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Political theory &c. Emphasis on the &c.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir
about 15 hours ago
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
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An important thread and article for the āIt canāt happen here, itās not legalā folks.
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about 19 hours ago
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Fintan Mallory
11 months ago
I was never a fan of Kantās 'What is Enlightenment' but now it feels like generative AI has made it very relevant for students
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Jen Mercieca
1 day ago
Like, are you a teen feeling like you're having a hard time fitting in (all of us) & you type in some questions about how to make friends or how to be popular or cool or sporty or arty or ??? The "exploit my vulnerabilities" machines will reprogram to exploit that. Their only incentive is to do so.
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Iām enamored with this lilā guy
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A few moments from the spectacular medieval collection at the Convent of St Agnes. First, her resting place (minus her head, sadly, which was stolen in the 1940s).
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Josh Shepperd
4 days ago
Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams
7 days ago
Time for our weekly reminder that there is only one ed tech investment that is proven to work, and it's hiring more teachers and paying them better.
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This paper, further explained by the thread, poses a significant, serious problem for political science as a research discipline.
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8 days ago
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bag of moons š³ļøāš
10 days ago
i'm baffled by all the people in the replies to posts about the spy doorbells asking for alternatives. like... the alternative is a regualr fucking doorbell with no camera in it. or a door knocker. get you a weird gargoyle guy! you dont need a camera!
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A reminder that āAuschwitz,ā āTreblinka,ā and āTerezinā were towns before they were extermination camps. They still are. But their names will always mean genocide.
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As American Views of ICE Dim, Warehouses Become a Symbol of Resistance
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/nyregion/ice-warehouse-new-york-opposition.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Gretchen Felker-Martin š
13 days ago
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
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Tom Six
13 days ago
Furious clarity from Jude Wanga
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
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Me on February 8 1637: now that tulips are relatively cheap, off by 18%, this would be a great time to get into the market
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Brandon Parlopiano
15 days ago
As Karl Marz said in his hit song, āYou make me feel like Iāve been locked out of the means of production.ā
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bonque, ben (×ר××¤× ×©××××Ŗ)
15 days ago
*you see the Johns Locke from across the room and like their vibe*
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people keep telling me that llm hallucinations are decreasing, but I'm slightly concerned about a few of the women philosophers represented here
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Mike Konczal
16 days ago
DoorDash Discourse is entirely wrong. Since the pandemic, percent spending on groceries are up, food away from home is down, and this is especially true for young people. Trends point to food affordability being a real problem. Dig into the CEX with me!
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Stop Blaming DoorDash for the Affordability Crisis
One DoorDash Discourse to rule them all: Food away from home is down. Groceries are up. This is especially true for young people. Affordability is a real problem.
https://newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/stop-blaming-doordash-for-the-affordability
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Iāve never been one to think that debate clarifies much. But I wouldnāt mind seeing a few debates between the average Minnesota Catholic mom and the average ICE agent.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein š
18 days ago
Epsteinās economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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Kate Harding
19 days ago
When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
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OlĆŗfįŗ¹Ģmi O. TĆ”Ćwò
18 days ago
goodbye White Settlement, hello "Racialized-as-white Settlement"
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William B. Fuckley
18 days ago
No political scientists in the Epstein files, multiple economists. These are facts.
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Can someone who was far more online than me in the early 20teens explain whatās being discovered about Epstein and 4chan?
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Rob Manuel
26 days ago
Can't help but feel the quote marks are in the wrong place
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Atrios
23 days ago
bovino's access to the DHS social branded he was using has been suspended, which is like the death penalty in the Posting Administration
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28 days ago
like D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce wrote of life in the body--in the actual, physical body; V. Woolf never dared give us a single moment of a woman in a woman's body, her good breeding wouldn't allow it. a generation later, Doris Lessing would throw down the gauntlet. no turning back!
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A long-underappreciated component of "Do not obey in advance" is that doing so often not only makes you look like a coward and a fool, but also results in considerable unnecessary work.
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Roger Berkowitz, on state power when the federal levers are broken and corrupt.
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A Republic, If the States Will Keep It
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/amor-mundi/a-republic-if-the-states-will-keep-it-583fdc32b5f2?postPublishedType=initial
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A long-underappreciated component of "Do not obey in advance" is that doing so often not only makes you look like a coward and a fool, but also results in considerable unnecessary work.
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Wow, turns out all those movies with Nazis as the enemy were spot on after all.
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Save this list for any time you ever visit the Twin Cities
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Seva
28 days ago
Toronto poli sci PhD applications: 201 two years ago, 385 this year. Trump's policies are working great, just not for the US
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Cry-Baby, John Waters (1990)
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Robert Heinze
29 days ago
Und thus, modernity comes to a close just like it started, with a guy ranting at windmills
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This sounds like a job for the Harperās letter signatories
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Nate O
30 days ago
A small, ancillary detail in this horror that made me cry
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jamelle
about 1 month ago
one thing i wish i could impress on a lot of you is that trump et al are not the only people with agency
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Even if this is true (and it mostly is) those in the academy have a moral responsibility to listen to, work with, and publicly recognize those doing this work from the margins.
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about 1 month ago
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Dr. Leonard Bright
about 1 month ago
Texas A&M decided to publicly cancel my Ethics class, and share a false statement that I declined to provide information, which made it impossible for [them ] to request an exemption. See for yourself, if this statement is true. They are getting creative!
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Oliver Willis
about 1 month ago
im a dumb-dumb who dropped out of college and it took me like 30 seconds of barebones googling to find out the black guy the nyt quoted as saying trump was doing wonderful was a gop operative. dont tell me the nyt didnt have access to that info. its fucking deliberate.
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TJ McIntyre
about 1 month ago
Notice the limitation - this only applies to the @ Grok X account, not the āGrok Imagineā tool which is where the full nudes and hardcore video are being generated. Media - be sure you ask about Grok Imagine specifically.
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NY Times Pitchbot
about 1 month ago
If liberals really cared about freedom, they would spend more time protesting stuff happening halfway across the world in a country that they donāt know much about and less time protesting stuff thatās happening in their own backyard
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Laura Tamman
about 1 month ago
This is a beautifully written, powerful and *almost* optimistic piece about American democracy. And btw, thank you
@adambonica.bsky.social
for taking parental leave, and discussing it publicly. That is one of the most feminist actions fathers can take!
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The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls
On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.
https://open.substack.com/pub/data4democracy/p/the-wall-looks-permanent-until-it
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U.S. Political Science in the Crosshairs
Conservatives have a lot of levers yet to pull
https://open.substack.com/pub/musgrave/p/us-political-science-in-the-crosshairs?utm_campaign=post
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Who is going to be the first member of Congress to propose the āDonald J Trump credit card interest rate cap bill?ā
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I mean, I guess we can do away with Gender Studies, since gender doesn't operate in politics, markets, or psychology anymore.
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Jason Read
about 1 month ago
If the term "gender ideology" can refer to Plato's Symposium then it is, as Judith Butler argued, nothing but a phantasmic projection of all of society's fears of sex and gender.
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ten philosophical approaches proving human immortality
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Why I am immortal
"Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!" āNietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, bk. IV sec. 15. "Has there ever been a better hour for gaiety?"āNietzsche, The Gay Science, sec. 383
https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/why-i-am-immortal
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Justin Weinberg
about 1 month ago
Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
https://dailynous.com/2026/01/06/texas-am-bans-plato/
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