Louis Römer
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Louis Römer
@lromeranth.bsky.social
· Sep 15
How did "free speech" become a cudgel to silence dissent? My latest in @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...
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I noticed this is getting engagement so folks must be talking about Olivia Nuzzi again
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I noticed this is getting engagement so folks must be talking about Olivia Nuzzi again
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Because, of course.
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Because, of course.
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In 2024, Trump ran against the FBI. He promised to let hundreds of violent criminals out of jail, make anti-immigration the top priority, curb efforts to counter foreign influence operations, and transform DOJ into a personal revenge organization.
Then Americans voted for him, a convicted felon.
Then Americans voted for him, a convicted felon.
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In 2024, Trump ran against the FBI. He promised to let hundreds of violent criminals out of jail, make anti-immigration the top priority, curb efforts to counter foreign influence operations, and transform DOJ into a personal revenge organization.
Then Americans voted for him, a convicted felon.
Then Americans voted for him, a convicted felon.
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Listen at least he endorsed Mamdani. But any Dem who says anything nice about her but hasn’t fallen over supporting Mamdani can definitely fuck off.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Listen at least he endorsed Mamdani. But any Dem who says anything nice about her but hasn’t fallen over supporting Mamdani can definitely fuck off.
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Yeah, "Trump crashes the dollar" has haunted me more than "Trump launches the nukes" for the past 10 months, because I think the former is more likely to occur and the destruction will be multi-generational, probably unrecoverable.
The end of dollar hegemony will transform U.S. debt from a fiscal drag into a high-yield fusion bomb.
For decades dollarization has generated structural demand for U.S. treasuries, depressing the interest rates the U.S. needs to offer to service its debt.
For decades dollarization has generated structural demand for U.S. treasuries, depressing the interest rates the U.S. needs to offer to service its debt.
one thing that I think we really don't think about is if Trump fucks up America's macro privileges or role in the international system and Americans are forced to end up dealing with a economic system that doesn't allow for the same old fiscal fixes as before
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Yeah, "Trump crashes the dollar" has haunted me more than "Trump launches the nukes" for the past 10 months, because I think the former is more likely to occur and the destruction will be multi-generational, probably unrecoverable.
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to be clear, when pundits at the NY Times complain that "women ruined the workplace," they mean:
women gained enough agency and economic power to say NO to sexual extortion from men like Summers
women got uppity, started to think they were people; that's the "collapse of civilization" they deplore
women gained enough agency and economic power to say NO to sexual extortion from men like Summers
women got uppity, started to think they were people; that's the "collapse of civilization" they deplore
November 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
to be clear, when pundits at the NY Times complain that "women ruined the workplace," they mean:
women gained enough agency and economic power to say NO to sexual extortion from men like Summers
women got uppity, started to think they were people; that's the "collapse of civilization" they deplore
women gained enough agency and economic power to say NO to sexual extortion from men like Summers
women got uppity, started to think they were people; that's the "collapse of civilization" they deplore
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
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Why the fuck are Democrats trying to make Marjorie Taylor Greene a Democrat?
Maybe they should spend a bit more time accepting that Zohran Mamdani is in their party before going off about welcoming nazis.
Maybe they should spend a bit more time accepting that Zohran Mamdani is in their party before going off about welcoming nazis.
November 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Why the fuck are Democrats trying to make Marjorie Taylor Greene a Democrat?
Maybe they should spend a bit more time accepting that Zohran Mamdani is in their party before going off about welcoming nazis.
Maybe they should spend a bit more time accepting that Zohran Mamdani is in their party before going off about welcoming nazis.
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Stalking a 19-year-old David Hogg, who had just survived a school shooting, berating him, calling him names, and accusing him of being a liar isn't "toxic politics." It's being a crude, unhinged sociopath.
www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...
www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...
November 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Stalking a 19-year-old David Hogg, who had just survived a school shooting, berating him, calling him names, and accusing him of being a liar isn't "toxic politics." It's being a crude, unhinged sociopath.
www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...
www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...
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reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
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I'd go further and say there's a nightmare mirror version of any political issue you'd care to mention. RFK Jr is like this with our food system and environmental illnesses. Terfism is like this with feminist politics. This is why people should read Doppleganger.
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I'd go further and say there's a nightmare mirror version of any political issue you'd care to mention. RFK Jr is like this with our food system and environmental illnesses. Terfism is like this with feminist politics. This is why people should read Doppleganger.
