Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻♀️
@lisastampnitzky.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, cat lady, etc. Thinking about truth, knowledge, secrecy, speakability, torture, “terrorism”, etc.
Book
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/disciplining-terror-how-experts-invented-terrorism
Book
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/disciplining-terror-how-experts-invented-terrorism
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
February 4, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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we say this guy chases polls or the Baileys or whatever, but the reality is that he’s just misaligned with Democrats. the polling is clear that this is not what Democrats want.
Chuck is an ideological, pro-cop centrist. He’s saying this because it’s his policy preference. It’s what he wants.
Chuck is an ideological, pro-cop centrist. He’s saying this because it’s his policy preference. It’s what he wants.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 3, 2026 at 11:43 PM
we say this guy chases polls or the Baileys or whatever, but the reality is that he’s just misaligned with Democrats. the polling is clear that this is not what Democrats want.
Chuck is an ideological, pro-cop centrist. He’s saying this because it’s his policy preference. It’s what he wants.
Chuck is an ideological, pro-cop centrist. He’s saying this because it’s his policy preference. It’s what he wants.
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Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano, 11 years old. In dreadful ICE detention for nearly a month.
February 3, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano, 11 years old. In dreadful ICE detention for nearly a month.
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Stickers seen in the wild
February 3, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Stickers seen in the wild
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The federal government is afraid of your whistles and your emails.
February 3, 2026 at 11:19 PM
The federal government is afraid of your whistles and your emails.
I really appreciate that this piece links the domestic and international use of the label of terrorism to justify state violence.
“If we’re going to say it’s OK to kill so-called terrorists in the Caribbean, for actions that have traditionally been dealt with as a criminal matter, using due process — what’s to say you can’t do the same in an American city?” asked
@scanlon.house.gov
theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...
@scanlon.house.gov
theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...
February 3, 2026 at 10:36 PM
I really appreciate that this piece links the domestic and international use of the label of terrorism to justify state violence.
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Federal Agents Left Behind “Death Cards” After Capturing Immigrants
ICE agents dropped customized ace of spades playing cards, recalling a macabre practice by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.
theintercept.com/2026/02/03/i...
ICE agents dropped customized ace of spades playing cards, recalling a macabre practice by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.
theintercept.com/2026/02/03/i...
Federal Agents Left Behind “Death Cards” After Capturing Immigrants
ICE agents dropped customized ace of spades playing cards, recalling a practice by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.
theintercept.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Federal Agents Left Behind “Death Cards” After Capturing Immigrants
ICE agents dropped customized ace of spades playing cards, recalling a macabre practice by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.
theintercept.com/2026/02/03/i...
ICE agents dropped customized ace of spades playing cards, recalling a macabre practice by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.
theintercept.com/2026/02/03/i...
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I don’t understand why colleagues stay silent when this happens.
KAITLAN COLLINS: What would say to Epstein survivo---
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
February 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
I don’t understand why colleagues stay silent when this happens.
This will come as no surprise to any women in academia
Here’s what they found:
Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20% in economics seminars.
Those interruptions are more likely to:
- Cut women off mid-sentence
- Come from men
- Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature
Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20% in economics seminars.
Those interruptions are more likely to:
- Cut women off mid-sentence
- Come from men
- Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature
February 3, 2026 at 8:59 PM
This will come as no surprise to any women in academia
It’s like a twisted game of choose your own adventure! The order of the path may vary, but there are no good outcomes. The only winning move is not to play (management’s game).
In the UK academic recession, you will be at one of these stages since many unis buy the same cuts model from the same consultancies. It is always the same process:
*Talk of belt-tightening
*Incidental savings (e.g. printing, refreshments)
*Travel budgets cut
*Promotion freeze (1/4)
*Talk of belt-tightening
*Incidental savings (e.g. printing, refreshments)
*Travel budgets cut
*Promotion freeze (1/4)
February 3, 2026 at 8:48 PM
It’s like a twisted game of choose your own adventure! The order of the path may vary, but there are no good outcomes. The only winning move is not to play (management’s game).
This is great
February 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
This is great
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Violence is all they have. But violence is a brittle strategy. It will not work in the face of massive peaceful resistance. They cannot shoot all of us and the more they kill, the more resistance will grow. Eventually, politicians will get a spine infusion. Midterms, thank god, are coming soon!
February 3, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Violence is all they have. But violence is a brittle strategy. It will not work in the face of massive peaceful resistance. They cannot shoot all of us and the more they kill, the more resistance will grow. Eventually, politicians will get a spine infusion. Midterms, thank god, are coming soon!
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I am not saying they won’t shoot another person. I am saying that if they Kent State this shit, it won’t just be college students that care or existing progressives that protest. Huge swaths of the country are unconvinced by the admin rhetoric. They have painted themselves into a corner.
February 3, 2026 at 5:28 PM
I am not saying they won’t shoot another person. I am saying that if they Kent State this shit, it won’t just be college students that care or existing progressives that protest. Huge swaths of the country are unconvinced by the admin rhetoric. They have painted themselves into a corner.
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I really want people to take in the amount of support the people of Minnesota have all over the country. Our representatives will have to answer to mass demonstrations and strikes. This is not Germany at the rise of Hitler. We have power here.
February 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM
I really want people to take in the amount of support the people of Minnesota have all over the country. Our representatives will have to answer to mass demonstrations and strikes. This is not Germany at the rise of Hitler. We have power here.
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An important point: The American people are not ambivalent. They may think they want a shooting war in MSP but they are not prepared for the level of backlash if they murder another observer.
it's grim, but the reality is that Trump wants more innocent people to die here in the Twin Cities and the GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress are either ambivalent about more lives being taken or outright support it
February 3, 2026 at 5:22 PM
An important point: The American people are not ambivalent. They may think they want a shooting war in MSP but they are not prepared for the level of backlash if they murder another observer.
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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The successful nonviolence and civil rights movements of the past, as I’ve gathered from reading about them, ALSO featured a shit ton of incessant petty drama and in-fighting.
But crucially, they didn’t have social media - so this was kept far more private.
But crucially, they didn’t have social media - so this was kept far more private.
February 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
The successful nonviolence and civil rights movements of the past, as I’ve gathered from reading about them, ALSO featured a shit ton of incessant petty drama and in-fighting.
But crucially, they didn’t have social media - so this was kept far more private.
But crucially, they didn’t have social media - so this was kept far more private.
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I'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded
as someone who pushes hard against conspiratorial thinking in my professional and political life, it is deeply irritating when, on top of the untold human harms Epstein caused, it turns out he was at the center of at least half a dozen actual conspiracies
February 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded
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This is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Nine More Higher Ed Names in the Epstein Files
Through coffees, phone calls and private flights, at least nine more academics are linked to Jeffrey Epstein in the latest disclosure of documents from the Justice Department.
www.insidehighered.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
This is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Keep coming back to the ^type^ of “intellectuals” that Epstein welcomed into his network and the centrality of a certain type of seemingly abstract (but very gendered and racialised) “cleverness” and the desire to share “truths” supporting white supremacy and eugenics
Anyway
Anyway
February 3, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Keep coming back to the ^type^ of “intellectuals” that Epstein welcomed into his network and the centrality of a certain type of seemingly abstract (but very gendered and racialised) “cleverness” and the desire to share “truths” supporting white supremacy and eugenics
Anyway
Anyway
This is soooo good.
It's taken me five weeks to write this essay on knowing and, more importantly, not knowing; on epistemology & the Epstein episteme, or the 'knowledge' economy (Biblical sense). It took a panicking, trapped fox to unlock it, and it includes a hottt pic of young Engels.
www.somayer.net?na=view&id=6
www.somayer.net?na=view&id=6
know
www.somayer.net
February 3, 2026 at 1:12 PM
This is soooo good.
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Still having a very hard time understanding how cameras are going to be the thing that stops what we all saw happen on camera from multiple angles
#BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said that all federal immigration officers in Minneapolis will begin wearing body cameras while in the field.
thehill.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Still having a very hard time understanding how cameras are going to be the thing that stops what we all saw happen on camera from multiple angles
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also worth noting that people are more likely to identify with and make justifications for the person wearing the body cam because of the sensation of "being in their shoes"
February 2, 2026 at 11:34 PM
also worth noting that people are more likely to identify with and make justifications for the person wearing the body cam because of the sensation of "being in their shoes"
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Jerome Deangelo Richardson, a 21-year-old Temple University student and activist, was arrested by federal agents on Monday in connection to an anti-ICE protest that took place at a church in Minnesota. #BlackskyNews
thegrio.com/2026/02/02/d...
thegrio.com/2026/02/02/d...
DOJ arrests 21-year-old student activist who helped Don Lemon with Minneapolis protest coverage
The GoFundMe page for Temple college senior Jerome Richardson's legal defense has already raised over $11,000.
thegrio.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Jerome Deangelo Richardson, a 21-year-old Temple University student and activist, was arrested by federal agents on Monday in connection to an anti-ICE protest that took place at a church in Minnesota. #BlackskyNews
thegrio.com/2026/02/02/d...
thegrio.com/2026/02/02/d...
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Anne Frank likely died in a typhus epidemic that spread through the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
History rhymes, it rhymes
Close the camps, set fire to the prisons
History rhymes, it rhymes
Close the camps, set fire to the prisons
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
February 2, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Anne Frank likely died in a typhus epidemic that spread through the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
History rhymes, it rhymes
Close the camps, set fire to the prisons
History rhymes, it rhymes
Close the camps, set fire to the prisons