Well it has been a while, but I'm back here (for now). Wanted to show off my newest article: In this article I argue the need for a new analysis of Standard English and how it functions in class struggle (as a weapon of the capitalist class). jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/el...

I am grateful to Marida Nicolaci for permission to share a forthcoming paper on the problem of a nonviolent historical Jesus, neoliberal ideology, and the ways that scholarly discourse continues to uphold the status quo. 1/2

Well it has been a while, but I'm back here (for now). Wanted to show off my newest article: In this article I argue the need for a new analysis of Standard English and how it functions in class struggle (as a weapon of the capitalist class). jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/el...

The Democratic party is a traitor to the people. Treat them like it. They were never our allies, and they never will be.

You can’t non violently protest when the state is forcing violence into the situation

Bootlicking coward. Make sure this sniveling, spineless weasel never forgets that he sided with the genocidal regime when push came to shove. Anyone demanding we obey fascist cops and nonviolence when Trump is disappearing people to concentration camps is a collaborationist and traitor.

Never vote for anyone that is trying to limit yours or anyone else's rights. Human rights are human rights. If they come for someone , it's only a matter of time before that someone is you. Plus you will always be treated as expendable collateral damage.

Selah

a vote for cuomo is a vote for "worse eric adams"

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

In Star Trek, Kirk and Spock went to a planet where they simulated war. Casualties had to turn themselves in for death. After the leader explained the system Spock said, "there is a certain scientific logic about it" The leader said, "I'm glad you approve" "I do not approve. I understand"

right, finally, here's more - provisionally either the 2nd or third to last of these depending open.substack.com/pub/simonere...

These 16 Democrats care more about crypto industry campaign contributions than they do about combating corruption and fraud. Shame on them. Alsobrooks Blunt Rochester Booker Cortez Masto Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Lujan Ossoff Padilla Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner

This is for people wondering How On Earth it is that Senator Booker just voted to approve Charles Kushner as ambassador to France

Back in the early 1930s, Communist activists like Archibald Robertson abandoned the Labour Party because its leader Ramsay MacDonald betrayed socialism to form a new government with the conseratives with aid from the Crown. The LP has always been a traitor to socialism, equity, and equality.

One of my longest standing supporters and a big member of my audience community needs some help. If you have a few bucks to spare please help Rosyna Keller out. In times like these coming together to help each other is more important than ever.

A thoughtful thread about the ethics of generative AI by technology scholar Michelle Trim.

see you in the camps, dems

Israel is an apartheid and genocidal state. There is no confusion, and the very fact defenders of it quibble over "it isn't 'genocide'" shows how evil they know this war to be. There is no ambiguity. It is ethnic cleansing. Anyone saying otherwise, at this point, is just dishonest.

Dr. Thomas Schmidt in his new book on Josephus offered a nice critique of my paper on Josephus that was published with the New England Classical Journal. I have issued a retort in defense of my work here: marxistleninisthistorian.substack.com/p/a-reply-to...

Shoutout to Whitney Plantation, who has always BANNED WEDDINGS at their location and allowed the entire facility and its grounds to be an indoor and outdoor museum. It also houses the genealogical records for over 100,000 enslaved people. You can search for your loved ones in its archives.

I just read this and it is seriously one of the most important papers probably published in living memory, imo. Definitely will be of interested to everyone who studies the ANE.

In other good news, I have another article coming out! My work on the "Brothers of the Lord" in Galatians 1:19 and how this is almost certainly a familial phrase (not fraternal) was accepted at the Expository Times.

Finished my semester. I officially have one more semester (of one class) and then I will have finished all the course work for my Master's in English.

Every democrat who votes on any Republican bill is an enemy of the people. They should hardline refuse any and all cooperation and bring the entire government to a standing crawl. They won't though. Because Dems are fascists, they're just cowards about it.

i cannot fucking believe that @hias-refugees.bsky.social fucking helped resettle these racist fuckwads. breaks my heart, helping the asylum-revokers import fake-ass refugees fleeing "white genocide."

Some? I thought it was the entire mainstream of the party which is now trying to undo the democratic process so that actual progressives don't become vice chairs and shit. You can't reform this party. It is hellbent on being a doormat for fascism.

Just to clarify it isn't "fake." It is unauthorized. The 6th edition was evidently leaked by either a contributor or someone at Routledge who had access to the files, and then it was published by an unauthorized group. The threads on this have shown this is not a "fake" as in a fabrication.

My response:

“if we declare this innocent man innocent then all the other innocent people we convicted will want to be exonerated and that is something we just cannot afford to let happen”

So the art of the deal on Chinese tariffs is: Accomplish nothing, cave, and still not solve the oncoming recession. Got it.

I’ve also published an edited volume of essays with the brilliant @chancebonar.bsky.social, bringing together a lovely choir of contributors to offer insights into authorial fictions across a range of ancient sources: www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/auth...

Too bad this same politician has also stated she still believes in deportation and other fascist practices.

Pope Leo XIV speaks out against AI: ‘A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour’

You think they care what he has done? They don't. Detailing it will just make them go, "He's right to do it." I'm fairly certain the results wouldn't be substantially different even if it did get into the details.

225 years ago, a hero and a martyr was born.

If Habeas Corpus is suspended, rival politicians, judges, citizens, protestors, the lot will be systematically vanished. Mark my words. This is a move to formalize a lawless state for which there will be no return.

so, let's be absolutely clear: ICE "arrested" (without cause!) and disappeared the mayor of a major city for demanding they obey the law.

Omer’s experience rings true with mine and others across the university. I was chastised for a lack of “viewpoint diversity” for a panel I organized (& that was canceled) on antisemitism and Islamophobia, even though it had scholars with a range of political and academic stances on it

To be published this Fall by @rutgersupress.bsky.social www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/our-primary-...

No nation can fulfill a promise to humanism or democracy as long as it is also capitalist. These are inherent contradictions, and one must give.

Can't wait for this ruling to not be followed.

My review of @maklelan.bsky.social's book is now public. Overall, an excellent volume which will be of great use to everyone. I found it to be a thoroughly enjoyable and useful volume. Everyone should try getting a copy. It will be well worth the cost. open.substack.com/pub/marxistl...

Opinion: Encumbrance mechanics in games are archaic and unnecessary and unfun.

A Christian Apologist named David Pallmann (Faith Because of Reason) just responded to my and @paulogia.bsky.social's video on the martyrdom. It was a terrible response and in my view doesn't merit more than this blog in response: open.substack.com/pub/marxistl...

I didn't know about any of this regarding Brown until just now... but I can't say I'm surprised. Immoral guy who has spent his career being a dishonest hack, is also a predator? Sounds about right.

An independent firm was fired to investigate sexual assault allegations against Dr Michael Brown, which found him guilty. His ministry is now ignoring the report. www.christianpost.com/news/elders-...

I haven't been shocked by anything this government does. This isn't shocking. It is exactly what I expected from a kangaroo court.

@walterscheidel.bsky.social hot off the press What is Ancient History, @platanoclassics.bsky.social forthcoming Classicism and Other Phobias, and Umachandran and Ward's Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics (open access here)

I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba... you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...