Tom Digby
@digbyish.bsky.social
Author of Love & War: How Militarism Shapes Sexuality & Romance (Columbia Univ. Press, 2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title) http://amzn.to/1vid3eQ
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Tom Digby
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· Feb 15
Dating Nietzsche: Love vs Power
<p><em>Romantic love, often celebrated as one of life's greatest treasures, can also be a treacherous terrain fraught with tension and conflict. But why does this paradox persist? Inspired by Nietzsch...
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The Institute for Art and Ideas (UK) asked me to write a Valentine’s Day piece for the IAI News. I prefer the title I myself gave it: “Love Is Cursed by the Gender Binary.” Anyway, here it is.
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Pete Hegseth, brimming with contempt for the Geneva and Hague Conventions, which were, of course, largely written by the United States. He's both a buffoon and a man with serious criminal instincts.
Hegseth included the below in a chapter titled “The Laws of War, For Winners”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Pete Hegseth, brimming with contempt for the Geneva and Hague Conventions, which were, of course, largely written by the United States. He's both a buffoon and a man with serious criminal instincts.
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There is literally no reason for the military to be in D.C.
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
There is literally no reason for the military to be in D.C.
Republicans have been doing this dirty trick for decades. No doubt this clearly illegal activity will be investigated by Trump's DOJ lackeys.
Skullduggery? 7th District mailers with no attribution or return address going out to Democratic Nashville voters, listing the incorrect date for Election Day.
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Republicans have been doing this dirty trick for decades. No doubt this clearly illegal activity will be investigated by Trump's DOJ lackeys.
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A breathalyzer test urgently needs to be administered to Pete Hegseth.
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A breathalyzer test urgently needs to be administered to Pete Hegseth.
It's basically a kamikaze presidency
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
It's basically a kamikaze presidency
Good to know that Rubio hasn't finalized the sale of his soul.
Republicans in Congress now saying exactly the same thing that US allies are saying: Sec Rubio is being undercut by people with unexplained connections to hostile foreign powers, and the result is a clown show.
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Good to know that Rubio hasn't finalized the sale of his soul.
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Republicans in Congress now saying exactly the same thing that US allies are saying: Sec Rubio is being undercut by people with unexplained connections to hostile foreign powers, and the result is a clown show.
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Republicans in Congress now saying exactly the same thing that US allies are saying: Sec Rubio is being undercut by people with unexplained connections to hostile foreign powers, and the result is a clown show.
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A suitable question for the day. On the other hand, it's self-selecting. Axios would feel honored to play a central role in Russian influence operations if it can. That's their business model.
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A suitable question for the day. On the other hand, it's self-selecting. Axios would feel honored to play a central role in Russian influence operations if it can. That's their business model.
How to admit your boss has a crackpot tariff fetish without saying it.
WELKER: If tariffs help consumers, why is the administration rolling them back?
BESSENT: You know how much you weigh. You get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number and we look at everything. We try to push down the things we can control.
BESSENT: You know how much you weigh. You get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number and we look at everything. We try to push down the things we can control.
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
How to admit your boss has a crackpot tariff fetish without saying it.
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Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
November 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
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I never believed in the concept of an “Alpha male” until now.
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I never believed in the concept of an “Alpha male” until now.
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Vladimir Putin personally oversaw a resource heavy operation to influence and or recruit Peter Thiel over a period of over a decade. In the end, Putin deemed the operation a success. When Thiel was recruited, he became pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine in their conflict. And instantly, so did JD Vance.
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Vladimir Putin personally oversaw a resource heavy operation to influence and or recruit Peter Thiel over a period of over a decade. In the end, Putin deemed the operation a success. When Thiel was recruited, he became pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine in their conflict. And instantly, so did JD Vance.
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Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
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Here's one from 2016. Boy! this has been going on for a long time!
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Here's one from 2016. Boy! this has been going on for a long time!
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Houlahan points out that courts have found Trump has taken at least 150 unlawful actions since re-taking office, "so yes, those kinds of things are going on. Just because you are the president doesn't mean everything that comes out of your mouth is lawful."
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Houlahan points out that courts have found Trump has taken at least 150 unlawful actions since re-taking office, "so yes, those kinds of things are going on. Just because you are the president doesn't mean everything that comes out of your mouth is lawful."
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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What is this dig at BlueSky doing in a judicial opinion? www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
What is this dig at BlueSky doing in a judicial opinion? www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
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Trump has found a terrifyingly effective way to eliminate bad news: delete the data.
From hunger and poverty stats to foreign investment numbers, federal agencies are being gutted—making it harder to measure the impact of his policies.
@crampell.bsky.social reports:
From hunger and poverty stats to foreign investment numbers, federal agencies are being gutted—making it harder to measure the impact of his policies.
@crampell.bsky.social reports:
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Trump has found a terrifyingly effective way to eliminate bad news: delete the data.
From hunger and poverty stats to foreign investment numbers, federal agencies are being gutted—making it harder to measure the impact of his policies.
@crampell.bsky.social reports:
From hunger and poverty stats to foreign investment numbers, federal agencies are being gutted—making it harder to measure the impact of his policies.
@crampell.bsky.social reports:
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A government of, by and for grifters. A New Jersey fraudster who was pardoned by President Trump in 2021 was sentenced to 37 years in prison this month for running a $44 million Ponzi scheme, one of a growing number of people granted clemency by Trump only to be charged with new crimes.
A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
A government of, by and for grifters. A New Jersey fraudster who was pardoned by President Trump in 2021 was sentenced to 37 years in prison this month for running a $44 million Ponzi scheme, one of a growing number of people granted clemency by Trump only to be charged with new crimes.
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
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Republican congressman speaks truth to Putin's sock puppet
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Republican congressman speaks truth to Putin's sock puppet
Wow! It's essentially a done deal, depriving Trump of a squirming opportunity. No doubt he'll continue to wiggle, however.
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Wow! It's essentially a done deal, depriving Trump of a squirming opportunity. No doubt he'll continue to wiggle, however.