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Experimental philosophy
August 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Experimental philosophy
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"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.
July 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.
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Israel is planning on forcing the entirety of Gaza’s population into a concentration camp. They’re calling the concentration camp a ‘humanitarian city’.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’
Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into ‘humanitarian city’ but experts call the plan an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Israel is planning on forcing the entirety of Gaza’s population into a concentration camp. They’re calling the concentration camp a ‘humanitarian city’.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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$45 billion for ethnic cleansing
It’s one thing to say they want to deport 20 million people, it’s even one thing to go nuts brazenly doing whatever you can as the executive branch to make it happen, but the fact that they’re going to give ICE an additional 45B shows how committed they are to seeing this through.
July 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
$45 billion for ethnic cleansing
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A reminder:
Law Professors: The Constitution still exists and the Courts will protect us.
Historians:
Law Professors: The Constitution still exists and the Courts will protect us.
Historians:
a man is wearing a yellow raincoat with a hood and smiling .
ALT: a man is wearing a yellow raincoat with a hood and smiling .
media.tenor.com
June 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
A reminder:
Law Professors: The Constitution still exists and the Courts will protect us.
Historians:
Law Professors: The Constitution still exists and the Courts will protect us.
Historians:
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This is what the death of expertise looks like; the people in charge hear a number, run with it, interpret it wrong, and then issue orders demanding that no one correct them.
June 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is what the death of expertise looks like; the people in charge hear a number, run with it, interpret it wrong, and then issue orders demanding that no one correct them.
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I have been thinking about this non-stop. How you fight a necropolitics?
It has to be by dismantling ANY system that provides the power to declare any human being as "bare life", life stripped of all legal or political protections.
Borders. Prisons. Policing. They are alll death-worlds.
It has to be by dismantling ANY system that provides the power to declare any human being as "bare life", life stripped of all legal or political protections.
Borders. Prisons. Policing. They are alll death-worlds.
I no longer view the crisis before us as a GOP vs. Democrat issue, and I haven't for a long time.
This is a profound issue of choosing to fight supremacist politics, of necropolitics-- of whether you believe it's worth protecting people's right to live with a measure of dignity and respect, period
This is a profound issue of choosing to fight supremacist politics, of necropolitics-- of whether you believe it's worth protecting people's right to live with a measure of dignity and respect, period
June 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I have been thinking about this non-stop. How you fight a necropolitics?
It has to be by dismantling ANY system that provides the power to declare any human being as "bare life", life stripped of all legal or political protections.
Borders. Prisons. Policing. They are alll death-worlds.
It has to be by dismantling ANY system that provides the power to declare any human being as "bare life", life stripped of all legal or political protections.
Borders. Prisons. Policing. They are alll death-worlds.
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thinkin of this tweet for no particular reason
June 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
thinkin of this tweet for no particular reason
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Frankly, Gavin Newsom pretending to oppose Trump's federalisation of the National Guard while concealing the fact that nothing is actually being done is a form of collaboration
Unfortunately, this is probably mostly for show; unless a judge issues an injunction *and* forces DoD to comply almost immediately, it's unlikely to change much.
If he was serious, @governor.ca.gov could simply instruct the CalGuard that the DoD orders are illegal, and order them to stand down.
If he was serious, @governor.ca.gov could simply instruct the CalGuard that the DoD orders are illegal, and order them to stand down.
I'm filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration to end the illegal takeover of a CalGuard unit, which has escalated chaos and violence in LA.
Donald Trump's violation of the U.S. Constitution is an overstep of his authority.
We will not let this stand.
Donald Trump's violation of the U.S. Constitution is an overstep of his authority.
We will not let this stand.
June 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Frankly, Gavin Newsom pretending to oppose Trump's federalisation of the National Guard while concealing the fact that nothing is actually being done is a form of collaboration
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The fact that the State Department is planning to open an Office of Remigration didn't get even anywhere close to the attention it deserved.
Remigration is explicitly a European far-right/neo-Nazi word that in Europe refers quite explicitly to ethnic cleansing beyond simply immigration enforcement.
Remigration is explicitly a European far-right/neo-Nazi word that in Europe refers quite explicitly to ethnic cleansing beyond simply immigration enforcement.
given that the State Department is planning for an office of remigration, i suspect it's not going to end with just banning legal immigration
The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.
June 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The fact that the State Department is planning to open an Office of Remigration didn't get even anywhere close to the attention it deserved.
Remigration is explicitly a European far-right/neo-Nazi word that in Europe refers quite explicitly to ethnic cleansing beyond simply immigration enforcement.
Remigration is explicitly a European far-right/neo-Nazi word that in Europe refers quite explicitly to ethnic cleansing beyond simply immigration enforcement.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a clear and present danger to every person in the United States, and in fact in entire world.
He must be REMOVED FROM OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.
He must be REMOVED FROM OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.
June 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a clear and present danger to every person in the United States, and in fact in entire world.
He must be REMOVED FROM OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.
He must be REMOVED FROM OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.
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Okay folks: we need to protect the idea of masking. The problem with ICE etc and their gaiters isn’t that they are masked per se. It’s that they are anonymous and unaccountable. No names, rarely badges, no uniforms, often not identifying what agency they are with. Not showing warrants. 🧵
June 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Okay folks: we need to protect the idea of masking. The problem with ICE etc and their gaiters isn’t that they are masked per se. It’s that they are anonymous and unaccountable. No names, rarely badges, no uniforms, often not identifying what agency they are with. Not showing warrants. 🧵
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This one triggered a lot of folks when I first posted it 2 months ago. Let’s see if anything has changed since, if anything, it’s become more accurate with time.
April 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This one triggered a lot of folks when I first posted it 2 months ago. Let’s see if anything has changed since, if anything, it’s become more accurate with time.
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if only the Protestors behaved respectfully and held signs displaying a suitably bold yet sufficiently anodyne abstraction (“Decency” or “Abundance” anyone?) then we, the unpolitical protagonists of democracy, would be Persuaded to support them, and even their opponents would engage in Dialogue
June 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
if only the Protestors behaved respectfully and held signs displaying a suitably bold yet sufficiently anodyne abstraction (“Decency” or “Abundance” anyone?) then we, the unpolitical protagonists of democracy, would be Persuaded to support them, and even their opponents would engage in Dialogue
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all credit for this unfortunately evergreen piece goes to @matthewdessem.bsky.social and @tomscocca.bsky.social
do headlines the right way i.e. slate in 2020
Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide
From New York to Los Angeles, police officers escalated the national unrest.
slate.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
all credit for this unfortunately evergreen piece goes to @matthewdessem.bsky.social and @tomscocca.bsky.social
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This is what Roberts wrought. Trump is immune from criminal liability, and can preemptively pardon anyone below him. Local DAs can't charge federal actors in state court, and SCOTUS has shrouded all of them with immunity from civil liability.
They can target anyone they dislike with with impunity.
They can target anyone they dislike with with impunity.
JUST NOW — Trump says Homan should arrest Governor Gavin Newsom: "I would do it if I were Tom. I think it's great. I think it would be a great thing.”
June 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is what Roberts wrought. Trump is immune from criminal liability, and can preemptively pardon anyone below him. Local DAs can't charge federal actors in state court, and SCOTUS has shrouded all of them with immunity from civil liability.
They can target anyone they dislike with with impunity.
They can target anyone they dislike with with impunity.
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Abolishing ICE means abolishing deportation as a government function. Like abolishing the death penalty. That would mean no governmental agency or officer could deport anyone, ever. If that makes you uneasy, think about why you feel that way.
A warning from 2018: “This is about realizing ICE is a national police force. It is literally a set of people who are armed who are law enforcement and under the directive of the executive branch, meaning the president of the United States.”
What We Mean When We Say Abolish ICE
Undocumented communities are demanding an end to devastating detentions, deportation and incarceration—not the transfer of such policies to a different agency.
inthesetimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Abolishing ICE means abolishing deportation as a government function. Like abolishing the death penalty. That would mean no governmental agency or officer could deport anyone, ever. If that makes you uneasy, think about why you feel that way.
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the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.
June 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.
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RT if you love boobs or if you think ICE should be abolished
June 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
RT if you love boobs or if you think ICE should be abolished
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Anyways today was not great and obviously escalatory, but I think you can read Miller's tweets as panicked as much as fascist.
Every single random immigration action turning into this rapidly overstretches ICE/CBP, both in budget and personnel. Noem was already yelled at for spending too much.
Every single random immigration action turning into this rapidly overstretches ICE/CBP, both in budget and personnel. Noem was already yelled at for spending too much.
June 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Anyways today was not great and obviously escalatory, but I think you can read Miller's tweets as panicked as much as fascist.
Every single random immigration action turning into this rapidly overstretches ICE/CBP, both in budget and personnel. Noem was already yelled at for spending too much.
Every single random immigration action turning into this rapidly overstretches ICE/CBP, both in budget and personnel. Noem was already yelled at for spending too much.