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Mark D. White
@profmdwhite.bsky.social
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Professor, author, editor, and fan of comics, movies, and music

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-d-white-4a568730a/

See my books here: http://amzn.to/2aFC66M

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · Oct 17
Say "yes chef" and join me on my latest project for the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series! andphilosophy.com/2025/10/01/t...
The Bear and Philosophy Call for Abstracts
Call for Abstracts The Bear and Philosophy Edited by Mark D. White The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series Please circulate and post widely. Apologies for cross-posting. To propose ideas fo…
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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 4h
Me: I'm so tired. I'll go to bed early so I get lots of sleep!

Brain after two hours of sleep: how about we wake up though?

Me: and then go back to sleep?

Brain: AWAKE FOREVER

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean

TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting

Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?

TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Asked what Afghanis in the US legally should be thinking, Trump talks about how Somalis are allegedly taking over Minnesota

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 5h
The Trump Administration’s smear of immigrants and asylum seekers because of one sick man’s horrific acts - a man who was trained by the CIA, it is worth noting, to fight an American war - is disgusting.

We are so much better than this racist regime.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 9h
Exclusive: Surrendering land to Russia to end the war is off-limits, Zelensky’s chief negotiator tells Simon Shuster. “As long as Zelensky is president, no one should count on us giving up territory.”
Ukraine Says It Won’t Give Up Land to Russia
Ukraine’s chief negotiator, in an exclusive interview, says conceding sovereign territory is off-limits in peace talks
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 9h
Imagine paying a large monthly fee to shop at a supermarket, then paying again for the actual groceries, then getting an extra charge months later because one ingredient in an item you bought came from a farmer associated with a different store.

This post is about healthcare.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10h
Between tearing babies from their parents' arms and traumatizing countless children, abandoning climate action and environmental protection, and loosing RFK on public health, the Trump Administration is engaging in quite a bit of child sacrifice. To their right-mania goals.
georgetakei.bsky.social George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10h
Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
Screenshot of a tweet from Brian Allen on X.com. It discusses JD Vance claiming settlers in the New World found “widespread child sacrifice” and that “Christian civilization ended the practice.” The tweet explains historians say this is fabricated and calls it racist revisionism. Below is an image of JD Vance speaking at a Turning Point USA event, standing at a podium with a slide behind him showing "Oxford, MS" and “University of Mississippi.”

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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 18h
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
USCIS @USCIS X.com Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols. The protections and safety of our homeland and of the American people remains our singular focus and mission. 10:04 PM • 11/26/25 • 2.1K Views

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment

Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment of the established order.

New piece:
The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d
This is nuts!

Why is WAPO writing up anyone’s speculation about who the suspect might be?

I get that Laura’s statements and actions are at times newsworthy given her influence on Trump, but no one’s speculation — outside of a government official’s — should be written up this way.
4 minutes ago Laura Loomer speculates about shooter's identity By Beth Reinhard Laura Loomer, the far-right political activist known for her virulently anti-Muslim views, was quick to speculate about the shooter's background on X, where she has 1.8 million followers. "Communist, Muslim, Trans terrorist, Furry, or ANTIFA?" she asked. Loomer also posted a photo of a bearded man being carried into an ambulance, though The Washington Post could not immediately verify that the image came from Wednesday's crime scene. "I'm just going to say. That's a very Mohammedan looking beard," she wrote. "I'll wait for more details. But the beard with no mustache the night before a Western holiday is not lost on me."

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A Cultura Is My Passport @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 1d
"If film history has taught us anything, it’s that credits, dedications and acknowledgments are not enough to keep women both trans and cis, genderqueer and nonbinary people from disappearing from memory and history." culturalgutter.com/2025/11/20/f...
From the Archives: (Some of) The Women Who Wrote Hitchcock
Hitchcock gets a lot of credit for his mystery and suspense films, rightfully so, but sometimes that credit goes as far as erasing the writers who came up with the mysteries, twists, dark jokes, th…
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 2d
Ooh, I didn't know of this, thank you.

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 2d
You come at the king you best not miss, Charlie Brown.

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 2d
Groucho: "The first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the first part of the party of the first part."

Philosopher: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How can the first order come first? - Philosophical Studies
If new evidence brings your metaethical view in conflict with a dearly held first order moral belief, what are you to do? Recent arguments in metaethics incorporate opposing claims about the methodolo...
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 2d
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · 3d
I got the opportunity to share my thoughts on @jhppl.bsky.social’s 50th birthday, how health policy scholars can face this difficult moment, and my aspirations for the journal.
dukepress.bsky.social Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 3d
Today on the blog:

A Q&A with Sarah Gollust, editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law in celebration of 50 years of the journal: buff.ly/5rp6FVJ
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Headshot of a smiling woman with shoulder length dark hair wearing green earrings and a dark top against a softly blurred background. Cover of Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Volume 50, Number 6, December 2025. The special issue is titled JHPPL at 50. The design features a simple gradient background transitioning from dark to light brown, with white and dark brown text aligned to the right and a small tan square accent near the center.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d
He literally tweeted this out.

“SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”

This plaque is displayed at West Point. It’s the law. Not sedition.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 3d
Meanwhile on Twitter.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d
Breaking news: Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae star whose lead role in the 1972 cult-movie sensation “The Harder They Come” helped introduce the genre to a global audience, has died. He was 81.
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae star with global following, dies at 81
His lead performance as a singer-turned-outlaw in the 1972 film “The Harder They Come” helped introduce reggae to the world.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 3d
“President Trump embraced a billionaire’s strategy to try to wring ideological concessions from universities. He blessed another’s role as Harvard University’s emissary for negotiations… Yet another billionaire helped steer cuts at the Department of Education — which a different billionaire leads.”
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
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A Cultura Is My Passport @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 4d
"If film history has taught us anything, it’s that credits, dedications and acknowledgments are not enough to keep women both trans and cis, genderqueer and nonbinary people from disappearing from memory and history." culturalgutter.com/2025/11/20/f...
From the Archives: (Some of) The Women Who Wrote Hitchcock
Hitchcock gets a lot of credit for his mystery and suspense films, rightfully so, but sometimes that credit goes as far as erasing the writers who came up with the mysteries, twists, dark jokes, th…
culturalgutter.com

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Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 6d

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 6d
New at The Virtues of Captain America Blog:

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Captain America #39 (March 2001)
This issue strikes a solemn note, as Captain America gets reflective about the nature of war and is reminded of the circumstances of the “death” of his young partner Bucky Barnes, while…
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WPRI 12 @wpri12.bsky.social · 7d
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 7d
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
No prizes for guessing who grok chose sorry

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 7d
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
Turning to Bovino, the Court specifically finds his testimony not credible. Bovino appeared evasive over the three days of his deposition, either providing “cute” responses to Plaintiffs’ counsel’s questions or outright lying. When shown a video of agents hitting Rev. Black with pepper balls, Bovino denied seeing a projectile hit Rev. Black in the head. Doc. 191- 3 at 162:21–165:17; Doc. 22-44 (Ex. 44 at 0:10–12, available at https://spaces.hightail.com/space/ZzXNsei63k). In another video shown to Bovino, he obviously tackles Scott Blackburn, one of Plaintiffs’ declarants. Doc. 191-3 at 172:13–173:7; Doc. 22-45 (Ex. 45 at 0:19–30, available at https://spaces.hightail.com/space/ZzXNsei63k). But instead of admitting to using force against Blackburn, Bovino denied it and instead stated that force was used against him.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 7d
This book! Always conceptually fascinating, but here - not only an interesting take on the mess time-resetting multiverse crises would create, but such a powerful exploration of the experience of losing someone to their loss of memory. beautiful & sweet
@denizcamp.bsky.social @ericxyz.bsky.social
Cover to assorted crisis events a couple - he is dissolving into puzzle pieces Interior page - we see the man slip into being a baby and then an old man, as his wife tries to keep it together Spread arranged as the board for Clue. Panels of them arguing Spread arranged in vertical strips. Memoir Ed of better times with her husband