Rakesh Bhandari
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Acting Dir. of Interdisciplinary Studies, Cal. Don't ask me what my field is, I'm not a donkey. Twisting Marx to make capitalism stronger since I got a mortgage
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I work in an interdisciplinary studies program, and last night was trying to explain how I understand interdisciplinarity. Here are a few quick thoughts for those who may be interested. I would love to hear more ideas!
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@JenniferVEvans
Any prof consistently getting 10 likes for a tweet is playing to the crowd and failing their professorial duties for obscurantism and tedium.
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@jallepap
The CA governor Newsom referred to his state as a nation-state; the MA governor Baker is carrying out foreign policy as if his state were a nation-state, using a football team as the navy. Trump is breaking up the United States.
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@RT_Falconer
@AshleyJudd
@MiraSorvino
@NZStuff
No coincidence that the two women exuded the highest and sharpest intelligence on the screen--Sorvino and Judd. I understand the latter is now doing a masters in public policy here at Cal. I always wondered what happened to Sorvino. She was so good in The Replacement Killers.
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‘There’s an element of the left whose top priority is not human rights, but rather being anti-imperialist: just opposing the U.S. government or any close U.S. allies such as Israel. Prioritizing that over the defense of human rights and basic life is wrong.’ Profound point 1/2
“The left discredits itself if it becomes an apologist for Hamas slaughtering civilians.”
I interviewed Kenneth Roth, who ran the Human Rights Watch for 29 years. He’s called Israel an “apartheid” state—but he thinks the left has let Hamas off the hook.
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@KevinMKruse
@mikepompeo
Pompeo cracks me up. He's done everything right: graduated top at West Point, tied himself to the Koch's, led the Benghazi hearings, sucked up to Trump, bashed the
#1619Project
and still can't break 2% among Republicans as their '24 nominee.
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Ackman is going to get Oxman's Ph.D. withdrawn by admitting that her impressive scientific knowledge in her dissertation was just "uncited" Wiki text. She should demand that he stop talking about her work. This is from the MIT Handbook .
No need to subject yourself to Ackman's 5,000-word manifesto. Here's the money quote:
"I am sure that when [my wife] wrote her dissertation she thought that there was nothing wrong with using Wikipedia as a dictionary."
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@lastpositivist
I think this guy Wassily Leontief won a Nobel Prize. Here's what he had to say about Marxism as a predictive science.
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@KevinMKruse
@lionel_trolling
The "saving the West" part is as interesting as the "men of action" part. Saving the West from what? Multicultural democracy? Social democracy?
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@JohnHMcWhorter
Nice try. You wrote: "I had to tell the students we could not listen to that piece that afternoon because the surrounding noise would have been not birds or people walking by in the hall" as if those are things that Cage wanted people to pay attention to. Nope.
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@karpmj
It's not like you to miss what Biden's response at the time was.
Those of us shocked by Biden’s Gaza stance are asking who this man really is. Still not sure, but article in
@theintercept
led me to a 2020
@TimesofIsrael
article on former Israeli PM Begin being surprised by Biden’s openness to inflicting civilian casualties in Lebanon in 1982:
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@Lexialex
Because black people did not get VA loans for fighting in WWII, so white Americans never met them in their new vanilla neighborhoods?
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@nycsouthpaw
@jallepap
Just because Trump frames the question of testing as a *political* controversy between himself & Governors does not mean journalists have to accept that framing. The Governors themselves wouldn't accept that framing.
@gregggonsalves
is right,
@jmartNYT
wrong & patronizing.
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@stevenmklein
Business fears the power shift. It fears the power of the state to command what they produce through Defense Production Act. It fears the power of the state to stipulate no at-will employment as a condition of bailout money. Business wants its private property rights SACRALISED
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@kptrease
@katiedimartin
Mindy Eng is a Prof at Pratt. She has a reputation to protect. She might not want to take the fall for Oxman if Oxman actually plagiarized her thesis.
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@RobinMBernstein
Beauty can make one cry. This was beautiful because singing with the transcendent Tracy brought out the most soulful Luke. Souls connected in mysterious ways over the everyday divides we take as real, gave us a portal to the Oneness of being, left us with gratitude beyond words.
