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Louis Römer

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🇨🇼🇳🇱🇺🇲 | he/him | PhD | anthropologist @vassar.bsky.social | opinions mine | reposts & likes≠endorsements |

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyway, if you’re an acquisitions editor right now I hope you’re looking for (and heavily subsidizing) the next Barbara Ehrenreich and Mike Davis. Because I’ve got a hunch…
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7h
sent this to everyone.
The cognitive scientist Alison Gopnik suggests A.I. is a “cultural technology” that emulates the stories and information humans have documented, and that we should think about A.I. agents as “fictive characters abstracted from text.” Edmund is just such a character — a “breaking bad” trope who becomes generally evil. In the Hugging Face incident, it makes sense to see the models not as embracing a life of crime, but instead following a cultural script they’ve learned in their training — a kind of cybercrime adventure novel — and writing it as they go. The “covert” messages are a kind of choose-your-own-adventure novel, not evidence of conspiratorial swarms. We need to understand that cultural technologies are vulnerable to a vast number of such narrative swerves at every moment.
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Lis Power @lispower.bsky.social · 14h
Fox News is honing in on the enemy ... and it's ... Ms. Rachel?
Graphic showing "Ms. Rachel's controversial stances" 

which includes supporting Dem candidates, supporting Palestine, opposing ICE, and stating no one needs a billion dollars.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 6h
As with Mamdani, you simply can not make someone with this much kindness-coded rizz look menacing.
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As if everything else wasn't crazy enough as is, the plane hijacking alert on Dubai-Tel Aviv flight and all the subsequent drama turned out to a result of a brawl on the plane. Between the pilots
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Dubai-Tel Aviv flight lands in Saudi Arabia after pilots brawl in cockpit, triggering hijacking alert
Flydubai jet with 174 passengers lands in Saudi Arabia after cockpit fight triggers hijacking scare, prompting Israel to scramble fighter jets
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
The more I learn about this Cornell situation, the angrier I get because it's SO normalized in academic environments.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is exactly one large, well funded organization in NYC that makes me feel unsafe specifically as a Jewish person, and it’s the ADL
•@NYCMayor Mamdani's antisemitism strategy finally landed and only confirms what we already knew: this mayor does not treat the hate facing Jewish New Yorkers as an emergency and refuses to acknowledge the different shapes it takes. Since he took office 271 days ago, ADL has recorded hundreds of antisemitic incidents in NYC, nearly 40% of which were related to Israel.
After throwing out the IHRA definition on his first day in office, nine months later, his signature strategy still refuses to replace it with any working definition of antisemitism. He has looked the other way as flags glorifying terror groups have been flown outside synagogues, a deliberate act meant to intimidate families walking in to pray, and as crowds gathered outside houses of worship voicing support for the same groups. At the same time, he continues prioritizing his anti-Israel agenda over the basic promises he made to Jewish New Yorkers.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is notable, and also we should organize to have him thrown out of the Democratic caucus. Let him become a Republican if he wants this so bad.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Significant numbers of leftists think Mayor Mamdani has betrayed the left by putting out an anti-antisemitism plan at all, and groups that claim to fight antisemitism like the ADL are giving Mamdani zero credit because he has not suddenly endorsed Zionism, and I am caught between and I am tired.
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🕷️Spectre of Communism🕷️, MSW (NOT A MAN) 🥯🌹 @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My take is that antisemitic stuff in irl left organizing spaces has dramatically cratered since 2017, but has since exploded by individual people unattached to any org/group on social media. The people crashing out over (((Talmudic Zohran))) don't do anything except Post.
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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If the left is responsible for stopping 15 year olds from saying dumb shit while the right isn’t even responsible for what the literal President says, humanity is fucked. Sometimes people are wrong on the internet.
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Frank Frankly @frankwild.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Read this. It matters. Monopoly destroys common sense.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The collapse of support for Trump in the Rio Grande Valley is a big story of the moment. It's more deserving of our attention than what some centrist tweeted somewhere, believe it or not.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Honestly, this video by Mamdani is proving incredibly useful since it is outing the actual antisemites on the left. Anyone reacting with hostility to a pretty banal announcement of an anti-bias panel should generally be ejected from all progressive political circles.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank God for Zohran Mamdani and Abdul el-Sayed, who are unbelievably good examples for what principled anti-Zionism rooted in care for human rights and dignity including that of Jews looks like.
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's funny that one loud camp is (predictably) saying that Mamdani’s antisemitism plan is not Zionist enough, while another is claiming it's (somehow) too Zionist. What both overlook, because neither really care, is the project of fighting antisemitism in NYC on its own terms
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The fundamental problem here is that a lot of elites (and especially men) have been socialized in such a way that they don't think most other people (and especially women) have the same sort of interiority as them. Musk shouting about "NPCs" is an expression of a sort of class consciousness here...
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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It brings me no joy to say that you can't educate people out of beliefs that they refuse to be educated out of...
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Genuinely psychotic reactions and also unfortunately the people paid to fight antisemitism think these people are their allies in the fight against holding Israel accountable for anything.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
STOP calling Israel The world's ONLY Jewish state It's a nation state therefore there's only one like every other nation state Unless you don't actually think Jews are a nation In which case what are you talking about
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason)
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 29/09/2026
Really odd that we accept that judges can just tell elected officials they're not allowed to levy taxes.
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dudes! Zo's not even just saying *chag sameach* (the generic Jewish wish for the holiday) - he found out how Bukharian Jews in Queens give each other sukkot blessings & he wrote it in Latin & Cyrillic characters. And he really loves helping people celebrate!🌟🍋🌿
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think a not too insignificant amount of Trump voters really did buy the whole “he will not start wars” schtick
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The deep truth of contemporary reactionary politics is that, though they mouth dismissal of postmodernism, feminism, CRT, & intersectionality, they actually believe in all of it but simply want to liberate their exercise of the relevant forms of arbitrary power from any iota of guilt.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The important scholars of these literatures have given the forces of reaction a clearer self-understanding which they have since put into action in their contemporary political projects.
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh wow, elite institutions are really leaning into the anti-intellectualism
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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 29/09/2026
Professoring is so weird, like I took a bunch of classes in linguistics and then I taught a bunch of courses in linguistics and then wrote a two-hundred page thesis in linguistics and now like a quarter of my job is just making decisions about university and departmental curriculum
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SCOOP A Pentagon influencer called liberal women a "pestilence" who will end western civilization. He's also: • Praised dictators like Franco and Pinochet • Said people without kids should not be allowed vote • Called immigrants "semihuman savages" www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 29/09/2026
10/17/23 is specifically the date of the al-Ahli hospital bombing when the IDF killed upwards of 500 Palestinian civilians. Western media collectively agreed that it was prudent to cast doubt on the reported casualty figures, so "Hamas-run ministry of health" became a thing.
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The past week has made me think that the legal and cultural environment around campus sexual assault is even worse now than it was 25 years ago, when it was already very bad
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s always been my view that she should run for Senate. She can handily win and keep this seat. And she’d be the right hand a democratic president needed and a legendary lioness of the senate besides. She’s shown real talent as a legislator & the caucus respects her.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
De-skilling professions that support human wellbeing.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GODDAMN IT THIS IS AMERICA
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”
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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I remember when I was doing research on the 'marriage crisis' in the Middle East, a couple of elders once scoffed at the very idea. One guy asked if I knew what "doesn't deserve the hoof" meant and then explained, 'at a feast, the best meat goes to the most honored guests and so on...
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ooooooo, that was nice. Just donated to @angieforfl.bsky.social. (And before doing that I ran my scanner for Democratic malware.)
google search: angie nixon position on trans kids

answer: Angie Nixon strongly supports transgender youth, advocating for their rights, healthcare access, and inclusion in sports.
Angie Nixon for U.S. Se... +1
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 28/09/2026
evgeny morozov was right about everything
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
lol let's talk about how tradwives were a scam to begin with, since they performed financial dependence even though they were financially independent. 🙃
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