Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought
@highestmarx.bsky.social
Political theorist and anonymous adjunct, planting seeds beneath the snow.
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Our biggest problems as a country are all downstream of our failure to hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree.
Huge affront to FIFA
Merry Christmas!
The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
December 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Huge affront to FIFA
China Mieville’s Bas-Lag novels
OK, less contentious post:
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
December 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
China Mieville’s Bas-Lag novels
These! Guys! All! Need! To! Swing!
“.. We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said .. as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
December 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
These! Guys! All! Need! To! Swing!
Gonna need James Elroy’s reaction asap
An amateur sleuth codebreaker says he’s found evidence linking the Black Dahlia murder to the Zodiac killings.
Investigators have not confirmed the finding, but two retired LAPD homicide detectives say that both notorious cases are solved. Here's what we know.
Investigators have not confirmed the finding, but two retired LAPD homicide detectives say that both notorious cases are solved. Here's what we know.
An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings
Two retired LAPD homicide detectives say that both notorious cases are solved -- with a single culprit -- thanks to the work of a novice sleuth.
www.latimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Gonna need James Elroy’s reaction asap
David Brooks? The noted feuilletonist?
It’s always the ones you just assumed
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
David Brooks? The noted feuilletonist?
“To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize ‘how it really was.’ It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger…In every epoch, the attempt must be made to deliver tradition anew from the conformism which is on the point of overwhelming it.”
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin
These two are my favorites:
Friends! Countrymen! We descend from immigrants and revolutionaries!
Friends! Countrymen! Opposition to the machinations of tyranny stares you in the face (Again!)
Friends! Countrymen! We descend from immigrants and revolutionaries!
Friends! Countrymen! Opposition to the machinations of tyranny stares you in the face (Again!)
December 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize ‘how it really was.’ It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger…In every epoch, the attempt must be made to deliver tradition anew from the conformism which is on the point of overwhelming it.”
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin
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counterpoint: nothing you post on any social media platform will in any way combat the dangerousness of the right
IMO it's hard to combat the dangerousness of the right by participating in a platform where they aren't present.
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
counterpoint: nothing you post on any social media platform will in any way combat the dangerousness of the right
They cut off her wedding ring. Pigs.
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
They cut off her wedding ring. Pigs.
I don’t care what anyone says this is a great episode of KOTH that if anything could have been even weirder
December 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I don’t care what anyone says this is a great episode of KOTH that if anything could have been even weirder
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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
The tone also strongly suggests that whoever wrote this thinks the immaculate conception was Jesus’s, not Mary’s. Oops!
ok it’s legitimately funny that they can’t even throw red meat to Catholics without falling into heresy
December 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The tone also strongly suggests that whoever wrote this thinks the immaculate conception was Jesus’s, not Mary’s. Oops!
The most boring writers in America have been reduced to whinging about Bluesky and that’s somehow the fault of Bluesky users and not these tragic scribblers.
December 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The most boring writers in America have been reduced to whinging about Bluesky and that’s somehow the fault of Bluesky users and not these tragic scribblers.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
Every semester I have students with testing accommodations and every semester it is not a problem in any way shape or form.
I feel insane watching people act as if testing accommodations are a significant social problem. We're talking about people getting an extra 24 hours to turn in an assignment or an extra hour on a test. It's not like they're getting out of assignments completely or something. Who gives a shit!?
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Every semester I have students with testing accommodations and every semester it is not a problem in any way shape or form.
I read this and assumed it was just more proof that Vance is horny for racism
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I read this and assumed it was just more proof that Vance is horny for racism
It’s very important to me that these people never feel safe ever again for the rest of their lives.
Rollins: Joe Biden increased food stamp program funding by 40%. Now… we continue to roll that back… Just gratitude and joy for this work. So, so grateful to you.
December 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It’s very important to me that these people never feel safe ever again for the rest of their lives.
“Entering illegally” is itself an admission that they are subject to US laws. Douglass wouldn’t have wasted his time with this trifling idiocy.
Some are perhaps. Many more are ignored or released by "sanctuary" states/cities. They drive w/out licenses. Take over property.
Entering illegally without being returned by definition means they're not subject to our laws.
Entering illegally without being returned by definition means they're not subject to our laws.
December 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“Entering illegally” is itself an admission that they are subject to US laws. Douglass wouldn’t have wasted his time with this trifling idiocy.
We need candidates who can match John “the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood” Brown’s energy on this issue.
2028: "Strong rope, no floor"
December 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We need candidates who can match John “the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood” Brown’s energy on this issue.
Sounds like a pit one is meant to drown in.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Sounds like a pit one is meant to drown in.
RIP Tom Stoppard.
from “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”
from “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”
November 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
RIP Tom Stoppard.
from “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”
from “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”
Grad school at its best
[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
November 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Grad school at its best
David Tennant remains the GOAT
"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
David Tennant remains the GOAT
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Today we are grateful for Walter Benjamin Garland, who was born #otd in Brooklyn, NYC, 1914. He served in the US Army from 1930-1933. He studied math at Brooklyn College and worked as a studio musician working on Your Hit Parade. He joined the CPUSA in 1935 and was involved with the NNC.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Today we are grateful for Walter Benjamin Garland, who was born #otd in Brooklyn, NYC, 1914. He served in the US Army from 1930-1933. He studied math at Brooklyn College and worked as a studio musician working on Your Hit Parade. He joined the CPUSA in 1935 and was involved with the NNC.