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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…
andphilosophy.com

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 2h
I don't store tea air at home.

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 3h
That's wonderful!

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NellMinow @nellminow.bsky.social · 21h
Trump's Labor "Boss from Hell" Accused of Booze-Filled Fling With Staffer plus misuse of staff and travel fraud. www.thedailybeast.com/labor-sec-un... via @thedailybeast
Trump's Labor Boss Accused of Booze-Filled Fling With Staffer
Lori Chavez-DeRemer is reportedly being investigated for pursuing a relationship with a subordinate, among other things.
www.thedailybeast.com

Reposted by Andreas Ortmann, Mark D. White, Melissa Johnson , and 3 more

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22h
1984: “The National Portrait Gallery removed a swath of text that mentioned President Donald Trump’s two impeachments and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as it swapped out a prominent photo of him this week.” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Smithsonian removes Trump impeachment text as it swaps his portrait
A Trump official previously complained about a caption beside his National Portrait Gallery photo mentioning his impeachments and the U.S. Capitol insurrection.
www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Reece Jones, Elizabeth Sharrow, John Horgan , and 8 more

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV.

The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence.

This is not protection. This is occupation.

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers , and 36 more

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 1d
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Mark D. White, Iveta Silova , and 2 more

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d
The Trump administration is excusing murder by ICE using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s regime. These lies are part of the logic of death squads. Govt controls the story & the next murder is easier. And suddenly this is normal and people simply disappear.
snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
Maduro in Minneapolis
Murderous Lies
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 2d
Always the best part!

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Mart Gray @martgray.bsky.social · 2d
Meet Lady Death Man, er, sorry, the Ōhō in the brilliant Batman #5. Review at Too Dangerous… beware spoilers, comments welcome at the blog. Click on the pic

dangermart.blog/2026/01/09/b...
Batman #5 review
I’ve never found car chases work in comic books, but Batman #5 shows it can be done. To be entirely accurate, this is a car being chased by motorbikes, a car being driven by Bruce Wayne. The artist…
dangermart.blog

Reposted by Mark D. White, Jonathan Marks

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d
Oof. Hats off to the guy who took the video. That took some onions.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Ken Caldeira, Tom Clark , and 13 more

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2d
RFKJ has been undermining the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, “an influential task force that has for years played a key role in combating chronic disease, making cancer screenings and medications accessible to millions of Americans… The task force has not met in person since March.”
Kennedy Weakens U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
www.nytimes.com

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d
The philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein argues in her new book that the often-painful struggle to justify our existence is the very thing that makes us human, John Kaag writes:
A New Understanding of Human Beings’ Most Basic Desire
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein argues that a good life is one that seeks to create order out of a natural state of chaos.
bit.ly

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2d
Scathing words from No 10 on X making the Grok image tool available only to paying users: “That simply turns an AI feature that allows the creation of unlawful images into a premium service. It's not a solution. In fact, it's insulting to victims of misogyny and sexual violence."

Reposted by Steve Peers, Mark D. White, David Darmofal

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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 2d
At Status_ @oliverdarcy.bsky.social has learned that Bari Weiss, CBS News' Trump-approved minder, has held up another “60 Minutes” report:

An Anderson Cooper investigation of Trump’s acceptance of white S. African refugees, which is “guaranteed to provoke Trump and inflame his MAGA base.”
The Shadow Over ‘60’
As Sharyn Alfonsi's “60 Minutes” report remains shelved, Status has learned that an Anderson Cooper piece is also caught in a prolonged editorial review process, frustrating the veteran producer attac...
www.status.news

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 2d
New at The Virtues of Captain America Blog:

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Captain America #44 (August 2001)
This issue sees the aftermath of Connie Ferrari’s realization in the last issue that her boyfriend Steve Rogers is actually [SPOILER WARNING] Captain America! Given her well-documented issues…
thevirtuesofcaptainamerica.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d
Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Mark D. White

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 2d
The little-known Scottish Spice Girl
A bar of chocolate, Haggis Spice flavoured

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d
Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT:

When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Mark D. White, James Goodwin

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 2d
A reminder that the Uvalde response was led by Border Patrol, which waited 77 minutes to confront an armed gunman in a school.

But shooting unarmed civilians in split seconds, no problem for them at all

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Former Uvalde Teacher’s Testimony Throws a Trial Into Chaos
www.nytimes.com

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 2d
By Lila Dominguez, Editor in Chief of the Roosevelt Standard, news site of Roosevelt High School: "Later in the afternoon today my high school Roosevelt was paraded by ICE vehicles during dismissal. Our community and staff stepped up to protect one another."
ICE Needs To Get Out Of Minneapolis
On Wednesday January 7th at 3:20 pm I was working in the wrestling basement of Roosevelt Highschool to publish an article about the tragic event that occurred earlier today in South Minneapolis when a...
rooseveltstandard.com

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 2d
This modern gem was animated frame by frame on a screen of 277,000 metal pins

From: The Night Boots (2024), dir. Pierre-Luc Granjon, Am Stram Gram

Full film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hyO...

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K Wilde @flowerchildob1.bsky.social · 2d
My, oh, my.
A magnificent radiation of the sunset, though a view due north.

Reposted by Mark D. White, Pádua Fernandes

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d
Pastor: I saw ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic. I said, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The next thing I knew, they put handcuffs on me and put me in the back of an SUV. I asked if I was under arrest. They said to me, 'Well, you're white, you won't be any fun anyway.'

Reposted by Nicholas A. Christakis, Mark D. White

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 2d
The seven circuits to resolve the issue - the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th, & 11th - all agree that the First Amendment protects the right to record police in public. The 8th, which covers Minnesota, hasn't joined yet but very likely would. My piece at @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social last fall.
DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.
Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.
www.cato.org

Reposted by Robert West, Mark A. Lemley, Mark D. White , and 9 more

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MS NOW @ms.now · 3d
BREAKING: The Hennepin County District Attorney's office says they have jurisdiction to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal Minneapolis shooting.

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, John McLaren, Christopher Wright , and 14 more

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3d
Wait wait wait, while Americans have to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in new tariffs, Trump is going send over $10,000 to each person in *Greenland*?????????

This is a joke right ?

www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US
U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources famil...
www.reuters.com

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 4d
“Mount Sinai recently paused use of an Epic generative AI tool, which aimed to analyze messages patients sent to doctors and create personalized draft responses. After trying it for a few weeks, doctors said the drafts weren’t helpful and required too much rewriting.”
Hospitals Are a Proving Ground for What AI Can Do, and What It Can’t
Healthcare is going all-in on artificial intelligence, from reading patient scans to fighting insurance denials.
www.wsj.com

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Mark D. White, Sanford F. Schram , and 4 more

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4d
Lol how can you tell this administration is lying to you? Because oil hasn't been shipped in actual barrels in over a century
www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...