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Pessimism, political theory, co-parent of a little kid, lover of animals, Simone Weil's political thought, rapidly aging culture takes. A-anti-anticapitalista.
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Judges strike. (Lol, not really, but that would be hilarious and awesome.)

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

This is the definition of research:

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Don't use any encyclopedia as a source. They are definitional, not scholarly.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

An antidote to facism is more community.

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

If it goes this far before you hit your red line you're either an institutionalist, a racist, or an asshole.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

If we were really luddites we'd be actively destroying the server farms. Hey guess what, LLMs suck and they are mostly only useful for repressive means. So fuck them and everyone who pimps for them.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

The Zionist genocide Monsters came after my family's favorite bagel shop. Nick Sammoudi is a kind man who made many concessions to Jewish communities around Philly including closing on Saturdays. He treated everyone with respect. He deserves better. www.inquirer.com/food/kosher-...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A fantastic guy who is also a former student of mine is getting absolutely screwed over by anti-Native racism in higher ed, and the administrators at the public comprehensive college that are doing it are fucking up the college's relationship with the Nation and the Reservation. Fucking disaster.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

"Refugees are the most vetted, no refugee has ever committed an act of terror" "If an immigrant commits a crime, all immigrants should be sanctioned" Both sentences, one "pro immigration" one against use the same logic. If we're ever to get out of this, we must insist all humans are just human. ➕

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The accelerating move to ban masks in workplaces seems like a biopolitical homology to banning trans ppl from restrooms & sports: one is permitted only a gender-disciplined, abled, smoothly productive/birthing body or one will be banished from all public life

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Jonathan Greenblatt is the chair of the most significant kapo factory in the US.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Abolish the business schools. they are neither spaces of education nor research.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Porque no los dos?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

ppl keep mistaking Jurassic Park for a survival film against dinosaurs when it's actually a survival film against startup culture

submitted 5 days ago • 87 comments

So NoahBrain thinks the neo-Nazi serial rapist with neo-crusader tattoos is "less significantly awful" than all the other neo-Nazi serial rapists in the Trump administration.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Boston University Professor Nathan Phillips has launched a hunger strike to protest the detention of Rumeysa Ozturk. The environmental scientist began his strike on April 15, after university officials repeatedly took down a “Free Rumeysa” sign from his office window

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Birthrate panics are extremely fascist.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

what a brilliant and definitely useful technology

submitted 6 days ago • 115 comments

Gosh how could I possibly have known that the most obviously full of shit people every to walk the earth were full of shit?

submitted 7 days ago • 96 comments

Say what you will, but hardcore punk shows are still the best fucking shows ever.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Not really getting used if you are part of the same movement.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The US military has been a tool for the maintenance of the international imperialist order since at least 1919, domestically, it has been an institution dedicated to training American fascists. Before then it was a nakedly colonialist institution. This is just pulling back the curtains.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Hey @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social when can we get a new edition of Malaparte's Coup d'Etat book? Seems pretty relevant these days.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

How ya going to leave without him and everyone else who's been renditioned to this concentration camp?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like we will know in a matter of days if the pretense of constitutionalism and institutionalism hold up.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This fascism is the point.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments