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Oof, what if we did good things for people instead? Read a book.
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The US is experiencing corruption the way they are experiencing measles. So many institutions had been inoculated against it that they thought it was no longer necessary to be afraid of it and now the outbreak is here and not enough institutions have immunity.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

one pitch for higher education from a failed professor: in humanities courses, just focus on one book the entire semester and take it really slow. read sections together in class. do in person writing responses. only talk about that one book.

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

Woke up to thousands of new followers at the other site. Here's the mixtape I posted for the new folk⁸s #Baseballiscinema

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

Until 15 minutes ago, I thought everything in this Slate article about the cinematic Mets broadcasts was just in my head. Refreshing to learn I'm not just projecting from my ivory tower. #LGM slate.com/culture/2025...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Engels (1880): All the social functions of the capitalist has no further social function than that of pocketing dividends, tearing off coupons, and gambling on the Stock Exchange, where the different capitalists despoil one another of their capital.

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

submitted 55 days ago • 106 comments

In 1977, the late Ed Sadlowski, the Steel Workers' radical, offered a rejoinder to Trump's essentialist vision: "the ultimate goal of organized labor is for no man to have to go down in the bowels of the earth and dig coal," said Sadlowski, "No man will have to be subjected to the blast furnace."

submitted 61 days ago • 99 comments

Best joke of the day

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know how to describe "dialectics" without at least a paragraph. "Dialectical materialism" probably takes 5 or 6 to really understand. What exactly is the problem with using terms of art? Even they are often watered down and loose significant utility, but at least they're traceable.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Same

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Not just US Liberalism, Liberal democracy in general. For example, when Sartre was condemning French torture in Algeria in '57, it was this dynamic he pointed to. Even going so far as to draw a distinction between "political violence" and "terrorism" that has been subsequently completely eroded.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

If you don't laugh, you'll cry. Thanks to @theguardian.com for talking to me about how we can make campaigns a public good, especially as our leaders try to make the world suckier:

submitted 61 days ago • 37 comments