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@gabrielsherman
@kwissoker
Mark Meadows prepared the ground for activation of the the 25th Amendment by contravening Dr. Conley immediately after the press conference. I take that as evidence that it is being considered.
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@bex0760
@doctorjasun
@chillibeanboy
@Wendys_Garden
@JohnJHarwood
Minorities won't forget that majority of whites let Trump humiliate & threaten 'em 2 take low probability bet of help from a known fraudster
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@scottjshapiro
Add to this the minority resides in counties that produces only ≈30% of the GDP. There is a big mismatch here between economic power and political representation.
Lord MacCauley (1830s) raises a point relevant to a US where gerrymandering, small state Senate power, and the electoral college may result in the natural majority located in the most economically dynamic counties being locked out of executive, congressional & judicial power
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@pmgentry
At the very least, people will remember the Columbia student protests for one of the greatest performances ever of John Cage's 4:33. Cage would've said about them: “Well, they’re just playing my piece”, no?
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@MouinRabbani
Oh, I was expecting an exclusive on how Hamas has used Al Shifa for the most sophisticated cyberwar in the world (you did see the single cable in the unused room they showed in Nov?), a rape dungeon for hostages, & a factory for the production of chemical and biological weapons.
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@anon_on_purpose
@Fifistep
@JohnJHarwood
@chrislhayes
Some Hispanics think of themselves as basically European and share Trump's racism towards those with indios and black origins.
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@DavidKlion
By refuting his Jewishness being hijacked by a senseless military operation, Glazer was honoring (in his estimation) his Jewishness. Why is this so hard for people to understand?
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Roger Stone "identifying" with Marcus Garvey reveals again that conservatism is about appropriating minority narratives of grievance and oppression in order to displace them and steal their thunder and thereby silence minority struggles. This is what Trumpism is.
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@yeselson
@KeithWSchumann
I think we are discovering that the primary ideological justification for our system has never really been self- equilibrating markets that achieved just distribution and social welfare outcomes but social darwinism, predicated on a belief in deep heritable racial differences
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Really think it's incumbent on
@FedEx
CEO Raj Subramaniam to make a strong statement on the killing Tyre Nichols who had been doing the second shift at Fed Ex. Memphis is their home; they can't brag about this and then remain silent.
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@NickFriedell
This is Steve Kerr. He gets maligned like Curry; said he only wins because of the talent around him. This is BS. He’s a great coach making bball another beautiful game
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@OlufemiOTaiwo
For our mistakes, situational attributions; for their mistakes dispositional attribution.
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@greenhousenyt
For the super wealthy the highest ROI they can achieve now is investing in (or buying) politicians. They get returns many times what they invest in them. If anything the super wealthy are underinvesting in the political system.
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Our life chances are determined first and foremost by our luck in what Ayelat Shachar calls the birthright lottery to determine which nation-state of which we will be a member. State membership more than the class into which we're born affects life chances. See also
@BrankoMilan
The state of Florida has received more vaccine than the entire continent of African through the COVAX initiative.
This voluntary program is *not* working and vaccinemakers continue to block efforts that would allow for large scale production of the vaccine in the Global South.
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On Popper's critique of how the Austrian socialists played into the fascists' hands. Hope this only of historic interest. Hacohen:
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@JaneMoss08
@tribelaw
@BenCardinforMD
@SenJohnMcCain
When Don Jr met on 6/10 Trump campaign was at bottom due to his railing against Curiel again. They were desperate, ready to try anything.
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That would explain why Nixon had some very interesting criticisms of (Bolshevik) Communists including some of the most abstruse and theoretical ones. Pashukanis, Vyshinsky? A POTUS engaging them intelligently?! A world long past indeed.
Watergate was closer to the Russian Civil War than we are to Watergate.
