@marksrq1971.bsky.social
Former academic librarian.
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NB: For safety, I block unknown follow requests (or just any accounts that seem sketchy, tbh.)
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The “America” they want to bring back again is literally pre-1860s, complete with the old-timey racism, misogyny, diseases, and GDP. Expect the quality of life to follow.
Brilliant from @adamserwer.bsky.social: the Roberts Court's attack on the Reconstruction Amendments are "consistent with the Antebellum Constitution’s narrow definition of who “We the People” are."
Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
www.theatlantic.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The “America” they want to bring back again is literally pre-1860s, complete with the old-timey racism, misogyny, diseases, and GDP. Expect the quality of life to follow.
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I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
December 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
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Damnit this is good writing, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social.
December 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Damnit this is good writing, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social.
Ah, South Carolina: "too small to be a republic, too large to be an insane asylum."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Nancy Mace escalated airport incident into ‘spectacle’, police investigation says
Republican congresswoman berated TSA personnel in October with profanity and insults, leaving facility employees ‘visibly upset’
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ah, South Carolina: "too small to be a republic, too large to be an insane asylum."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Lawmakers could require the Court to consider the harm not just to the Trump administration, but to the administration’s targets.
You Need to Understand the Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’ - OtherWords
The court’s MAGA majority has used a bureaucratic workaround to issue unsigned, unjustified rulings that often greenlight unlawful actions.
otherwords.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Lawmakers could require the Court to consider the harm not just to the Trump administration, but to the administration’s targets.
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“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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Can't sleep. Been in a funk. Only way through is to write. So this is my offering. The mainstream is ignoring the financial crisis that already occurred. This is what happens next and what progressives can do.
The Financial Crisis is NOW & The Path Forward for Democrats.
YouTube video by UNFTR Media
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Can't sleep. Been in a funk. Only way through is to write. So this is my offering. The mainstream is ignoring the financial crisis that already occurred. This is what happens next and what progressives can do.
The brilliant Viveck Chibber:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Reviving Class Politics Today
Podcast Episode · Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber · 10/08/2025 · 35m
podcasts.apple.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The brilliant Viveck Chibber:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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Fear & Loathing in the Halls of Academe: Trump’s Columbia U.
Fear & Loathing in the Halls of Academe: Trump’s Columbia U.
In 2024, Columbia kept the campus locked down. It put in place so many rules governing protests that it effectively quashed
dlvr.it
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Fear & Loathing in the Halls of Academe: Trump’s Columbia U.
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“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
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so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
