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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I miss the professional banter i used to have in places like twitter--follow conferences, research updates, hash out complex cases & academic politics...its not like horrible things werent happenning then too...but the divided reality wasnt so in our faces, we could be deluded otherwise.

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Full Circle Wool @fullcirclewool.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Sen Henry Stern also claimed a keffiyeh was a Hamas garment, when confronted after bill SB472's hearing. I pointed out a keffiyeh has been around for hundreds if not thousands of years, whereas Hamas has only existed since the 1980s. His eyes glazed over and he shook his head.

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Moms. Literally just moms telling you, its you, you gotta do it, no one's coming, clean up ur own civilization, stop shoving things under the bed, if we want nice things (like a breathable atmosphere) we have to take care them, we all just have to pitch in and get it done

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

There are no civil rights for all without economic democracy for all

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

We are collectively not reading nearly enough noam chomsky

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The nuclear family trains us to have no sense of kinship, to enforce atomization, to neither ask for help nor expect it nor offer it. We all have to remember all of us know better, of the necessesity of kinship, how we rise & fall together, to coordinate & protect each other. That is the work.

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Favorite thing re: being a doctor is that for all grandiose history, theory, econ, i still have to walk into clinic & face this material reality, this specific patient's needs, adapt to what is, even as we imagine what could be; but also they keep us scrambling to prevent us from seeing big picture.

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

"People shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Ok academic medicine showed up!

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

the problem is the grinding relentless war death machine not whether it is done with enough gravitas.

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Scientific funding has always been political

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Capitulation vs collusion, from LRB www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

you have to understand the military (now policing) industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about is a literal mass monetary incentive for division & violence--if profit is the ultimate good (w/ no other checks or values), & violence is profitable, then violence is cause & solution to every problem

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Calisthenics is a physical practice--like all body training, rewires nerves, builds out muscles, atrophies others: literally reshapes ur physical body & alters its capacity. Political imagination, relationship skills, resisting obedience, building alt structures work this way too: practice & study

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

They have spent last few decades since at least Reagan kneecapping universities from having public accountability or intellectual independence. To rebuild we need to have at least as much imagination, understanding, strategy, radicalism & long term investment as federalist society & tech dystopians

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/03/2025

small brain: severance is about grief medium brain: severance is about addiction big brain: severance is about puerto rican statehood

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

concise & illuminating summary

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This is happenning right now with relentless frequency, at level of tenure and kangaroo court student discipline, disproportionately to poc and femme. Its so naked & shameless, so reckless and frustrating...its also...revealing. they are scared...

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Cărtărescu's Solenoid so far giving Severance, with the surreal hallways and alienation, but instead of american cult corporate and grief of the lost beloved, its rural middle school teaching in 1970s Communist Romania, and grief over foiled ambition

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If you recall, goverments that are "run like corporations" have historically been called "company towns" that destroyed swaths of American Appalachia and the west, early 20th-century Guatamala under United Fruit Company, and mid-century fascist Italy.

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I feel bananas that this is not more commonly understood

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I am so frustrated with everything for a long while but this moved me

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This is not good, these programs are touch more people in your lives than many probably realize. Idk impact of calling senators, but will try to push on all potential levers of power.

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Alice spakle kat - the harder truth is that we have far more power than we are ready to face. But the time has come.

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The point is not individuals- if the president & elon left tomorrow, despite their specific chaos, the machinery of fascism is aleady well secured. Individual actors are for distracting spectacle. Our organizing depends critically on political education on understanding power & structures.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 18/03/2025

They never revoked federal funding from universities for being antiblack or misogynist. Just decided to pretend to care about one kind of bigotry to conviently align with imperial aims, with the state defining as bigoted what's not at all. It's resistance to the US' alliance with Israel in genocide.

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

AI is the internet, is computers, is financialozation, is the space race, the military industrial complex, is logical positivism, is factory farming, is scaling up manufacturing, is the electric loom, it is endless ideology and decoy to distract & lie about the theft of labor, land, & lives

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

= we thought he would only punish THOSE people This is alll of us, a set up in the making w/ years of mass propaganda, of the easy tool of using our racism against ourselves as they always have. We have been played by both parties: we dont care if they bomb THOSE people.

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The Navy, tbf aggressively enforces imperial property and bases abroad. Does mothering lose money? Does healthcare? Scientific research? What is life for

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Amrita sen, nobel prize economist: famines are political. If our efforts not integrated w/ anti-imperialism & real economic democracy--people having sovereignty over their land, resources, political power--beyond contingency of USAIDs, we will continue this cycle. Famines are imperial acts of war.

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The Overton Window shifting to fascism is not answered by attending to the spectacle of "liberal" politicians bought & paid for by your enemies, it is studying, sharing, practicing a meaningful leftism in your irl connunitues that shifts window back to a normal human valuing of life

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Inexplicable? Most of their donors are publicly listed.

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Fascinating observation...its like all these efforts were really about making everyone more compliant with capital

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Agree. I do think organized religions are absolutely part of this...many have have been on the side of liberation as often as not. Singing and dancing together are ancient technologies for syncing our physiologies. Grounding in body, spirit, connection, and land are powerful. (Happy lunar eclipse 🌚)

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Structures / institutions really want us to know that addressing grievances through electoral politics is a closing option. Its not just less public accountability, but even appearance of it; openly shutting down democracy, after decades of escalating policing. This is a brittle situation.

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Also related to this point is this excellent essay by @erikmbaker.bsky.social in The Drift last year www.thedriftmag.com/the-fortress...

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The leadership of institutions is not to be trusted. Building our relationships, comnunity orgs and worker solidarity is critical

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

U ever re-read Great Gatsby & just think...damn america how are u using the identical playbook for centuries, Tom Buchanan's rants are basic MAGA bitch cut-n-paste, followed by relentless violent crushing of global democracies, how they keep us under their propaganda spell, embarassing

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/03/2025

FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL!!!!!

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

really fascinating thinker and writer (im into epistemology now)

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Ads bragging about AI in products remind me of early 20th c ads that brag about artificial flavors...tastes kind of like the miracle of fruit but shitty...& while we try to sell u shit, we are also violently colonizing land, destroying multigen fruit orchards & forests to build industrial hellscapes

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D Muthulingam @dmuthu.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I was shockef people were still posting about democrats as if they were clearly not a decoy part of the fascism...but i realize its almost like the complexity of domestic abuse situation...there's grief, confusion & fear. We've been propagandized for so long, we are still grasping reality

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 07/03/2025

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

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