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Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 5d

Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
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“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire | Barnard Center for Research on Women

Tomisin Fasosi interviews Kim F. Hall on her new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 19h

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

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Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 15h

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 14h

The gentleman’s agreement that prevented people from reporting on Barron is now over

It is open season

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 14h

"One source told me that some of the reversals came after the Trump administration realized that they had accidentally terminated critically important staffers working on current measles and Ebola outbreaks."

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 14h

…really?

Breaking News: RIFs in reverse. Some CDC workers have been brought back, in latest whiplash.

This is breaking news.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

ICE GOONS are harassing two 15-year-old boys on bicycles in Chicago.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 21h

"Why can't Trump murder civilians indiscriminately at home like he does abroad" - Ross Douthat

Why Can't Trump's Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy?

Three keys to his success on the world stage could be applied at home.
By ROSS DOUTHAT

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 14h

TIL that ICE tried to detain a colleague’s teenaged son, asked him about his “color,” held a gun on him as he produced ID

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David Wesley @david-wesley.bsky.social · 1d

Matthew 19:21 “Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

The New Testament does talk allot about money.

The main idea is to give it all away to the poor.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

I think a lot about how Michelle Obama remarked on regularly being in rooms with the most powerful and wealthy people in the world and her chief takeaway was that they're just not that smart

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating."

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

"Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: 'It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.'"

So he thinks we're all idiots, huh?

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 1d

WHY ARE PEOPLE (um, white men) PAYING TO HEAR A BILLIONAIRE TALK?

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

People paid $200 a ticket to listen to Peter Thiel do bog issue antisemitism for four lectures about his belief in the antichrist.

Lots of fools wishing to be relieved of their money, I guess.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, AI and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”

It’s because the antichrist talks about Armageddon nonstop. We’re all scared to death that we’re sleepwalking into Armageddon. And then because we know world war three will be an unjust war, that pushes us. We’re going hard towards peace at any price.

What I worry about in that sort of situation is you don’t think too hard about the details of the peace and it becomes much more likely that you get an unjust peace. This is, by the way, the slogan of the antichrist: 1 Thessalonians 5:3. It’s peace and safety, sort of the unjust peace.

Let me conclude on this choice of antichrist or Armageddon. And again, in some ways the stagnation and the existential risks are complementary, not contradictory. The existential risk pushes us towards stagnation and distracts us from it.

How does Thiel think Armageddon will happen?
Thiel rarely gives a definitive answer about who exactly the antichrist might be or how Armageddon might come about – a central point across his lectures is that nothing is written in stone or inevitable – but he does give the contours of what a global conflict that could lead to Armageddon might look like.

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Jan Skudlarek @janskudlarek.bsky.social · 1d

Warum sieht Peter Thiel immer aus wie der Typ, der den Zombiebiss verschweigt

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel illustrates how most Silicon Valley tech billionaires inevitably become delusional, power mad menaces. They may think they have big ideas, but all they have is a lot of money and access to power. They need to be regulated and kept in check. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 1d

OK, gang, Peter Thiel is a midwit weirdo who lucked into a billion dollars. He is not some great thinker, and in fact, is as susceptible, if not moreso, so absolute bullshit than your average person.

www.theroot.com/how-trumps-b...

Why Peter Thiel's Antichrist Conspiracy Might Backfire on Trump

Trump's close ally, Peter Thiel, has a strange theory about the Antichrist, and here's how the president fits into play.

www.theroot.com

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Anna @annadistracted.bsky.social · 1d

I clicked into an article about Peter Thiel explaining his vision of the Antichrist so really this ad is my fault

Screenshot of an ad for a weight loss product with a picture of berries and the line EAT LIKE THE APOSTLES

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so small, but this piece describes him as“is better known for his savvy politics.”. You don’t have to be savvy when you can drown the political system in 💴 . One of the many reasons he’s unnerved by Greta Thunberg is her impact isn’t from 💰.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“What I will focus on is the most common and most dramatic interpretation of antichrist: an evil king or tyrant or anti-messiah who appears in the end times” -

Peter Thiel, billionaire who funded JD Vance’s political career and also supported Trump.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 1d

Scary thing is that the NYT has massive cultural and elite influence

So if this loser is saying America should be a theocracy, elites will think it’s inevitable and spreading propaganda towards this end

Chris Rufo used the same tactics with the NYT OpEd pages

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 1d

I repair rare books and last year that included some writings by Southern pastors about how to reconcile owning enslaved persons with being 'a good Christian' and woo baby there was nothing Jesus said that these guys couldn't reconcile with the right to beat enslaved people to death

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Dale Baker @dalbak.bsky.social · 1d

It's one thing for Douthat to spend his weirdo time reading authoritarian crazies he has not so quietly worshiped for a long time (save society through rigid doctrine and control coming back) but now the NYT op-ed page is platforming these nuts so we can "consider their views."

NFW

They're scum.

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Katie Cannon @katiecannon.bsky.social · 1d

Rothbard, from the Chicago School of Economics: Parents should be able to sell their children if they don’t want to feed them

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

But you shouldn't be too surprised when they say stuff like this:

"You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today."

I don’t want to take any guidance at all from the secular society around us. And the reason I don’t is they killed 60 million babies. I don’t want to hear any more lectures from these people about slavery. You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

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