Ireoluwatomiwa
@ireoluwatomiwa.bsky.social
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On criticism in the age of social media and why we need better critics
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Wrote about food, Anthony Bourdain and criticism in the age of social media
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reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
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November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
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it's kind of funny that FDR's grandson (with the DuPonts) is a market socialist economist
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Franklin D. Roosevelt III - Wikipedia
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November 15, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it's kind of funny that FDR's grandson (with the DuPonts) is a market socialist economist
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Trump un-endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene
November 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Trump un-endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene
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barely an exaggeration. Chatterton authored the Harper's Letter, which decried "the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty." his latest book has "the age of certainty" in its subtitle and has a whole chapter about "moral clarity."
just the same idea over and over.
just the same idea over and over.
I love writing one single article over and over again every month
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
barely an exaggeration. Chatterton authored the Harper's Letter, which decried "the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty." his latest book has "the age of certainty" in its subtitle and has a whole chapter about "moral clarity."
just the same idea over and over.
just the same idea over and over.
😭😂
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
😭😂
I love college women basketball. Some of the Charlotte players were taunting LSU, saying will meet real competition by playing them. LSU players saw the TikTok, guys LSU beat Charlotte 117 - 59 😭😭😂😂🤣🤣🤣
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I love college women basketball. Some of the Charlotte players were taunting LSU, saying will meet real competition by playing them. LSU players saw the TikTok, guys LSU beat Charlotte 117 - 59 😭😭😂😂🤣🤣🤣
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We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
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It's really incredible how the norm against the deployment of the military against Americans at home has completely degraded. What this man is describing is a flagrant violation of Posse Comitatus.
Rep. Pat Harrigan: "I have asked Josh Stein, our governor, to consider working with President Trump to allow the National Guard to come into Charlotte ... use the National Guard as a force multiplier and they can a lot of load off the Charlotte PD."
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It's really incredible how the norm against the deployment of the military against Americans at home has completely degraded. What this man is describing is a flagrant violation of Posse Comitatus.
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this is a rich text but my favorite part is that despite being presumably good at math, her husband is so illiterate that he cannot read a baby's report card
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
this is a rich text but my favorite part is that despite being presumably good at math, her husband is so illiterate that he cannot read a baby's report card
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Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
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November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
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virtue signalling is good actually
Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
virtue signalling is good actually
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His... awareness of Zohran? what?
NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
His... awareness of Zohran? what?
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Buddy if this goes into 2026 there isn’t gonna be a federal government left to reopen.
GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown.
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Buddy if this goes into 2026 there isn’t gonna be a federal government left to reopen.
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Caribbean boat strikes are illegal and bad strategy even if everyone they’ve killed was a narcotics trafficker. Not terrorists, not attacking America, not at war at all. The legal and strategically smart move for drug smuggling boats is interdiction.
Worse, the AP found some weren’t even criminals.
Worse, the AP found some weren’t even criminals.
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Caribbean boat strikes are illegal and bad strategy even if everyone they’ve killed was a narcotics trafficker. Not terrorists, not attacking America, not at war at all. The legal and strategically smart move for drug smuggling boats is interdiction.
Worse, the AP found some weren’t even criminals.
Worse, the AP found some weren’t even criminals.
The God that did it for Mamdani in NYC will do it for Zack Polanski of the Green Party in UK in Jesus name. Taking it to God in prayer because there is nothing God can’t do. 😆
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The God that did it for Mamdani in NYC will do it for Zack Polanski of the Green Party in UK in Jesus name. Taking it to God in prayer because there is nothing God can’t do. 😆
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Mamdani quite literally told the NYT he does not recognize Pakistan’s right to exist as a religious ethnostate www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...
November 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Mamdani quite literally told the NYT he does not recognize Pakistan’s right to exist as a religious ethnostate www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...
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Acting like Mamdani is going to put Zionists in camps when there are literal Nazis littering the GOP right now is insane
Bari Weiss's website is being about as normal as I expected
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November 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Acting like Mamdani is going to put Zionists in camps when there are literal Nazis littering the GOP right now is insane
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The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
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Holy crap. MAGA diehard Danielle Jurinsky lost her city council seat in Aurora, Colorado. She more than anyone is responsible for ginning up the false claim that Tren de Aragua had "taken over" the city. She also repeatedly tried to dissolve the city's groundbreaking public defender office.
Progressives may flip Aurora council as voters reject Danielle Jurinsky and other incumbents
Jurinsky built ties with Trump during the 2024 campaign when he falsely claimed Aurora was being “taken over” by a Venezuelan prison gang.
denverite.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Holy crap. MAGA diehard Danielle Jurinsky lost her city council seat in Aurora, Colorado. She more than anyone is responsible for ginning up the false claim that Tren de Aragua had "taken over" the city. She also repeatedly tried to dissolve the city's groundbreaking public defender office.
Many things to be happy about, Mamdani and other democrats victory. The thing I am most intrigued by is a democrat that joked about killing republicans winning in Virginia. Not only is woke not dead, we now have dark woke. The dems are going to get their “woke Trump”.
November 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Many things to be happy about, Mamdani and other democrats victory. The thing I am most intrigued by is a democrat that joked about killing republicans winning in Virginia. Not only is woke not dead, we now have dark woke. The dems are going to get their “woke Trump”.
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“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:
We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:
We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:
Solomon Buchi said Nigeria should have been colonised till 2000 at least we would have gotten 247 electricity. I think he is a fool but if you think that Nigeria would be better with British colonisation, you don’t understand the difference between settler colonialism and exploitative colonialism.
November 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Solomon Buchi said Nigeria should have been colonised till 2000 at least we would have gotten 247 electricity. I think he is a fool but if you think that Nigeria would be better with British colonisation, you don’t understand the difference between settler colonialism and exploitative colonialism.
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Excuse me, what?
Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.
The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.
Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.
The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.
Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.
November 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Excuse me, what?
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"The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember"
The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember
Thousands of US adoptees do not have citizenship despite being brought to the country as babies decades ago. Now many fear deportation.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember"
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I was told from reliable media orgs that Republicans were fighting antisemitism, that the reason university presidents were brought before the Republican Congress was to address concerns of antisemitism on campus.
www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...
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One of the Most Dangerous Interviews Ever in MAGA Media
Why Tucker Carlson platformed white supremacist Nick Fuentes.
www.thebulwark.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I was told from reliable media orgs that Republicans were fighting antisemitism, that the reason university presidents were brought before the Republican Congress was to address concerns of antisemitism on campus.
www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...
www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...