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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

yearning for the 'good ole days' of walmart is like yearning for the executioner's blade.

Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

yeah, i think separating identity/self-making from truth claims here is necessary. "science" (as a composite ideal) can act as a modern myth, but that's distinct from science's ability to know things about the world. (pragmatism makes this point well.)

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I'm interested in arguments for virtue and find them compelling... but I think I agree with you here. I think Lasch may sharpen this point by tying it to the failures of meritocracy, but I'm still not totally convinced by it. maybe cuz I like social sciences and am cautiously pro-modernism.

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

God, I'd take this over an abundance agenda anyday.

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

By the time you're done that list, you'll be 45 and deradicalized (yes I read the Iliad in high school for fun. yes, I was also extremely uncool. didn't turn me into a bootlicker though. Mostly thought it was boring.)

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

i generally enjoy Dean’s work, but the lack of specificity (and citations) really frustrated me here. Her interview with Henwood ultimately affirms most of the left critiques of “woke,” so it was frustrating to see her just dusting off 1970s (and 90s) era broadsides against neocons.

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

He's shadowboxing something that no one wants to resurrect. Even the most strident communists aren't necessarily fans of a centralized economy. It really shows his lack of research Mamdani/Jacobin/ most of DSA national are arguing for a nordic-style social democracy more than anything.

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

mix in a little bit of that sewer socialism? can i get "hell yeah, brutherrrrr"

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

as a literal (former) construction foreman who has studied Derrida... this made me guffaw also my general attitude toward Derrida, tbh

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

had a very embarrassing moment where I confused clipse and clipping. a few days ago. Very confusing 4 minutes as I scrambled to figure out why Daveed Diggs was rapping about slinging dope. (as good as the new clipping album is... it's NOT clipse)

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Honestly, this interview convinced me to read the book. Now I have to read another book?! Maybe I'll read the AI summary. 🫠

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Haha. I just read "Fifth Sun" by Camilla Townsend (which means I also read about 7 book reviews and half a dozen articles on the topic of the Spanish Conquest of the Mexica) It's been fun peering into a field that's not mine and seeing the fractures.

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I left the carpentry trades (half in the field, half in a factory) after a decade because it destroyed my body (my back, specifically). Undoubtedly, I played a significant part in that, but a lot of it is just because the work is damn hard. It's good work, but I want better for my coworkers damit

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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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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"yeah, it's dying. but at least we're not alone!" this question has REALLY been weighing me down the past few months. Like... 'questioning if I should switch to sociology' weighing me down

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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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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

whatyoumean, that's how I start all my manuscripts.

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

can you imagine anything more tiresome than your drug friend also being your priest? hahahahaha (sorry to all my drug friends)

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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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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I hope it was... well, I'm not sure what you were looking for there, but I hope it was illuminating. Eliza is a great writer. Whether one agrees with her diagnosis of circle's maladies (opinions vary), it's a challenging testimony to the power and difficulty of community.

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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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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I admit, I'd be annoyed because I can type better/faster than I can write. But also, if I was a student I'd be glad knowing I'm actually learning. (But, admittedly, I'm a nerd. I went BACK to school after years away) Definately stealing this for when I teach, though.

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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 · 29/04/2025

It reveals such a profound misunderstanding of why democracy exists and why it matters. yes. some people have bad ideas. MANY people have bad ideas. But believing in self-governance requires convincing others that your ideas are best and reflecting when you lose. not throwing out the whole thing

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

been trying local weird things lately. i'll check it out out!

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

ngl that sounds awesome. worth the trip?

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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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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

When you put it that way, all public/private partnerships are insane. Wait. I think public/private partnerships ARE insane

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

this is always the thoughtcrime

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Paul-tergeist 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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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

"i knew for a long time" is a... a long time? and you knew they were nazis?

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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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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I grew up in Mennonite in Lancaster, PA. My neighbors were Amish. My ancestors are Amish. We need to stop romanticizing the Amish. Those communal bonds, like most communitarian ecologies, are complex and messy and often maintained in power and coercion. Are we willing to pay those costs?

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

FAIR. I'll never forget you, emo spiderman

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Bryant Burkhart @bryantburkhart.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I'll have to revisit it. I remember seeing it in theaters and finding it scattered and confusing. I was also 17, so my ideas were largely bad.

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