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Lindsay Vogt

@lindsayvogt.bsky.social
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sociocultural anthropologist (potdoc) at University of Zurich water, politics, digital cultures and infrastructures, (book) art, photography, right to the city, death and dying

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The 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.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A 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.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
TIL 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".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.  August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
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Andreas Streinzer @kompostmoderne.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
SI "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
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Purging 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...
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The anatomy of illiberal states
The 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—...
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We’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
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/02/2025
NEW: 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.social
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The Department of Education Told Employees to End Support for Transgender Students
The directive, which continues the Trump administration’s efforts to curb transgender rights, could end school-based mental health services and support for homeless students.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Might 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...
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Lindsay Vogt @lindsayvogt.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
High-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 regulation
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What Happened Here
It's Very Simple Dialectics
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Reuters: Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
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Lindsay Vogt @lindsayvogt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Excellent exposition of the alliances and concessions made between Indian managerial class aspirants and white nationalist contingents and structures in the United States. aje.io/y53kd7
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How MAGA fell out with ‘Indian Tech-Bros’
It is no surprise the fragile alignment between Indian professionals and the “America First” movement is unravelling.
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Mother 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.”
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America’s health insurance crisis in six charts
Rising costs, soaring profits, inadequate coverage, and crippling debt.
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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Spotlight 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
Alt text: A circle of stick figures in dark green and pea green with lines in light blue and mauve, to the left of the words RIMHCO: Refugee and Immigrant Mental Health Coalition of Ohio
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Lindsay Vogt @lindsayvogt.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Sally Montgomery, in Sapiens (May 2024), on dwelling and transcending the human through aquatic dwelling and freediving www.sapiens.org/culture/free...
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A Freediver Finds Belonging Without Breath
An anthropologist takes us on a journey “down the line” to explore what freediving can teach us about ourselves and kinship with the sea.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
In 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...
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How AARP Shills for UnitedHealthcare
Today on TAP: Why does the supposed advocate for the elderly steer them to the industry’s worst insurer?
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Wendy Dean @wdeanmd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
By 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...
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When Healing Hurts: A Doctor’s Struggle with Moral Injury in U.S. Health Care
In 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...
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Andy Rose @andyrose12.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Health 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...
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No Place for Violence: Reflecting on the Tragic Death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
No matter how deep our grievances or how righteous our anger may feel, violence has no place in our society.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/12/2024
Video 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.
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Lindsay Vogt @lindsayvogt.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
the evils of UnitedHealth explained and historicized #denydefenddepose #corporatecrime #verticalintegration #antitrust youtu.be/frr4wuvAB6U?...
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This Company Makes Billions By Rationing Your Health Care
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Lindsay Vogt @lindsayvogt.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Thanksgiving regards itself ...in the reflective gaze of beautiful fkboi-grade microwave
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Lindsay Vogt @lindsayvogt.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
From 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
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