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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

Medical research infrastructure and politics were already showing its profound fissures and internal contradiction under the crisis of the COVID pandemic, that it was not up to the task. I think we need to study this political and historical context to figure out how to salvage and rebuild it

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

It's for real paralyzing! definitely for us novices, but sounds like maybe disorienting for everyone. thinking a lot about how we are building out, amplifying and strengthening the structures, outlets and people who are not complicit

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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

This is infuriating, im so sorry

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

Under American corporate rule, the trains don't even run on time (we don't believe in collective transportation)

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

Private industry is intrinsically authoratarian, accountable only to shareholders-i.e. its owners, i.e. the capitalist class. If you recall, multiple attempts to counterbalance power w/ unions & cooperative ownership were violently crushed throughout globe. Government regulation has been dismantled

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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

You cant deal with a multi decade federalist society plan w/ reaction, you need an equal & stronger counter political imagination. They have all the military, police, media industrial complex, but we have the masses and all of he labor that does everything--inc the industrial complex

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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

O god i was just now preparing to do dishes and looking at the 34 hour audiobook of solenoid and wondering...is it time? Ur post seems to say yes.

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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

For real. Someone (david graeber?) said rightwing politicians master play acting as the anti-intellectual buffoon (eg george w, boris johnson) to harness class resent twd elites & fluster liberals, but are still savvy & charismatic (as much as an obama). He is a consummate showman

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

It is a strategy if the goal is to distract and delay from the actual issues

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

Philanthropy is a scam, a bandaid over what is fundamentally theft & extraction by the imperial core from the margins. What have we been trained, in our medicine, public health, economics, so-called human rights, journalism, to ignore?

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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

Premature for whom? Pretenses that neoliberalism offered was not to everyone. Vast stretches of population were getting the unadulterated fascism for >>decades thru carceral system, inc ICE & bureacracies of poverty, nm globally. The recent "transition" is only for the white bourgeois

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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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