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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5s
love to see Udogie take Cunha out
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 6h
“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems
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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 12h
in fact extrajudicial executions of innocent people and legally sanctioned executions of guilty people are different. and i don't say this to justify hasan's execution, public or otherwise: the state shouldn't kill him. but they are different. resisting them asks of us different things.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 4h
I borrowed from Frederick Cooper’s 1996 article in Journal of African History, “‘Our Strike’: Equality, Anticolonial Politics and the 1947–48 Railway Strike in French West Africa,” to write this post.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 4h
Part of the reason that the strike worked was massive community support, as these towns and villages came together in a collective way to make sure everyone got fed.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 4h
This Day in Labor History: October 10, 1947. African workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway in modern Senegal went on strike with the demand that they be treated equal to French workers. This is a hugely important moment in both African labor history and the anticolonial struggle in west Africa!!!
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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 5h
I don't care if Monday's grue Tuesday's bleen, and Wednesday too Thursday's unprojectable (true) It's Friday, I'm in hlove* *where hlove = love and observed before time t or hate and observed after time t
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h
the Zero System is just AI + the YouTube shorts algo, hence it producing immediate psychosis in all Gundam pilots
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Colin Ferguson @fearlessson.bsky.social · 13h
Normally I'm opposed to massive spending going toward defense contractors, but for this outcome I'd happily make an exception.
A model of an RX-78-2 Gundam equipped with a bazooka and a shield.
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BodhiCreole @kshahyd.bsky.social · 12h
In Brasil many believe the polls gave many people false security and they didn't show up to vote. The left is hoping that they can mobilize a greater turnout for the runoff.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A 🧵 Announcement: Our 2026 Pro-democracy Election Coverage guidelines. Americans need to understand the stakes of the upcoming elections. Here's how to cover the mid-terms like democracy depends on it. 👉Please read and endorse the guidelines. 1/n www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2026-electio...
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Add Your Name: 2026 Election Coverage Guidelines Open Letter
Sign our open letter to American journalists, editors, and media executives. Join us in demanding pro-democracy election coverage of the 2026 midterms!
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fletcheredington.bsky.social @fletcheredington.bsky.social · 13h
Give Lina Khan a Gundam remains the moderate position
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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 13h
Oh my god
Despite the curiosity generated by his name, local media noted that Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez had been elected mayor of Yúngar in 2018.
He reportedly beat rival candidate Lenin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde after campaigning on the slogan “I'm the good Hitler".
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Everything A Border @bordered-lands.bsky.social · 13h
You had to really look for it but at the beginning of the ICE surge, in mostly rural border states there was a rash of Facebook style psa videos (often in spanish) of officers explaining they were not immigration and they were still to be trusted and called if needed. It was pretty fascinating.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14h
"Police say the daughter tried to intervene to protect her father, and Gonzalez [the ICE agent] physically attacked her...the 72-year-old man pulled out a gun and shot Gonzalez." layers to this one abc30.com/post/off-dut...
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72-year-old man shoots off-duty ICE agent found asleep on Fresno lawn, agent arrested: PD
An ICE agent is in custody at a local hospital after police say he was shot after assaulting a 72-year-old man and his daughter at a home in central Fresno.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h
there's still a month left for the Dems to do what must be done
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h
The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
These guys are confused. When you are fringe extremists out of power, that’s when you BUILD coalitions. You can’t do this Comintern thing until after you win
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h
raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 18h
The Trump administration has denied Illinois’ request for disaster relief — again. The state sought FEMA’s help after days of severe weather in and around the Chicago area in August. FEMA granted Indiana’s request for help with the same storm. buff.ly/P3ElxRb
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17h
Read Schumer’s statement about ICE shooting a New Yorker with a small kid in the car and I keep coming back to this analogy
Senate Democrats' DHS
"Reforms" Shaping Up To Be Another Kneeling Kente Cloth
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"Body cams" vague demands of "accountability," but no attempt to cut DHS's obscene budget is a recipe for status quo maintenance.
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 17h
“These are systemic inequalities – problems so deep-rooted ⁠that, in fact, I’m glad that high-school students and young people in general are speaking up. I hear them, and I support them, and ‌I hope the people all over there will do the same.” ~ Victor Wembanyama
aljazeera.com
NBA star Wembanyama to French students: ‘I hear you’
San ​Antonio Spurs player Victor Wembanyama offers solidarity to students protesting conditions in schools in France.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18h
This is awful. Put in a full-body straitjacket and then pulled up the air stairs by his wrists and ankles. The WRAP is regularly used on ICE flights to Africa.
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Gabo @imperatorgabs.bsky.social · 19h
Creo que lo que me hará perder la cordura es que *****IF***** los republicanos pierden mayorías en noviembre y Trump deja de ser LA figura política de los republicanos, vamos a ver a todo el mainstream gringo empezar a vender a Rubio como el personaje moderador y presentable del partido.
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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 22h
"My assailant was found responsible for my sexual assault ... His punishment? He received a 'written reprimand,' was ordered to write a 'reflection paper,' and was placed on behavioral probation until he graduated two months later." Must-read by a Cornell grad: www.thecut.com/article/i-wa...
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I’m Not the Only Cornell Student Title IX Failed
When I was raped in 2023, my attacker, too, only had to write an essay. Now, I see I’m not alone.
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Jonathan Diaz @jonathandiaz.bsky.social · 20h
After pressure from the DC Board of Elections and Election Protection organizations, a spokesperson for the Guard said that they are addressing this specific incident, and that National Guard members are "directed not to monitor or secure polling locations" www.washingtonsun.com/metro/nation...
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D.C. Elections Board Asks National Guard to Stay Away From Ballot Drop Boxes
Guard members were seen standing next to a drop box in Foggy Bottom this week.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20h
just asking out of curiosity to any Catholicism Understanders: what does it take to excommunicate a guy these days?
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22h
The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.
"LEAKED: Footage of Abdul El-Sayed fundraising last night in the California home of the far-left Soros family. 

Abdul’s education was paid for by the Soros family and NOW they are funding his campaign to make him a U.S. Senator 

The Soros family is funding Abdul because he will carry out their agenda of: 

➡️ defunding the police 
➡️ emptying prisons, and letting violent criminals & sex offenders back onto the streets 
➡️ gender transition surgeries for minors 
➡️ allowing illegals to vote in American elections 

Abdul is too extreme for Michigan."
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
wired.com
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 21h
I'm doing 1000 calculations per second and they're all wrong!
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
Proposal	Favor or oppose
Favor	Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices	89	10
Limited terms for justices	79	21
Increase number of justices	53	47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The new issue of Hammer & Hope is out! Featuring articles on Trump’s deadly invasion of Memphis, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Democrats’s “Woke” Panic, and Kelela’s Guide to Surviving Men and Raves. hammerandhope.org
Illustration of a tree-lined Memphis street with a woman holding a flower next to a bird and butterfly
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/10/2026
From The Archive: DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 09/10/2026
if you shoot guns enough (I do), you quickly meet this type of guy, who will tell you just how Excited he is for someone to break into his house so he finally has the excuse he needs to dump a mag into them [and this type of guy is unfortunately quite dominant in US gun culture]
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I like it and I'd like more of it
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 09/10/2026
there was a really amazing window in which many people who had never considered otherwise began thinking about the way race interfaced with all aspects of their social and material lives that sadly soon got undercut by the grifter motive of “making white people spend money to absolve their guilt“
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 09/10/2026
There were so many anti-solidaristic tendencies in the Trump 1 era. Call-out culture, appeals to oppression hierarchies, social blackmail. Identity is fundamental to collective liberation which is why it was so jarring to see it used explicitly for the purpose of hurting your comrades
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Interesting that they’ve learned that people will react positively to socialism if it is defined correctly so they’ve had to stop doing that.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: ICE vehicle RAMS through NYC protesters attempting to block it from leaving after ICE agents SHOT a man in NYC—the man’s young son was in the back seat. WE’RE LIVE ON SCENE ⬇️
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The 51st @51st.news · 08/10/2026
The Sun’s publisher, billionaire Robert Albritton, has had his sights set on building a true competitor to the Post for decades. Now the advertising blitz has begun. 51st.news/washington-s...
51st.news
The Washington Sun launches an aggressive local ad blitz
The outlet is pitching its newly robust metro section with ads and activations around town
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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"In the summer of 2023, after he was impeached on charges of abusing his office for personal gain, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was suspended and barred from conducting any official business for more than three months while awaiting trial in the state Senate. So, he traveled."
texastribune.org
Ken Paxton took nearly 1,000 trips with state-funded security - The Texas Tribune
The Texas attorney general’s use of a taxpayer-funded travel security detail stands out when compared with his predecessor and other state officials, our analysis found.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Waco torture and lynching of Jesse Washington in 1916 has stuck with me for years after reading the details. 10,000 people came to watch him be torn to pieces, and burned alive over the course of hours. Exactly 100 years ago.
Image of the huge crowd there to attend the lynching.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 08/10/2026
a genuine Q for me, if Ds win back both houses (but even just the house), is whether constant headlines from hearings and leaks about corruption/scandal will bring that number even lower or if he'll have bottomed-out before the new congress sits.
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The Dig @thedigradio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New on The Dig: Confronting Labor's Crisis w/ Micah Uetricht & Chris Brooks It’s no surprise to our listeners that the US labor movement has long been in serious crisis - but we might soon be hitting a point of no return, after which the revival of organized labor might not be possible.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
anybody know where Angela Paxton was at the time of this fundraiser?
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
whoever decided to split this clip into four separate sound bites that they could drip out to the media knew exactly what they were doing.
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