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Adam Kluge
@arkluge.bsky.social
phd candidate @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk | formerly @columbiauniversity.bsky.social | he/him

interested in stigma, punishment, violence, family, gender, citizenship, and politics

more here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/adam-kluge
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"truly it was out of curiosity"
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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MoveOn, Indivisible, Our Revolution, and 6 Democrats have called on Chuck Schumer to step aside as leader.

So we asked all 40 Democratic senators who didn’t cave to Republicans if they still think Schumer is the right leader.

Here's what they said.

@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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This is a recurring pattern with police reforms. In place after place, decade after decade this happens but pointing this out is considered unreasonable and beyond the pale.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The BBC whitewashed Israel's genocide - and has now capitulated to Donald Trump.

It's in crisis - for all the wrong reasons.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-is...
The BBC is in crisis - for all the wrong reasons.
The BBC whitewashed Israel's genocide. Now it has capitulated to Trump
www.owenjones.news
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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It's why the non-response to USAID getting gutted looms so large in my mind. Very clear signal early that abandonment was a preferred response to political challenges in the current context.
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The different between the right and centrists is that the right gleefully kills millions of people and centrists present mass murder as a technical solution, like they added up all the numbers and carried a zero and oops, sorry, millions have to die.
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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While this isn't surprising, it's worth noting that this administration is elevating the most violent state actors in the most violent state institution in a country swimming in state violence.
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Hi guys, I've decided as everyone else has to start a substack. Here's my first article, on how the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan furore lays bare the pretence at the heart of British politics. Feel free to subscribe, I'm going to try write at least 2 articles a month.

open.substack.com/pub/tomusher...
Fated to pretend
What the Maccabi Tel Aviv furore shows us all about pretending
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Here's the part that gets me on the shutdown: The section prohibiting Trump from firing workers is great! But it wasn't carried through to stop rescissions & withheld funds.
That Democrats knew how to write a No Kings budget, then only passed a tiny section of it to get Tim Kaine's vote, is galling.
The Most Frustrating Thing About the Shutdown Cave - The American Prospect
Senate Democrats actually know how to use their power to counter Donald Trump and ensure that legislative funding gets spent—but this continuing resolution makes it clear they chose not to.
prospect.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Confirms my long-held view that Zohran is going to have to haul ass just to get things back to the BDB era, and he knows it
New: Zohran Mamdani's expected to later this morning announce he plans to appoint Dean Fuleihan as his first deputy mayor, per sources.

Fuleihan served in the same role under Bill de Blasio.
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.

www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
IOC set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sport
The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year
www.the-independent.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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"The terms in which this longer project is now being activated are alarming and blatantly authoritarian," says @elizabethkai.bsky.social .bsky.social in her conversation with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social in Issue No. 8.
hammerandhope.org/article/nati...
Whose Streets? Trump’s Federalized National Guard and the Long Arc of White Supremacy
Federal agents have long harassed immigrants and Black and brown people in cities, but something dangerous is changing behind the scenes.
hammerandhope.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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time to add it to the meme
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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“The BBC’s error, from a survival point of view, was breaking from its practiced game of distorting the history of the powerless, and instead messing with the big dogs it customarily serves.”
The BBC Thought It Could Save Itself by Serving the Powerful. It Was Wrong | Novara Media
The corporation's cardinal sin was messing with the big dogs it usually serves, writes Steven Methven.
novaramedia.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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You’re going to have to start calling them fascists lads, it’s what they are and they aren’t even embarrassed about it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Of course, more reckless stigmatisation and endangerment of intersex women because of a few people's transphobic obsessions.
Just a heads up this isn't just about trans women. "Olympic chiefs are also looking at prohibiting athletes with DSD (differences of sex development) from women's events given testosterone advantages."
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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this stuff matters in itself, of course, but also the TERF-Industrial complex won't ever stop. Each "win" is just the new base camp for the next battle.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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getting harder to argue that the establishment democrats actually care about winning and accomplishing things, isn't it. in the sense of defeating the republicans and enacting the policies they run on, anyway
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Terror definition too broad, Starmer to be told
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Terror definition too broad, Starmer to be told
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM