Bryant Burkhart
@bryantburkhart.bsky.social
PhD student. World’s oikoi-ist (future) theologian.
Focused on neoliberalism, race, and modernity (and sometimes God).
Focused on neoliberalism, race, and modernity (and sometimes God).
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Buy my book! It kind of is crucial to understanding the moment we’re in, if I say so myself:
June 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Buy my book! It kind of is crucial to understanding the moment we’re in, if I say so myself:
Glad some excellent reporters still carrying the torch for peace. (On the other hand, BOTH the NYT and The Atlantic have run op-eds praising the war. 2001 called, it wants it’s warhawks back)
Trump said you can measure a presidency by the wars you avoid, and for once he was right. Saturday's Iran bombing was the exclamation point on his abject failure
Trump is copying dictators from Mussolini to Putin in seeking glory through pointless war. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dona...
Trump is copying dictators from Mussolini to Putin in seeking glory through pointless war. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dona...
A mad king’s pointless war is where Donald Trump was always heading
There is no legal or moral justification for Donald Trump's bomb strike on Iran, just the ego of an increasingly delusional president.
www.inquirer.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Glad some excellent reporters still carrying the torch for peace. (On the other hand, BOTH the NYT and The Atlantic have run op-eds praising the war. 2001 called, it wants it’s warhawks back)
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i think everyone on the left should more or less aggressively grab on to the legacy of FDR's war liberalism and shove it down the throat of every fascist until they cannot breath
June 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
i think everyone on the left should more or less aggressively grab on to the legacy of FDR's war liberalism and shove it down the throat of every fascist until they cannot breath
It was great to be out on such a dismal day. Thanks to @willbunch.bsky.social for the excellent coverage.
June 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It was great to be out on such a dismal day. Thanks to @willbunch.bsky.social for the excellent coverage.
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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
June 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
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Were Aime Césaire alive to conduct a structural analysis of the advancing militarization of American law enforcement since 9/11, I suspect he would have understood DHS as a template for how Imperial Boomerangs operate in the 21st century.
Me for @zeteo.com on LA, and what led to it.
Me for @zeteo.com on LA, and what led to it.
The Imperial Boomerang Lands in Los Angeles
As police and the National Guard escalate against anti-ICE protesters, the Department of Homeland Security bridges US violence abroad and US violence at home.
zeteo.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Were Aime Césaire alive to conduct a structural analysis of the advancing militarization of American law enforcement since 9/11, I suspect he would have understood DHS as a template for how Imperial Boomerangs operate in the 21st century.
Me for @zeteo.com on LA, and what led to it.
Me for @zeteo.com on LA, and what led to it.
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how much of the DOGE-driven destruction of the nation’s research and development capacity is because these people are AI cultists who believe that we’re on the verge of creating a sentient general intelligence?
May 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
how much of the DOGE-driven destruction of the nation’s research and development capacity is because these people are AI cultists who believe that we’re on the verge of creating a sentient general intelligence?
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The worst people in the world are mad.
May 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The worst people in the world are mad.
"no, no. The Christ is UNDER the sauce"
May 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"no, no. The Christ is UNDER the sauce"
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that said, at some point we will have to reckon with the political consequences of putting this scale of wealth at the personal, unilateral discretion of individual human beings (generations ago would've been nice, but I'll settle for now)
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
that said, at some point we will have to reckon with the political consequences of putting this scale of wealth at the personal, unilateral discretion of individual human beings (generations ago would've been nice, but I'll settle for now)
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I think if the 2024 election hinged on Michigan alone, we could have a consequentialist debate on activism’s role in the outcome, but since it didn’t, I think the whole enterprise is a sort of bitter waste of time
May 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I think if the 2024 election hinged on Michigan alone, we could have a consequentialist debate on activism’s role in the outcome, but since it didn’t, I think the whole enterprise is a sort of bitter waste of time
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Do not, for one solitary second, let Bob, 52, sales manager from Wherever, Wisconsin sour you on the project of human emancipation. Don't do it! There have always been Bobs. There will always be Bobs. If you disagree with Bob, you either get through to Bob or beat him. That's the work. Onward.
April 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Do not, for one solitary second, let Bob, 52, sales manager from Wherever, Wisconsin sour you on the project of human emancipation. Don't do it! There have always been Bobs. There will always be Bobs. If you disagree with Bob, you either get through to Bob or beat him. That's the work. Onward.
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We will fail often. Many people are bad. Many people don't know much. But people looking at much worse, less knowledgeable electorates — people who literally couldn't read or write, who had been intentionally kept from political information — worked to expand democracy anyway to our eternal benefit.
April 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We will fail often. Many people are bad. Many people don't know much. But people looking at much worse, less knowledgeable electorates — people who literally couldn't read or write, who had been intentionally kept from political information — worked to expand democracy anyway to our eternal benefit.
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They are not. We have maybe the worst political system in the developed world, one that makes an unrepresentative sliver of voters with no principles who aren't really paying attention decisive. Every few months, they get profiled like a set of jangling keys and folks want to throw democracy away.
new york times voter interviews are a powerful argument that not everybody should be allowed to vote
April 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
They are not. We have maybe the worst political system in the developed world, one that makes an unrepresentative sliver of voters with no principles who aren't really paying attention decisive. Every few months, they get profiled like a set of jangling keys and folks want to throw democracy away.
April 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Ozturk is nearby in Basile, Louisiana at an all-women’s facility also run by GEO, where she has had at least three asthma attacks with no access to medication." Khalil was kept from the birth of his child.
Mitra's depiction of the ICE camps is accurate in its horror. Don't blink. Fight back.
Mitra's depiction of the ICE camps is accurate in its horror. Don't blink. Fight back.
“Mahmoud’s detention was the stress test for the administration instrumentalizing its immigration policy to come after pro-Palestinian students.” New: Shayoni Mitra on visiting Mahmoud Khalil at the LaSalle detention center. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Mahmoud Khalil, Biding Time in Jena | Shayoni Mitra
After Mahmoud was abducted by plainclothes ICE agents from the lobby of his Columbia-owned apartment building on Saturday, March 8, returning from an iftar with his eight-month pregnant wife, for abou...
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April 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"Ozturk is nearby in Basile, Louisiana at an all-women’s facility also run by GEO, where she has had at least three asthma attacks with no access to medication." Khalil was kept from the birth of his child.
Mitra's depiction of the ICE camps is accurate in its horror. Don't blink. Fight back.
Mitra's depiction of the ICE camps is accurate in its horror. Don't blink. Fight back.
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this is always the thoughtcrime
April 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
this is always the thoughtcrime
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This is what I believe.
I am an internationalist. I believe in creating a world where people across this planet can live in peace, dignity, and prosperity whoever they happen to be. I think this world will be substantially more difficult to bring about if the United States is controlled by capital and the right.
April 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This is what I believe.
Imagine having the Vicar of Christ tell you so directly that you don't understand Jesus.
I'm quite anti-hierarchical and I STILL mostly listen to the Pope.
Laudato Si... Fratelli Tutti... Franky's dropped some absolute bangers.
I'm quite anti-hierarchical and I STILL mostly listen to the Pope.
Laudato Si... Fratelli Tutti... Franky's dropped some absolute bangers.
Beautiful. Like an anxiety dream in which your idol tells you that you suck, but real and directed at one of the world’s worst people
"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."
April 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Imagine having the Vicar of Christ tell you so directly that you don't understand Jesus.
I'm quite anti-hierarchical and I STILL mostly listen to the Pope.
Laudato Si... Fratelli Tutti... Franky's dropped some absolute bangers.
I'm quite anti-hierarchical and I STILL mostly listen to the Pope.
Laudato Si... Fratelli Tutti... Franky's dropped some absolute bangers.
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My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
April 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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👇🎯 This stuff is the entire ballgame. And the fact that this hasn’t immediately ended this presidency is why none of us can seriously believe with certainty that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & competitive. If 👇 goes unpunished, there is literally nothing a president cannot do.
If the government can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.
April 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
👇🎯 This stuff is the entire ballgame. And the fact that this hasn’t immediately ended this presidency is why none of us can seriously believe with certainty that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & competitive. If 👇 goes unpunished, there is literally nothing a president cannot do.
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one of my tiktok followers made this
April 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
one of my tiktok followers made this
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big lesson for america here: one reason you dont elect people who believe bull shit like "theyre eating the pets" or "theyre putting kitty litter boxes in the classrooms" is bc if they get in power theyll believe bull shit like "tariffs are a tax cut actually"
April 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
big lesson for america here: one reason you dont elect people who believe bull shit like "theyre eating the pets" or "theyre putting kitty litter boxes in the classrooms" is bc if they get in power theyll believe bull shit like "tariffs are a tax cut actually"
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if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trump’s tariffs
Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.
www.msnbc.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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More importantly there are real concerns about how badly inflation will hurt working families and the vulnerable. But not nearly as badly as a potential recession overseen by a trust fund billionaire with a penchant for prioritizing the needs of his fellow billionaires
April 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
More importantly there are real concerns about how badly inflation will hurt working families and the vulnerable. But not nearly as badly as a potential recession overseen by a trust fund billionaire with a penchant for prioritizing the needs of his fellow billionaires