looking forward to the Bluesky discourse on the big Upperchurch hurling match later today 😀. Up the Church!

JFC this is dark. For those who don't know, this is the anthem of choice of a number of far right orgs -- especially beloved by those seeking to "take back" the nation by force, so that it can be a white racial stronghold. Real 14 words stuff from the Groypers running the social media accounts.

you can sing it (says guy who signed up 5 days ago)

I keep chewing on Wilfrid Sellar's notion of "space of reasons" after reading this great book on Foucault and political subjectivity by Tuomo Tiisala. And the book is worth boosting here as it is available to download open-access www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

I wrote a whole book about why the American Right is so into "doing a gender " and look a big part of it is that they think civil rights and progress are humiliating www.uapress.ua.edu/978081732109...

The vice signalling is like a public pedagogy machine, which must be resisted with a ethico-political sensibility that isn't afraid to bring virtue to the staging of political conflict

"Philosophy will have conscience of tomorrow, commitment to the future, knowledge of hope, or it will have no more knowledge." - Ernst Bloch, 1954

I know we're in the midst of a catastrophe-loop, designed to desensitize us to the disaster and violence of the Trump regime. But it's still noteworthy that the official messaging of a Cabinet-level department is straightforwardly bullhorning QAnon slogans.

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

think of the banality of fascistic desires that present themselves as some kind of emancipation from a "left authoritarianism". I have a piece looking at how "reactionary watchdogs" are reconstituting the meaning of "accountability", based on an analysis of two conversations between Rufo & Peterson

Open-access link to Michał Krzyżanowska, Natalia Krzyżanowska & @jensrydgren.bsky.social's introduction to a special issue of Social Semiotics on the far-right's promiscuous "conceptual flipsiding" & inversion of liberal democratic discourses for illiberal ends www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The 📚 Encyclopedia of Political Communication 📚 is now out in the wild, and a first awesome batch of entries is available in open access! Read them, love them, use them for your courses! 🔥 Check the 🧵 below to access them Plz repost for maximum diffusion

What the world's richest man, with the world's largest megaphone, is currently promoting. A tweet from a patently white supremacist, antisemitic account that tours through fantasies of race war and concludes: "White solidarity is the only way to survive." Elon's response: "💯".

A woman was killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis today. The first impulse of the regime? To smear the victim as a "domestic terrorist". As with Trump's J6 revisionism ("stolen election"), this is essential to far right information warfare: to repeat a slogan often enough that it short-circuits... 🧵

A riff critiquing AI in Ed Tech, and ‘Cogniti’ in particular AI stifles desire, destroys the social link and operates on a death drive logic MORE-DEMAND-MORE! art work by :mentalKLINIK ‘LUNATIC POETS’ 2025 #AI #Critique #Lacan #EdTech tinyurl.com/58hfe7nt

More #BDS success against Elbit. Next up - UniSaver 🤞

a textbook example of far right normalisation. The energy of the moral panic and monstrous fantasies transfigured into everyday doxa

and, as a species of coked-up media politics, X's ideological mission is very much a transnational one - a set of affordances for local "ideological entrepreneurs" to delegitimise the journalistic infrastructures of the nation state.

I think this is exactly right - everything is hiding in plain sight. In some ways, Trump's press conference response to the Maduro kidnapping forgoes the need for explanatory analysis, given how nakedly he connects the dots between the authoritarian ambitions at home and abroad

Trump's boot-boy in chief pining the blame on "the neoliberal experiment" for the stifling of his racist colonial fantasies...as if the critique of "neoliberalism" is now the idiom of the far-right

Impressive cowardice by George Stephanopoulos to do a 14 minute interview with Rubio and make no reference to "international law" or "sovereignty". The "mainstream media" that Trump hates so much acting like the lapdogs of America first

50 free eprints of a new article in a special issue of Social Semiotics A study of how the notion of "accountability" is rearticulated in far-right discourses – recentred around a monstrous image of "the left" that ramps up hand-me-down neoliberal discourses www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IMBKX...

@islates.bsky.social do people mainly just talk to themselves here too? I'm looking for a new outlet for my solipsism...