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Tapji
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Sovereignty, slavery, law, money. (Spinozist-averroism)
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don't forget this date. carve it into your memory. remember what here inaugurated this decade of violence and the unfinished struggle for justice. don't let them think they can exist comfortably
not since this year, really since May 25, 2020, and before
January 24, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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it's overwhelming to witness such brutality and such bravery in the same instance. I've been in radical movements since I was 15 years old. I've never seen anything like I've seen in the last few weeks
Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
January 24, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded
BREAKING: Europe may begin selling U.S. assets in response to a new conflict with the US, a move that could trigger a dollar collapse, per Bloomberg.
January 20, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.

(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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January 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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My pros/cons list of various revolutionary anti-capitalist tendencies! Silly, overly-stereotyped, but also 55% my actual takes. Emphasizing their American currents, and excluding the destructive factions of each tradition. I have personally been 3/4 of these at various times. 1/
January 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Here it is guys, finally you can hear me, on the brilliant @notesfrombelow.bsky.social podcast, complaining about working in restaurants

open.spotify.com/episode/108Q...
Ep 2: Cooking up a Storm
Workers' Inquiry · Episode
open.spotify.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Jesus fucking Christ
December 4, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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Due to budget cuts, history has been forced to occur simultaneously as tragedy and farce this week
October 19, 2023 at 7:10 PM
So many essays i want to write this year. Atm, its looking like one on Augustine and another on Marx (trying out my whole ‘communism as fiqh’ idea)
September 30, 2023 at 9:28 PM
Still getting used to this
September 4, 2023 at 1:06 AM
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(David Attenborough voice) this is how they arrive on earth
July 26, 2023 at 1:24 PM
Hello new corner of the internet.
July 3, 2023 at 4:00 PM