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hokusai 🌊🌊🌊 @thebluenami.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
RIP Robert Redford 🙏🏻 sneakers - still one of my favorite movies about tech & govt surveillance that holds up to this day
Image from Sneakers 1992 of a still from the movie of Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum becomes the first woman to lead the Grito de Delores. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
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For the First Time in 215 Years, a Woman Leads Mexico’s Cry of Independence
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Pete Dominick @petedominick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Rothkopf: "It was not just Mamdani being a younger candidate offering fresh perspectives that was a game-changer. The election was younger New Yorkers saying if you speak to us in our language, address the issues that matter to us and propose ideas that resonate with us, we will turn out."
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16/06/2025
‘Maybe we only begin to understand our families when we recognise the stories we can’t bear to tell about them.’ NEW: Andrew O’Hagan on four new books about Joan Didion, published online early. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Andrew O’Hagan · Air-Conditioned Unease: Joan Didion on the Couch
We can feel imprisoned by other people’s versions of who we are, especially if their urge is to blame. On one hand,...
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Via ABC News's Rachel Scott, let's never forget for a minute what a classless scumbag the President is. x.com/rachelvscott...

Rachel Scott
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On Minnesota - I asked the president about the assassination and whether he plans to call the state's democratic governor 
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"Well, it's a terrible thing. I think he's a terrible governor. I think he's a grossly incompetent person. But I may, I may call him, I may call other people too," the president said.
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 16/06/2025
Sisyphus Finds Happiness existentialcomics.com/comic/607
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Sisyphus Finds Happiness
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
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Lucy Gray @lucymaygray.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
#booksky
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 09/05/2025
‘“Classic” may not be quite the right word for this scary, messy film – it’s about forms of rage that don’t add up to hatred, or indeed to anything – but this may reflect a deficiency in the word rather than the film.’ Michael Wood watches ‘La Haine’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Michael Wood · At the Movies: ‘La Haine’
‘Classic’ may not be quite the right word for this scary, messy film – it’s about forms of rage that don’t add...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Literacy is activism. Reading is a political act. Books are tools for liberation.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
My article in today’s Observer about the German elections (the title and the piece reference this outstanding poem by the technologist, storyteller and activist @emily.gorcen.ski: emilygorcenski.com/post/the-tim...)
Photo of my article on the German elections in today’s Observer, “Anti-migrant hate is flourishing in Germany’s ‘time of the cowards’”. The title and the article refer to an outstanding poem by the technologist, storyteller and activist Emily Gorcenski.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A few thoughts on Universal Basic Income.
I think UBI is great. It’s an acknowledgement that nobody else 
has the right to tell you what you can best contribute to the world, 
and it’s based on a certain faith — that people want to contribute 
something to the world, most people do. I’m sure there are a few 
people who would be parasites, but most people actually want to 
do something; they want to feel that they have contributed 
something to the society around them.

The problem is that we have this gigantic apparatus that 
presumes to tell people who’s worthy, who’s not, what people 
should be doing, what they shouldn’t. They’re all about assessing 
value, but in fact, the whole system fell apart in 2008 because 
nobody really knows how to do it. We don’t really know how 
to assess the value of people’s work, of people’s contributions, 
of people themselves, and philosophically, that makes sense; 
there is no easy way to do it. So the best thing to do is just to 
say, alright, everyone go out and you decide for yourselves.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Wise man…
Wise man in a sweater in his home library 📚 contemplating: 

I don't know what word in the English language --I can't find one-- applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets.

The word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it.

~Noam Chomsky
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Theprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
It’s sad on the eve of Presidents Day it’s appropriate to have to post this.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/02/2025
‘This is a narrative about what has been lost, about strange, chthonic richness succeeded by erasure and silence.’ Colm Tóibín on peasants and the evacuation of the countryside: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Colm Tóibín · Seagulls as Playmates: Where the Islanders Went
The remote ​west of Ireland, so used to being left alone, seems to come alive for outsiders in search of something...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/02/2025
‘The police entered in civilian clothes, used Google Translate to decipher the titles of the English language books and confiscated box loads, picking out any with a Palestinian flag on the cover.’ Selma Dabbagh on the arrest of the Jersualem booksellers: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
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Selma Dabbagh | Ransacked
On 9 February, two branches of the Muna family’s bookshops in East Jerusalem were ransacked by Israeli police. They...
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Theprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Christian Nationalism is currently the biggest threat to democracy.
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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Capitalists who made risky investments and failed would be wiped out. But the rich and powerful do not want a capitalist system. They want to be able to run the nanny state so when they are in trouble the taxpayer will bail them out. The conventional phrase is "too big to fail."
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/02/2025
‘Ali’s knowledge of left-wing groups around the world, of their local and global struggles and the way they relate to the strategies being pursued by the US and other major powers, is encyclopedic and in wide demand.’ Andy Beckett on Tariq Ali’s memoir: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Andy Beckett · Bad Times: Travels with Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali’s loose and digressive book is many things: a history of a left-wing elite and its enemies since the 1980s;...
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 15/02/2025
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, & @astra.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on resisting the shock & awe politics of the far right & their billionaire enthusiasts Monday, February 17 at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
The Corporate Coup in Global Context
Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Astra Taylor
An Emergency Town Hall
Monday February 17 at 5:00 pm ET
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Noam Chomsky Quotes (Year 534) @chomskyquotes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The problem of “putting the public in its place” came to the fore with what one historian calls “the first great outburst of democratic thought in history,” the English revolution of the 17th century. This awakening of the general populace raised the problem of how to contain the threat. (1/2)
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"
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Pixel Pushers Union 512 @ppu512.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I've been reading this, and enjoying it greatly!
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Theprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/02/2025
‘The Great Blasket, as it stands now, is a kind of anti-museum. The less that is added, the better it will be.’ Colm Tóibín on the transformation of Irish island life as its people depart: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Colm Tóibín · Seagulls as Playmates: Where the Islanders Went
The remote ​west of Ireland, so used to being left alone, seems to come alive for outsiders in search of something...
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
In Amsterdam, we are holding on 20th February (at 2:30pm) a Visual Assembly to discuss, imagine and design cities of the future! It will be at the OBA. Come along if you are in Amsterdam! For tickets - go here: tickets.oba.nl/nl-NL/Show/D...
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I’m going to continue to work until my computer access is revoked,” Lennox said. “Then I’m going to volunteer. I’m going to keep working as best I can to support the veterans. That’s what I’m here for.” taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran...
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A Marine vet thought he found a 'home' working at the VA. Now he's one of 1,000 fired.
Andrew Lennox, who was terminated from the VA, noted the irony of the VA claiming it had fired some veterans to help veterans.
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Theprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
We are witnessing the Adolf Hitler playbook unfolding right before our eyes. Yet, people are nonchalant about it.
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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"....with his delicate humour and control, Antonio di Benedetto persuasively explores the etiology of contemporary masculine dysfunction – that is, as a crisis of social utility." Conor Truax on The Suicides for @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/f...
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A crisis of masculinity – and the ultimate vow of commitment
The Argentine author Antonio di Benedetto’s loose “Trilogy of Expectation”, now complete in English with Esther Allen’s translation of The Suicides,
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I just want a kinder world than this.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
On Wednesday, we will host a talk via Zoom about David Graeber's views on Anarchism and Anthropology. To join register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... As its David Graeber's birthday, you can come to the talk - its in London, Housman Bookshop at 6pm! Weds, Feb 12th!
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The problem with DEI is not that it went too far, but that it didn’t go far enough. My latest:
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The War on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
D.E.I. programs faced legitimate criticisms, but the Trump Administration’s actions make clear that we can’t achieve color-blindness on command.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Every decent human being at the Super Bowl should take a knee during the National Anthem.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"It is no coincidence that the new phase of American debt 
imperialism has also been accompanied by the rise of the 
evangelical right, who-in defiance of almost all previously
existing Christian theology-have enthusiastically embraced 
the doctrine of "supply-side economics," that creating 
money and effectively giving it to the rich is the most 
Biblically appropriate way to bring about national prosperity."
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  - David Graeber
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Florida Democrats @fladems.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Nobody wants open borders but this anti-immigrant legislation will cost $500 million in state funding and will only make our economic problems worse.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
It is always worth knowing what the powerful mean when they use terms like "the economy."
"It used to be 'the economy' 
was the way we provide 
people with food, shelter 
and other necessities to 
keep them alive. Now we're 
all supposed to die for the 
sake of the economy. What 
is this thing they're talking 
about. Is it just code for rich 
people, Class power, or what?"
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Hundreds of Mexican firefighters have arrived in Southern California to help combat the wildfires. Thank you, Mexico🇺🇸🇲🇽
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
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Statement from Katherine Franke.pdf
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 16/12/2024
Some books (not 20) that influenced me, with explanations. 4. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1962) I was pretty much Frank Wheeler when I first read this novel. Like Frank, I figured that just having cultured tastes made me better that other people. Ironically, it took Yates, a hardcore...
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 16/12/2024
Henk Pander’s portrait of Ursula hangs in the Paulson Reading Room at the University of Oregon’s Knight Library (which is also home to her archives). (It’s quite high up on the wall - hence the angle!)
Henk Pander's portrait of Ursula K. Le Guin shows her wrapped in an orange and red shawl, wearing gray pants and black shoes, sitting in a comfortable chair with a piece of what looks like embroidery work in her hands. Next to her is a table covered in a red cloth, with an open book, a rock, and other miscellaneous items. More books are stacked on the floor.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
So called "Lobbying" by Corporations which David Graeber called bribery has more of an impact in deciding Healthcare policy. davidgraeber.org/interviews/a...
"What people actually want 
has almost no bearing on what 
elected officials do - if it did 
we’d now have a single payer 
healthcare system, which is 
supported by something like 
two thirds of the US public."
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Theprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️‍🌈
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