Reposted by Lindsay VogtRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 04/02/2026The decimation of the Washington Post is another moment in U.S. journalism when one of our alleged "good billionaires" could build a muscular publication that protects democracy with all necessary resources. That we're not seeing that happen makes me question the existence of good billionaires. 1417227
Reposted by Lindsay VogtAaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son. 10054689718035
Reposted by Lindsay VogtHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it". 113127215195
Reposted by Lindsay VogtAndreas Streinzer @kompostmoderne.bsky.social · 14/03/2025SI "Strategic Entanglements" is out in Critique of Anthropology!!! Co-edited by Jelena Tosic and me with great articles from Miriam Tola, Charlotte Bruckermann, Katharina Bodirsky, @lindsayvogt.bsky.social Tobias Haller, Anne-Christine Trémon and Violetta Zentai 👏 journals.sagepub.com/toc/coaa/45/1 042
Reposted by Lindsay VogtNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Purging the civil service is a tactic used by illiberal leaders in Turkey, Poland & elsewhere By removing nonpartisan civil servants, the regime can replace them w/ loyalists willing to defy democratic laws & norms We ID warning signs of illiberalism👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/the...brookings.eduThe anatomy of illiberal statesThe emergence of illiberal states within the European Union and NATO presents a challenge to Western collective action in an era of great power competition. This report analyzes the illiberal toolkit—... 26902326
Reposted by Lindsay VogtNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 13/02/2025We’re very much in the Late Terror stage, where the radical Jacobins who initiated the Terror in the first place (FedSoc, McConnell) get denounced as covert royalists 451965364
Reposted by Lindsay VogtProPublica @propublica.org · 08/02/2025NEW: The Department of Education told employees late Friday that they must review and terminate all programs, contracts and policies that affirm the existence of transgender people. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.socialpropub.liThe Department of Education Told Employees to End Support for Transgender StudentsThe directive, which continues the Trump administration’s efforts to curb transgender rights, could end school-based mental health services and support for homeless students. 1551339778
Reposted by Lindsay VogtJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Might be time to revisit this and write something new about it. The personalistic capture of political power by wealthy private actors for their own benefit has different dynamics from oppression by an impersonal bureaucratic Weberian state. www.cambridge.org/core/books/a... 411929
Lindsay Vogt @lindsayvogt.bsky.social · 04/02/2025High-tech oligarchy seizing power in US right now formed as a reactionary premonition of their paradoxical loss of power on the very basis of what created their exorbitant wealth in the first place (platforms that bring common ppl together) amidst increasing govt regulationunpopularfront.newsWhat Happened HereIt's Very Simple Dialectics 010
Reposted by Lindsay VogtJim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Reuters: Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...reuters.comreuters.com 2142366684
Reposted by Lindsay VogtTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...snyder.substack.comThe Logic of DestructionAnd how to resist it 337108925188
Lindsay Vogt @lindsayvogt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Excellent exposition of the alliances and concessions made between Indian managerial class aspirants and white nationalist contingents and structures in the United States. aje.io/y53kd7aje.ioHow MAGA fell out with ‘Indian Tech-Bros’It is no surprise the fragile alignment between Indian professionals and the “America First” movement is unravelling. 010
Reposted by Lindsay VogtMother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/12/2024“Commercial insurance is not enabling timely and affordable access to health care without fear of medical debt for millions of people.”motherjones.comAmerica’s health insurance crisis in six chartsRising costs, soaring profits, inadequate coverage, and crippling debt. 1419973
Reposted by Lindsay VogtLynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Spotlight on #OhioIsHome resources - for people who want to build the nest for Ohio's immigrants. First up: from Be Well section. The Refugee Immigrant + Mental Health Coalition of Ohio offers comprehensive set of resources for immigrant + refugee mental wellness. ohioishome.org/mental-health 023
Lindsay Vogt @lindsayvogt.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Sally Montgomery, in Sapiens (May 2024), on dwelling and transcending the human through aquatic dwelling and freediving www.sapiens.org/culture/free...sapiens.orgA Freediver Finds Belonging Without BreathAn anthropologist takes us on a journey “down the line” to explore what freediving can teach us about ourselves and kinship with the sea. 010
Reposted by Lindsay VogtDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024In all the talk about UnitedHealth, there's been one missing discussion: its primary partner in Medicare and Medicare Advantage, which leverages its massive audience to steer to the insurer, is AARP. This never gets enough attention. Bob Kuttner shines the light: prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...prospect.orgHow AARP Shills for UnitedHealthcareToday on TAP: Why does the supposed advocate for the elderly steer them to the industry’s worst insurer? 35742322
Reposted by Lindsay VogtWendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024By way of introduction, this out today. Thanks to Wendell Potter for including #moralinjury in his broader conversations. (Working to get him over here…) open.substack.com/pub/healthca...open.substack.comWhen Healing Hurts: A Doctor’s Struggle with Moral Injury in U.S. Health CareIn the winter of 2011, I walked away from fifteen years of training in surgery and psychiatry, working in both rural and urban emergency rooms, and as a private practice psychiatrist, to manage resear... 0154
Reposted by Lindsay VogtAndy Rose @andyrose12.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Health insurance advocate Wendell Potter discusses violence. "I sat in simiar meetings, developing and carrying out strategies that impacted millions of people. healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/no-place-f...healthcareuncovered.substack.comNo Place for Violence: Reflecting on the Tragic Death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian ThompsonNo matter how deep our grievances or how righteous our anger may feel, violence has no place in our society. 1155
Reposted by Lindsay VogtAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/12/2024Video shows thousands of cars jamming roads to Damascus as displaced people return to the capital after hearing the Assad regime had been overthrown by the opposition. 411697435
Lindsay Vogt @lindsayvogt.bsky.social · 08/12/2024the evils of UnitedHealth explained and historicized #denydefenddepose #corporatecrime #verticalintegration #antitrust youtu.be/frr4wuvAB6U?...youtu.beThis Company Makes Billions By Rationing Your Health CareYouTube video by More Perfect Union 000
Lindsay Vogt @lindsayvogt.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Thanksgiving regards itself ...in the reflective gaze of beautiful fkboi-grade microwave 000
Lindsay Vogt @lindsayvogt.bsky.social · 29/11/2024From the titular chapter in Lauren Berlant's The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (1997): Lisa, the commodity failure #thesimpsons #laurenberlant #smartgirlsinthepublicsphere 021