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This is screamingly obvious. Paragliding, off-the-shelf drone, misfiring rocket Hamas doesn't pose a genocidal threat. They broke through only because of the mind boggling (though lavishly subsidized) incompetence of Netanyahu's security, not because of Hamas' military capability
Cracks in Israeli propaganda: Former head of the Mossad Cohen:
"There is no existential threat, this is not an independence war. We are not fighting over our existence, and we are not fighting for independence. I certainly reject these defitions."
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@SanaSaeed
And then ran out of time to ask her what she wants to do with her bioengineering degree (look a Valedictorian's GPA while taking the hardest courses) and about her considerable public service.
@abbydphillip
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I got annoyed when I heard today that some students are learning about Marx's Capital without the criticisms that can reasonably be made of it. And not just for what he overlooks, but in terms of his own explanations. So I just typed this up at the end of class. Took me 5 minutes
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@Noahpinion
I thought the left would feel the racist and nativist threat Trump posed & would have the same visceral emotional reaction I had that the defeat of Trump must be prioritized. Instead much of the left piled on Clinton and made active support for her like a fool's game
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@samswey
Trump told widow of fallen soldier that he knew what 'he was signing up for'; that's also what he thinks of any woman in Weinstein's studio
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I remember being told in 1999 in a book club by someone who had just won the MacArthur for her work using PCR to track infectious disease that we should all read Laurie Garrett.
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On assigning actual personhood to the embryo there's a bizarre convergence of theological beliefs of ENSOULMENT at conception, discredited biological ideas about PREFORMATION, & REDUCTIONISM whereby the person is defined as information encoded in the DNA of the fertilized egg.
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Students struggle most of all, I have found, with trying to come up with something new to say. In my program we have recommended Andrew Abbott's book on heuristics for social science. Here he is showing how Aristotle's 4 causes can be used to generate ideas.
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@AkbarSAhmed
This is ridiculous. Ever since the Harvard protests in October, protestors' faces were put on doxxing trucks and blacklists on the false grounds that they were Hamas supporters which meant that they supported killing of civilians as colonial settlers.
@Noahpinion
must know this
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@scottjshapiro
@sgadarian
He came to Yale with Stanford's David Kennedy praising him as one of 2-3 best students he had in 50 years (yet did people really read his writing in the Thiel-funded Stanford Review) & then clerked for Roberts after YLS. Maybe the evaluation process is missing some crucial tests?
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@atrupar
Makes me remember...I was invited in 5th grade to the cool dude's sleepover birthday party. I played chess, wore glasses, so surprised. Later found out it was so he could shoot at me with a BB gun with everyone else laughing. Luckily not hit in the eye. I know Trump & his peeps
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@ThePlumLineGS
@LarryGlickman
The GOP message is impunity for people like them, freedom from any altruistic adjustments to people unlike them, priority for any jobs, promotions and contracts for their kind of people. That’s the entire message. It’s a wild animal ready to attack society.
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@arothmanhistory
@sgadarian
Is this an argument for incarcerating ABD students and limiting their internet access?
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@apriljordan_
@OlufemiOTaiwo
@LouPas
But mostly I don't think advertisers want to be seen as giving money to someone who supports an insurrectionist and will soon run afoul of German hate speech laws (at least I am guessing this is why VW dropped twitter recently).
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@RiegerReport
@jakesoll
Can someone please release his college transcripts at Fordham and Penn, though I have a feeling they were doctored to show he passed classes that he did not so that he could get a degree.
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I visit physical bookstores A LOT. That's mostly habit formed before online book shopping. But what has strengthened the habit is what
@doctorow
would call the enshittification of the book recommendation algorithms.
Why I still visit physical bookstores. I can find anything I'm looking for on Amazon. Bookstores are where I find what I wasn't looking for.
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@dbessner
The best thing about twitter is that it gives TT academics access to the brilliant ideas of non-TT people which they can appropriate and use for their own advancement.
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@moshik_temkin
To be fair, he probably thought his infrastructure act would be more popular than it has been.
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@jmt5050
@moshik_temkin
@notdred
Of course he knows that. He's a Prof at the JFK School. This is his speciality. At least I think he knows that.
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@lisa_gauvin
@matthewamiller
How could someone running such an office be on the Judiciary Committee, I humbly submit is the more important question.
