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Mark Fitzpatrick

@fitzorhowl.bsky.social
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Family, books, travel, sports, punk/punk-adjacent music, culture, academics, and politics. He/him Bay Stater. UMass-Amherst alum.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
do NOT take an iced coffee to a job interview!!! qualified candidates bring a cooler of gatorade to dump on the interviewer
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have no idea if Mamdani could have realistically arrested Netanyahu. However the level of global institutional failure - in the US, UN, Interpol - that is necessary so that we are depending on a newly elected American mayor to save int’l law and democracy is staggering
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In claiming the left needs to embrace economic issues and appeal to conservative values of patriotism and the family, the report does not embrace class politics over culture wars, it just embraces one side of the war over another
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"U.S. News has repeatedly adapted when public criticism has threatened the authority of its rankings. There is no principled reason academic freedom should remain outside that framework, given the magnitude of what is happening in the United States today. " www.aaup.org/if-us-news-a...
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If U.S. News Also Ranked Courage
A measure of academic freedom could make college rankings more reflective of the conditions under which education occurs.
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Davor Mondom @dmondom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Judith Butler will get you closer to comprehending latter-day American foreign policy than Kenneth Waltz
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We have 9 ballot questions this year. We just got the pamphlet in the mail. I'm all for citizen ballots but man, I feel like I need to bring in the book in to vote! gazettenet.com/2026/09/13/g...
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Galvin defends ballot questions as a 'safety valve' amid reform push - Daily Hampshire Gazette
BOSTON — As lawmakers weigh reforms to the ballot question process, the state’s top election official called it a “safety valve for democracy,” and said “you might change some of the procedures, but y...
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Will have to give these a read. thanks @dukepress.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/journals/pag...
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Twenty-Five Years in a Post-9/11 World | Journals Gateway | Duke University Press
Twenty-Five Years in a Post-9/11 World | Journals Gateway | Duke University Press Twenty-Five Years in a Post-9/11 World Date Published: 9/9/2026 Twenty-five years after September 11, 2...
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My wife shared with me these poll findings from @umasspoll.bsky.social www.umass.edu/news/article...
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UMass Amherst Poll Finds Cracks in GOP’s MAGA Base, as Many Democrats Shun DSA Label while Embracing its Policies | UMass Amherst
The new poll also asked when—if ever—America was truly at “its greatest.”
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally finished season 2 of Severance. It took a while to finish due to life stuff but I thought it was good.
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I was watching the Steve Kornacki cam on NBC News for the NH primary and Kornacki asked a trivia question to the Youtube audience on where in NH did Bill Clinton in 1992 give a speech about second chances. And I said out loud to Heather "I bet it was Dover NH"
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Marc Aidinoff @maidino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am strangely optimistic that AI offers a framework to build the state we want. I argue in @dissentmag.bsky.social that progressives must not dismiss the energy and opportunity produced by technology’s productive amnesia to reimagine the state and society. dissentmagazine.org/article/ai-u...
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Can the Welfare State Survive AI? - Dissent Magazine
The U.S. welfare state was built in moments when technical innovation collided with political reality. It can still offer the infrastructure for social protection under an economy reconfigured by AI.
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Francis Fukuyama was interviewed in Jacobin....interesting. finally got around to reading the interview. Obviously Francis Fukuyama has a LOT to answer for but if you still believe in his relevance, he had some thoughts on the current political climate with some relevancy.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
An underappreciated way in which the Simpsons was prescient is that it predicted the trajectory of many open world games
Virtual reality yard work simulator
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Very proud of UMass football last night. they beat Rutgers and it helped snap UMass' 16 game losing streak. Quarterback Pop Watson is from Springfield, Massachusetts too so that rocks. Go UMass!
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Never thought I would see Francis Fukuyama interviewed in Jacobin. Haven't read it yet but seems like it might be interesting
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This quote from the Darilyn Rutherford book I am reading made me think a ton " Political theory and [political] philosophy have something to say about the uneasy relationship between sovereignty and audience. But in some respects, ethnography and works of fiction...capture this relationship best."
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Going to start reading this book tonight by professor Danilyn Rutherfood. I liked the use of Thomas Hobbes political theory in the introduction to what is ultimately a socio-cultural anthropology book press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Laughing at Leviathan
For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In Laughing at Leviathan, Danilyn Rutherford exa...
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I made a Subvert profile. I hope to discover new music on this service too! www.subvert.fm/@fitzorhowl
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@fitzorhowl - Subvert
I hate music, it's got too many notes
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is an incredible album by Mopar Stars moparstars.bandcamp.com/album/offici...
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Official Researchers Of The NJ Devil, by Mopar Stars
11 track album
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 30/07/2026
Embarrassing stupidity aside, I can't help noting that, regardless of what Americans think, there isn't a single far-left person on that list. Such a strange country.
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Long Odds are a Ohio band and this new album from them off Clean Demon Records is so good. long-odds.bandcamp.com/album/the-dr...
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the dry land, by long odds
8 track album
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Finished "The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops: Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain" (2025) by Celia Plender (University of Exeter). I put this book down almost half a year ago but finally returned to it and finished it.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Genuinely bizarre that Douthat would give up the cushiest job in journalism, where management clearly loves him, to join a newsroom whose defining attributes are its internal dysfunction and the constant stream of embarrassing leaks from disgruntled staffers.
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I had such good times playing Halo with my friends. www.polygon.com/patch-notes-...
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Halo invented Xbox, and that was just for starters
Bungie's masterpiece has been remade again, but no game ever needed it less
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I really struggle with this. Like the article states, social media is very toxic to kids. On the other hand, I fully agree that without social media, a generation of kids, especially from marginalized backgrounds, would have no connection. www.wired.com/story/bannin...
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Banning Social Media for Kids Is a Bad Idea
The risks are real. But banning children from the internet could create new problems without solving the ones that really matter.
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I want to go to a cafe and read a book very badly right now
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 23/07/2026
Trump’s Big Ugly Bill has stripped SNAP from 4 million people. Families shouldn’t be forced to choose between putting food on the table and paying the bills. We must reverse these cruel cuts—in the richest country in the world, no one should go hungry.
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1.5 million children lost food aid since last July, analysis says
Nationwide, an estimated 4 million people have been kicked off SNAP since the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, the report finds.
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I want to read Samuel Moyn's "Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It". Dissent has an interview with him. Though I I must admit I am voting for an 80 year old in the primary this year (Senator Ed Markey) dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Know Your Enemy: Gerontocracy in America - Dissent Magazine
Matt and Sam talk to Matt Dinan about Leo Strauss's 1953 book, Natural Right and History.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 19/07/2026
L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has died at 59 following a battle with brain cancer. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Jennifer Finch, L7 Bassist, Dead at 59
Jennifer Finch, the longtime bassist for influential rock group L7, has died at age 59.
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I want to go back on this website again for news, politics, academic and intellectual stuff, but man micro-blogging is so overwhelming sometimes
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
RFK Jr. is a eugenicist. Plain and simple. He's ignorant of science and medicine and lives in a conspiracy-addled world of his own mind. He's is destroying American public health and biomedicine.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"
screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout
What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy" screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss
The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 14/04/2026
Breaking news: Hampshire College, the liberal arts university in Amherst, announced that it would close after nearly six decades.
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‘Heartbreaking reality’: Hampshire College announces transition to closure - The Boston Globe
The announcement marks the end of another tumultuous chapter in the ongoing saga of the liberal arts school.
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Getting local reports that Hampshire College in Amherst, MA is closing.
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AdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Jennifer has been my friend for well over a decade. Please consider donating. Fuck cancer
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I found this very interesting from @dissentmag.bsky.social written by @resnikoff.bsky.social. I respect anarcho-leftists (a lot in the academic anthropology field) but I found this article a good reminder of my own personal beliefs on the administrative state. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
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The Left Needs Bureaucrats - Dissent Magazine
After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Abolish ICE. Really.
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Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This is an interesting abstract. If I am reading it correctly, a city's (potential) dynamic, heterogenous population and cultural difference inside itself is more citizenship forming than a large state(?). Fascinating argument journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
ST PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Tim Walz, Democrats' 2024 vice presidential candidate, says he will not run for a third term as Minnesota governor.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 26/12/2025
Are American schools teaching kids to read in an effective way? Some researchers say that many methods for instructing students are deeply flawed, and particularly harmful for children with dyslexia. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Dyslexia and the Reading Wars
Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 19/12/2025
Today with our last post of the year: @freeblackgirl.bsky.social on the fragility of body positivity, and what happens when a radical movement gets co-opted.
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The Fragility of Body Positivity
How a radical movement lost its way.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Breaking news: Trump is citing “national security” to halt all active work on offshore wind projects Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January
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Trump Uses ‘National Security’ To Freeze Offshore Wind Work
The administration has already lost once in court wielding the same argument against Revolution Wind.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/12/2025
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
to find news local to you, a convenient starter pack: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/12/2025
the vice president is a klansman
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