marc book
@marcbook.bsky.social
Archaeologist, gardener, nonfiction reader, lumpenproletariat, Assistant to the Regional Manager at Antifa™, watching hockey in Hawaii.
Go Birds
ordering a “Philadelphia cheesesteak sandwich” and getting my ass kicked
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Go Birds
Reposted by marc book
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
Reposted by marc book
It’s so funny that there’s one reporter that all the other reporters are also scared of
I generally try not to comment on Twitter but Isaac Chotiner is over there giving Semafor body blows right now and I just want to say I find it alarming that he's allowed to come for you without warning (asking for an interview)
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
It’s so funny that there’s one reporter that all the other reporters are also scared of
Reposted by marc book
A lot of my boys write for Liberal Currents, and if you're going to give your money to something besides Ukrainian Military units so they can kill Russians—you should actually give them money.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
Larger media outlets have wavered since the first Trump term, but we've remained steadfast in our categorical rejection of MAGA in all its aspects and our affirmation of liberal democracy and the principles that it rests on.
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
A lot of my boys write for Liberal Currents, and if you're going to give your money to something besides Ukrainian Military units so they can kill Russians—you should actually give them money.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
Reposted by marc book
Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."
Reposted by marc book
Mainstream protests against Trump echo an old idealism, dating back to Bakunin, up through the New Left, and recently Graeber and Sanders. Meanwhile MAGA has appropriated the vanguard-building of Lenin for fascist ends.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-graeber-bannon-anarchism-leninism
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-graeber-bannon-anarchism-leninism
Brief: Graeber vs Bannon, Anarchism vs Leninism (Part 1) — Conspirituality
In this first of a two-part series, Matthew digs into a century-long debate within revolutionary politics—one that now shapes the fault lines between MAGA authoritarianism and the fragmented resistanc...
www.conspirituality.net
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Mainstream protests against Trump echo an old idealism, dating back to Bakunin, up through the New Left, and recently Graeber and Sanders. Meanwhile MAGA has appropriated the vanguard-building of Lenin for fascist ends.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-graeber-bannon-anarchism-leninism
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-graeber-bannon-anarchism-leninism
Reposted by marc book
Damn it's almost like there's been a 50-year long project by rightwing billionaires to convince people their lives suck because of the local associate professor of gender studies and not the wholesale pillaging of state and society
November 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Damn it's almost like there's been a 50-year long project by rightwing billionaires to convince people their lives suck because of the local associate professor of gender studies and not the wholesale pillaging of state and society
Reposted by marc book
Excuse Me While I Felch
A floozy newsie named Nuzzi got all boozy and told RFK Twosie he could suck something oozy from where she goes number twosie. The mere thought makes me woozy.
by Maureen Dowd
A floozy newsie named Nuzzi got all boozy and told RFK Twosie he could suck something oozy from where she goes number twosie. The mere thought makes me woozy.
by Maureen Dowd
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Excuse Me While I Felch
A floozy newsie named Nuzzi got all boozy and told RFK Twosie he could suck something oozy from where she goes number twosie. The mere thought makes me woozy.
by Maureen Dowd
A floozy newsie named Nuzzi got all boozy and told RFK Twosie he could suck something oozy from where she goes number twosie. The mere thought makes me woozy.
by Maureen Dowd
Reposted by marc book
in theory, this is what the "human terrain" project was. In practice, it sent people *without experience or knowledge of Afghan kinship structures* into Afghanistan.
My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
in theory, this is what the "human terrain" project was. In practice, it sent people *without experience or knowledge of Afghan kinship structures* into Afghanistan.
Reposted by marc book
Grok please jangle some shiny keys in front of my face. Nuance level zero
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Grok please jangle some shiny keys in front of my face. Nuance level zero
Reposted by marc book
Reposted by marc book
Reposted by marc book
When Frustration Threatens Desire, by Kerry James Marshall, 1990, 📸 by @drewhallowell
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
When Frustration Threatens Desire, by Kerry James Marshall, 1990, 📸 by @drewhallowell
Reposted by marc book
Big magician’s assistant vibes
Her: you’d better not be perfectly parallel to the ground after adjusting to a slightly under thrown ball to make a huge catch on the road in a rivalry game when I get there
Me:
Me:
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Big magician’s assistant vibes
Reposted by marc book
You’ll never guess what this post is about.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
You’ll never guess what this post is about.
