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patrickiber.bsky.social
Co-editor, Dissent Magazine. I teach history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Write books about Cold War culture and propaganda. Have written for the set of all publications that are not members of themselves
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Great piece by @profmpastor.bsky.social, reporting from L.A.: "The attack on immigrants now is a dry run for the strongman tactics that will later be used on us all. And finding a path of resistance that is fierce but not reckless, mass but not middling, strong but not violent will be a challenge."

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After 2015 there was a lot of effort to recruit people to leftist identities on the grounds of being leftist-not-liberal but you can also be leftist and liberal and when you’re facing an illiberal authoritarian project that’s the formation to encourage

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I gotta be honest I can’t tell if these people are AI or not

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Join us at Book Culture on July 10 for a discussion about our new anthology, Labor’s Partisans, and the state of the labor movement today—with @alexnpress.bsky.social and E. Tammy Kim. www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/event-j...

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So on the one hand there's a dynamic of Trump handing over the keys to a series of disturbed henchmen and then taking them back, but those reversals don't seem to be diminishing the threat of an authoritarian break

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Folks, @resnikoff.bsky.social is right

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Looks to me like evidence that Levitsky believes what he is saying in his scholarship and taking its implications seriously, but it’s presented as partisanship

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Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

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Nicolás Medina Mora takes on the good, the bad, and the ugly from Greg Grandin's América, América in a review that is both erudite and sprightly www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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Incredible

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I feel like this is a fact that is really tough for certain people to absorb because of canonization of the Civil Rights Movement in schools, plus the moral self-dealing of "if current me had been alive then, I would surely have approved" among American white people

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Andrés Pertierra spent a year living in Cuba and returned with this report; I hope this is widely read as people need to understand how bad conditions have become, economically and otherwise www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

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Andrés Pertierra spent a year living in Cuba and returned with this report; I hope this is widely read as people need to understand how bad conditions have become, economically and otherwise www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

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Today is my birthday, and INSTEAD of a military parade I’d like you to REPOST this Book Giveaway! To qualify, repost and tag two friends who you think might be interested. Winner receives a copy of ‘In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism’.🗃️🏺🎂

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People need to remember that when you elect a President you are electing a person and also a bureaucracy; you need the competent and experienced technocrats, etc. and if you don't have them you will fail even if you succeed

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Join Dissent in the Bay Area on June 26 for a discussion about housing politics and climate disaster! With @moira.bsky.social (@cplusc.bsky.social) and Zach Lou (CA Green New Deal Coalition), moderated by @patrickiber.bsky.social. www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/bay-are...

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