Dr. Ruth is still kicking against the pricks
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Antifascist prof. Political theory, postcolony, anathema, the end of days, demon sperm. Views entirely my own.
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"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.”
Hannah Arendt - "Truth and Politics"
Hannah Arendt - "Truth and Politics"
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"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
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Rather than let them escape, conservative policymakers are trying to trap women in marriage and motherhood. Because caregiving responsibilities make it harder for women to get themselves out.
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Rather than let them escape, conservative policymakers are trying to trap women in marriage and motherhood. Because caregiving responsibilities make it harder for women to get themselves out.
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Shaken to the core by Epstein’s punctuation practices
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Shaken to the core by Epstein’s punctuation practices
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My number is still making the rounds in Gaza, I cannot do the work of a group so I have to help those I know I can. I wish there was an easy way to help, but every site being antithetical to help is making me insane.
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
My number is still making the rounds in Gaza, I cannot do the work of a group so I have to help those I know I can. I wish there was an easy way to help, but every site being antithetical to help is making me insane.
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“‘This Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back”
Asawin Suebsaeng reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
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Asawin Suebsaeng reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
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‘That Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back
Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
zeteo.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“‘This Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back”
Asawin Suebsaeng reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
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Asawin Suebsaeng reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
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Please. It is ON US. 🙏
Please. It is ON US. 🙏
We have THREE days left on this week of the giving circle. Six months, six families & a camp, utterly life-sustaining help amidst direct fire, displacement, famine, medical emergencies.
All conditions that persist. Three women need urgent medical help. Let’s do it. chuffed.org/project/hope...
All conditions that persist. Three women need urgent medical help. Let’s do it. chuffed.org/project/hope...
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
PLEASE DONATE!
Please. It is ON US. 🙏
Please. It is ON US. 🙏
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We have THREE days left on this week of the giving circle. Six months, six families & a camp, utterly life-sustaining help amidst direct fire, displacement, famine, medical emergencies.
All conditions that persist. Three women need urgent medical help. Let’s do it. chuffed.org/project/hope...
All conditions that persist. Three women need urgent medical help. Let’s do it. chuffed.org/project/hope...
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
We have THREE days left on this week of the giving circle. Six months, six families & a camp, utterly life-sustaining help amidst direct fire, displacement, famine, medical emergencies.
All conditions that persist. Three women need urgent medical help. Let’s do it. chuffed.org/project/hope...
All conditions that persist. Three women need urgent medical help. Let’s do it. chuffed.org/project/hope...
PLEASE DONATE! Please.
WE are the only line between life and death. Please, give whatever you can. 🙏🙏
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And I have nothing.
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We need urgent help to survive. Please donate to support me and my family 💜🙏🤝
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And I have nothing.
No income. No food. No options.
We need urgent help to survive. Please donate to support me and my family 💜🙏🤝
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November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
PLEASE DONATE! Please.
WE are the only line between life and death. Please, give whatever you can. 🙏🙏
WE are the only line between life and death. Please, give whatever you can. 🙏🙏
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My husband is sick. My kids are starving.
And I have nothing.
No income. No food. No options.
We need urgent help to survive. Please donate to support me and my family 💜🙏🤝
tinyurl.com/4p8kmt5b
@mommunism.bsky.social
And I have nothing.
No income. No food. No options.
We need urgent help to survive. Please donate to support me and my family 💜🙏🤝
tinyurl.com/4p8kmt5b
@mommunism.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
My husband is sick. My kids are starving.
And I have nothing.
No income. No food. No options.
We need urgent help to survive. Please donate to support me and my family 💜🙏🤝
tinyurl.com/4p8kmt5b
@mommunism.bsky.social
And I have nothing.
No income. No food. No options.
We need urgent help to survive. Please donate to support me and my family 💜🙏🤝
tinyurl.com/4p8kmt5b
@mommunism.bsky.social
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“cops dressed head to toe in camo like full kit wankers”
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“cops dressed head to toe in camo like full kit wankers”
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Aaron Goggans and I talk about what happens when movements start running on empty—how trauma, burnout, and dysregulation can shape our organizing, and what it takes to sustain ourselves and each other in a moment of crisis and emergency. I found this conversation so helpful, and I hope you will too.
Burnout Is Not Inevitable: Building Movements That Can Hold Us
“Care really should be at the center of our strategy, of our analysis, and of our practice,” says Aaron Goggans.
truthout.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Aaron Goggans and I talk about what happens when movements start running on empty—how trauma, burnout, and dysregulation can shape our organizing, and what it takes to sustain ourselves and each other in a moment of crisis and emergency. I found this conversation so helpful, and I hope you will too.
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Don’t. Fucking. Go. To. Starbucks.
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Don’t. Fucking. Go. To. Starbucks.
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Frankly, we should all be doing this.
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Frankly, we should all be doing this.
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thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
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In his bid for the White House, JD Vance is courting the anti-semitic, fascist Groypers.
Groypers at the Gates: The Catholic Fascist Turn in the MAGA Right
Nick Fuentes’s Groyper movement — rooted in reactionary Catholicism — is fracturing conservatives and igniting an civil war over Israel, race, and religion. The GOP only has themselves to blame.
substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
In his bid for the White House, JD Vance is courting the anti-semitic, fascist Groypers.
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I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
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Hands injured, offline + please share
We made a commitment to help SIX families & a camp with dependable, weekly support for food/shelter. You’ve done it for half a year, most recently helping with emergency healthcare.
Join in—click “weekly” on a coffee
We made a commitment to help SIX families & a camp with dependable, weekly support for food/shelter. You’ve done it for half a year, most recently helping with emergency healthcare.
Join in—click “weekly” on a coffee
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
chuffed.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Hands injured, offline + please share
We made a commitment to help SIX families & a camp with dependable, weekly support for food/shelter. You’ve done it for half a year, most recently helping with emergency healthcare.
Join in—click “weekly” on a coffee
We made a commitment to help SIX families & a camp with dependable, weekly support for food/shelter. You’ve done it for half a year, most recently helping with emergency healthcare.
Join in—click “weekly” on a coffee
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Divya is doing so much even while under so much pressure herself, you can share, you can donate even a $1 chained up with friends.
Hands injured, offline + please share
We made a commitment to help SIX families & a camp with dependable, weekly support for food/shelter. You’ve done it for half a year, most recently helping with emergency healthcare.
Join in—click “weekly” on a coffee
We made a commitment to help SIX families & a camp with dependable, weekly support for food/shelter. You’ve done it for half a year, most recently helping with emergency healthcare.
Join in—click “weekly” on a coffee
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
chuffed.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Divya is doing so much even while under so much pressure herself, you can share, you can donate even a $1 chained up with friends.
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Here's a thread from a while back illustrating a dynamic that historian Jefferson Cowie has called "racialized anti-statism." The anti-statist feelings are very real...but the "principles" they rest upon are illiberal in that they are not universally applied to all. bsky.app/profile/seth...
As almost every self-described American "conservative" watches on blithely as Musk's DOGE team Hoovers up tons of private data about every US citizen with which they will do God knows what, a flashback to this "conservative" pamphlet from 1963 is instructive. Conservatives hate big brother, right?
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Here's a thread from a while back illustrating a dynamic that historian Jefferson Cowie has called "racialized anti-statism." The anti-statist feelings are very real...but the "principles" they rest upon are illiberal in that they are not universally applied to all. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Normal person in a liberal constitutional democracy: "The state should be judicious in how it uses physical force and these actions seem like overreaches."
MAGA: "Any state actions that constrain MY behavior or the behavior of people like me is tyranny, but it can do whatever it wants to THEM."
MAGA: "Any state actions that constrain MY behavior or the behavior of people like me is tyranny, but it can do whatever it wants to THEM."
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Normal person in a liberal constitutional democracy: "The state should be judicious in how it uses physical force and these actions seem like overreaches."
MAGA: "Any state actions that constrain MY behavior or the behavior of people like me is tyranny, but it can do whatever it wants to THEM."
MAGA: "Any state actions that constrain MY behavior or the behavior of people like me is tyranny, but it can do whatever it wants to THEM."
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If the Biden administration had sent federal agents to do a law enforcement operation 10X milder in a white suburban neighborhood in order to apprehend a serial pedophile and violent domestic abuser who happened to be a white Christian pastor, the MAGA crew would have reduced the country to rubble.
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If the Biden administration had sent federal agents to do a law enforcement operation 10X milder in a white suburban neighborhood in order to apprehend a serial pedophile and violent domestic abuser who happened to be a white Christian pastor, the MAGA crew would have reduced the country to rubble.
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At the same time the New York Times was running nonstop stories on Hillary's email server, they were sitting on this emails (and photos of Trump with Epstein victims, apparently).
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
At the same time the New York Times was running nonstop stories on Hillary's email server, they were sitting on this emails (and photos of Trump with Epstein victims, apparently).
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Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
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... their high human capital wing (their political staff, legal workers, industry elites), such as it is, seems to crucially rely on recruiting from bitter losers who have adopted hateful yet pathetic self serving delusions to cover for their failure to achieve success in an expanded meritocracy...
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 AM
... their high human capital wing (their political staff, legal workers, industry elites), such as it is, seems to crucially rely on recruiting from bitter losers who have adopted hateful yet pathetic self serving delusions to cover for their failure to achieve success in an expanded meritocracy...