Reposted by marc book
Twice in a week Elon has rolled out a new X feature which was easily exploited by people who hate him and he couldn’t see it coming at all
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Twice in a week Elon has rolled out a new X feature which was easily exploited by people who hate him and he couldn’t see it coming at all
Reposted by marc book
Man, the scale of that Free Birth Society grift really shows the incredible size of the white woman market for failed-state infant mortality levels. It's so disturbing & sad while also unrelatable to me as the child of doctors produced by massive 3rd world investments to bring down baby-dying stats.
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Man, the scale of that Free Birth Society grift really shows the incredible size of the white woman market for failed-state infant mortality levels. It's so disturbing & sad while also unrelatable to me as the child of doctors produced by massive 3rd world investments to bring down baby-dying stats.
Reposted by marc book
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
Reposted by marc book
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
Reposted by marc book
If you are one of the people with more advanced class consciousness in the United States and suddenly the masses are supporting social democrats- you know what you need to do? Push people further than that, agitate. Not mindlessly glaze those people. Come on. Grab the lib by the shoulders and push!
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If you are one of the people with more advanced class consciousness in the United States and suddenly the masses are supporting social democrats- you know what you need to do? Push people further than that, agitate. Not mindlessly glaze those people. Come on. Grab the lib by the shoulders and push!
Reposted by marc book
RFK is 100% eating a monkey.
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
RFK is 100% eating a monkey.
Reposted by marc book
The FBI deciding it needs fiber optic drones is certainly another spectacular example of how MAGA 2.0 very openly views the American people as hostile foreign enemies, and normal American life as a Ukraine-like war zone.
Which is, of course, dangerously insane.
Which is, of course, dangerously insane.
The FBI requesting fiber-optic drones is incredibly dumb and also very funny
Yall think your threat model is “jamming with electronic warfare weapons” and not “your barely-trained pilot wraps your way over-priced American made fiber optic drone cable around a Chick-Fil-A drive through sign??”
Yall think your threat model is “jamming with electronic warfare weapons” and not “your barely-trained pilot wraps your way over-priced American made fiber optic drone cable around a Chick-Fil-A drive through sign??”
FBI Wants To Add Fiber Optic Drones To Its Arsenal
Fiber-optic-controlled drones, ubiquitous on the battlefield in Ukraine, could be headed to the FBI's armory.
www.twz.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The FBI deciding it needs fiber optic drones is certainly another spectacular example of how MAGA 2.0 very openly views the American people as hostile foreign enemies, and normal American life as a Ukraine-like war zone.
Which is, of course, dangerously insane.
Which is, of course, dangerously insane.
Reposted by marc book
Elon is feeding entire families in Bangladesh who are just pumping out AI slop to halfwits In Oklahoma. It’s actually really funny when you step back and take a look at things
I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Elon is feeding entire families in Bangladesh who are just pumping out AI slop to halfwits In Oklahoma. It’s actually really funny when you step back and take a look at things
Reposted by marc book
It's wild that you can see the *exact moment* their brains collectively shattered
I'm never not thinking about @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social's suggestion that every billionaire get a humanities grad student assigned to monitor their media consumption and group chats
I'm never not thinking about @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social's suggestion that every billionaire get a humanities grad student assigned to monitor their media consumption and group chats
The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It's wild that you can see the *exact moment* their brains collectively shattered
I'm never not thinking about @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social's suggestion that every billionaire get a humanities grad student assigned to monitor their media consumption and group chats
I'm never not thinking about @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social's suggestion that every billionaire get a humanities grad student assigned to monitor their media consumption and group chats
Reposted by marc book
It's funny when you think about how "productivity gains" physically just means "arranging the world to make things cheaper and easier to do" and we already got all the low-hanging fruit like "plant all your crops in monoculture rows" and "maintain your roads" so now capitalism has to kill itself
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
It's funny when you think about how "productivity gains" physically just means "arranging the world to make things cheaper and easier to do" and we already got all the low-hanging fruit like "plant all your crops in monoculture rows" and "maintain your roads" so now capitalism has to kill itself