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Tim Barker
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recovering historian
this is a bad thing to do to someone, especially when you insist on anonymity for yourself! bsky.app/profile/did:...
Sahar’s account was suspended again despite her story being verified in Gizmodo (here is her link www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...)
July 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Wait he obviously did something specifically wrong. That's what the Gizmodo article is about.
July 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Do you think Zohran Mamdani is a celebrity?
July 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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I sincerely cannot think of a less provocative, less trolly thinker than Yglesias whose whole thing is mostly just to insist that obviously true things are in fact true.
April 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
can you share a source for the KPD actually saying "nach Hitler, uns?" or "Nach Hitler kommen wir"? I don't dispute that the slogan captures something about their attitude, but I've had trouble sourcing the quote. Ironically, the one example I have found is from an SPD figure.
July 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Planned obsolescence feels related but different. IIRC the magazine Consumer Reports emerges out of the post-Popular Front world. Would be interesting to look also at Vance Packard's The Waste Makers –
April 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
April 15, 2025 at 3:29 AM
So why do you lie about other people?
April 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Why are you lying about this? There is no burner account.
April 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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one of my basic principles (which made Noah Smith really angry at me) is that I don't keep the confidence of racists
March 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"the tragedy in Gaza"
January 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Petrzela supports for a war, which I admit is an unconventional way of opposing the war.
January 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We can't all be Tenured Radicals - it's not fair, but that's life.
January 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM
This from the person whose defense of the Gaza genocide involved an illiterate reference to "Tigre" Ethiopia
January 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM