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refuses to be alienated from the whole of living, come what may.
Free Palestine. Free Ukraine. Free USA.
refuses to be alienated from the whole of living, come what may.
Free Palestine. Free Ukraine. Free USA.
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You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 1:49 AM
You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.
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This made me weepy
February 4, 2026 at 1:38 AM
This made me weepy
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This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
February 3, 2026 at 11:28 PM
This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
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I've written about these things here: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/P/Pris...
Prison Power
Winner of the 2017 Diamond Anniversary Book Award and the African American Communication and Culture Division's 2017 Outstanding Book Award, both from the National Communication AssociationIn the Blac...
www.upress.state.ms.us
February 3, 2026 at 5:14 PM
I've written about these things here: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/P/Pris...
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Social movement scholar here. Earlier activists had petty beefs but those were wildly exploited by the FBI's COINTELPRO programs, particularly in the case of the Black Power movement. 1/
The successful nonviolence and civil rights movements of the past, as I’ve gathered from reading about them, ALSO featured a shit ton of incessant petty drama and in-fighting.
But crucially, they didn’t have social media - so this was kept far more private.
But crucially, they didn’t have social media - so this was kept far more private.
February 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Social movement scholar here. Earlier activists had petty beefs but those were wildly exploited by the FBI's COINTELPRO programs, particularly in the case of the Black Power movement. 1/
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My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.
February 4, 2026 at 12:02 AM
My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.
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Made an "analog" YouTube book for my kid so she can choose what she wants (from pre-approved list) without being exposed to a thumbnail hellscape. Also automatically cuts her off after x scans
February 4, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Made an "analog" YouTube book for my kid so she can choose what she wants (from pre-approved list) without being exposed to a thumbnail hellscape. Also automatically cuts her off after x scans
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it’s always “studies show” and never the doi of the studies that show
April 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
it’s always “studies show” and never the doi of the studies that show
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meanwhile the baileys are getting tear-gassed at a protest
February 3, 2026 at 10:27 PM
meanwhile the baileys are getting tear-gassed at a protest
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This is what oligarchy looks like:
Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, spent $290 million to elect Trump.
Since Election Day, Musk became $548 billion richer while his companies (SpaceX & Tesla) paid $0 in federal income taxes last year after making $13.7 billion in profits.
Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, spent $290 million to elect Trump.
Since Election Day, Musk became $548 billion richer while his companies (SpaceX & Tesla) paid $0 in federal income taxes last year after making $13.7 billion in profits.
February 3, 2026 at 10:55 PM
This is what oligarchy looks like:
Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, spent $290 million to elect Trump.
Since Election Day, Musk became $548 billion richer while his companies (SpaceX & Tesla) paid $0 in federal income taxes last year after making $13.7 billion in profits.
Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive, spent $290 million to elect Trump.
Since Election Day, Musk became $548 billion richer while his companies (SpaceX & Tesla) paid $0 in federal income taxes last year after making $13.7 billion in profits.
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This is the stuff that marks someone as a danger.
Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows.
You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.
Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows.
You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.
February 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
This is the stuff that marks someone as a danger.
Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows.
You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.
Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows.
You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.
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Suddenly the press is very uninterested in the sexual proclivities of a President.
February 3, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Suddenly the press is very uninterested in the sexual proclivities of a President.
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I know this pet theory makes me sound like I'm doing deep cuts for their own sake but really truly I think the US resembles the second reich, in both strengths and weaknesses, much more than the third
Or, and this fits with my theory that 'very few things are the third reich but very many things are the second reich', this (but bigger) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia...
Prussian deportations - Wikipedia
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February 3, 2026 at 10:43 PM
I know this pet theory makes me sound like I'm doing deep cuts for their own sake but really truly I think the US resembles the second reich, in both strengths and weaknesses, much more than the third
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lmao omg this is the guy who This American Life interviewed on Dec. 19! He lives in the immediate vicinity of ICE's Portland facility, and a clowncar of the worst far-right podcasters who congregate there singled him out, and then he unwittingly leaned into the "leader of Antifa" thing as a joke
February 3, 2026 at 8:58 PM
lmao omg this is the guy who This American Life interviewed on Dec. 19! He lives in the immediate vicinity of ICE's Portland facility, and a clowncar of the worst far-right podcasters who congregate there singled him out, and then he unwittingly leaned into the "leader of Antifa" thing as a joke
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I have not met many (3?) billionaires and they were certainly nice people but it also seems plausible that as a class billionaires simply cannot be “human” if we view material limitations as constitutive of the human condition
February 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
I have not met many (3?) billionaires and they were certainly nice people but it also seems plausible that as a class billionaires simply cannot be “human” if we view material limitations as constitutive of the human condition
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we are doomed to relearn the main argument of The Phenomenology of Spirit in every generation.
February 3, 2026 at 7:05 PM
we are doomed to relearn the main argument of The Phenomenology of Spirit in every generation.
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Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.
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THE FINGER-TAKER’S SON
Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker.
The finger-taker claimed to be a persuadable man.
www.the-reframe.com/the-finger-t...
Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker.
The finger-taker claimed to be a persuadable man.
www.the-reframe.com/the-finger-t...
The Finger-Taker's Son
Rules of engagement, and what it means to find "common ground" with supremacists.
www.the-reframe.com
February 1, 2026 at 11:42 AM
THE FINGER-TAKER’S SON
Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker.
The finger-taker claimed to be a persuadable man.
www.the-reframe.com/the-finger-t...
Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker.
The finger-taker claimed to be a persuadable man.
www.the-reframe.com/the-finger-t...
what in the fuck is wrong with people
Was reading about how they made a “smooth miles Davis” for the cover of the 2020 reissue of in a silent way and losing my fucking mind?!
February 3, 2026 at 10:35 PM
what in the fuck is wrong with people
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As an anthropologist, something stands out to me from the Epstein files: these men weren't just motivated by their depraved desires, but also wanting to be liked by the Party Guy. They were clambering for invites because they wanted to be part of the special in-group. It's sort of pathetic
January 31, 2026 at 3:31 PM
As an anthropologist, something stands out to me from the Epstein files: these men weren't just motivated by their depraved desires, but also wanting to be liked by the Party Guy. They were clambering for invites because they wanted to be part of the special in-group. It's sort of pathetic
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So I started writing this paper almost exactly a year ago, based on the talks I'd given across 2024, including my keynote for the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. This is the pre-print and, all things considered, the full edited version should be available in April.
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On Bullshit Engines’ Politics_Preprint
This is a pre-print of the following chapter: Williams, Damien P., “On Bullshit Engines’ Politics”, published in Arrangements of Power: Tracing Langdon Winner’s Legacy Within and Beyond the P…
afutureworththinkingabout.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:40 AM
So I started writing this paper almost exactly a year ago, based on the talks I'd given across 2024, including my keynote for the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. This is the pre-print and, all things considered, the full edited version should be available in April.
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With the Super Bowl (and its ads) upon us, I am once again thinking about this SB commercial.
Just thinking back to the fact that I first learned that trans people were a thing because of a Super Bowl ad that aired when I was 10 years old
February 3, 2026 at 8:45 PM
With the Super Bowl (and its ads) upon us, I am once again thinking about this SB commercial.
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I'm summarizing a complex case I wrote several books about in character-limited posts. But in short: 1) he is correct to focus on /pol/ and hijacking of the internet 2) look at where that digital technology originates, particularly Israel, and the intersection with mafia and espionage. More here:
February 3, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I'm summarizing a complex case I wrote several books about in character-limited posts. But in short: 1) he is correct to focus on /pol/ and hijacking of the internet 2) look at where that digital technology originates, particularly Israel, and the intersection with mafia and espionage. More here: