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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · 1d

Stop the War Declared on U.S. Informal Workers

“Operation Midway Blitz,” the Chicago area efforts by Immigration Control and Enforcement (ICE), intentionally and actively terrorizing Chicagoans, is targeting informal workers, including street vend...

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · 4d

The gang is back with a pre-game episode on Saturday Night Live's upcoming season! Check it out here:

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S50 E0: PREGAME

Charisse, Luvell, and Chuck get together before the premiere of SNL Season 50 to talk about hopes, dreams, and fears for the new season. We also discuss Farnsworth’s Dream, Bargatze’s o…

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · 5d

In recognition of World Smile Day, the Laughing Matters Council teamed up to share a few of the moments that have kept us smiling in recent months.

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Celebrating World Smile Day with Peppercomm’s Laughing Matters Council | Peppercomm

World Smile Day is the perfect excuse to hit pause on emails, Zoom fatigue, and that spreadsheet that somehow has 17 tabs…and lean into a little laughter. At Peppercomm, we like to say that our superp...

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Raul Perez @raulperez.bsky.social · 8d

US comedians and the mythology of being “champions of free speech” and “speaking truth to power” has evaporated
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · 12d

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · 12d

wrote something about disagreeable speech. find it here theopinionpages.com/2025/09/thou...

Thoughts on fighting disagreeable speech in the disinformation age | The Opinion Pages

We are currently at an inflection point, with a nation on the precipice. In moments of national crisis, presidential administrations often soothe a restless population with aspirational rhetoric. Lynd...

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · 18d

a timely piece from my colleague @rachelhoopsick.bsky.social on the importance of public health

Rachel Hoopsick, PhD, MS, MPH, MCHES @rachelhoopsick.bsky.social · 18d

I wrote for @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social about the need for public health.

The dismantling of public health that is unravelling in real time may feel like political theater, but the stakes are measured in lives.

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Take the Shot: The Country’s Future Hangs on Public Health Support

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met this week at a meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It linked 25 unverified reports of child deaths to COVID-19 vaccines as they consider further limiting access to this and other immunizations, like those for hepatitis B and...

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · 20d

this season of America has jumped the sharknado shark!

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Aug 31

“A people can be deprived of wealth and power, but one of the worst deprivations is depriving them of the means of perceiving and articulating their deprivation, and thereby of developing a vision and strategy and tactics for fighting it.”
-Ngugi wa Thiongo

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Aug 30

"...all that can save you now is your confrontation with your own history... Your history has led you to this moment, and you can only begin to change yourself and save yourself by looking at what you are doing in the name of your history."

--James Baldwin

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History is the Front Line in the Struggle for Democracy | Common Dreams

As the accumulation of executive orders since Trump’s inauguration manifestly shows, the fate of history in America is a bellwether for the future of democracy itself.

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · Aug 27

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is spot-fucking-on. 🎯🎯🎯👇

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Aug 27

spread the word. somebody out here still hiring....

Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Aug 27

Two tenure track/ tenured positions--one Assist Prof & one Assoc Prof in Philosophy of Science &/or Technology at @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

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Areas include phil of social science, Native American philo, phil of race
#philsci #philtech #philjobs

Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology, University of Toronto - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology, University of Toronto

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Aug 20

Proud to be a 2025-2026 #PublicVoices Fellow with @TheOpedProject and @UofILSystem.

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Aug 18

"The Israeli general who headed military intelligence on 7 October 2023 has said 50 Palestinians must die for every person killed that day and “it does not matter now if they are children”."

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Ex-Israeli intelligence chief said 50 Palestinians must die for every 7 October victim

‘It does not matter if they are children,’ said Aharon Haliva in recorded comments calling the death toll ‘necessary’

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Aug 17

interesting

Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Aug 17

"Without a doubt, Traoré‘s leadership and the movements it has created in Burkina Faso and beyond offer an inflection point for Africans and their leaders to return to their Pan-African roots."

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President Ibrahim Traoré and the Rebirth of Pan-African Consciousness - Australian Institute of International Affairs

Burkina Faso’s interim president, Ibrahim Traoré, has reignited Pan-African consciousness with a bold anti-imperialist agenda rooted in self-reliance, resource nationalism, and unity against neo-colon...

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Aug 14

Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said plans to build more than 3,000 homes in a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank will "bury the idea of a Palestinian state".

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Israeli settlement plans will 'bury' idea of Palestinian state, minister says

Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich announced approval for 3,401 new homes in the controversial E1 area project in the occupied West Bank.

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Aug 8

"Satire can be a powerful agent of those wider, slower forms of political and social change, though when measured against the immediate political intentions of its authors it can seem as though it has achieved nothing at all."

Let custards quake www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Colin Burrow · Let custards quake: Satire without the Jokes

To think of a satirist as a person who angrily turns against a gale-force wind and sprays liquefied shit at a group of...

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Jul 28

The delusion of racial exceptionalism in search of a rationale for racial domination #WhitenessIsTheGreatestRacialFraud

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Phrenology and IQ tests: the far-right revival of discredited race science

Resurging interest in theories of racial exceptionalism is turbocharged amid nuance-light world of social media

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Jul 26

Chief Justice Roger Taney's declaration that Black folk have no rights "the white man was bound to respect" extended by ICE: "You've got no rights here. You're a migo, brother."

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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Amy Sherald Pulls Smithsonian Show Over Censorship Concerns

Artist Amy Sherald has canceled the planned third leg of the major "American Sublime" show at the Smithsonian due to censorship concerns.

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Jul 21

don't fall for the banana in the tailpipe...

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Trump threatens to derail Washington Commanders' new stadium deal over team name

President Trump said the Washington Commanders should change their name back to their former name, which many Indigenous people consider a slur. He threatened to derail a deal for a new stadium.

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Jul 17

Relationships of dependency and domination are everywhere

www.wired.com/story/enshit...

The Enshittification of American Power

First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · Jul 9

We talk about the power of news parody with Local News Stories and Press Junket, as well as the complexity of humorous gaze with Couples at the Bar and food Ethics in Victorian Ladies Who Lunch. We also discuss Mike Myers Elevator Ride and Joke Swap.

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S50 E20: Scarlett Johansson

We talk about the power of news parody with Local News Stories and Press Junket, as well as the complexity of humorous gaze with Couples at the Bar and food Ethics in Victorian Ladies Who Lunch. We…

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