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Angela Mitropoulos

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Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia (2012) Pandemonium: Proliferating Borders of Capital and the Pandemic Swerve (2020) More (open access) writings at https://s0metim3s.com/mitropoulos/

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · Dec 17

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 1

Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities. Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 1h

He’s for Schmittianism what Jordan Peterson was for Jungianism

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

most normies are mad at thiel for being incomprensible

we are mad at thiel for not understanding philosophy and theology

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 1h

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1h

"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."

The Assault on Children

MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism

nobody-wants-this.ghost.io

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 21h

Occasional reminder: if you are interested in the far right and their supporters, this bibliography runs to approximately 1,200 references www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-righ...

Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe

A bibliography of more than 1200 titles on the parties of the Extreme Right in Western Europe (aka the Populist Right, Radical Right, Anti-Immigrant Right)

www.kai-arzheimer.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 15h

The Marjist labour theory of value

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 18h

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them."

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 16h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s executive order labeling “Antifa” a domestic terrorist group—despite having no legal basis—has inspired far-right leaders in Europe. Hungary, Poland, and the Netherlands are considering similar actions against antifascist movements.

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How the International Far Right is Getting on Board With Trump’s Antifa Terrorist Designation

Trump’s baseless “Antifa” terrorist designation has sparked a global echo, with Hungary, Poland, and the Netherlands moving to replicate it. The coordinated effort reframes dissent as terrorism—part o...

globalextremism.org

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 2d

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

next.frame.io

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 3d

Pragmatic theocrats

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Listening and learning

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 3d

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 3d

" ... one of the founders of antifa"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

Joey Mannarino in a dark brown tailored jacket. The low armhole is causing his jacket to lift.

Someone in an inflatable frog costume. The high armhole allows them to raise their arm without disturbing the rest of the garment

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3d

A book which JD Vance wrote the blurb for.

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 3d

Just a reminder that Jack published a book last year called “unhumans” that makes the argument that all Democrats and anyone left of Francisco Franco should be rounded up and murdered en mass for the rest of the populations entertainment.
Jack is a Nazi and hell bent on the murder of his opponents

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 3d

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.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Lilith Goddess of Rebellion @elo-cin.bsky.social · 3d

Antifa, short for Antifaschistische Aktion, was founded in 1932. It arose in response to the rapid growth of Hitler’s Nazi Party.

Its goal was to defend the working class from fascist violence & oppose the rise of Nazism. They saw the fight vs. fascism as part of a broader struggle vs. capitalism.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 3d

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 4d

No. Unfortunately

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

My piece - to be in this week's issue - on the South Shore raid and what it says about Donald Trump's America:

www.economist.com/united-state...

My view is this stuff is as much or more about creating content and fear than it is about actually catching immigrants, though that's a goal too

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 4d

The "gangster state" is the fascist state in formation.

Dana Siler @danasilerpgh.bsky.social · 5d

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Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 4d

We’re enraged and heartbroken by the rising deaths in ICE custody. Huabing Xie, from China, died Sept 29 after being held at Imperial Regional Detention Facility. At least 20 people have died since Trump took office as he moves to triple ICE detention by the end of this year. #CommunitiesNotCages

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 4d

How is ethnonationalist violence not regarded as far Right violence?

CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies @csis.org · 8d

New research from CSIS’s Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program finds left-wing violence has risen in the last decade but from very low levels and still well below historic levels of violence by right-wing and jihadist actors.

Daniel Byman breaks it down: www.youtube.com/shorts/nEv0d...

Political Violence in the United States: What the Data Tells Us

New research from CSIS’s Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program finds left-wing violence has risen in the last decade but from very low levels and...

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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