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“Make it okay”? Debate over Israel-Palestine has almost exclusively centered on the alleged mistakes of protestors
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Mit @tagesspiegel.de habe ich über unsere Forschung zu Palästina-Solidarität und dem repressiven Umgang mit Protest in Berlin gesprochen. Vielen Dank an Andreas Busche, der dem Thema Raum gegeben hat - bei der Berichterstattung der letzten Monaten keine Selbstverständlichkeit!
archive.is/7IIQJ
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Mit @tagesspiegel.de habe ich über unsere Forschung zu Palästina-Solidarität und dem repressiven Umgang mit Protest in Berlin gesprochen. Vielen Dank an Andreas Busche, der dem Thema Raum gegeben hat - bei der Berichterstattung der letzten Monaten keine Selbstverständlichkeit!
archive.is/7IIQJ
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REQUEST: If you know anything about the State Dept firings/RIFs today, including if you were impacted, reach out. I'm on Signal at crg.32
Also: If you are in another agency and get word of quick movement on RIF plans, please reach out as well.
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A great measure of the conservative movement's total intellectual bankruptcy is that oligarchs shovel truckloads of money into institutes like this one and even still, the ratio of literal Maoists to conservatives in academia is something like 100:1.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com
Exclusive: Harvard leaders have discussed creating a center for conservative scholarship as the school fights the Trump administration’s accusations that it is too liberal.
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democrats have somehow totally misread this sea change in public opinion despite all the signs, including those at all the record breaking protests in every US city
Michael Tesler@tesler.bsky.social
New @goodauth.bsky.social piece shows that ICE's popularity is plunging: ICE's net favorability rating went from +15 in early February to -13 in late June. And support for abolishing the agency altogether has surged since the election. goodauthority.org/news/america...
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The Austrian far-right FPÖ is employing a right-wing extremist affiliated with the Identitarian movement as a parliamentary staffer.
Just another example of the blurring boundaries between radical and extreme right.
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FPÖ holt führenden Rechtsextremen als Mitarbeiter ins Parlament
Laut einer Mitarbeiterliste ist nun der Identitäre Gernot Schmidt für einen Abgeordneten tätig. Er fiel mit Verweisen auf die Hitlerjugend und brisanten Aktionen auf
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"Infrastructure initially designed to combat terrorism now often serves to monitor street-level protests, with virtual investigations units targeting demonstrators for scrutiny based on online expression."
REIGN OF TERROR // VIKING // AVAILABLE NOW IN ALL FORMATS
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Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’
DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.
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These scenes from California yesterday are reminiscent of the reception that 1950s Civil Rights protesters received in the South.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social
"My photographer got hit twice by less than lethal rounds and he's got blood on one of his arms and we just took off running with the entire crowd. It was absolutely chaotic."
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OK this is wild and I hope other polls show the same movement
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social
About that record-high share of Americans saying immigration is good for the country: The surge is primarily driven by *Republicans* changing their tune. Rs have become much more positive on immigration than they had been before Trump took office.
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Kinda curious to know how much time people do in prison for those protests that tear up Paris every year. Like do you get locked up for a decade in France for assaulting a policeman's baton with your face?
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As someone who has moved a lot in the last 15 years, building community was not on the top of my mind. But the more I think about the climate crisis in a context of polarization, the more I believe creating/strengthening community is key. More knowledge mobilization on that topic is needed.
Stand.earth@stand.earth
It’s never too late to protect the people and places you love. In times like these, where those in power are failing to protect us from the #ClimateCrisis, we need to strengthen our local communities. 🧵
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A federal judge blocked Trump admin from enforcing contentious EO ending birthright citizenship after certifying a challenge by the @aclu.org as a class action (the only way to impose such a far-reaching limit after a Supreme Court ruling last month)
www.nytimes.com/live/2025….
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Blocks Birthright Citizenship Executive Order Nationwide
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state security force defections are the basis of any successful non-violent movement
Nick Miroff@nickmiroff.bsky.social
NEW: I spoke to a dozen current and formers about low morale at ICE amid the Trump admin's relentless push for more and more arrests. Officers and agents aren't complaining or looking for sympathy but they're facing public anger & political pressure from above www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Hey Rhode Island / Boston / Providence reporters, here's a guy worth looking into. Director of our FEMA region posted xrays of violently shattered hands to 'celebrate' the protest day last month
How do we think it'll go if PVD or BOS gets hit by a hurricane this fall?
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social
Just a smattering of recent posts from the public Facebook page of Fred Doucette, FEMA Regional Administrator for Region 1 (overseeing Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont)
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F*CK the 'antisemitism commissioner'. She sees her job as enforcing Zionism and eliminating criticism of and protest against Israeli genocide.
Hatred of Jews is horrible and can't be tolerated but this is not about that. Not at all.
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From 2020: “From May 27 to July 7, I cataloged 72 incidents of cars driving into protesters across 52 cities, including both civilian & law enforcement vehicles.” Why increasing use? Ari Weil suggests norms shaped partly by far-right memes & sites like Daily Caller. www.nbcnews.com/think/opi….
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Opinion | I'm tracking protesters rammed by cars. The data should scare you.
The tragic death of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville made vehicle rammings a national headline, but the tactic has not gone away — and, indeed, appears to be getting worse.
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Oops, here I meant to show the results using 2017-2018 data (without large-scale repression). The effects of proximity to actively policed protests are not significant in this case.
Rodolfo Disi Pavlic@rdisip.bsky.social
8/11 Our findings are quite robust: they withstand placebo tests with 2017–2018 data (without large-scale repression), comparisons with non-repressed protests, and different geographic buffers. The causal link between repression and attitudes remains pretty consistent.
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Oops, here I meant to show the results using 2017-2018 data (without large-scale repression). The effects of proximity to actively policed protests are not significant in this case.
Rodolfo Disi Pavlic@rdisip.bsky.social
8/11 Our findings are quite robust: they withstand placebo tests with 2017–2018 data (without large-scale repression), comparisons with non-repressed protests, and different geographic buffers. The causal link between repression and attitudes remains pretty consistent.
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1/11 How does justification of violence against the police change when you live near protests that are actively policed?
In this article, just published in @sfjournal.bsky.social, we address this question using the 2019 Chilean social uprising as a case study.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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1/11 How does justification of violence against the police change when you live near protests that are actively policed?
In this article, just published in @sfjournal.bsky.social, we address this question using the 2019 Chilean social uprising as a case study.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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What you have to understand is that the mobilization of American economic power on behalf of right wing authoritarianism is a combination of Realism and Restraint, both hallmarks of the Trump administration.
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““Most” of the names of student protesters ICE was asked to investigate earlier this year were plucked from [Canary Mission] a pro-Israel website that aims to blacklist pro-Palestinian students and academics, an agency official told a federal court.”
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/...
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Pro-Israel website was used to find names of student protesters to investigate, senior ICE official says | CNN Politics
“Most” of the names of student protesters Immigration and Customs Enforcement was asked to investigate earlier this year were plucked from a pro-Israel website that aims to blacklist pro-Palestinian s...
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defection of state security forces is the primary mechanism of non-violent protest movements
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