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Grateful for Vanessa Wills’ perspective here. It also reminds me to question my learned inner cop voice. If I don’t have anything constructive to say, it’s maybe time for me to listen and learn.

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This post choked me up a bit. Please fight for Helen and people like Helen. Not just because I like Helen’s brain, which I do, but also because cancer trials can save lives and people’s lives are worth saving.

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@vcwills.bsky.social (Historian Vanessa Wills) this morning Part one: “If someone says they're going to use a ‘shock and awe’ strategy against you, that means there's never been a more important time to try, if possible, to keep a cool head as you stride into battle.”

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

What @vcwills.bsky.social said. #KennedyCenter

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Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.

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i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

submitted 79 days ago • 2856 comments

I read (most of) an earlier manuscript of this a while ago, @vcwills.bsky.social was my professor and mentor in things Marx in grad school. Finally ordered the book and it is really an instant classic in Marxist philosophy. The most thorough and original treatment of Marxian ethics I’ve read

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

We never hear incarcerated people on mainstream news media. Credit to Ashleigh Banfield for interviewing them. Thank you, @vcwills.bsky.social, for pointing this out on FB. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-6-...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely fascinating interview.

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"Targeted & Assassinated": Gaza Soup Kitchen Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun Killed by Israeli Drone

submitted 90 days ago • 36 comments

It’s #ReadPalestine Week! 🇵🇸📚

submitted 93 days ago • 14 comments

A thing I like about Wikipedia is that I can form the question, "In what parts of the U.S. do native English speakers use the positive 'anymore'?" and Wikipedia has an answer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positiv...

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There's a very real sense in which these three statements, found in the comment section of a Facebook reel about perfume, cover the full range of mainstream opinion among the citizenry of waning liberal democracies today

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I've got a long flight ahead of me, and some work to do, but alsooooooo @vcwills.bsky.social

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...

submitted 107 days ago • 20 comments

"Politics is the only business in which you can prove your authenticity by not knowing anything." — Bill Clinton The bourgeoisie's *actual* epistemology, expressed in its most rational form.

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I think many leftists &/or progressives underestimate the extent to which Bill Clinton remains the most coherent & explicit expositor of the U.S. bourgeois liberal worldview [pejorative] youtu.be/Rif6KfyOfDE?...

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THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast "EP. 645: THE ETHICAL MARX ft. Vanessa( @vcwills.bsky.social )Wills" Jason Myles, Pascal Robert, Madam Toussaint podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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On a feature of Smith and Marx on Alienation open.substack.com/pub/digressi... with a shout out to @vcwills.bsky.social

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This is happening at 1pm Eastern today (6pm UK time). I'm super excited for it and I hope you can come! There's still time to register 💃🏿 tinyurl.com/2s4kekw2

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