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@JeffreyASachs
@jallepap
In an ideal world Texas A & M would be ostracized for their antics by the community of universities and colleges in a way that would hurt them most. No one would put their sports teams on their schedules.
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@linaji
@MontePooleNBCS
Draymond would have gotten out to the 3 point line while creating trouble at the rim. Draymond made his case for why he was the best defensive player in the NBA. The Jazz would've won with the real DPOY.
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@prem_thakker
Wow. Shafik cannot see these young protesters as they see themselves, i.e. acting resolutely on moral values they were raised at home, in school, & at their religious institutions (if observant) never to compromise. Instead they see their school treating them as the problem.
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@jduffyrice
The picture of the couple here should become Americana. It replaces Grant Wood's American Gothic with this MAGA Macabre.
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@BreeNewsome
@DaveMazella
Some of whom we call Hispanic certainly think of themselves as white or European as in Hispanic. So Hispanic support for Trump is not always racial minority support.
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The great Immanuel Wallerstein has passed:
"There are not, and cannot be multiple capitalisms because capitalism is a singular structure that is the defining feature of the modern world system."
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Biden going up to 39% (!) and Sanders sinking to 15% in the Dem primary sadly seems to suggest that much of the support that Sanders just lost was gifted to him by a Dem electorate that wanted not a "socialist" but simply a white man with whom they can identify over Clinton
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@AdamSerwer
@jbouie
What people don't realize is that people don't just agree with a policy of deportation and toddler jails, they agree with it because they know those subject to those monstrous policies are listening and cowering in fear. The sadism is the point.
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@GrantLiffmann
He should have at least 5 more points from FT's, and those fouls if called would keep his defenders at bay, allowing him to score even more. He would probably have 10 more points minimum. White hit his hand, Tatum pushed him in the back.
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@miriamkp
@mdslock
I thought Prof Chwe was a political scientist, a rather brilliant one who predicted that MAGA would have to aim at the overthrow of democracy in 2016 to preserve white dominance and wrote a great book on Jane Austen. Please do not give economists credit they don't deserve 😜
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@ProfDBernstein
@yuval_abraham
Confused. I thought Bibi himself confirmed recently that he had no intention of seeing Oslo through to two states, was already sabotaging it, and finding loopholes to continue settlements.
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12 hours old, so perhaps something has already changed. But it sure seems like he's intent on burning $30B or so of his own money as if it was what I think Bataille once called an accursed share.
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@gabrielsherman
@kwissoker
Consider the journalist failure here. Press is told that he's been on oxygen, that he's on a strong drug cocktail, that he's suffered some lung damage (implied); and the press doesn't ask whether in the doctors' opinion Trump has mental clarity and stamina for the job.
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@joshua_landis
This tolerance of civilian death assumes or makes us assume that Palestinians could not belong to a common humanity--they are all an enemy apart; by supporting Israeli military practice, Biden's been reversing any progress towards the idea(l) of a common humanity the US has made.
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Let's stop calling very implausible deniability plausible deniability. Yes, those are fascist salutes; yes, he is threatening violence.
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@DaltonJ_Johnson
Is it just me as a Warriors fan, but I don't see Warriors throwing their head back to fake a foul like Monk just did or grabbing the ankle of an opponent as Sabonis did to Green?
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Persuasive.
And make sure to watch
@neal_katyal
's short, clear video laying out what Supreme Court precedent says about whether state legislatures can go rogue and appoint pro-Trump electors despite the popular vote:
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@REFrankel
@jelani9
Yes, posted same thing a hour later. 'He was taunting Raffenberger that he was being outsmarted by a black woman hoping that humiliation would provoke him into even sedition to put her and the voters she represents in their place. With Trump it's racism 24/7.'
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Wow. Pulling no punches in the penultimate paragraph. Fantastic piece.
