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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 11h

this is tomorrow! hope to see some of you there 🦋

eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 4d

Join me this Saturday, 10/11 2pm EST to discuss my research into museum collections, the rise of US philanthropy, and the relationship between aesthetic form and property 📚

marxedproject.org/event/the-po...

The Politics of Collecting with Eunsong Kim - Marxist Education Project

In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptu...

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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 2d

noting another connected event!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE6h...

Making Home Saturday Series: Systems Shaping Our Understanding of Home (Session 2)

YouTube video by Cooper Hewitt

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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 3d

posting my favorite review of the book just because <3
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Why I Hate Found Object Art

YouTube video by Shannon Kim

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dominique routhier @routhier.bsky.social · May 20

So I wrote about why I declined my Fulbright grant and canceled my research stay at NYU.

Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Dansk forsker: Forskningsopholdet ville fremme min forskning og karriere. Alligevel takker jeg nej til Trumps USA

Som hvid mand med papirerne i orden er risikoen ved indrejse til USA begrænset for mig. Alligevel tager jeg ikke imod legatet til et forskningsophold i landet.

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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 4d

a primer to our conversation. hope to see some of you there :)

offshootjournal.org/no-good-olig...

NO GOOD OLIGARCHS

Offshoot Journal presents NO GOOD OLIGARCHS. Rockefeller isn’t better than Musk, Mellon isn’t better than Bezos because there are N O G O O D O L I G A R C H S: N O N E. Carnegie didn’t build concert ...

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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 4d

Join me this Saturday, 10/11 2pm EST to discuss my research into museum collections, the rise of US philanthropy, and the relationship between aesthetic form and property 📚

marxedproject.org/event/the-po...

The Politics of Collecting with Eunsong Kim - Marxist Education Project

In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptu...

marxedproject.org

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Offshoot Journal @offshootjournal.bsky.social · 11d

“The billionaires of the present only exist because the billionaires of the past. Don’t compliment them, don’t compare them to each other, don’t be grateful for scraps.” offshootjournal.org/no-good-olig...

NO GOOD OLIGARCHS

Offshoot Journal presents NO GOOD OLIGARCHS. Rockefeller isn’t better than Musk, Mellon isn’t better than Bezos because there are N O G O O D O L I G A R C H S: N O N E. Carnegie didn’t build concert ...

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 14d

We lost a warrior, a freedom fighter, a visionary, someone who changed the way I see the world. May Assata Shakur rest in power with the ancestors!

Black and white image or Assata Shakur wearing silver earrings with cowrie shells in her locs, looking to the side talking to someone.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 14d

The empty left-influencer rhetoric instructing people to “join an organization” is deeply misleading. What kind of org and why? The word “organization” isn't inherently left. There are fascist organizations. Don't just say uncritical stuff that doesn't truly help for the sake of saying something.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 14d

We're in danger because the contemporary US left is oversaturated with a bunch of posturing and old lines. People are going to walk right into a bunch of avoidable traps, thinking they can run the same plays from 50-100 years ago. This is a different era. Consider your words and actions.

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Maddie Block @maddieblock.bsky.social · 22d

Oh yeah hi Bluesky friends, so besides sharing my writing journey here on Bluesky, I am also on TikTok and am a menace to my Republican politician dad lol

Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 23d

Really enjoying the content from Maddie Block, a young woman in New Mexico who’s dad is a far right Republican state senator - she is posting thru & calling out his bullshit. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Sa17hj/

Interesting to see that my dad, a state senator in New Mexico, thinks other people should be fired for posting about the unaliving of another human being, but when my dad actively roots for unaliving ...

TikTok video by Maddie Block

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Nina @gotmyniinaa.bsky.social · 21d

The "broligarchs" of today are no different from the oligarchs of the Gilded Age: "the top priority is not to gain more money; it is to gain more power and control over society and its future."

This zine is maybe 15 pages and absolutely worth your time:

Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · 21d

"The museums, libraries and foundations that emerged from the robber baron era — none of these were given for 'free': they were paid for and built by breaking unions (which transformed US union culture forever), open-firing on striking workers [...]" offshootjournal.org/no-good-olig...

NO GOOD OLIGARCHS

Offshoot Journal presents NO GOOD OLIGARCHS. Rockefeller isn’t better than Musk, Mellon isn’t better than Bezos because there are N O G O O D O L I G A R C H S: N O N E. Carnegie didn’t build concert ...

offshootjournal.org

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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 19d

General Strike in Italy tomorrow for Palestine!!!!

