p.m. newlove
@petenewlove.bsky.social
teacher/educator : he/him : aspiring abolitionist : phd in education : interests in critical whiteness studies + epistemologies + antiracist praxis
Meanwhile, JRR Tolkien is rolling over in his grave
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Meanwhile, JRR Tolkien is rolling over in his grave
Had our first snow in Denver today, and as a teacher I’d like to report that there’s still always that one kid who wears shorts and no coat. And yes he’s white.
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Had our first snow in Denver today, and as a teacher I’d like to report that there’s still always that one kid who wears shorts and no coat. And yes he’s white.
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People with disabilities are funneled into the system starting at a young age:
➡️ As children, they face some of the highest rates of arrest & confinement.
➡️ And as adults, almost half a million people with disabilities are locked up in state prisons on a given day.
➡️ As children, they face some of the highest rates of arrest & confinement.
➡️ And as adults, almost half a million people with disabilities are locked up in state prisons on a given day.
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
People with disabilities are funneled into the system starting at a young age:
➡️ As children, they face some of the highest rates of arrest & confinement.
➡️ And as adults, almost half a million people with disabilities are locked up in state prisons on a given day.
➡️ As children, they face some of the highest rates of arrest & confinement.
➡️ And as adults, almost half a million people with disabilities are locked up in state prisons on a given day.
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It be people who have never applied for a single government service bemoaning the idea of people "who don't need it," getting access to it. And like, that is not a problem we have. Our problem is that these systems are so Byzantine that many people who need them cannot access them.
I’m trying very hard to be measured about this conversation but I am so, so frustrated with the idea that accommodations are easy to get and enforce. They are not, and every parent of a disabled child spends an extremely considerable amount of time getting them and then making sure they’re enforced
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It be people who have never applied for a single government service bemoaning the idea of people "who don't need it," getting access to it. And like, that is not a problem we have. Our problem is that these systems are so Byzantine that many people who need them cannot access them.
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I’m trying very hard to be measured about this conversation but I am so, so frustrated with the idea that accommodations are easy to get and enforce. They are not, and every parent of a disabled child spends an extremely considerable amount of time getting them and then making sure they’re enforced
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I’m trying very hard to be measured about this conversation but I am so, so frustrated with the idea that accommodations are easy to get and enforce. They are not, and every parent of a disabled child spends an extremely considerable amount of time getting them and then making sure they’re enforced
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Let's talk turkey: After months of targeting incarcerated people who received commutations from Biden, Pres. Trump pardoned 2 turkeys today.
Sparing a turkey while supporting the death penalty and punishing people for no longer being on death row is no act of festive goodwill.
Sparing a turkey while supporting the death penalty and punishing people for no longer being on death row is no act of festive goodwill.
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Let's talk turkey: After months of targeting incarcerated people who received commutations from Biden, Pres. Trump pardoned 2 turkeys today.
Sparing a turkey while supporting the death penalty and punishing people for no longer being on death row is no act of festive goodwill.
Sparing a turkey while supporting the death penalty and punishing people for no longer being on death row is no act of festive goodwill.
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I mean the thing that Summers resigned over is directly admitting that he was pressuring students into sex (while making racist little jibes about her!) in an email to his notorious paedophile buddy. I do wonder how one could not be incredibly embarrassed to run this kind of pedantry in this case.
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I mean the thing that Summers resigned over is directly admitting that he was pressuring students into sex (while making racist little jibes about her!) in an email to his notorious paedophile buddy. I do wonder how one could not be incredibly embarrassed to run this kind of pedantry in this case.
almost seems like a pattern in the White House…
NEW: The Tate brothers, who have been accused of sexual misconduct in three countries, had their devices seized by law enforcement when they arrived in the U.S.
Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them.
Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
almost seems like a pattern in the White House…
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'I’m no expert but I know what it means to be dehumanized, rendered disposable, and oppressed,' Alice wrote of the imperative to be in solidarity with Palestine. 'I know that all people deserve freedom. I know that genocide is a mass disabling event and a form of eugenics.'
Why Palestinian Liberation Is Disability Justice
Why Palestinian Liberation Is Disability Justice Alice Wong Several years ago I organized an event at a local Jewish organization and planned another collaboration when some c…
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
'I’m no expert but I know what it means to be dehumanized, rendered disposable, and oppressed,' Alice wrote of the imperative to be in solidarity with Palestine. 'I know that all people deserve freedom. I know that genocide is a mass disabling event and a form of eugenics.'
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I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE
Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.
boltsmag.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
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The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m
Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels.
n.pr
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m
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A threadful of love for Alice Wong ❤️
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
A threadful of love for Alice Wong ❤️
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I hope Alice’s memory is never sanitized. She supported free Palestine. She believed in deep pleasure for disabled people, sexual, aesthetic & otherwise. She was unflinching in calling out people’s bullshit. Don’t let the mainstream turn her into some desexualized defanged inspiration porn!!!
November 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I hope Alice’s memory is never sanitized. She supported free Palestine. She believed in deep pleasure for disabled people, sexual, aesthetic & otherwise. She was unflinching in calling out people’s bullshit. Don’t let the mainstream turn her into some desexualized defanged inspiration porn!!!
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NEW | Representative Rashida Tlaib, alongside 20 other members of Congress, is introducing a resolution to recognise Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It calls for the U.S. to take immediate action to fulfil its binding legal obligations as a party to the Genocide Convention.
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
NEW | Representative Rashida Tlaib, alongside 20 other members of Congress, is introducing a resolution to recognise Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It calls for the U.S. to take immediate action to fulfil its binding legal obligations as a party to the Genocide Convention.
Relatable.
Happy partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing day to all who celebrate
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Relatable.
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I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.
The Heritage Foundation, Groypers, and the Narcissism of Small Differences
Fuentes is the fly born of Heritage’s maggot.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.
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"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
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Hey I found an explicit, credible threat to commit murder, from an entity that has committed murder in exactly this way previously.
bsky.app/profile/dept...
bsky.app/profile/dept...
To all narco-terrorists who threaten our homeland: If you keep trafficking deadly drugs—we will kill you.
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Hey I found an explicit, credible threat to commit murder, from an entity that has committed murder in exactly this way previously.
bsky.app/profile/dept...
bsky.app/profile/dept...
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Every morning when waking up.
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Every morning when waking up.
What a time to be alive and to witness such rhetorical maneuvering that would leave Derrida’s head spinning
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 AM
What a time to be alive and to witness such rhetorical maneuvering that would leave Derrida’s head spinning
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
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None of this is good. Most especially for the victims.
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
None of this is good. Most especially for the victims.
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New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
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Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...