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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7d

2a) Apart from featuring his definition of fascism (which he offers reluctantly), Paxton observes how the fascist relation to ideas is merely tactical and not grounded in intellectual consistency.

Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.

The fascist leaders themselves, as we observed in chapter 1, called
their movements ideologies, and many interpreters have taken them at
their word. It is commonplace to see fascism defined by extracting common threads from party programs, by analogy with the other “isms.” This works better for the other “isms,” founded in the era of educated elite politics. I tried earlier to suggest that fascism bears a different relation to ideas than the nineteenth-century “isms,” and that intellectual positions (not basic mobilizing passions like racial hatreds, of course) were likely to be dropped or added according to the tactical needs of the moment. All the “isms” did this, but only fascism had such contempt for reason and intellect that it never even bothered to justify its shifts.

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 14h

circuit @ crossfit 😂🏋🏽‍♂️💃🏽

🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 16h

and the surveillance of it all too

🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 1d

“these contracts say the payment is to deploy new targeting and enforcement prioritization, self-deportation tracking and immigration lifecycle process capabilities, modification for data analytics to support complete target analysis of known populations”

🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 1d

“And it seems like over the last few years, more and more parts of the government have gotten access to this database. And the database has gotten more powerful as more agencies have poured data into it/

This database is powered by p a l a n t i r”

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 2d

“database includes residence and entry status, physical characteristics (scars, marks, tattoos), criminal affiliation, location data, license plate, country of origin, hair & eye color, race, social security, birthplace, place of employment, driver license status, bankruptcy filings, & hundreds more

Inside the ICE Deportation Tool

Podcast Episode · The 404 Media Podcast · 04/16/2025 · 44m

podcasts.apple.com

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 4d

magic en el acuario

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 5d

“Colonised cities & spaces provided zones of experimentation through which western powers were able to try out and hone techniques of aerial bombing, mass incarceration within concentration camps and genocidal extermination that laid the key foundations for totalitarian rule and total war in Europe”

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 6d

“It should never be forgotten that colonization/ had a considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the West/ A whole series of colonial models was brought back to the West/ result was that the West could practice something resembling colonization, or internal colonialism, on itself”

Foucault’s boomerang: the new military urbanism

As our planet urbanizes more rapidly than ever before, an insidious set of boomerang effects, linking security doctrine in cities in the global North with those in the South, are permeating state tact...

www.opendemocracy.net

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 8d

“I'm really invested in training students in black studies to also think about black studies outside of the ivory tower, Because I think black studies is not always in the academy, it's not always in the university/

the reality is that a lot of our histories are not in these institutions”

🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 8d

“there's a certain kind of academic training that is happening that can also re-inscribe certain borders

what kind of world would we create if Blackness was borderless? If there weren't borders on to Blackness and we are not placing the same surveillance and policing that the nation state does”

Paul Joseph López Oro - Program in Africana Studies, Bryn Mawr College

Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · 05/12/2025 · 1h 7m

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 8d

reflection:

one of my missteps in academia was trying to remain in psychology, a disciplinary tradition that churns out shortsighted/misguided/insular research(ers)

took a lot of unguided, risky, often isolating work to undo my disciplining & to nurture trying to expand beyond

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 10d

this fascist faceism draws from a US-inflected grammar of global racism

🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · Apr 21

"The use of faces to ascribe illegality [plays] a role in why both illegalized immigrants and U.S. citizens who match the visual representation become targets of hate crimes and deportation procedures"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Screenshot of OP's article on how immigration documentation statuses evoke racialized mental imagery about what people who hold those statuses look like. Below the title and abstract is four faces, the first says base face (the face used as the starting point for a visualization computational technique), while the next three faces show the mental image that people hold about "Native born citizens", documented immigrants, and undocumented immigrants. Unsurprisingly, the faces get darker and more negative affective expressions as you go towards the undocumented visualization.

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 10d

the joy of leaving mex to US & becoming illegalized 30 years “for a better life” 🤭🫩

EL PAÍS México @elpaismexico.bsky.social · 10d

Opinión | Otro dato positivo para México es que el mercado laboral se ha mantenido sólido. Otros aspectos favorables son la estabilidad y fortaleza cambiaria. El peso mexicano se ha comportado en una forma sorprendentemente estable. Por Gerardo Esquivel dozz.es/mpz3j6

Sheinbaum: claroscuros económicos de su primer año | Opinión

Debe destacarse que el entorno inicial le era especialmente adverso y que la economía ha logrado sortear con relativo éxito esta situación

dozz.es

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 12d

Novak - Work It [Official Visualizer]

YouTube video by NOVAK

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 12d

seeing cambios 🏋🏽‍♂️

OP selfie at a gym bathroom mirror, wearing blue tank top and light blue shorts, smiling and holding up a peace sign

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Rabble @rabble.nz · 13d

What @blackskyweb.xyz is doing is an inspiration and model for the future of social media protocols. What folks don't know is how much of the work @rude1.blacksky.team does is rooted in mutual aid and larger movements for collective liberation. We get in to all of that on @revolution.social

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 14d

A wide ranging convo between me & @rabble.nz for @revolution.social
→ past, present and future of Blacksky (the community + company)
→ mutual aid, susus, people's assemblies, etc
→ building protocols for people

wherever you get your podcasts.

Rudy Fraser on Blacksky, Mutual Aid & Reclaiming Social Media

YouTube video by revolution.social with @rabble

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 14d

Mhmmm exploited vision labor.

🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · Mar 2

"with the massification of the Internet, the attention of users becomes a new territory of capitalist exploitation, which alienates the spectator from their own vision/

attention must be understood not only as a valuable commodity but mainly as a laboring activity which involves power relations"

Screenshot from Claudio Celis Bueno's work that discusses the attention economy and how media companies are profiting from capturing our attention and selling it for advertising.

Reference:
Celis Bueno, C. (2017). The attention economy: Labour, time and power in cognitive capitalism.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 15d

We must accept that there are certain people and ideas that we cannot be in conversation with if our goal is human dignity, freedom, and flourishing futures.

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 17d

"We need to slow down. Block the machine. Punch holes in the present to throw open up a temporal multiplicity. Go somewhere else/ this can be accomplished by secretly fashioning a soul for ourselves through our encounter with other souls"

Screenshot from Josep Rafanell I Orra 's Against Liberal Fascism

Text:
"In the terminal stage of modernity that we are now passing through, a regime of super-acceleration has locked us paradoxically into a nauseous presentism. Tomorrow is already today.

We need to slow down. Block the machine. Punch holes in the present to throw open up a temporal multiplicity. Go somewhere else. But there are no more elsewheres that are not prey to the violence of planetary metropolization. Consequently, if revolutionary gestures can still be renewed, it’s by bringing these elsewheres into our here and now, by extending and differentiating [en faisant différer] the everyday worlds that we share. In the universal regime of overexposure of the self that dis-spirits the world, this can be accomplished by secretly fashioning a soul for ourselves through our encounter with other souls."

🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 19d

“In the city, a garden can offer a sliver of the natural world. The sculptures reimagine and subvert our expectations of nature.

They prompt us to wonder, who has access to gardens in a city, and what does that look like?”

Another photo of an art gallery for Ming Fay. A corner of a room has been transformed into a whimsical garden, oversized veggies and fruits lay on the floor (peppers, anise, cherry) alongside colorful skinny trees as the sun shine from the window wall it is next to flickers against the objects, leaving intricate shadows on the wall. On the floor is a plaque that reads:

“Public Art

In spring 1990, Ming Fay installed these three sprouts in Petrosino Square, a small rectangular park just north of Little Italy in New York City. Depicting flowers and sprouts shooting up from the ground, the work was both a public art installation and a garden.

In the city, a garden can offer a sliver of the natural world. However, Fay chose to make the flowers’ surfaces shiny and plastic-like emphasizing the human-made qualities through abstraction of color, form, and texture. The sculptures reimagine and subvert our expectations of nature. They prompt us to wonder, who has access to gardens in a city, and what does that look like?”

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 19d

“a garden is a message, reflecting human desires and the search for an ideal state”

OP standing in an art gallery for Ming Fay. Standing looking up smiling in the center of a room that has been transformed into a colorful garden with fruits and undefinable objects of various shapes and sizes. Some look like small pointy trees on the floor, others look like cornucopias hanging from the ceiling above.

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 19d

always.

Photo of framed art, a melting frozen water cube on a pink background

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🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 21d

“Nazism then ultimately arrived at just the kind of 'hard, clear categories Tajfel identified. But this comes towards the end of the process, not at the start. Intergroup differentiation is a symptom, an outcome of the Nazi state machine, rather than its cause.”

🌬️🍃 @jem.writes.fyi · 21d

“what Nazism then did was to convert or 'recode' these connections and provisional disjunctions into a hierarchical state machine organized around brutal and retrograde exclusive disjunctions (e.g. Aryan-Jew; Nation-Europe).”

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