Ed Kazarian
@kazedkaz.bsky.social
Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Rowan. Teaching Faculty Coordinator for AFT Local 2373. Plays guitar for cats. Remembers the Cold War, the NEA four, and the Hartford Whalers. Opinions my own.
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6 years ago, a federal ban on gender-affirming care for young people was absent from the national Dem agenda, seemed unlikely to almost everyone who isn’t trans. 6 years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a QAnon crank with a crossfit gym. Yesterday her ban passed out of the House with three Dem votes.
December 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
6 years ago, a federal ban on gender-affirming care for young people was absent from the national Dem agenda, seemed unlikely to almost everyone who isn’t trans. 6 years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a QAnon crank with a crossfit gym. Yesterday her ban passed out of the House with three Dem votes.
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That time i wrote a book about how the fall of the Soviet Union was not a victory for its cold war adversary but prefigured its own collapse. www.versobooks.com/products/61-...
Molecular Red
In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of t...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
That time i wrote a book about how the fall of the Soviet Union was not a victory for its cold war adversary but prefigured its own collapse. www.versobooks.com/products/61-...
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I am so tired of people who I otherwise respect talking about the demographic cliff as though it is a natural phenomenon, rather than a political projection.
IF it happens (which I still doubt) it will be because a racist, anti-education coalition has been trying to make it real with policy.
IF it happens (which I still doubt) it will be because a racist, anti-education coalition has been trying to make it real with policy.
December 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I am so tired of people who I otherwise respect talking about the demographic cliff as though it is a natural phenomenon, rather than a political projection.
IF it happens (which I still doubt) it will be because a racist, anti-education coalition has been trying to make it real with policy.
IF it happens (which I still doubt) it will be because a racist, anti-education coalition has been trying to make it real with policy.
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“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
There is not a single 21st Century eliminationist project, whether directed against Palestinians, trans people, or immigrants and non-white people in the US, that the Democrats have even managed to consistently separate themselves from, let alone effectively oppose. And they fucking wonder why...
December 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
There is not a single 21st Century eliminationist project, whether directed against Palestinians, trans people, or immigrants and non-white people in the US, that the Democrats have even managed to consistently separate themselves from, let alone effectively oppose. And they fucking wonder why...
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It's a whole of government effort to eradicate trans people from society. This is just the first step. They're coming for all of us.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
n.pr
December 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It's a whole of government effort to eradicate trans people from society. This is just the first step. They're coming for all of us.
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HHS’ proposed rules say the FDA will go after retailers and manufacturers of binders made to treat gender dysphoria
December 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
HHS’ proposed rules say the FDA will go after retailers and manufacturers of binders made to treat gender dysphoria
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1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban.
A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months.
Our latest story here:
A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months.
Our latest story here:
Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ban Imminent As Trump Admin Announces "Nuclear Option" Federal Rule
The new federal rule formalizes previous threats to hospitals to pull Medicaid funding, and represents a significant legal stretch by this administration.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban.
A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months.
Our latest story here:
A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide.
It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months.
Our latest story here:
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Dems 💯 stop voting for the other party’s bills to harm, imprison, and kill your supporters challenge, difficulty level: impossible
Three D's defected to vote for this disgusting bill. If they hadn't, it wouldn't have moved forward.
*Don't come into my mentions to "explain" to me that "this will fail in the Senate." Spend that time calling your reps, donating to causes, and doing literally anything for trans folks.
*Don't come into my mentions to "explain" to me that "this will fail in the Senate." Spend that time calling your reps, donating to causes, and doing literally anything for trans folks.
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors.
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
December 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Dems 💯 stop voting for the other party’s bills to harm, imprison, and kill your supporters challenge, difficulty level: impossible
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Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care.
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
clerk.house.gov
December 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Vicente Gonzalez joined Republicans in voting to criminalize trans health care.
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
The bill passed only 216 to 214.
4 Republicans voted no. If they did too, it would have failed.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
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None of these laws passed a single state legislature until five years ago, and now:
Today House Republicans voted 216-211 to pass MTG’s bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for minors nationwide, marking the first time a national ban on care for trans youth has reached — and passed — the House floor.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Bill Punishing Doctors And Parents Clears House Floor
If passed, the bill would punish doctors and parents who provide or consent to a minor receiving gender-affirming care.
www.huffpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
None of these laws passed a single state legislature until five years ago, and now:
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So wait. We’re declaring a war of conquest to take oil company assets nationalized half a century ago?
December 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
So wait. We’re declaring a war of conquest to take oil company assets nationalized half a century ago?
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Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
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From my own niche: institutions of higher education should stop chasing trends, work internally to assert a set of values, and then build curriculum around those values.
just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"
December 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
From my own niche: institutions of higher education should stop chasing trends, work internally to assert a set of values, and then build curriculum around those values.
One unremarked but unfortunate thing about that ridiculous Compact article going viral is that it gives an unnatural life to the whole ridiculous Compact project, which really belongs nowhere but the memory hole.
December 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
One unremarked but unfortunate thing about that ridiculous Compact article going viral is that it gives an unnatural life to the whole ridiculous Compact project, which really belongs nowhere but the memory hole.
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I do think more people should appreciate that Sarah has to be selective about when she draws attention to her identity given the obsessive focus on it by some of her colleagues--she is in a uniquely impossible position. But it also makes it more impactful when she does.
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I do think more people should appreciate that Sarah has to be selective about when she draws attention to her identity given the obsessive focus on it by some of her colleagues--she is in a uniquely impossible position. But it also makes it more impactful when she does.
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This👇 Compact is forwarding a culture wars argument that obscures systematic dismantling of educational infrastructure.
The real story: with decreased opportunity, these white men experience the success of people of color as symbolic.
When humanities jobs cratered, I was told I wasn't getting hired because I was white. The disappearance of hundreds of jobs, reinterpreted as the fault of a small handful of people.
When humanities jobs cratered, I was told I wasn't getting hired because I was white. The disappearance of hundreds of jobs, reinterpreted as the fault of a small handful of people.
December 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This👇 Compact is forwarding a culture wars argument that obscures systematic dismantling of educational infrastructure.
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A whole host of colleges & universities are using Trump as cover for shock doctrine cuts to faculty & staff, while diverting funds to public-private partnerships & SaaS contracts they hope will float rocky investing by trustees & endowment managers.
Don't regurgitate their barely cogent rationales.
Don't regurgitate their barely cogent rationales.
December 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A whole host of colleges & universities are using Trump as cover for shock doctrine cuts to faculty & staff, while diverting funds to public-private partnerships & SaaS contracts they hope will float rocky investing by trustees & endowment managers.
Don't regurgitate their barely cogent rationales.
Don't regurgitate their barely cogent rationales.
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Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
This is called 'trying to give yourself an alibi,' and the only interesting thing about it is that it suggests that she thinks she'll need one, and soon.
I don’t even know what to make of this level self-delusion, cognitive dissonance and moral cowardice
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is called 'trying to give yourself an alibi,' and the only interesting thing about it is that it suggests that she thinks she'll need one, and soon.
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What if baseballs were delicious? What it purple was secretly against us? What if dishwasher was friend?
This is how you sound.
This is how you sound.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
What if baseballs were delicious? What it purple was secretly against us? What if dishwasher was friend?
This is how you sound.
This is how you sound.
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ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
For some mysterious reason, the 'Turtle Island Liberation Front' is making me want to listen to Camper Van Beethoven. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLZ...
Camper Van Beethoven - Tania
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December 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
For some mysterious reason, the 'Turtle Island Liberation Front' is making me want to listen to Camper Van Beethoven. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLZ...