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assistant professor of political theory @ smith college | wonder in modern political thought | nature stuff | kansan | views my own | often confused | he/him
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Pathetic: ABC’s GMA, World News Tonight, This Week, CBS’ Mornings, Evening News, Face the Nation, NBC’s Today, Nightly News, Meet the Press, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal all failed to cover Trump's new office for ethnic cleansing.

It’s blindingly clear at this point that the protestors in Los Angeles are in fact helping to prevent a fascist takeover, and the pundits who suggested that protest is counterproductive were being either stupid or actively malicious.

My University has told us that despite growing ug and grad majors, we are losing a TT history position (not filling line of departing prof). Today they announced they hired a new "chief artificial intelligence strategist." Guess how I feel about this.

The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily

This was the plan the entire time and it was always going to be targeted towards Democratic run cities. It’s not about law and order. It’s about controlling by force the areas where Trump does not control by ideology.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

ICE appears to confirm that California National Guard are being used to provide security to ICE officers during immigration arrest operations.

If you're a "free speech advocate" who only got upset about pushback to pro-authoritarian speech, and whose takeaway from troops confronting peaceful protesters is that peaceful protests should not be allowed, you might need to sit with the fact that you're actually an authoritarian

NEW: California files an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump admin from using "the federalized California National Guard and active duty Marines for law enforcement purposes on the streets of a civilian city." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

BREAKING The administration of California Governor Gavin Newsom is asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to rescind his order and return the National Guard to the control of the State of California.

Long live Los Angeles and down with the fascists.

Abolish ICE

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

Multiple eyewitnesses, geolocated videos, and weapons experts all point to the same conclusion: On Sunday, the IDF opened fire on Palestinian civilians, killing dozens and wounding dozens more. Respect to CNN. This is real journalism. t.co/lXva8Gunh3

Same. I will “REINVENT THE UNIVERSITY” with a “RETURN TO CLASSICAL EDUCATION” to “RESTORE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND CIVILITY”**. I will basically cancel every platform sub I can, give faculty $5000 for school supplies, students $500 to learn cursive, & basically pretend it’s 1999 again.

I was not expecting a productivist reading of Marx jump scare near the end of Abundance

You can’t have a critique of relative surplus value without a bit of labor romanticism

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

"How can we thoughtfully incorporate the model of a rich guy walking into our classrooms, saying our work is useless, hitting us in the head with a baseball bat, and then denying doing so?" - how I see all plans to accommodate AI use in the classroom.

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Please stop making the vegetarian option gluten free. That bread is gross.

When they threatened cutting off international students at Harvard -- Harvard alone! -- we were talking about 6800 people. Now they want to stop all foreign students from coming to the United States? 1 million people.

*US ORDERS HALT TO STUDENT VISA INTERVIEWS: POLITICO

“Preserving art, literature, and philosophy will require no less than the creation of an environment totally and uncompromisingly committed to abolishing the linguistic alienation created by AI and reintroducing students to the indispensability of their own voice.“

Hello this is completely insane. If i go rob a bank now can I just say oh, I was sidestepping the law against taking someone else’s money.

In college, I once went to Prof. MacIntyre's office hours... The phone rang. He took the call, listened, then said curtly to phone, 'I'm sorry, I can't help you now, I'm busy." He put down the receiver, snorted. "That was Time Magazine. They want to know what's wrong with morality in America today."

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.

Trump says he wants to investigate Springsteen, Oprah, & Beyoncé for endorsing Kamala Harris and the straightforward interpretation is the correct one: he's using fear of investigation and legal entanglement to deter celebrities from speaking out against him. That's autocratic thuggery.

The weather today is The Moment After a Sneeze that Never Happened

TFW the executive of the modern state is not just a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie but rather just affairs of one very specific executive

Wages for Earthwork Wages for Earthwork ByDavid Myer Temin, University of Michigan. This essay proposes a novel paradigm for a political theory of climate justice: wages for earthwork. Indigenous peoples have disproportionately contributed to the sustainable stewardship of the natural world…

I am suddenly reminded of Augustine's account of the dissipated self in his Confessions.

For my 17 Real Genius fans out there.

Twenty years into this whole career of reading carefully business, I feel fundamentally justified in my theory that one of the most precious interactions with a text is being so confused that you spend decades hung up on some weird off-putting thing that you can't let go of in that reading.

Perfect example of how white supremacy undermines collective flourishing

Abolish ICE. It is incompatible with constitutional self-government and a free society.