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Cuba Responding through Its Own Revolutionary Rhythm.
The Cotton Belt in the Southern USA—the area of almost total cotton growing through Jim Crow—has a lot in common with the history of the folx oppressed in the West Indies. We would do well to think about what we… Continue reading
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In all this extremism, can abolition work?
Abolitionist philosophy is precisely what is missing from the current conversation. #transist #transform #transcend Continue reading
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Always some other’s fault
Rather than deal with our own inadequacies, Americans seek some other to blame. Continue reading
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Two front institutional battles
Progressives are always fighting the system to change rules and struggling to overcome bad faith actors who abuse the rules within the system. Continue reading
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CMM0013–ORDER OF FLO with Joy and Rivkah
Drawing on themes from queer theory and responding to COVID-19, “Order of Flo” playfully dances along the lines of destiny at the intersection of bodily motion and mindful emotion. Melting the presentations of drag, queer bodies, and weird minds, “Order… Continue reading
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Gerrymandering and Woke capitalism
Repuglican Farty politicians have gerrymandered their way into not even knowing where corporations are coming from let alone most American citizens. Continue reading
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Beholding the beheld
Truth, Beauty, and Joy each have different kinds of ideas and facts. Not knowing this distinction allows systemic bigotry to continue oppressing folx despite contradictory scientific discoveries, socio-cultural evolution, and personal evidence. Continue reading
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Decolonizing Prehistory with World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture
“The idol was carved during an era of great climate change, when early forests were spreading across a warmer late glacial to postglacial Eurasia,” Dr. Terberger said. “The landscape changed, and the art — figurative designs and naturalistic animals painted… Continue reading
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Care v. Romance
Stop confusing “manipulating an object of attraction to possess IT” with “embracing ANOTHER PERSON through, with, and in loving-care.“ Continue reading
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Can Abolition Work in an Age of Right-Wing Extremism?
Punishment can radicalize and further alienate people, while social policy and grassroots community building can defuse potential violence. Continue reading
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How Robbinghood makes money
The Wallstreetbets subreddit are furious after Robinhood stopped allowing trading on GameStop. Here’s how the “commission free” investing app makes money. Continue reading
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TRUMPISM as multiracial whiteness
The attraction of Trump for Latino voters is the promise of multiracial whiteness. Rooted in America’s ugly history of white supremacy, indigenous dispossession and anti-blackness, multiracial whiteness is an ideology invested in the unequal distribution of land, wealth, power and… Continue reading
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authoritarianism LINKED TO PSYCHOPATHY–New Study
The researchers found that heightened interpersonal and affective psychopathic traits were positively associated with social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism, which in turn were linked to increased anti-immigrant attitudes towards Middle-Eastern refugees and distrust of minorities. Continue reading
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More of the Trump Teams Incompetence in 2017
Trump administration stopped working on rules that would have prepared for pandemic’s like COVID-19. Continue reading
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Buttigieg’s Lies of Omission
Growing up in Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg never had “to jump a ditch” to get where he wanted to go. Continue reading
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Open Virtue, Closed Propriety: Considerations on Daoism and Bergsonism
No consideration of parallels between Daoism and Bergsonism has been accomplished. Yet there is a profitable comparison to be made between the ancient Chinese philosophy of the Dào Dé Jing and the more contemporary work of French philosopher Henri Bergson.… Continue reading
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