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this story was reported on as a suicide three months ago.
the family has now obtained evidence that Chaofeng Ge's hands and legs were tied behind his back at the time of his hanging.
justice for Chaofeng Ge.
www.pennlive.com/news/2025/11...
the family has now obtained evidence that Chaofeng Ge's hands and legs were tied behind his back at the time of his hanging.
justice for Chaofeng Ge.
www.pennlive.com/news/2025/11...
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
this story was reported on as a suicide three months ago.
the family has now obtained evidence that Chaofeng Ge's hands and legs were tied behind his back at the time of his hanging.
justice for Chaofeng Ge.
www.pennlive.com/news/2025/11...
the family has now obtained evidence that Chaofeng Ge's hands and legs were tied behind his back at the time of his hanging.
justice for Chaofeng Ge.
www.pennlive.com/news/2025/11...
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has anyone responded to this point yet?
ie, that the reactionary centrist strategy has chaterstrophocally failed in the UK
i've made it, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social , @jamellebouie.net & others have
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/appeasement
ie, that the reactionary centrist strategy has chaterstrophocally failed in the UK
i've made it, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social , @jamellebouie.net & others have
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/appeasement
Apeasement Isn't Working
Reactionary centrism has both failed & cannot learn from it's mistakes.
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
has anyone responded to this point yet?
ie, that the reactionary centrist strategy has chaterstrophocally failed in the UK
i've made it, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social , @jamellebouie.net & others have
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/appeasement
ie, that the reactionary centrist strategy has chaterstrophocally failed in the UK
i've made it, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social , @jamellebouie.net & others have
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/appeasement
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Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.
I can attest this practice was common, and let me disabuse anyone who thinks practice went away because people realized the obvious unsafe working environment issues—it was Zoom that ended the conference hotel room interview.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I can attest this practice was common, and let me disabuse anyone who thinks practice went away because people realized the obvious unsafe working environment issues—it was Zoom that ended the conference hotel room interview.
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If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
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The Christian right for decades has fear-mongered that federal agents (under Dem presidents) would "criminalize" Christianity and literally prevent them from worshipping.
Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets
Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The Christian right for decades has fear-mongered that federal agents (under Dem presidents) would "criminalize" Christianity and literally prevent them from worshipping.
Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets
Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets
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More broadly, the 2024-2025 pro-Democratic shifts seem to be biggest in the poorest areas while in the richest towns the electorate got more Republican, ruining many a narrative
NEW: New Jersey’s township data is (mostly) in, so
@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social & I crunched the numbers on NJ’s blue shift/pendulum swing
The same majority-Hispanic cities & towns that swung to Trump in 24 shifted back D, to Mikie Sherrill, in the governor’s race
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social & I crunched the numbers on NJ’s blue shift/pendulum swing
The same majority-Hispanic cities & towns that swung to Trump in 24 shifted back D, to Mikie Sherrill, in the governor’s race
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Maps Show How Latinos Who Shifted Right in 2024 Snapped Back Left in 2025
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
More broadly, the 2024-2025 pro-Democratic shifts seem to be biggest in the poorest areas while in the richest towns the electorate got more Republican, ruining many a narrative
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What the actual is the NYT doing here. They go after her both for inexperience and for being a policy wonk. Absolutely flailing to find a way to go after anyone who doesn't fit their centrist narrative.
Katie Wilson, Seattle’s next mayor, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
Seattle Elects a Left-Wing Mayor With a Light Résumé but Mamdani Appeal
Katie Wilson, who narrowly defeated the incumbent, Bruce Harrell, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
nyti.ms
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
What the actual is the NYT doing here. They go after her both for inexperience and for being a policy wonk. Absolutely flailing to find a way to go after anyone who doesn't fit their centrist narrative.
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Pundits: Kamala Harris shouldn't have prioritized identity issues!
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Pundits: Kamala Harris shouldn't have prioritized identity issues!
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
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Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run on kitchen table issues?
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
November 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run on kitchen table issues?
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
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Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run to the center on immigration?
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
November 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run to the center on immigration?
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
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This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
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The map in my original tweet shows the number of graves, not number of bodies. Andalucía, by some way, has the most in terms of victims. In mass graves as shown in this map or otherwise.
November 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The map in my original tweet shows the number of graves, not number of bodies. Andalucía, by some way, has the most in terms of victims. In mass graves as shown in this map or otherwise.
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This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...