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Political theorist in Montreal, via Custer, Lubbock, New Underwood, Rapid City, Northfield, State College, and WashPa. Free Palestine.
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A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

To lose one fighter jet is a tragedy. To lose two begins to look like carelessness.

This, from Holly Lewis, is excellent.

A nice (unwitting) demonstration of the universalizing (if never completed) tendency of basic political rights: if due process is only for citizens, then no citizen has due process, since the police can call them an alien and disappear them without a hearing.

We really do have an open genocidaire in Congress.

Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.

Yeah, they have identified with the Empire and with Vader for a while. Here's the head of the Premier Sector of the USBP on Twitter.

Just found out that Marx's Inferno will be appearing in Spanish translation in 2026 from Edicions Bellaterra. And, if you haven't read it on English yet, now is a good time to get it, since PUP is having a 50% off sale right now.

In 2010, Senator Chuck Schumer called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to investigate whether the Gaza aid flotilla that Israel attacked was tied to Al Qaeda

If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne. The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews. Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.

Makes sense. It's working. Gotta put a stop to it.

Reposted in memory youtu.be/d6qc8EqN_XI?...

It's a big group chat, and you're not in it.

I can't believe Joshua Clover is gone.

voters just want to be taken seriously and treated like adults

Pathetic and embarrassing.

I think we should raise the salience of this.

Unfortunately, every day reveals to the world a new nutcase from Montreal/McGill.

Wow. Just, wow

16 years ago, I reported on a video in which a forensic charlatan used the dental mold of a suspect to fabricate bite marks on the corpse of a young girl. It took way too long, but this week a Louisiana court finally overturned Jimmie Duncan’s conviction and death sentence.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

In two weeks, I will be presenting at the CUNY Graduate Center Political Theory Workshop. (The paper title has changed to "Freedom and control at work") Details below. If you want to meet up while I'm in NYC, drop me a note.

It's frankly ridiculous that we even have to make this suggestion. It's Politics 101.