Rudy Leal McCormack, PhD
@rudysmanifesto.bsky.social
Critical Theorist. Public Intellectual. Knowledge is only valuable if it’s shared. Lecturer, PhD in Political Theory/IR/Environment.
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🤠 Hey, Texas faculty! As you prep for the spring semester check out our blog for tips + advice. 👇
1) Don’t self-censor, know your rights! 2) Report censorship of your teaching, research, or expression.
3) Organize your department. We are stronger together!
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/2025-...
1) Don’t self-censor, know your rights! 2) Report censorship of your teaching, research, or expression.
3) Organize your department. We are stronger together!
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/2025-...
2025: A Year of Resistance, Solidarity and Resolve
CONTACT: Brian L. Evans, PhD, President, Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), affiliated with the Texas American Federation of Teachers (AFT), aaup.texas@gmai...
aaup-texas.org
January 4, 2026 at 9:37 PM
🤠 Hey, Texas faculty! As you prep for the spring semester check out our blog for tips + advice. 👇
1) Don’t self-censor, know your rights! 2) Report censorship of your teaching, research, or expression.
3) Organize your department. We are stronger together!
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/2025-...
1) Don’t self-censor, know your rights! 2) Report censorship of your teaching, research, or expression.
3) Organize your department. We are stronger together!
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/2025-...
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The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
December 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
A new academic article authored by me, on the productive notion of climate anxiety in a world of climate crisis: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Climate Anxiety as a Form of Sanity: Erich Fromm in the Age of Climate Crisis
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A new academic article authored by me, on the productive notion of climate anxiety in a world of climate crisis: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
June 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
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Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.
May 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.
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Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
April 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
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Today, we remember the prophetic anti-fascist psychoanalyst and critical theorist, Erich Fromm, who turns 125 years old today. His analysis of why the working class is seduced by fascism is still needed. #fascism #psychology #MAGA #USA #psychoanalysis #philsky #philosophy www.dustinjbyrd.org
March 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Today, we remember the prophetic anti-fascist psychoanalyst and critical theorist, Erich Fromm, who turns 125 years old today. His analysis of why the working class is seduced by fascism is still needed. #fascism #psychology #MAGA #USA #psychoanalysis #philsky #philosophy www.dustinjbyrd.org
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The whole point of deporting someone with a soccer tattoo that's relabeled a "gang" tattoo is for Trump to assert the power to simply say someone is a gang member or terrorist *without* presenting evidence of it.
On the pod, @lizdye.bsky.social is terrific on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1930...
On the pod, @lizdye.bsky.social is terrific on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1930...
“Terrifying”: Trump’s Rage at Judge Unnerves GOPers as Crisis Worsens
As Trump begins defying a judge blocking deportations and Republicans balk at his demands for the judge’s impeachment, a legal expert explains why this is headed for a major crisis.
newrepublic.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The whole point of deporting someone with a soccer tattoo that's relabeled a "gang" tattoo is for Trump to assert the power to simply say someone is a gang member or terrorist *without* presenting evidence of it.
On the pod, @lizdye.bsky.social is terrific on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1930...
On the pod, @lizdye.bsky.social is terrific on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1930...
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Five very simple, clear demands.
Are you a Democrat fed up with the inaction of the Democratic Party?
Here are 5 things to demand from your representatives:
Here are 5 things to demand from your representatives:
March 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Five very simple, clear demands.
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Israel now bombing “everywhere, literally everywhere”
🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL RESUMES WAR ON GAZA
Israeli Prime Minister’s Office: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz have instructed the military to take forceful action against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.”
Israeli Prime Minister’s Office: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz have instructed the military to take forceful action against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.”
March 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Israel now bombing “everywhere, literally everywhere”
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CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
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I don’t give a damn if you’re a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or Green Party, any elected official not fighting for the people needs to go.
March 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I don’t give a damn if you’re a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or Green Party, any elected official not fighting for the people needs to go.
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For decades, self-proclaimed centrists and moderates have been in control of the Democratic Party.
Now we’re having discussions on how to “save” or “rebuild” the party.
Why would that task be left to those who architected the first popular vote loss in 20 years?!
Now we’re having discussions on how to “save” or “rebuild” the party.
Why would that task be left to those who architected the first popular vote loss in 20 years?!
March 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
For decades, self-proclaimed centrists and moderates have been in control of the Democratic Party.
Now we’re having discussions on how to “save” or “rebuild” the party.
Why would that task be left to those who architected the first popular vote loss in 20 years?!
Now we’re having discussions on how to “save” or “rebuild” the party.
Why would that task be left to those who architected the first popular vote loss in 20 years?!
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I’m still not over the fact that Tim Walz went viral for calling Republicans ‘weird,’ put Trump and Vance on the defensive, then got picked as Harris’s running mate because of it, and then… he was immediately silenced, disappeared, and Dems stopped calling the GOP ‘weird.’
January 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I’m still not over the fact that Tim Walz went viral for calling Republicans ‘weird,’ put Trump and Vance on the defensive, then got picked as Harris’s running mate because of it, and then… he was immediately silenced, disappeared, and Dems stopped calling the GOP ‘weird.’
Like everything about the Biden presidency, it’s all too little too late… 40k+ Palestinians dead.
BREAKING: President Biden and his team have brokered a ceasefire and hostage release agreement between Israel and Hamas.
Unlike Trump, who left the Afghanistan withdrawal to Biden, the President has taken decisive action to resolve this critical issue.
Thanks, Joe!
Unlike Trump, who left the Afghanistan withdrawal to Biden, the President has taken decisive action to resolve this critical issue.
Thanks, Joe!
January 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Like everything about the Biden presidency, it’s all too little too late… 40k+ Palestinians dead.
At this point there should be no doubt that Republicans have been completely taken over by dangerous theocratic tendencies.
"There is no separation between church and state," Republican Party of Texas Chair Abraham George said at a small rally with clergy and GOP lawmakers on Tuesday. "We don’t want the government in our churches, but we should be in the government." www.texastribune.org/2025/01/15/t...
Texas GOP chair denies church-state separation as lawmakers, pastors prep for ‘spiritual battle’
Abraham George’s comments are the latest sign of the state GOP’s embrace of fundamentalist ideologies that seek to center public life around their faith.
www.texastribune.org
January 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
At this point there should be no doubt that Republicans have been completely taken over by dangerous theocratic tendencies.
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January 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Here is today's new starter pack!!
If you want to be added to one of these, make sure to like, reply, and REPOST this post so I know who else wants to be on it.
🌊💙🦋🔄❤️🌊💙🦋🔄
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If you want to be added to one of these, make sure to like, reply, and REPOST this post so I know who else wants to be on it.
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December 19, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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Excellent headline from USA Today
'President-elect Musk': Elon's influence on display in government spending fight
Musk began posting on X against a stopgap government spending bill on Wednesday well before Trump weighed in against the legislation.
www.usatoday.com
December 19, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Excellent headline from USA Today
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If we did a fraction of the research into our candidates for elected office as we did for our fantasy football teams, we would have the government we desperately need.
December 16, 2024 at 4:01 PM
If we did a fraction of the research into our candidates for elected office as we did for our fantasy football teams, we would have the government we desperately need.