@shwin.bsky.social
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"Modern capitalism’s absurd concentration of wealth and power and its heedless pursuit of endless material progress were a snare and a delusion."
Paul Baumann on the Christopher Lasch conservatives miss:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/real-christo...
Paul Baumann on the Christopher Lasch conservatives miss:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/real-christo...
The Real Christopher Lasch
Conservatives embrace Christopher Lasch's critique of the elites. But they neglect his equally searing indictment of capitalism and consumerism.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"Modern capitalism’s absurd concentration of wealth and power and its heedless pursuit of endless material progress were a snare and a delusion."
Paul Baumann on the Christopher Lasch conservatives miss:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/real-christo...
Paul Baumann on the Christopher Lasch conservatives miss:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/real-christo...
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Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
www.ncronline.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
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Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE:
-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS
Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS
Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
January 8, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE:
-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS
Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
-Amazon
-AT&T
-Booz Allen Hamilton
-Caci
-Charter Communications
-Comcast
-Dell
-Ecolab
-FedEx
-General Dynamics
-L3Harris
-Motorola
-Thermo Fisher
-UPS
Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
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Amy Klobuchar voted for one of Trump's nominees the day after a woman in her state was murdered by ICE.
Alexander Van Hook is confirmed 53-40 to be a District Judge of Western Louisiana. According to @senatepress.bsky.social, the Dems yeas are Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), and Peter Welch (VT). Angus King (I-ME) was also a yea.
January 8, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Amy Klobuchar voted for one of Trump's nominees the day after a woman in her state was murdered by ICE.
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CBS has cancelled a story about the Christmas Nigeria bombings because Bari Weiss complained it implied that Nigerians are human beings without seeking an alternative perspective from Steven Miller.
December 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
CBS has cancelled a story about the Christmas Nigeria bombings because Bari Weiss complained it implied that Nigerians are human beings without seeking an alternative perspective from Steven Miller.
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A reminder that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra’s parents emigrated here during a period when Italians were considered to be a genetically inferior and criminal-minded underclass that Stephen Miller’s racist predecessors said should be excluded from America
December 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A reminder that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra’s parents emigrated here during a period when Italians were considered to be a genetically inferior and criminal-minded underclass that Stephen Miller’s racist predecessors said should be excluded from America
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This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
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Gotta get me one of these
“Slop Evader [is] a new browser tool that filters your web searches to only include results from before November 30, 2022 — the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.”
December 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Gotta get me one of these
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
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A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation
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“Ancient boundaries were more ambiguous than what is often shown in historical maps.
While the modern understanding of borders relies on recent concepts of territorial sovereignty, the frontiers of pre-modern states were fluid and frequently contested.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/african-ot...
While the modern understanding of borders relies on recent concepts of territorial sovereignty, the frontiers of pre-modern states were fluid and frequently contested.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/african-ot...
African-Ottoman borderlands during the early modern period: stories from the frontier.
In 1574, the first of two embassies from the kingdom of Bornu in the Lake Chad basin arrived at the Ottoman sultan’s court in Istanbul, seeking, among other aims, to delineate the frontier between the...
www.africanhistoryextra.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“Ancient boundaries were more ambiguous than what is often shown in historical maps.
While the modern understanding of borders relies on recent concepts of territorial sovereignty, the frontiers of pre-modern states were fluid and frequently contested.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/african-ot...
While the modern understanding of borders relies on recent concepts of territorial sovereignty, the frontiers of pre-modern states were fluid and frequently contested.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/african-ot...
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I've been on a number of search committees in my career now and I quickly learned that a lot of the conspiracy theories about what must be going on behind the scenes are just wildly, insanely wrong.
I’m sorry, this white guy who got a campus visit to Brown and was taken seriously by the committee thinks the only reason he didn’t get the job was because they only cared about race?
I think I can come up with another reason…
I think I can come up with another reason…
![Ethan made it to the final interview round at Brown. After a long back-and-forth with the search committee—a sign, he believes, of internal dissension—he lost out. “They wanted everything through the prism of race,” Ethan recalled. “Unless you place [race] squarely at the center of your research, you’re vulnerable, especially if your identity doesn’t fit the desired profile.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/bafkreifkhjwks4newrjgctdlmljukbrtlhsqatgdlfhjjhup7ciuqccfjm@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I've been on a number of search committees in my career now and I quickly learned that a lot of the conspiracy theories about what must be going on behind the scenes are just wildly, insanely wrong.
