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Mark D. White
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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…
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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 23h
don’t miss the 2025 @contingent-mag.bsky.social book list! inclusive & welcoming as ever, Contingent curates a list where the hard part is not getting on it, but rather, the hard part is researching & writing a book while contingent contingentmagazine.org/2025/12/02/2...
2025 Contingent Book List
When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
contingentmagazine.org

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d
“What we’re seeing is the decades-long anti-vaccine playbook dressed up and delivered from one of the most consequential health committees in the United States,” Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist [told] STAT…. “When the process devolves into this kind of spectacle, kids are the ones who get hurt.”
In sweeping presentation, vaccine critic set to urge government advisers to rethink childhood shots
WASHINGTON — The future of children’s vaccines is on the agenda at today’s meeting of federal vaccine advisers, who are reviewing the childhood schedule.
www.statnews.com

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 1d
"No, *you're* math!" — AI

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Gregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social · 1d
I wonderful new review of my small book on Neurloaw just came out in the journal Law and Philosophy, reviewed by Miranda Wang. It's a thoughtful and detailed review--I'm honored.

Gregg D. Caruso, Neurolaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp.88

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Book Review - Law and Philosophy
Law and Philosophy -
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1d
Murder Genie

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 1d
New at The Virtues of Captain America Blog:

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Captain America #40, Iron Man #39, and X-Men #111 (April 2001)
This issue finishes the story begun in the last issue, in which both parts of Captain America’s life began to converge. As the Sentinel of Liberty, he is working with Sharon Carter and SHIELD…
thevirtuesofcaptainamerica.com

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 2d
Poets aren’t bad at self-promotion because we’re inherently humble, but because the habits that sustain poetry have very little to do with the habits required to promote it. Promotion can feel like an assault on the inner world by the outer one.
Poets, We Need to Talk About Self-Promotion
Why asking for support feels harder than writing the book
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 2d
Jim Bogen, a philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh and, before that, Pitzer College, has died. dailynous.com/2025/12/04/j...
James Bogen (1935-2025) - Daily Nous
James "Jim" Bogen, a longtime professor of philosophy at Pitzer College as well as an adjunct professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, has died. Professor Bogen ...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d
whether hegseth gets away with it remains to be seen but it is interesting to see that he thought trump handed him a license to murder with this job, no questions asked, and now questions are definitely being asked.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info

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Eric Marcotte - Comic Philosophy @comicphilosophy.bsky.social · 2d
You don't need to read Doctor Strange of Asgard to appreciate the new series that just launched. But it shows interesting insights into the moral core and ethics of the good doctor:
comicphilosophy.com/index.php/20...
Kudos to @dereklandy.bsky.social, Carlos Magna, Espen Grundetjern, and Cory Petit
Homepage of https://comicphilosophy.com showing the Doctor Strange of Asgard Ethics post. Comics are Doctor Strange of Asgard Vol 1, 2025, issues # 1 & 5, by Derek Landy and Carlos Magno. Cover art by Geoff Shaw

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d
This gangster government steals everyone’s property and doesn’t care about the laws respecting the rights of creators. Everything they see belongs to them like the greedy leeches on this country that they are.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 2d
In sixth grade I used the word "stolid" in a paper and my teacher marked it as a spelling error, then accused me of cheating when I tried to argue, so I like to put it into each of my books as a cute little fuck you to that lady.

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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 2d
Scoop: FBI aims to escalate its inquiry into 6 Democrats who made video for troops by pressing domestic terrorism squad to launch a formal seditious conspiracy investigation. Washington Field Office leaders are pushing back b/c they don't see a crime. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
FBI Seeks ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Probe of Democratic Lawmakers
The FBI is pressuring domestic terrorism agents to open a seditious conspiracy investigation into six Democratic lawmakers who advised military service members to defy unlawful orders, according to th...
news.bloomberglaw.com

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 2d
Batya might be just fine with a dudetrustme basis for a terrorist designation, but Americans with a functioning moral compass actually expect a plausible public rationale for who is to be treated as a terrorist in our name.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."

He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 3d
I had the pleasure of reading and the privilege of reviewing FAMILY OF SPIES for @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Review | Her family spied for Germany in WWII. She tried to learn the truth.
In ‘Family of Spies,’ Christine Kuehn wrestles with whether her relatives, who helped pave the way for Pearl Harbor, are monsters.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3d
I wrote this essay about pardons in a very different moment but it holds up imo www.lawfaremedia.org/article/dona...
This is the irony of the pardon power. It is located both at the dead center of presidential authority and at the edge of the law—an attractive plaything for a would-be authoritarian without a dictator’s strength of will. It relies, as Schmitt writes, not on legal constraint but on sovereign decision. And precisely because of this ambiguous relationship with the rule of law, the most compelling response to abuse of the pardon is not an objection framed in legal terms but, rather, a judgment that echoes the Schmittian dictator’s moment of unreviewable decision: an instinct incommensurable with law. Trump’s approach to the pardon power is, as Black writes, “obviously wrong.” There is no more explaining it than that.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 3d
I've been saying for the better part of a year that Trump is on a mission to decriminalize corruption. To make it the legal equivalent of jaywalking.

I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "The Radical Left Democrats are a complete and total threat to Democracy! They will attack, rob, lie, cheat, destroy, and decimate anyone who dares to oppose their Far Left Agenda, an Agenda that, if left unchecked, will obliterate our magnificent Country. Because of these facts, and others, I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 3d
"So, there’s the revealed preference: 500 tons of cocaine is nothing if you are a Trump ally; imaginary fentanyl is a death sentence if you are a seafaring Venezuelan who can be blown to bits for the sake of political theater." thedispatch.com/article/trum...
Pardons—With Advice and Consent
Atrocities on the high seas, not Fifth Avenue.
thedispatch.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3d
If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.
www.thenation.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "The Radical Left Democrats are a complete and total threat to Democracy! They will attack, rob, lie, cheat, destroy, and decimate anyone who dares to oppose their Far Left Agenda, an Agenda that, if left unchecked, will obliterate our magnificent Country. Because of these facts, and others, I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"

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hucksgiving @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d
what’s more virgin than a computer
Joe Rogan: "Jesus was born out of a virgin mother. What's more virgin than a computer? If Jesus does return, you don't think he could return as artificial intelligence? Al could absolutely return as Jesus."

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 3d
“Politicians who later become congressional leaders trade stocks like everyone else ... until they ascend to power.

After ascension, their portfolios beat peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts.”

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 3d
Today in Women are Ruining the Workplace

“Women with jealous husbands less likely to work, and a majority willing to take a pay cut of ~1/3 to be paired with female rather than male coworkers to assuage the jealously of husbands.“

Link to paper below