercials During AEW Dynamite
AEW World Champion Hangman Adam Page voiced his displeasure with ICE commercials airing during AEW Dynamite.
www.fightful.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Hangman Adam Page: F*ck ICE Airing Commercials During AEW Dynamite
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Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call…
HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775
HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000
PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.
NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775
HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000
PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.
NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research
Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call…
HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775
HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000
PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.
NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775
HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000
PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.
NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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A few additional interesting points about Jordan Lasker. One, he appled to work as a graduate student in my lab years ago:
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The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
July 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A few additional interesting points about Jordan Lasker. One, he appled to work as a graduate student in my lab years ago:
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Reporters & researchers: get ICE detained population graphs (Interval ADP) by facility for *all* 162 detention facilities in use by ICE right now at the post below. Please use them anywhere you write (with attribution).
austinkocher.substack.com/p/interval-a...
austinkocher.substack.com/p/interval-a...
Interval ADP Update: Data Shows Recent Population Numbers Inside ICE Detention Centers
Get the data and 164 graphs to see the recent detained population at every ICE detention facility in the country.
austinkocher.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Reporters & researchers: get ICE detained population graphs (Interval ADP) by facility for *all* 162 detention facilities in use by ICE right now at the post below. Please use them anywhere you write (with attribution).
austinkocher.substack.com/p/interval-a...
austinkocher.substack.com/p/interval-a...
New study on #farright violence in #Canada. The number of incidents has remained fairly consistent, but fatal attacks, including mass casualty events, are becoming more common.
The Evolution of Far-Right Violence in Canada
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Evolution of Far-Right Violence in Canada
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
June 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
New study on #farright violence in #Canada. The number of incidents has remained fairly consistent, but fatal attacks, including mass casualty events, are becoming more common.
The Evolution of Far-Right Violence in Canada
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Evolution of Far-Right Violence in Canada
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Racism against Asian Americans is still appallingly common. Incidents go underreported because many Asian Americans underestimate the severity of these experiences. New report from @stopaapihate.org
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June 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Racism against Asian Americans is still appallingly common. Incidents go underreported because many Asian Americans underestimate the severity of these experiences. New report from @stopaapihate.org
stopaapihate.org/wp-content/u...
stopaapihate.org/wp-content/u...
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Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court. Legal scholars say his argument—that undocumented parents’ kids lack “allegiance”—contradicts the 14th Amendment’s text and intent.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Arguments at the Supreme Court Are Epically Bad
The 14th Amendment’s authors saw Trump’s citizenship test coming and rejected it.
slate.com
June 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court. Legal scholars say his argument—that undocumented parents’ kids lack “allegiance”—contradicts the 14th Amendment’s text and intent.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
AI is bad at health policy and Final Fantasy
June 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
AI is bad at health policy and Final Fantasy
All signs point to Moxley retaining and Hangman having a different program with Swerve, but there’s never been a better time for Hangman to become world champ. Pivot.
#AEWDynamite
#AEWDynamite
May 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
All signs point to Moxley retaining and Hangman having a different program with Swerve, but there’s never been a better time for Hangman to become world champ. Pivot.
#AEWDynamite
#AEWDynamite
There’s a cool side to Austin, but you have to know where to look.
May 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
There’s a cool side to Austin, but you have to know where to look.
We live in entirely precedented times. @attackerman.bsky.social
www.forever-wars.com/cia-interrog...
www.forever-wars.com/cia-interrog...
CIA Interrogator Said Infamous Black Site Looked “Like A Nazi Concentration Camp"
New disclosures from the military commissions underscore the depravity of the post-9/11 program—through the eyes of its practitioners, not just its victims.
www.forever-wars.com
May 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We live in entirely precedented times. @attackerman.bsky.social
www.forever-wars.com/cia-interrog...
www.forever-wars.com/cia-interrog...
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We enjoyed reading this recent piece in @theguardian.com from @casmudde.bsky.social and what is, essentially, a call to action to speak to intrinsic values www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas Mudde
There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We enjoyed reading this recent piece in @theguardian.com from @casmudde.bsky.social and what is, essentially, a call to action to speak to intrinsic values www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE UP TO DATE ON YOUR VACCINATIONS NOW.
May 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE UP TO DATE ON YOUR VACCINATIONS NOW.
Hey, are Initiate on BlueSky?
May 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Hey, are Initiate on BlueSky?
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Horrific story about a man taken from his wife and four children due to a clerical error. Liberals in the comments “that’s what they get for supporting Trump.” Deportation is horrific. It’s torture. Those babies don’t deserve this. And 99/100 white men aren’t the victims. Please don’t lose the plot.
One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed. A day before, he was a welding foreman, a husband and father of four.
Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled in a detention shuttle in Tennessee.
www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...
Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled in a detention shuttle in Tennessee.
www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
May 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Horrific story about a man taken from his wife and four children due to a clerical error. Liberals in the comments “that’s what they get for supporting Trump.” Deportation is horrific. It’s torture. Those babies don’t deserve this. And 99/100 white men aren’t the victims. Please don’t lose the plot.
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The Trump administration will define “terrorism” as expansively as it can to carry out its censorship agenda. Just ask Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil.
Let’s not hand the president more opportunities to abuse his power.
Let’s not hand the president more opportunities to abuse his power.
Don’t empower Trump to define terrorism
‘Nonprofit killer’ bill would allow administration to label news outlets terrorist supporters
freedom.press
May 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The Trump administration will define “terrorism” as expansively as it can to carry out its censorship agenda. Just ask Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil.
Let’s not hand the president more opportunities to abuse his power.
Let’s not hand the president more opportunities to abuse his power.