Arlene Stein

@ajoystein.bsky.social

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Sociologist thinking and writing about authoritarianism, democracy, LGBTQ issues, feminism. Author of The Stranger Next Door, Unbound, other books. Child of immigrants. Never Again for Anyone. #KnittyGrittyJC

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Arlene Stein is an American sociologist and author best known for her writing about sex and gender, the politics of identities, and collective memory. She is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and former director of the Institute for Research on Women. Stein has also taught at the University of Essex and at the University of Oregon. .. more

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 1d

Another misleading @nyt headline, which should have emphasized how he and his family are profiting.

Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 1d

One cannot go to Arendt’s work for comfort. What she offers instead is company — the company of someone who had direct experience of the horrors of the 20th century yet never relinquished what she called amor mundi, or “love of the world.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...

Hannah Arendt Is Not Your Icon

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Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Arlene Stein

moonchildjs.bsky.social @moonchildjs.bsky.social · 4d

We’re in a hell of a lot of trouble.

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 4d

A progressive sweep in Jersey City!

James Solomon Beats Jim McGreevey, a Former Governor, in Jersey City www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/n...

James Solomon Beats Jim McGreevey, a Former Governor, in Jersey City

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 4d

Shameless effort to distract from policies that hurt the nation’s children.

Michael and Susan Dell to Put $250 in 25 Million Children’s Accounts www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/b...

Michael and Susan Dell to Put $250 in 25 Million Children’s Accounts

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 4d

It is not “presidential” behavior, to say the least. But it’s far worse than that: calling a whole people “garbage” dehumanizes and gives license to disposing of them.

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the U.S.

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Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Arlene Stein

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4d

Dedicated to fighting wokeness.

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 6d

Japanese American groups have filed an amicus brief contesting President Trump’s recent invocation of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, a law that was also used to justify the imprisonment of Japanese Americans.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 7d

Heroes.

Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage

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Reposted by Arlene Stein

Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 7d

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of these sadists running amok.

They're thieves, murderers, and rapists.

And those are only the crimes they publicly brag about.

Enough is enough.

Every single cell in my body is ready to turn the page on this national nightmare.

Reposted by Arlene Stein

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8d

I’m starting to get the sense that it was a bad idea to put a deeply insecure, sexual assaulting Fox News host with a drinking problem and a crusader tattoo who said he was into war crimes in charge of the military.

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 12d

Will Dems learn to fight? Replacing Schumer would be a first step.

Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 16d

Even in a world in which we have been numbed to Trump’s unlawful and outrageous behavior, calling for the death of opposition leaders is beyond the pale of civilized nations.

Robert Hubbell Nov. 21

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 16d

Shameful

Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 18d

These women are not famous or well connected, but they matter. Their pain matters. Their names matter.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

Opinion | How to Utterly Miss the Point of the Jeffrey Epstein Story

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 20d

That emotional economy — the transformation of fear into cohesion — is both the origin of the authoritarian impulse and its creation.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

Opinion | The Lesson We Teach Schoolchildren About the Holocaust Is Wrong

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 20d

From the man who called Charlottesville Nazis “very fine people.”

Trump Defends Tucker Carlson After Nick Fuentes Interview www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

Trump Defends Tucker Carlson After Nick Fuentes Interview

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 21d

For those inside the circle, the rules of the outside world do not apply.

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The banality of evil: how Epstein’s powerful friends normalised him

Long after his conviction for sexual abuse, people in royalty, academia, business, journalism and politics sought his ear

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 21d

Now that state repression is here, pro-democracy forces will need to continue to show their courage by speaking out and building the broadest possible coalition – both nationally and in cities and states under threat – to defend institutions and rights.

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How repression is born – and how to resist it | Javier Corrales and Daniel Altschuler

In a clear pattern, a machine designed to generate law and order morphs into an organization operating under lawlessness

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 22d

Hannah Arendt's account of the rise of totalitarianism describes the usurpation of government by private interests (from Samantha Rose Hill, Hannah Arendt, Reaktion, 2021).

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 23d

They are not the Nazis of yesteryear who were skinheads and put swastikas everywhere and scared people. They know how to deliver this message in a way that’s palatable, or more palatable.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...

Opinion | Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and the Right’s ‘Groyper’ Problem

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Reposted by Anna O. Law, Jamie Morgan, Arlene Stein , and 2 more Anna O. Law, Jamie Morgan, Arlene Stein, Nathan P. Kalmoe, James M. Thomas

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 23d

I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.

The Heritage Foundation, Groypers, and the Narcissism of Small Differences

Fuentes is the fly born of Heritage’s maggot.

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 26d

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Musk is paid $1tn. Nvidia’s worth $5tn. Yet America’s poor are struggling to eat | Steven Greenhouse

We may be in a golden age for the super-rich – but it doesn’t feel that way for the 42 million Americans who use Snap

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 26d

The Mamdani movement added two crucial ingredients: anger and moral purpose — and in so doing actually expanded the electorate itself.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

Opinion | Young Voters Are the Holy Grail. Zohran Mamdani Just Showed Democrats How to Win Them.

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 27d

I suspect it is because popular opinion has dramatically shifted in favor of marriage equality, and the conservatives on the court know that. And yet they have take unpopular stands on other issues, such as abortion rights…

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27d

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide

The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

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Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 27d

Senators Schumer and Durbin should resign from their leadership positions on Sunday evening, as they are obviously incapable of leading the Democratic caucus.
Robert Hubbell 11.10

Arlene Stein @ajoystein.bsky.social · 27d

More please!

Yesterday Trump attended an NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and the Detroit Lions after ESPN reported that he wants the Commanders to name their new stadium after him. Attendees soundly booed him.