Mark Fitzpatrick
@fitzorhowl.bsky.social
Family, books, travel, sports, punk/punk-adjacent music, culture, academics, and politics.
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Bay Stater. UMass-Amherst alum.
He/him
Bay Stater. UMass-Amherst alum.
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Mark Fitzpatrick
@fitzorhowl.bsky.social
· Jan 24
my name is Mark/Fitz/Fitzy. I attended UMass Amherst majoring in political science and minoring in philosophy with an interest in anthropology. After a short time in a master's program at UConn, I dropped out and now just do lay intellectual stuff. I like political theory, cultural anthro, + more!
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Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor!
Dick?
Dick?
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor!
Dick?
Dick?
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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MSNBC Live coverage: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social interviewing a pink unicorn on live television is giving me life. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
MSNBC Live coverage: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social interviewing a pink unicorn on live television is giving me life. #NoKings
I hardly look on Corey Robins page and undergrad was a lifetime ago but the one time I look at Robin's page I find out Nick Xenos, my undergrad advisor at UMass, died last March. Had no clue he passed. Very sad
October 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I hardly look on Corey Robins page and undergrad was a lifetime ago but the one time I look at Robin's page I find out Nick Xenos, my undergrad advisor at UMass, died last March. Had no clue he passed. Very sad
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Autism does not need to be cured
Ableism does
The end
Ableism does
The end
September 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Autism does not need to be cured
Ableism does
The end
Ableism does
The end
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As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:
September 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:
I like this website for news and analysis but I can't keep up with personally micro blogging stuff.
September 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I like this website for news and analysis but I can't keep up with personally micro blogging stuff.
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It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it
September 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it
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This really is the final expression of "libertarianism" as it is practiced in the US today.
September 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This really is the final expression of "libertarianism" as it is practiced in the US today.
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This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
September 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
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Remember literally three years ago, when centrist pundits claimed that the trans backlash was really just a wonky debate over the correct medical standards for children?
Fast-forward to today and you have members of Congress calling for ALL trans people to be seized and held incommunicado
Fast-forward to today and you have members of Congress calling for ALL trans people to be seized and held incommunicado
Rep. Ronny Jackson calls to forcefully mass institutionalize trans people and calls them a cancer.
www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...
www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...
September 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Remember literally three years ago, when centrist pundits claimed that the trans backlash was really just a wonky debate over the correct medical standards for children?
Fast-forward to today and you have members of Congress calling for ALL trans people to be seized and held incommunicado
Fast-forward to today and you have members of Congress calling for ALL trans people to be seized and held incommunicado
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"Respond" to what? Brazil applying its own laws to a Brazilian in a fair and transparent process?
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Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the United States would "respond accordingly to this witch hunt" after former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election.
reut.rs
September 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"Respond" to what? Brazil applying its own laws to a Brazilian in a fair and transparent process?
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Losing my goddamned mind.
We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
September 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Losing my goddamned mind.
We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
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The orgy of liberal pundits tripping over each other to praise Charlie Kirk—when he caused so much violence to the lives of Black and LGBTQ people (including me specifically)—is telling about why the Dems can’t build an antifascist coalition.
September 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The orgy of liberal pundits tripping over each other to praise Charlie Kirk—when he caused so much violence to the lives of Black and LGBTQ people (including me specifically)—is telling about why the Dems can’t build an antifascist coalition.
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These people are on another planet.
September 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
These people are on another planet.
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The Heritage Foundation released the following words from the organization's president, Kevin Roberts, about the death of Charlie Kirk: “His martyrdom must be a turning point for our country.”
Yes, he said "martyrdom." Remember, we don't even know who killed the man or why.
Yes, he said "martyrdom." Remember, we don't even know who killed the man or why.
September 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The Heritage Foundation released the following words from the organization's president, Kevin Roberts, about the death of Charlie Kirk: “His martyrdom must be a turning point for our country.”
Yes, he said "martyrdom." Remember, we don't even know who killed the man or why.
Yes, he said "martyrdom." Remember, we don't even know who killed the man or why.
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Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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Fuck. The. Yankees.
September 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Fuck. The. Yankees.
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral
Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
September 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
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Among other things, there has been a total collapse of any pretense that government agencies aren't overtly partisan tools distinguishable from campaign accounts.
White Christian Taliban shit right here.
Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)
Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)
September 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Among other things, there has been a total collapse of any pretense that government agencies aren't overtly partisan tools distinguishable from campaign accounts.
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10/10. Chef's kiss. No notes. 💯
September 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
10/10. Chef's kiss. No notes. 💯
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This is real, somehow
September 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This is real, somehow
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WNBA + Angela Davis?!! No wonder the authoritarians are afraid of women playing sports.
September 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
WNBA + Angela Davis?!! No wonder the authoritarians are afraid of women playing sports.