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Elliot Sperber

@elliotsperber.bsky.social
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Lawyer. Human rights. Degrowth. Bylines here and there. He/him

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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rape Civilization www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/22/r...
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Rape Civilization
Though our political, socio-economic world operates according to the dictates of rapacity, many continue to deny the existence of rape culture; a denial
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Machiavelli = mal + chiavello Chiavello = dim. of chiavo (nail) Bad (little) nails - Gadzooks!
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Spirit of the Laws, or Spirits of the Law?
I saw this image of Montesquieu at the Met the other day and find it funny that the name Montesquieu can be translated as mountain of shelter.
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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Look, man. If this isn't fascism, I don't know what is.
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Will Yrump be passing through Dealey Plaza?
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As Heidegger put it “health for the Nazis is the capacity to act for the state.” So, lacking such a capacity one is not just not fit but not fit to live. Isn’t this ultimately what all this fitness discourse is about?
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Draw back the curtain See the stars in the daytime Just don’t step in yet
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Summer, Lake Ontario
Jasper F. Cropsey (American, 1823–1900), Summer, Lake Ontario, 1857, oil on canvas, 15 x 24 in.; 21-1/8 x 20-1/8 in. (framed). Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Gift of the Friends of the Museu...
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Never noticed until watching Shane today how much Corey Feldman resembles Jack Palance. Maybe he can revive his acting career yet
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Every author hopes for a reviewer who reads generously, takes the argument seriously, and pushes back where it matters. Grateful to Daniel Immerwahr for this review of Supremacy in the New Yorker.
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Has the Supreme Court Sandbagged Democracy?
A new legal history argues that the Justices should be stripped of their power to overrule coequal branches of government. It arrives at an awkward moment.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“It was not clear what caused the glacier to collapse…” other than the fact that the world is melting/being cooked by the reigning Nomos
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some Supreme Court justices will see this is as falling in the course of presidential duties, others will see it as levying war against one’s country, ie treason
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
💥 Israel is wiping out entire neighborhoods in South Lebanon right now. War crimes in broad daylight. During a “ceasefire” no less. 8/25/26 @sarahabdallah.bsky.social
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Supreme Court says extortion is perfectly fine when part of official presidential business.
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Look at what they’ve done Prosecute them for treason Each and every one
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
For me the spirit of 76 has always been the tagline of a gas station
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Existing’s so strange It drives everyone insane Nearly every one
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Every dollar bill Has dates of expiration Invisible ink
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If the health of the people is the supreme law, this douche bag is the supreme criminal
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A teenager in North Carolina has been arrested for assault with a "deadly weapon" after taking abortion medication. @kylietcheung.bsky.social has been doing such an incredible job with these pieces on post-Dobbs criminalization
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North Carolina Teen Arrested for Using Abortion Pills As “Deadly Weapon”
The 18-year-old faces criminal charges for trying to self-manage an abortion
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This cannot be real The people climbing mountains Fish in unknown lakes
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hello, it’s MEE! Mass Extinction Event
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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Heads up, NYC, there has been an increase in ICE activity. Keep your eyes open. Let's protect each other. hellgatenyc.com/nyc-sees-an-...
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NYC Sees an 'Uptick' in ICE Activity
And a judge just blocked the mask ban for agents, plus more news for your Tuesday.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
1. Fire all employees on week 1 of a Democratic administration. Everyone. No exceptions. 2. Start now to pull together state-based ICE People's Assemblies. Collect testimonies about impacts on your communities. Release reports by December 2028. 3. REPARATIONS for all ICE victims - $$ & citizenship
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This is barbaric.
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
People sure have barbaric interpretations of what the notion of “promoting the general welfare” means
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE killed another person.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It’s an obvious but still important reality right now that putting people on your network who represent or defend the current administration means choosing to amplify people who will knowingly, aggressively, and frequently lie to your audience.
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lyndsey Graham The pink Grand Ham It’s better now Without that man
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A cage in front of the White House that encages it completely
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Supreme Court should have a Supreme Jury
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The moment’s arrived How will you respond to it Here comes another
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...
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Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo called Houston home for 35 years. On Tuesday, an ICE agent shot and killed him. His family learned of his death from a video before anyone bothered to knock on their door.
New York City stands with the Salgado family in demanding a full, independent investigation and real accountability. To the Salgado family and any immigrant family in this city living in fear: we grieve with you and we will continue to stand beside you in the pursuit of justice.
Abolish ICE.
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Good god, they should all be impeached for years of dereliction of duty, abetting flagrant violations of the constitution to go on for years
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum we can accept from a democratic nominee. We need tribunals, prison time and beyond.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 07/07/2026
Former detainees who spent time with the prominent Gaza doctor before his transfer to solitary confinement describe systematic beatings, dog attacks, and deliberate medical neglect, warning he may not survive. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/if-w...
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‘If we don’t save Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, he will die in prison’: released detainees say they saw Gaza doctor tortured in Israeli custody
Former detainees who spent time with the prominent Gaza doctor before his transfer to solitary confinement describe systematic beatings, dog attacks, and deliberate medical neglect, warning he may…
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Reading Robert Caro’s writings on LBJ and political power and comparing it to Trump it becomes pretty clear how much Trump is in a real technical sense a terrorist
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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The Bicentennial of the Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
1. It’s two hundred years On this Fourth of July Since Adams and Jefferson On this day died You and I ought to celebrate That instead That we’re free,
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Fourth of July, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, James Madison, Madison Square Garden, Taylor Swift
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Trump, Musk
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Pure tyranny on the Fourth of July www.commondreams.org/news/ice-arr...
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Armed With New Slush Fund, 'Lawless and Rogue' ICE Arrests 10,000+ in Just Five Days | Common Dreams
Those arrested in the recent surge include a 56-year-old Catholic nun from Nigeria.
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Constitution be damned
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Elliot Sperber @elliotsperber.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Slaves are shackled. Prisoners are shackled. Trump’s never been shackled, he’s only been appeased. But even if he had been unshackled, that would’ve been in 2024 with Trump v United States if not earlier
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