Doc_Paradox
@docparadoxphd.bsky.social
I am a Historian and Lecturer in Ethnic Studies and Sociology. My research focuses on the history of disabled veterans, citizen subject formation, and statecraft. I am also just a little silly goose, goosing around.
Substack: @docparadoxphd
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U.S. Interest in Greenland has nothing to do with protection. Greenland is protected by NATO; we are a part of NATO. A U.S.-controlled Greenland now would undermine protection, given the U.S.'s weak position in NATO. This is about undermining the post-WWII global order to placate authoritarians.
January 11, 2026 at 9:37 PM
U.S. Interest in Greenland has nothing to do with protection. Greenland is protected by NATO; we are a part of NATO. A U.S.-controlled Greenland now would undermine protection, given the U.S.'s weak position in NATO. This is about undermining the post-WWII global order to placate authoritarians.
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Patent documents filed by Sony show plans to offer an in-game "AI Ghost" that can demonstrate how to progress further, or alternatively have your control fully taken over by the AI in order to make progress for you. https://t.co/YvTfMa67A1
January 11, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Is feeling joy too time consuming? Well, you are in luck. We've developed AI that can feel joy for you, while you cascade into an empty meaningless void of existence for all eternity. Starting at 19.99/Month.
JD Vance stood before the nation and blatantly lied. We know he lied because we have clear video footage of the events. This is textbook fascist propaganda. Any narrative that challenges state authority is deemed "fake news." Trust your eyes, your ears, and your intuition. 2+2 does not equal 5
January 8, 2026 at 7:47 PM
JD Vance stood before the nation and blatantly lied. We know he lied because we have clear video footage of the events. This is textbook fascist propaganda. Any narrative that challenges state authority is deemed "fake news." Trust your eyes, your ears, and your intuition. 2+2 does not equal 5
When you side with authoritarians, you are gambling with your life. You are betting you will always be aligned with the ruler; Authoritarians have no "sides," only mirrors; To become a mirror, one must sand down one's uniqueness until nothing remains but a reflection of someone else. A Life Lost
January 8, 2026 at 6:49 AM
When you side with authoritarians, you are gambling with your life. You are betting you will always be aligned with the ruler; Authoritarians have no "sides," only mirrors; To become a mirror, one must sand down one's uniqueness until nothing remains but a reflection of someone else. A Life Lost
It's only a regime change if it comes from the regime region of Iraq. Otherwise, it's just sparkling oil heist. #Venezuela
January 7, 2026 at 2:41 AM
It's only a regime change if it comes from the regime region of Iraq. Otherwise, it's just sparkling oil heist. #Venezuela
It's only led-based serial killing if it comes from the led-based region of the Puget Sound, otherwise its just microplastic-based mass shootings.
What might account for the abrupt rise and equally abrupt fall, between the 1960s and the turn of the century, of the “golden age” of serial killing? And why were so many of these brutes from the area around Seattle’s Puget Sound? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/GM5SKR
January 6, 2026 at 9:35 PM
It's only led-based serial killing if it comes from the led-based region of the Puget Sound, otherwise its just microplastic-based mass shootings.
"we did insider trading folks, they're calling it insider trading. So beautiful. Some say it's a crime, the radical left says it's a crime, folks. I don't say it's a crime. Crime is relative. Crime is beautiful. If she weren't my life's work, perhaps I'd be dating crime"
President Trump tipped off oil executives roughly a month before the U.S. abducted Nicolás Maduro, according to The Wall Street Journal. Speaking to reporters Sunday, Trump admitted that he had spoken to oil executives "before and after" the attack on Venezuela, while neglecting to inform Congress.
January 6, 2026 at 4:10 PM
"we did insider trading folks, they're calling it insider trading. So beautiful. Some say it's a crime, the radical left says it's a crime, folks. I don't say it's a crime. Crime is relative. Crime is beautiful. If she weren't my life's work, perhaps I'd be dating crime"
James Baldwin's work reads like a lifelong confession. He was telling us that he, too, was born into this technicolored night terror called "the world that the West had won." And for that reason alone, he could not be our savior, but he could stand beside us and bear witness to the absurdity.
January 6, 2026 at 7:18 AM
James Baldwin's work reads like a lifelong confession. He was telling us that he, too, was born into this technicolored night terror called "the world that the West had won." And for that reason alone, he could not be our savior, but he could stand beside us and bear witness to the absurdity.
Morally, there is but a short distance between this nation's unwillingness to hold Jefferson Davis to account after the Civil War and the country's continued refusal to hold Trump accountable after #January6th. The weight of the past bears heavily on a mind fearfully glancing toward a free future.
January 6, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Morally, there is but a short distance between this nation's unwillingness to hold Jefferson Davis to account after the Civil War and the country's continued refusal to hold Trump accountable after #January6th. The weight of the past bears heavily on a mind fearfully glancing toward a free future.
To understand the mindset of someone like #StephenMiller or #ElonMusk, you must understand Fredrick Jackson Turner and his frontier thesis. They all view expansion and conquest as the lifeblood of national character. If the U.S is not expanding to Mars or conquering Greenland, it is dying.
January 6, 2026 at 6:21 AM
To understand the mindset of someone like #StephenMiller or #ElonMusk, you must understand Fredrick Jackson Turner and his frontier thesis. They all view expansion and conquest as the lifeblood of national character. If the U.S is not expanding to Mars or conquering Greenland, it is dying.
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Regime change in Venezuela, writes M. Gessen, “is a victory for Putin, because it is a blow — quite likely fatal — to the new world order of law, justice and human rights that was heralded in the wake of World War II.”
Opinion | Maduro’s Ouster Plays Right Into Putin’s Hands
Allies? Who needs allies?
nyti.ms
January 4, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Regime change in Venezuela, writes M. Gessen, “is a victory for Putin, because it is a blow — quite likely fatal — to the new world order of law, justice and human rights that was heralded in the wake of World War II.”
*Marco Rubio sits in front of his computer, he's sweating, trembling, nauseous. He has his big boy suit on. He pulls up his CV and begins to add his new job title on top of the Rest*
-President of Venezuela, 2025-Present
#U.S.Politics #TrumpAdministration
-President of Venezuela, 2025-Present
#U.S.Politics #TrumpAdministration
January 4, 2026 at 9:35 PM
*Marco Rubio sits in front of his computer, he's sweating, trembling, nauseous. He has his big boy suit on. He pulls up his CV and begins to add his new job title on top of the Rest*
-President of Venezuela, 2025-Present
#U.S.Politics #TrumpAdministration
-President of Venezuela, 2025-Present
#U.S.Politics #TrumpAdministration
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The Iraq, er, Venezuela war distraction, misled by President Bush, sorry, Trump, wrapped up in a nice nutshell by @thedailyshow.com.
Seems Grok failed to switch out names on their recycled notes.
Hi 👋🏽 Tom Cotton. Precious.
MAGA word of the day: "hemisphere"
(Word only, not definition)
Seems Grok failed to switch out names on their recycled notes.
Hi 👋🏽 Tom Cotton. Precious.
MAGA word of the day: "hemisphere"
(Word only, not definition)
January 4, 2026 at 7:09 PM
The Iraq, er, Venezuela war distraction, misled by President Bush, sorry, Trump, wrapped up in a nice nutshell by @thedailyshow.com.
Seems Grok failed to switch out names on their recycled notes.
Hi 👋🏽 Tom Cotton. Precious.
MAGA word of the day: "hemisphere"
(Word only, not definition)
Seems Grok failed to switch out names on their recycled notes.
Hi 👋🏽 Tom Cotton. Precious.
MAGA word of the day: "hemisphere"
(Word only, not definition)
Exactly, what changes? I am baffled at how we can live through the Iraq war and still believe in American statecraft. America has never been interested in developing Latin America, only plundering.
BASH: There's no question that Maduro was a destabilizing force in the region. People are celebrating in the streets all over. Is it fair to say there's some benefit in him not being in power?
CHRIS MURPHY: What changes? You just heard Sen. Cotton not be able to explain who's running the country
CHRIS MURPHY: What changes? You just heard Sen. Cotton not be able to explain who's running the country
January 4, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Exactly, what changes? I am baffled at how we can live through the Iraq war and still believe in American statecraft. America has never been interested in developing Latin America, only plundering.
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“In Venezuela, we have long faced a brutal paradox: an absent yet omnipotent state,” Colette Capriles writes. “Our society has been orphaned, ground down to its most basic capacities.”
Opinion | This Is What Venezuelans Really Want
We have long faced a brutal paradox: an absent yet omnipotent state.
nyti.ms
January 4, 2026 at 4:12 PM
“In Venezuela, we have long faced a brutal paradox: an absent yet omnipotent state,” Colette Capriles writes. “Our society has been orphaned, ground down to its most basic capacities.”
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Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
January 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
The bitterly ironic U.S. tradition of "fixing" the nations we have so clearly had a hand in destabilizing only persists because the nation refuses to hold a mirror to itself and to ask, "do I like what I see?" #VenezuelaInvasion
January 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
The bitterly ironic U.S. tradition of "fixing" the nations we have so clearly had a hand in destabilizing only persists because the nation refuses to hold a mirror to itself and to ask, "do I like what I see?" #VenezuelaInvasion
There has been an ideological tension at the heart of the Trump administration from day one—U.S. Imperialism v. Manifest Destiny; Globalism v. Nativism; America in the World v. America First. Weltpolitik v. Lebensraum; Musk v. Navarro. A crack in the already weak armor that widens every misstep.
January 4, 2026 at 6:55 PM
There has been an ideological tension at the heart of the Trump administration from day one—U.S. Imperialism v. Manifest Destiny; Globalism v. Nativism; America in the World v. America First. Weltpolitik v. Lebensraum; Musk v. Navarro. A crack in the already weak armor that widens every misstep.
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Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
It's the infinite regime change glitch. It was first theorized by Dick Cheney in 1985, but until now the neocon community believed it to be out of the realm of physical possibility....
January 4, 2026 at 6:45 AM
It's the infinite regime change glitch. It was first theorized by Dick Cheney in 1985, but until now the neocon community believed it to be out of the realm of physical possibility....
January 4, 2026 at 6:32 AM