On the spectacle and reality of power.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/drawing-ou...

@JohnGanz continues to be one of the most original thinkers on our times...Drawing out Leviathan www.unpopularfront.news/p/drawing-ou...

Well, that rings painfully true...

(From "Toward a New Sociology of Rights: A Genealogy of 'Buried Bodies' of Citizenship and Human Rights," by Margaret Somers and Christopher Roberts, 2008)

Weaving together Margaret Somers' concept formation work with Nancy Fraser's research on capitalism, care and social reproduction, Doucet offers a compelling alternative framework for understanding domestic labor.

Margaret Somers has a really moving chapter in her book Genealogies of Citizenship called Genealogies of Katrina that I think is an excellent companion read to any of the documentaries people are mentioning here

Just published! escholarship.org/uc/item/1jb6...

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

"Economists attribute 20% of the racial wealth gap to disproportionate criminal justice interactions. A bold proposal for repairing this collective injury is universal basic income…recidivism rates in the pilot’s first year were 7% – and 3% in the second year – compared to the state average of 43%."

the thought police are here...I don't recognize my country.

Sounded better in the original German

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder...

Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.

Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.

@joyannreid.bsky.social is asking the right question.This may be the most dangerous period.When the dog catches the car & realizes he can’t open the doors or satisfy its hunger. Now there’s rage, snarling and vicious humiliation at having exhausted itself pursuing something that has no real meaning.

Charlie Kirk was a bad person.

If Charlie Kirk had been a liberal activist, the mere idea that anyone would get fired for speaking ill of him after his death would've been decried by the right as a terroristic attack on free speech.

if you read one piece on Charlie Kirk, let it be this:

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

If I see one more white dude out here canonizing Kirk I am going to lose it.

We can stand against all gun and political violence without making the guy who spewed so much hatred into a saint. I promise it’s possible.

In which Charlie Kirk said that the "savage" Leticia James needed to go to prison for "castrating" the NRA.

Charlie Kirk loved to blame disasters and tragedies on Black people:

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.”

So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.