John Stehlin
Urban/economic geographer focused on the political economy of urban sustainability and transportation, Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, UNC Greensboro
- Reposted by John Stehlin[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by John StehlinThis week at Group Threat, I spoke with @grundrza.bsky.social about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).
- it's Mechanical Turk all the way down
- Not satire cybernews.com/news/waymo-o...
- Reposted by John StehlinPour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
- lol imagine wanting your name on Penn Station or Dulles
- Reposted by John StehlinQuick and dirty post on this countercraft.substack.com/p/why-litera...
- extremely important to be vigilant, since this has always been the game plan. but also, even with historic reductions in polling places (94,000 in 2024, down from 200,000 in 2018), this works out to one doughy, sub-literate agent (estimated 22,000 ICE personnel) for every four or so locations...
- 🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by John Stehlin[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by John StehlinProfessional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
- Reposted by John StehlinThe Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza has not stopped. On Saturday, Israeli military airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 32 Palestinians, including six children, in one of its worst assaults during the so-called ceasefire.
- it's funny that "the soft bigotry of low expectations" is a conservative phrase describing policies designed to undo decades of structural racism, because nobody gets a free pass like college Republicans. if you could simply pantomime victimhood and get a lifetime sinecure, why would you try at all?
- Reposted by John StehlinWe're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology. Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
- Reposted by John StehlinWhenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.
- University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...
- Reposted by John StehlinData centers slurping up electricity like Garfield on a lasagna but I have to turn everything off when it's 10°F or else we get to freeze as a lil treat.
- Reposted by John StehlinI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- hear me out
- Reposted by John StehlinLast week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
- people called me naive for this a month ago but it's growing
- Reposted by John Stehlinoh my god dude www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/s/O...
- Reposted by John StehlinI have a piece today in Defector making the case for "more training" for ICE agents. A *lot* more training. defector.com/i-have-a-gre...
- yes, it is not a training issue, this is what ICE is meant to do. people join ICE because they want to do this. their handlers lie about it to encourage them to kill more people knowing that the admin has their back. at this point they will do anything to keep their protectors in power.
- Reposted by John StehlinSo which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?
- Reposted by John StehlinThe left called these people fascists TOO SOON I am noticing they are fascists at the correct time thank your for your attention
- Reposted by John StehlinMood in minneapolis right now
- Reposted by John StehlinKare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
- Reposted by John StehlinIf you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
- Reposted by John StehlinIf ICE is emboldened to carry out extrajudicial killings of American citizens in broad daylight, imagine what's happening to the tens of thousands of people being held in makeshift detention camps across the US without cameras, attorneys and organizers
- Reposted by John StehlinWe are dealing with a Western Christian supremacist movement willing to see millions die in the name of racial purity. This is William Wolfe. A year ago he was invited with fourteen other faith leaders to the WH. Today he is praising ICE for killing peaceful observers. This is Christian fascism.
- 100% true. trying to get these people on "hypocrisy" is a fool's errand. for them, Kyle Rittenhouse, who went out hunting for BLM activists, is an intrepid patriot, while Alex Pretti, who was filming the ICE terror campaign, is lefty scum who had it coming. both were lawfully armed.
- Reposted by John Stehlinthey're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
- Reposted by John Stehlin[Not loaded yet]
- this is why I've been saying for ages that pointing out their "hypocrisy" is counterproductive - it merely shows that you remain beholden to a set of norms that they believe themselves to have transcended
- Reposted by John Stehlin[This post could not be retrieved]
- Reposted by John StehlinICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
- Reposted by John StehlinICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
- Reposted by John Stehlin[Not loaded yet]
- ICE agents murder another observer in Minneapolis
- this is what I’m talking about!
- Reposted by John StehlinThis must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
- Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
- chance at a do-over for all the countries who participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- "everybody who claims to be a victim is lying except for me" is the only Republican position
- ICE is an illegal terror network that happens to be directly wielded by the White House
- it seems clear that they are disappointed by their deep unpopularity and the lack of violence in response to their illegal terror campaign, so they are hoping that getting a few agents killed will justify martial law
- @firefox.com in general I like the Home screen, but no matter how many times I downvote an article about video games, I am shown more of them. you will never finally find the niche video game story that I'll read. it will never happen, I promise you.
- Reposted by John Stehlin[Not loaded yet]
- the implicit bargain that the Trump admin is offering US firms seems to be: give up on your competitiveness abroad in exchange for an unconstrained monopoly at home, provided you heap praise and treasure upon the ruling clique
- incredible cultural achievement that the modal conservative position is now “I am being cancelled for my brilliance by resentful, censorious mediocrities who want participation trophies, therefore they must be silenced and forced to listen to and praise me,” I wish Nietzsche were alive to see it
- one of the most inspiring obituaries I've ever read
- Reposted by John Stehlinsemi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
- Reposted by John Stehlinthis has been the central, animating principle of American conservatism for decades
- Reposted by John StehlinCop “unions” are a repulsive stain on the American labor movement, and it’s truly an embarrassment that so few labor leaders are willing to admit that. www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...
- as researchers of automobility have long said, this is the absolute skeleton key to understanding American life today: "They are acting like drivers even when on foot, as though they’re carrying around an exoskeleton of inviolable private space that they can use as they please."
- Reposted by John Stehlin[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by John StehlinOne of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun
- Reposted by John Stehlinlosing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
- Reposted by John Stehlini think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all
- Reposted by John StehlinThis glib statement is all the more risible when you recall how many law enforcement officers used their vehicles as weapons against protesters in 2020... and how many Republican-dominated states *sought to legalize killing protesters with vehicles* as a reaction to the demonstrations
- Reposted by John Stehlin[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by John StehlinJacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
- feeding American men a steady diet of "operator" cosplay and unvarnished white supremacy on social media and then telling them this is their generation's Fallujah or Benghazi. this is exactly what was intended and it's a miracle that it took this long.
- Reposted by John Stehlin[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by John Stehlin[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by John StehlinThe Spanish version is “the left liberates, the right oppresses” and once I learned that, both screws and politics made more sense
- Reposted by John Stehlin📣 Calling all geographers! I'm editing a special issue of the @geographers.bsky.social Annals on "21st Century Geographic Theory" and the call for abstracts is out! Please consider contributing and sharing! All geographers, all kinds of theory welcome! 🌎 Details here: www.aag.org/journal/anna...
- Reposted by John StehlinFrom an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
- Reposted by John Stehlin[This post could not be retrieved]
- Reposted by John Stehlin[Not loaded yet]
- darkly funny for the U.S. to do lebensraum in service of its version of AI, which is far more material and energy intensive than China’s Deepseek. it’s akin to annexing your neighbor’s house because you need more space for your dial-up modems. or stealing a continent to fill it with cars and lawns…
- Reposted by John StehlinBBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
- Reposted by John StehlinTake it from a Filipino, even if you despise the current rulers of your country, you will live to regret the day the United States comes in to remove them
- Reposted by John Stehlin[This post could not be retrieved]
- this seems small in comparison, but we need a boycott of the World Cup. we need to see empty stadiums, teams staying home, and massive financial losses. it gives me no pleasure as a soccer fan, but anything less is a tacit endorsement of war crimes.
- Reposted by John Stehlin[Not loaded yet]
