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PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic, and a 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind). New article on Singin in the Rain ☔️ and Sorry to Bother You 🐴 out now in Cultural Critique
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Good thread

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Celtics wearing Black History Month T-shirts. Not sure if that is civil disobedience (yet) but glad to see it. ☘️

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Freedom of contract Mafia/Maga style: “The talks had already stretched late into Saturday night, according to two Ukrainian officials..and coincided with a huge Russian drone assault on Ukrainian cities overnight. The Ukrainian Air Force [called] it a record since the war began three years ago” NYT

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Listen to how his voice drips with derision when he says “I don’t know who ‘Rosa’ is” He is in his misogyny comfort zone

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“If you are not at the table, you are on the menu” 🔥 But if you ARE at the table you may also find yourself on the menu, one day. When you lie down with cannibals, you wake up as bones…

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WTF!?

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these are the kind of moves that'll eventually move the needle towards shifting power away from tech oligarchs

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Heather Cox Richardson in a calm tone - is alarming: “Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI,” military specialist Tom Nichols wrote.. “the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government.”

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Recommend everyone get a hold of Shatema Threadcraft’s hot off the press “Anti-Black Violence and Toni Morrison’s Democratic Storytelling” (APSR). It’s about Morrison’s “truant democracy,” doing politics with the dead, and storytelling. Brilliant, amazing readings steeped in Black feminist theory.

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Wow. It’s a bit unnerving seeing it like this

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No difference detected.

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"One can take it as a general rule in this century that whatever is possible in one country may in the foreseeable future be equally possible in almost any other" (Hannah Arendt, "Crisis in Education") /1

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Yes. Notice the wording. Harnessed. Not milked. Ie no texts for more $. Just comms re: organizing people for effective action, ideas for which should come from these people!

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Good for this person! Brilliant use of work to rule against bigoted law! I hope one day she gets to meet our madame president

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“Le loi, c’est moi” Governor Mills of Maine: Bien non!

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Maine governor in response to threat to withhold fed $: “No President…can withhold Federal funding authorized and appropriated by Congress and paid for by Maine taxpayers in an attempt to coerce someone into compliance with his will. It is a violation of our Constitution and of our laws.”

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It’s fun, convivial — says Maddow tonight. BlueSky!

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I knew there was some trumpy talk before last night’s game but had not see all of this salivating. 🤮. As several commenters here note: embrace him at your peril. Everything he touches dies, and without first turning into gold. The anti-Midas touch.

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Trudeau on Twitter: “You can’t take our country—and you can’t take our game” It did feel nationalistically good to win last night, must say.

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HCR-citing Hersey (Stars and Stripes): 1/3 of "federal workers are veterans, while veterans make up only about 5% of the civilian workforce..in..2023, about 25% of the federal government’s new hires were veterans;" and “they have been hit hard by the firings," which have cut the newest hires.

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