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Rob Hunter @selfactingmule.bsky.social · 2d

What are the best histories of banking?

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AAUP @aaup.org · Aug 26

AAUP President Todd Wolfson denounces planned academic cuts at the University of Oregon, laying out several concerns.

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AAUP President Denounces Planned Cuts at the University of Oregon

The AAUP stands with the United Academics of the University of Oregon in protesting the administration's plan to slash multiple departments and programs and fire faculty.

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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · Aug 20

Wherein, @nanoboss.bsky.social, @andywoodhouse.bsky.social and I attempt to chart out the Marxist tradition and its relationship to EU law - both historically and theoretically, as part of our broader symposium in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social

Tis a chunky tome.

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Capitalism, imperialism and European Union Law: towards a Marxist approach | European Law Open | Cambridge Core

Capitalism, imperialism and European Union Law: towards a Marxist approach - Volume 4 Issue 2

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Rob Hunter @selfactingmule.bsky.social · Aug 15

But por favor what, exactly? Not having to undertake a non-burdensome action in order to help the vulnerable and immunocompromised to participate in society alongside you?

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Legal Form @legalform.bsky.social · Jul 29

Abby Cartus (@abbraxas.bsky.social) mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation.

From Public Data to Private Knowledge: Capital, Surveillance, and Power — Abby Cartus

‘Defending the institutions and “standing up for science” is really clinging to a bygone illusion. The stakes of institutional engagement are changing as institutions are…being de…

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · Jul 26

This woman does the best she can and I'm glad she stepped up and got in officers faces.

A few quick notes about "warrants" and due process when law enforcement arrest people, and how this squares with the current TRO that ostensibly blocks profiling by race, language, occupation, and location

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨 This woman tries to call the family of the man being disappeared and ICE will not allow her to get a phone number. One of the “undercover” mobsters nearly backed into her.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · Jun 20

This piece is good but why on earth is Boston Review giving Macedo and Lee’s poor scholarship on this a forum in the first place?

Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Jun 19

New piece on why it’s unhelpful to characterise COVID debate as ‘lockdowns are bad’ vs ‘lockdowns are good’ when it was really about people who claimed that COVID was 100x less fatal than it was + optimal to have a massive epidemic immediately before vaccine… vs those who sense checked these claims.

Restrictions had unequal impacts, but the pandemic itself did too. - Boston Review

Adam Kucharski responds to Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · May 26

Whatever it is, the wave of COVID contrarianism sweeping through places like the @NewYorker is troubling because so much of it is scientifically illiterate, representing clear-cut cases of motivated reasoning. 36/

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · May 26

Some of it was the fact that many of the well, laptop class, had their lives turned upside down like everyone else but had never had to think of their liberalism in terms of any real sacrifice before and they resent it deeply. 35/

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · May 26

I've tried to figure out why COVID contrarianism is catnip for some liberal commentators like Immerwahr, Macedo and Lee. It's baffling in the extreme and has sent at least the last two into the arms of a man who is helping to destroy American science. 33/

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · May 26

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

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Rob Hunter @selfactingmule.bsky.social · Jan 21

"It is the capitalist form of the state that underlies the political influence of capitalists, rather than vice versa." — Simon Clarke

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Rob Hunter @selfactingmule.bsky.social · May 20

Will it be recorded?

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Feb 18

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow.

The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?"

When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

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Audrey Yap @audreysh.bsky.social · Feb 10

All the “just asking questions about metaphysics” philosophers who have helped bring about this current siege on trans people: you can still admit you were wrong and it was a bad project that has helped ruin peoples lives dailynous.com/2025/02/10/w...

While Tables Burn: On the (Non) Existence of Trans People and the Failure of Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous

“There are indeed consequences when we punch down or pretend that what is, in fact, a hostile attack, is merely ‘inquiry for inquiry’s sake.’ Aside from the emotional wounds we inflict on actual peopl...

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · Feb 9

People are mostly not experiencing what Trump is doing yet so the problem is not the poll it’s this deeply dishonest framing.

Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · Feb 9

This post will generate angry responses, insults. etc. But important info here. Outside the coasts/Beltway, it appears that SOME of what Trump is doing is generating support, is popular with his base. Politically complicates situation for Dems too. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

CBS News poll — Trump has positive approval amid "energetic" opening weeks; seen as doing what he promised

Trump's deportation plans are popular, but Americans say there's not enough focus on lowering prices.

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · Feb 6

German KPD initially opposed the general strike against the Kapp Putsch and only got on board by the time the strike was virtually over and the entire working class had mobilized

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Aug 6

a lot of people act like trans participation in women’s sports is some kind of impossible needle to thread but it’s actually just great? everybody wins if we reject wholesale the idea that anyone should ever have to prove that she’s a woman! everybody gets to play sports! there is no down side

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · Feb 4

Legal texts don’t do things.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · Feb 3

A huge indictment of how pathetic the Democratic response has been: even Doug Ford, a pea-brained rightwing lummox hoser who had to be shown how to use a laptop three years into his first term as Premier of Ontario, is doing a better job standing up to Trump (who is his hero!)

merritt @merrittk.com · Feb 3

lmao doug ford scrapped the starlink contract and is banning american companies from getting contracts with the province

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · Feb 3

I knew university administrators weren’t prepared for this moment but “you can’t even send any emails about diversity, equity, or inclusion without permission from our lawyers” is even worse than I expected. Calling for anticipatory obedience that is also literally impossible to comply with!

Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · Feb 3

A screenshot of the email sent to University of Minnesota School of Social Work teaching faculty, requesting that “all communications related to DEI” be sent to the Office of General Counsel for review.

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · Feb 3

anyways, me, I would simply build the whole plane out of the same stuff they use to make the black boxes, and the whole state out of the same substance that makes up the glorious ideal of its legitimacy. problems: solved

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 3

1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care.

While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients.

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Handful Of Hospitals Complying With Trump's Illegal Order To Stop Trans Care Under 19 Years Of Age

A small handful of hospitals nationwide have put fear of President Trump over the needs of their transgender patients, and are withdrawing trans youth from care due to a recent executive order.

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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · Feb 2

They have names.

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