Mik Rosenhofer
@mikrosenhofer.bsky.social
Formerly Mik Everett. Author of MEMOIRS OF A HOMELESS BOOKSTORE OWNER. Believer in hope & holobionts. My W.I.P. is called either LAND OF PLENTY or BANANALAND depending on my mood.
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Mik Rosenhofer
@mikrosenhofer.bsky.social
· Oct 20
so I heard that listing off your interests is a thing here.
-walking around my neighborhood
-Boo Radley
-pigeons
-human microbiome
-mycelium
-pawpaws (asimina triloba)
-writing (jk I hate writing)
-labor of social reproduction (raising kids)
-labor theory in general
-writing about work and hope
-walking around my neighborhood
-Boo Radley
-pigeons
-human microbiome
-mycelium
-pawpaws (asimina triloba)
-writing (jk I hate writing)
-labor of social reproduction (raising kids)
-labor theory in general
-writing about work and hope
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fun historical fact: among the core political forces in the development of mass incarceration was the "Victims' Rights Movement". Its first major legislative national legislative victory was under President Reagan. The prison population doubled under his administration.
An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument?
April 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
fun historical fact: among the core political forces in the development of mass incarceration was the "Victims' Rights Movement". Its first major legislative national legislative victory was under President Reagan. The prison population doubled under his administration.
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I'll add that Trump's entire political strategy is to be seen *defeating* the people and institutions the MAGA base has been trained to hate.
If you fight back and deny him an easy victory, that unsettles his narrative about being an almighty conqueror, which is why he often scurries away.
If you fight back and deny him an easy victory, that unsettles his narrative about being an almighty conqueror, which is why he often scurries away.
April 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I'll add that Trump's entire political strategy is to be seen *defeating* the people and institutions the MAGA base has been trained to hate.
If you fight back and deny him an easy victory, that unsettles his narrative about being an almighty conqueror, which is why he often scurries away.
If you fight back and deny him an easy victory, that unsettles his narrative about being an almighty conqueror, which is why he often scurries away.
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As I wrote this week, the situation at Harvard deserves attention, not because we should share the mainstream media's obsession with elite education, but because there's a lesson in this for everyone.
He's a paper tiger. Fight back. Watch how he will often back down.
www.salon.com/2025/04/16/h...
He's a paper tiger. Fight back. Watch how he will often back down.
www.salon.com/2025/04/16/h...
Harvard stands up to Trump — they get that complicity will not save you
Other institutions take note: It's delusional to lie low and hope Trump goes away in four years
www.salon.com
April 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
As I wrote this week, the situation at Harvard deserves attention, not because we should share the mainstream media's obsession with elite education, but because there's a lesson in this for everyone.
He's a paper tiger. Fight back. Watch how he will often back down.
www.salon.com/2025/04/16/h...
He's a paper tiger. Fight back. Watch how he will often back down.
www.salon.com/2025/04/16/h...
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There are many reasons to fight back, but a big one: Trump is a paper tiger. Often, fighting back works.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article)
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
There are many reasons to fight back, but a big one: Trump is a paper tiger. Often, fighting back works.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
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Trump's team backing down in front of Harvard should embolden EVERYONE to stand up to them. Do not comply in advance. Instead say "Fuck you, make me."
Another crucial lesson from this Harvard situation: There is no plan B. Trump's team had no idea what to do if Harvard said "no fuck you."
By first doubling down on the threats and then backing away and lying, they weakened their hand even more! Harvard woudl be wise to say no to the next threat.
By first doubling down on the threats and then backing away and lying, they weakened their hand even more! Harvard woudl be wise to say no to the next threat.
April 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Trump's team backing down in front of Harvard should embolden EVERYONE to stand up to them. Do not comply in advance. Instead say "Fuck you, make me."
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I sure hope no one is still teaching information literacy and/or research skills with "you can trust sites with .gov" addresses because you sure as hell cannot.
April 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I sure hope no one is still teaching information literacy and/or research skills with "you can trust sites with .gov" addresses because you sure as hell cannot.
