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Kevin Potter

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Postdoc at University of Vienna. Author of Poetics of the Migrant https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-poetics-of-the-migrant.html Dog Dad Free Palestine 🇵🇸. He/him.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 16h

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Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 1d

this is literally never not accurate

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 4d

Can someone explain to me like I’m a toddler why the “liberal” Supreme Court justice halted an order mandating that the federal government continue funding SNAP benefits?

Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 7d

All this for my birthday week? 🥹 aw shucks

Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 8d

I would get so much done if I didn’t get distracted by skateboarding videos that make me go: “ugh! Sick!”

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 10d

If you oppose Trump's threats to destroy Mamdani's tenure as mayor, you should oppose America's historical record of doing the exact same thing to socialist states around the world, and you should always make a point of acknowledging that in any discussion of "the failures of socialism."

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 12d

Watching the U.S. left debate whether or not to give a chance to ex-Blackwater operative with a nazi tattoo is so embarrassing living abroad. Can the left there try to be serious for once?

Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 13d

To the person who invented scented tissues: why would you do this to me?

Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 14d

The locations of each of the Anti-Colonial Week Lectures have now been announced and updated. Today, someone removed these posters from places I hung them up in my department (I promptly re-hung them), but please feel free to spread the news far and wide.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 17d

a man is laughing in front of a sign for the majority report

ALT: a man is laughing in front of a sign for the majority report

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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 18d

Reaping rewards for cheering on genocide, for endangering Palestinian journalists, and for helping sabotage ceasefire deals to prop up Netanyahu’s criminal government

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 18d

D’Souza with a classic “someone shit my pants and I demand to know who.”

Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 23d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 23d

And partially my time at a call center.

Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 23d

I’ll be teaching selected chapters from Part 7 and 8 of Capital Vol 1 this week, and realizing that most of the examples I’ll use to explain concepts will come from my one year of working at Starbucks

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 26d

It’s always risky and more work, but I do genuinely love teaching a topic for the sole purpose of making sure that I understand it and have an incentive to understand it VERY well.

Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 26d

Today when talking about the 19th century Corn Laws, I accidentally said “a tairiff on the import of porn.”
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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 27d

Goddamnit I hate when he’s funny

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Gilbert Achcar / جلبير الأشقر @gilbert-achcar.bsky.social · 28d

A Festival of Obsequiousness
Trump at the Knesset and Sharm el-Sheikh
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A Festival of Obsequiousness | Gilbert Achcar / جلبير الأشقر

Trump at the Knesset and Sharm el-Sheikh

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 29d

Trump didn’t make the ceasefire. Resistance of the Palestinians ensured Israel couldn’t ethnically cleanse Gaza. Salute to the Palestinian people.
Continue the struggle to end the genocide, the occupation, and the apartheid state.
Let the Palestinian children thrive!
Viva to Palestine viva.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 29d

Nesrine Malik is fast becoming one of the most insightful writers I’ve been reading lately

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 13

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · Oct 12

Sometimes I have to announce to my students that their instructor is, in fact, a dummy

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · Oct 10

LMAO the prize goes to the Maggie Thatcher of Venezuela. Clown show.

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · Oct 10

Trump deserves no credit for this ceasefire - even in a backhanded way. He could have stopped the war this entire past year. If you have to thank someone - and there is little to be thankful for given the ruins of Gaza - please thank the global protest movement.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · Oct 4

For anyone who falls outside of this category of academics in Austria (or Austrians abroad): there is also a Changedotorg petition, in which we would be delighted to have your signature/support.
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Sign the Petition

Academics against the Genocide in Gaza - Akademiker*innen gegen den Völkermord in Gaza