Greg Wong-Taylor
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Greg Wong-Taylor
@gpwt.bsky.social
Philosophy lecturer
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Here's my dog, Pod, in case you're interested.
Fichte cooking on gun control already in 1796:
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The important thing to keep in mind about John Searle is that in addition to being an asshole and a sexual predator he was also shit philosopher
October 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Efforts to paint the moments we're in as “anti-American” while romanticizing US history and its foundations do not dig us out of fascism; they dig us deeper in. Tell the truth about how this country came to be and what it is now, or expect more problems.
February 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.
July 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Salient line from Kant's Universal History:
Everything in the large is woven together out of folly, childish vanity, often also out of childish malice and the rage to destruction, so that in the end one does not know what concept to make of our species, with its smug imaginings about its excellences
July 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Important that this "interruption" came after the secretary had literally declared war on Californians' right to self governance
Looks like the immediate NYTs reaction is to blame it on Padilla, so that's awesome
June 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Trump official declares that the US military will stay in LA until they "liberate the city" from its elected officials.
It honestly shocks me that they will *talk* like this already.
June 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Hey Rudolf C, tell me about your dog Luchs!
"Well, he's made up of classes of classes of many-place relation extensions. He's the best boy 😍😍"
June 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Still my fave music video i made
Ok trying the video upload feature--a Sephardic tune on the baroque lute, Siete Modos de Guisar las Berenjenas (seven ways to prepare eggplants, only two ways are discussed bc we're at 60 seconds).
May 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Russell goes hard: "I'm taking your logic with me to jail"
April 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 43 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
April 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
In literally their own words:
On one side: trans people are "cheaters and possibly perverts".
On the other side: "people who say that are bigots".
NYT: omg the incivility on both sides!!
April 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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These two posts:
* “We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations,” said Joe Kent, Trump’s pick to lead counter-terrorism efforts.

* Trump to Bukele (president of El Salvador): “Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It’s not big enough.” 1/
April 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Bolzano's definition of a "science" is great: is what you're saying knowledge and "important enough to be set forth in a special book"? Then it's a science.
April 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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New Yorker cartoon.
March 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
One of my favorite things about Michael was that once he'd really get rolling in lecture he'd just close his eyes and speak for like 10-15 minutes on something before opening them again, as if he were moving around in pure logical space
Michael Friedman has passed away at just 77.

Michael had the sharpest and most comprehensive intellect I've ever known. He was also a good friend.

He spent his final years contemplating Kant's theology and moral philosophy - may he find timeless peace in the ultimate unity of freedom and nature!
March 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Michael Friedman has passed away at just 77.

Michael had the sharpest and most comprehensive intellect I've ever known. He was also a good friend.

He spent his final years contemplating Kant's theology and moral philosophy - may he find timeless peace in the ultimate unity of freedom and nature!
March 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Michael Friedman has passed away at just 77.

Michael had the sharpest and most comprehensive intellect I've ever known. He was also a good friend.

He spent his final years contemplating Kant's theology and moral philosophy - may he find timeless peace in the ultimate unity of freedom and nature!
March 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Free Mahmoud Khalil.
March 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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In the U.S. you can be arrested or potentially deported for criticizing Israel. Terrifying and disgusting
BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups

Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained on Saturday, is being held at an ICE detention facility.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detain...
BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups
Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained on Saturday, is being held at an ICE detention facility.
www.dropsitenews.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM