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Bryant Burkhart

@bryantburkhart.bsky.social
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PhD student. World’s oikoi-ist (future) theologian. Focused on neoliberalism, race, and modernity (and sometimes God).

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Buy my book! It kind of is crucial to understanding the moment we’re in, if I say so myself:
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Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump [Ackerman, Spencer] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Glad some excellent reporters still carrying the torch for peace. (On the other hand, BOTH the NYT and The Atlantic have run op-eds praising the war. 2001 called, it wants it’s warhawks back)
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 15/06/2025
i think everyone on the left should more or less aggressively grab on to the legacy of FDR's war liberalism and shove it down the throat of every fascist until they cannot breath
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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
It was great to be out on such a dismal day. Thanks to @willbunch.bsky.social for the excellent coverage.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Were Aime Césaire alive to conduct a structural analysis of the advancing militarization of American law enforcement since 9/11, I suspect he would have understood DHS as a template for how Imperial Boomerangs operate in the 21st century. Me for @zeteo.com on LA, and what led to it.
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The Imperial Boomerang Lands in Los Angeles
As police and the National Guard escalate against anti-ICE protesters, the Department of Homeland Security bridges US violence abroad and US violence at home.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/05/2025
how much of the DOGE-driven destruction of the nation’s research and development capacity is because these people are AI cultists who believe that we’re on the verge of creating a sentient general intelligence?
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The worst people in the world are mad.
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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"no, no. The Christ is UNDER the sauce"
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
that said, at some point we will have to reckon with the political consequences of putting this scale of wealth at the personal, unilateral discretion of individual human beings (generations ago would've been nice, but I'll settle for now)
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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I think if the 2024 election hinged on Michigan alone, we could have a consequentialist debate on activism’s role in the outcome, but since it didn’t, I think the whole enterprise is a sort of bitter waste of time
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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"Ozturk is nearby in Basile, Louisiana at an all-women’s facility also run by GEO, where she has had at least three asthma attacks with no access to medication." Khalil was kept from the birth of his child. Mitra's depiction of the ICE camps is accurate in its horror. Don't blink. Fight back.
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
this is always the thoughtcrime
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 20/04/2025
This is what I believe.
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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Imagine having the Vicar of Christ tell you so directly that you don't understand Jesus. I'm quite anti-hierarchical and I STILL mostly listen to the Pope. Laudato Si... Fratelli Tutti... Franky's dropped some absolute bangers.
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Jenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
👇🎯 This stuff is the entire ballgame. And the fact that this hasn’t immediately ended this presidency is why none of us can seriously believe with certainty that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & competitive. If 👇 goes unpunished, there is literally nothing a president cannot do.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2025
one of my tiktok followers made this
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
big lesson for america here: one reason you dont elect people who believe bull shit like "theyre eating the pets" or "theyre putting kitty litter boxes in the classrooms" is bc if they get in power theyll believe bull shit like "tariffs are a tax cut actually"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2025
if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trump’s tariffs
Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
More importantly there are real concerns about how badly inflation will hurt working families and the vulnerable. But not nearly as badly as a potential recession overseen by a trust fund billionaire with a penchant for prioritizing the needs of his fellow billionaires
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
There is an irony in leftists complaining about the fall of neoliberal globalization. But none of us wanted it replaced with autarkic mercantalism and ethno-nationalist authoritarianism.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Princeton, Tufts, U Mich, Georgetown - some better responses starting to circulate
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
darkly funny that it was the ascendant right wing (not the degrowth left) that is launching the trade policies that threaten to Take Banana
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Trump says his tariffs will raise $6 trillion. Assuming that's over 10 years, that's $600 billion per year. There are 134 million households, so this is nearly $5,000 per household per year. And it's like a sales tax, so it's a flat tax. A huge hit to the budgets of working folks.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2025
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2025
me to the united states: this could be us but you playin’
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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Trentonian Yap-sody? Is that anything?
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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
While I disagree with many of Ms Gomez pieces, they nail it in this article. “Criticism does not imperil a nation […] How could I hold my head high as an American if I didn’t defend their right to tell me what they think?” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Students Yelled at Me. I’m Fine.
All Americans should defend campus protesters.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
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SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"At the same time, his administration has elevated candidates with scant qualifications to positions of power across the federal bureaucracy...That this is all being done in the name of “merit-based opportunity,” as Trump’s executive order put it, is patently absurd." slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Trump’s DEI Crackdown Is a Smokescreen for Something Much More Sinister
It’s an attack on labor. But he can frame it as something else.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Some astonishing numbers in here: -OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes -OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026 -To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years -33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI -5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value
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Bubble Trouble
An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Great new post by @adamkotsko.bsky.social “[Sociopathy’s] dominance of the entertainment field was, I believed, socially corrosive, and I think events have proven me correct. Trump 2.0 is not just politics as entertainment, but it’s politics as 2000s entertainment [eg 24, Mad Men, and South Park]”
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The Book That Really Predicted Trump
There are a number of candidates for “the book that predicted Trump,” from Octavia Butler’s eerily prescient near-future dystopia that purported to “Make America Great Again…
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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Pope Francis made a brief statement from the hospital balcony:
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
An especially fun way to learn this lesson is to be a part of a grad student strike. Really eye opening experience!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/03/2025
one thing i do not like about these days is that i am filled with hate for so many people
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Jesus what an absolutely useless party. Stupid and Evil will continue to beat stupid and useless.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
In case it needs to be said baldly..don't expect the university to protect you.
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Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare (Gift Article)
Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil has become a political prisoner for protesting a US-backed genocide. His detention heralds new vistas of repression made possible by institutions and technological developments begun by the War on Terror.
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Mahmoud Khalil's Detention Is A War on Terror Milestone
ICE turned a campus activist for Palestine into a political prisoner. Witness a coalescence of several post-9/11 currents that threaten your most basic freedoms
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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
during a rough season, I highly recommend thinking more about trees. trees are incredible. as is this article on how incredible dying trees are. 10/10 www.noemamag.com/how-to-build...
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How To Build A Thousand-Year-Old Tree | NOEMA
A set of experimental techniques and technologies that might seem harmful to trees is actually helping ancient forests survive.
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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"In the US, our opposition party protested our current regime last night by wearing pink, holding up signs, and posting 22 identical TikTok videos. That’s fun. I think that’s what a lot of freshman orientations do now to welcome new students. I hope everyone had a nice time."
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
(Don’t smoke kids. It’s bad)
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a man in a suit and tie is saying `` i want to believe ! ''
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying `` i want to believe ! ''
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