Louis Römer
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Louis Römer
@lromeranth.bsky.social
· Sep 15
How did "free speech" become a cudgel to silence dissent? My latest in @bostonreview.bsky.social
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Also, a good chunk of their content is screenshotting Black people for their own little five minute hate session…
I suspect this has a lot to do with racists realizing that it will be more complicated to attack black folks as this has been implemented. Something similar happened with Nazis on Mastodon. The thought of being defederated and not having access to what their victims said was unbearable for them
February 8, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Also, a good chunk of their content is screenshotting Black people for their own little five minute hate session…
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The way this clashes with undiagnosed neurodivergence is interesting cos I was always been ‘very clever’ but a serial lazy underperformer until undergrad, where I learned how to study and until my masters was done an obsessive competitive nightmare.
I think a reasonably frequent experience for junior academics is a life wherein they were the smartest person in the room in most rooms they were in (even some pretty fancy rooms) up until The Great Filtration suddenly puts them among a bunch of other people with the same life experience.
February 8, 2026 at 10:24 AM
The way this clashes with undiagnosed neurodivergence is interesting cos I was always been ‘very clever’ but a serial lazy underperformer until undergrad, where I learned how to study and until my masters was done an obsessive competitive nightmare.
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February 7, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Congressional Democrats tried to ban gerrymandering nationwide with bills in 2019 and 2021.
Rob Wittman and every other Republican voted against them to defeat that ban
Rob Wittman and every other Republican voted against them to defeat that ban
February 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Congressional Democrats tried to ban gerrymandering nationwide with bills in 2019 and 2021.
Rob Wittman and every other Republican voted against them to defeat that ban
Rob Wittman and every other Republican voted against them to defeat that ban
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Just hire all the laid off reporters. Call it the Washington Citizen or something. Doesn’t seem that hard.
Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal.
@passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...
@passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Just hire all the laid off reporters. Call it the Washington Citizen or something. Doesn’t seem that hard.
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GOP cancel culture is fully unhinged.
February 6, 2026 at 4:50 AM
GOP cancel culture is fully unhinged.
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The idea that you could uproot one kind of racism while failing to address other racism sis a forlorn strategy empirically as well as empty morally
Forms of hatred stem from related motivations, histories, ideas & must all be tackled, to be replaced with a positive universal case for humanity
Forms of hatred stem from related motivations, histories, ideas & must all be tackled, to be replaced with a positive universal case for humanity
February 6, 2026 at 11:25 AM
The idea that you could uproot one kind of racism while failing to address other racism sis a forlorn strategy empirically as well as empty morally
Forms of hatred stem from related motivations, histories, ideas & must all be tackled, to be replaced with a positive universal case for humanity
Forms of hatred stem from related motivations, histories, ideas & must all be tackled, to be replaced with a positive universal case for humanity
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Their problem is they cannot have the validation they seek without performative fascist violence they can enjoy from the safety of screens, but their actual policy goals would be better served by more subtle applications of power.
February 4, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Their problem is they cannot have the validation they seek without performative fascist violence they can enjoy from the safety of screens, but their actual policy goals would be better served by more subtle applications of power.
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These vulgar gestures of power invite defiance. No one wants to be your fucking slaves. All you are doing is hardening your opposition.
February 4, 2026 at 10:01 PM
These vulgar gestures of power invite defiance. No one wants to be your fucking slaves. All you are doing is hardening your opposition.
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I think some people may have thought i was exaggerating the extremely gendered maga perceptions of liberal weakness. I offer this as a rebuttal. bsky.app/profile/radl...
This Claremont twit is so fearful of “wine moms” with cell phones and whistles that he’s demanding Trump crush them with violence.
Or rather, more violence.
Or rather, more violence.
February 4, 2026 at 9:59 PM
I think some people may have thought i was exaggerating the extremely gendered maga perceptions of liberal weakness. I offer this as a rebuttal. bsky.app/profile/radl...
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Three thoughts.
1. It’s always been about the white nationalism
2. He is returning to the old favorites because his support is waning
3. He dabbled with this trope before but would always leave a hair of deniability. Going straight there also seems like a sign of weakness
1. It’s always been about the white nationalism
2. He is returning to the old favorites because his support is waning
3. He dabbled with this trope before but would always leave a hair of deniability. Going straight there also seems like a sign of weakness
February 6, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Three thoughts.
