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Mezz Viper
@j-m-boles.bsky.social
Committed to political and social democracy and a broad popular front against fascism.

Woody warned us in the 1940s that when fascist apologists say “America First” they mean “America Next!”
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They were 8 and 11 years old
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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People do not use information to determine their social identities; they use their social identities to determine what counts as information. The climate fight is, and has always been, an identity fight. Gonna talk with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about this soon.
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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meanwhile, as many others have noted, the u.s. coast guard continues to interdict drug boats and arrest the occupants
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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The Trump administration says it will begin requiring universities to disclose “foreign funding.”

This is a carbon copy of the way Putin/Orban attacked universities and NGOs. It’s how Orban got Central European University out of Hungary and how Russia went after European Uni in St. Petersburg.
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM