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I wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about the psycho-political agons of 90s sitcom neighbors like Kimmy Gibbler, Steve Urkel, and co.—why they showed up, why they were thrown out, and why they kept coming back. Give it a read!
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June 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about the psycho-political agons of 90s sitcom neighbors like Kimmy Gibbler, Steve Urkel, and co.—why they showed up, why they were thrown out, and why they kept coming back. Give it a read!
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For the @newinquiry.bsky.social, I interviewed the brilliant
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social about her new book, The Corporeal Life of Seafaring
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@lalehkhalili.bsky.social about her new book, The Corporeal Life of Seafaring
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December 19, 2024 at 12:58 PM
For the @newinquiry.bsky.social, I interviewed the brilliant
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social about her new book, The Corporeal Life of Seafaring
thenewinquiry.com/world-wide-w...
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social about her new book, The Corporeal Life of Seafaring
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Now in TNI: a dispatch from Dahye, Lebanon, published in collaboration with The New York War Crimes thenewinquiry.com/a-thorn-in-t...
A Thorn in the Occupier's Eye
South Lebanon is a lesson in steadfastness — an obstinate and determined testament to the willingness of an indigenous people to confront their occupier and achieve absolute victory. Israel’s…
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December 9, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Now in TNI: a dispatch from Dahye, Lebanon, published in collaboration with The New York War Crimes thenewinquiry.com/a-thorn-in-t...
"South Korea is often lauded as a safe society... But much of the country’s tranquil middle-class environments—apartment towers, malls, and privately-owned parks—were constructed through violence and intimidation.“ thenewinquiry.com/seoul-to-squ...
Seoul to Squeeze
Seoul neighborhood of Bogwang-dong sits on a steep hill rising over the Han River. In Korean, neighborhoods built on hazardous slopes are called dal-dongnae, or moon villages, because they seem to …
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December 3, 2024 at 5:46 PM
"South Korea is often lauded as a safe society... But much of the country’s tranquil middle-class environments—apartment towers, malls, and privately-owned parks—were constructed through violence and intimidation.“ thenewinquiry.com/seoul-to-squ...
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"Health equity capture…hijacks health equity concepts, aesthetics, and language…for the purpose of posing the problem—in our case, the institutions and processes (like the weight loss industry) that create, prop up, or exist due to inequality—as the solution."
Weight loss medications have expanded their reach through co-opting the language of social justice. thenewinquiry.com/health-equit...
Health Equity Capture
Nisha Chicken Salad” on Weight Watchers’s website bears little resemblance to the salad Nisha Godfrey went viral for in 2022. It is two cups of spinach leaves with three ounces of grilled skinless,…
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December 1, 2024 at 2:29 PM
"Health equity capture…hijacks health equity concepts, aesthetics, and language…for the purpose of posing the problem—in our case, the institutions and processes (like the weight loss industry) that create, prop up, or exist due to inequality—as the solution."
"The public, reaching for life, for longevity, for survival among the fittest (as dictated by eugenics) has turned its eyes to its physique. Ozempic, to shareholders glee, arrived right on time." thenewinquiry.com/health-equit...
Health Equity Capture
Nisha Chicken Salad” on Weight Watchers’s website bears little resemblance to the salad Nisha Godfrey went viral for in 2022. It is two cups of spinach leaves with three ounces of grilled skinless,…
thenewinquiry.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:01 PM
"The public, reaching for life, for longevity, for survival among the fittest (as dictated by eugenics) has turned its eyes to its physique. Ozempic, to shareholders glee, arrived right on time." thenewinquiry.com/health-equit...
Weight loss medications have expanded their reach through co-opting the language of social justice. thenewinquiry.com/health-equit...
Health Equity Capture
Nisha Chicken Salad” on Weight Watchers’s website bears little resemblance to the salad Nisha Godfrey went viral for in 2022. It is two cups of spinach leaves with three ounces of grilled skinless,…
thenewinquiry.com
November 27, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Weight loss medications have expanded their reach through co-opting the language of social justice. thenewinquiry.com/health-equit...
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Read @elpgerson.bsky.social in @newinquiry.bsky.social, on six years of Morena party rule under AMLO.
November 26, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Read @elpgerson.bsky.social in @newinquiry.bsky.social, on six years of Morena party rule under AMLO.
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First post on BlueSky and it's a plug.
Wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about AMLO. I try to explain what Obradorismo actually is while critiquing his programmatic agenda, the opposition, and understanding AMLO's political success.
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Wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about AMLO. I try to explain what Obradorismo actually is while critiquing his programmatic agenda, the opposition, and understanding AMLO's political success.
thenewinquiry.com/amlo-all-alo...
AMLO All Along
1917, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was preoccupied with appointing the people that would run the government. The problem was that Lenin did not know much about what running the gove…
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November 26, 2024 at 6:23 PM
First post on BlueSky and it's a plug.
Wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about AMLO. I try to explain what Obradorismo actually is while critiquing his programmatic agenda, the opposition, and understanding AMLO's political success.
thenewinquiry.com/amlo-all-alo...
Wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about AMLO. I try to explain what Obradorismo actually is while critiquing his programmatic agenda, the opposition, and understanding AMLO's political success.
thenewinquiry.com/amlo-all-alo...
"Obradorismo has been variously characterized with terms like left-wing populism and progressive nationalisms. These definitions are reductive, conjuring associations with other leaders or regimes that ultimately do not apply." thenewinquiry.com/amlo-all-alo...
AMLO All Along
1917, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was preoccupied with appointing the people that would run the government. The problem was that Lenin did not know much about what running the gove…
thenewinquiry.com
November 26, 2024 at 5:39 PM
"Obradorismo has been variously characterized with terms like left-wing populism and progressive nationalisms. These definitions are reductive, conjuring associations with other leaders or regimes that ultimately do not apply." thenewinquiry.com/amlo-all-alo...
"The months since the election of Donald Trump have played host to a brilliant array of liberal delusions, a collective delirium that has led the American center-left to question everything—literally everything—except its own flawed ideology." thenewinquiry.com/this-is-not-...
This is Not a Simulation
The simulation hypothesis reveals how the American liberal elite questions everything except the insufficiency of liberalism itself
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November 22, 2024 at 8:12 PM
"The months since the election of Donald Trump have played host to a brilliant array of liberal delusions, a collective delirium that has led the American center-left to question everything—literally everything—except its own flawed ideology." thenewinquiry.com/this-is-not-...
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sharing again an interview I did with the incredible Danielle Wu 💌✨
@newinquiry.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
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Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive? - an interview with Eunsong Kim
Kim is a poet, writer, and Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University. Her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, traces the history of US m…
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November 18, 2024 at 3:35 PM
sharing again an interview I did with the incredible Danielle Wu 💌✨
@newinquiry.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
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@dukepress.bsky.social
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Maya 🖤
"State functionality—the ability to run systems smoothly, but also to convince the public that the agents of such systems carry benevolent intent—has always concealed regimes of harm, and always to disastrous ends." thenewinquiry.com/spell-check-...
Spell-Check Nation
Presidential claims to legitimacy have always been bound up in violence–so why do people continue to insist that Trump act more presidential?
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November 17, 2024 at 1:15 AM
Maya 🖤
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Excellent state theory: "for those who have convinced themselves ... that any discrepancy between appearance and action is a glitch rather than a symptom, reckoning with such discrepancies ... requires a recalibration of national shame, first, and state efficiency, second"
"State functionality—the ability to run systems smoothly, but also to convince the public that the agents of such systems carry benevolent intent—has always concealed regimes of harm, and always to disastrous ends." thenewinquiry.com/spell-check-...
Spell-Check Nation
Presidential claims to legitimacy have always been bound up in violence–so why do people continue to insist that Trump act more presidential?
thenewinquiry.com
November 16, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Excellent state theory: "for those who have convinced themselves ... that any discrepancy between appearance and action is a glitch rather than a symptom, reckoning with such discrepancies ... requires a recalibration of national shame, first, and state efficiency, second"
"State functionality—the ability to run systems smoothly, but also to convince the public that the agents of such systems carry benevolent intent—has always concealed regimes of harm, and always to disastrous ends." thenewinquiry.com/spell-check-...
Spell-Check Nation
Presidential claims to legitimacy have always been bound up in violence–so why do people continue to insist that Trump act more presidential?
thenewinquiry.com
November 16, 2024 at 10:54 PM
"State functionality—the ability to run systems smoothly, but also to convince the public that the agents of such systems carry benevolent intent—has always concealed regimes of harm, and always to disastrous ends." thenewinquiry.com/spell-check-...
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"Folk Etymologies" by Eleanor Stern for @newinquiry.bsky.social
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A thoughtful look at efforts to influence politics through language substitutions, and how they connect to other efforts to influence thought via language.
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A thoughtful look at efforts to influence politics through language substitutions, and how they connect to other efforts to influence thought via language.
"To Sanitize the Master's Corpus" by Richard Wolin for LARB
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It turns out that Heidegger did not just flirt with Naziism and antisemitism, but wholeheartedly embraced it. It also turns out that his estate has conspired for decades to conceal and obfuscate this!
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It turns out that Heidegger did not just flirt with Naziism and antisemitism, but wholeheartedly embraced it. It also turns out that his estate has conspired for decades to conceal and obfuscate this!
December 29, 2023 at 6:07 PM
"Folk Etymologies" by Eleanor Stern for @newinquiry.bsky.social
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A thoughtful look at efforts to influence politics through language substitutions, and how they connect to other efforts to influence thought via language.
thenewinquiry.com/folk-etymolo...
A thoughtful look at efforts to influence politics through language substitutions, and how they connect to other efforts to influence thought via language.
From “The Second Week” by the Palestinian Youth Movement thenewinquiry.com/the-second-w...
November 13, 2023 at 2:24 AM
From “The Second Week” by the Palestinian Youth Movement thenewinquiry.com/the-second-w...
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Palestinians in the West Bank are defending themselves from the apartheid regime’s nightly attack
Staff of Al-Shifa Hospital are struggling to bury the remains of at least 100 Palestinians murdered by the IOF
Kamal Adwan Hospital stops operations as fuel runs out
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Staff of Al-Shifa Hospital are struggling to bury the remains of at least 100 Palestinians murdered by the IOF
Kamal Adwan Hospital stops operations as fuel runs out
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Gaza’s two largest hospitals shut; WHO warns of more premature babies dying
Hamas denies it refused fuel for Al-Shifa Hospital as Israeli snipers are accused of attacking anyone nearby.
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November 13, 2023 at 2:20 AM
Palestinians in the West Bank are defending themselves from the apartheid regime’s nightly attack
Staff of Al-Shifa Hospital are struggling to bury the remains of at least 100 Palestinians murdered by the IOF
Kamal Adwan Hospital stops operations as fuel runs out
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Staff of Al-Shifa Hospital are struggling to bury the remains of at least 100 Palestinians murdered by the IOF
Kamal Adwan Hospital stops operations as fuel runs out
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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🚨 A field source for Al-Mayadeen:
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Missile strikes target the American base at the "Conoco" oil field in northeastern Deir Ezzor, eastern Syria.
The popular resistance shelled the American base with 15 missiles that hit their targets, leading to violent explosions at the base in eastern Syria.
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Missile strikes target the American base at the "Conoco" oil field in northeastern Deir Ezzor, eastern Syria.
The popular resistance shelled the American base with 15 missiles that hit their targets, leading to violent explosions at the base in eastern Syria.
November 13, 2023 at 12:16 AM
🚨 A field source for Al-Mayadeen:
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Missile strikes target the American base at the "Conoco" oil field in northeastern Deir Ezzor, eastern Syria.
The popular resistance shelled the American base with 15 missiles that hit their targets, leading to violent explosions at the base in eastern Syria.
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Missile strikes target the American base at the "Conoco" oil field in northeastern Deir Ezzor, eastern Syria.
The popular resistance shelled the American base with 15 missiles that hit their targets, leading to violent explosions at the base in eastern Syria.
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RSF and affiliated Sudanese-Arab militias have reportedly killed 800 in an ethnic cleansing campaign in Ardamata camp in West Darfur, home to tens of thousands who had already been displaced by the civil war.
The Militia at the Center of the Darfur Genocide Kills Hundreds in Sudan
Group that grew from infamous Janjaweed militia blamed for killing of about 800 people in refugee camp. ‘I couldn’t count the number of dead bodies.’
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November 12, 2023 at 3:22 AM
RSF and affiliated Sudanese-Arab militias have reportedly killed 800 in an ethnic cleansing campaign in Ardamata camp in West Darfur, home to tens of thousands who had already been displaced by the civil war.
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"Many voters said they trusted Donald Trump over President Biden on the economy, foreign policy and immigration, as Mr. Biden’s multiracial base frays."
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/u...
Trump Leads in 5 Critical States as Voters Blast Biden, Times/Siena Poll Finds
Voters in battleground states said they trusted Donald J. Trump over President Biden on the economy, foreign policy and immigration, as Mr. Biden’s multiracial base shows signs of fraying.
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2023 at 12:53 PM
"Many voters said they trusted Donald Trump over President Biden on the economy, foreign policy and immigration, as Mr. Biden’s multiracial base frays."
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/u...
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 30: Hundreds of thousands protested in the Washington D.C. and around the world, calling for a ceasefire. Israel continues to target civilian infrastructure, using the "equivalent of two nuclear bombs," says rights group.
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 30: Nearly 10,000 people killed in Gaza as U.S. rejects ceasefire ...
Hundreds of thousands protested in the Washington D.C. and around the world, calling for a ceasefire. Israel continues to target civilian infrastructure, using the “equivalent of two nuclear bombs,�...
mondoweiss.net
November 5, 2023 at 3:35 PM
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 30: Hundreds of thousands protested in the Washington D.C. and around the world, calling for a ceasefire. Israel continues to target civilian infrastructure, using the "equivalent of two nuclear bombs," says rights group.
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Before October 7th, over 60% of Palestinians were moderately or severely food insecure.
It has ALWAYS been a deliberate tactic by the apartheid regime to keep Palestinians on the brink of starvation.
It has ALWAYS been a deliberate tactic by the apartheid regime to keep Palestinians on the brink of starvation.
Starvation has begun in Gaza. The world is still stuck at debating on what to call it.
October 31, 2023 at 3:12 PM
Before October 7th, over 60% of Palestinians were moderately or severely food insecure.
It has ALWAYS been a deliberate tactic by the apartheid regime to keep Palestinians on the brink of starvation.
It has ALWAYS been a deliberate tactic by the apartheid regime to keep Palestinians on the brink of starvation.