Eric Lurking
@ericlurking.bsky.social
Survived a social science PhD and now working happily as a government drone. Twitter refugee trying to find everyone here. Maybe the switch will make me spend less time doom scrolling.
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“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
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February 2, 2026 at 11:04 AM
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
Not even Donald Trump's farts can be trusted.
February 2, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Not even Donald Trump's farts can be trusted.
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I’ve been going back and forth on this but this clinches it—I think these guys really want a Persian Gulf labor model in the US. It’s not a coherent philosophy—nothing ever is with these assholes—but I’ve worked on Gulf labor stuff and I’m seeing more and more of it here. Long thread 1/
February 1, 2026 at 9:09 PM
I’ve been going back and forth on this but this clinches it—I think these guys really want a Persian Gulf labor model in the US. It’s not a coherent philosophy—nothing ever is with these assholes—but I’ve worked on Gulf labor stuff and I’m seeing more and more of it here. Long thread 1/
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This @warontherocks.bsky.social piece (warontherocks.com/2026/01/gaza...) on Israel's conduct in Gaza is devastating and ought to put solidly to rest the undead claim that Israel was exercising some sort of exceptional restraint.
I look forward to the folks claiming that studiously not reading it.
I look forward to the folks claiming that studiously not reading it.
Gaza and the Conduct of Urban War: Civilian Harm, Risk, and Responsibility
Urban warfare is often invoked as an alibi: dense terrain, an embedded enemy, human shields, imperfect intelligence. These conditions are real but they do
warontherocks.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:51 AM
This @warontherocks.bsky.social piece (warontherocks.com/2026/01/gaza...) on Israel's conduct in Gaza is devastating and ought to put solidly to rest the undead claim that Israel was exercising some sort of exceptional restraint.
I look forward to the folks claiming that studiously not reading it.
I look forward to the folks claiming that studiously not reading it.
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In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS:
Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring.
Here's a weird starting point:
There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr.
Cats that roar = genus Panthera
Cats that purr = genus Felis
Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring.
Here's a weird starting point:
There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr.
Cats that roar = genus Panthera
Cats that purr = genus Felis
January 24, 2026 at 11:12 PM
In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS:
Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring.
Here's a weird starting point:
There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr.
Cats that roar = genus Panthera
Cats that purr = genus Felis
Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring.
Here's a weird starting point:
There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr.
Cats that roar = genus Panthera
Cats that purr = genus Felis
Is this libelous? Attaching someone's face to actions that they were not associated with? Could you write a headline "Man fucks pig" with Trump's picture as long as some other person had fucked a pig?
Using a photo of the guy open carrying from a completely different neighborhood in the city to represent protestors and supposedly congregants who got angry at a pastor who is working as the field director of ICE is just fucking egregious.
Activists disrupt Minn. church where pastor is ICE official
January 20, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Is this libelous? Attaching someone's face to actions that they were not associated with? Could you write a headline "Man fucks pig" with Trump's picture as long as some other person had fucked a pig?
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We experienced a truly incredible moment at the aquarium when this octopus decided to be a total jerk to its tankmate.
January 16, 2026 at 11:30 PM
We experienced a truly incredible moment at the aquarium when this octopus decided to be a total jerk to its tankmate.
The only win Trump can get against woke is falling asleep in a meeting.
January 15, 2026 at 12:45 AM
The only win Trump can get against woke is falling asleep in a meeting.
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Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
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The winner of today's one-liner goes to a guy who looked like he was sleeping.
Scene: the ENT clinic, waiting for audiologist
Asst calls a name three times.
Asst (just loudly enough to be heard): I really wish people would pay attention.
Guy: I bet many of the people here wish they could hear.
Scene: the ENT clinic, waiting for audiologist
Asst calls a name three times.
Asst (just loudly enough to be heard): I really wish people would pay attention.
Guy: I bet many of the people here wish they could hear.
January 13, 2026 at 4:20 AM
The winner of today's one-liner goes to a guy who looked like he was sleeping.
Scene: the ENT clinic, waiting for audiologist
Asst calls a name three times.
Asst (just loudly enough to be heard): I really wish people would pay attention.
Guy: I bet many of the people here wish they could hear.
Scene: the ENT clinic, waiting for audiologist
Asst calls a name three times.
Asst (just loudly enough to be heard): I really wish people would pay attention.
Guy: I bet many of the people here wish they could hear.
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Except, @chatterton.bsky.social, one of these two people is facing both state and federal charges, including the death penalty.
Whereas Jonathan Ross is being actively protected by an administration that started defaming Renee Good before her body was cold.
That is a meaningful difference!
Whereas Jonathan Ross is being actively protected by an administration that started defaming Renee Good before her body was cold.
That is a meaningful difference!
January 11, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Except, @chatterton.bsky.social, one of these two people is facing both state and federal charges, including the death penalty.
Whereas Jonathan Ross is being actively protected by an administration that started defaming Renee Good before her body was cold.
That is a meaningful difference!
Whereas Jonathan Ross is being actively protected by an administration that started defaming Renee Good before her body was cold.
That is a meaningful difference!
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“If you keep pushing the masses like this, they will blow up, and it will be the predictable consequence of secret police engaging in lawless oppression. When people no longer feel that the law protects them or their community, but is instead a threat, how do you expect them to act?”
Setting a Fire by the Powder Keg
Trump, Miller, and ICE are playing with fire and we cannot help them stick the blame elsewhere.
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January 10, 2026 at 1:51 PM
“If you keep pushing the masses like this, they will blow up, and it will be the predictable consequence of secret police engaging in lawless oppression. When people no longer feel that the law protects them or their community, but is instead a threat, how do you expect them to act?”
