Luxury Belief
@luxurybelief.bsky.social
queer. transfem. envy. ace. sa survivor. 貧乏 not bimbo. living stealth.
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As usual, the story here isn't about "divides" or cosmopolitan elites looking down on rural populations. It is about radicalization. This woman wants violent vengeance for things that did not happen.
January 15, 2026 at 2:55 PM
As usual, the story here isn't about "divides" or cosmopolitan elites looking down on rural populations. It is about radicalization. This woman wants violent vengeance for things that did not happen.
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“The Trump administration’s vice signals are not just cultural messages or aesthetic poses. They also come with a body count.”
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s latest column:
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s latest column:
Empire of Vice
In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.
www.bostonreview.net
January 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM
“The Trump administration’s vice signals are not just cultural messages or aesthetic poses. They also come with a body count.”
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s latest column:
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s latest column:
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I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch.
It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
January 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch.
It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
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I wrote about how women are going feral for Heated Rivalry, and what that tells us about the state of masculinity.
Maybe the real romantasy is not sex and romance with dragons and fairies, but sex and romance without misogyny and gendered hierarchy.
Maybe the real romantasy is not sex and romance with dragons and fairies, but sex and romance without misogyny and gendered hierarchy.
Women are feral for Heated Rivalry. What does that say about men?
The explosive popularity of the gay hockey TV drama reveals women’s desire for sex and romance without violence or hierarchy
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:46 PM
I wrote about how women are going feral for Heated Rivalry, and what that tells us about the state of masculinity.
Maybe the real romantasy is not sex and romance with dragons and fairies, but sex and romance without misogyny and gendered hierarchy.
Maybe the real romantasy is not sex and romance with dragons and fairies, but sex and romance without misogyny and gendered hierarchy.
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Let me give you a thought experiment:
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Absolute Immunity
Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.
www.the-reframe.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Let me give you a thought experiment:
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
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We need less research framing the problem facing our country as "polarization" and more research framing the problem as "anti-democratic radicalization".
January 12, 2026 at 7:26 PM
We need less research framing the problem facing our country as "polarization" and more research framing the problem as "anti-democratic radicalization".
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…あともう一つ、FGM/Cを禁止する法律はほとんどの州と連邦法にあるんだけど、このところ共和党がトランスジェンダー医療をそれに含めようとしているんだよね。FGM/Cとそうでない行為を区別するために「医療目的でない」という言葉がよく使われるんだけど、トランスジェンダー医療は医療ではない、として（少なくともトランスマスクな医療は）FGM/Cの一種として禁止・処罰しようとしている。移民とトランスジェンダーという2つのコミュニティが迫害を受けているときに、そこにさらに油を注ぎかねないのは困るし、それが理由となって性暴力やDV被害者の権利が守られないのもまずいよ。なんで同じ法案に盛り込んだんだ…
January 12, 2026 at 2:03 PM
…あともう一つ、FGM/Cを禁止する法律はほとんどの州と連邦法にあるんだけど、このところ共和党がトランスジェンダー医療をそれに含めようとしているんだよね。FGM/Cとそうでない行為を区別するために「医療目的でない」という言葉がよく使われるんだけど、トランスジェンダー医療は医療ではない、として（少なくともトランスマスクな医療は）FGM/Cの一種として禁止・処罰しようとしている。移民とトランスジェンダーという2つのコミュニティが迫害を受けているときに、そこにさらに油を注ぎかねないのは困るし、それが理由となって性暴力やDV被害者の権利が守られないのもまずいよ。なんで同じ法案に盛り込んだんだ…
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性暴力やドメスティック・バイオレンスの裁判において被告が弁護士を立てず、公選刑事弁護人も断って本人訴訟をしたときに、原告や証人として出廷した被害者を加害者（とされる人）本人が尋問することで威嚇したり加害行為を続けたりする問題があり、被害者に対する反対尋問に限って法廷が被告に代理人を付け、被告の代わりに反対尋問させることができる法案がワシントン州議会に提出されていた。裁判中に十分に被告が代理人に追加質問を指示したりできるようにすることで被告の権利を守りつつ、被害者が安心して証言できるようにする目的。…
January 12, 2026 at 2:03 PM
性暴力やドメスティック・バイオレンスの裁判において被告が弁護士を立てず、公選刑事弁護人も断って本人訴訟をしたときに、原告や証人として出廷した被害者を加害者（とされる人）本人が尋問することで威嚇したり加害行為を続けたりする問題があり、被害者に対する反対尋問に限って法廷が被告に代理人を付け、被告の代わりに反対尋問させることができる法案がワシントン州議会に提出されていた。裁判中に十分に被告が代理人に追加質問を指示したりできるようにすることで被告の権利を守りつつ、被害者が安心して証言できるようにする目的。…
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historically accurate☑️
January 12, 2026 at 5:32 AM
historically accurate☑️
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Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the Fed.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Fed Served With DOJ Subpoenas, Powell Vows to Stand Firm
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump admi...
www.bloomberg.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.
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If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?
January 12, 2026 at 2:10 AM
If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?
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You did not see this kind of statement from the Turkish central bank before Erdogan staffed it with sycophants because he had carefully laid the groundwork to do so without resistance over the course of 15 or so years. And then once he did do it, inflation went from 10% to 86% in two years.
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:06 AM
You did not see this kind of statement from the Turkish central bank before Erdogan staffed it with sycophants because he had carefully laid the groundwork to do so without resistance over the course of 15 or so years. And then once he did do it, inflation went from 10% to 86% in two years.
