Mad Girl’s Ballad
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'so I am not of the east/and I am not of the west' || feminist political theory | linguaphile | bibliophile | traveler
Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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September 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Dukka
...
to risk. Love
is paying attention, I remark, and you
repeat it to me. Love is also the father
who plants an olive tree for every newborn
trusting they will grow up to harvest it. Love is
the elderly woman who stood inside
Damascus Gate, knowing the settlers
were on a rampage, knowing...
...
to risk. Love
is paying attention, I remark, and you
repeat it to me. Love is also the father
who plants an olive tree for every newborn
trusting they will grow up to harvest it. Love is
the elderly woman who stood inside
Damascus Gate, knowing the settlers
were on a rampage, knowing...
August 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Dukka
...
to risk. Love
is paying attention, I remark, and you
repeat it to me. Love is also the father
who plants an olive tree for every newborn
trusting they will grow up to harvest it. Love is
the elderly woman who stood inside
Damascus Gate, knowing the settlers
were on a rampage, knowing...
...
to risk. Love
is paying attention, I remark, and you
repeat it to me. Love is also the father
who plants an olive tree for every newborn
trusting they will grow up to harvest it. Love is
the elderly woman who stood inside
Damascus Gate, knowing the settlers
were on a rampage, knowing...
This is also why democracy scares every single warmonger who currently holds power.
It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
July 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This is also why democracy scares every single warmonger who currently holds power.
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the pain in my heart today, over gaza and sweida, is unbearable
July 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
the pain in my heart today, over gaza and sweida, is unbearable
Effectivement!
Is this really what passes as the “new left” these days? Also one of the few pieces in the issue that is not behind a paywall 😱
Is this really what passes as the “new left” these days? Also one of the few pieces in the issue that is not behind a paywall 😱
Dégringolade newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
Ross Douthat, Condition of America, NLR 152, March–April 2025
Nick Burns quizzes the New York Times columnist on the contradictory ideological forces and factions driving the second Trump Administration, the strengths and weaknesses of American liberalism and th...
newleftreview.org
April 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Effectivement!
Is this really what passes as the “new left” these days? Also one of the few pieces in the issue that is not behind a paywall 😱
Is this really what passes as the “new left” these days? Also one of the few pieces in the issue that is not behind a paywall 😱
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
April 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Dean Gallagher was a professor at UofM when I was a grad student there. It is absolutely WILD to see insanely dumb and tone-deaf messages written by people who I once thought were smart scholars and good people. “We apologize for the inconvenience” of trampling all over academic freedom.
I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...
April 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Dean Gallagher was a professor at UofM when I was a grad student there. It is absolutely WILD to see insanely dumb and tone-deaf messages written by people who I once thought were smart scholars and good people. “We apologize for the inconvenience” of trampling all over academic freedom.
So true.
I’ve said this before but I’m truly becoming convinced the best long term anti-fascist policy is absolutely massive funding for the arts to the point where the worst actor in the world can get a grant to put on their own show. I swear it’s the high these people are chasing but have no idea they are
Bezos, Zuck, et al have succeeded more wildly than they could ever have dreamed in monetary terms. But they’re still trying to win the games we set ourselves to consider our lives successful. And have judged that making epic moral compromises is the least worst route to this success.
March 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
So true.
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American Zionist shoots two Israeli tourists because he thought they were Palestinians, and then the injured Israelis call the attack antisemitic and call for "death to Arabs" -- it's just the turducken of Zionism as pathology.
February 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
American Zionist shoots two Israeli tourists because he thought they were Palestinians, and then the injured Israelis call the attack antisemitic and call for "death to Arabs" -- it's just the turducken of Zionism as pathology.
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On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
February 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.
The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
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Tbh, we're going to see a lot more of this as the rest of the generation that remembers the holocaust dies out and is replaced by young boomers/gen X'ers who were told the entirety of their formative years that the Jewish people faced an existential threat, and that threat was Palestinians
January 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Tbh, we're going to see a lot more of this as the rest of the generation that remembers the holocaust dies out and is replaced by young boomers/gen X'ers who were told the entirety of their formative years that the Jewish people faced an existential threat, and that threat was Palestinians
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It's not the most important thing in the world, but it's worth noting that this person was signal boosting the ADL leader's insane rant accusing MSNBC anchors of being de facto "Hamas supporters" because they had the audacity to acknowledge that civilians live in Gaza.
January 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
It's not the most important thing in the world, but it's worth noting that this person was signal boosting the ADL leader's insane rant accusing MSNBC anchors of being de facto "Hamas supporters" because they had the audacity to acknowledge that civilians live in Gaza.
This is the best take on that particular piece of news:
December 23, 2024 at 7:48 AM
This is the best take on that particular piece of news:
The American Dream
December 20, 2024 at 10:07 PM
The American Dream
This one is for when we will see Anthony Blinken and Joe Biden’s ICC arrest warrants.
www.propublica.org/article/gaza...
www.propublica.org/article/gaza...
Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Two Government Bodies Concluded. Antony Blinken Rejected Them.
Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had de...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2024 at 11:00 PM
This one is for when we will see Anthony Blinken and Joe Biden’s ICC arrest warrants.
www.propublica.org/article/gaza...
www.propublica.org/article/gaza...
I was living in Michigan when Hillary lost to Trump in 2016, and man I cannot fathom what it must be like to walk through the world with the idiocy and hubris of the Clintons.
October 31, 2024 at 4:52 PM
I was living in Michigan when Hillary lost to Trump in 2016, and man I cannot fathom what it must be like to walk through the world with the idiocy and hubris of the Clintons.
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Absolutely depraved pivot
October 24, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Absolutely depraved pivot
I am so tired. It’s been almost 365 days of this nonsense from these people.
October 2, 2024 at 12:18 AM
I am so tired. It’s been almost 365 days of this nonsense from these people.
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Certified elder, what a world 😶
September 18, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Certified elder, what a world 😶
Honestly, all the people on here who are excited about tonight’s clown show should take a minute to think if this guy’s VP really is the alternative they are looking for… since all is see in US politics these days is racist, genocidal drivel.
September 10, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Honestly, all the people on here who are excited about tonight’s clown show should take a minute to think if this guy’s VP really is the alternative they are looking for… since all is see in US politics these days is racist, genocidal drivel.
This should be in the headlines, not the fact that the war criminal from the early 2000s endorsed the enablers of war criminals from 2024.
September 7, 2024 at 2:59 AM
This should be in the headlines, not the fact that the war criminal from the early 2000s endorsed the enablers of war criminals from 2024.
This. Please check yourself.
I need people who are deep into the yass queen shit with Harris and Walz to understand exactly why I will forever view them with deep fucking suspicion 👇 if you are willing to yass queen politicians who are on board with genocide then you need to fix your fucking soul.
That this really did ultimately have to happen is positively fucked
August 23, 2024 at 3:19 AM
This. Please check yourself.
“Its predecessors already produce hundreds or even thousands of words almost instantaneously. Now GPT-5 brings PhD writing skills to the table, meaning it can generate text at a rate of about ten words per day.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...
ChatGPT Now Has PhD-Level Intelligence, and the Poor Personal Choices to Prove It
“If you look at the trajectory of improvement, systems like GPT-3 were maybe toddler-level intelligence… and then systems like GPT-4 are more like ...
www.mcsweeneys.net
June 25, 2024 at 5:42 PM
“Its predecessors already produce hundreds or even thousands of words almost instantaneously. Now GPT-5 brings PhD writing skills to the table, meaning it can generate text at a rate of about ten words per day.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...
“Directly asking people what they think feels more reliable than asking a computer what people think.” No kidding.
ash.harvard.edu/articles/usi...
ash.harvard.edu/articles/usi...
Using AI for Political Polling – Ash Center
ash.harvard.edu
June 13, 2024 at 1:13 AM
“Directly asking people what they think feels more reliable than asking a computer what people think.” No kidding.
ash.harvard.edu/articles/usi...
ash.harvard.edu/articles/usi...