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Nate O

@nateo.bsky.social
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An ‘award-winning’ (per one philosophy conference) ‘academic’ (per Daily Mail) (they gave me a free book; not an academic) ✡️ 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him)

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1h
All Trump’s overseas assets should be frozen. Hotels. Golf courses. Offshore accounts. Should not be permitted to enter the territories of the countries that are parties to ICC.
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h
as much as i hate trump voters i'll never achieve the levels of contempt he has for them
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 7h
Suella Braverman selling 106 copies of her book after all that publicity is so delicious.
Crack 'em while you can, though, because Suella's star might just be on the skids. Despite plugging her book on Question Time, on Tim Shipman's Spectator podcast, in serialised excerpts in the Daily Mail, and in a fawning interview with Allison Pearson in the Telegraph, in its opening weekend, Patriot sold precisely 106 copies.

— from Ian Winwood’s New World piece.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1h
Piece came out at USAToday Why? Because USAToday owners (Gannett) only own media companies, so they have an incentive to attract an audience & advertisers Tech elites like Bezos, Ellisons, Musk, & Benioff use their media firm to cozy to Trump, not to make profit www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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DEI initiatives didn't cost companies. Just the opposite. | Opinion
Firms that kept DEI, whether due to executive decisions or shareholder pressure, performed as well in the stock market as those that rolled it back.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1h
Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3h
"Kennedy would never be able to do the trial in the US because of its significant ethical concerns, Offit added. “He’s taking advantage of a developing country … Is it because children in Africa are more expendable than children here?”" Yes. That is evident. That and the fact "Bobby" is an evil man.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 3h
This is not "a controversial vaccine trial," it's biological warfare, conducted by European researchers on African infants. It's imperialism, racism, eugenics, and the hubris of incredibly stupid people. It's denying vaccines to newborns! In what fuckin universe is this a "vaccine trial"?
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14h
Destroying one of the UKs most successful sectors just to be racist.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14h
You know those ‘spot the difference’ puzzles? I’m thinking of launching a ‘spot every racism in this political cartoon’ alternative….
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 20h
How could anyone know this wasn’t a carjacking?!?
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained
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John Breen @breen.tech · 20h
Yes, “do something about it” is a reasonable thing to say here. But also the federal government can basically override anything the city council tries to do about this. That’s the whole point of the Free DC movement. DC functionally has no control over its own government
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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 08/10/2026
one of the advantages of having tried to understand marxist theories about capital is that it’s always immediately bleedin obvious that capital will never ever allow economies of automation to result in increased leisure
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I like it when fully grown adults are the functional equivalent to a small child according to Kohlberg’s theory of moral development
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Americans can’t queue
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If I hear over the PA system one more announcement of early boarding for service members followed by ‘THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE’ I’m getting tackled by an off-duty air marshal. I’ve been fully Europeanised.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Real shame they never executed Klan members in the streets, Sherman was not hard enough on those Southerners, etc. etc. etc.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Can’t say what should happen to Emmer
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Christa Pike’s attorneys have just released an update on her condition. Full release here:
UPDATE ON CHRISTA PIKE’S CONDITION 

Statement from Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason from the TN Office of the Post Conviction Defender, and Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, attorneys for Christa Pike 

The turnaround in Christa Pike’s health in the last three days has been profound and a credit to the medical team caring for her. She woke up from unconsciousness Tuesday morning (Oct. 6) and began taking limited steps Wednesday afternoon (Oct. 7). Today, she is walking with some assistance, and her arms—which sustained significant injuries during the execution attempt—are healing and regaining movement and strength. Her lungs are clear, and she has started to eat a regular diet. Physicians are encouraged by her physical recovery.  

While her physical recovery has been remarkable, significant questions remain about the long-term effects of what she endured. Christa is dealing with the profound psychological trauma of having survived a failed execution, including the terror, pain and uncertainty of believing she was about to die. We cannot yet know the full emotional and psychological toll of that experience or how long it will take her to begin to heal. Even as she struggles to process what has happened, she continues to express concern for others, particularly the family of her victim Colleen Slemmer.  

Christa also continues to experience cognitive challenges with concentration and memory. Her physicians have cautioned that it may take months to fully understand whether she sustained lasting cognitive injuries.  

Christa committed her crime at just 18 years old after a childhood marked by rape, sexual violence, physical abuse and neglect. Later into her incarceration, Christa was finally properly diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder and PTSD caused by her upbringing. 

Christa has endured more than enough. We continue to call on Gov. Lee to commute her death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole. She should never be subjected to another execution attempt.
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
it’s embarrassing how comfortable people are being openly cruel and mean-spirited to somalis. not even limited to republicans in the slightest either
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
a few days ago i was making small talk with a somali man about how welcoming everyone was when i stayed in a majority somali neighborhood and he immediately started tearing up and saying thank you. it didn’t feel good things have gotten so bad something that small could provoke that reaction
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stuck in Atlanta Airport for a transfer. Oh my god, Americans: annoying, can’t stop sharing everything with random people. The tech is infantilising. So much wasted space everywhere. And in the world’s busiest airport, not a single place to have a cigarette. Raw dogged it the whole flight.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Best song off The Nightfly is The Goodbye Look
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Boarding momentarily. Turning the volume all the way up on my headphones till it redlines while Donald Fagan’s I.G.Y. plays on repeat. Now is the time to type out an innocuous sequence of words that, through happenstance, gets me shunned and I live the rest of my life in a tiny hole in the ground
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i do feel like trump saying he doesnt care if they nuke california is somthing i've heard expressed in spirit by basically every republican ive spoken with for any length of time. california and new york arent america is just a stated and unstated background belief my entire life
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Going to do the smart thing before hopping on an international flight and make a pessimistic prediction about Polanski’s chances of winning the election after the Burnham bounce for Labour
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jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Great things are happening in race science land
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives.
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Reform marking their own homework and declaring they got an A*
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just one more real-world example of millions of people exposed to decades-worth of insipid language meant to remove all salient features from the Nazis and Italian Fascists
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Recently, was speaking with a normie involved with union organising, who said fascists were those willing to resort to political violence and in that moment I had a thousand different apropos responses at hand; nevertheless I knew, no matter what I said, I could not cut through
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is a pretty well established move. The war on "are Nazis bad?" is lost and they know it. So the battle is "actually the Nazis were all left wing vegetarians and cultural Marxists, and nothing like me, a right wing authoritarian who believes in keeping the races pure."
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 08/10/2026
“What most political analysts miss is how strong and specific the authoritarian appeal is for white evangelicals, and how critical it is to at least weaken it. The roots of this confluence go back decades, if not centuries, and are deeply entwined with white evangelical theology itself.”
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You Can't Run From Christian Nationalism
White evangelicals are the single most influential voting bloc in American politics. They cannot be ignored.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Martín Alonso Soto Hernandez, who helped set off the Delaney Hall hunger strike, is free. "I don’t have words,” he said while holding his wife and two children. “Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed in prayer.” religionnews.com/2026/10/07/i...
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Immigrant who helped set off Delaney Hall hunger strike released from ICE custody
ELIZABETH, New Jersey (RNS) — “I don’t have words,” Martín Alonso Soto Hernandez said, in Spanish, while holding his wife and two children. “Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed i...
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
‘Actually the majority of anthropologists are exactly like the Nazis for opposing “scientific anthropology”: the thesis that there exist distinct human races’ should at least separate out the cognitive tension by placing these sentences more than a paragraph apart so the reader doesn’t catch on
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
While Rebecca notes its explicitly pseudoscientific and racist framing, I’ll pipe up to fixate on the comparison between ‘most anthropologists themselves, geneticists, and other university academics’ with the Nazis because they oppose ‘scientific anthropology’. Classic bonkers right-wing rhetoric
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.
Chapters in Part III take stock of the current state of evolutionary psychology, by casting wider attention to other social and behavioral sciences and assessing the field's influence on them. In Chapter 11 ('Evolutionary psychology and anthropology'), Heiner Rindermann identifies three major forces that oppose scientific anthropology: Religion, National Socialism ('Nazism'), and woke leftist ideology. Ironically, in this sense, woke left ideologues, who include most anthropologists themselves, geneticists, and other university academics, share much in common with the Nazis in their common opposition to scientific anthropology.
Rindermann's extensive review of the literature leaves no doubt that humans are genetically polytypic and contain different biological races or 'subspecies' At the end of the chapter, Rindermann delivers devastating rebuttals to all potential arguments against the notion of races/subspecies among humans.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
uh-huh.
During their search of his home, investigators seized about 300 gold bars, federal officials said, along with about $2
million in U.S. currency and
35 luxury watches. Initially, investigators said it was 303 bars, but on Tuesday revised that figure to 298 bars.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Migrants are now portrayed as a menacing horde of dark skinned rapists. US politicians regularly visit Europe to deliver Nazi harangues on the need to cleanse the continent of disruptive untermensch and assert national Will. Tony Blair is on Trump’s genocide board, bringing Change to Gaza.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I could go on and on: IMO the big sign that nothing was now unacceptable and any level of violence would now be endorsed was the IDF destroying the Associated Press building in Gaza in broad daylight, while the press simply repeated their claims that it was full of Hamas gunmen.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Alex is far from the only British commentator who plainly believes e.g. the destruction of the Gaza Strip and the ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon are a valiant battle by regrettably fascist white heroes against the black horde of Mordor. But how did this wildly extreme position become dominant?
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s so ridiculous. and that’s why I keep asking publicans where the pissandshitroom is, as a matter of principle
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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We've had nearly 700 people sign in just the past 24 hours! Please sign and share with your networks so we can reach 10,000 and put this petition in front of the Prime Minister!
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good morning you beautiful lot! In 2 weeks we've smashed the £10k, plus the £1k our comrade was going to fund himself, plus £500+ that we are using to support other antifascist comrades impacted by police violence! Donations will close soon, but you can still donate to Bristol Defendant Solidarity:
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Support Bristol Defendant Solidarity
March 2026
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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Okay so Male Fantasies is a 1977 book written by Klaus Theweleit, a sociologist who grew up in post-war Germany grappling with the male culture of his parents and grandparents, essentially, and how it led to the Freikorps and eventually the Nazis.
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've paid attention to spikes in donations as well, and bsky folks have been a major source of support. And we've had some INSANE donations. But whether you're the literal fucking director of The Matrix, or pigpoopballs69, you all really do put you money where your mouth is. So thank you all again.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Woof, that took me way too much Class A drugs to reach that point during an unenjoyable evening and would never want to revisit that experience. Congrats on surviving another year, Gregk
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Again, I don't think anything shows the absolute moral cowardice at the heart of the Western political establishment than the fact that nobody can point out how close this guy is to American government power because we can't risk upsetting the Americans.
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