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Omg yall sobbing after watching a clip of neighbors of all races and ages forming a human chain around a father and son to prevent an ice deportation. In Nashville. I’m struggling with my conviction that people are inherently good these days and seeing stuff like this is so moving.
April 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Omg yall sobbing after watching a clip of neighbors of all races and ages forming a human chain around a father and son to prevent an ice deportation. In Nashville. I’m struggling with my conviction that people are inherently good these days and seeing stuff like this is so moving.
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Protect the most vulnerable, and I'll give you two reasons
1. It's the right thing to do
2. If you don't, you'll be next
I think #1 really OUGHT to be enough for anyone, but if you think it's pie in the sky idealism then just do it for survival. Protect each other, and you protect us all
1. It's the right thing to do
2. If you don't, you'll be next
I think #1 really OUGHT to be enough for anyone, but if you think it's pie in the sky idealism then just do it for survival. Protect each other, and you protect us all
Ok white citizens, fascism is scary and it’s a new experience for you to feel threatened by the state. I get it. But please let’s not do All Lives Matter 2.0. We have to focus on the most vulnerable & use every shred of privilege if we’re going to survive this.
April 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Protect the most vulnerable, and I'll give you two reasons
1. It's the right thing to do
2. If you don't, you'll be next
I think #1 really OUGHT to be enough for anyone, but if you think it's pie in the sky idealism then just do it for survival. Protect each other, and you protect us all
1. It's the right thing to do
2. If you don't, you'll be next
I think #1 really OUGHT to be enough for anyone, but if you think it's pie in the sky idealism then just do it for survival. Protect each other, and you protect us all
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RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
www.motherjones.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
Rough week to be the grocery buyer for a family, I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be shopping to prepare for Easter or for civil unrest. My grocery cart looks totally bonkers.
April 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Rough week to be the grocery buyer for a family, I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be shopping to prepare for Easter or for civil unrest. My grocery cart looks totally bonkers.
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This makes me think of my question again: is fascism what we call it when white supremacy happens to white people?
Cuz some people already were property.
Cuz some people already were property.
"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.
They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported.
We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.
That would be the end of democracy.
We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.
That would be the end of democracy.
April 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This makes me think of my question again: is fascism what we call it when white supremacy happens to white people?
Cuz some people already were property.
Cuz some people already were property.
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Calling a bunch of obscenely wealthy tourists taking a luxury jaunt to the edge of the atmosphere 'the first all-female space mission', fuck off. This isn't a 'mission', it's a gigantic ad for elite space tourism.
A crew of six women, including pop star Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos's fiancé Lauren Sanchez, is set to blast off today on an 11-minute Blue Origin flight.
It marks the first all-female space mission in 60 years — hailed as a breakthrough for gender equality in space tourism.
It marks the first all-female space mission in 60 years — hailed as a breakthrough for gender equality in space tourism.
April 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Calling a bunch of obscenely wealthy tourists taking a luxury jaunt to the edge of the atmosphere 'the first all-female space mission', fuck off. This isn't a 'mission', it's a gigantic ad for elite space tourism.
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Roman sent us this pic from outside Watsonville CA. He shares, "we are weeding and thinning out the organic red and green leafy lettuce. We need to thin out the weaker plants to allow for maximum growth." #WeFeedYou
April 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Roman sent us this pic from outside Watsonville CA. He shares, "we are weeding and thinning out the organic red and green leafy lettuce. We need to thin out the weaker plants to allow for maximum growth." #WeFeedYou
Pawpaws are in bloom in south central Kansas! They don’t leaf out until the flowers are pretty much done, to make it easier for beetles to find their blossoms.
#asiminatriloba #northamericanpawpaw #nativeplants #kansas
#asiminatriloba #northamericanpawpaw #nativeplants #kansas
April 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Pawpaws are in bloom in south central Kansas! They don’t leaf out until the flowers are pretty much done, to make it easier for beetles to find their blossoms.
#asiminatriloba #northamericanpawpaw #nativeplants #kansas
#asiminatriloba #northamericanpawpaw #nativeplants #kansas
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Pawpaws blooming. Also heard a northern parula up in the trees. #nativeplants
April 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Pawpaws blooming. Also heard a northern parula up in the trees. #nativeplants
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Yet another way to set back research. Without international attendees at conferences, we can't be on top of the most recent developments in research. Conferences often include unpublished data and papers take years to publish, so this literally setting us back years. 🧪
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
April 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Yet another way to set back research. Without international attendees at conferences, we can't be on top of the most recent developments in research. Conferences often include unpublished data and papers take years to publish, so this literally setting us back years. 🧪
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insane to repeat their self-propaganda like this, with nothing but a flimsy pair of single-quotes. i could call myself the world's hottest writer but they wouldn't put it in the headline bc it's not fucking true
www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...
The 'world's coolest dictator' heads to the White House
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele heads to the White House to discuss further cooperation with the U.S., including the continued use of El Salvador's supermax prison for deported migrants.
www.npr.org
April 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
insane to repeat their self-propaganda like this, with nothing but a flimsy pair of single-quotes. i could call myself the world's hottest writer but they wouldn't put it in the headline bc it's not fucking true
www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...
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Truly @prisonculture.bsky.social, Jane Ball, and @ollycostello.bsky.social are all geniuses at their craft and everyone should have a copy of Prisons Must Fall! The visuals and the poetry of the message are exquisite!
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2588-p...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2588-p...
April 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Truly @prisonculture.bsky.social, Jane Ball, and @ollycostello.bsky.social are all geniuses at their craft and everyone should have a copy of Prisons Must Fall! The visuals and the poetry of the message are exquisite!
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2588-p...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2588-p...
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there’s a style of reporting that’s basically like “the left hasn’t been duped by the transparently bad faith framing of the right, but I, the reporter, very much have.”
does anyone have a cannon pointed at the sun I can borrow? need to shoot myself into the sun with a cannon
April 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
there’s a style of reporting that’s basically like “the left hasn’t been duped by the transparently bad faith framing of the right, but I, the reporter, very much have.”
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AI is contributing to the need for more computing hardware, which puts a strain on the supply of rare earth minerals, which is why we’re deep sea mining.
So those fake AI videos of deep sea “creatures” are not only bullshit, they are contributing to the destruction of real deep sea ecosystems.
So those fake AI videos of deep sea “creatures” are not only bullshit, they are contributing to the destruction of real deep sea ecosystems.
April 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
AI is contributing to the need for more computing hardware, which puts a strain on the supply of rare earth minerals, which is why we’re deep sea mining.
So those fake AI videos of deep sea “creatures” are not only bullshit, they are contributing to the destruction of real deep sea ecosystems.
So those fake AI videos of deep sea “creatures” are not only bullshit, they are contributing to the destruction of real deep sea ecosystems.
Me when I was 12 days postpartum & the only time I got to myself with both hands free was on the toilet, & I read a headline about how you should NEVER blow your nose on the toilet if you want your pelvic floor to heal, literally as I was finally blowing my nose after needing to for hours
April 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Me when I was 12 days postpartum & the only time I got to myself with both hands free was on the toilet, & I read a headline about how you should NEVER blow your nose on the toilet if you want your pelvic floor to heal, literally as I was finally blowing my nose after needing to for hours
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halfway through reading the Hundred Years War on Palestine and I had heard it mentioned Joe Biden was worse than Reagan on curbing Israel, I had no idea just how bad
being worse than Reagan on anything is an embarrassment holy fucking shit
being worse than Reagan on anything is an embarrassment holy fucking shit
April 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
halfway through reading the Hundred Years War on Palestine and I had heard it mentioned Joe Biden was worse than Reagan on curbing Israel, I had no idea just how bad
being worse than Reagan on anything is an embarrassment holy fucking shit
being worse than Reagan on anything is an embarrassment holy fucking shit