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Desiree Weber @desireeweber.bsky.social · 3d

In The Subjection of Women, he kind of did?

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 7d

FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF WITH THIS

Hospitals are sacred places and ICE has should not be allowed in them

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 7d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 7d

This. The tolerance of lying in public needs to be zero. Beginning with assholes in the media and their mealy-mouthed both-sidesism.

Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 7d

Damn. Liz ain't having it. 😮

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Yao Lin 林垚 @linsantu.bsky.social · 10d

《哲学的公共性（上）》 mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Ur-tTvPzd3...
《哲学的公共性（中）》 mp.weixin.qq.com/s/O0X6tYAFqy...

哲学的公共性（宁波讲座文字整理·上）

2025年7月19日，我在宁波图书馆进行了一场题为“哲学的公共性”的讲座。文字稿计划分为上中下三篇陆续发出，这里是上篇。

mp.weixin.qq.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jul 18

I'm old enough to remember when the prevailing argument against affirmative action was that it failed to consider the "real" form of unfairness, which was income disparity

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · Jul 18

These are some of the most odious people alive.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15d

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration. These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up. Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All of these powerful people trying to save their own skin have effectively multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15d

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 16d

Democrats win ANOTHER special election, this time in Arizona. Congratulations to Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva on your win. Lets keep narrowing that majority that keeps johnson speaker.

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Democratic special election win makes life even harder for Republicans on Capitol Hill

Adelita Grijalva’s victory in Arizona doesn’t just narrow the GOP’s majority in the House, it also makes disclosure of the Epstein files more likely.

www.msnbc.com

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小径残雪 @xiaojingcanxue.bsky.social · 16d

浙江绍兴，地铁在营运时间结束后一个小时还在开，导致在通道里打扫的清洁员3死1伤。

在不小的城市里，这么大的新闻捂了11天。一点消息都没漏出来。现在中国的调查新闻已经完蛋了。

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · 17d

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Jerome A. Cohen, the eminent scholar of Chinese law. Our condolences to his family and all those who loved him.

He authored many books, most recently the memoir, "Eastward, Westward: A Life in Law."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17d

Monstrous

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小径残雪 @xiaojingcanxue.bsky.social · 19d

山东临沂，农妇老公被人打成轻伤二级，法院仅判赔2.5万。农妇骂法官“没良心”，被超顶格罚10万拘留15天（法律上限罚1000）。

农妇家属交了罚款。

引发舆情后，这个超越法律上限100倍的处罚被撤销。这个罚款额估计是法官百度后得到的数据。

该法官此前被评为“沂蒙十佳法官”，“齐鲁最美法官”等。

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21d

A first-semester freshman at Auburn -- who has not even experienced one month as a student -- is demanding universities purge faculty members who dared to be critical of the man who created the Professor Watchlist.

Calling college presidents & donors ... as one does their first month in college.

Ruth Serven Smith @ruthservensmith.bsky.social · 22d

I spoke with students across Alabama who considered Charlie Kirk to be a mentor and role model. I asked them what they think should happen next. www.al.com/educationlab...

Alabama colleges are firing staff over Charlie Kirk comments. It’s not enough, students say

Inside the campus battle to define Charlie Kirk's legacy.

www.al.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 23d

So basically Kimmel made Trump look bad by showing that he was more interested in showing off his ballroom than in Kirk's death and now he's banned

This is going to be a really fun country

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23d

The Kimmel video: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 23d

the article spells out in grueling detail the whole game:

make ICE detention hell on earth so that people give up and "voluntarily" go back to a country that they may actively fear returning to or even if people have a valid path to staying in this county to remain with their family

"Emma Goldberg
By Emma Goldberg
Sept. 16, 2025

Daniel Cortes De La Valle had been in immigration detention for more than seven months — sleeping in dirty cells, being mocked by guards for his weight and being denied his epilepsy medication — when, in July 2023, he tried to hang himself. “‘I can’t anymore,’” Mr. Cortes De La Valle, 35, recalls thinking. “‘I don’t want to do this anymore. It’s like a horror movie.’”

Officers at the facility, the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena, La., soon placed Mr. Cortes De La Valle on suicide watch. This meant solitary confinement, where he fought off biting ants and endured black mold on the wall and feces in his cell, according to a complaint he later filed against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the staff at the detention center. The lights, kept on 24 hours a day, aggravated his seizure condition.

In November 2023 he voluntarily accepted deportation to Colombia. In his complaint against ICE officials, he said that he"

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23d

“Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t doing politics right.”

—Ezra Klein

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23d

this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments

www.nytimes.com

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 23d

why solidarity across different regime contexts can be difficult and how to avoid missolidarization 👇

Yao Lin 林垚 @linsantu.bsky.social · 25d

My article, "Interregimatic Solidarity and Antiauthoritarian Resilience", is finally online (and open access) at the International Feminist Journal of Politics! The abstract might read a bit... abstract, but I assure you it's more intuitive than it looks. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ABSTRACT
This article redresses the neglect of interregimatic solidarity – solidarity between collective anti-oppression struggles in purportedly antithetical regimes – in transnational feminist scholarship. I argue that authoritarian and demostatist regimatic contexts of oppression give rise to regimatically distinct oppressive kinds, which track their regimatic subjects of oppression respectively, and that this fact significantly increases the risk of interregimatic missolidarization in lieu of interregimatic solidarity. In response, we need to cultivate antiauthoritarian resilience, which is both an epistemic and a moral virtue. Epistemically, it helps us to navigate a world characterized by the dynamics of authoritarian spillover, demostatist sellout, imperial standoff, and capitalist scaleup, to comprehend how regimatic oppressions are interconnected, and to appreciate the practical import of interregimatic solidarity. Morally, antiauthoritarian resilience helps us to discern and discard moral parochialism and cynical moralism, both of which impede the exercise of interregimatic solidarity. I conclude with tentative thoughts on when, for whom, and to what extent interregimatic solidarity is morally obligatory, if its realization depends on cultivating the virtue of antiauthoritarian resilience.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 24d

Updated second link: blackzonemagazine.com/not-one-but-...

Not One, But Two Men Were Found Hanging in Mississippi | Black Zone Magazine

blackzonemagazine.com

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 25d

Fucking Slave Power government up in here

Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 25d

The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.” wapo.st/4mnNDLt

Trump officials order removal of photograph of enslaved man’s scars

The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”

wapo.st

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小径残雪 @xiaojingcanxue.bsky.social · 25d

杭州，2025年9月9日上午九点左右，某拆迁区域，一女子在后山散步。该区域是附近居民种菜、休闲、散步的区域。

这名女子不小心一脚踩到一个扔在地上的塑料壶，踩破陷了进去，塑料壶已经老化，里面的化学液体喷溅出来，又喷到另外一只脚上。女子当场就无法行走，确诊为“氢氟酸中毒”，连送三家医院医治无效身亡。

杭州警方接到报警以后，连夜排查现场，又挖出来两个盛放氢氟酸的塑料壶，正在追查来源中。

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Yao Lin 林垚 @linsantu.bsky.social · 25d

My article, "Interregimatic Solidarity and Antiauthoritarian Resilience", is finally online (and open access) at the International Feminist Journal of Politics! The abstract might read a bit... abstract, but I assure you it's more intuitive than it looks. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Adam Kellogg (he/him) @adambuckled.bsky.social · 25d

True, and it gets worse. That propaganda has all but buried his actual legacy in the annals of searchable media. It takes serious effort and know-how to use Google, YouTube, TikTok, etc. to find meaningful content about him that’s older than 5 days or so and many unsavory sources have been deleted.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25d

I think the think about the propaganda push around Charlie Kirk that I find most unsettling is that the whole strategy of raising the salience of this guy's death kind of depends either on hoping no one finds out about his life or assuming the ideological gloss will hold up under that scrutiny

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27d

I won't quote-tweet our main character of the day, but if your complaint is that Charlie Kirk's words are being taken out of context, I'd encourage you to skim through the Media Matters tag for his name. They have hundreds of posts about Kirk and most have longer clips that give the full context.

Charlie Kirk

www.mediamatters.org

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27d

every time I see a notable media person say something odd about the notable person who was killed this week, I remember how working at CJR taught me many white journalists find it easier to sympathize and empathize with right wing individuals than non-white journalists they actually work with

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