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Matt Stein
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Political scientist (College of Southern Nevada). Still a philosopher at heart. Political theory, race and ethnic politics, social movements, existentialism, political science education. Mets, Knicks, Rangers, Raiders. NYC2Philly2LV. Recommend music!
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Yep. That's long been the goal of alt-right actors; to turn the US into a white ethnostate. They didn't hide it, they didn't pretend otherwise, and millions voted for it.
radleybalko.bsky.social Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Feb 9
These are the only refugees we’re now taking. So guess it’s just full-on white nationalism.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Feb 8
Statement by the Secretary of State’s spokesperson on “descendants of settlers in South Africa.”
February 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Been sick now for 2 weeks straight. Every time I've gotten better for a day or so, I've taken a turn for the worse again, with new symptoms. This is pretty agonizing. /vent
January 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Between the Shigatse earthquake in Tibet, and the wildfires destroying California, we all have been violently reminded of human fragility and finitude. But what a painful reminder it is.
January 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 20
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The Plague by Albert Camus
January 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
January 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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Dialectic of Enlightenment by Horkheimer and Adorno
January 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 17
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The Marx-Engels Reader
January 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 16
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Caligula and 3 Other Plays by Albert Camus
January 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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The Trial by Franz Kafka
January 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Homo Sacer by Giorgio Agamben
December 31, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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Necropolitics by Achilles Mbembe
December 30, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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The politics of being mortal by Alfred G. Killilea
December 29, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Ethics, by Spinoza
December 28, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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The Racial Contract by Charles Mills (book cover).
December 27, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings book cover
December 26, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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Book cover for Who is Jesus? by John Dominic Crossan & Richard G. Watts.
December 25, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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Book cover for Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
December 24, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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Book cover for Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
December 23, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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Book cover for The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
December 22, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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Book cover of Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
December 21, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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Book cover for Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
December 20, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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Book cover for The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler
December 19, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 1
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Book cover of The Rebel by Albert Camus
December 18, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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Keep imagining better worlds.
December 13, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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As for this sparkling awareness which is called “mind, ”
Even though one says that it exists, it does not actually exist.

~ Padmasambhava
December 12, 2024 at 4:21 AM