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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think when we hem and haw about people going no-contact with their families and what it says about society, what we're often doing is revealing our own discomfort with seeing others starting to pull blocks out of the Jenga tower of Empire and refusing to suffer Just Because.

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nickforbrains 🏳️‍🌈 @nickforbrains.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Academe continues to beclown itself

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 03/10/2026

An important reminder that this was not that long ago.

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Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Never forget Jamal Khashoggi. Never forget Jamal Khashoggi.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Her broader argument was that unwaged domestic work was the foundation of capitalist accumulation, and "point zero" for a revolutionary reimagining of production and reproduction, w/o which expanding women's participation in the workforce would simply displace the problem. 3/3

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Writing in 1975, Federici diagnoses and anticipates the male "crisis of loneliness" and incel phenomena that traditional gender roles had historically papered over. 2/3

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Capital "create[d] the housewife to service the male worker physically, emotionally, and sexually, to ... patch up his ego when it is crushed by the work and the social relations (which are relations of loneliness) that capital has reserved for him." Silvia Federici, Revolution at Point Zero. 1/2

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can't believe it's only been 8 years. And meanwhile, relations with MBS and Saudi Arabia have been totally normalized.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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am-mccarthy.bsky.social @am-mccarthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Universities keep rewarding the architects of the demise of our democracy.

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shelleyenglish.bsky.social @shelleyenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Remembering Jamal Khashoggi who was murdered on October 2, 2018 by Saudi agents. karenattiah.substack.com/p/rememberin... @karenattiah.bsky.social

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Never forget.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thread of the day

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TJ Hatter 🏛 @tjhatter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Banner week for the Mid-Tier Ivy Leaguers & their leaders.

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Totally Valid Handle @azgict.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jesus, Columbia.

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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The former Secretary of State, who took Kim Jong Un uncritically at his word, who got irate that Mary Louise Kelly could find Ukraine on a map and he couldn’t, is getting a teaching fellowship at an Ivy League school. Hm.

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Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is a sick joke

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NewportWonk @newportwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Boooooooooooooo (a once-proud alum)

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J Alley @alleyj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What the actual fuck?!

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So much is just so wrong.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

UCLA illegally fired me as DEI Director. Why? B/c I posted truth about this bigoted piece of garbage after he died. Please consider helping me keep my head above water, until my lawyers reach a fair resolution with UCLA. My pack and I could use your support: gofundme.com/f/waiting-for-justice-auvzc

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I remember the day that I found out Jamal had been killed, it was the closest I had come to experiencing evil, that the human capacity for evil was real.

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Paul Fagan 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @paulfagan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sadly since then, the murder of journalists in the Middle East has become so normalized, we no longer talk about it or take the time to learn their names. In the last three years, 247 journalists and media workers have been killed, most in targeted assassinations by Israel cpj.org/2023/10/jour...

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Editor’s note: In keeping with CPJ’s methodology, data will be updated as new information becomes available. See CPJ’s database for the most current data on killed journalists. As of September 24, 202...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Field Foundation @fieldfoundation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We’re pleased to again welcome @karenattiah.bsky.social, award-winning journalist & former founding Global Opinions Editor & Columnist @washingtonpost.com; & Laura Rodriguez Presa, senior journalist @chicagotribune.com & member of the Tribune team that won a 2026 @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social award.

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Kelly Dolan @kellydolan.net · 28/09/2026

I’m grateful for @karenattiah.bsky.social voice and leadership for many reasons. Today I’m grateful for the conversation she’s facilitating about children’s rights, including the problematic role Christian narrative and theology play in our current culture’s inability to adequately protect children.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There he argues Western morality has, since Plato, been invested in the reality of a metaphysical sphere over and above the realm of flesh-and-blood living. That makes Western morality "anti-life". There's also a long discussion of reaction as a creativity beginning from "no."

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the first time I've heard someone use the "anti-life" framing for this moment, but it's another good sign that The Genealogy of Morals is actually the text we need to be reading to understand the present moment, philosophically

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would like to think this. But then I think of Sandy Hook and American schoolkids being sacrificed to the Sacred Gun altar. So... no. America, at least, hasn't.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 28/09/2026

In De Rerum Natura (2st Cent BC) Lucretius complains that sacrifice of children by parents is a common problem in all religions, "potent superstition in persuading to evil deeds"

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NirajOnTheGo @nirajonthego.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hinduism — my religion — also has stories of any one of the many gods asking a devotee to kill a child in sacrifice to test their devotion.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The central stories of Christianity have a lot of men killing kids-- sons especially. The killing of firstborn sons in Exodus. Wise Solomon proposes cutting a baby boy in half. God hates his own creation (humans) SO much that he was willing to let his son be tortured, be humiliated, and die.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Think of the children!!" they said. As they were beating their children with belts at home

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Flaming Snowball @flamingsnowball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I grew up in an abusive family environment to the point that when I was 16 my public school principal called me in the office and asked if I knew what emancipation was. I was like I know history and she said no — You are legally your parents property until you are 18.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I turned away from the church precisely because I could not square the idea that the people who were my friends, who grew up differently than me, were condemned to eternal suffering--- just because they were different. And to gleefully condemn others to hell seemed more demonic than Christ-like.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bring back the anti-colonial bush schools and teaching in nature

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