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anarchopteryx.bsky.social

@anarchopteryx.bsky.social
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Heterodox Anarchist with an eclectic range of interests. Extremely low key

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
We might be nearing the end of the "gradually" phase and approaching the "suddenly" moment.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This is about the level of understanding of statecraft I expect from an especially dumb air wing LCpl PA shmuck or the average YLS grad, as one might a small child, or a golden retriever
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 03/03/2025
“The neoliberals never really sought to shrink the state or free the market. They sought to shift the balance of power in society away from workers and toward capital — particularly finance capital.” Read my review of @itsmccarthy.bsky.social’s great new book jacobin.com/2025/03/demo...
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For a Democratic Society, Democratize Finance
The immense power financial institutions wield over most aspects of our lives makes a mockery of democracy. To build a truly democratic society, we need to democratize finance.
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Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Unless overcome, blue state NIMBYism is going to grow Republicans' electoral college advantage and price millions of people from targeted populations out of the opportunity to find sanctuary under anti-MAGA legal regimes.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
called it!
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A major concern about Trump’s nonsense about the ethnic cleansing, occupation, and annexation of Gaza wasn’t that the U.S. would actually attempt to implement the deranged proposal, but that the rhetoric would embolden others. apnews.com/article/isra...
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Israel's Netanyahu signals he's moving ahead with Trump's idea to transfer Palestinians from Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that he's moving ahead with U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to transfer the Palestinian population out of Gaza.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
honestly something to the idea that economic rationality at a specific scale just ceases to function
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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
i suspect part of whats going on is that some of the most effective resistance going on right is deliberately illegible al a james c scott and you only see it in the absence of results – see for example ICE raids being ineffective because of community organizing ahead of time
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
the approval rating for project 2025 is 12%
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...
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Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies
The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.
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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
similarly to "leadership" i wish we had linguistic innovation around this concept space to make clear what people precisely mean
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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁭󠁸󠁣󠁨󠁰󠁿 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
All kinds of specialized functions can be carried out by standing admin bodies representing federated direct democracies, that don't require exercising legislative police power over a given territory. The liberal "sounds like a govt" response to all discussions of large-scale organization is BS.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/02/2025
We are definitely experiencing real Caligula Hours in the U.S. right now.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
the NatCon basically want to make NATO a dead letter (e.g. see Maitra's "dormant NATO" proposal)
In that light, the idea of “Dormant NATO” is relevant. The brief is readily available for everyone to read. Contrary to consensus, it does not call for a total withdrawal of the U.S. from the European continent—far from it. It firmly keeps the U.S. nuclear umbrella over Europe by maintaining the airpower and bases in Germany, England, and Turkey (thereby keeping the button for ultimate deterrence firmly and solely in American hands), as well as the U.S. Navy tied to the European seas (thereby neutralizing any future threats to seaborne trade). What it does, however, is shift the burden. 

A Dormant NATO stops all future NATO expansion. It keeps NATO on ice, as the name suggests, only to be activated in times of crisis. It defunds the woke NATO bureaucracy—bloated, independent, self-sustaining, and often hostile to conservative values and American interests. Most importantly, it coerces Europe by fixing a timeframe after which the armor, logistics, artillery, intel, and infantry pass on to European hands in both combination and command, with America staying only as a fireman to be called in times of need. Everything other than American nuclear and naval power will be the security burden of Europe.
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Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Keep an eye on the so-called “school choice” moves happening around the country. The segregationist impulse behind choice initiatives remains strong, and the weird carve-out with tax dollars remains super weird. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Texas may allow families to pay for private schools with public funds
School voucher bill likely to benefit wealthier families, allowing $10,000 of taxpayer dollars per student per year
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Atheopagan Gab @atheopagan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
read this if you want some anti-Nazi rhetorical bangers that apply to Trumpanzees.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
man. (written in 2019)
What we can already see in the excitement over Donald Trump by the
alt-­ right wing of tech enthusiasts is precisely this ruthless disregard for
­ human life in the name of getting ­ things done. And this has been a long time
coming. In 1989 Félix Guattari had this to say about Donald Trump: “Just as
monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice, so our tele­ vi­ sion
screens are populated, saturated, by ‘degenerate’ images and statements. In
the field of social ecol­ ogy, men like Donald Trump are permitted to prolif-
erate freely, like another species of algae, take over districts of New York
and Atlantic City; he ‘redeveloped’ by raising rents, thereby driving out tens
of thousands of poor families, most of whom are condemned to homeless-
ness, becoming the equivalent of the dead fish of environmental ecol­ ogy.”45
We should repeat Guattari’s social ecological judgment of Trump for Musk,
Bill Gates, and ­ others whose toxic ecol­ ogy is now pursuing an interplanetary
scale of conquest.
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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 11/02/2025
Burying the lede a bit: they’ve fired staffers who attempt to comply with the order. Remember my comment about the fork in the road? It’s behind us. Welcome to unmasked authoritarianism.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Florida
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Atheopagan Gab @atheopagan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
the last Trump tariff on steel resulted in a permanent increase in real prices and a net loss of ~75K jobs that use steel as an input (amidst protecting an arbitrary amount of ~1.8K jobs directly related to steel.) the new 25% tariff on steel and aluminium will be even worse.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/02/2025
the “lawless decision” here is “the president does not have the power of the purse and cannot unilaterally cut or dismantle agencies established by congress”
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/02/2025
Musk has no technical skills whatsoever, but he wants to appear smart. So he takes bits of information like this, told to him by junior engineers, and regurgitates it to appear smart. Musk did this with the Twitter stack and Twitter's senior architects called him out publicly, then he fired them.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/02/2025
"...the most terrifying part? Donald Trump... is oblivious. He has no grand ideological project beyond his own power. He does not understand the system being built around him, nor the fact that his own presidency is merely a vehicle for forces that see him as a... battering ram against democracy."
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Six years in prison for just *supporting* sanctuary. Tennessee has passed a law that makes it a felony for any official—city council, school board—to even vote on behalf of providing sanctuary. tennesseelookout.com/2025/02/05/i...
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In Tennessee, a vote by public officials can send them directly to jail • Tennessee Lookout
Dr. John Vile of Middle Tennessee State University writes a new bill to criminalize officials approving sanctuary cities is unconstitutional.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I’ve found that people in “elite” positions of power often crumble when they face a tiny amount of pushback, criticism, or god forbid, the type of online abuse and harassment that many of us deal with regularly. They also conflate the two and use their power to suppress legitimate criticism
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
it really does seem like what they feel like they won in this election is our love
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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This has been such a massive delusion. All the media and tech guys and even Republicans senators are acting like this was some sort of total victory and Trump's power and popularity are infinite, when his honeymoon, the apex of his popularity, has him barely above water.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
this is a level of word-hunting so comically extreme that it can only be found in the most absurd satires imaginable
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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 09/02/2025
Kind of funny that Watergate is still a yardstick. Most days with Trump in office, we get a Watergate by lunchtime.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
one thing I am moderately confident on now is that China is the leading global scientific power by 2030.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
LinkedIn is basically facebook for Very Serious Professionals who've cooked their brains the same way meemaw did on zuck's hellhole
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
lol elon musk's dealer is running DOE
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
that kanye tweet, jesus christ
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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... A few more of my vignettes (rendered in 2021) for the book, called SEA MAMMALS, by Annalisa Berta. Here are Aegyptocetus and the toothed baleen whale (!) Aetiocetus. #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SeaMammals #Whales #WildlifeArt
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Coup d'etat shit
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“In June, the user weighed in on the conflict in the Middle East, offering some sympathy for Israel but also posting, ‘I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.’”
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Exclusive | DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Here we go. These are the contractors I was talking about. These are the companies most vulnerable to pressure. Protest them, protest their suppliers, collect intel, don't get in the way of anyone willing to do anything brave
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/02/2025
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
NOAA manages large ocean fisheries in US waters. Scientists there conduct surveys, sample fish, and run complex models to estimate the levels of sustainable catches. NOAA is recognized as a world leader in creating jobs, producing food, and avoiding overfishing. Kudos to NOAA fisheries!!!!
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 01/02/2025
What happened with rationalism is what happens when you smash these two professions into each other, repeatedly, inside of the Cali cultural milieu of the 80s-2000s, which is just Hyperreal America distilled. People became convinced they could shape reality like software. That reality IS software.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 04/02/2025
I bet all those liberals who screamed "Yes Elon is bad, but the Rest of SpaceX is good!" at me for several years are gonna be really embarrassed when they learn dozens of SpaceX employees end execs are gleefully executing Musk's Nazi coup right now
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