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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton

@drmbhp.bsky.social

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fiction author; composition and literature professor; postcolonial crime media/games/texts as world lit PhD; crime discourse and IR/state formation guy; allegedly in possession of "your dad playing video games" vibes; he/him/any

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · May 6

The right-wing attacks on education--the grad student arrests, defunding battles, long-term reputation attacks--are a strategy, and so I've been thinking about what the big-picture counter-strategy is.

And then I wrote an article about it.

Attacks on Higher Ed and the New Illiberal Electorate

The right-wing destruction of American higher education institutions is a strategic move. Liberals need to answer with a strategy of their own.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 4d

We're all laughing but Kristi Noem has invented a time machine and arrested a citizen of the Weimar Republic. She also reportedly struck up a whirlwind romance with an Austrian art school dropout.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 4d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 4d

Putting this one in the "very proud to be Bengali by marriage and diet" box.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d

www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/i...

India has a festival where a Hindu goddess slays a demon. This year the demon is Trump | CNN

Sitting atop her lion, the Hindu goddess Durga wields a celestial weapon in each of her 10 hands. But her target isn’t the usual demon of deceit, Mahishasura.

www.cnn.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6d

of course this has no real basis in modern history, which has demonstrated over and over again that bigotry is a luxury. bigotry is a waste of human potential that you can only get away with when you're *not* in a life or death struggle with an enemy "hellbent" on destroying you

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 7d

The author is dead, but somehow the reader never seems to take responsibility

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10d

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 9d

It's just homosocial peacocking all the way down

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 9d

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 16d

I mean, personally, every fall I think "maybe I should write an article on defense policy" and just play xcom instead.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 16d

his most relatable opinion is that he replays xcom2 regularly

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 16d

Meanwhile, my "Tom Nichols but mainly when discussing cats or XCOM" answer probably isn't going to fly with the PoliMath Campus Gestapo Committee.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 16d

The way I teach this to college students is "address the opponent precisely because the crowd is watching; addressing the crowd turns the crowd into your opponent" and apparently this wisdom is so rare that I should have become a DNC consultant.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16d

Address your opponents, not the crowd.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 20d

kinda goes with point one. I think a lot of couples would have more kids if you didn't have to be pregnant

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21d

if you assume that every single thing this administration does is for an audience of, like, maybe two million people out of three hundred and thirty million, you will be more right than wrong

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 21d

I used to think Ciattarelli had so few convictions that if you hit him on the head you'd hear an echo, but clearly he's got at least one and he inherited it from Strom Thurmond.

Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 21d

When asked about racially segregated NJ schools, MAGA Jack Ciattarelli implies it’s only an issue “if schools with predominantly Black student populations were outperforming schools with predominantly white populations.”

The quiet part, on camera, into a microphone, loudly & deliberately:

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21d

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Be Loud — For America

By Governor JB Pritzker

contrarian.substack.com

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 24d

I mean "the Kimmel Rebellion" does have a certain ring to it, I guess?

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 25d

I will go to my deathbed, which god willing will be in like seven decades, absolutely hating these people for their sheer hubris and decadence. We had the world, and they are risking it all because they can't see past the bridge of their nose shoved up their ass

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 25d

The thing that's astounding is they don't seem to understand how what they're exactly playing at, their cowardice actually increases their personal risk! Their entire being is predicted on the stability and order that they are choosing to compromise!

George Pearkes @peark.es · 25d

American elites are deeply corrupt scum. Dimon fluffing the GOP Senate caucus today was a perfect example of it.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · Sep 12

Someday, “Bongo and Kash” will be the funniest bumbling cop movie of all time

Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · Sep 11

FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Dan Bongino are traveling to Utah to directly oversee the manhunt for Charlie Kirk’s killer, two people familiar with their plans say. -NYT

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yeah this right here.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Sep 11

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 11

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Sep 11

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · Sep 12

The administration has a delusion that it can bring a durable autocracy into being simply by wanting it hard enough & I need BlueSky to understand that it doesn't have to share in that delusion.

Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · Sep 11

Really is astounding that the past 48 hours have been a firm illustration of how powerless and fragile this administration is and the mood of the site is the lowest it's ever been since Inauguration.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · Sep 10

I read, a while back, that George Wallace went to his grave understanding that he'd made the world worse by his hateful nonsense and that nothing he'd done since would really make up for it.

Still think about that sometimes.

Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · Sep 9

As we get into autumn, I need you all to realize that, despite the abundance of intimidating Italian-American Grandma recipes, a tomato sauce can be made in 15 minutes from scratch for a fraction of the price of the jarred stuff.

If you--*instantly sniped through the window by a Big Sauce hitman*

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · Sep 7

they are simply incapable of imagining a world that does not function as they believe it is morally appropriate for the world to operate

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