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What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
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When the State Terrorizes the People
The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.
My new piece:
The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.
My new piece:
When the State Terrorizes the People
The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.
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January 11, 2026 at 2:10 PM
When the State Terrorizes the People
The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.
My new piece:
The killing of Renee Good reveals, yet again, Trumpism’s violent, authoritarian essence. MAGA is at war with the reality of American society.
My new piece:
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I think the misogynist contempt that’s evident as a motivation in the murder of Renee Good makes her killing by a state actor more similar to so-called private violence—eg domestic violence homocides—than some arguments that rely on a firm distinction between state and private violence can sustain.
January 11, 2026 at 8:29 PM
I think the misogynist contempt that’s evident as a motivation in the murder of Renee Good makes her killing by a state actor more similar to so-called private violence—eg domestic violence homocides—than some arguments that rely on a firm distinction between state and private violence can sustain.
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Not just the encampments. People like Kristof admire the protests that happen ELSEWHERE. They critique those that happen where they live. This is a feature not a bug.
I’m old enough to remember the anti-genocide encampments y’all defamed.
January 11, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Not just the encampments. People like Kristof admire the protests that happen ELSEWHERE. They critique those that happen where they live. This is a feature not a bug.
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This person analyzes american politics for a living
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January 11, 2026 at 3:17 PM
This person analyzes american politics for a living
writing.yaschamounk.com/p/help-me-un...
writing.yaschamounk.com/p/help-me-un...
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bluesky is a sealed epistemic environment and also i am going to make sure that no one can correct me when i say tendentious things like “kirk was killed by an ideological opponent”
January 11, 2026 at 6:33 PM
bluesky is a sealed epistemic environment and also i am going to make sure that no one can correct me when i say tendentious things like “kirk was killed by an ideological opponent”
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昨日わたしたちが抗議活動を行った、「アジア系マッサージ店における人身取引の阻止」を口実としたコンファレンスの内容が判明してきた。マッサージ店で働く中国人女性はほぼ全員中国の犯罪組織と中国共産党によって送り込まれており、中国文化には個人という概念がないからかれらの言いなり、中国人はマッサージ免許試験では組織的に不正を働いている、住んでいる住居に大きな白米の袋があれば人身取引の証拠だ、など。これを国土安全保障省とかCIAにいた人たちがレクチャーしてるの。いまどき珍しいほど真っ直ぐなレイシズムやばすぎ。そしてかれら「専門家」の証言を理由に店舗の摘発と労働者迫害が行われる。
January 11, 2026 at 7:14 AM
昨日わたしたちが抗議活動を行った、「アジア系マッサージ店における人身取引の阻止」を口実としたコンファレンスの内容が判明してきた。マッサージ店で働く中国人女性はほぼ全員中国の犯罪組織と中国共産党によって送り込まれており、中国文化には個人という概念がないからかれらの言いなり、中国人はマッサージ免許試験では組織的に不正を働いている、住んでいる住居に大きな白米の袋があれば人身取引の証拠だ、など。これを国土安全保障省とかCIAにいた人たちがレクチャーしてるの。いまどき珍しいほど真っ直ぐなレイシズムやばすぎ。そしてかれら「専門家」の証言を理由に店舗の摘発と労働者迫害が行われる。
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That actually kind of sounds like your fantasy, Naomi.
January 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
That actually kind of sounds like your fantasy, Naomi.
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Thank you TCW for this instant classic of Harper’s Letter sophistry, explaining that the categories "right" & "left" are unhelpful in understanding a campaign of kidnappings & assassinations undertaken by an ultra-right wing secret police force at the behest of an ultra-right wing political regime
January 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Thank you TCW for this instant classic of Harper’s Letter sophistry, explaining that the categories "right" & "left" are unhelpful in understanding a campaign of kidnappings & assassinations undertaken by an ultra-right wing secret police force at the behest of an ultra-right wing political regime
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genuinely fascinating to me that even after an american is executed in the street by the state your instinct is not to condemn and discuss this on its own terms but to use it as fodder for abstraction and discourse policing
It’s not even so much about “sane” vs. “insane” anymore, as it so often was circa 2020. The fundamental split today is between the *decent* and the *indecent.* It is monstrous to desire, excuse, sanitize, whitewash avoidable killing even of one’s perceived foes.
January 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
genuinely fascinating to me that even after an american is executed in the street by the state your instinct is not to condemn and discuss this on its own terms but to use it as fodder for abstraction and discourse policing
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These fucking politicians need to STOP CONSTANTLY admonishing protestors to be "peaceful" while they are being brutalized regularly by the gatekeepers of the state. You should be up there telling ICE and Border Patrol to be fucking peaceful.
January 8, 2026 at 5:51 PM
These fucking politicians need to STOP CONSTANTLY admonishing protestors to be "peaceful" while they are being brutalized regularly by the gatekeepers of the state. You should be up there telling ICE and Border Patrol to be fucking peaceful.
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今日はワシントン大学女性センターで州上院議員による人身取引についてのトークを聴いた。まあ目的はトークそのものでなくて、議員や研究者、人身取引問題に関わる人や学生運動家らとネットワークすることだけど。てかなんだかんだ今週4日連続で州議会議員と会ってるわ！
January 9, 2026 at 1:46 AM
今日はワシントン大学女性センターで州上院議員による人身取引についてのトークを聴いた。まあ目的はトークそのものでなくて、議員や研究者、人身取引問題に関わる人や学生運動家らとネットワークすることだけど。てかなんだかんだ今週4日連続で州議会議員と会ってるわ！