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Jason Read
@jasonread.bsky.social
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Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift More here: http://www.unemployednegativity.com
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Dec 25
It is more than a little awkward to realize that I had two books come out this year, a fact due more to different schedules and timelines of publishing than some prodigious productivity. The Double Shift from Verso...
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The Double Shift
Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery—working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle. To paraphrase Sp...
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texas Janesaw massacre @idlerat.bsky.social · 4h
no kings = no paychecks = the slogan of reactionaries at all times (cf trickle down economics, adam smith etc)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 4h
Michel Foucault was born on this day all of his investigations into the relations of power and knowledge would have never prepared him for our new episteme of powerful people getting away with saying stupid stuff.

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Do Your Own Damn Research: The New Episteme of Trump 2.0
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 4h
I want to be a boat
Bento (dog) on beach boat in background Bento (dog) swimming with boat in background
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d
"why do you keep calling us Nazis?"

Because you're Nazis.

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 20h
There is a division online between those who find it laughable that the administration is invading Portland, OR, a city that is very much not in flames, and going after Antifa, which is not an organization at all, and those that find it terrifying.
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 21h
There is no rule saying a dog saying that a dog can’t play baseball
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 21h
I was trying to take a picture; he was thinking about treats
Bento (dog) and me on rock in the woods
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d
Very jarring how the media treats some lives as inherently and others not.

I am happy for hostages and their families to be reunited, but it’s shocking how little media attention is given to “how do Gazans grapple with the utter destruction of their homes, vast loss of lives, and ongoing famine.”
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 1d
Apparently Drew Struzan passed. I just learned that he basically pulled an all nighter to paint his famous poster for The Thing without seeing the film or reading the script. Can AI do that?
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The Thing | The story behind Drew Struzan's iconic poster
Artist Drew Struzan created an iconic poster for John Carpenter’s The Thing. Incredibly, it was conceived and painted in a matter of hours…
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d
extramural nonprofessional political speech. no freedom.
statement from Tom Alter
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 1d
Oops I meant Good Boy, I added a review to Good Boy here: www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/08/just...
Just a Dog: Immediacy and Mediation at the Movies
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 1d
Still thinking of Good Dog this morning as I prepare the house for the storm
Bento (dog) looking over bulkhead and cellar stairs
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d
Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 2d
I updated my post on dogs in movies with some reflections on Good Boy.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/08/just...
Just a Dog: Immediacy and Mediation at the Movies
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 2d
Christopher Columbus: A racist religious zealot confused about geography and obsessed with gold. He didn't discover America, he is America.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d
Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?
A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable. " Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 3d
Just a reminder that this coming Saturday the From Marx to Spinoza Seminar will be talking with Yves Citton about his book Mythocracy, the politics of attention, and related matters.
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From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality
An online seminar series led by Jason Read, Andrew Goffey and Jeremy GilbertAt least since the 1960s, a particular strain of radical thought has explored the relationships – potential and act…
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 3d
Apparently Raoul Peck has a new documentary on Orwell's relevance for our times. I haven't seen it yet, but here is what I wrote on thinking about 1984 in 2025.
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Post-Orwellian: From 1984 to Project 2025
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d
Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.
Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d
a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 3d
Yes, "the left" have no power in this country, but somehow everything the right does is somehow their fault. This from the people who believe in personal responsibility.
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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 3d
Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 3d
I had never read Chuck Tingle, so I put this on my Halloween month reading list. I thought it was an interesting attempt to construct a kind of cosmic horror from the statistical uncertainty of existence. Plus casino owners are the right villains for our age.
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Lucky Day
“An existential masterwork that, like life, is equal parts atrocity and delights."—Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of DeathLuc...
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 3d
They did the mash
Bento (dog) at night in front of skeletons and monsters bathed in red light
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