iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I once again implore academics: do not put an email autoreply on when you are on sabbatical. Either your email doesn't matter or it does. People who write you don't need to know where you fall on that divide.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think NIL is the right thing because exploitation is worse than opportunism. As a college football fan, I loved the structure that made amateurism part of the game that is now destroyed. Maybe I just need to go to high school games now and celebrate the contradictions of capital.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My sister came up with a banger: "Mansplaining should be an Olympic sport. Then we would know why they train so hard."

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am not any kind of political operative, but what if we just run on the nation state was a failed experiment? Time to dissolve all three branches and let some city states flourish

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Getting a birthday message from your mortgage broker is a reminder that they both have all your data and you owe a bank three times the amount you paid for your home. Truly the Americanist dream.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I just received the advance copies of my first book. It is surreal and amazing. Getting to see my own thoughts in print is an overwhelming experience.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yesterday I got into a totally absurd argument about the fact the literal war technologies are sometimes used ceremoniously in football. American football, being famous for it overt promotion of the U.S. military. Sports, a famous outlet for warrior culture. Social media is useless for me.

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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

personally I’ll die thinking George Bush is a war criminal that deserves a jail cell but I guess my hatred is just more pure

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

is it bad to wish democrats lose in the midterms? Two years of everything going to shit is one thing, but like worldwide cataclysm is guranteed to work for maybe 60 years. I mean Germany only got Nazis back today whereas US quasiNazis come back like the flu.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"That gives some readers something enormously valuable: permission. I am not saying diversity lowered standards. Tyler Austin Harper is saying it. I am not saying progressive academics have become obsessed with race. He is saying it." cloakinginequity.com/2026/08/19/t...

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He Picked a Fight With Black America. I’m Here to Finish It.

Liberals keep reaching out asking me to read Tyler Austin Harper. Not one liberal. Not one conversation. It has happened enough the past few days that I have started wondering why. Why has Tyler be…

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I don’t know if I am old or boring or something else but scrolling the internet is just not engaging anymore.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Whoever took up tom nichols’ bait, realize you are now dinner.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I just found out the course packet I planned to make my class analog like the bad old days of the 90s would cost students $250 a piece. I can't do that so I am putting things online, sacrificing the value of reading things on paper. Once again, felled by a thousand small cuts.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The real myth of zootopia is a world of unrestricted fertility of prey animals while predator animals no longer prey. For the first time ever, Malthus might be right.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I say this without snark: you can just stop going online. When I deleted accounts it made no difference to my well being. Unless you need online $$, there are countless in person things you can do: community gardens, city meetings, public libraries. You miss nothing by deleting accounts.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Having a toddler means sometimes you read a fact like tigers sleep 16-20 hours a day. And then you realize what is wrong with humanity.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I learned (much belatedly) a couple of years ago that St. Louis uprisings during the 1960s occurred in Black neighborhoods that had neither trash service nor running water. White people saw violence and Black people were decrying the inhumanity of racism.

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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

It’s really frightening.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The lesson of the long 20th century is that backlash is currently stronger than forward movement. This is never truer than in institutional spaces (the media, the courts, elected offices.) What the left needs to continually learn is that institutional control is primary to permanent change.

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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 21/05/2026

this place is like tumblr for people who work stay at home jobs

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/05/2026

It's probably bad that every hundred years or so in this country, the government decides to pay reparations to white supremacists, but reparations to Black and Indigenous people are consistently deemed a nonstarter or too hard.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17/05/2026

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Polity wanted me to promote my article but really I want to promote the series of "classics revisited" where a group of scholars look at a foundational text together. If you are interested in the long history of abortion politics, check out my article but more importantly all the other articles.

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Medicalization as Prologue? Luker and Periodization of the US Abortion Debate | Polity

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is my new favorite article. If only republican women had fewer choices, they would choose to have children. No mention of how choices have been violently stripped via dobbs. Making sure all people in the Deep South have compulsory pregnancies didn’t create the utopia this douche envisions…

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

My three year old knows one fact about me: "Mom doesn't like cocomelon"

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If I were to write a maligned tv review, it would be entitled “dtf St. Louis betrayed us” man, fuck that ending

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

My nightmare became reality: I chose wordplay for the title of my first book. And then, to my horror, someone else figured out Virginia Woolf existed...please help me achieve some degree of search supremacy...I promise I think my book is good. nyupress.org/978147984438...

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A Womb of One’s Own

A powerful call to reconceive women’s reproductive rights by arguing to move beyond Roe for a new feminist politics of abortionFollowing the Supreme Court'...

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If Marx were alive in 21st c. US...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Tuan Van Bui is the 46th person to die in federal custody under the Trump regime — an all-time high. Around 70,000 people are still in ICE detention, a majority of whom have no criminal convictions. Never forget the cruelty Trump continues to inflict at home.

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Death of Vietnamese immigrant in Indiana facility is latest ICE detainee fatality

A Vietnamese immigrant died in ICE custody last week, according to officials, marking the 46th detainee death during the

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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was a woman.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

As we engage in a definitional exercise of what constitutes genocide, the people with actual power to stop a genocidal maniac (Trump) are doing nothing. Republican senators and representatives are cowards who would rather enable genocide than actually use their power and moral authority to lead.

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I’m at ICE HQ

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

War of choice is terrible framing. Illegal war of aggression is right there.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I know it is a personal pathology to seek the intellectual growth of others, but I would like ONE person who authored or signed that atrocious Harper letter to apologize in a full page NYT ad for legitimizing an obtuse and facile moral panic that furthered a real fascist movement.

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I asked Ari Berman—who has covered Voting Rights for more than a decade—to take on the concern that it's doomerism to take Trump's threats to steal the 2026 elections seriously. He thinks we're having the wrong conversation.

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From Minnesota to Georgia, Trump’s plans to interfere in the midterms are becoming more dangerous

The seizure of ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, follows the DOJ’s demands for voter data in Minnesota.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I just watched begonia and honestly longing for the ending

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Sure I ended my subscription for NYT because of the transphobia and trump apologia, but I really doubled down when the started saying ai in education is maybe good.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The accusation of paid protesters is so weird. America is so neoliberal and so plagued by wealth inequality and inadequate social services, we seek to be paid for everything.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The trump administration abolished literally dozens of congressionally approved executive agencies in less than 100 days. There are no norms and the next democratic administration needs to abolish ICE and DHS

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Chat, I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Honestly, the massive and inexplicable eternal blackout a la the boring TV dystopia Revolution cannot happen soon enough. Public use of AI is sapping my will to live.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

What is the point of having a sprawling national security state if they can’t find out who did a mass shooting in broad daylight five days ago?

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Ai is bad. We need a simple assertion repeated endlessly that ai is bad.

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Claire McKinney @clairemckinney.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

There are many ways U.S. hegemony could end. This administration is the killingest way. I would have preferred the form where the military was defunded in favor of scientific investment and lifting everyone out of poverty.

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