Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought
@highestmarx.bsky.social
Political theorist and anonymous adjunct, planting seeds beneath the snow.
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Our biggest problems as a country are all downstream of our failure to hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree.
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people died for birthright citizenship. i get that it’s more fun to be a pundit when your team has the white house and you get to brag to friends about visiting the oval office; but what i’m wondering is if maybe that’s actually not a good reason to throw away something we fought a civil war to win?
December 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
people died for birthright citizenship. i get that it’s more fun to be a pundit when your team has the white house and you get to brag to friends about visiting the oval office; but what i’m wondering is if maybe that’s actually not a good reason to throw away something we fought a civil war to win?
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
Every semester I have students with testing accommodations and every semester it is not a problem in any way shape or form.
I feel insane watching people act as if testing accommodations are a significant social problem. We're talking about people getting an extra 24 hours to turn in an assignment or an extra hour on a test. It's not like they're getting out of assignments completely or something. Who gives a shit!?
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Every semester I have students with testing accommodations and every semester it is not a problem in any way shape or form.
I read this and assumed it was just more proof that Vance is horny for racism
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I read this and assumed it was just more proof that Vance is horny for racism
It’s very important to me that these people never feel safe ever again for the rest of their lives.
Rollins: Joe Biden increased food stamp program funding by 40%. Now… we continue to roll that back… Just gratitude and joy for this work. So, so grateful to you.
December 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It’s very important to me that these people never feel safe ever again for the rest of their lives.
“Entering illegally” is itself an admission that they are subject to US laws. Douglass wouldn’t have wasted his time with this trifling idiocy.
Some are perhaps. Many more are ignored or released by "sanctuary" states/cities. They drive w/out licenses. Take over property.
Entering illegally without being returned by definition means they're not subject to our laws.
Entering illegally without being returned by definition means they're not subject to our laws.
December 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“Entering illegally” is itself an admission that they are subject to US laws. Douglass wouldn’t have wasted his time with this trifling idiocy.
We need candidates who can match John “the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood” Brown’s energy on this issue.
2028: "Strong rope, no floor"
December 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We need candidates who can match John “the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood” Brown’s energy on this issue.
Sounds like a pit one is meant to drown in.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Sounds like a pit one is meant to drown in.
RIP Tom Stoppard.
from “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”
from “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”
November 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
RIP Tom Stoppard.
from “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”
from “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”
Grad school at its best
[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
November 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Grad school at its best
David Tennant remains the GOAT
"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
David Tennant remains the GOAT
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Today we are grateful for Walter Benjamin Garland, who was born #otd in Brooklyn, NYC, 1914. He served in the US Army from 1930-1933. He studied math at Brooklyn College and worked as a studio musician working on Your Hit Parade. He joined the CPUSA in 1935 and was involved with the NNC.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Today we are grateful for Walter Benjamin Garland, who was born #otd in Brooklyn, NYC, 1914. He served in the US Army from 1930-1933. He studied math at Brooklyn College and worked as a studio musician working on Your Hit Parade. He joined the CPUSA in 1935 and was involved with the NNC.
Can’t believe it’s been 40 years since Rocky won the Cold War
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Can’t believe it’s been 40 years since Rocky won the Cold War
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"I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers"
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers"
“Truly hilarious and very relatable”
nobody asked for there to be a rom-com about the online israeli domme, but here we are, amy schumer
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
“Truly hilarious and very relatable”
A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
Absolutely brutal day for the tourist bureau of American Canyon, CA
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Absolutely brutal day for the tourist bureau of American Canyon, CA
This must hit so hard if you’re stupid
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This must hit so hard if you’re stupid
She’s probably lying, but if she’s not? Good.
November 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
She’s probably lying, but if she’s not? Good.
Future historians are going to reconstruct Euhemerism from first principles to make sense of the fragmentary and contradictory records of the early Digital Dark Age.
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Future historians are going to reconstruct Euhemerism from first principles to make sense of the fragmentary and contradictory records of the early Digital Dark Age.
"Yes, we Negroes in America do not have to be told what Fascism is in action."
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
November 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"Yes, we Negroes in America do not have to be told what Fascism is in action."
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
Lots going on here
You'd think they'd at least know to look at Wikipedia for 10 seconds before commenting, but then again, if voting is too much a burden against *gestures broadly* then all common sense is off the table.
Disagree w/you, sure. But at least know with whom you're disagreeing. Sheesh.
Disagree w/you, sure. But at least know with whom you're disagreeing. Sheesh.
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Lots going on here
But not teaching theory and practice of fascism apparently
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
But not teaching theory and practice of fascism apparently
Tom’s mistake was remaining ignorant of the literature on fascism so his analysis is a goofy mishmash of vibes and pop culture tropes.
Guess you can’t unlearn the habits you pick up in conservative media.
Guess you can’t unlearn the habits you pick up in conservative media.
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Tom’s mistake was remaining ignorant of the literature on fascism so his analysis is a goofy mishmash of vibes and pop culture tropes.
Guess you can’t unlearn the habits you pick up in conservative media.
Guess you can’t unlearn the habits you pick up in conservative media.
Shouldn’t be controversial to point out that the white South has ever and always been the biggest obstacle to progress in the US. A more diverse South is good but winning the cracker majority is, um, a lost cause.
You seem to think I’m talking about MAGA. I am not. I am talking about the Black and queer and immigrant and Democratic voters who live in the South too. I think it IS sneering condescension to characterize everyone in the South as “Hitlerville” especially in light of Jim Crow
"you don't understand, it has to be okay for people from hitlerville Alabama to try to kill and torture people because it's sneering condescension if you decide you don't like them for it"
Our society would be infinitely better if liberals hated conservatives as much as they hate us.
Our society would be infinitely better if liberals hated conservatives as much as they hate us.
November 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Shouldn’t be controversial to point out that the white South has ever and always been the biggest obstacle to progress in the US. A more diverse South is good but winning the cracker majority is, um, a lost cause.