Mark Dery
@markdery.bsky.social
Cultural critic. Author. Coined "Afrofuturism." Theorized "culture jamming." Antifascist AF. Editor/writing coach for hire: https://coaching.markdery.com/. Read me: https://www.markdery.com/articles/
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Historical revisionism about COVID-19 and the public health response is now mainstream. The next pandemic will likely be even harder to manage due to a relentless propaganda campaign to weaken public support for masking, vaccines, social distancing, etc.
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Historical revisionism about COVID-19 and the public health response is now mainstream. The next pandemic will likely be even harder to manage due to a relentless propaganda campaign to weaken public support for masking, vaccines, social distancing, etc.
Utterly devastated to hear Ashley Crawford—cultural critic, arts writer, and founding editor of the hugely influential 1990’s cyberculture magazine 21.C and boundary-shattering World Art—died. He published my edgiest essays of the '90's and was a dear friend. Can't believe he's gone. #ashleycrawford
December 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Utterly devastated to hear Ashley Crawford—cultural critic, arts writer, and founding editor of the hugely influential 1990’s cyberculture magazine 21.C and boundary-shattering World Art—died. He published my edgiest essays of the '90's and was a dear friend. Can't believe he's gone. #ashleycrawford
@mmifflin.bsky.social on "Marriage and the Maiden Name": daily.jstor.org/marriage-and...
“A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.”
“A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.”
Marriage and the Maiden Name - JSTOR Daily
While many women trade surnames they had at birth for their husbands’, some hold on tightly to the former, a tradition famously established by Lucy Stone.
daily.jstor.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
@mmifflin.bsky.social on "Marriage and the Maiden Name": daily.jstor.org/marriage-and...
“A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.”
“A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.”
DECK THE HALLS WITH DEADLY NIGHTSHADE: My Edward Gorey bio is the perfect blunt object for bludgeoning trolls, brainless critics, & that odious relative in the red hat. Buy one to read and another to drop, from a lethal height, on pestiferous carolers. www.markdery.com/books/born-t... #EdwardGorey
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Genius and Mysterious Life of Edward Gorey
The writer and illustrator Edward Gorey, who died in 2000 at 75, was the unequaled master of gothic whimsy, camp-macabre melodrama, and morbid nonsense. His obsessively crosshatched, amusingly lugubri...
www.markdery.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
DECK THE HALLS WITH DEADLY NIGHTSHADE: My Edward Gorey bio is the perfect blunt object for bludgeoning trolls, brainless critics, & that odious relative in the red hat. Buy one to read and another to drop, from a lethal height, on pestiferous carolers. www.markdery.com/books/born-t... #EdwardGorey
They left out the eat-the-rich hardhat sawing off the beam these parasitic capitalist xenomorphs are sitting on. Class war now.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
They left out the eat-the-rich hardhat sawing off the beam these parasitic capitalist xenomorphs are sitting on. Class war now.
And being a "good Catholic" doesn't make you a good person. Can we consign to Dr. Evil's incinerator chute the Dark Ages fiction that god-bothering makes you a better human being? Religiosity doesn't remotely equate to ethical behavior. Ask a survivor of Catholic-priest abuse.
Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.
December 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
And being a "good Catholic" doesn't make you a good person. Can we consign to Dr. Evil's incinerator chute the Dark Ages fiction that god-bothering makes you a better human being? Religiosity doesn't remotely equate to ethical behavior. Ask a survivor of Catholic-priest abuse.
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What could go wrong?
December 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
What could go wrong?
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The assault on vaccines gets real.
Children's Health Defense, founded by Kennedy filed a citizen's petition asking Marty Makary to deem Moderna & Pfizer COVID vaccines "misbranded" & revoke their licenses "due to a lack of compliance with FDA regulations."
#SacktheQuack
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Children's Health Defense, founded by Kennedy filed a citizen's petition asking Marty Makary to deem Moderna & Pfizer COVID vaccines "misbranded" & revoke their licenses "due to a lack of compliance with FDA regulations."
#SacktheQuack
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This RFK Jr.-founded group demands the FDA kill the COVID vaccine
An anti-vaccine organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a petition to remove the shots from the market.
www.axios.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The assault on vaccines gets real.
Children's Health Defense, founded by Kennedy filed a citizen's petition asking Marty Makary to deem Moderna & Pfizer COVID vaccines "misbranded" & revoke their licenses "due to a lack of compliance with FDA regulations."
#SacktheQuack
🧪 archive.today/3CSVr
Children's Health Defense, founded by Kennedy filed a citizen's petition asking Marty Makary to deem Moderna & Pfizer COVID vaccines "misbranded" & revoke their licenses "due to a lack of compliance with FDA regulations."
#SacktheQuack
🧪 archive.today/3CSVr
"Enigmatic, allusive, silly, somber, haunted by 'the miseries of childhood'”: My review of a new coffee-table tome on Edward Gorey (whom I biographized: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/mark-...) is live @washingtonpost.com:
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1... #EdwardGorey #Gorey
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1... #EdwardGorey #Gorey
Review | A centennial look back at Edward Gorey’s macabre art and guarded life
In “E Is for Edward,” a sumptuously illustrated coffee table book, Gregory Hischak wears his extensive knowledge lightly
www.washingtonpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"Enigmatic, allusive, silly, somber, haunted by 'the miseries of childhood'”: My review of a new coffee-table tome on Edward Gorey (whom I biographized: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/mark-...) is live @washingtonpost.com:
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1... #EdwardGorey #Gorey
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1... #EdwardGorey #Gorey
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HUGE. Judge Xinis grants the writ of habeas corpus and orders that the government "SHALL release [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately."
December 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
HUGE. Judge Xinis grants the writ of habeas corpus and orders that the government "SHALL release [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately."
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Porn is being injected into dozens of government websites across the country using malicious PDFs. A separate attack is hijacking govt websites to redirect to penis enlargement scams and animal vagina masturbators. Cool stuff:
www.404media.co/porn-is-bein...
www.404media.co/porn-is-bein...
Porn Is Being Injected Into Government Websites Via Malicious PDFs
Dozens of government websites have fallen victim to a PDF-based SEO scam, while others have been hijacked to sell sex toys.
www.404media.co
December 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Porn is being injected into dozens of government websites across the country using malicious PDFs. A separate attack is hijacking govt websites to redirect to penis enlargement scams and animal vagina masturbators. Cool stuff:
www.404media.co/porn-is-bein...
www.404media.co/porn-is-bein...
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"The executive board of antifa." This would be hilarious if these maniacs didn't have police power.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"The executive board of antifa." This would be hilarious if these maniacs didn't have police power.
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Imagine how many amazing authors-to-be will never get their books published because so much money was spent on this talent-free asshole
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Imagine how many amazing authors-to-be will never get their books published because so much money was spent on this talent-free asshole
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SCOOP: The Trump administration may revoke the visas of critics of Elon Musk's Twitter.
The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
SCOOP: Trump Admin Is Preparing to Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter
Trump officials are considering revoking the visas of former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
zeteo.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration may revoke the visas of critics of Elon Musk's Twitter.
The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
The move would mark one of the admin's first attempts to revoke the visas of people they deem to be engaging in the “censorship” of Americans.
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NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
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Judge Paula Xinis on the government’s conduct in the Abrego Garcia litigation:
“Respondents did not just stonewall. They affirmatively misled the tribunal.”
“Respondents did not just stonewall. They affirmatively misled the tribunal.”
December 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Judge Paula Xinis on the government’s conduct in the Abrego Garcia litigation:
“Respondents did not just stonewall. They affirmatively misled the tribunal.”
“Respondents did not just stonewall. They affirmatively misled the tribunal.”
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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When Pete Hegseth spoke to reporters about National Guard members shot in DC, he said: “I mentioned the faith of this country, the Christian faith.”
Hegseth's ties to white Christian Nationalism are alarming and dangerous.
religiondispatches.org/not-a-single...
Hegseth's ties to white Christian Nationalism are alarming and dangerous.
religiondispatches.org/not-a-single...
Not a Single Senator Probed the Most Dangerous Part of Pete Hegseth's Background: His Ties to White Christian Nationalism
It’s hard to find strong enough adjectives to describe the unmitigated disaster the senate hearing on Pete Hegseth truly was. Even the few Republicans who had expressed previous concerns about his nom...
religiondispatches.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
When Pete Hegseth spoke to reporters about National Guard members shot in DC, he said: “I mentioned the faith of this country, the Christian faith.”
Hegseth's ties to white Christian Nationalism are alarming and dangerous.
religiondispatches.org/not-a-single...
Hegseth's ties to white Christian Nationalism are alarming and dangerous.
religiondispatches.org/not-a-single...
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U.S. Southern Command X account for Latin America/Caribbean pictures a Jerusalem Cross - but no American flag - on this image.
The Trump administration is following Project 2025 blueprint for Christian nationalist regime change, unchecked by the two other branches of government.
The Trump administration is following Project 2025 blueprint for Christian nationalist regime change, unchecked by the two other branches of government.
December 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
U.S. Southern Command X account for Latin America/Caribbean pictures a Jerusalem Cross - but no American flag - on this image.
The Trump administration is following Project 2025 blueprint for Christian nationalist regime change, unchecked by the two other branches of government.
The Trump administration is following Project 2025 blueprint for Christian nationalist regime change, unchecked by the two other branches of government.
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In other words, Americans should be ashamed that a migration flow so pathetically small compared to a population of over 300 million is being used to trick them into collaborating with the destruction of their own democratic norms and institutions
The story (www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...) also lets people believe a million immigrants is a lot. It's not. In 2023 there were 32 million immigrants here who arrived in the last 26 years -- well over a million a year. A healthy level of immigration is probably higher than that.
December 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In other words, Americans should be ashamed that a migration flow so pathetically small compared to a population of over 300 million is being used to trick them into collaborating with the destruction of their own democratic norms and institutions
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ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
November 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
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Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
November 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
Your Daily Negation (with apologies to Laplace).
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Your Daily Negation (with apologies to Laplace).