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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12m

The piece in question, by Jake Romm, is indeed very good. www.welcometohellworld.com/your-death-w...

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‪Luke O'Neil‬
‪@lukeoneil47.bsky.social‬
· 6mo
This is Schumer's position

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The hollowness and malleability of the term means that it can be applied to groups regardless of their actual conduct and regardless of their actual ideology. It admits only a circular definition (not too dissimilar from the definition advanced by the Israeli Counter Terrorism Law) that a terrorist is someone who carries out terrorist acts, and a terrorist act is violence carried out by a terrorist. Conversely, if someone is killed, it is because they are a terrorist, because to be a terrorist means to be killable.

This circularity of the definition allows the designation to justify violence against entire populations both ex-ante and ex-post. Hamas and all of its supporters and members—military and government—have been deemed to be terrorists, and these “terrorists” control Gaza. Thus the bombing of the Gaza Strip can be, at any time, permitted. (Indeed Israel engaged in seven major military operations in Gaza since Hamas’s election in 2006.) Gaza, however, is populated primarily by ordinary civilians as well. But the circularity of “terrorist” occludes this fact: once there exists a category of persons upon whom one can inflict violence by virtue of their status rather than their actions, violence becomes constitutive of the status itself.
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‪Luke O'Neil‬
‪@lukeoneil47.bsky.social‬
· 9/27/2024
"This is the logic of genocide: we have marked all terrorists for death, a status only we can impose or remove, and thus your death will always serve as its own justification." www.welcometohellworld.com/your-death-w...

Your death will serve as its own justification
I have six new shorts and poems up at Flaming Hydra this week.

Unforeseen DifficultiesFiction by Luke O’Neil The guilt He was in the garage jigsaw-puzzling the architecture of the bones. After some d...
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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 32m

Still, she’s right. Who cares.

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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 1h

Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump’s Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection

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Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump’s Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection

Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland...

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Casey Parks @caseyparks.bsky.social · 1h

Right now, the 9th Circuit is considering whether to allow troops to deploy to Portland's ICE facility. At this moment, looks like there are only Know Your Rights and a clergyperson outside.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 40m

Cool. Can everyone have their jobs back then?

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 41m

A tearful Kim Robinson reports that God showed her that Charlie Kirk was rewarded with a horse ranch in Heaven and she saw "Charlie riding on a horse, with Jesus."

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 41m

Yeah I mentioned 2 and I use ghost but honestly not equivalent

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 42m

My wife clowned me for this only having 4 likes. +30 now!

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1h

They have lots of people willing to pay writers and make it very easy for everyone

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 2h

this is really good

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 8d

I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.

You don't have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

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Jordan Zakarin @jordanz.bsky.social · 2h

Looking to platform more progressive/populist community and grassroots activists in my newsletter, Progress Report.

If you fit the bill or are inspired by work someone is doing, please reach out!

[email protected]

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A reported guide to politics and government at every level, focused on working people, democracy, and the public good. Click to read Progress Report, by Jordan Zakarin, a Substack publication with ten...

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 17h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2h

These farmers are not impressed that Trump helped his buddies buy TikTok

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

We encourage all AAUP members and concerned citizens to join the No Kings protest on Saturday, October 18. Actions are organized locally, and you can find details about an event near you at the link below👇

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

Exhibit #1 million that you can just DO THINGS. These folks came up with an idea and have now implemented it. We can all do something where we are. I just donated to their efforts.

Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · Sep 6

We’ve officially launched! Lots of ways to support this new initiative that supports street vendors from 🧊 we keep us safe!

Interest form and flyer below! #BikeChi

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 4h

I can't stress this enough: opposing birth control isn’t a fringe position in the anti-abortion movement—it’s the norm. 'Mainstream' groups like Students for Life say so explicitly on their websites!

But because mainstream outlets don't report on it, most Americans don't know

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4h

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 4h

Where is civil society as everything crumbles? You'd love to see some reporting on this but journalism is a huge part of the crumbling.

Can't manage 1% of the outrage over Bondi going to the right of Hannity in an oversight hearing as they did for Bill Clinton saying hi to Lorreta Lynch.

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

"Where's everyone else?"

Excellent point from Marc Elias on the complete lack of elite revulsion to Pam Bondi's sycophantic performance in the Senate yesterday.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 5h

New piece from me asking "What are extreme overvalued beliefs and why does Genspect think all trans people have them?"

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 5h

A fringe group wants the field of psychiatry to regress back to the days when stereotypes and prejudices resulted in mental illness diagnoses for marginalized populations.

In a new reported piece, @evanurquhart.bsky.social examines Genspect's call for the re-psychopathologization of trans identity.

Hate Group Calls for Re-Labeling Transness as Mental Illness — Assigned

A fringe group with no expertise pushes the field of psychiatry to regress to a pre-scientific, prejudice-soaked view of trans people. It coincides with the far-right political agenda.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 6h

Judy Blume denied her Nobel, again.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 6h

Don't know why but one of the most disturbing things I've learned this year is that Trump uses his dopey nicknames in DMs.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 6h

or maybe this is just my very non-cute perspective

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 6h

Not to say that this issue or similar cannot break through! But they usual do because people in non-political media start talking about them.

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 6h

We have to think a lot about how we are the overserved, the 20-30% who are as obsessed with the news as the 70-80% who do all they can to avoid it.

If you want to experience this firsthand, try to talk to a normal person about "plenary" and why it's buzzing online without them slapping you.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 6h

Gross to say it, but a huge chunk of the "sense" comes from her being "cute." The ability to be a right-winger who presents as something like an attractive human being has given her, Vance, Kirk, and even Poso huge careers.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

A really weird subplot to the Bari Weiss thing is the degree to which she was able to secure these sort of opportunities for herself even in cases like hosting the view where it makes no sense

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 6h

We have to think a lot about how we are the overserved, the 20-30% who are as obsessed with the news as the 70-80% who do all they can to avoid it.

If you want to experience this firsthand, try to talk to a normal person about "plenary" and why it's buzzing online without them slapping you.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 21h

I couldn't imagine a more perfectly poetic example of saying the quiet part out loud than "we took the freedom of speech away"

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