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that pic was long ago... CMU sociologist (UCSC) with bachelors in biology (Swat) who prolly shoulda been a geographer, envt, sci, their, father, partner, once-DIII soccer, club ultimate and free-form radio DJ
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All the fuck time. Then they pardoned violent insurrectionists. Endless signals condoning right wing political violence.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 4 days ago • 1033 comments

All y'all talking about contradictions between forces and relations... how many work in a manner where 1) cooperation is both a force and relation and 2) forces are defined as instruments of labor - like Marx does...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

If the point of production, especially for mass industrial commodities (however much niche differentiated), is to be the prioritized/primary locus of proletarian politics then the "post-Fordist" global North ever-increasingly holds a secondary status as the locus of left politics, doesn’t it? 1/2

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Simons Biles comes out and critiques Riley Gaines. She doesn’t get everything right, but hell yes.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I disagree with firing Postecoglu. Expect an exodus of senior players... starting with Romero, sigh.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Look, so, um, like, if, you know, someone makes a clear and cogent argument but precedes it (or adds) over the top claims, the proper response is a) that's great, b) but it's more complex than that, and Not c) you are 100% wrong because Marx!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The Marxist who wrote this passage from 1988 is interpreted by other ecoMarxists as embracing or advancing bourgeois, post-materialist new social movements... smh...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This shit was just too much. I just wish I had the passion for anything like Linda McMahon’s does for minstrelsy. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Under capitalism, productive ecologies are denied a history & wild/public/unproductive ecologies are allowed histories but only romantic ones. In neither case is the historical labor producing those ecologies at the fore, or honored, nor is the labor of their immediate reproduction democratized.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

When someone says you should disregard dead kids in your calculus of a genocide, you can disregard anything else the ethical vacuum says. When they go non sequitur & ad hominem to hammer home their point, don't even bother telling them to go fuck themselves. Just block & mute their degenerate ass.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

There is no justification for or practical politics to shooting or burning random Zionists in the US. There is also no excuse for being naive enough to think a year + of US support for Israel’s genocide will not, in a violent, race-obsessed country, have predictable blowback

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Some journals demand a funding statement, even for book reviews. Let this be an example for us all!

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

chances are if you are reading this you are more informed/a bigger nerd about hurricane season than the current head of FEMA

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Well would you look at that, Pinker appeared on a Nazi podcast

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

I don't agree in part because I think we can just oppose all ethnonationalist projects. It's weird, I think, to have an opinion *specifically* on Zionism, I'd agree there. But there's no good reason not to condemn ethnonationalism per se; 19th C. Romantic nationalism is just a failed project imo.

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

Communities usually organize because they are mad about something that affects them, and that is where people often start developing a larger structural analysis So you can shit on this or build on it, your choice

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

The interesting thing about people dragging the folks in that NYT piece who said that they didn’t vote for moms to get deported is that the article is about how these women are organizing for a member of their community, aggressively and openly, and actually, that’s good.

submitted 13 days ago • 33 comments