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Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚

@takeoriveraphd.bsky.social
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Asian American studies professor at Boston University's dept of English. Critical ethnic studies, performance theory, queer theory, video games. Playwright. Author of “Model Minority Masochism.” Also jokes. He/him.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Giving him the red sabre is a chef's kiss little detail here
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A.B. Smart @blobrights.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Literal Fascists: *literal coup* Dems: *do nothing* Non-dems who give a fuck: “wtf are you doing? Nothing? I guess we have to protest and riot” Polls: “everyone hates fascists and wants them stopped” Dems: “we did it! Donate now or else.”
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Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The other thing is that even if Americans don’t know the word “oligarchy,” now they will. Their preexisting familiarity with the word actually does not matter. After all, “woke” has come to mean something that it never meant before.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
these fuckers being able to destroy everything is not a foregone conclusion
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I'm certainly not trying to reassure anyone, it's a race between full or partial state collapse and fascist dictatorship. "Hope" here is, "maybe they partially collapse the state so quickly they shoot themselves in the foot"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
elected democrats act like they were promised protection in exchange for their uselessness
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025
If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I want the public to hear from every university president by 12 noon tomorrow. I am so serious
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/01/2025
Being a good soldier who avoided public criticism of Democrats appears to have brought us to a fascist takeover of the USA. I desperately need the Democrats to be better so we actually survive this.
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Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
So the most powerful man in the world and the richest man in the world clumsily fired a bunch of senior air traffic staff, caused the worst domestic air disaster since 9/11, and then tried to blame black people
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Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
How did Kamala Harris lose to the most unpopular US president on record? Winning wasn’t Harris’s primary concern; winning without the left and anti-war movement was. www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-mo...
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How the most unpopular US president got reelected
Polygraph | Newsletter n°288 | 24 Jan 2025
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Everyone reading the Colombian President
Guy in the Simpsons saying HE'S RIGHT. GIVE US HELL, QUIMBY!
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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“Moving to a single-payer, universal healthcare system would likely cost less than current national healthcare expenditure, according to a 2020 academic analysis – and save tens of thousands of lives each year.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘It’s a death sentence’: US health insurance system is failing, say doctors
Firms including United Healthcare have denied basic scans and taken months to reconsider, physicians say
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
reposted with alt text president of colombia, gustavo petro's response to trump
Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some meritorious things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should unite.
I confess that l like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller
I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the US as well as within my country
I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed.
Maybe one day, over a drink of whiskey that l accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian.
So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, l'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last
You will kill me, but I will survive in my town, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom
You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake the hands of the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and of the black and white peasant boys of the USA, before whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which ! reached, after They are the USA and before them I kneel, before no one else.
Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.
Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization at that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resisters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take shelter in its African songs.
My land is made of goldsmiths from the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, and of the first artists of the world in Chiribiquete.
You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, and who is called Bolivar, opposes us.
Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, now Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.
I raise a flag and as Gaitan said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA.
Your blockade does not scare me; because Colombia, in addition to being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will offer it your sweetness.
FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA OPENS TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.
I am informed that you put a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the
US, I do the same.
Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The leftward swing in Latin America has been beautiful, and the fight back against him from Petro and Sheinbaum could hurt his project and help us meaningfully up here.
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Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Computer, set stupidity level to maximum
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 22/01/2025
Shoutout to @teenvogue.bsky.social for this explainer on how to track ICE activity in your neighborhood.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Look, I’m not Catholic, but a lot of (Republican) family members are, and this is kind of a middle finger from the Vatican to these fundie Catholics. A tug on the leash, as it were. People like Vance are going to be put in a position where they have to actively defy the Church. It’s a good move.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
you’re doing the thing i fear
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@hermit_hwarang
american *sees something american happening americanly in america*:
what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???
16:26 • 6/14/21 • Twitter Web App
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Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
When I read the news, I was suddenly reminded to check if Tim Gill had migrated over yet. Looking forward to getting tips on writing during every possible second of your life
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Youtube algorithms pushed Bolsonaro's extremist videos, helping him get elected in Brazil, which is to say that Google helped destroy the Amazon rainforest and indigenous rights there, eyes wide open. Silicon Valley destructiveness takes many forms. www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/w...
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How YouTube Radicalized Brazil (Published 2019)
YouTube built its business on keeping users hooked. This has been a gift to extremist groups. An investigation in the company’s second-biggest market found serious consequences.
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
It is an interesting data point that our (progressive) Mayor and DA were successfully recalled on a "not tough enough on crime" campaign even though crime "actually" went down in Oakland and Alameda county in 2024, in terms of the actual statistics people use to measure it.
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Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Japanese American leftists really should take more advantage of kami/commie wordplay
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Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
“'The idea was to give the people of Iztapalapa the best,' Luviano says. 'To give them what they thought they could never have.'"
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‘Living proof that you can spend money on the poor’: Utopia comes to Mexico City
A visionary mayor has harnessed her imagination to promote health, wellbeing and culture in one of the Mexican capital’s most impoverished neighbourhoods
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 20/12/2024
Amazon Workers Launch Historic Strike to Demand New Contracts & End Unsafe Labor Practices
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Amazon Workers Launch Historic Strike to End Unsafe Labor Practices
Thousands of Amazon workers on Thursday launched the largest strike against the retail giant in U.S. history, pressuring the company at the height of the holiday period to follow the law and bargain with...
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A Dictionary of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures, Katharine Mary Briggs, 1976.
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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I feel like this misses the key fact that Rosé is a native Englsih speaker and was born in New Zealand...she is literally just a woman of Korean descent making English language music....you know...like she grew up listening to.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Some people: it is offensive to compare Israel to the Nazis IDF soldier taking part in the Gaza genocide: “I felt like a Nazi. It looked exactly like we were the Nazis and they were the Jews.” In an Israeli paper by an Israeli interviewing Israelis. archive.is/2024.12.23-1...
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'When you enter Gaza, you are God': Inside the minds of IDF soldiers who commit war crimes | Opinion
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Aashis Joshi @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
"The Global South’s workforce provides a staggering 90% of the labor to power the world economy, yet gets only 21% of global income." 1/2 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Rich countries drain ‘shocking’ amount of labor from the Global South
Workers in the Global South—from farm workers to scientists—power the world economy but face a yawning wage gap
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Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 23/12/2024
A fellow anarchist Zoe Baker said He Zhen was the greatest feminist you’ve never heard of. She was a great anarcho-feminist in China in the late 19th and early 20th century. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/he-y...
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The Feminist Manifesto
He Yin Zhen The Feminist Manifesto 1907 Translated by Meng Fan and Cynthia M. Roe
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Quite honestly, this might be the most perfect imaginable expression of Orientalism www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Faeser said on Sunday the task was to “paint a picture” of a suspect “who does not fit any existing mould”. He had acted in “an unbelievably cruel and brutal manner, like an Islamist terrorist, though he was clearly ideologically hostile to Islam”, she said.
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PaAAAAAAAAH!!!z Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I am obligated by the gods of holiday commerce to remind all last-minute shoppers that I wrote a book you could buy as a present for people you love who like literature with 3 genre descriptors OR people you don’t really care about but have to give a present to (neither I nor the gods are picky)
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
holy f*** like, yes of course they do, but wild to actually hear it in this way
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Luigi Mangeone, alleged to kill one man, a corporate CEO, treated as Public Enemy Number One. Anthony Blinken and Joseph Biden, confirmed to have supplied the weapons that have killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, are statesmen. Biden will get a Presidential Library.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
US official resigned after being 'tired of writing about dead kids' in Gaza - www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-offic…
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US official resigned after being 'tired of writing about dead kids' in Gaza
Mike Casey told The Guardian he resigned in July, saying the US lets Israel do what it wants to Palestinians
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Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Hot take: the only deadlines that really really matter are the ones that have to do with bureaucratic requirements (ie submitting grades to registrar and having enough lead time to mark). Otherwise, all other deadlines should be flexible. Most profs ask for extensions for journals, too.
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Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
It’s better than the original. Way better.
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Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I mean tbh the NDAA is a blood-soaked imperialist bill every time even without the transphobia
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
If you are interested in learning how this mindset came to dominate the Democratic Party to the point that “move right and be Bipartisan” is the only lesson it is capable of learning from anything I encourage you to check this out. bookshop.org/p/books/chao...
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Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center a book by Ed Burmila
A recent history of the Democratic Party that identifies its chronic errors--the "pathologies" of the New Democratic mindset--and argues urgently against a return to the status quo Why did the Democ...
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Feminist Studies at UCSC celebrates its 50th anniversary by disestablishing the department. This article gets at 1 of the key issues: joint appointments & workload. Altho I think there are some very specific institutional/structural factors in this case, that it may be made a precedent is worrisome.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 18/12/2024
Cool. Biden won’t pardon Leonard Peltier but he can pardon Meera Sachdeva, the Mississippi oncologist who scammed Medicare and diluted her patient’s cancer drugs for years, gave expired ones, and used dirty needles, giving a patient HIV.
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