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So to return to this: Mussolini had 200,000 blackshirts for the March on Rome in a country of ~35m. Hitler had 400,000 brownshirts in 1932 in Germany for a population of ~60m.
So around 0.6% of the population.
0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.
They do not have enough goons.
So around 0.6% of the population.
0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.
They do not have enough goons.
In 1932, on the eve of seizing power, the Nazi goon army - the Sturmabteiling or SA - numbered 400,000 members. By 1933, it was over two *million.*
DHS has 240,00 employees and lot of those are non-goons who have, you know, real jobs.
DHS has 240,00 employees and lot of those are non-goons who have, you know, real jobs.
January 9, 2026 at 6:45 PM
So to return to this: Mussolini had 200,000 blackshirts for the March on Rome in a country of ~35m. Hitler had 400,000 brownshirts in 1932 in Germany for a population of ~60m.
So around 0.6% of the population.
0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.
They do not have enough goons.
So around 0.6% of the population.
0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.
They do not have enough goons.
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Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
January 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
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This characterization is going to stick with me. Per @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com’s review, it’s like Brink Lindsey wants a world where radically transformative technologies have changed the world completely but household formation hasn’t changed since the Flintstones (both on a ‘50s model)
December 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This characterization is going to stick with me. Per @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com’s review, it’s like Brink Lindsey wants a world where radically transformative technologies have changed the world completely but household formation hasn’t changed since the Flintstones (both on a ‘50s model)
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Today, I wish to discuss how the difficult questions of third world feminism are elided and obscured by Western feminists---both white and not---and kindly ask feminists all over the world to grow a fucking pair.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/no-country...
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/no-country...
December 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Today, I wish to discuss how the difficult questions of third world feminism are elided and obscured by Western feminists---both white and not---and kindly ask feminists all over the world to grow a fucking pair.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/no-country...
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/no-country...
This feels exactly like how the protagonists "hack" stuff in Foundryside.
This made me genuinely laugh out loud.
December 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This feels exactly like how the protagonists "hack" stuff in Foundryside.
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
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Many people are saying www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...
Impeach and Remove the Bastards
A scenario for 2027.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Many people are saying www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...
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India's digital revolution has created a criminal dystopia. We follow the trail from scammers to victims. bloom.bg/48QTnts
📷: Ruhani Kaur for Bloomberg Businessweek
📷: Ruhani Kaur for Bloomberg Businessweek
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 AM
India's digital revolution has created a criminal dystopia. We follow the trail from scammers to victims. bloom.bg/48QTnts
📷: Ruhani Kaur for Bloomberg Businessweek
📷: Ruhani Kaur for Bloomberg Businessweek
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white people are so privileged we got the only kind of genocide in which the targets are active and enthusiastic participants
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
white people are so privileged we got the only kind of genocide in which the targets are active and enthusiastic participants
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This week on the blog: hoplites! In particular, hoplite equipment! We talk shields, helmets, armor, weight and mobility.
Was the hoplite an over-encumbered battlefield turtle incapable of fighting outside of the phalanx? (No)
Was he actually a good skirmisher? (Also no)
acoup.blog/2025/11/21/c...
Was the hoplite an over-encumbered battlefield turtle incapable of fighting outside of the phalanx? (No)
Was he actually a good skirmisher? (Also no)
acoup.blog/2025/11/21/c...
Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part II: Hoplite Equipment, Hoplight or Hopheavy?
This is the second part of what looks like it’ll be end up as a four part series discussing the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites, the heavy infantry of the Archaic (800-480) and Cla…
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November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This week on the blog: hoplites! In particular, hoplite equipment! We talk shields, helmets, armor, weight and mobility.
Was the hoplite an over-encumbered battlefield turtle incapable of fighting outside of the phalanx? (No)
Was he actually a good skirmisher? (Also no)
acoup.blog/2025/11/21/c...
Was the hoplite an over-encumbered battlefield turtle incapable of fighting outside of the phalanx? (No)
Was he actually a good skirmisher? (Also no)
acoup.blog/2025/11/21/c...
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fish have committed credit card fraud
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“Even in the early days, when they were overthrowing monarchs and taking the first tentative steps towards the modern conception of human rights, liberals conceived of their success in terms of achieving a specific kind of society.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
Liberalism's Positive Vision Must Be the Open Society
Liberalism is not just the mitigation of dangers. It is also an active striving towards a world that is truly free.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Even in the early days, when they were overthrowing monarchs and taking the first tentative steps towards the modern conception of human rights, liberals conceived of their success in terms of achieving a specific kind of society.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
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Let me give an example here.
A few weeks ago I came across a TikTok video by a diaspora creator talking about how "FGM" is dehumanizing language. "Call it excision and not mutilation, don't stigmatize the bodies of women who have experienced it!"
Here's the kicker.
A few weeks ago I came across a TikTok video by a diaspora creator talking about how "FGM" is dehumanizing language. "Call it excision and not mutilation, don't stigmatize the bodies of women who have experienced it!"
Here's the kicker.
November 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Let me give an example here.
A few weeks ago I came across a TikTok video by a diaspora creator talking about how "FGM" is dehumanizing language. "Call it excision and not mutilation, don't stigmatize the bodies of women who have experienced it!"
Here's the kicker.
A few weeks ago I came across a TikTok video by a diaspora creator talking about how "FGM" is dehumanizing language. "Call it excision and not mutilation, don't stigmatize the bodies of women who have experienced it!"
Here's the kicker.