Angela Mitropoulos

Also,
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Centrism treats politics as amenable to measure, and devoid of "content" — not, imo, ever effectively enough to obscure that content, context, and their own attachments.

Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics

"the [Iranian] regime is an ultra- conservative one which shares more in common with the Christian far right, particularly when it comes to gender apartheid, than it does with even surface-level understandings of 'the Left' "
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Brian Eno live with Roxy Music, 1973 by Anwar Hussein

Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

I would even take an admission over this fostering of amnesia.

Greenwald began his legal career by defending self-described Nazis, pro bono. So much more like this, since then. But it is a reminder that Greenwald's posturing as a recent exile from the Left is a con.

In many sources on rebellions of the enslaved, slavers are surprised that they rebel and think it’s a psychological aberration because slaves can’t have a concept of, let alone will to, freedom. The idea of robots was always tied to this: a slave that doesn’t yearn for freedom.

Cato has always been an exception among self-described libertarians, in that they've not excluded freedom of movement from their conception of liberty.

But, the focus on "economic benefits" of migrants nevertheless curtails freedom of movement by making it conditional.

This convo between Epstein and Hollywood producer Barry Josephson is particularly disturbing. On top of the creepy messages about a minor, there's this: "I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates 'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'"

Hollywood producer Barry Josephson to Jeffrey Epstein:

“I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates 'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'"

Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.

Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet.

But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

Is anyone in the US focusing on migration detention companies? GEO Group and CoreCivic being the largest — and publicly traded, therefore disclosures and stock price sensitivity.

But I miss you, Sontag. Read her essay, Fascinating Fascism, if you are an ignorant swine! archive.is/72jqK

Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires.

Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess.

Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining.

Documentarian: Exactly.

Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?

Will there be any consequences?
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Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE's Dilley family detention facility DPS troopers stand guard in front of the Dilley detention center during a protest last weekend. After a week of public outcry over the South Texas Family

What a nightmare. “After a week of public outcry over the South Texas Family Residential Center’s treatment of young children behind its walls, the Dilley facility is experiencing a measles outbreak, according to immigration attorney Eric Lee.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

I'd enjoy an article/history of Syd Mead's work. (I sometimes think Musk tried to emulate these with the cybertruck)

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Going to rewatch Babylon 5

That which is for me through the medium of money - that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) - that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my - the possessor's - properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness - its deterrent power - is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet. Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: is. - Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?

As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

They've removed the issue of consent from their definition of rape, and replaced it with fears of miscegenation and property theft. As with the accusations about "Mexican rapists," this definition assumes white women are white men's property.

Seeing some comments, I'll just add that I don't think Chomsky has ever been part of the far Left.

Invoking free speech in defense of Nazis does not make one a liberal any more than "anti-Americanism" — distinctly borrowed from the European far Right — makes someone an anti-imperialist.

His theory of universal grammar is, imho, grounded in a conservative (essentialist, ahistorical, fixed) theory of human nature. In the Chomsky-Foucault debate, I'm far closer to Foucault (and Marx) on theories of language.

Chomsky began his career in atrocity denial with his defense of Faurrison. Since then, there have been so many obvious red flags — his anti-antifascism, the red-brown geopolitics, the conservative theory of language. His prominence, and the esteem he's been accorded on the US Left, is bewildering.

Years ago, a friend asked me why billionaires want MORE money when they could never spend the tiniest fraction of what they have.

My answer is that they want immunity. The immunity to do literally any horrific they want without consequence.

Nothing I've seen since has changed my mind.

Gods forbid anyone had the words to even begin describing the present circumstances.

Concentration camps are where people are detained without charge or trial and for an indefinite period.

The law's creation of extra-legal spaces, and the legalisation of extra-legal violence. It is an entirely accurate description of where ICE are sending people.