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As a Jewish journalist, I know I am casting my lot with people who, deep down, are antisemitic. But that's okay because I'm confident that however much they hate Jews, they hate Muslims 5-10% more.
by Bari Weiss
by Bari Weiss
December 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
As a Jewish journalist, I know I am casting my lot with people who, deep down, are antisemitic. But that's okay because I'm confident that however much they hate Jews, they hate Muslims 5-10% more.
by Bari Weiss
by Bari Weiss
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Netflix made a bold promise that streaming would be cheaper and better than what existed before. It broke that promise to cash in on its audience.
If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.
If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.
Netflix can’t be allowed to buy Warner Discovery
It would be the next step in the degradation of culture to serve commercial ends
disconnect.blog
December 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Netflix made a bold promise that streaming would be cheaper and better than what existed before. It broke that promise to cash in on its audience.
If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.
If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.
So true. SNL sucks and always has
Of course, SNL would do this, they never had any sort of moral compass
SNL used AI art tonight, multiple times.
Booooooo.
Booooooo.
December 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
So true. SNL sucks and always has
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Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.
The agent, who’s assigned to another HSI office and is in Minnesota on “temporary detail for an operation,” is unfamiliar with the Twin Cities, did not know where they were going, and “was in fear that he was being abducted.”
FBI: Man, woman drive to police station with Homeland Security agent trapped in vehicle
A man and a woman are facing charges of assaulting a federal officer after Homeland Security Investigations agents tried to arrest the man Wednesday for overstaying his student visa. The pair drove to...
www.mprnews.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.
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Vertigo (1958) Directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes.
December 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Vertigo (1958) Directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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@equatormag.bsky.social was founded to bring intellectuals like Chandu Maheriya – a brilliant and prolific Dalit writer and activist, who is hardly known outside Gujarat – to a global audience. Read his reflection on caste and tanning, translated by Hemang Ashwinkumar
Caste and Chappals • EQUATOR
What leather footwear reveals about discrimination against Dalits
www.equator.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@equatormag.bsky.social was founded to bring intellectuals like Chandu Maheriya – a brilliant and prolific Dalit writer and activist, who is hardly known outside Gujarat – to a global audience. Read his reflection on caste and tanning, translated by Hemang Ashwinkumar
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Man Always Wanted To Raise Family In Kind Of Place Where White People Greet Each Other On The Street https://theonion.com/man-always-wanted-to-raise-family-in-kind-of-place-wher-1819577286/
December 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Man Always Wanted To Raise Family In Kind Of Place Where White People Greet Each Other On The Street https://theonion.com/man-always-wanted-to-raise-family-in-kind-of-place-wher-1819577286/
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Do I want to "dive deeper in AI mode?" No. It's unsanitary and a sin.
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Do I want to "dive deeper in AI mode?" No. It's unsanitary and a sin.
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‘England doesn’t know how to say: “No Kings.” Instead, it says: “Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his son.” But it isn’t the monarchs who are the British problem. It’s monarchism: the archaic top-down power structure of the Anglo-British state.’
Neal Ascherson: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Neal Ascherson: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Neal Ascherson | No Kings
England doesn’t know how to say: ‘No Kings.’ Instead, it says: ‘Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his son...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
‘England doesn’t know how to say: “No Kings.” Instead, it says: “Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his son.” But it isn’t the monarchs who are the British problem. It’s monarchism: the archaic top-down power structure of the Anglo-British state.’
Neal Ascherson: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Neal Ascherson: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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LIBERALS: If only we'd elected Hillary Clinton none of this would have happened
HILLARY CLINTON, APPEARING AT AN EVENT SPONSORED BY A RIGHT-WING BILLIONAIRE TRUMP MEGADONOR: People who have sympathy for Palestinians getting genocided are dumb kids duped by communist propaganda
HILLARY CLINTON, APPEARING AT AN EVENT SPONSORED BY A RIGHT-WING BILLIONAIRE TRUMP MEGADONOR: People who have sympathy for Palestinians getting genocided are dumb kids duped by communist propaganda
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
LIBERALS: If only we'd elected Hillary Clinton none of this would have happened
HILLARY CLINTON, APPEARING AT AN EVENT SPONSORED BY A RIGHT-WING BILLIONAIRE TRUMP MEGADONOR: People who have sympathy for Palestinians getting genocided are dumb kids duped by communist propaganda
HILLARY CLINTON, APPEARING AT AN EVENT SPONSORED BY A RIGHT-WING BILLIONAIRE TRUMP MEGADONOR: People who have sympathy for Palestinians getting genocided are dumb kids duped by communist propaganda