Tom Digby
@digbyish.bsky.social
Author of Love & War: How Militarism Shapes Sexuality & Romance (Columbia Univ. Press, 2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title) http://amzn.to/1vid3eQ
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Tom Digby
@digbyish.bsky.social
· Feb 15
Dating Nietzsche: Love vs Power
<p><em>Romantic love, often celebrated as one of life's greatest treasures, can also be a treacherous terrain fraught with tension and conflict. But why does this paradox persist? Inspired by Nietzsch...
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The Institute for Art and Ideas (UK) asked me to write a Valentine’s Day piece for the IAI News. I prefer the title I myself gave it: “Love Is Cursed by the Gender Binary.” Anyway, here it is.
Free link to get past the paywall: iai.tv/articles/dat...
Free link to get past the paywall: iai.tv/articles/dat...
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Trump assigned to Emil Bove the task of insuring that Tom Homan's bribe taking problems would go away. He was a plumber. www.ms.now/news/border-...
Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check during bribery probe
President-elect Trump initially balked at submitting names of likely nominees to the FBI for background checks, a basic step intended to flag possible financial conflicts or ethical problems.
www.ms.now
December 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Trump assigned to Emil Bove the task of insuring that Tom Homan's bribe taking problems would go away. He was a plumber. www.ms.now/news/border-...
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Hennepin County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested Joseph Boman, a resident of the Twin Cities area, for “stalking and harassment.” The arrest was made after Boman followed federal immigration goons during their raids.
December 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Hennepin County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested Joseph Boman, a resident of the Twin Cities area, for “stalking and harassment.” The arrest was made after Boman followed federal immigration goons during their raids.
Donald has received his instructions
"I had a good and very productive phone call with Führer Hitler of Germany prior to my meeting with Charles de Gaulle of France today. Führer Hitler was very clear about which parts of France not currently under Nazi control he wants. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Winston Churchill."
December 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Donald has received his instructions
The tight connection between men's violence and men's misogyny is well-established. See my LOVE AND WAR book.
Local ICE leader arrested for strangling a woman he lives with and is now being held in the Butler County jail (where ICE has been holding people)
www.citybeat.com/news/update-...
www.citybeat.com/news/update-...
UPDATE: Cincinnati ICE Leader Accused of Strangling Woman Now Faces Federal Charge, Booked into Butler County Jail
"This may be the first time an ICE agent is incarcerated in his own ICE jail," said Lynn Tramonte, executive director of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance.
www.citybeat.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The tight connection between men's violence and men's misogyny is well-established. See my LOVE AND WAR book.
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This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
"'I have my ID!' Mubashir shouted repeatedly, as heard on the video. The agents do not respond."
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
ICE agents tackle, arrest American citizen in Minneapolis
Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
www.mprnews.org
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
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I am utterly disgusted & disheartened by what 47 is celebrating this holiday weekend. When DOGE utterly failed to save money, because if I heard it right, the gov't spent some $450B *more* than it did the previous year.
My husband's whole career was as a gov't scientist. This is personal for us.
My husband's whole career was as a gov't scientist. This is personal for us.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I am utterly disgusted & disheartened by what 47 is celebrating this holiday weekend. When DOGE utterly failed to save money, because if I heard it right, the gov't spent some $450B *more* than it did the previous year.
My husband's whole career was as a gov't scientist. This is personal for us.
My husband's whole career was as a gov't scientist. This is personal for us.
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Two Russian officers accused of torturing Ukrainians die in a Moscow explosion
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united24media.com/latest-news/...
Moscow Explosion Kills Two Russian Officers Accused of Torturing Ukrainian POWs
Two officers from Russia’s Interior Ministry were killed in Moscow, linked to prior involvement in Ukraine and alleged prisoner torture.
united24media.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Two Russian officers accused of torturing Ukrainians die in a Moscow explosion
united24media.com/latest-news/...
united24media.com/latest-news/...
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
December 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
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The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
December 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube.
Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.
GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
December 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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They can insulate 47 from reality, but MAGA has always been a fragile coalition of grifters & opportunists who care only about the attention economy. There’s a point when there’s more attention to be gained from opposing or abandoning 47 than from kissing his butt.
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
They can insulate 47 from reality, but MAGA has always been a fragile coalition of grifters & opportunists who care only about the attention economy. There’s a point when there’s more attention to be gained from opposing or abandoning 47 than from kissing his butt.
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Every goddam headline today should have been COVER-UP
December 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Every goddam headline today should have been COVER-UP
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by a new breed of war entrepreneur. Shaped by pre-2008-crisis, boiler-room finance and experienced in covert Pentagon logistics operations, the small company he founded with his parents was turned into a conduit for supplying ammunition to conflicts where Washington preferred distance.
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
by a new breed of war entrepreneur. Shaped by pre-2008-crisis, boiler-room finance and experienced in covert Pentagon logistics operations, the small company he founded with his parents was turned into a conduit for supplying ammunition to conflicts where Washington preferred distance.
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Washington has built a new architecture for projecting power. Rather than deploy its troops, the US has relied on covert and often privatised supply chains and contractors to equip proxy forces and partners from Syria to Yemen and Ukraine. That means battles are partly fought far from the front
Inside the secret supply chain fuelling America’s wars
And what Will Somerindyke’s company, Regulus Global, means for the future of conflict
www.ft.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Washington has built a new architecture for projecting power. Rather than deploy its troops, the US has relied on covert and often privatised supply chains and contractors to equip proxy forces and partners from Syria to Yemen and Ukraine. That means battles are partly fought far from the front
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
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Clients fled following Cadwalader's capitulation to Trump. To salvage itself, the firm had no option but to allow itself be acquired by Hogan Lovells. www.thedailybeast.com/storied-law-...
Storied Law Firm Pays Brutal Price for Surrendering to Trump
Firm that agreed to do $100 million worth of pro bono work for the White House has been forced into a merger after many of its top attorneys quit.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Clients fled following Cadwalader's capitulation to Trump. To salvage itself, the firm had no option but to allow itself be acquired by Hogan Lovells. www.thedailybeast.com/storied-law-...