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Mark Dery

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Cultural critic. Author. Coined "Afrofuturism." Theorized "culture jamming." Antifascist AF. Editor/writing coach for hire: https://coaching.markdery.com/. Read me: https://www.markdery.com/articles/

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · Jan 20

#TRUMP

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 11h

Everyday Americans, gleefully telling Anus Horribilis and his fascist kakistocracy to FUCK RIGHT OFF, and doubling down on ANTI-FASCISM. Not shown: Best sign of the day, which read: THIS IS MY RESISTING BITCH FACE. #NoKingsDay #NoKings #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #TrumpismIsFascism #magaFascism #FuckTrump

Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 18h

REAL AMERICANS: ANTIFASCIST SINCE 1941.
See you at NO KINGS, comrades. And FUCK this fascist kakistocracy and the would-be tinpot dictator who is its mascot.
#NoKings #NoKingsDay #Trump #antifascist #Fascism #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace

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Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 20d

Starmer wanted Labour conference to be about taking chunks out of Farage and his "racist" and "immoral" policies. That isn't happening.

Perhaps he's struggling to seize the moral high ground, says @labourlewis.bsky.social, because he's supporting a racist, immoral war in Gaza.

My report:

Labour Is Struggling to Keep Palestine Off Its Conference Agenda | Novara Media

Palestine Action supporters, anti-genocide marchers and pro-Palestine celebrities have disrupted the start of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, which the party had hoped would be about anything...

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 5d

Professor Tom Alter, a tenured prof and respected scholar who's being railroaded by a far-right troll and a spineless, reactionary university president.
CALL or WRITE President Damphousse: [email protected], 512-245-2121 jacobin.com/2025/10/texa...

MAGA McCarthyism Comes to Texas State

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, a self-described “anti-communist cult leader” used a selectively edited video to falsely accuse labor historian and tenured professor Tom Alter of inciting violen...

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 8d

10 years of Donald Trump and Democrats literally have not learned a single thing. A losing party of losers.

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 19d

#CULTUREJAMMING lives. "Israel Bombs, U.S.A Pays." NYC.

#Israel #IsraeliWarCrimes #IsraelisATerorristState #israelgenocidalstate #genocide #Genocide_of_Palestinians

Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 24d

My review of the protofeminist, pagan-Surrealist artist Ithell Colquhoun's long out-of-print, now resurrected travelogue-come-dream diary THE LIVING STONES OF CORNWALL, is live at The Washington Post Book Review www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
#ithellcolquhoun #surrealism #cornwall #neopagan

Review | A gender rebel and mystical painter speaks to us decades after death

Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the British visionary artist Ithell Colquhoun’s paintings, writing and eccentric life.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 25d

@nyehya.bsky.social @mmfigueiras.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @roychristopher.com

Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 25d

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."

Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 25d

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · Sep 18

Goebbels denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence"

Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · Sep 18

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 15

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · Sep 12

Mood:

Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · Sep 12

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, you disappoint me. Is this how the backsliding, triangulating, and equivocating begins? Inch by inch, until you're slaloming down the slippery slope?

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · Sep 12

this seems like the first actual time you can say Zohran is triangulating pointlessly and incorrectly, because i have no idea what he has to apologize for in calling the New York Police Department “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety”—things they objectively are by any metric

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Sep 12

L + ratio + you are doubling Cuomo's numbers so why
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/n...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Sep 11

America Mourns the Loss of the Idea of America.

Get it right @nytimes.com

andy™ @andylevy.net · Sep 11

not even surprising at this point

nytimes editorial board piece headlined “america mourns charlie kirk”

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · Sep 11

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.

Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk

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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · Jul 15

The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration the greenlight to gut the Education Department.

Supreme Court Conservatives Tell Trump He Can Destroy the Education Department, as a Treat

The decision will affect millions of Americans and, surprise, not in a good way.

www.vanityfair.com

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Zanne Daniel @zandani.bsky.social · Aug 26

That sounds about right.

Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · Aug 23

Please don't! Sending the PDF now!

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · Aug 23

Brilliant, Chris. (Bonus points for name-checking BANQUET YEARS, an early and enduring influence.) At the risk of gaucherie (ie, self-promo), did you read medium.com/@markdery/re...? It's got an extended riff on Trump as Ubu Roi. (Paywalled, sadly.)

Reality is Trolling You: The Farcical Nightmare of Post-Trump America

To be an American, picking your way through the debris field of what used to be, at least nominally, a democracy — before Trump and his…

medium.com

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · Aug 23

Democracy is a burn pit, Trump is going full Orbán, and the NYT is "uneasy." Questions are being "stoked"! We're long past "questions." The cognitive dissonance induced by the chasm between the horror of our moment and the media acting as if it's just a hiccup is breaking the American brain.