This piece is something to pair with your morning coffee.
Who knew Kinkade pissed on a Winnie the Pooh statue during a visit to a Disney Hotel, and left a vault filled with paintings of distorted faces, and barren landscapes?
A must read by: @sarahjones.bsky.social for @dissentmag.bsky.social
02.08.2025 12:40 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"Marx denounced the nineteenth-century factory floor as intrinsically alienating. Much of our doom-scrolling experience—on social media in particular—is no less dehumanizing than the assembly line...
"We should work to cut these services down or out entirely."
Finally, someone is saying it!
31.07.2025 16:59 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Attention Stuffed - Dissent Magazine
Our future rests on our capacity to make digital technology more boring.
Our current digital interface—defined as it is by the extraction, circulation, and consumption of virtual experiences—is at once information-rich and experience-poor.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/atte...
31.07.2025 16:14 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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29.07.2025 15:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Struggle Against Autocracy in Asia - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of The Milk Tea Alliance.
Wrapping up the thread: my SOAS blog post on the book blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-instit... & a sample interview with me about it www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic... (that ran in @dissentmag.bsky.social which is cosponsoring next week's SF launch event www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/san-fra... )
23.07.2025 21:04 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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23.07.2025 19:53 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Painter of the Right - Dissent Magazine
Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.
"There are few human beings, and fewer complications. ...Sometimes the paintings light up, literally, as if the artist wanted to burn holes in our retinas." — @sarahjones.bsky.social for @dissentmag.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
22.07.2025 23:00 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
[SAN FRANCISCO EVENT | July 30] The Milk Tea Alliance - Dissent Magazine
A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
On July 30, my 1st San Francisco event w/a @dissentmag.bsky.social tie (have always like doing NYC events w/ties to the magazine) www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/san-fra... (and speaking of magazines I like to read & work w/@indexoncensorship.org will soon run a Q&A w/me about & excerpt from the book)
22.07.2025 19:11 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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22.07.2025 18:16 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot of the DHS tweeting "Protect the Homeland" with a painting called Morning Pledge by Thomas Kinked; it shows an idealized small-town America, the pavement slick with rain, a church with an American flag, two figures walking past a white picket fence
Why did DHS share a painting by Thomas Kinkade? @sarahjones.bsky.social explains his importance to the evangelical movement: "His imaginary 1950s, without immigration or the civil rights movement, was where millions of people wanted to live long before MAGA." www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
18.07.2025 16:14 — 👍 26 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
Schengen Surveillance - Dissent Magazine
By removing checks on borders between European countries while hardening those on the edges of Europe, the EU has redrawn borders along civilizational lines.
Now unpaywalled: Hans Kundnani on Europe's border regime.
By removing checks on borders between European countries while hardening those on the edges of Europe, the EU has redrawn borders along civilizational lines.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/sche...
22.07.2025 15:50 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"Kinkade’s art was bad art, and culture did not have to be the enemy of faith. My Christian parents could tell you that musical proficiency is about more than technical skill; a good performance requires something of those who perform it and those who perceive it."
20.07.2025 16:02 — 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Human Rights Defenders Are Fleeing El Salvador as Bukele Cracks Down
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's authoritarian regime is forcing human rights defenders like the nonprofit Cristosal to flee the nation.
"The point isn’t that Trump is a ‘Latin American’ dictator — or an Eastern European one like Orban — the point is that they are all, along with the people who work under them, part of contemporary right-wing networks." @patrickiber.bsky.social
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18.07.2025 22:14 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
My latest book (on resistance &repression in Thailand, Burma & Hong Kong is out in the US but comes out in the UK in a week—very glad to have Linda Jaivin’s review for it on Good Reads 👇 & interviews out like this @dissentmag.bsky.social one by Ross Perlin www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
17.07.2025 11:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Wow, this is fantastic. Always knew the Kinkade painting in my parents' living room was bad, but just harmless bad taste. I was probably wrong.
16.07.2025 20:48 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
enjoyed this piece and recommend you read it!
16.07.2025 21:13 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The average Kinkade cottage was a mass-produced commodity, and it took hardly more effort to generate than today’s agit-slop. And even if the Bridge of Hope is a bit less blunt than alligators in ICE hats, Kinkade’s work is inescapably ideological.
16.07.2025 20:35 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
You can read their contributions in the newly released book "Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today."
11.07.2025 18:30 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
RLS-NYC joined @dissentmag.bsky.social at @bookculture.com for a powerful conversation on union democracy & immigrant labor organizing. Moderated by Dissent co-editor Natasha Lewis, the talk featured Jacobin labor reporter @alexnpress.bsky.social and New Yorker contributing writer E. Tammy Kim.
11.07.2025 18:30 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
[EVENT | July 10] Labor's Partisans - Dissent Magazine
A discussion with Alex Press and E. Tammy Kim, moderated by Natasha Lewis.
Join us on July 10 in New York at @bookculture.com for a discussion about Dissent's anthology of labor writing and the labor movement today, with @alexnpress.bsky.social and E. Tammy Kim.
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27.06.2025 21:46 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
tonight's the night! Join BC and @dissentmag.bsky.social for this amazing panel to discuss LABOR'S PARTISANS
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10.07.2025 16:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My mission for @dissentmag.bsky.social is that it should provide intellectual resources for an effective democratic left, and this piece is a great example of that
07.07.2025 20:59 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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07.07.2025 19:19 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A really useful piece on what a progressive agenda within constraints might look like. The housing policy is especially strategic - moving beyond sloganeering to outline overlapping levels of intervention. This bit on public service delivery seems like one that should be read more widely.
06.07.2025 12:51 — 👍 32 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
Glad that @jwmason.bsky.social correctly noted that while Mamdani focused on affordability, he didn't duck or move right on other issues. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
06.07.2025 17:13 — 👍 80 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1
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