Mark Dery
@markdery.bsky.social
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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ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
November 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
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Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
November 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
Your Daily Negation (with apologies to Laplace).
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Your Daily Negation (with apologies to Laplace).
Hugely honored to have an essay in Perry Vásquez's exhibition catalogue-cum-"minifesto" _25 PALM TREES IN PARADISE_. Vásquez, a fellow San Diego homeboy, is one of the most fascinatingly Ballardian artists the city has produced. #perryvasquez #southerncalifornia #palmtree #sandiego
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Hugely honored to have an essay in Perry Vásquez's exhibition catalogue-cum-"minifesto" _25 PALM TREES IN PARADISE_. Vásquez, a fellow San Diego homeboy, is one of the most fascinatingly Ballardian artists the city has produced. #perryvasquez #southerncalifornia #palmtree #sandiego
AIPAC OUT OF U.S. POLITICS! If you're going to grease the palms of politicians on behalf of an apartheid state, at least register as a foreign lobbyist! Sign up to learn more about the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action's event, AIPAC Out of US Politics! www.mobilize.us/uscpraction/... #AIPAC
AIPAC Out of US Politics! · US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action
Join us on Tuesday, Nov. 25 to learn about the fight to counter AIPAC's influence on U.S. politics.
U.S. politicians must reject AIPAC funding and represent their constituents, not Israeli interests....
www.mobilize.us
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
AIPAC OUT OF U.S. POLITICS! If you're going to grease the palms of politicians on behalf of an apartheid state, at least register as a foreign lobbyist! Sign up to learn more about the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action's event, AIPAC Out of US Politics! www.mobilize.us/uscpraction/... #AIPAC
Want to Get Into It, Get Involved but don't know how? The Working Families Party--architects, along with the DSA and Indivisible, of many of the Dem victories in the recent Republican rout--is a painless way to transition from keyboard warrior to grassroots activist. www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...
THIS IS OUR MOMENT • NY WFP 101 · New York Working Families Party
## **THIS IS OUR MOMENT, NEW YORK!**
### **JOIN US** on Wednesday, Nov 19th for a mass call covering how YOU can be a part of our long-term strategy to build power for working people.
Our historic...
www.mobilize.us
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Want to Get Into It, Get Involved but don't know how? The Working Families Party--architects, along with the DSA and Indivisible, of many of the Dem victories in the recent Republican rout--is a painless way to transition from keyboard warrior to grassroots activist. www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...
Honored to be tapped by @roychristopher.com to write the foreword to POST-SELF, his foray into black-metal philosophy and "the dark urge to escape flesh and mortality by any means necessary" (Christopher). A grimoire for the Misanthropocene.
#eugenethacker #bodyhorror #blackmetal #truedetective
#eugenethacker #bodyhorror #blackmetal #truedetective
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Honored to be tapped by @roychristopher.com to write the foreword to POST-SELF, his foray into black-metal philosophy and "the dark urge to escape flesh and mortality by any means necessary" (Christopher). A grimoire for the Misanthropocene.
#eugenethacker #bodyhorror #blackmetal #truedetective
#eugenethacker #bodyhorror #blackmetal #truedetective
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Note to NY Times editors: If your aim is to alienate and drive off your core readership, letting Ross Douthat off the hook like this is definitely the way to go. But if not . . . .
(BTW, it didn't, from this cis straight male POV.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
(BTW, it didn't, from this cis straight male POV.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Note to NY Times editors: If your aim is to alienate and drive off your core readership, letting Ross Douthat off the hook like this is definitely the way to go. But if not . . . .
(BTW, it didn't, from this cis straight male POV.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
(BTW, it didn't, from this cis straight male POV.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
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More to the point, what if Ross Douthat went out with a whimper?
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
More to the point, what if Ross Douthat went out with a whimper?
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Imagine telling someone in the 1970s that the NYT and WaPo are bending the knee to fascists while Glamour and Teen Vogue are the journalistic champions of human rights and democracy.
I hope you’re all proud of yourselves, you have disgracefully sullied the good name of the renowned and respected Glamour Magazine Women Of The Year Award
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Imagine telling someone in the 1970s that the NYT and WaPo are bending the knee to fascists while Glamour and Teen Vogue are the journalistic champions of human rights and democracy.
Desperate for relevance after years of both-sides-ism on MAGA and pandering to the anti-woke with trolls like Bari Weiss, Pamela Paul, Douthat, NYT offers @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social its plastic pearls of wisdom, counseling (what else?) appeasement--after its smear-and-fear campaign against him #NYT
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Desperate for relevance after years of both-sides-ism on MAGA and pandering to the anti-woke with trolls like Bari Weiss, Pamela Paul, Douthat, NYT offers @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social its plastic pearls of wisdom, counseling (what else?) appeasement--after its smear-and-fear campaign against him #NYT
Working Families Party is *on fire*. They were the locomotive piston driving progressive-populist wins all over. "Get into it, get involved!"--by joining the WFP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ldu... #WorkingFamiliesParty
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Working Families Party is *on fire*. They were the locomotive piston driving progressive-populist wins all over. "Get into it, get involved!"--by joining the WFP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ldu... #WorkingFamiliesParty
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What's wrong with the reactionary, GOP-Lite, intellectually ossified, morally challenged neolib gerontocracy driving the Democratic party off a cliff, in one sentence. What we need is a massive dinosaur die-off, the political equivalent of the Chicxulub asteroid impact. #democrats #ChuckSchumer
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
What's wrong with the reactionary, GOP-Lite, intellectually ossified, morally challenged neolib gerontocracy driving the Democratic party off a cliff, in one sentence. What we need is a massive dinosaur die-off, the political equivalent of the Chicxulub asteroid impact. #democrats #ChuckSchumer
PHILOSOPHERS ON DRUGS: My review of Justin Smith-Ruiu's "mind-stretching, almost manically polymathic meditation on 'psychedelics, philosophy, and the nature of reality," _On Drugs_, is live at The Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
#TerenceMcKenna #Psychedelics #Philosophy
#TerenceMcKenna #Psychedelics #Philosophy
November 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
PHILOSOPHERS ON DRUGS: My review of Justin Smith-Ruiu's "mind-stretching, almost manically polymathic meditation on 'psychedelics, philosophy, and the nature of reality," _On Drugs_, is live at The Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
#TerenceMcKenna #Psychedelics #Philosophy
#TerenceMcKenna #Psychedelics #Philosophy
Who knew that flat-earth fundamentalism founded on the moral code of superstitious, fear-haunted, Iron Age patriarchs would be a gift to hanky-panky?
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Who knew that flat-earth fundamentalism founded on the moral code of superstitious, fear-haunted, Iron Age patriarchs would be a gift to hanky-panky?
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🎧: Should politicians be allowed to be “news” presenters, such as Nigel Farage on GB News? @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social weigh in.
Has Ofcom opened the door to a British Fox News?
Should politicians be allowed to be news presenters? Alan and Lionel weigh in
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🎧: Should politicians be allowed to be “news” presenters, such as Nigel Farage on GB News? @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social weigh in.
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Bringing the House back into session doesn't affect Senate negotiations
Brining the House back into session and seating Grajalva means the House votes to release the Epstein Files
Brining the House back into session and seating Grajalva means the House votes to release the Epstein Files
Mike Johnson says he will not bring the House back in session until the government reopens
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Bringing the House back into session doesn't affect Senate negotiations
Brining the House back into session and seating Grajalva means the House votes to release the Epstein Files
Brining the House back into session and seating Grajalva means the House votes to release the Epstein Files
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On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back
Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
newrepublic.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
THEY LIVE! Oligarchic, Mind-Controlling Alien Parasites for Cuomo!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...
#Cuomo #AndrewCuomo #Bloomberg #eattherich #TaxTheRich
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...
#Cuomo #AndrewCuomo #Bloomberg #eattherich #TaxTheRich
Bloomberg Gives $1.5 Million to Pro-Cuomo Super PAC
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
THEY LIVE! Oligarchic, Mind-Controlling Alien Parasites for Cuomo!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...
#Cuomo #AndrewCuomo #Bloomberg #eattherich #TaxTheRich
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...
#Cuomo #AndrewCuomo #Bloomberg #eattherich #TaxTheRich
Achtung! Making mock of the Horst Wessel of die MAGA partei is now a thoughtcrime. Loyal subjects of the Reich will report any trolling posts or comments to their local Geheime Staatspolizei HQ. Heil Trump!
theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
#Trump #Fascism #antiFascism #antifascist #charliekirk
theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
#Trump #Fascism #antiFascism #antifascist #charliekirk
The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.
theintercept.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Achtung! Making mock of the Horst Wessel of die MAGA partei is now a thoughtcrime. Loyal subjects of the Reich will report any trolling posts or comments to their local Geheime Staatspolizei HQ. Heil Trump!
theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
#Trump #Fascism #antiFascism #antifascist #charliekirk
theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...
#Trump #Fascism #antiFascism #antifascist #charliekirk
WANTED: Members of that endangered species, homo Scriberlus. Must be willing to train the tireless, unquestioning, unpaid automata that will ensure your own extinction. #PRECARIAT #ENDOFWORK #WRITERS #WRITING #CAPITALISM #AI
October 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
WANTED: Members of that endangered species, homo Scriberlus. Must be willing to train the tireless, unquestioning, unpaid automata that will ensure your own extinction. #PRECARIAT #ENDOFWORK #WRITERS #WRITING #CAPITALISM #AI
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
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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