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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 2d

She felt the same way bsky.app/profile/your...

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3d

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 2d

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 2d

“There’s never been a better time to be excited about the future” says Bezos and he then describes it as millions living in space with robots doing the work and there is perhaps no better illustration of the brain tumor of the ruling class

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 2d

“Why can’t they just eat protein bars?”

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 2d

1848 in the rear-view mirror

On 3 November at 17.00 CET, join a lecture with Christopher Clark on how the 1848–1849 revolutions reveal history’s non-linear ties to today’s political and social challenges 👉 loom.ly/_7YP-fo

📣 #historysky #skystorians

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 2d

“There’s never been a better time to be excited about the future” says Bezos and he then describes it as millions living in space with robots doing the work and there is perhaps no better illustration of the brain tumor of the ruling class

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 3d

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3d

Some states are pushing for civility—and occasionally singing—between Democratic and Republican officeholders.

Meet the Lawmakers Trying to Bring Civility Back to Politics

In a growing movement, state legislators in Minnesota, Arkansas, Kansas and beyond are taking on America’s political rage. Opponents are “not the devil.”

on.wsj.com

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 3d

Wondering how many times I’ll repost this bsky.app/profile/prou...

Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · Jul 2

I am starting to think that the inability/unwillingness of many to accept the characterization "fascist" for contemporary fascists stems, in part, from the fact that their understanding of historical fascism is mediated by its defeat and not by its moment of ascendance.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · Jul 24

Larry Summers, now in his third decade of being one of the dumbest, most arrogant assholes in higher education

David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · Jul 24

Larry Summers blesses the deal Columbia cut with Trump administration

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine thinking this and being respected

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.bsky.social · 4d

A friend in Chicago, top of her law school class, has two US-born children. She can't leave her kids at the school yard before or after school starts even if a teacher is there. ICE is grabbing "latino looking kids" from school playgrounds, and her kids don't look white *enough* for her to feel safe

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 4d

Brett Kavanaugh and his clerks need to read this --->

www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 3d

In Εξαρχεια they would have also been kicked in the face. Which I guess is the reason why this area has been demonized.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 3d

For anyone subscribed to Counterpunch, the “ICEBlock story” is out

Paywall removed soon

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

“Despite the app’s goal of protecting people from ICE, its viral success, and the state repression against it, ICEBlock has serious issues: Most

www.counterpunch.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 3d

The Great Barrington Dec. aka the “let covid rip” policy, legitimated the death of over a million Americans, is disabling of tens of millions more, & failed to achieve its own instrumental goal, ending the pandemic. It did succeed hwvr in gutting public health & eroding public trust in science

Five years ago today, we authored the Great Barrington Declaration, arguing for focused protection instead of lockdowns. A wholehearted thank you to the almost one million co-signers. We were proven right.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 3d

Poster on my wall

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 3d

Dutch news now reporting this Gaza demo in Amsterdam drew 250,000. If so, I think that makes it the biggest in the Netherlands since the anti-nuclear-missiles demo in 1981.

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 3d

Red Line demonstration for Gaza in Amsterdam today is very big by Dutch standards. Museumplein packed and overfill, certainly tens of thousands. This is just people on the way, and it’s been like this for kilometers.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 3d

@historyned.bsky.social wanted to tag you but there was no space

Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 3d

>> In the Landesarchiv Baden-Württmberg, I found the official declaration of the Volkskmpagnie with a full description of the events & their role. In it, one can read this brutal statement by the fascist militia: "Shoot them dead! Our anatomy needs corpses!" Anyone seen anything like this before?

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 3d

>> of a student militia that was created to *defend the Weimar Republic*. This Volkskompagnie, which included future President of West Germany Gustav Heinemann, was appalled by the murder and did their best to bring the fascist students to justice (with no sucess). >>

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 3d

Writing something triggered by @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social's book on Arendt & her arrival in Marburg in 1924. The story includes (ordoliberal) Wilhelm Röpke & the murder of 15 workers by a fascist student militia in Mechterstädt during the days of the Kapp putsch. Interestingly, Röpke was part of >

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Cédric Durand @cedricdurand.bsky.social · 4d

Réponse @evgenymorozov.bsky.social : "l'idée selon laquelle la dynamique de destruction créatrice dans la tech permettrait « l’accomplissement du capitalisme dans toute sa splendeur » « est un conte de fées qui occulte la véritable histoire »." @mdiplopt.bsky.social #technofeodalisme

Contretemps @contretemps-revue.bsky.social · 4d

Le Monde Diplomatique a fait paraître en août, sous la plume d’Evgeny Morozov, une critique mordante de la notion de « techno-féodalisme », critique qui vient d'être prolongée par Frédéric Lordon sur son blog. Cédric Durand leur répond ici 👇
www.contretemps.eu/capitalisme-...

Où le numérique nous emmène-t-il ? Réponse à Evgeny Morozov - CONTRETEMPS

www.contretemps.eu

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4d

#OtD 4 Oct 1936 the Battle of Cable St took place when Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists tried to march through East London. They were met by over 100k local workers who fought the blackshirts and the police protecting them, stopping the march workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 4d

“We knew the Irish would stand with us,” - Max Levitas (102)
www.irishtimes.com/culture/heri... #CableStreet

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