Rob Hunter
@selfactingmule.bsky.social
We meant something other than what we meant to mean
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I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...
When Nature is Worthless
Under capitalism, the social domination of nature occurs through and is mediated by the commodity form. Certain portions of non-human nature can be valued, but only when they are transformed into…
lpeproject.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...
I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...
When Nature is Worthless
Under capitalism, the social domination of nature occurs through and is mediated by the commodity form. Certain portions of non-human nature can be valued, but only when they are transformed into…
lpeproject.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...
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In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character.
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
International Law as Ideology: A Commodity Form Approach — Marie Thøgersen
‘Doctrinal international legal scholars contribute to the reproduction of [a] fantasy: They reproduce and give legitimacy to particular ideas as autonomous forces, reifying the dynamics of so…
legalform.blog
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character.
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
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Wherein, @nanoboss.bsky.social, @andywoodhouse.bsky.social and I attempt to chart out the Marxist tradition and its relationship to EU law - both historically and theoretically, as part of our broader symposium in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social
Tis a chunky tome.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Tis a chunky tome.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Capitalism, imperialism and European Union Law: towards a Marxist approach | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Capitalism, imperialism and European Union Law: towards a Marxist approach - Volume 4 Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
August 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Wherein, @nanoboss.bsky.social, @andywoodhouse.bsky.social and I attempt to chart out the Marxist tradition and its relationship to EU law - both historically and theoretically, as part of our broader symposium in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social
Tis a chunky tome.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Tis a chunky tome.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Abby Cartus (@abbraxas.bsky.social) mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation.
From Public Data to Private Knowledge: Capital, Surveillance, and Power — Abby Cartus
‘Defending the institutions and “standing up for science” is really clinging to a bygone illusion. The stakes of institutional engagement are changing as institutions are…being de…
legalform.blog
July 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Abby Cartus (@abbraxas.bsky.social) mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation.
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This woman does the best she can and I'm glad she stepped up and got in officers faces.
A few quick notes about "warrants" and due process when law enforcement arrest people, and how this squares with the current TRO that ostensibly blocks profiling by race, language, occupation, and location
A few quick notes about "warrants" and due process when law enforcement arrest people, and how this squares with the current TRO that ostensibly blocks profiling by race, language, occupation, and location
July 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This woman does the best she can and I'm glad she stepped up and got in officers faces.
A few quick notes about "warrants" and due process when law enforcement arrest people, and how this squares with the current TRO that ostensibly blocks profiling by race, language, occupation, and location
A few quick notes about "warrants" and due process when law enforcement arrest people, and how this squares with the current TRO that ostensibly blocks profiling by race, language, occupation, and location
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This piece is good but why on earth is Boston Review giving Macedo and Lee’s poor scholarship on this a forum in the first place?
New piece on why it’s unhelpful to characterise COVID debate as ‘lockdowns are bad’ vs ‘lockdowns are good’ when it was really about people who claimed that COVID was 100x less fatal than it was + optimal to have a massive epidemic immediately before vaccine… vs those who sense checked these claims.
Restrictions had unequal impacts, but the pandemic itself did too. - Boston Review
Adam Kucharski responds to Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee.
www.bostonreview.net
June 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This piece is good but why on earth is Boston Review giving Macedo and Lee’s poor scholarship on this a forum in the first place?
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Whatever it is, the wave of COVID contrarianism sweeping through places like the @NewYorker is troubling because so much of it is scientifically illiterate, representing clear-cut cases of motivated reasoning. 36/
May 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Whatever it is, the wave of COVID contrarianism sweeping through places like the @NewYorker is troubling because so much of it is scientifically illiterate, representing clear-cut cases of motivated reasoning. 36/
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Some of it was the fact that many of the well, laptop class, had their lives turned upside down like everyone else but had never had to think of their liberalism in terms of any real sacrifice before and they resent it deeply. 35/
May 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Some of it was the fact that many of the well, laptop class, had their lives turned upside down like everyone else but had never had to think of their liberalism in terms of any real sacrifice before and they resent it deeply. 35/
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I've tried to figure out why COVID contrarianism is catnip for some liberal commentators like Immerwahr, Macedo and Lee. It's baffling in the extreme and has sent at least the last two into the arms of a man who is helping to destroy American science. 33/
May 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I've tried to figure out why COVID contrarianism is catnip for some liberal commentators like Immerwahr, Macedo and Lee. It's baffling in the extreme and has sent at least the last two into the arms of a man who is helping to destroy American science. 33/
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I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
May 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
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"It is the capitalist form of the state that underlies the political influence of capitalists, rather than vice versa." — Simon Clarke
January 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
"It is the capitalist form of the state that underlies the political influence of capitalists, rather than vice versa." — Simon Clarke
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True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow.
The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?"
When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.
The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?"
When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.
February 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow.
The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?"
When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.
The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?"
When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.
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All the “just asking questions about metaphysics” philosophers who have helped bring about this current siege on trans people: you can still admit you were wrong and it was a bad project that has helped ruin peoples lives dailynous.com/2025/02/10/w...
While Tables Burn: On the (Non) Existence of Trans People and the Failure of Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous
“There are indeed consequences when we punch down or pretend that what is, in fact, a hostile attack, is merely ‘inquiry for inquiry’s sake.’ Aside from the emotional wounds we inflict on actual peopl...
dailynous.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
All the “just asking questions about metaphysics” philosophers who have helped bring about this current siege on trans people: you can still admit you were wrong and it was a bad project that has helped ruin peoples lives dailynous.com/2025/02/10/w...
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People are mostly not experiencing what Trump is doing yet so the problem is not the poll it’s this deeply dishonest framing.
This post will generate angry responses, insults. etc. But important info here. Outside the coasts/Beltway, it appears that SOME of what Trump is doing is generating support, is popular with his base. Politically complicates situation for Dems too. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...
CBS News poll — Trump has positive approval amid "energetic" opening weeks; seen as doing what he promised
Trump's deportation plans are popular, but Americans say there's not enough focus on lowering prices.
www.cbsnews.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
People are mostly not experiencing what Trump is doing yet so the problem is not the poll it’s this deeply dishonest framing.
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German KPD initially opposed the general strike against the Kapp Putsch and only got on board by the time the strike was virtually over and the entire working class had mobilized
February 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
German KPD initially opposed the general strike against the Kapp Putsch and only got on board by the time the strike was virtually over and the entire working class had mobilized
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a lot of people act like trans participation in women’s sports is some kind of impossible needle to thread but it’s actually just great? everybody wins if we reject wholesale the idea that anyone should ever have to prove that she’s a woman! everybody gets to play sports! there is no down side
August 6, 2024 at 2:30 AM
a lot of people act like trans participation in women’s sports is some kind of impossible needle to thread but it’s actually just great? everybody wins if we reject wholesale the idea that anyone should ever have to prove that she’s a woman! everybody gets to play sports! there is no down side
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Legal texts don’t do things.
February 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Legal texts don’t do things.
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A huge indictment of how pathetic the Democratic response has been: even Doug Ford, a pea-brained rightwing lummox hoser who had to be shown how to use a laptop three years into his first term as Premier of Ontario, is doing a better job standing up to Trump (who is his hero!)
lmao doug ford scrapped the starlink contract and is banning american companies from getting contracts with the province
February 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
A huge indictment of how pathetic the Democratic response has been: even Doug Ford, a pea-brained rightwing lummox hoser who had to be shown how to use a laptop three years into his first term as Premier of Ontario, is doing a better job standing up to Trump (who is his hero!)
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I knew university administrators weren’t prepared for this moment but “you can’t even send any emails about diversity, equity, or inclusion without permission from our lawyers” is even worse than I expected. Calling for anticipatory obedience that is also literally impossible to comply with!
A screenshot of the email sent to University of Minnesota School of Social Work teaching faculty, requesting that “all communications related to DEI” be sent to the Office of General Counsel for review.
February 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I knew university administrators weren’t prepared for this moment but “you can’t even send any emails about diversity, equity, or inclusion without permission from our lawyers” is even worse than I expected. Calling for anticipatory obedience that is also literally impossible to comply with!
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anyways, me, I would simply build the whole plane out of the same stuff they use to make the black boxes, and the whole state out of the same substance that makes up the glorious ideal of its legitimacy. problems: solved
February 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
anyways, me, I would simply build the whole plane out of the same stuff they use to make the black boxes, and the whole state out of the same substance that makes up the glorious ideal of its legitimacy. problems: solved
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1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care.
While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
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While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
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Handful Of Hospitals Complying With Trump's Illegal Order To Stop Trans Care Under 19 Years Of Age
A small handful of hospitals nationwide have put fear of President Trump over the needs of their transgender patients, and are withdrawing trans youth from care due to a recent executive order.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care.
While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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They have names.
February 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
They have names.
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A custom BlueSky feed dedicated to coverage of local protests would be a good use of this site.
February 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
A custom BlueSky feed dedicated to coverage of local protests would be a good use of this site.