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Political theory &c. Emphasis on the &c.

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Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

07.03.2026 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 360    πŸ” 134    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 10

Gender Studies is the most vindicated academic field of all time

07.03.2026 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 452    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6

Fair play to the Quakers for being seen as a threat to the English state for a solid 375 years.

07.03.2026 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 406    πŸ” 113    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 8

I feel that they got into the wrong anti-metaphysical club.

06.03.2026 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Speech is never "mere words," powerless to change the world. If it were, people would not be so afraid of it. Two examples, just from today:

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

nyunews.com/news/2026/03...

06.03.2026 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
05.03.2026 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2095    πŸ” 484    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 14
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FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!

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04.03.2026 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 122    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5

It’s as though the people commenting on this article didn’t even read it…

05.03.2026 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power!
YouTube video by pagzamaphone Even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=dpEF...

05.03.2026 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Google ai (Gemini) remains undefeated

05.03.2026 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, England! The perfect place to publish a thoughtful piece on colonial expropriation whilst still insisting on the very British misspelling of Hawai’i as β€œHawaii.”

05.03.2026 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Myself & the other comedians who did the Riyadh Comedy Festival are donating our fees to help get influencers under attack in Dubai back home to their influencer houses. I am sponsoring Braevyn McTaigg from Orlando, FL. πŸ«‘πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸοΈ

03.03.2026 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2607    πŸ” 239    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 14

This is right. I don’t think you can read either the federalists or the anti-federalists and not think that this sort of situation is what they were discussing.

03.03.2026 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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That’s just cruel

03.03.2026 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
University Assistant Professor in Political Theory Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor (Grade 9) in political theory, to be based in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. The post will be

JOB

Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
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www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

02.03.2026 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

28.02.2026 07:19 β€” πŸ‘ 23670    πŸ” 7117    πŸ’¬ 735    πŸ“Œ 406

I see labour beat the tories . Good job

27.02.2026 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

We should never forget that these "studies" programs -- Women and Gender; African Diaspora; Latinx; Asian and Pacific -- emerged from the demands of politicized students, and that therefore administrators _as a class_ have always resented them and their successes.

26.02.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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I wanted to go on here to pass on that the brilliant political theorist and more importantly fabulous human being Bill Connolly passed away yesterday. This is such a loss, I'll have more to say later but for now my heart breaks.

26.02.2026 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

Students feel like they can’t enroll in majors like Af-Am Studies and WGSS because they’re getting messages from all sides that they’re not remunerative. And yet they desperately want the knowledge, so classes are full. That seems to be the situation everywhere.

26.02.2026 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 407    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5
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Easily one of the top charts of all time

24.02.2026 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 702    πŸ” 175    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 48
The End of Subjective Universality and the Privatization of Aesthetic Taste

"Taste can be whatever so long as it is a vector for patriarchal racial capitalist accumulation and status. The point is that it is subjective and non-universal."

www.its-her-factory.com/2026/02/the-...

24.02.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Ils adorent leur colonialisme, n'est-ce pas ?

25.02.2026 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
still frame from the beginning of Twin Peaks
it is February 24th and Special Agent Dale Cooper arrived in the town of Twin Peaks

still frame from the beginning of Twin Peaks it is February 24th and Special Agent Dale Cooper arrived in the town of Twin Peaks

Good morning

24.02.2026 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3849    πŸ” 1892    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 60
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Einstein - AI Homework Agent Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer β€” he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

Is this bad

23.02.2026 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1413    πŸ” 329    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 614

"Nazis were just regular people" is not a statement meant to evoke empathy or to excuse their crimes. It is a statement of warning.

The capacity to be part of and perpetrate atrocities is not limited to "monsters," it is wholly human. It is what we must always be aware of.

21.02.2026 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4036    πŸ” 1392    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 15

It’s Bakke all over again

20.02.2026 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How about a world where Nick Cave did the artwork for all of NC&BS’s albums?

20.02.2026 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it’s a Canadian fast food hamburger place?

19.02.2026 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hello I would like to make it illegal, in grant application software, for parts of the application to only become visible when you add data, so that you can finish a whole draft application and upload it before discovering there are SECRET EXTRA SECTIONS that you had NO WAY OF KNOWING ABOUT FFS.

19.02.2026 10:30 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6