Keith “Maggie” Brown
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How the Republican party quietly does the bidding of white supremacists
The lesson from Charlottesville is not how dangerous the neo-Nazis are. It is the unmasking of the Republican party leadership. In the wake of last weekend’s horror and tragedy, let us finally, finally rip off the veneer that Trump’s affinity… Continue reading
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Trump’s Neo-Nazis and the Rise of Illiberal Democracy
The authoritarian drama unfolding across the United States has many registers and includes state violence against immigrants, right-wing populist violence against mosques and synagogues, and attacks on Muslims, Black people and others who do not fit into the vile script… Continue reading
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…if not for the anarchists and antifascists
Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking about the terror in Charlottesville. The white supremacist violence there began Friday night as hundreds of neo-Nazis, KKKmembers and other white nationalists… Continue reading
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I’m Not Your Exception
Originally posted on Holding Patterns and High Tea: CN: discussion of microaggressions, gendered expectations, transphobia, transmisogyny There is a thing cis people often do when trans people come out to them. They say something like, “I just love you for… Continue reading
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A people-owned internet exists. Here is what it looks like
Whatever happens in Washington, we can start building an internet that respects our rights on the local level. What would be the best route for creating community broadband in your community? In cities and towns, it’s probably through a municipal… Continue reading
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Impacts and Insurance: Climate Change Risk Transfer
Is a creeping catastrophe insurable? Eberhard Faust, climate risk researcher at Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurance companies, and disaster historian Scott Knowles talk about the instruments and scale-problems involved in calculating and transferring the costs of climate-change-related… Continue reading
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Whiteness is Dead | The Wild Hunt
Highly recommend a read through of this… Whiteness is dead. James Baldwin proclaimed it back in 1972, prophesying ominously that there would be “bloody holding actions all over the world, for years to come.” The holding actions have gotten bloodier… Continue reading
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Infrared Photography Captures the Neon World of Colorblind Islanders – Creators
On a small island in the Pacific called Pingelap, a high percentage of the population sees the world in only black and white. A startling number of island’s inhabitants suffer from achromatopsia, or total color-blindness with an increased sensitivity to… Continue reading
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Mindfulness colouring sheets
Great series of coloring pictures for mindful detachment. Take a look and choose your favorite. Source: Mindfulness colouring sheets Continue reading
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The solitude of the inner citadel: the epoché of suffering | Preludes and Refrains
…the situation of philosophy today is one in which we can no longer pretend that we are innocent of reproducing the same violence that the philosopher has suffered at the hands of the sophist and the misologist. Since Kant, philosophy’s… Continue reading
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AnarchoCynic as Queer or recognizing the gravity well of domination
We are forsaken to our existential condition. We can simply make-do with what is already underway, or we can accept responsibility for having the power to explore in a fashion otherwise than tradition teaches. Anarchocynicism only works so long as… Continue reading
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Iceberg Detaches from the Larsen C Shelf
The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth, with average temperatures that have risen about 3°C (5°F) over the last half century. The increasing size and poleward shift of the Larsen calving events over the last 20-plus… Continue reading
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Picasso and the Spanish Civil War
The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University acquired some sketches by Picasso that concern the Spanish Civil War: “The Dream and Lie of Franco.” All above works captured here by my photography may be under copyright and are being posted for… Continue reading
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Existentialism Course, Summer 2017
When I do lectures in this class, I will post the audio files here. Doing this lets students be a little more free to engage in the lecture without worry that they will miss taking notes on something important. It… Continue reading
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Freedom, Choice, and the Death of Us
Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: “they did not stop to think they died instead” “‘next to of course god america i,’” e.e. cummings Over the course of a couple hours after my mother was discovered comatose, the ER… Continue reading
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