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Jason Read

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Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift More here: http://www.unemployednegativity.com

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Dec 25

It is more than a little awkward to realize that I had two books come out this year, a fact due more to different schedules and timelines of publishing than some prodigious productivity. The Double Shift from Verso...
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The Double Shift

Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery—working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle. To paraphrase Sp...

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 3h

Complete dismantling of CDC while the President gets his Covid booster: doubling down on the fiction that individual well being can be separated from collective well being

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · 4h

The second article has just been published! The always brilliant Sherryl Vint argues that Silicon Valley’s core product is a “science-fictional ideology". It promotes an identity where one aims to be capital itself, ever-growing and immortal, erasing the working class & undermining solidarity.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 14h

Bento was there too

Bento (dog) on bridge over marsh with sun shining

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 20h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 16h

Fun fact: the “peace” in Nobel Peace Prize is ironic, like big guys that are called Tiny or Slim.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 17h

Surprised this heron on my walk this morning

Blue heron taking off from small creek in field

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 21h

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Erasing the 1960s

One Battle After Another, Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 1d

Glad Trump didn’t get the peace prize but Machado is a racist with ties to the European far right. This is shameful. Shame on the Nobel committee.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 2d

the part of peacemaker where he sees the little swastika america flag

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 1d

The idea that universities should be neutral with respect to politics comes up against the limitation that politics is far from neutral when it comes to knowledge.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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5 Guys Who Are Still So Mad About Skylar White In 2025

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 1d

Every time someone says “antifa”

a woman is decorating a christmas tree with red and yellow ribbons

ALT: a woman is decorating a christmas tree with red and yellow ribbons

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 1d

A story in two acts: One: Bento wondering why I am not reading outside while I explain that it is too cold. Two: I give in, bundle up and do my reading outside.

Bento (dog) standing on back porch and not wanting to come inside

Bento (dog) sitting by me while I go about my morning reading outside

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

"A government doesn't announce they have become fascist; they announce anti-fascists are enemies of the state."

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 2d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 2d

The science is in: COVID boosters are worth it, even if you've been vaccinated and/or infected before. Stay safe out there, friends!: 🧪 🛟 www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday's post on labor power in the philosophy of Pierre Macherey and Paolo Virno
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Interpreting a Changing World: Labor Power in Virno and Macherey

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 2d

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Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2d

"But Weiss didn’t test well with audiences, who didn’t understand her centrist-right contrarian politics. In fact, her focus group scores were so low that she wasn’t invited back to guest host, according to insiders."

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d

“She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman." www.rawstory.com/bari-weiss-2...

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," acco...

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 2d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 2d

I once ran into someone who recognized me from my blog and invited me to his wedding. I had a great time.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 2d

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The United States and “Fascistic Capitalism” • Ill Will

Maurizio Lazzarato on the false opposition between market democracy and genocidal war.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about "labor power" as a concept in the work of Paolo Virno and Pierre Macherey and what it means for philosophy.
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Interpreting a Changing World: Labor Power in Virno and Macherey

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