Ben Robinson
@bengrobinson.bsky.social
PhD | Religion and Culture; progressive data, educator, abolitionist
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since more people are coming here, here's the abolition resource guide I put together for those who may be interested! micahherskind.com/abolition-re...
Prison Abolition Resource Guide
“Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the worlds you cannot live within.”Ruha Benjamin This guide contains resources on the abolition of policing,…
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November 20, 2024 at 1:58 AM
since more people are coming here, here's the abolition resource guide I put together for those who may be interested! micahherskind.com/abolition-re...
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I will say till my last breath that if you fashion yourself a radical, revolutionary, leftist, or progressive, and you aren't currently masking (if able) I seriously question your ability to be a threat to the settler colonial empire since you're currently doing their work (if unwittingly).
November 17, 2024 at 7:11 PM
I will say till my last breath that if you fashion yourself a radical, revolutionary, leftist, or progressive, and you aren't currently masking (if able) I seriously question your ability to be a threat to the settler colonial empire since you're currently doing their work (if unwittingly).
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In today’s episode, we revisit our conversation with @msjamshidi.bsky.social on how US law has been shaped to specifically guard against Palestinian self-determination, and the direct role settler officials had in crafting contemporary state definitions of “terrorism”
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Instruments of Dehumanization w/ Maryam Jamshidi | The Death Panel
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October 28, 2024 at 5:05 PM
In today’s episode, we revisit our conversation with @msjamshidi.bsky.social on how US law has been shaped to specifically guard against Palestinian self-determination, and the direct role settler officials had in crafting contemporary state definitions of “terrorism”
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One of my takeaways from this election cycle is, even if you don’t think you have heroes, you probably do. And it’s best to not make heroes of leftists/left orgs you have learned from. To watch so many orgs/people talk about the genocide of Palestinians and then endorse Harris is indefensible.
November 3, 2024 at 4:44 PM
One of my takeaways from this election cycle is, even if you don’t think you have heroes, you probably do. And it’s best to not make heroes of leftists/left orgs you have learned from. To watch so many orgs/people talk about the genocide of Palestinians and then endorse Harris is indefensible.
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“Meanwhile, multiple reports said Israeli forces arrested Palestinians in the West Bank town of Dura, where people were blindfolded, handcuffed and branded with a number on their forehead.”
Israeli forces detain 16 Palestinians, 'brand detainees in WB'
Israeli forces killed at least five Palestinians and arrested 16 others in the occupied West Bank on Friday, while carrying out incursions on several towns.
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November 3, 2024 at 3:59 PM
“Meanwhile, multiple reports said Israeli forces arrested Palestinians in the West Bank town of Dura, where people were blindfolded, handcuffed and branded with a number on their forehead.”
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It's official: Mask ban in Nassau County, New York passes along party lines, 12-0 (7 abstentions). It makes wearing a mask a misdemeanor (with unclear health and religious exceptions) and gives police the power to fine people wearing a mask $1,000 and sentence them to jail time.
Nassau County Full Leg and Rules Committee
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August 5, 2024 at 11:56 PM
It's official: Mask ban in Nassau County, New York passes along party lines, 12-0 (7 abstentions). It makes wearing a mask a misdemeanor (with unclear health and religious exceptions) and gives police the power to fine people wearing a mask $1,000 and sentence them to jail time.
Whole bunch of people who can teach Gramsci and Williams on “hegemony” who aren’t masking anymore so, what was the point?
July 11, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Whole bunch of people who can teach Gramsci and Williams on “hegemony” who aren’t masking anymore so, what was the point?
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Now unlocked: we take a close look at a widely shared piece from NPR which presents avoiding covid both as the product of unreasonable “anxiety” and as something immunocompromised people should let go of lest their loved ones consider abandoning them
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May 30, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Now unlocked: we take a close look at a widely shared piece from NPR which presents avoiding covid both as the product of unreasonable “anxiety” and as something immunocompromised people should let go of lest their loved ones consider abandoning them
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"Masks did not become a symbol of solidarity overnight...There is still much work to be done. But if you ever stopped masking, there has rarely been a better time to start again. Mask up and show your solidarity. Eric Adams will hate it."
June 29, 2024 at 6:55 PM
"Masks did not become a symbol of solidarity overnight...There is still much work to be done. But if you ever stopped masking, there has rarely been a better time to start again. Mask up and show your solidarity. Eric Adams will hate it."
Meanwhile billions of more dollars are sent to Israel to perpetuate their genocide. “Difficult decisions.”
