Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
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You heard the mayor! 👇
November 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
You heard the mayor! 👇
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This is exactly it. The problem with public microblogging is the erasure of context (and personhood) as it suits the reader.
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it is my FAVORITE setting. only people who understand my context can reply!!
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This is exactly it. The problem with public microblogging is the erasure of context (and personhood) as it suits the reader.
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Cycles of juvenile crime have prompted periodic debates since the 1970s over when kids should be off D.C. streets.
At a recent D.C. Council hearing, as lawmakers debated extending our emergency curfew, residents shared nuanced views on the issue.
@maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
At a recent D.C. Council hearing, as lawmakers debated extending our emergency curfew, residents shared nuanced views on the issue.
@maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
With another extension, debate continues on youth curfew
It's temporary for now, but Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to make it permanent.
51st.news
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Cycles of juvenile crime have prompted periodic debates since the 1970s over when kids should be off D.C. streets.
At a recent D.C. Council hearing, as lawmakers debated extending our emergency curfew, residents shared nuanced views on the issue.
@maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
At a recent D.C. Council hearing, as lawmakers debated extending our emergency curfew, residents shared nuanced views on the issue.
@maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:
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"The terms in which this longer project is now being activated are alarming and blatantly authoritarian," says @elizabethkai.bsky.social .bsky.social in her conversation with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social in Issue No. 8.
hammerandhope.org/article/nati...
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Whose Streets? Trump’s Federalized National Guard and the Long Arc of White Supremacy
Federal agents have long harassed immigrants and Black and brown people in cities, but something dangerous is changing behind the scenes.
hammerandhope.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"The terms in which this longer project is now being activated are alarming and blatantly authoritarian," says @elizabethkai.bsky.social .bsky.social in her conversation with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social in Issue No. 8.
hammerandhope.org/article/nati...
hammerandhope.org/article/nati...
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The fact that rich people are buying up the media and politicians, and using up the remaining carbon budget is very bad for everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The fact that rich people are buying up the media and politicians, and using up the remaining carbon budget is very bad for everyone.
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
it's that sad time of year where I have to start wondering where I put my good winter coat
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
it's that sad time of year where I have to start wondering where I put my good winter coat
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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you should get to shoot some part of the computer with a gun for that
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
you should get to shoot some part of the computer with a gun for that
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i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is
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"[K]ids inside the car wash watched as their mother was taken away."
"Workers were not allowed to go inside to retrieve their work permits or identification, and [ICE] made no effort to enter the facility to identify anyone they were arresting."
#Massachusetts #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"Workers were not allowed to go inside to retrieve their work permits or identification, and [ICE] made no effort to enter the facility to identify anyone they were arresting."
#Massachusetts #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
ICE Agents Kidnap Nine People Working at Car Wash in Boston
ICE carried out its biggest workplace raid in Massachusetts so far, kidnapping nine workers at a car wash in the neighborhood of Allston-Brighton.
www.leftvoice.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"[K]ids inside the car wash watched as their mother was taken away."
"Workers were not allowed to go inside to retrieve their work permits or identification, and [ICE] made no effort to enter the facility to identify anyone they were arresting."
#Massachusetts #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
"Workers were not allowed to go inside to retrieve their work permits or identification, and [ICE] made no effort to enter the facility to identify anyone they were arresting."
#Massachusetts #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
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Reasons I like DSA despite my misgivings & annoyances over the years: genuinely multi tendency, a genuine democratic membership structure, people dedicated seriously to electoral work even with all the discontents, people seriously dedicated to labor union reform, pro Palestine, extremely pro trans.
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Reasons I like DSA despite my misgivings & annoyances over the years: genuinely multi tendency, a genuine democratic membership structure, people dedicated seriously to electoral work even with all the discontents, people seriously dedicated to labor union reform, pro Palestine, extremely pro trans.
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SJP, Indivisible, Gay Nerd Association, your local YIMBY sex club, environmentalist cult, the NIMBY sex club, your labor union's reform caucus, your un-unionized workplace's group chat; EWOC, Ewok gang, whatever. Fuck you. Get up.
