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Musk vs. Trump? Quinn Slobodian on the Risks of Billionaire Rule

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MUSKISM (2026) by Q. Slobodian and B. Tarnoff

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New from 404 Media: a cop in Texas performed a nationwide search of license plate reading cameras for a woman who got an abortion, according to multiple sets of data we've reviewed. Included cameras where abortion is legal, like Washington and Illinois www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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“Nakedly authoritarian and retaliatory” — statement from Harvard’s @aaup.bsky.social chapter on the termination of Harvard’s SEVP certification.

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"Across sectors, vertical integration is re-emerging not as a relic of the past, but as a forward-looking strategy for resilience, coordination, and control." Another great post from @js-tan.bsky.social's indispensable newsletter www.valueadded.tech/p/the-return...

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“Like other Palestinian fathers, I was separated from you by racist regimes and distant prisons. Babies are born every day without their fathers – not because their fathers chose to leave, but because they are taken by war, by bombs, by prison cells and by the cold machinery of occupation.”

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I'd like to come up with a shared responsibility model where we can blame zoomers for being illiterate and blame the society that produced the conditions for their illiteracy

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The Trump administration has unleashed a massive domestic surveillance apparatus, thanks to AI systems supplied by major tech firms I wrote about its origins and impact on the ground for @dissentmag.bsky.social and the @theintercept.com www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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only just noticed that if you join oxford and cambridge to london with straight lines, it forms an arrow pointing directly at hastings - a deliberate "easter egg" from william the conqueror

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"What makes you so much worthier of your peace?"

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The sixth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live. It’s morning again in America. Federal agents snatch students off the streets. The White House boasts of banishing hundreds of people to a Salvadoran prison. Head Start and domestic violence shelters await the chopping block. hammerandhope.org

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I will never ever forgive Biden for this. Ever.

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RIP Josh Clover. We only met once, in San Francisco, and spent the whole time talking about Operation Ivy. Lovely guy and fascinating thinker

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this 1996 commercial for claritin sent me into flight or flight. an absolute psycho directed this

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"it's only slightly hyperbolic to say that liberals today confront a society in which no one under 30 reads serious books or newspapers" www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-wa...

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really important thing to understand about zoomers is that as a generation they're cosmically stupid

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"When a government begins to imprison writers for their words, when it abandons legal norms for political convenience, when it cloaks oppression in the language of national security, alarm bells must ring. Loudly."

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TIL this was the first digital image. Created by Russel Kirsch in 1957, the photo of his son Walden was the first image scanned into a computer. There is something really creepy and yet compelling about it; perhaps the first ghost in the machine.

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This is Embassytown by China Mieville

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naptime

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Grazie @internazionale.it per recensire Nell'occhio dell'algoritmo in uscita il 16 maggio per Carocci traducendo il buon @bentarnoff.com @nybooks.com   Alla scoperta del lavoro dell’intelligenza artificiale Ben Tarnoff www.internazionale.it/magazine/ben...

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Alternate history where Matt Gonzalez wins the 2003 San Francisco mayoral race and Gavin Newsom returns to private life as a humble wine merchant

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Read @moiraweigel.bsky.social on why the Trump tariffs are likely to strengthen Chinese economic power by accelerating its globalizing push, especially in Asia www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...

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Irrational defeatism from Tooze. Should be obvious by this point that you can't resist/undo the Trumpist assault on the country's "basic civic functions" without some project for social transformation of the kind that Harris is advocating for www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/b...

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What a rich text

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Tech workers at The Washington Post are unionizing. These 300 workers are organizing with @wbng.org, and pushing for the first new union at the paper since Jeff Bezos bought it twelve years ago.

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Super weird to watch a senile reactionary speed-run the trickier bits of a socialist transition

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‘There is a fetishism of commodities, but there is also a fetishism of authors and original meanings. Thinking with Marx can often mean thinking against him, or even past him.’ Peter E. Gordon on translations of ‘Capital’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Spotted in Logan Circle

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

submitted 67 days ago • 126 comments

Standing with my trans friends, comrades, and fellow humans today and every day.

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United States Disappeared Tracker https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

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What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

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It was really impressive turnout, and inspiring to see neighbors, students, and fellow faculty all there

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