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Mark D. White
@profmdwhite.bsky.social
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Professor, author, editor, and fan of comics, movies, and music

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-d-white-4a568730a/

See my books here: http://amzn.to/2aFC66M

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · Oct 17
Say "yes chef" and join me on my latest project for the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series! andphilosophy.com/2025/10/01/t...
The Bear and Philosophy Call for Abstracts
Call for Abstracts The Bear and Philosophy Edited by Mark D. White The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series Please circulate and post widely. Apologies for cross-posting. To propose ideas fo…
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A Cultura Is My Passport @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 3h
"If film history has taught us anything, it’s that credits, dedications and acknowledgments are not enough to keep women both trans and cis, genderqueer and nonbinary people from disappearing from memory and history." culturalgutter.com/2025/11/20/f...
From the Archives: (Some of) The Women Who Wrote Hitchcock
Hitchcock gets a lot of credit for his mystery and suspense films, rightfully so, but sometimes that credit goes as far as erasing the writers who came up with the mysteries, twists, dark jokes, th…
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 1d
Ooh, I didn't know of this, thank you.

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 1d
You come at the king you best not miss, Charlie Brown.

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 1d
Groucho: "The first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the first part of the party of the first part."

Philosopher: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How can the first order come first? - Philosophical Studies
If new evidence brings your metaethical view in conflict with a dearly held first order moral belief, what are you to do? Recent arguments in metaethics incorporate opposing claims about the methodolo...
link.springer.com

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 1d
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · 1d
I got the opportunity to share my thoughts on @jhppl.bsky.social’s 50th birthday, how health policy scholars can face this difficult moment, and my aspirations for the journal.
dukepress.bsky.social Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 2d
Today on the blog:

A Q&A with Sarah Gollust, editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law in celebration of 50 years of the journal: buff.ly/5rp6FVJ
@jhppl.bsky.social
Headshot of a smiling woman with shoulder length dark hair wearing green earrings and a dark top against a softly blurred background. Cover of Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Volume 50, Number 6, December 2025. The special issue is titled JHPPL at 50. The design features a simple gradient background transitioning from dark to light brown, with white and dark brown text aligned to the right and a small tan square accent near the center.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d
He literally tweeted this out.

“SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”

This plaque is displayed at West Point. It’s the law. Not sedition.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 2d
Meanwhile on Twitter.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d
Breaking news: Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae star whose lead role in the 1972 cult-movie sensation “The Harder They Come” helped introduce the genre to a global audience, has died. He was 81.
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae star with global following, dies at 81
His lead performance as a singer-turned-outlaw in the 1972 film “The Harder They Come” helped introduce reggae to the world.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2d
“President Trump embraced a billionaire’s strategy to try to wring ideological concessions from universities. He blessed another’s role as Harvard University’s emissary for negotiations… Yet another billionaire helped steer cuts at the Department of Education — which a different billionaire leads.”
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com

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A Cultura Is My Passport @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 2d
"If film history has taught us anything, it’s that credits, dedications and acknowledgments are not enough to keep women both trans and cis, genderqueer and nonbinary people from disappearing from memory and history." culturalgutter.com/2025/11/20/f...
From the Archives: (Some of) The Women Who Wrote Hitchcock
Hitchcock gets a lot of credit for his mystery and suspense films, rightfully so, but sometimes that credit goes as far as erasing the writers who came up with the mysteries, twists, dark jokes, th…
culturalgutter.com

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Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 5d

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 5d
New at The Virtues of Captain America Blog:

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Captain America #39 (March 2001)
This issue strikes a solemn note, as Captain America gets reflective about the nature of war and is reminded of the circumstances of the “death” of his young partner Bucky Barnes, while…
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WPRI 12 @wpri12.bsky.social · 6d
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 6d
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
No prizes for guessing who grok chose sorry

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 6d
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
Turning to Bovino, the Court specifically finds his testimony not credible. Bovino appeared evasive over the three days of his deposition, either providing “cute” responses to Plaintiffs’ counsel’s questions or outright lying. When shown a video of agents hitting Rev. Black with pepper balls, Bovino denied seeing a projectile hit Rev. Black in the head. Doc. 191- 3 at 162:21–165:17; Doc. 22-44 (Ex. 44 at 0:10–12, available at https://spaces.hightail.com/space/ZzXNsei63k). In another video shown to Bovino, he obviously tackles Scott Blackburn, one of Plaintiffs’ declarants. Doc. 191-3 at 172:13–173:7; Doc. 22-45 (Ex. 45 at 0:19–30, available at https://spaces.hightail.com/space/ZzXNsei63k). But instead of admitting to using force against Blackburn, Bovino denied it and instead stated that force was used against him.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 6d
This book! Always conceptually fascinating, but here - not only an interesting take on the mess time-resetting multiverse crises would create, but such a powerful exploration of the experience of losing someone to their loss of memory. beautiful & sweet
@denizcamp.bsky.social @ericxyz.bsky.social
Cover to assorted crisis events a couple - he is dissolving into puzzle pieces Interior page - we see the man slip into being a baby and then an old man, as his wife tries to keep it together Spread arranged as the board for Clue. Panels of them arguing Spread arranged in vertical strips. Memoir Ed of better times with her husband

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Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social · 6d
Swastikas and nooses aren’t “potentially divisive” - they are symbols of racist and antisemitic hate, violence, and genocide. By no longer classifying them as hate symbols, the Coast Guard is doing nothing less than normalizing violent extremism.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 6d
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Insanity
SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d
Who needs cameras in the courtroom when you’ve got THIS
Doodle of parties at comey court hearing. A very bad doodle showing Comey, Pat Fitzgerald, Lindsey halligan, Tyler lemons stick figures in court. Comey is very tall

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 7d
"Look, things happen. And what happens at Camp Crystal Lake should stay at Camp Crystal Lake. We can’t hold everyone accountable for every little thing they’ve ever done."
How Dare You Embarrass My Esteemed Guest, Jason Voorhees
“President Trump assailed an American journalist in the Oval Office on Tuesday for asking Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, about t...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d
That confused the magistrate because there seemed to be a facial discrepancy between the two documents handed up by the foreperson.

So, for the record, she had the foreperson pencil in an amendment to the grand jury’s no bill report, specifying that the no bill was to Count 1.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d
MORE: Under questioning by the judge, prosecutor Tyler Lemons said that he’s under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether there is a declination memo recommending against the prosecution of Comey

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.

Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 7d
Shame on Rep. Clay Higgins & shame on anyone who thinks this is acceptable.
This man didn’t just cast the lone “no” vote on exposing a global sex-trafficking network… he also grabbed a citizen for daring to ask a question he didn’t like. I hope this young man presses charges.

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 7d
NEW: The Trump administration continues to face wrongful deportation claims amid ramped up immigration enforcement. One of the latest cases involves a transgender woman sent to Mexico despite an order barring that due to her risk of torture or death -- "inadvertently," per DOJ bit.ly/3XEvsac

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 8d
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.

The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.

The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.

Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.

A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro

www.propublica.org/article/andr...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8d
"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly."

Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?

people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8d
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 9d
Hmmmm. During the time Jeff Epstein and Donald Trump were close friends, Trump was a registered Democrat. He changed party affiliations numerous times.

He was registered as a Democrat between 2001 - 2009.