Turns out uninsured Americans won't be able to get free COVID shots from CDC this fall
Last year, federal Bridge Access Program pledged shots until December. That will now end in August, after Congressional cuts
"difficult decisions had to be made"
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Last year, federal Bridge Access Program pledged shots until December. That will now end in August, after Congressional cuts
"difficult decisions had to be made"
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May 17, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Meanwhile billions of more dollars are sent to Israel to perpetuate their genocide. “Difficult decisions.”
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we just did a mask-mandatory conference ask me how (no really please ask because everyone participated and it went great)
May 16, 2024 at 3:41 AM
we just did a mask-mandatory conference ask me how (no really please ask because everyone participated and it went great)
We are wholly interdependent. We need one another and rely on each other all the way down. This is no less true within capitalism than non-hierarchical social formations. The difference is that capitalism orients this interdependence towards the accumulation and power of the capitalist class.
February 25, 2024 at 3:51 PM
We are wholly interdependent. We need one another and rely on each other all the way down. This is no less true within capitalism than non-hierarchical social formations. The difference is that capitalism orients this interdependence towards the accumulation and power of the capitalist class.
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I appreciate this because anarchism existed in a lot of noneuropean societies in history including in Africa which is important in conceptions of it.
February 23, 2024 at 1:55 PM
I appreciate this because anarchism existed in a lot of noneuropean societies in history including in Africa which is important in conceptions of it.
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its not genocide its just (checks) killing tens of thousands of an already captive people, obliterating their homes and infrastructure, concentrating that population into ever small areas, and entertaining half baked plans for dispatching them elsewhere as more inevitably die
February 23, 2024 at 2:00 PM
its not genocide its just (checks) killing tens of thousands of an already captive people, obliterating their homes and infrastructure, concentrating that population into ever small areas, and entertaining half baked plans for dispatching them elsewhere as more inevitably die
Copaganda is everywhere in kids programming.
February 23, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Copaganda is everywhere in kids programming.
Doesn’t the CDC still count COVID hospitalizations as someone admitted to the hospital within 14 days of a positive test result? In which case they are vastly undercounted given that testing has been scaled so far back. Why refer to the CDC’s data on hospitalizations and death as legitimate?
February 20, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Doesn’t the CDC still count COVID hospitalizations as someone admitted to the hospital within 14 days of a positive test result? In which case they are vastly undercounted given that testing has been scaled so far back. Why refer to the CDC’s data on hospitalizations and death as legitimate?
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You will actually get washed away by the tide of these times by refusing to acknowledge something has fundamentally shifted, already, not at a future date, that makes our conditions very dire & requires our action & alertness.
February 19, 2024 at 12:48 AM
You will actually get washed away by the tide of these times by refusing to acknowledge something has fundamentally shifted, already, not at a future date, that makes our conditions very dire & requires our action & alertness.
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There are lots of lists of recommended books about Palestinian resistance out there now, but this list in Bookforum reads more like a collection of essays, inspirations, mendings and brokenness, dreams and flailing, critical inquiry roaming toward freedom www.bookforum.com/print/3003/b...
Battle Lines
Bookforum contributors recommend books about the war in Gaza – Bookforum contributors
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February 19, 2024 at 4:10 AM
There are lots of lists of recommended books about Palestinian resistance out there now, but this list in Bookforum reads more like a collection of essays, inspirations, mendings and brokenness, dreams and flailing, critical inquiry roaming toward freedom www.bookforum.com/print/3003/b...
Because each infection does lasting damage, the COVID metric that matters is case count/transmission. I get that the Biden admin and CDC gradually pivoted the public to hospitalizations and deaths, but I’m not clear on why this has been accepted by many.
February 19, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Because each infection does lasting damage, the COVID metric that matters is case count/transmission. I get that the Biden admin and CDC gradually pivoted the public to hospitalizations and deaths, but I’m not clear on why this has been accepted by many.
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In our latest, we discuss the CDC’s plan to drop its covid isolation guidance, a move that has nothing to do with the state of the pandemic and everything to do with keeping people at work
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CDC Says: Back to Work (02/15/24)
Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss this week’s news that the CDC is planning to drop its covid isolation guidelines, and how the proposed change is emblematic of the Biden administration’s long running
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February 15, 2024 at 12:18 PM
In our latest, we discuss the CDC’s plan to drop its covid isolation guidance, a move that has nothing to do with the state of the pandemic and everything to do with keeping people at work
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at this point frankly I don't think there's any scale of mass death - certainly elsewhere in the world, and likely at home too - that US society won’t metabolize into business as usual
February 12, 2024 at 1:36 PM
at this point frankly I don't think there's any scale of mass death - certainly elsewhere in the world, and likely at home too - that US society won’t metabolize into business as usual