The short link wasn’t working for some users. So here’s the long link:
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Bush appointee Jeffrey White thew out the genocide case on jurisdictional grounds while all but saying that in his estimation the Biden Administration is supporting genocidal activity. He said the question was a nonjusticiable political question. Let's look at the criteria. 🧵
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@KevinMKruse
@delong
What Kavanaugh should say is: "I now understand that forcibly appropriating the sexual capacity of a person with less status than me was an essential part of my socialization into the dominance hierarchies that I would spend the rest of my life defending and benefiting from"
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@mehdirhasan
I can't believe
@OmarBaddar
was able to remain so dignified after not only being falsely accused of implying that Jews are evil but also being accused of harboring even uglier anti-Semitic sentiment. Yet good on him because he said the only thoughtful thing against anti-Semitism
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Always worry about a politics grounded in negation rather than affirmation. Wonder though whether affirmation of human rights and basic life are the same principles
@KenRoth
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@edburmila
@nikhil_palsingh
He's seeking them out. One could speculate that what most haunts & drives him is a sense of failure, humiliation & embarrassment that 1 of his kids is trans. He now blames woke culture & Marxist profs for that & aligns with everyone who fights such things. His kid disowned him.
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@6079_WSmith
@KendraWrites
Yes, why this illusion that a Trump or Hitler is like an ordinary street vendor or hawker saying things he knows not to be true about what they are selling just so people will be drawn in and possibly buy? Perhaps they will do what people voted for them to do.
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@ThePlumLineGS
@willwilkinson
The virus is so stupid. Why is it killing the people who want to keep society maximally exposed to its spread? It's like the virus has no political strategy.
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@negrosubversive
No white leftists blame the bigotry at the Thanksgiving Table on the Dem politicians who don't make the revolutionary working class promises that they think would wean their relatives from bigotry. It's never the innocent white working/middle class's fault. So they're silent
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@wideofthepost
I'm still not over Josh Marshall tweeting that a credible person had seen the videos of Hamas beheading babies and then never apologizing for that.
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@nhannahjones
@jennaburrell
CRT makes students feel bad. We also can't allow the teaching of heliocentrism that reveals that God didn't put us at the center of His Creation so He could watch over us & Darwinism that shows we weren't created in God's image. A white Christian nation must be a feel good nation
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Still confused by the SF Board recall. Been told many times it was a grassroots parents movement. Do the #'s work out? 133K votes for recall. Only 50K kids in SFUSD. So assuming parents have more than 1 kid on average, maybe 75K parents of SFUSD kids. Say 60% voted, 75% + recall.
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@LHSummers
Spreading suspicions that a Palestinian academic is anti-Semitic on the basis of *un-cited* sources the evidence from which one is not prepared to disclose and defend is serious academic misconduct, much worse than the self-plagiarism the chief Diversity Officer is accused of.
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@owasow
So maybe Musk thought his free speech absolutism was not only a defensible principle but also a profitable strategy, i.e. allow anything not explicitly prohibited by the government. So he cuts content moderation staff. Then finds it's not a profitable strategy.
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@EricLevitz
Trump is also less popular than he was in 2020. In the race to the bottom, Trump may be winning here. 🤞
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@lastpositivist
Just so we have a working definition of historical materialism I'll tweet this from a 1939 textbook by Wm. Blake An American Looks at Karl Marx.
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Lord MacCauley (1830s) raises a point relevant to a US where gerrymandering, small state Senate power, and the electoral college may result in the natural majority located in the most economically dynamic counties being locked out of executive, congressional & judicial power
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@wwwojtekk
I am not sure whether this guy Wassily Leontief is a well-regarded economist or ever accomplished anything
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@joshtpm
Boris Johnson made a similar video at a similar early stage, and then descended into a terrible situation in an ICU. Neither was standing in their early videos. Trump's older, more obese; but the therapeutics have become better. We'll see.
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@nedprice
@nils_gilman
email using a private server is more secure than cell phone calls abroad.
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@kristoncapps
@jallepap
Why hasn't anyone privatized air yet, so people have to make micropayments through bitcoin accounts to breathe the air, wherever they are?
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@compliancecamp
@collinrees
@tnofuentes
Anti-racists think the police will press charges against them, not Nazis because that's just how cops roll with Sessions having their back
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