But I've been told it's American exceptionalism and American centrism to oppose American imperialism.

I'm not a TRPF guy, despite having had some interest in it in the distant past, but boy, that constant capital/variable capital ratio really does seem to be. devastating a ton of sectors rn, huh

wake up everyone! it's time for Tim McManus's annual "Jalen Hurts is a locker room poison and I'm definitely getting this info from locker room sources with no ulterior motives" article!

got a request to put these here too though so ok

FINE god i'll accept a large no-conditions donation from a wealthy patron. if everyone insists or whatever...

missing some of my old twitter mutuals today

Happy Birthday to Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, who is currently raising money for dental work, which you can donate to here. He’s had three bad teeth pulled in the past month. fundrazr.com/campaigns/52...

ppl ask sometimes about reading habits - if you read ~20 pages of a book a day you can get through 500 pages in a month give or take a week's worth of skipped days! bite sized consistency can really help. but i do think chapters and topics are better natural start & end points

I like this review by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social because it just so beautifully counters this tendency www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Schelling kinda has that Keebler elf physiognomy huh

seeing a lot of the greatest hits of post-protest arguments today, plus ça change

I truly do think "Kim, there's people that are dying" remains one of the most succinct encapsulations of the incredible insularity of American social consciousness

one of few good anglo-american innovations: the ugly club

in 1970 huey p newton sketched out how "lumpenization" would rapidly expand due to cybernetic automation creating a mass of unemployables when discussing his position on the lumpenproletariat (underprolerarians) in his "revolutionary intercommunalism" speech. worth a read libcom.org/article/huey...

If you haven’t seen www.tmz.com/2026/03/24/p...

been pondering doing a get rich quick scheme. i hear they get you rich pretty quick

are kids even reading Lenin anymore

is there a fun book about the development of late medieval/early modern national/state debt that someone might recommend me

time for the biggest sporting event of the year. that's right: the fanatics flag football classic

always find this story very beautiful, not least of all because this was shortly after one of the darkest episodes of Kurosawa’s life

has anyone noticed a thing where people are increasingly mixing up "infer" and "imply"

a leftist movement that does not have men with a limited degree of authority engaging in sexual abuse and its coverup will be the leftist movement that is actually able to survive

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

tuned in specifically for that last at-bat and man. how satisfying is that

this is still absolutely blowing my mind. im trying to even find the words how does someone who covered up collusion, allow owners to extract more value with a 17th game and explicitly disavow leadership interest end up as the executive director less than a year later?

lying down is great. and lying down on your bed? that’s the real good stuff

nothing makes me into a maximally vulgar marxist like the academy awards. swinging the rotting corpse of an art form around like a marionette. Vertov didn’t die for this

I know that the the U.S. is currently doing a bunch of horrific things in the world, but one of those things is depriving Cuba of fuel + medical supplies (importantly sutures). Friends are taking medical supplies to Cuba with this org next week, please donate if you can! ghpartners.org/sutures

He’s spitting here:

Ah well

honestly, thank god he finally said it. having to listen to announcers say "EE-tee-en" for the last few seasons has just been insanely grating lmao

online gambling/gambling in general is deeply fucked but I think if you're having a practicing mormon be the one to write about it (while mentioning his faith a lot!), you're making a pretty deliberate choice lol

this post and thread should be in clinics about cognitive dissonance

look if you’re going to have a book launch, at least have a ceremonial “launch” wherein the author throws a copy of their book as far as they physically can

Me when leftists want to do art criticism:

I always love when people talk about being anti-sectarian. Yeah bud, everyone is anti-sectarian, and the sects above all, lmao

Out in July! "School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory". More details & pre-orders here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @politybooks.bsky.social

I will never forget the time I was at a conference in a PA suburb (near my hometown) and I suggested to people that we could go to "the city" for dinner. I was roasted by NYers for using the term "the city" to refer to *Philadelphia, the city like ten miles away* bc the term is reserved for NY (???)

Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.

Born on this day in 1768, Shawnee chief and warrior, Tecumseh, who formed a powerful confederacy of Indigenous peoples and promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. anticolonialhistory.com/event/153/

Howie Roseman 2026

looks like weight loss is back off the menu, boys

the funny thing about reading/teaching catholic social thought is that you can pretty quickly clock how its fundamental normative concepts are not very different from those of gut-reflex marxist humanists lol

American imperial bloodlust wanted to bring untold murder to Iran for so long that the post-hoc search for a casus belli is a buffet of justifications. Every clan of the Empire takes their pick, because there is no 'reason', only the drive: getting high on a world-historical spectacle of cruelty.

more Ric gold!

Have a new pub out here: philpapers.org/rec/FRICPA-7 was originally a conference paper but got picked up as an editor's pick of the conference proceedings (Society for Advancement of American Philosophy). I argue that if we want diversity in philosophy, we need jobs for philosophers.

it's deliberate chemical warfare. they are gassing the civilians of tehran. they can get away with this & the slow escalation of more destructive weapons with "plausible deniability" b/c they are aware their civilian populations are either entirely pacified or powerless to oppose

Also, made a list to keep up with the news. Bsky isn’t as fast as Xitter, but I’m trying to build reliable feeds (nodes). Please let me know if there are others I should add bsky.app/profile/did:...

Personally, I think imperialism is bad when it 'has a plan' too.