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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

Student protests are basically a necessary condition for any democracy movement

open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Student-Led Pro-Democracy Protests and Their Impact Worldwide (1955-2025)
Outcome
• Successful Transition
• Long Term Impact|
• Partial Gains|
• No Immediate Gains
Hungary Uprising' °

1960
1970
Poland Protests' ® 'France May '68
° South Korea April Revolution
Mexico Movement, a, Yugoslavia Protests
Greece Polytechnic, o
1980
Poland Solidarity, O
" 'South Africa Soweto
Philippines People Power,®
Brazil Diretas Já
South Korea June Movement
Burma 8/8/88 China Tiananmen
1990
Vepal Jana Andolan|
Indonesia Reformasi, o
2000
zechoslovakia Velvet- & ,East Germany Participation
Taiwan Wild Lily
Serbia Otpor, & ran University Protests
o Ukraine Orange Revolution
Venezuela Movement, o
2010
long Kong Umbrella
Tunisia Participation
gypt Tahrir, & Chile Winter urkey Gezi Park, g, Ukraine Euremaidan
•,Ethiopia Protests
2020
Myanmar Protests' 8, Iran Life Freedom
Bangladesh July Revolution' & Serbia
Algeria Hirak' 8 Thailand Students
Note: This timeline illustrates major student-led protests from 1955 to 2025, highlighting their outcomes in terms of political and social change. Outcomes are categorized as 'Successful Transition' (leading directly to significant reforms or government changes), 'Long Term Impact' (initially limited but influential over time),
'Partial Gains' (achieving some concessions or moderate changes), and 'No Immediate Gains' (little to no short-term change despite protest efforts).

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 1d

The administration doing its level best to undermine actual law enforcement and national security in service of performative cruelty and chaos.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

www.wsj.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

www.blackenterprise.com

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 2d

As someone still reeling from a recent demonstration by a group of super-smart students of their highly restricted vision of the future of humanity (it's all Mad Max/Apocalypse), I can totally get behind this.

Among other things, we need better and more diverse visions of the future!

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 3d

Robot personhood / rights is a sci-fi trope because it’s an obvious way to do a story about prejudice against other humans, but I wonder if it’s created a cultural expectation that this *has* to be a debate once you’ve invented robots you can talk to

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 3d

Teaching to tests. We've made standardized tests high-stakes not just for students, but for teachers and districts. Tests require analysis of texts up to a couple paragraphs, so that's what students get trained on in English classes. Another depressing example of the effectiveness of incentives.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 4d

This is a fantastic speech.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d

NEW: In newly unsealed testimony, a SpaceX insider revealed that Elon Musk’s company had directly received money from Chinese investors, raising questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

www.propublica.org

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 7d

In their nice little monograph, A Moral Political Economy, Federica Carugati and Margaret Levi also note the importance of a real, grounded theory of human nature that can replace the zombie Homo oeconomicus that still ignites neoliberalism.

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 7d

This is one of the great failures of Anthropology post, say, 1987. Through the obsessive policing of anything biological, "positivist," or universalizing, we've opened the discourse to people with right-wing agendas to project whatever hideous vision of human nature suits their political ends.

Why Socialists Should Believe in Human Nature

It's tempting to argue that

jacobin.com

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 9d

Epi Ellie, as usual, doing the Lord's work.

Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 9d

Today I review the second study RFK Jr cited in his autism & Tylenol press conference: acetaminophen in pregnancy from the Nurses' Health Study.

You're gonna wanna read this for yourself.
open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

RFK Jr clearly hasn't read this paper he cited. But I have.

At last week’s press conference, RFK Jr and his buddies announced that Tylenol causes autism, citing 3 studies as proof. Let's talk about one of them.

open.substack.com

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 10d

He just liked this image because his hands look extra big.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 11d

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 14d

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 15d

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 15d

Incentives work!

STAT @statnews.com · 15d

A STAT Investigation: To avoid fines for reporting excessive hospital-acquired infections, some facilities are discouraging testing.
www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/h...

Hospitals get dinged for reporting too many infections. In some cases, the solution is not to test

A STAT Investigation: To avoid fines for reporting excessive hospital-acquired infections, some facilities are discouraging testing.

www.statnews.com

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 17d

I'm sorry, what two-bit banana-republic is this video from?

Who looks at this and says, "Yep, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave"?

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18d

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 18d

Well, this fills me with confidence in their algorithms!

I'm no AI researcher, but "James P. Hughes" doesn't even seem very close to "James H. Jones".

Screenshot of an author page from Clarivate's Web of Science with the main heading "Hughes, James P" and text immediately under it warning that "This is an algorithmically generated author record" followed by a line that reads "(Jones, James H.) Stanford University - STANFORD, CA, USA". The next line is "Published names" which is a mix of my name and variants on J.P. Hughes, followed by a list of organizations where I (and presumably Hughes) have been affiliated, and a bunch of subject categories, mostly related to infectious disease, and then "Anthropology".

One wonders how an algorithm could mistake James H. Jones (me) James P. Hughes (some other dude, possibly at the Hutch).

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 18d

So much for international post-docs at American universities. I guess US Science will slip even further behind.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Trump Says the U.S. Will Institute $100,000 Fee for Skilled Worker Visas

www.nytimes.com

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 18d

In case this hasn't made it into your feeds, @lesja.bsky.social @karenguzzo.bsky.social @shelleydclark.bsky.social @drjenndowd.bsky.social

Going straight into my lecture slides for this quarter!

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18d

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Riley Fanning. #NewYorkerCartoons

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 21d

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 22d

I'd go so far as to say that the modal demographer is very likely 1. a social demographer, and 2. doesn't use formal methods other than some off-the-shelf statistics. It's been a minute since I went to PAA, but it was certainly true then; I doubt there has been a sudden growth of formal demography

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23d

American soybean farmers don’t have a single order from China as they head into harvest season. China usually buys 25% of the entire crop.

Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.

Farmer says 'we're in a very dire situation' ahead of harvest—with zero soybean orders from China, historically the largest buyer | Fortune

Caleb Ragland says his pleas to the Trump administration have fallen on deaf ears.

fortune.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23d

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

Senator Marsha Blackburn tagging a public university for a facebook post where a professor share's Kirk's comments saying gun deaths are worth it.

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