Lisa Stampnitzky, Highly Annoying, PhD
@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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My new piece about Resistance 2.0 is up at @theguardian.com! Give it a read to understand why we should expect much more confrontation and disruption this time around. Thanks for the suggestions @victorerikray.bsky.social @sociologistray.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Resistance to Trump 2.0 is getting more confrontational | Dana R Fisher
In Trump’s first term, activists focused on lobbying and voting. Now tactics are shifting to nonviolent civil disobedience
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:32 PM
My new piece about Resistance 2.0 is up at @theguardian.com! Give it a read to understand why we should expect much more confrontation and disruption this time around. Thanks for the suggestions @victorerikray.bsky.social @sociologistray.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Note: Not that it would be remotely OK to treat a non-citizen this way, either!
I just keep wanting to underscore it when they do this to citizens because of my conversations with people who've pointed out that they don't even have jurisdiction over citizens --
I just keep wanting to underscore it when they do this to citizens because of my conversations with people who've pointed out that they don't even have jurisdiction over citizens --
February 1, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Note: Not that it would be remotely OK to treat a non-citizen this way, either!
I just keep wanting to underscore it when they do this to citizens because of my conversations with people who've pointed out that they don't even have jurisdiction over citizens --
I just keep wanting to underscore it when they do this to citizens because of my conversations with people who've pointed out that they don't even have jurisdiction over citizens --
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They left an elderly US citizen on her way to pay her rent with a torn rotator cuff and a concussion. This was in Salem, Oregon. Absolutely no one should vote to fund these lawless thugs.
4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter
A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...
www.salemreporter.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:28 PM
They left an elderly US citizen on her way to pay her rent with a torn rotator cuff and a concussion. This was in Salem, Oregon. Absolutely no one should vote to fund these lawless thugs.
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Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
Donate Your Skymiles — Stand With Minnesota
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www.standwithminnesota.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
Just started listening to this LRB podcast on the war on terror. Thought the first episode was good and was glad to hear them include Barbara Lee, who cast the sole vote against the sole vote against the AUMF and invasion of Afghanistan in Sept 2001.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Aftershock: The War on Terror
History Podcast · Weekly series · After 9/11, George W. Bush launched a global War on Terror. What followed was an unprecedented expansion of American power, from Guantánamo Bay to drone strikes, mass...
podcasts.apple.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Just started listening to this LRB podcast on the war on terror. Thought the first episode was good and was glad to hear them include Barbara Lee, who cast the sole vote against the sole vote against the AUMF and invasion of Afghanistan in Sept 2001.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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The people and the media achieved the release of LIAM CONEJO RAMOS and his dad!
Unfortunately there are still many minors, families, and people who were in the U.S. with permission in indefinite DETENTION in terrible conditions.
From Jan to Oct 2025, at least 3,800 children under the age of 18, 🧵1/2
Unfortunately there are still many minors, families, and people who were in the U.S. with permission in indefinite DETENTION in terrible conditions.
From Jan to Oct 2025, at least 3,800 children under the age of 18, 🧵1/2
February 1, 2026 at 5:25 PM
The people and the media achieved the release of LIAM CONEJO RAMOS and his dad!
Unfortunately there are still many minors, families, and people who were in the U.S. with permission in indefinite DETENTION in terrible conditions.
From Jan to Oct 2025, at least 3,800 children under the age of 18, 🧵1/2
Unfortunately there are still many minors, families, and people who were in the U.S. with permission in indefinite DETENTION in terrible conditions.
From Jan to Oct 2025, at least 3,800 children under the age of 18, 🧵1/2
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the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
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I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
January 31, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
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I took a close look at the latest Department of Homeland Security AI use case inventory, which details over 200 applications across DHS component agencies, including CBP and ICE. DHS is rapidly deploying these tools in US cities, while increasingly engaging in violence and defying court orders.
DHS AI Surveillance Arsenal Grows as Agency Defies Courts
A Department of Homeland Security AI inventory contains details on new tools used by ICE and border patrol agents in Trump's deportation campaign.
www.techpolicy.press
February 1, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I took a close look at the latest Department of Homeland Security AI use case inventory, which details over 200 applications across DHS component agencies, including CBP and ICE. DHS is rapidly deploying these tools in US cities, while increasingly engaging in violence and defying court orders.
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reposting both for underlying insight and for solid use of "zugzwang"
one of the key motions of protest is that it places the adversary in zugzwang: either they abide the protest, and look weak, or attack the protest, and look cruel
February 1, 2026 at 9:46 AM
reposting both for underlying insight and for solid use of "zugzwang"
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What I’m seeing here is that Epstein is a nexus point for the “intellectual” cabal that shores up the race science justifying our current immigration and anti-DEI policies (Huberman), as well the tone policing moderates (Brooks) that hamstrings oppositions. Oh and their billionaire benefactors.
January 31, 2026 at 4:32 PM
What I’m seeing here is that Epstein is a nexus point for the “intellectual” cabal that shores up the race science justifying our current immigration and anti-DEI policies (Huberman), as well the tone policing moderates (Brooks) that hamstrings oppositions. Oh and their billionaire benefactors.
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”
![To:
Jeffrey Epsteinljeevacation@gmail.com]
From:
Christakis, Nicholas
Sent:
Thur 9/26/2013 1:56:03 AM
Subject: Re: Thanks
You are hilarious. My sense of humor. Yiddishe kop
N
Please excuse brevity and orthography and this fine print -- since this has been sent from my iPhone.
Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD
http://www.HumanNatureLab.net
On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:40 PM, "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
great first date
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Christakis, Nicholas <
wrote:
Dear Jeff
I've been on the road and in meetings literally since leaving your house [sic] yesterday
light and just got to DC. I greatly enjoyed the company and the setting (amazing of course) and the many good questions, especially yours. Josh was terrific; bu you already know that.
Best regards,
Nicholas
Please excuse brevity and orthography and this fine print -- since this has been sent from
my iPhone.
Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD
http://www.HumanNatureLab.net](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr/bafkreihuwyjpomdy6ttlfhmph5t4movya3ounuzlqkabof7f7wfm5icvly@jpeg)
![From:
Sent:
Christakis, Nicholas
Jeffrey Epstein
Sun 9/8/2013 6:22:14 PM
Subject: Re: meeting again
no back until the 21, but lets definitely schedule after
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Christakis, Nicholas
wrote:
dear jeff:
thanks for the kind words. i enjoyed meeting you; i had not known you were connected to john brockman, but i should have guessed!
as luck would have it, i am slated to be in NYC this coming thursday for a dinner and could meet before that, any time between 2 and 5, if that happened to work for you. otherwise, i could surely come back again within the coming weeks.
my lab has a number of foci at present: 1) the evolutionary biology and genetics of social networks and social interaction; 2) the experimental exploration, using online tools, of network structure and function in humans (how does network structure affect phenomena like cooperation, innovation, health, etc.); and 3) randomized controlled trials in the developing world of network 'targeting algorithms' aimed at enhancing spillover effects, so as to facilitate population-level behavior change by identifying and targeting influential people.
let me share three papers with you (one unpublished) that flesh out some of our work (specifically [1] and [2] above):
best, nicholas
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January 31, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”
Color me shocked that Nicholas Christakis is in the Epstein files 👀
January 31, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Color me shocked that Nicholas Christakis is in the Epstein files 👀
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“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”
― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
January 31, 2026 at 7:57 PM
“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”
― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
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The co-author of "How Democracies Die" thinks Trump is going further in his crackdown on the press than strongmen around the world. Via @status.news
(Almost everyone who studies these things is shocked not by what he's doing, but by how fast its moving.)
(Almost everyone who studies these things is shocked not by what he's doing, but by how fast its moving.)
January 31, 2026 at 5:25 PM
The co-author of "How Democracies Die" thinks Trump is going further in his crackdown on the press than strongmen around the world. Via @status.news
(Almost everyone who studies these things is shocked not by what he's doing, but by how fast its moving.)
(Almost everyone who studies these things is shocked not by what he's doing, but by how fast its moving.)
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These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world
Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
Doo do doo
January 31, 2026 at 5:14 PM
These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world
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real question is which prominent trump administration figures *aren't* in the epstein files?
January 31, 2026 at 4:35 PM
real question is which prominent trump administration figures *aren't* in the epstein files?
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Next time choose *not* to get played.
January 31, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Next time choose *not* to get played.
Trumps so called drawdown from Minneapolis is as fake as the Israeli “ceasefire” in Gaza (where the IDF just killed 30 more people)
Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground
January 31, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Trumps so called drawdown from Minneapolis is as fake as the Israeli “ceasefire” in Gaza (where the IDF just killed 30 more people)
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For the record, henceforth if you describe “networking” to me as a necessary professional skill, just know, in my head, I’m thinking of Jeffrey Epstein tremendous “networking” acumen. Fair warning.
January 31, 2026 at 2:58 AM
For the record, henceforth if you describe “networking” to me as a necessary professional skill, just know, in my head, I’m thinking of Jeffrey Epstein tremendous “networking” acumen. Fair warning.
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remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
January 31, 2026 at 12:23 PM
remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
Ughhhhh.
Also “The academic subsequently sought help from the dean of the Oxford Saïd Business School, Professor Soumitra Dutta, who made a sexual pass at her. An investigation into him upheld three allegations of harassment and Professor Dutta has since left the university.”
Also “The academic subsequently sought help from the dean of the Oxford Saïd Business School, Professor Soumitra Dutta, who made a sexual pass at her. An investigation into him upheld three allegations of harassment and Professor Dutta has since left the university.”
We can now name the Oxford Professor said to have raped a junior academic: Bent Flyvbjerg.
Bent Flyvbjerg is the Oxford academic said to have raped colleague | Good Law Project
Professor who is reported to have raped a junior academic still holds position at the university' Said Business School
goodlaw.social
January 31, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Ughhhhh.
Also “The academic subsequently sought help from the dean of the Oxford Saïd Business School, Professor Soumitra Dutta, who made a sexual pass at her. An investigation into him upheld three allegations of harassment and Professor Dutta has since left the university.”
Also “The academic subsequently sought help from the dean of the Oxford Saïd Business School, Professor Soumitra Dutta, who made a sexual pass at her. An investigation into him upheld three allegations of harassment and Professor Dutta has since left the university.”
The world is descending into fascism but at least the UK press consistently serves up columnists with the most amusing names
January 31, 2026 at 11:22 AM
The world is descending into fascism but at least the UK press consistently serves up columnists with the most amusing names