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 22d

Go follow @offshootjournal.bsky.social on IG for all your thoughtful, non-dogmatic radicalism, political education and art needs. More coming from us soon!

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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 21d

there are no good oligarchs!

"The billionaires of the present only exist because the billionaires of the past. Don’t compliment them, don’t compare them to each other, don’t be grateful for scraps. We wouldn’t have less without them: we would have MORE
offshootjournal.org/no-good-olig...

NO GOOD OLIGARCHS

Offshoot Journal presents NO GOOD OLIGARCHS. Rockefeller isn’t better than Musk, Mellon isn’t better than Bezos because there are N O G O O D O L I G A R C H S: N O N E. Carnegie didn’t build concert ...

offshootjournal.org

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Tiana Reid @tianareid.bsky.social · 21d

"The museums, libraries and foundations that emerged from the robber baron era — none of these were given for 'free': they were paid for and built by breaking unions (which transformed US union culture forever), open-firing on striking workers [...]" offshootjournal.org/no-good-olig...

NO GOOD OLIGARCHS

Offshoot Journal presents NO GOOD OLIGARCHS. Rockefeller isn’t better than Musk, Mellon isn’t better than Bezos because there are N O G O O D O L I G A R C H S: N O N E. Carnegie didn’t build concert ...

offshootjournal.org

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 22d

This @offshootjournal.bsky.social zine comes out of necessity. Take a firm stand against those romanticizing the ruling class of old because they donated some of the wealth they took in blood. It was hoarded by oppressing people throughout this country and the world.

There are no good oligarchs.

Offshoot Journal @offshootjournal.bsky.social · 22d

New zine from us: “Let’s learn about the history of robber barons so that we can better understand this terrible present. Remember: let’s continue to politically educate one another and build movements where people are thoroughly informed on as much as possible.” offshootjournal.org/no-good-olig...

NO GOOD OLIGARCHS

Offshoot Journal presents NO GOOD OLIGARCHS. Rockefeller isn’t better than Musk, Mellon isn’t better than Bezos because there are N O G O O D O L I G A R C H S: N O N E. Carnegie didn’t build concert ...

offshootjournal.org

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Offshoot Journal @offshootjournal.bsky.social · 22d

New zine from us: “Let’s learn about the history of robber barons so that we can better understand this terrible present. Remember: let’s continue to politically educate one another and build movements where people are thoroughly informed on as much as possible.” offshootjournal.org/no-good-olig...

NO GOOD OLIGARCHS

Offshoot Journal presents NO GOOD OLIGARCHS. Rockefeller isn’t better than Musk, Mellon isn’t better than Bezos because there are N O G O O D O L I G A R C H S: N O N E. Carnegie didn’t build concert ...

offshootjournal.org

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 22d

Relevant:

William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 24d

COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org.

prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...

Another way out: Building resistance when passivity is the norm

The COVID-19 pandemic should have shown us that we’re supposed to be meeting needs, not falling in line behind fascist incursions

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 23d

Join Junction Reads for a virtual reading and conversation with Jacob Wren, author of Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim, on Sunday, September 21 · 6 - 7pm EDT.

Sign up here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/junction-r...

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Louis Hartnoll @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 28d

For anyone interested in the critical revival of Rose's work, I am co-convening 'Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law' at the University of Warwick this coming December.

Registration and further details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/.... Abstracts and paper titles in due course.

Poster for the 'Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law' conference, due to be held at the University of Warwick on 3 December 2025. The background for the poster is Paul Klee's Angelus Dubiosus( 1939). Listed speakers are: Jessica Feely, Will Spendlove, Tarik Kochi, Adrian Wilding, Chris O'Kane, Nadia Bou Ali, and Rosie Woodhouse.

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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 29d

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Don't let the fascists speak - Pat Parker

YouTube video by cassandra gillig

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 29d

I know there is a lot going on but this went online last night and I am very proud it’s real. If you might be excited to find out how at every turn this nation could have prevented our current political moment by listening to Black people you can even preorder it before we get to designing the cover

A Second Sight

Since the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—a “second sight”—that reveals the truth about the nation t...

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · Sep 11

Actual murderers saying they're opposed to violence. War criminals posting condolences.

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guerin @ontopoetic.earth · Sep 10

The messages pouring in now about this from those whose silence on genocide has been (and remains) deafening.

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