1. It’s always been about the white nationalism
2. He is returning to the old favorites because his support is waning
3. He dabbled with this trope before but would always leave a hair of deniability. Going straight there also seems like a sign of weakness
1. It’s always been about the white nationalism
2. He is returning to the old favorites because his support is waning
3. He dabbled with this trope before but would always leave a hair of deniability. Going straight there also seems like a sign of weakness
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Cowardly and racist is an amazing combination. We all know that wasn't a staffer and that he meant that shit. bsky.app/profile/leba...
POLITICO reporting that the White House has now claimed the ape video was an accident and removed it.
February 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Cowardly and racist is an amazing combination. We all know that wasn't a staffer and that he meant that shit. bsky.app/profile/leba...
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They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 2:51 AM
They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
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I sincerely hope that JD Vance gets this reaction every single place he goes.
Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.
February 6, 2026 at 9:34 PM
I sincerely hope that JD Vance gets this reaction every single place he goes.
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Not to discount the racial aspect, but 2008 was also the most significant and decisive ass whooping Democrats delivered since 1964. Obama won more of the popular vote than Clinton. Note also that the GOP freaked out when Clinton won. I was seeing "Impeach Clinton" bumper stickers in Dec 1992.
fwiw, I think the massive fascist backlash isn't exactly about a Black president so much as it's about the rise of a coalition that could elect a Black president. 1
February 6, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Not to discount the racial aspect, but 2008 was also the most significant and decisive ass whooping Democrats delivered since 1964. Obama won more of the popular vote than Clinton. Note also that the GOP freaked out when Clinton won. I was seeing "Impeach Clinton" bumper stickers in Dec 1992.
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I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
www.theverge.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
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in the elite circles of the US, racism is treated less as a matter of social stratification with direct implications for political stakes and more as a matter of moral etiquette. it is even more notable, then, that this administration can't constrain themselves to the meager associated standards
POLITICO reporting that the White House has now claimed the ape video was an accident and removed it.
February 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
in the elite circles of the US, racism is treated less as a matter of social stratification with direct implications for political stakes and more as a matter of moral etiquette. it is even more notable, then, that this administration can't constrain themselves to the meager associated standards
You heard it here first, the Spanish aristocrats who despised Columbus were part of the “woke mob”
Do you think this is the first time Bartolome de las Casas has been labeled part of the "woke mob"?
February 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
You heard it here first, the Spanish aristocrats who despised Columbus were part of the “woke mob”
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Do you think this is the first time Bartolome de las Casas has been labeled part of the "woke mob"?
February 6, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Do you think this is the first time Bartolome de las Casas has been labeled part of the "woke mob"?
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They are a right-wing organization that undermines democracy. They have zero tolerance for any diversity of thought from their line, and pressure elected officials to increasingly-
February 6, 2026 at 2:52 PM
They are a right-wing organization that undermines democracy. They have zero tolerance for any diversity of thought from their line, and pressure elected officials to increasingly-
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It’s kind of great to me that leftists are like okay fine, let Spanberger cook and centrists are deciding to make common cause with Zohran. Good things are possible.
February 6, 2026 at 1:49 AM
It’s kind of great to me that leftists are like okay fine, let Spanberger cook and centrists are deciding to make common cause with Zohran. Good things are possible.
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VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.
February 6, 2026 at 6:40 PM
VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.
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I guess thats me being a whiny fuck because Ive read them but dont get how criticizing generative AI is "reenacting colonizer shit"
February 6, 2026 at 7:25 PM
I guess thats me being a whiny fuck because Ive read them but dont get how criticizing generative AI is "reenacting colonizer shit"
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Technology that doesn't work is a desired feature to the surveillance state, not a bug. When everyone is a "maybe" match, then probably cause can be manufactured to justify whatever it is one wanted to do in the first place. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Technology that doesn't work is a desired feature to the surveillance state, not a bug. When everyone is a "maybe" match, then probably cause can be manufactured to justify whatever it is one wanted to do in the first place. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...