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Vanessa Wills @vcwills.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Trump's message: Be "reasonable." Let somebody else try to play the tough guy. Reporter: "Do you still plan to deploy the National Guard to New York City?" Trump: "If they need it. Right now, other places need it more. We had a great meeting, yesterday. But if they need it, I would do it."

Trump: "Right now, other places need it more"

Trump: "But if they need it, I would do it."

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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Excited to welcome this outstanding group of speakers: @robin-c.bsky.social (FU Berlin) @kristingjesdal.bsky.social (Temple) @terezahendl.bsky.social (Augsburg) Michelle Meeks (Penn State) Matthieu Renault (Toulouse) Cecilia Sebastian (Wesleyan) Vanessa Thompson (Queen’s) @vcwills.bsky.social (GWU)

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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Workshop | Ethics and Politics in Marx 26 May · HU Berlin · 10–18h With @vcwills.bsky.social & @brunoleipold.com presenting their new books: Marx’s Ethical Vision & Citizen Marx. Comments by Gädeke, James, Müller & Wollner. Register by 16 May: ls.feminist.phil@hu-berlin.de

Poster titled Ethics and Politics in Marx. It features two book covers: Citizen Marx by Bruno Leipold (top right), with a historic painting of revolutionary figures, and Marx’s Ethical Vision by Vanessa Christina Wills (bottom left), showing a red-toned image of a woman illuminated by a beam of light. Event details on the right read: “May 26th at HU Berlin. Organized by Daniel James, Mirjam Müller, and Luna Powierski. If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to ls.feminist.phil@hu-berlin.de.” The background is black with a worn texture.

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 13/05/2025

Nice joint review of @vcwills.bsky.social 's and my's book by @andrewhartman.bsky.social situating them as part of a "Marx boom" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 26/05/2025

Heat a joy to discuss @vcwills.bsky.social and I’s books with @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social @mirjam-m.bsky.social Dorothea Gädeke and Gabriel Wollner

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Mirjam Müller (she/her) @mirjam-m.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

It was great! Thanks to @vcwills.bsky.social, @brunoleipold.com, @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, Dorothea Gädeke, Gabriel Wollner and everyone who was there for the discussion.

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Andres Saenz de Sicilia @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Now out! New issue of @philosopher1923.bsky.social on Marx & Philosophy (among other things) I had the pleasure of putting this together, with brilliant pieces from @schuringa.bsky.social, @tatianallaguno.bsky.social @vcwills.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Paul North and Sandro Brito Rojas

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Philosophy Talk @philtalkradio.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Economist, political theorist, and all-round bogeyman Karl #Marx was born on this date in 1818. Last fall Josh and Ray questioned his moral #philosophy with @vcwills.bsky.social from @gwu1821.bsky.social, author of "Marx’s Ethical Vision"—LISTEN: www.philosophytalk.org/shows/marx-a... #PhilSky

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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

On the latest episode of Behind the News, @doughenwood.bsky.social and @vcwills.bsky.social mentioned this gem from Capital & it struck me as pertinent to Sam Altman’s recent promise/threat to release “a new [ai] model that is good at creative writing”

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A lovely and inspiring interview of Vanessa Wills by @doughenwood.bsky.social on the latest episode of his Behind the News podcast, on the question of Marx's ethics. What does it mean, as a Marxist, to talk about morality, about how things ought to be? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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Behind the News with Doug Henwood

News Podcast · 6 Episodes · Updated Weekly

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

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BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates

Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.

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Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Grateful for Vanessa Wills’ perspective here. It also reminds me to question my learned inner cop voice. If I don’t have anything constructive to say, it’s maybe time for me to listen and learn.

Text in the screenshot from Vanessa Wills’ Facebook post: “Those of us who have at times expressed skepticism regarding the significance of unorganized expressions of individual consumer activism are nonetheless going to have to reorient ourselves, in this moment pulsating with barely suppressed rage, to hear "I don't shop at Amazon!" as code for, "I know exactly who the problem is. I'm ready to try whatever might work and I want you to know that"... said with utmost sincerity.

"No ethical consumption under capitalism" is true but also not the moral truth anyone is confused about right now.”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/02/2025

This post choked me up a bit. Please fight for Helen and people like Helen. Not just because I like Helen’s brain, which I do, but also because cancer trials can save lives and people’s lives are worth saving.

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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

@vcwills.bsky.social (Historian Vanessa Wills) this morning Part one: “If someone says they're going to use a ‘shock and awe’ strategy against you, that means there's never been a more important time to try, if possible, to keep a cool head as you stride into battle.”

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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 13/12/2024

Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/12/2024

i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

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Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine

Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

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elliot @williezurmacht.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I read (most of) an earlier manuscript of this a while ago, @vcwills.bsky.social was my professor and mentor in things Marx in grad school. Finally ordered the book and it is really an instant classic in Marxist philosophy. The most thorough and original treatment of Marxian ethics I’ve read

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Tom Mullaney @tommullaney.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

We never hear incarcerated people on mainstream news media. Credit to Ashleigh Banfield for interviewing them. Thank you, @vcwills.bsky.social, for pointing this out on FB. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-6-...

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Luigi Mangione's fellow inmates: Free him, 'conditions suck' | Banfield

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Vanessa Wills @vcwills.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Absolutely fascinating interview.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 29/11/2024

It’s #ReadPalestine Week! 🇵🇸📚

A stack of Haymarket Books on Palestine:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
Light in Gaza
Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow
Rifqa
Boycott, Divestment Sanctions
A Little Piece of Ground
Uncivil Rites
The Battle for Justice in Palestine
On Edward Said
Culture and Resistance
Apartheid Israel
Israelis and Palestinians
Against Apartheid

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Vanessa Wills @vcwills.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A thing I like about Wikipedia is that I can form the question, "In what parts of the U.S. do native English speakers use the positive 'anymore'?" and Wikipedia has an answer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positiv...

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Positive anymore - Wikipedia

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Vanessa Wills @vcwills.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

There's a very real sense in which these three statements, found in the comment section of a Facebook reel about perfume, cover the full range of mainstream opinion among the citizenry of waning liberal democracies today

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I've got a long flight ahead of me, and some work to do, but alsooooooo @vcwills.bsky.social

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Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...

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Light in Gaza

Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be.

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Vanessa Wills @vcwills.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

"Politics is the only business in which you can prove your authenticity by not knowing anything." — Bill Clinton The bourgeoisie's *actual* epistemology, expressed in its most rational form.

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Vanessa Wills @vcwills.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I think many leftists &/or progressives underestimate the extent to which Bill Clinton remains the most coherent & explicit expositor of the U.S. bourgeois liberal worldview [pejorative] youtu.be/Rif6KfyOfDE?...

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Bill Clinton: Trump's Cabinet is about loyalty, 'no matter who gets hurt'

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@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org @charleshb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast "EP. 645: THE ETHICAL MARX ft. Vanessa( @vcwills.bsky.social )Wills" Jason Myles, Pascal Robert, Madam Toussaint podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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EP. 645: THE ETHICAL MARX ft. Vanessa Wills

Podcast Episode · THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast · 09/30/2024 · 1h 10m

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Kerry Cuskelly @kerrycuskelly.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Dear @vcwills.bsky.social and colleagues, I am thoroughly enjoying this wonderful conversation, what a treat to happen upon this webinar! I am very excited to read your book in full 👏👏👏👏 #Marx #Ethics

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Vanessa Wills @vcwills.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This is happening at 1pm Eastern today (6pm UK time). I'm super excited for it and I hope you can come! There's still time to register 💃🏿 tinyurl.com/2s4kekw2

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