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AKA Fa͍ͥ͒ͦͣ͑bi̗̼̣̦̳̊͐̏͊̇aͭn̜͕̜̠̼ͤ̐̏ Munié̼͙̭͉̫̌ͤ̑̓s͚͔̩̓̆a
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Sparse reactions to things, augmented with academic propaganda -- from the verified author of 'The Provoked Economy' (Routledge, 2014), AKA Fabian Muniesa

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Fabian Muniesa is an author, social scientist, and poet of French and Spanish citizenship. He is a Professor at the École des Mines de Paris, and a member of the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation in Paris, France. .. more

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AKA Fa͍ͥ͒ͦͣ͑bi̗̼̣̦̳̊͐̏͊̇aͭn̜͕̜̠̼ͤ̐̏ Munié̼͙̭͉̫̌ͤ̑̓s͚͔̩̓̆a @provokedeconomy.bsky.social · Apr 23
"There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable." www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Fabian Muniesa, 2024, Paranoid Finance, Polity Press.

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Fabián Muniesa, W Grant

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.

By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com
The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
www.propublica.org

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10h
"It really is almost like cut-and-paste language that they know they’re going to need in situations like this. They sort of prefabricated the language, and they just dropped it into this situation, almost before anyone even knew any of the facts." trib.al/0x0yiiV
Transcript: Trump’s Agents Kill Citizen—Then Damning New Info Emerges
As the ICE shooting horror in Minneapolis gets worse, a writer who focuses on ICE accountability explains why the government’s cover story is full of holes—and what recourse we have now.
trib.al

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CTXT @ctxt.es · 10h
Nicolás Maduro terminó convertido en un pésimo y autoritario gobernante, encabezando un régimen que, desde un punto de vista progresista, apenas tenía por dónde salvarse,si se dejaba aparte su retórica antiimperialista

La corrupción fue siempre el mal endémico 🇻🇪
Juan Torres✍️
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El reloj de la izquierda española lleva atrasada la hora de Venezuela
Llegaron tarde a apoyar la revolución bolivariana, y tarde se van a dar cuenta de que han seguido apoyando lo que ya no lo merecía
ctxt.es

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Henry Farrell

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 11h
"Some might worry that signaling punishment for Trumpists down the line will only increase the lawlessness ...But...by that logic, one might as well give up on accountability altogether and concede that the initiative – and, ultimately, power – now rest permanently with one’s political adversaries."
A congresswoman wants to impeach Kristi Noem. She’s right to do so | Jan-Werner Müller
It may be tempting to dismiss the move as hopeless – but it interrupts the Trump administration’s promise of impunity
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Steve Peers, Fabián Muniesa, Alan Richardson , and 2 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Homan: "There will be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric"

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 13h
It strikes me how Renee Good is being built as what Thewelhiet would refer to as a 'Red Woman' - one of the half-crazed jezebels in the Communist red brigades who were infinitely more vicious and perverse than the communist men. As always, read Male Fantasies.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 13h
We had to tear-gas the children in order to save them.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Noem: "Every single thing I've said has been factual about what's been going on in Mpls, in Minnesota...we've surged HSI there to focus on sex trafficking & child trafficking. It's so prevalent in MN. It's horrific...we're gonna keep hundreds of HSI officers there to continue to protect those kids."

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 13h
If you’re interested in posthuman cartographies and happen to be in Paris this week, this is the event for you: institut-acte.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/s...
Symposium Rhizome Rosi | Labo - Institut ACTE
institut-acte.pantheonsorbonne.fr

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 13h
*Stanford, ketamine, or baked-in lying and grifting:

Reposted by Amir Attaran, Fabián Muniesa, Michael D. McDonald

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Noem: "People are using their vehicles as deadly weapons and training them on how to block streets ... All of these times you see these rioters out there doing that -- they've been trained to do that, they know they are training them to break the law."

Reposted by Patrick Dunleavy, David Rothschild, Fabián Muniesa , and 6 more

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Fabián Muniesa, Henry Farrell , and 1 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Noem: "Every single thing I've said has been factual about what's been going on in Mpls, in Minnesota...we've surged HSI there to focus on sex trafficking & child trafficking. It's so prevalent in MN. It's horrific...we're gonna keep hundreds of HSI officers there to continue to protect those kids."