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
SJP, Indivisible, Gay Nerd Association, your local YIMBY sex club, environmentalist cult, the NIMBY sex club, your labor union's reform caucus, your un-unionized workplace's group chat; EWOC, Ewok gang, whatever. Fuck you. Get up.
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I mean, the trouble is that the We Love Shooting Hostages Party chooses the terms of the engagement definitionally
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I mean, the trouble is that the We Love Shooting Hostages Party chooses the terms of the engagement definitionally
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Generally speaking, one should not get into a standoff with the We Love Shooting Hostages Party under the belief that the sight of suffering hostages will result in the WLSHP capitulating.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Generally speaking, one should not get into a standoff with the We Love Shooting Hostages Party under the belief that the sight of suffering hostages will result in the WLSHP capitulating.
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just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna say i'm standing up for healthcare and feeding the poor, ride a wave of furious mass mobilization to huge election wins, then cave for zero concessions and go on vacation" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't,
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna say i'm standing up for healthcare and feeding the poor, ride a wave of furious mass mobilization to huge election wins, then cave for zero concessions and go on vacation" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't,
not snark, actually asking: after pushing a comma strategy that focused on health care, what is the case for the Democrats making a deal to end the shutdown now that doesn't involve a win on health care?
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
not snark, actually asking: after pushing a comma strategy that focused on health care, what is the case for the Democrats making a deal to end the shutdown now that doesn't involve a win on health care?
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Last year, six D.C. agencies spent $325 million more than what the D.C. council had initially budgeted.
This year, the pattern is largely repeating — and it's leading to contention between the council and Mayor Bowser, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports in this week's Wilson Building Bulletin:
This year, the pattern is largely repeating — and it's leading to contention between the council and Mayor Bowser, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports in this week's Wilson Building Bulletin:
Wilson Building Bulletin: Foie gras — on the ballot and off the menu?
Also: A tax breakup with the feds and a warning on overspending.
51st.news
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Last year, six D.C. agencies spent $325 million more than what the D.C. council had initially budgeted.
This year, the pattern is largely repeating — and it's leading to contention between the council and Mayor Bowser, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports in this week's Wilson Building Bulletin:
This year, the pattern is largely repeating — and it's leading to contention between the council and Mayor Bowser, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports in this week's Wilson Building Bulletin:
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The standard for what is considered poor rightfully always goes higher. Great, we got nearly everyone refrigerators and indoor plumbing, good job! Now onto universal basic healthcare and housing.
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The standard for what is considered poor rightfully always goes higher. Great, we got nearly everyone refrigerators and indoor plumbing, good job! Now onto universal basic healthcare and housing.
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All the ways this project has been empowered must be dismantled or we will simply end up with agencies (perhaps with different names) doing the same thing next time.
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
All the ways this project has been empowered must be dismantled or we will simply end up with agencies (perhaps with different names) doing the same thing next time.
bring back shame
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
bring back shame
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These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.
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I am currently on leave from the interdisciplinary arts department. If this is an emergency: no, it’s not. Take a walk, drink water, and reflect on why you have driven yourself to distraction for an industry waiting for you to die before it gives you any roses. Art moves in deep time & so do we.
I am currently out of the philosophy department on parental leave. if this inquiry is about classes for next semester, please email the chair of the department. if your inquiry is about the nature or existence of the external world, please consult René Descartes' work
Just got the best out-of-office message I've ever seen from a fellow academic:
"I am currently away on leave. If this is an emergency... well, I doubt it. What could possibly be an emergency in my line of work?"
"I am currently away on leave. If this is an emergency... well, I doubt it. What could possibly be an emergency in my line of work?"
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I am currently on leave from the interdisciplinary arts department. If this is an emergency: no, it’s not. Take a walk, drink water, and reflect on why you have driven yourself to distraction for an industry waiting for you to die before it gives you any roses. Art moves in deep time & so do we.
somebody referenced that "Don't Speak" song which reminds me of one of the earliest moments where I clocked myself as weird. "don't speak I know just what you're saying, so please stop explaining" is essentially a horror film to me
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
somebody referenced that "Don't Speak" song which reminds me of one of the earliest moments where I clocked myself as weird. "don't speak I know just what you're saying, so please stop explaining" is essentially a horror film to me