Michael Truscello🏴
@mtruscello.bsky.social
anarchist, prof. He/him. Work on Treaty 7 territory, Hellberta. www.michaeltruscello.com #horror #anarchism
Free PDF of my book, Infrastructural Brutalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/4884/Infrastructural-BrutalismArt-and-the-Necropolitics
Free PDF of my book, Infrastructural Brutalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/4884/Infrastructural-BrutalismArt-and-the-Necropolitics
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I have a chapter in this forthcoming book, Horror and Indigeneity. The Table of Contents and purchasing information are available at the University of Texas Press: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477334157/
Pour shame all over us, harden into a crust (cement)
Forget the glamor and mumble a jackhammer (under your breath)
Hide your face in the curtains
Better unsaid, so close
And it rolls off the tongue, almost
Forget the glamor and mumble a jackhammer (under your breath)
Hide your face in the curtains
Better unsaid, so close
And it rolls off the tongue, almost
What’s the best song lyric in history?
February 17, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Pour shame all over us, harden into a crust (cement)
Forget the glamor and mumble a jackhammer (under your breath)
Hide your face in the curtains
Better unsaid, so close
And it rolls off the tongue, almost
Forget the glamor and mumble a jackhammer (under your breath)
Hide your face in the curtains
Better unsaid, so close
And it rolls off the tongue, almost
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"[F]or the trans community at Brown, the agreement sends a clear message."
"Shirazi feels neither supported nor protected by her university."
"I'm always focusing on what rights I'm gonna lose today."
#RhodeIsland #USA #Education #Sports #Bathrooms #Housing #Healthcare
"Shirazi feels neither supported nor protected by her university."
"I'm always focusing on what rights I'm gonna lose today."
#RhodeIsland #USA #Education #Sports #Bathrooms #Housing #Healthcare
Brown University Sold Out on Trans Rights To Restore Federal Funding
Brown University, historically a very queer institution, capitulated when it came to transgender rights, cracking down on trans care and barring trans students from sports and key facilities.
transnews.network
February 17, 2026 at 4:34 AM
"[F]or the trans community at Brown, the agreement sends a clear message."
"Shirazi feels neither supported nor protected by her university."
"I'm always focusing on what rights I'm gonna lose today."
#RhodeIsland #USA #Education #Sports #Bathrooms #Housing #Healthcare
"Shirazi feels neither supported nor protected by her university."
"I'm always focusing on what rights I'm gonna lose today."
#RhodeIsland #USA #Education #Sports #Bathrooms #Housing #Healthcare
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Pol Pot killed 3 million people. Vought and Musk have him beat three times over.
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
www.cnn.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Pol Pot killed 3 million people. Vought and Musk have him beat three times over.
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Muhammad Dhaban died in Gaza today after an 8-month battle w/ Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a rare & life-threatening condition that requires intensive specialist care.
That care is unavailable because Israel’s military campaign has systematically devastated Gaza’s health system. Hospitals have been...
That care is unavailable because Israel’s military campaign has systematically devastated Gaza’s health system. Hospitals have been...
February 16, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Muhammad Dhaban died in Gaza today after an 8-month battle w/ Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a rare & life-threatening condition that requires intensive specialist care.
That care is unavailable because Israel’s military campaign has systematically devastated Gaza’s health system. Hospitals have been...
That care is unavailable because Israel’s military campaign has systematically devastated Gaza’s health system. Hospitals have been...
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Maryland - 'If you fired him, you'd be a target': Ex-police chief sets fire to more than a dozen homes, properties of people he believed slighted him, including his own stepson lawandcrime.com/crime/if-you...
Ex-cop sets fire to more than a dozen homes, properties of people he believed slighted him
A 74-year-old former police chief in Maryland was sentenced to decades behind bars for setting fire to more than a dozen homes and properties of his perceived enemies, including his own stepson.
lawandcrime.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Maryland - 'If you fired him, you'd be a target': Ex-police chief sets fire to more than a dozen homes, properties of people he believed slighted him, including his own stepson lawandcrime.com/crime/if-you...
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It’s horrible everyday! Every other country is getting rid of their big shot government people. Why aren’t we ???
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
It’s horrible everyday! Every other country is getting rid of their big shot government people. Why aren’t we ???
"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence..."
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:34 AM
"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence..."
"Others in the Edge circle, including Charles Murray and Robert Kurzban, have long hammered away at what they consider universal constants: the inferiority of Black minds and the predisposition of men to violence and rape."
"the illiterate child rapist and passionate eugenicist who bankrolled the whole thing. Jeffrey Epstein."
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 10:09 PM
"Others in the Edge circle, including Charles Murray and Robert Kurzban, have long hammered away at what they consider universal constants: the inferiority of Black minds and the predisposition of men to violence and rape."
"As for Trivers, his name appears in the Epstein files as part of an FBI report alleging that he sexually abused a 15-year-old girl in late 2019. (On the Edge site, Steven Pinker, a zealous Edge member, called Trivers “one of the great thinkers in the history of Western thought”.)"
"the illiterate child rapist and passionate eugenicist who bankrolled the whole thing. Jeffrey Epstein."
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 10:09 PM
"As for Trivers, his name appears in the Epstein files as part of an FBI report alleging that he sexually abused a 15-year-old girl in late 2019. (On the Edge site, Steven Pinker, a zealous Edge member, called Trivers “one of the great thinkers in the history of Western thought”.)"
"In an email in the recently released Epstein files, Nowak, whose Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) at Harvard was founded with $6.5m from the child rapist, is asked “Did you torture her?” by Epstein. It’s not clear what Epstein is referring to."
"the illiterate child rapist and passionate eugenicist who bankrolled the whole thing. Jeffrey Epstein."
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
"In an email in the recently released Epstein files, Nowak, whose Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) at Harvard was founded with $6.5m from the child rapist, is asked “Did you torture her?” by Epstein. It’s not clear what Epstein is referring to."
"The men of prestige and ambition that Epstein especially liked to sugar-daddy at Edge were figures with a hand in the grim sophistry of evolutionary psychology. Among these were Edge darlings Martin Nowak, a “mathematical biologist”, and evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers."
"the illiterate child rapist and passionate eugenicist who bankrolled the whole thing. Jeffrey Epstein."
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
"The men of prestige and ambition that Epstein especially liked to sugar-daddy at Edge were figures with a hand in the grim sophistry of evolutionary psychology. Among these were Edge darlings Martin Nowak, a “mathematical biologist”, and evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers."
"the illiterate child rapist and passionate eugenicist who bankrolled the whole thing. Jeffrey Epstein."
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 9:54 PM
"the illiterate child rapist and passionate eugenicist who bankrolled the whole thing. Jeffrey Epstein."
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The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more cases, known as habeas petitions, filed in federal court in the last year than under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.
➡️ Read more (with @texastribune.org): https://propub.li/4tDklgE
➡️ Read more (with @texastribune.org): https://propub.li/4tDklgE
February 14, 2026 at 10:00 PM
The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more cases, known as habeas petitions, filed in federal court in the last year than under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.
➡️ Read more (with @texastribune.org): https://propub.li/4tDklgE
➡️ Read more (with @texastribune.org): https://propub.li/4tDklgE
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12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water.
“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.
By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.
By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 15, 2026 at 4:00 AM
12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water.
“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.
By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.
By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
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All our institutions are corrupt, and swapping out a few people at the top will change nothing. There will always be more Epsteins as long as money can still buy people.
February 14, 2026 at 6:07 PM
All our institutions are corrupt, and swapping out a few people at the top will change nothing. There will always be more Epsteins as long as money can still buy people.
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Greenhouse gas concentrations keep rising. The planet keeps warming in response. And that added heat shows up in the extremes and impacts. This is really basic stuff.
Data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
Data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
February 14, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Greenhouse gas concentrations keep rising. The planet keeps warming in response. And that added heat shows up in the extremes and impacts. This is really basic stuff.
Data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
Data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
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Thousands of Western nationals serve in Israel’s army amid Gaza genocide - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/thousands-foreign-national-soldiers-serve-israels-army-amid-gaza-genocide
Thousands of western nationals serve in Israel’s army amid Gaza genocide: Report
Data reveals the extensive role of dual-citizenship soldiers in Israel’s war on Gaza and apartheid in the occupied West Bank
www.middleeasteye.net
February 14, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Thousands of Western nationals serve in Israel’s army amid Gaza genocide - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/thousands-foreign-national-soldiers-serve-israels-army-amid-gaza-genocide
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The enormous power of the Indian working-class can be seen in this nationwide action.
peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/12/3...
peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/12/3...
300 million on the streets in a historic national strike in India : Peoples Dispatch
The strike was called jointly by the worker unions and farmers groups to demand the withdrawal of the anti-people policies, such as the four new labor codes and the recently signed trade deals with th...
peoplesdispatch.org
February 14, 2026 at 1:51 PM
The enormous power of the Indian working-class can be seen in this nationwide action.
peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/12/3...
peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/12/3...
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Shooting dozens of rounds of tear gas and using pepper spray and their batons, the SPVM violently pushed back more than a thousand people who showed up this afternoon to send a message to GardaWorld over their contracts with ICE at their offices and training center in Ville Saint-Laurent. (thread)
February 14, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Shooting dozens of rounds of tear gas and using pepper spray and their batons, the SPVM violently pushed back more than a thousand people who showed up this afternoon to send a message to GardaWorld over their contracts with ICE at their offices and training center in Ville Saint-Laurent. (thread)
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Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
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Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp
February 13, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp
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Supporting Gavin Newsom in the primary is announcing that you'll step over the dead bodies of trans people and unhoused people to get what you personally want. It's a character defect. We can't be friends.
February 13, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Supporting Gavin Newsom in the primary is announcing that you'll step over the dead bodies of trans people and unhoused people to get what you personally want. It's a character defect. We can't be friends.
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With one now-deleted video, Virginia Johnson, CEO of Anytime Author Events, appears to have set off a furious reaction among romance readers and authors - which is almost impressive considering the number of events that are potentially involved.
Folks are Dropping Getting Witchy With It After Organizer Posts Video about Minneapolis - Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
smartbitchestrashybooks.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:29 PM
With one now-deleted video, Virginia Johnson, CEO of Anytime Author Events, appears to have set off a furious reaction among romance readers and authors - which is almost impressive considering the number of events that are potentially involved.