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sephspeaks.bsky.social
Seph Rodney, PhD
@sephspeaks.bsky.social
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Freelance visual arts critic and curator, former editor at Hyperallergic, current contributor to the NY Times (www.nytimes.com/by/seph-rodney), former artist, lapsed poet. "To make something beautiful should be enough; it isn't. It should be" —R. Siken
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h
This is so, so, so f'ing true.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 20h
rightist plutocrats are doing politics. liberal plutocrats are doing charity. it’s an entirely different mindset.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 16h
Word.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19h
George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 16h
It is.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21h
This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
www.nytimes.com
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 22h
Glad to see the Nobel Peace Prize was given to someone who actually deserves it.

www.bbc.com/news/live/c1...
Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins
Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.
www.bbc.com
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 1d
This just sounds ridiculous.
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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 2d
Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 3d
We're seeing a cultural shift that puts at the helm of our information publication systems people like Bari Weiss who have little insight and less intellectual integrity.

It's no wonder that other life forms — if they exist — are not about to make contact. Our species isn't mature enough yet.
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."
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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 4d
🤦🏻‍♀️
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4d
This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 4d
Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 4d
The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly.

It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d
Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois. They're calling them Meal Team 6.
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Ms. Ivette 🕯☽ ⛤ 🔮🖤 @bunnylove403.bsky.social · 4d
Frank Zappa said this in 1989.
THE ENEMY? "IT SHOULD BE CLEAR FROM RECENT EVENTS THAT AMERICA'S ENEMY IS NOT THE COMMUNISTS OVER THERE, BUT THOSE DERANGED RIGHT-WING LUNATICS RIGHT HERE."- FRANK ZAPPA, 1989
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 3d
Shout out to the American Presidents who didn't... (checks notes)... hate Americans.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 3d
Or the folks who said “It won’t be that bad.”
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volts.wtf
David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d
Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.

Fact checking is not going to do shit.

Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.

We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 7d
Gross. Just grotesque.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 7d
This administration's gleeful enactment of their cruel policies against asylum seekers shows me that something is deeply broken in these people.

I don't know who can fix that.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 8d
"When they go low, I take it to hell, where the lava's at"
— Cardi B.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 8d
"These are dangerous days
To say what you feel is to dig your own grave
Remember what I told you:
If you were of the world they would love you"

—Sinéad O’Connor, "Black Boys on Mopeds"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9d
Doing some historical research for a project and while it's an obvious point that we all "know" in some sense, it's bracing and shocking to be reminded of just how violent a place America has been throughout its history.
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