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Natasha Lennard

@natashalennard.bsky.social
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Columnist at The Intercept; editing Public Seminar; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life” and "On Un/Certainty" (Verso); antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.

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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 3h
This Friday October 9th in NYC come celebrate my new book, On Un/Certainty! at Woodbine, in convo w/ Sarah Leonard. Doors at 7pm, event at the 7:30pm. 414 Broadway, 3rd Floor. www.instagram.com/p/DdcIFkeG6C...
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dozens of broke new readers have signed up to get free solidarity copies of HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY. It costs $37 to send a stranger a book and share our buried history www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/nnkuy...
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Buy a Stranger a copy of "Here Where We Live is Our Country" — Molly Crabapple
So many broke young people want copies of HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY . When Molly does signings, there are a lways many trios and quartets of friends pitching in to buy a single copy to...
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In these uncertain times, I am *certain* this will be good @natashalennard.bsky.social
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ICCTP Statement in Support of the New School for Social Research: “At a moment of rising authoritarianism & fascism, critical inquiry is under attack precisely when humanity needs it most.” criticaltheoryconsortium.org/announcement...
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ICCTP Statement in Support of the New School for Social Research - International Consortium of Critical Theory
We write as the Board of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, and as friends of The New School for Social Research, to oppose, in the strongest terms, the proposed cuts to its gra...
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Friends in DC? Please join me with the brilliant @stefeich.bsky.social to discuss On UnCertainty & more! Solid State Books H St, 10/22! www.eventbrite.com/e/natasha-le...
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Natasha Lennard - On Un/Certainty
We live in uncertain times. But what does uncertainty mean for our ability to act?
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Red Emma's is hosting me and the inimitable Tash Lennard to talk about her holy anticipated new essay collection ✨✨
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Preorder my edited collection with @eyshe.bsky.social since Netanyahu namechecked Hasan Piker at the UN. If we do big enough numbers, maybe we can ride our Piker appearance to Netanyahu on camera. bookshop.org/p/books/we-t...
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We, Traitors: Bundist Writings on Zionism, Palestine, and Socialism
"I am awed by the work of archival reclamation [Tankus and Beirich] did. I can't wait till you all get to read this book." --Molly Crabapple In this collection of never-before-translated Bundist writ...
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do I know anyone in Baltimore? I'm not sure. But I'd love to meet you if you're there! Please join me and brilliant @reproutopia.bsky.social to discuss my book, On Un/Certainty ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) & more, at @redemmas.org 10/21! redemmas.org/events/natas...
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Natasha Lennard presents "On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times" in conversation w/Sophie Lewis
We live in uncertain times. But what does uncertainty mean for our ability to act?
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 23/09/2026
Apply Heat, Melt ICE: A Guide to Resisting ICE around the Country this October crimethinc.com/MeltICE In this overview, we present calls to action to participate in or support mobilizations against ICE in Arizona, Minnesota, and Vermont, and reports from clashes in Austin, TX and Frederick, MD.
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Apply Heat, Melt ICE: Flashpoints in the Fight
Three upcoming mobilizations against ICE and reports from two recent confrontations with federal mercenaries.
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is about me!
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Don’t know how to feel about the Trump admin coming out against my longtime favourite thing to hate, Effective Altruism … may my enemies destroy each other, I guess x.com/DoWCTO/statu...
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
meanwhile in the german media:
headlines from Der Spiegel:
Macklemores Problem ist nicht Aktivismus, sondern Antisemitismus (Macklemore's problem is not activism, but antisemitism)
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Lasst Ed Sheeran in Ruhe über Politik schweigen (Leave Ed Sheeran alone and let him remain silent about politics)
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran’s entire tour quitting in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore proves the logic of BDS.
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Ed Sheeran’s Craven “Neutrality” Is a Watershed Moment for Mainstreaming Palestine Solidarity
Ed Sheeran’s entire tour quitting in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore proves the logic of BDS.
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran’s entire tour quitting in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore proves the logic of BDS @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/09/16/e...
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Ed Sheeran’s Craven “Neutrality” Is a Watershed Moment for Mainstreaming Palestine Solidarity
Ed Sheeran’s entire tour quitting in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore proves the logic of BDS.
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Some thoughts on l’affaire Macklemore, Ed Sheeran and ending craven “neutrality” @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/09/16/e...
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Ed Sheeran’s Craven “Neutrality” Is a Watershed Moment for Mainstreaming Palestine Solidarity
Ed Sheeran’s entire tour quitting in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore proves the logic of BDS.
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So honoured to be speaking w genius @alybatt.bsky.social about my new book On Un/Certainty @versobooks.bsky.social on Oct 14th in Brooklyn at Community Bookstore. Come by! www.eventbrite.com/e/natasha-le...
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Natasha Lennard presents On Un/Certainty, with Alyssa Battistoni
Join Natasha Lennard at Community Bookstore for a discussion of her new book.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey I can finally find out what [who cares] thinks about [fart noise]!
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We could waste a lot of time speculating about the apocalyptic worldviews of tech billionaires. Whatever they believe, talk of existential risk is a convenient way to not address known harms produced by AI systems overseen by fascist billionaires. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/09/14/a...
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Tech CEOs’ Doomsaying Is a Distraction from Real, Existing Harms of AI
The binary between AI apocalypse and AI redemption asks us to ignore data centers and AI war machines — all as tech executives get incredibly rich.
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s a suspicious time for Silicon Valley leaders to again offer up millenarian narratives about existential risks beyond our comprehension... @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/09/14/a...
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Tech CEOs’ Doomsaying Is a Distraction from Real, Existing Harms of AI
The binary between AI apocalypse and AI redemption asks us to ignore data centers and AI war machines — all as tech executives get incredibly rich.
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We could waste a lot of time speculating about the apocalyptic worldviews of tech billionaires. Whatever they believe, talk of existential risk is a convenient way to not address known harms produced by AI systems overseen by fascist billionaires. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/09/14/a...
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Tech CEOs’ Doomsaying Is a Distraction from Real, Existing Harms of AI
The binary between AI apocalypse and AI redemption asks us to ignore data centers and AI war machines — all as tech executives get incredibly rich.
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Alex Doherty @redandinexpert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A clip from my recent interview with @natashalennard.bsky.social
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
📻 Weekend listening 📻 📢 - @natashalennard.bsky.social on how talk of our epoch as being characterised by uncertainty and doubt often masks the violent certainties that structure our world - from the seeming permanence of border regimes, to entrenched conceptions of gendered experience:
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Certainty in uncertain times w/ Natasha Lennard | Politics Theory Other
It's become commonplace to describe our current epoch in terms of "uncertain times", whether when talking about the Covid-19 pandemic, geopo
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Listen to the full episode here: www.patreon.com/poltheoryoth...
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Raul Zelik @raulzelik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hey, listen, comrade @natashalennard.bsky.social on @poltheoryother.bsky.social !!!
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Alex Doherty @redandinexpert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For the latest episode of @poltheoryother.bsky.social I interviewed @natashalennard.bsky.social about her new book, On Un/Certainty:The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times: www.patreon.com/poltheoryoth...
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Certainty in uncertain times w/ Natasha Lennard | Politics Theory Other
It's become commonplace to describe our current epoch in terms of "uncertain times", whether when talking about the Covid-19 pandemic, geopo
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Listen to full episode here, to find out why Wittgenstein would hate our “uncertain times” rhetoric www.patreon.com/poltheoryoth...
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Certainty in uncertain times w/ Natasha Lennard | Politics Theory Other
It's become commonplace to describe our current epoch in terms of "uncertain times", whether when talking about the Covid-19 pandemic, geopo
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
From the latest episode - @natashalennard.bsky.social on how ubiquitous talk of our current epoch being characterised by radical uncertainty and doubt can obfuscate the fiercely held, and intensifying certainties that structure social relations:
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Was a pleasure to discuss my new book, On UnCertainty, on @poltheoryother.bsky.social with brilliant host Alex Doherty… have a listen! PTO is one of my absolute favourite podcasts… (and apologies for my clumsiness, this is my first long interview about the book! Out w @versobooks.bsky.social 10/13)
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📢 💥NEW EPISODE 📢 - 💥 natashalennard.bsky.social on how talk of our epoch as being characterised by uncertainty and doubt often masks the violent certainties that structure our world - from the seeming permanence of border regimes, to entrenched conceptions of gendered experience:
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Certainty in uncertain times w/ Natasha Lennard | Politics Theory Other
It's become commonplace to describe our current epoch in terms of "uncertain times", whether when talking about the Covid-19 pandemic, geopo
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/09/2026
the frame of Health Fascism moves away from individual MAHA behaviors and towards how our health care and social welfare systems, such as they are/aren't, were fertile ground for a far right power grab. @deathpanel.bsky.social has been exploring this for a long time. the full panel chuds clipped:
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Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series)
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"My favorite of the two, however, had nothing good to say about the American security state."... excellent, generous and critical note from our @reproutopia.bsky.social www.patreon.com/reproutopia/...
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Eight theses on Gloria Steinem, because goddamn | Sophie Lewis
I think the phrase we’re looking for is social-democratic anticommunism. She was a metonym of the 20th century, which is currently dying. Sh
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Having a great time in Chicago at the @socialismconference.org ! Thought I'd take this opportunity to let you all know that I've been working on a read-along podcast for Marx's Capital Volume 1! It even comes with cute illustrations in the show notes!
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Episode 1 A - Intro & Chapter 1 (first two pages only!) [p. 5-14]
Player
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Meanwhile Moulton, claiming to represent a break in the status quo, repeated precisely the tired centrist playbook that has both failed America’s multiracial working class and failed to win elections. He punched left and, as Markey himself highlighted, threw trans kids 'under the bus.'"
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Seth Moulton Sold Out Trans Kids — and Lost His Senate Race... Age was the least of what was at stake in this run from the decaying center of the Democratic Party. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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Seth Moulton Sold Out Trans Kids — and Lost His Senate Race
Running as a progressive, Sen. Ed Markey forced his centrist challenger Rep. Seth Moulton to apologize for his anti-trans remarks.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Natasha Lennard, On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times - @versobooks.bsky.social, October 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... @natashalennard.bsky.social
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On Un/Certainty
While politicians, CEOs, and pundits reflexively invoke “uncertain times” to explain everything from pandemic responses to climate inaction, journalist and theorist Natasha Lennard offers a radical in...
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Suffice it to say, the people crossing borders do not tear down ancient trees, plow over tribal burial grounds, or cut off wildlife corridors. theintercept.com/2026/08/27/t...
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A New Tree-Sit Movement to Block Trump’s Border Wall
A single tree sit harnessed a cross-border movement to defend the Arizona borderland ecology. So far, the activists are blocking Trump’s wall.
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A single tree sit harnessed a cross-border movement to defend the Arizona borderland ecology. So far, the activists are blocking Trump’s wall. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/08/27/t...
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A Giant “Grandmother” Tree Sparked a New Struggle to Block Trump’s Border Wall
A single tree sit harnessed a cross-border movement to defend the Arizona borderland ecology. So far, the activists are blocking Trump’s wall.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 27/08/2026
A single tree sit harnessed a cross-border movement to defend the Arizona borderland ecology. So far, the activists are blocking Trump’s wall. interc.pt/3SBbJJM
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
For nearly a month, the key force standing in the way of Trump’s border wall project in southeast Arizona has been a person sitting in a 200-year-old tree... And a growing encampment below... latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/08/27/t...
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A Giant “Grandmother” Tree Sparked a New Struggle to Block Trump’s Border Wall
A single tree sit harnessed a cross-border movement to defend the Arizona borderland ecology. So far, the activists are blocking Trump’s wall.
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Adom Getachew visited the Verso offices to talk about our new Southern Questions series, which features first-hand accounts – memoirs, novels, pamphlets – written by participants in the drama of decolonization and its aftermath. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYwe...
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Adom Getachew presents Verso's Southern Questions series
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dominique routhier @routhier.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I am absolutely CERTAIN this will be so good. Hit that pre-order button if you know what's good for you
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
All the cool kids read Why We Fear AI and pre-order On UnCertainty
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
On UnCertainty… borders, genders, crises, duckrabbits and other sites of doubt and dangerous certainty… out from @versobooks.bsky.social on Oct 13. Or for pre-order now! Or if you are interested in covering the book in some way, lmk and we’ll get you a copy! www.versobooks.com/products/321...
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
First preview of what i've been working on over the past couple of months: The BREAK–DOWN #4: China!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
may need to print this and hang it on the wall in my office at this rate
Meme edited version of classic tweet from "Lauren (@notabigjerk"):

"I'm not falling for that *Atlantic article*. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at"
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Lukas Hermsmeier @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Was erklärt den Aufschwung des demokratischen Sozialismus in den USA? Wie macht sich Zohran Mamdani bislang als Bürgermeister von New York? Und auf welche Weisen versucht die Trump-Regierung, Dissens zu unterdrücken? Ich war im großartigen Podcast »Nullpunkt« von @hahauenstein.bsky.social zu Gast:
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Lukas Hermsmeier: Warum die US-Linke gerade gewinnt – und was deutsche Linke davon lernen können
YouTube video by Nullpunkt – mit Hanno Hauenstein
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If AOC is running for president, or the Senate, treating the serious intervention and event that was the 2020 Uprisings as “crazy,” like it was an overreaching social-media furor, is an appalling campaign orientation... some woke1 discourse @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/08/11/a...
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No, AOC: “Woke” Wasn’t “Crazy” the Way You Say It Was
Millions of protesters in the streets after George Floyd wasn’t the “crazy” part. Centrist Dems selling them out was.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 11/08/2026
Protesting George Floyd’s murder wasn’t the "crazy" part. Centrist Dems selling out was.
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No, AOC: “Woke” Wasn’t “Crazy” the Way You Say It Was
Millions of protesters in the streets after George Floyd wasn’t the “crazy” part. Centrist Dems selling them out was.
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