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sephspeaks.bsky.social
Seph Rodney, PhD
@sephspeaks.bsky.social
1.7K followers 150 following 780 posts
Freelance visual arts critic and curator, former editor at Hyperallergic, current contributor to the NY Times (www.nytimes.com/by/seph-rodney), former artist, lapsed poet. "To make something beautiful should be enough; it isn't. It should be" —R. Siken
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19h
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 17h
We're seeing a cultural shift that puts at the helm of our information publication systems people like Bari Weiss who have little insight and less intellectual integrity.

It's no wonder that other life forms — if they exist — are not about to make contact. Our species isn't mature enough yet.
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."
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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 1d
🤦🏻‍♀️
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d
This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d
Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d
The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly.

It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21h
Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois. They're calling them Meal Team 6.
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Ms. Ivette 🕯☽ ⛤ 🔮🖤 @bunnylove403.bsky.social · 1d
Frank Zappa said this in 1989.
THE ENEMY? "IT SHOULD BE CLEAR FROM RECENT EVENTS THAT AMERICA'S ENEMY IS NOT THE COMMUNISTS OVER THERE, BUT THOSE DERANGED RIGHT-WING LUNATICS RIGHT HERE."- FRANK ZAPPA, 1989
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 1d
Shout out to the American Presidents who didn't... (checks notes)... hate Americans.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 20h
Or the folks who said “It won’t be that bad.”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23h
Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.

Fact checking is not going to do shit.

Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.

We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 4d
Gross. Just grotesque.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 4d
This administration's gleeful enactment of their cruel policies against asylum seekers shows me that something is deeply broken in these people.

I don't know who can fix that.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 5d
"When they go low, I take it to hell, where the lava's at"
— Cardi B.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 5d
"These are dangerous days
To say what you feel is to dig your own grave
Remember what I told you:
If you were of the world they would love you"

—Sinéad O’Connor, "Black Boys on Mopeds"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7d
Doing some historical research for a project and while it's an obvious point that we all "know" in some sense, it's bracing and shocking to be reminded of just how violent a place America has been throughout its history.
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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 7d
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 7d
Man is really on the good shit. He woke up and was like “these tunnels are unconstitutional under the 14th amendment because they’re black”
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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 7d
OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...
Voight's tweet
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 7d
May she rest in power.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 7d
Quick question: how many federal jobs will he eliminate *without* a shutdown?
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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 7d
As long as the far right shapes public opinion, and mainstream parties follow public opinion, the far right dominates politics, whether in government or not.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 7d
And scene:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d
The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 8d
Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 7d
I don't know that the US has ever had an administration so full of people gleefully intent on raising the quotient of misery in the world.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 11d
That’s the correct response.