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Forrest J.S. Schreick
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Philosophy PhD candidate @ CEU. Solving problems for panpsychism today with Leibniz yesterday. Bad chess player. Cat dad.
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EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
October 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us
The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"
September 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Graduating from CEU just in time, I guess
NEW: Responding to a @nytimes.com report that the Trump Justice Department is planning to investigate the Open Society Foundations, @alexsoros.bsky.social said the massive left-leaning philanthropy did nothing wrong & would only stop its work "over my dead body."
Trump’s Targeting of Soros Foundations Sparks Fear and Defiance on Left
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
September 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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gotta identify all the traffic lights in a picture to get into heaven; call that the raptcha
September 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Grindr was apparently having issues with staying up due to overwhelming demand for its services in the Phoenix metropolitan area this last weekend.
September 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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September 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Best advice for dissertation defenses? So far, best I’ve got is this.
September 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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*crab-walked
May 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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LinkedIn: It's a pleasure to announce what me and my mates are doing.

BlueSky: It's a displeasure to announce what politicians and my enemies are doing.
June 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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"The very first line of Open Socrates admonishes the reader, “There is a question you are avoiding.” For Callard, that question is: Why are you living this way? But this only points to a host of questions that Callard herself avoids..."

me for @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Agnes Callard and the Examined Life
In her new book, Callard makes the case that we should all live more philosophically but where does politics fit in?
www.thenation.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Genuinely interesting how deeply Trump does not believe in the idea of gains through trade. People accuse others of having a zero-sum worldview, but here that is made really really clear and explicit. He just flat out sees it as one side winning and another losing if they exchange goods or services!
April 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Philosophers teaching 101: ok y’all, we’re looking for valid arguments!
Philosophers teaching Critique of Pure Reason: not a valid argument in sight, but damn compelling, yea?
April 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The only comfort is following the Forbes live track of the wealth of billionaires. Could get interesting.

www.forbes.com/real-time-bi...
Forbes Real Time Billionaires List - The World's Richest People
Browse today’s rankings of the wealthiest people and families globally. Discover the net worth, age, and other information about the richest people in the world.
www.forbes.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Idea: Wittgenstein biopic with Tom Hardy in the lead, using his Ronnie Kray voice. "I come 'ere for a f***ing philosophical investigation."
March 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders.

Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
March 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:
March 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Finally reading Neumann's Behemoth (LSE social theorists represent) and struck once more by just how common it was to believe in late 19th/early 20th C. that capitalist economies invariably develop into a clique of monopolies and cartels - even among pro-capitalist, who simply thought this was good.
March 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Doris Lessing, who wrote science fiction and was the Guest of Honor at the 1987 Worldcon, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2007. When informed she had won the award, she famously said "Oh, Christ!"

youtu.be/vuBODHFBZ8k
March 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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“I’m here to sound a warning bell for those who are now in the position I was several years ago.”
Trouble in the US Non-Academic Job Market and What It Means for Philosophers (guest post) - Daily Nous
"I’m here to sound a warning bell for those who are now in the position I was several years ago." In the following guest post, Noah Gordon, who earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Sout...
dailynous.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a fucking polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.
March 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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I spent almost 2 hours painstakingly copying the orbits of all 128 Saturnian moons from the announcement MPEC and reformatting them for visualization...

Behold, here are the orbits of ALL 128 MOONS OF SATURN. This isn't just a moon system—it's a literal asteroid belt around Saturn! 🧪🔭☄️
March 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Trump's cruelty applies to children in the US as well as those abroad:

The Trump administration will cut $1.1 billion in funding for food banks and free school lunches, officials confirmed Monday.

www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/11/u...
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks amid Trump cuts
Two USDA programs provided $1.1 billion in funding for schools and food banks to purchase food from local farms and suppliers.
www.nydailynews.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM