Cameron Sparkles, PhD (but, like, festive)
@allegedlycam.bsky.social
Historian of science and religion in a previous life. Author @Palgrave. Views mine. He/Him. Orange belt in Karate (2002). I'm big in Japan.
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This remains one of the most disturbing stories of the year. A 1st trimester fetus incubated in a dead woman's body against the will of her family until a very early term birth when the corpse could no longer sustain life.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
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Baby boy born to brain-dead Georgia mother remains hospitalized nearly 6 months later, family says
Adriana Smith's pregnancy made national headlines when she was declared brain dead but placed on life support to let her fetus grow. Now her family is sharing an update on the condition of her infant ...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This remains one of the most disturbing stories of the year. A 1st trimester fetus incubated in a dead woman's body against the will of her family until a very early term birth when the corpse could no longer sustain life.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
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So, about my theory of fascism as a form of unwelcome agonistic play that often takes the form of a bloodsport
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
So, about my theory of fascism as a form of unwelcome agonistic play that often takes the form of a bloodsport
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It's like all these RW edgelords' cultural touchstones are just bullshit slop-summaries that grok spits out. They never do the actual reading.
DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
It's like all these RW edgelords' cultural touchstones are just bullshit slop-summaries that grok spits out. They never do the actual reading.
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hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
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The Supreme Court paved the way for a felon to return to the presidency — where, behind the shield of office, that felon has ordered a string of murders.
The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
December 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The Supreme Court paved the way for a felon to return to the presidency — where, behind the shield of office, that felon has ordered a string of murders.
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"More than 80 percent of the immigrants arrested in D.C. during the surge in federal law enforcement this year had no prior criminal record"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Most immigrants arrested in Trump’s D.C. crackdown had no criminal records
A Post analysis of federal data shows that the arrests of immigrants with no prior criminal record shot up sixfold during the Trump administration’s crackdown.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
"More than 80 percent of the immigrants arrested in D.C. during the surge in federal law enforcement this year had no prior criminal record"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Reconstruction 2 is going to require a level of seizing assets that I am very comfortable with but you may still need to work through
New: “Eric Trump Has Gotten 10 Times Richer Since Dad’s Election”
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
Here’s How Much Eric Trump Is Worth
Crypto took the real estate heir’s fortune and supersized it, briefly making the president’s second-oldest son a billionaire in early September.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Reconstruction 2 is going to require a level of seizing assets that I am very comfortable with but you may still need to work through
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BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
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Make it make sense
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Make it make sense
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So what you are just going to give us stupid commentary on it?
Maybe do something useful with our taxpayer money.
Maybe do something useful with our taxpayer money.
This is where we are now. Families are starving in the wealthiest nation in the world.
Meanwhile the president is intentionally trying to cut off food for hungry people who live in states that did not vote for him.
It's not just immoral — it's un-American.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Meanwhile the president is intentionally trying to cut off food for hungry people who live in states that did not vote for him.
It's not just immoral — it's un-American.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Agriculture Dept. Threatens to Withhold Food Stamps From Democratic States
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
So what you are just going to give us stupid commentary on it?
Maybe do something useful with our taxpayer money.
Maybe do something useful with our taxpayer money.
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Five years after Meta's Oversight Board its first five cases, it's clear that its ambitions to become Facebook's Supreme Court have failed. I talked to insiders about where it goes next: www.platformer.news/meta-oversig...
December 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Five years after Meta's Oversight Board its first five cases, it's clear that its ambitions to become Facebook's Supreme Court have failed. I talked to insiders about where it goes next: www.platformer.news/meta-oversig...
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A decomposing president who is easily fooled and is only running on his cruel and self-serving instincts is the ideal puppet of the wealth and oligarchical classes interested in dismantling government and requiring widespread oppression to continue hoarding resources.
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
A decomposing president who is easily fooled and is only running on his cruel and self-serving instincts is the ideal puppet of the wealth and oligarchical classes interested in dismantling government and requiring widespread oppression to continue hoarding resources.
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From THEY KNEW:
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
From THEY KNEW:
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In an unusually far-reaching move, the University of Alabama suspended two student-run magazines, about fashion and Black culture, citing DOJ guidance about "unlawful discrimination.” https://chroni.cl/4prl8yw
A University Shuts Down 2 Campus Magazines Because They Might Look Like DEI
The suspensions are the latest in cuts to programs that would seem to support minority students. Experts say the moves violate the First Amendment.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
In an unusually far-reaching move, the University of Alabama suspended two student-run magazines, about fashion and Black culture, citing DOJ guidance about "unlawful discrimination.” https://chroni.cl/4prl8yw
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As @pastpunditry.bsky.social has argued, since the 1970s the GOP has gradually morphed into an unabashedly propagandistic, plutocrat funded, right wing media operation with an increasingly vestigial part of their mission that involves being a political party. www.niskanencenter.org/how-conserva...
How conservative revolutionaries in the 1990s paved the way for Trump’s populist politics, with Nicole Hemmer - Niskanen Center
The template for today's populist conservatism was created in the 1990s.
www.niskanencenter.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
As @pastpunditry.bsky.social has argued, since the 1970s the GOP has gradually morphed into an unabashedly propagandistic, plutocrat funded, right wing media operation with an increasingly vestigial part of their mission that involves being a political party. www.niskanencenter.org/how-conserva...
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
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this really isn’t an exaggeration
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
this really isn’t an exaggeration
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The rhetoric today is nearly indistinguishable from Know-Nothing rhetoric about the Irish, the Italians, and the Jews.
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The rhetoric today is nearly indistinguishable from Know-Nothing rhetoric about the Irish, the Italians, and the Jews.
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AT&T commits to ending diversity, equity, and inclusion programs as it seeks approval from the Trump admin to buy wireless spectrum assets
AT&T commits to ending DEI programs | CNN Business
US wireless carrier AT&T said in a letter to the US telecoms regulator that it had committed to ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs, a move that comes as it seeks approval from the Trump a...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
AT&T commits to ending diversity, equity, and inclusion programs as it seeks approval from the Trump admin to buy wireless spectrum assets
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I’m old enough to remember the Bosnian war, which was regarded as bringing irredeemable shame on all of Europe. This stuff is *massively* worse than that - far more cruel, calculated and deliberately intended as cull of the civilian populace - and it’s been done with our active aid and complicity.
This is just from soldiers firing machine guns at civilians trying to collect bags of flour, because after we all pretended to believe the UN aid agency was a Hamas front, the Israelis turned aid distribution into the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan for weeks edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves, CNN investigates the fate of Gaza’s missing aid seekers | CNN
Ammar Wadi knew he was risking his life when he set out to get a bag of flour for his family from an aid truck near the Zikim crossing into Gaza in June.
edition.cnn.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I’m old enough to remember the Bosnian war, which was regarded as bringing irredeemable shame on all of Europe. This stuff is *massively* worse than that - far more cruel, calculated and deliberately intended as cull of the civilian populace - and it’s been done with our active aid and complicity.
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Enoch Burke was, for a brief moment, the cause célèbre of UK newspapers, because he was attempting to harm trans students. Over the past few years, the media, embarrassed at his increasingly obsessive and erratic behaviour (publicly threatening a schoolmaster, trespassing, etc.), quietly dropped him
Enoch Burke: "i am sorry i am incapable of that request"
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Enoch Burke was, for a brief moment, the cause célèbre of UK newspapers, because he was attempting to harm trans students. Over the past few years, the media, embarrassed at his increasingly obsessive and erratic behaviour (publicly threatening a schoolmaster, trespassing, etc.), quietly dropped him
Donald Trump has brought out the very worst in so many people, and they are so grateful to him for that.
i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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December 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Donald Trump has brought out the very worst in so many people, and they are so grateful to him for that.
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Yarvin was a headliner at the UK public philosophy conference, How the Lights Get In. He’s been saying things like this for years. And now there’s been a concerted effort to normalise him in the UK. Who is doing this? Why? How does this affect what philosophers treat as acceptable?
December 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Yarvin was a headliner at the UK public philosophy conference, How the Lights Get In. He’s been saying things like this for years. And now there’s been a concerted effort to normalise him in the UK. Who is doing this? Why? How does this affect what philosophers treat as acceptable?
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If conservatives were for real, if they actually believed in the stuff their intelligentsia quote from Burke and Oakshotte, I actually think they'd specifically hate this. But alas far too often it's just a thin veneer of intellectualism over instinctive hates and bigotries, so here we are.
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
If conservatives were for real, if they actually believed in the stuff their intelligentsia quote from Burke and Oakshotte, I actually think they'd specifically hate this. But alas far too often it's just a thin veneer of intellectualism over instinctive hates and bigotries, so here we are.