Jason Weidner
@jasonrweidner.bsky.social
Academic, professor of International Relations, gringo living and working in Monterrey, Mexico
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November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.
September 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.
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You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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They booted you from Medicaid so they could build ICE Air.
BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is pushing for ICE to use funds to buy, own and operate its own fleet of airplanes to deport immigrants, two sources familiar with the discussions tell NBC News.
Kristi Noem is pushing for ICE to buy and operate a fleet of deportation planes, sources say
Former officials say that if ICE owned its own planes, it could double the number of people it deports each month. But it would be costly.
nbcnews.to
August 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
They booted you from Medicaid so they could build ICE Air.
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The war on immigration is just all bad in every possible direction.
--It is very expensive
--It radicalizes government agencies
--It distorts US foreign policy
--It is very harmful to the economy
--It is also quite cruel.
There is no second/third order consequence that is positive.
--It is very expensive
--It radicalizes government agencies
--It distorts US foreign policy
--It is very harmful to the economy
--It is also quite cruel.
There is no second/third order consequence that is positive.
Local jails–mostly run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of ICE's rampant criminalization of immigration.
August 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The war on immigration is just all bad in every possible direction.
--It is very expensive
--It radicalizes government agencies
--It distorts US foreign policy
--It is very harmful to the economy
--It is also quite cruel.
There is no second/third order consequence that is positive.
--It is very expensive
--It radicalizes government agencies
--It distorts US foreign policy
--It is very harmful to the economy
--It is also quite cruel.
There is no second/third order consequence that is positive.
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look at our opposition party 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Here’s the jolly group of Dems who decided to visit their ally in genocide.
August 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
look at our opposition party 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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Florida Republicans are now selling concentration camp merch.
Absolutely vile and indefensibly repugnant.
Absolutely vile and indefensibly repugnant.
June 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Florida Republicans are now selling concentration camp merch.
Absolutely vile and indefensibly repugnant.
Absolutely vile and indefensibly repugnant.
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This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.
June 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.
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For 40 years, Americans have lived shorter lives than people in other rich countries.
For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse.
New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.
For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse.
New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.
Excess US Deaths Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
This cohort study examines trends in excess deaths in the US before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
jamanetwork.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
For 40 years, Americans have lived shorter lives than people in other rich countries.
For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse.
New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.
For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse.
New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.
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honestly speechless
“Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.”
like ok but you said “young Chinese women have small fingers” … ?? ?
“Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.”
like ok but you said “young Chinese women have small fingers” … ?? ?
May 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
honestly speechless
“Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.”
like ok but you said “young Chinese women have small fingers” … ?? ?
“Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.”
like ok but you said “young Chinese women have small fingers” … ?? ?
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288 people have been rendered to El Salvador’s mega-prison. We only know 257 of their names—and not because the US or Salvadoran governments shared them.
It shouldn't be up to civil society to compile things like this table. Of course, none of this should be happening at all.
See admis.me/b/2un
It shouldn't be up to civil society to compile things like this table. Of course, none of this should be happening at all.
See admis.me/b/2un
April 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
288 people have been rendered to El Salvador’s mega-prison. We only know 257 of their names—and not because the US or Salvadoran governments shared them.
It shouldn't be up to civil society to compile things like this table. Of course, none of this should be happening at all.
See admis.me/b/2un
It shouldn't be up to civil society to compile things like this table. Of course, none of this should be happening at all.
See admis.me/b/2un
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A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.
The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains?
By Judith Roberts * As an attorney I’m deeply alarmed by an incident that occurred just this week and feel compelled to share it—to raise aw...
weknowwhatsup.blogspot.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.
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My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
April 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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The DOGE stuff already has a whiff of "Big" meets "Zone of Interest". (What if a kid were in the body of an adult charged with running a concentration camp in a fresh think-outside-the-box way?) This Potemkin-Jimmy Buffett crossover pitch is likewise comparatively high-concept.
NYT says it was put in place by a Bukele aide to make it seem like they had drinks.
April 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
The DOGE stuff already has a whiff of "Big" meets "Zone of Interest". (What if a kid were in the body of an adult charged with running a concentration camp in a fresh think-outside-the-box way?) This Potemkin-Jimmy Buffett crossover pitch is likewise comparatively high-concept.
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By the FBI's reckoning, spree killers are driven by fantasies of revenge — and those fantasies have been a key part of Trump and the far Right's messaging for a long time, eg qanon.
Fascist speech is always an incitement to violence.
Fascist speech is always an incitement to violence.
Speaking to NBC after the shooting, a student who was once part of a 'political round table' with Ikner revealed he harbored white supremacist views. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
FSU gunman's chilling political views are revealed as footage emerges
Extraordinary footage has now emerged of Phoenix Ikner stalking campus grounds as terrified students ran for their lives.
www.dailymail.co.uk
April 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
By the FBI's reckoning, spree killers are driven by fantasies of revenge — and those fantasies have been a key part of Trump and the far Right's messaging for a long time, eg qanon.
Fascist speech is always an incitement to violence.
Fascist speech is always an incitement to violence.
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"Woman" is now legally classified as "broodmare," I'm sure this will have absolutely zero long term consequences for reproductive healthcare down the line.
After all it's not like anti-trans agitation is part of a far wider far-right, explicitly natalist movement or anything, right?
After all it's not like anti-trans agitation is part of a far wider far-right, explicitly natalist movement or anything, right?
One thing I missed that Jess draws attention to is that the court very explicitly refers to pregnancy--that is, to gestational capacity--as the measure of womanhood, in order to exclude trans women from the category.
Well. What else is there to say?
There you go. Now we all know what a woman is.
Well. What else is there to say?
There you go. Now we all know what a woman is.
My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
April 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"Woman" is now legally classified as "broodmare," I'm sure this will have absolutely zero long term consequences for reproductive healthcare down the line.
After all it's not like anti-trans agitation is part of a far wider far-right, explicitly natalist movement or anything, right?
After all it's not like anti-trans agitation is part of a far wider far-right, explicitly natalist movement or anything, right?
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the proposal: permanent siphon of public dollars negotiated, controlled, and enriching the same group of people who have installed themselves as the arbiters of decisions about what counts as national security, what is wasteful and what is useful public spending
Elon Musk's SpaceX is the frontrunner to build Trump's "Golden Dome" missile shield.
SpaceX is proposing a subscription service where the government would pay to access the technology, rather than own it.
Experts think the project could cost hundreds of billions.
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
SpaceX is proposing a subscription service where the government would pay to access the technology, rather than own it.
Experts think the project could cost hundreds of billions.
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield
Elon Musk's SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of President Donald Trump's "Golden Dome" missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said.
www.reuters.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
the proposal: permanent siphon of public dollars negotiated, controlled, and enriching the same group of people who have installed themselves as the arbiters of decisions about what counts as national security, what is wasteful and what is useful public spending
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You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here.
But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
![Palantir @PalantirTech • 26m
Dropping at select colleges today.
[Embedded image of a billboard ad:]
A moment of reckoning has
arrived for the West.
Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why.
We did.
We built Palantir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we build to dominate.
Join us.
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April 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here.
But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
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SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
April 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.
March 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.
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the unifying principle driving this administration is eugenics — a eugenicist approach to the economy, a eugenicist approach to arts / sciences / etc. tear away every single support, wreck things on purpose, what doesn’t survive wasn’t “worthy,” those still standing pocket the dislodged wealth.
Trump 2024: We'll build the strongest economy the world has ever seen! Together we will prosper!
Trump 2025: Fuck you
Trump 2025: Fuck you
April 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
the unifying principle driving this administration is eugenics — a eugenicist approach to the economy, a eugenicist approach to arts / sciences / etc. tear away every single support, wreck things on purpose, what doesn’t survive wasn’t “worthy,” those still standing pocket the dislodged wealth.
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Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
April 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.