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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.

Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

New evidence suggests “Bimboification” is an older phenomenon than previously suspected, perhaps rooted in postwar malaise

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

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Aidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

JK Rowling calls Nathan Cofnas a racist, and Cofnas responds by saying that he is just applying the same logic to race as she does to trans people. Quite.

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, who is smeared for sex realism, calls me a bad word for applying the same logic to race

quote tweet by Nathan Cofnas replying to JK Rowling who said:

More than one thing can be true. Nathan Cofnas is a racist. No argument there.

Also true: Arday claimed to have been non-verbal until the age of eleven. He span a false narrative about being autistic and mute, then learning to speak and write so well he gained a PhD. What harm did he do to parents with children who're genuinely non-verbal, by selling them false hope?

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Read the replies for some mean/funny attacks on political science that pale in comparison to what actual political scientists have to say about the field.

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yep that’s me all right, every semester, just grinding away on the consent manufacturing line.

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Having a genuinely hard time parsing this one

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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PublicWrx @publicwrx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If Fidel Castro was no saint then how do you explain this?

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I had forgotten that most social media communists are just aggrieved members of a fandom rather than people who read or do anything. Oops.

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Incredible how many LARPers have confused aesthetics for politics

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Bulwark, brought to you by the team behind the Project for a New American Century

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Counterpoint: it is impossible to aggressively assert decent values without shaming the indecent

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We need to send some ICE agents to Death Row for this one day. Shit like this is already a capital offense if it’s done with the intent to kill, and we know these guys revel in the harm they inflict upon their victims. They show us, every day.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/08/2026

"we welcome anyone who recognizes the danger Trump and his extremist MAGA agenda pose to hard-working Americans who can no longer afford basic goods because of his immoral and unnecessary war..." come on man, 'take the question and pivot to an attack' is not that hard

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Based tbh

blame on the Government. The poorer classes in Barcelona looked upon the Civil Guards as something rather resembling the Black and Tans, and it seemed to be taken for granted that they had started this attack on their own initiative. Once I had heard how things stood I felt easier in my mind. The issue was clear enough. On one side the C.N.T., on the other side the police. I have no particular love for the idealized
'worker' as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

1. Rancid 2. Meatloaf 3. Blind Willie Johnson

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I am not an advocate or admirer of violence but I think if this traitor and his followers had been met with a whiff of grapeshot on J6 we’d be a very different country today.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The absolute state of British media. Human smegma.

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Literally nothing The Atlantic has published in the last decade on higher ed describes the academic world I live in. It’s an insult to my colleagues and it’s absolutely incomprehensible to my students.

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Churches of New York @brooklynwandering.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Emanuel Christian Mission, 3 Hawthorne St, Brooklyn, NY 11225

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Show up at my dinner party wearing those glasses and they’re going in the microwave

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The unemployment office: not just for philosophy majors any more

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The George Floyd protests were an orgy of destruction. Whole cities sacked. Woke 1 was a nightmare of mob rule that blighted the lives of millions. That’s the level of hallucination you need to sustain to justify Trump II.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

it isn't a coincidence that they indicted the former CFO of the SPLC on the anniversary of heather heyer's murder. it's revenge

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Trying to imagine Biden or Obama or Clinton heading into midterms with a 17% approval rating with independents and how the press would cover that

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The gawking is one of middle age’s few new pleasures. Goes well with the occasional head shake/chuckle. Well how do ya like that?

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

God help me I’d vote a Newsom/Emanuel ticket if they pledged to convict and punish the 500 most corrupt members of Trump’s regime

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The FT: What if the Left ditched woke ideas in favor of some sort of “national socialism?”

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Explaining to horrors of Woke One to a resident of Kyiv as we hustle into the bomb shelter: “It was a nightmare. Politicians took a knee. Some c-suite suits pretended to like some cringe books. Really, I think we share the same struggle.”

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I cannot stress enough how powerless “the left” is in academia, its supposed bastion of authority.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“...the victory of fascism was made practically unavoidable by the liberals' obstruction of any reform involving planning, regulation, or control.” Karl Polanyi, 1944

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Relocate the federal government to Gibson County, Indiana, the median center of the population of the United States.

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I unironically think she should be put on the Julius Streicher list

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 07/08/2026

just another white cat appropriating tabby culture

white cat with a full sleeve of tabby cat fur on one leg

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“You know what snipers spend most of their time doing? Drawing maps.” A pulmonologist, for no apparent reason.

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Excited to read The Winds of Winter, which will never be published.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/08/2026

Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A just God will not forgive us without a fiery atonement, example 10,000

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Honestly, cast whoever but all future Bond movies should be period films set between 1948-1963. I want to see Bond rig Italian/French elections and fail to save Kennedy.

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