Reposted by Mark FitzpatrickAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026First Monday in October. The Supreme Court returns. 171306214
Reposted by Mark Fitzpatrickalexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026do NOT take an iced coffee to a job interview!!! qualified candidates bring a cooler of gatorade to dump on the interviewer 18914114
Reposted by Mark FitzpatrickBenjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I 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 5539
Reposted by Mark FitzpatrickBenjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In 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 630157
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...aaup.orgIf U.S. News Also Ranked CourageA measure of academic freedom could make college rankings more reflective of the conditions under which education occurs. 010
Reposted by Mark FitzpatrickDavor Mondom @dmondom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Judith Butler will get you closer to comprehending latter-day American foreign policy than Kenneth Waltz 0555
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We 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...gazettenet.comGalvin defends ballot questions as a 'safety valve' amid reform push - Daily Hampshire GazetteBOSTON — 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... 000
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Will have to give these a read. thanks @dukepress.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/journals/pag...read.dukeupress.eduTwenty-Five Years in a Post-9/11 World | Journals Gateway | Duke University PressTwenty-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... 011
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My wife shared with me these poll findings from @umasspoll.bsky.social www.umass.edu/news/article...umass.eduUMass Amherst Poll Finds Cracks in GOP’s MAGA Base, as Many Democrats Shun DSA Label while Embracing its Policies | UMass AmherstThe new poll also asked when—if ever—America was truly at “its greatest.” 010
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Finally finished season 2 of Severance. It took a while to finish due to life stuff but I thought it was good. 000
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026and she told me to write it in on YouTube to comment and I was too scared to do that and I ended up being right it was Dover. I could have been YouTube famous! 000
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I 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" 100
Reposted by Mark FitzpatrickMarc Aidinoff @maidino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I 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...dissentmagazine.orgCan the Welfare State Survive AI? - Dissent MagazineThe 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. 085
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026jacobin.com/2026/09/fuku...jacobin.comFrancis Fukuyama: The American Right Has Gone Off the Deep EndFrancis Fukuyama tells Jacobin that decades of suspicion of the state, from both the Left and the Right, helped produce America’s current crisis. 000
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026When Fukuyama started talking about West Coast Straussians vs East Coast Straussians I was like (oh yeah, don't be started). I don't even know what the latest debate concerning Hasan Piker is all about! Made me think about political positions studying other political positions 110
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I found the interview interesting too because it made me think of the strategy of studying the Right. I'm clearly not on the Right but I read about it more than say debates in democratic socialist circles. 110
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Francis 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. 100
Reposted by Mark FitzpatrickEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026An underappreciated way in which the Simpsons was prescient is that it predicted the trajectory of many open world games 214313
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Very 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! 010
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Never thought I would see Francis Fukuyama interviewed in Jacobin. Haven't read it yet but seems like it might be interesting 000
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This 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." 120
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Going 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...press.uchicago.eduLaughing at LeviathanFor 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... 064
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I made a Subvert profile. I hope to discover new music on this service too! www.subvert.fm/@fitzorhowlsubvert.fm@fitzorhowl - SubvertI hate music, it's got too many notes 000
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026This is an incredible album by Mopar Stars moparstars.bandcamp.com/album/offici...moparstars.bandcamp.comOfficial Researchers Of The NJ Devil, by Mopar Stars11 track album 000
Reposted by Mark FitzpatrickGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 30/07/2026Embarrassing 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. 1102
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Long 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...long-odds.bandcamp.comthe dry land, by long odds8 track album 020
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Plende...berghahnbooks.comThe Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops: Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain | Berghahn BooksIndependent Publishing since 1994 010
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I thought it provided wonderful discussions on co-ops, mutual aid, and the Commons in this age of austerity and COVID-19. Though some British terms tripped me up, I thought it was a good book 120
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Finished "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. 110
Reposted by Mark FitzpatrickNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Genuinely 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. 3194475
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I had such good times playing Halo with my friends. www.polygon.com/patch-notes-...polygon.comHalo invented Xbox, and that was just for startersBungie's masterpiece has been remade again, but no game ever needed it less 000
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I think having kids as stakeholders to national policy and industry conversations is a great idea 000
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I mean I don't know what my life would be like if during my teen years I didn't use Napster messaging, Live journal, or Myspace. I interacted with so many people from different geographies and backgrounds that it helped me grow beyond the physical limitations of school or neighborhoods. 100
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I 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...wired.comBanning Social Media for Kids Is a Bad IdeaThe risks are real. But banning children from the internet could create new problems without solving the ones that really matter. 110
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Had a good discussion about this on another social media space of mine. 000
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I want to go to a cafe and read a book very badly right now 000
Reposted by Mark FitzpatrickSenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 23/07/2026Trump’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. 310948
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Though I must admit, I am a little uncomfortable with this idea. Still want to give it a shot by reading it myself, but definitely have some initial issues 100
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I 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...dissentmagazine.orgKnow Your Enemy: Gerontocracy in America - Dissent MagazineMatt and Sam talk to Matt Dinan about Leo Strauss's 1953 book, Natural Right and History. 100
Reposted by Mark FitzpatrickRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 19/07/2026L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has died at 59 following a battle with brain cancer. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...rollingstone.comJennifer Finch, L7 Bassist, Dead at 59Jennifer Finch, the longtime bassist for influential rock group L7, has died at age 59. 591235384
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I want to go back on this website again for news, politics, academic and intellectual stuff, but man micro-blogging is so overwhelming sometimes 020
Reposted by Mark FitzpatrickGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 08/05/2026RFK 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. 2131299
Reposted by Mark FitzpatrickOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026listen 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" 623750785
Reposted by Mark FitzpatrickJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I 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. 991595316
Reposted by Mark FitzpatrickThe Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 14/04/2026Breaking news: Hampshire College, the liberal arts university in Amherst, announced that it would close after nearly six decades.trib.al‘Heartbreaking reality’: Hampshire College announces transition to closure - The Boston GlobeThe announcement marks the end of another tumultuous chapter in the ongoing saga of the liberal arts school. 811135
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/14/m...bostonglobe.comHampshire College announces transition to closure - The Boston GlobeThe announcement marks the end of another tumultuous chapter in the ongoing saga of the liberal arts school. 100
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Getting local reports that Hampshire College in Amherst, MA is closing. 100
Mark Fitzpatrick @fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Jennifer has been my friend for well over a decade. Please consider donating. Fuck cancer 120