Reposted by Martin McKee, Nina Jankowicz, Brendan Nyhan , and 7 more

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h
One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
WELKER: Noem called it an "act of domestic terrorism." What's the evidence?

HOMAN: If they didn't have sanctuary policies--

W: To be clear, is anyone who protests ICE a domestic terrorist?

HOMAN: It's case by case. If you look at the definition of terrorism, it certainly could fall within it

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Reece Jones, Nina Jankowicz , and 37 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Daniel B. Rodriguez

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h
Tapper: "By this standard, would any of these officers be justified in shooting and killing the people causing them physical harm?"

Noem: "Every single situation is going to rely on the situation those officers are on."

It only gets dumber from there.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Tapper to Noem: "I just showed you video of people attacking law enforcement officers on J6. Trump pardoned them all. You said Trump is enforcing all the laws equally. That's just not true. There's a different standard for LEOs being attacked if they're being attacked by Trump supporters."

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Adele Perry

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h
new video up on the youtube page youtu.be/N1DVvGlzGEs?...
Everything is Gender
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 15h
NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good.

Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.

Reposted by Steven Heydemann, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Brendan Nyhan , and 8 more

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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 1d
Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins

A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…
Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d
Proving my point: they act like wife-beaters, claiming to be the victim because her nose bruised your knuckles.

www.salon.com/2026/01/09/i...

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 1d
Fascism!: The US Army Publishes a Pamphlet in 1945 Explaining How to Spot Fascism at Home and Abroad

It's not hard to see right now.

www.openculture.com/2023/06/fasc...
Fascism!: The US Army Publishes a Pamphlet in 1945 Explaining How to Spot Fascism at Home and Abroad
'Fascism is a word that’s been used a great deal these last few years,' says the article pictured above (scanned in full here at the Internet Archive).
www.openculture.com

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 1d
"It's horrible, it's terrifying, it should never happen, it feels like we're not in the United States, they're trying to spread fear—people are standing up and saying no," -one of thousands of Minneapolis ICE protesters after ICE murdered Renee Good. LIVE NOW ⬇️

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EL PAÍS México @elpaismexico.bsky.social · 1d
Datos para entender la paradoja del petróleo en Venezuela y por qué Trump quiere controlarlo dozz.es/4qchv3
Datos para entender la paradoja del petróleo en Venezuela y por qué Trump quiere controlarlo
dozz.es

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d
Anti-government chants filled the streets of Iran's capital late Saturday as protesters pressed the biggest movement against the Islamic republic in more than three years, despite a deadly crackdown under cover of an internet blackout.

u.afp.com/SXs4

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d
Tehran escalated its threats against demonstrators Saturday, with the Iran’s attorney general warning that anyone taking part in protests will be considered an “enemy of God,” a death-penalty charge. https://to.pbs.org/4qMOgRi
Protests in Iran reach 2-week mark as authorities intensify crackdown on demonstrators
Tehran escalated its threats Saturday, with the Iran’s attorney general, Mohammad Movahedi Azad, warning that anyone taking part in protests will be considered an “enemy of God,” a death-penalty charg...
to.pbs.org

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EL PAÍS Chile @elpaischile.bsky.social · 1d
🇨🇱🗣️ ENTREVISTA | Gabriel Boric insiste en que sus convicciones siguen intactas, pero asegura que “las frases tan categóricas e hiperbólicas no se llevan tan bien con la realidad” dozz.es/7tmq326

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d
People might argue that ICE is not recruiting quality agents.

But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy.

www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
Opinion | ICE's violence is no accident
Alan Elrod: The killing of a woman by an immigration enforcement officer in Minneapolis was the raw application of Trumpist authoritarianism.
www.ms.now

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Bonnie Honig, Janet Murray , and 3 more

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
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Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Greg Linden

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 1d
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has generated a flood of sexualized images of women and minors posted to the social media platform X. Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action. Tech Policy Press is tracking such responses.
Tracking Regulator Responses to the Grok 'Undressing' Controversy | TechPolicy.Press
Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action against Elon Musk's company.
buff.ly

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
“Renee sparkled”
Protester holding a sign that reads “Renee sparkled -Becca Good and END ICE