Jason Read

Jason Read

@jasonread.bsky.social

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift More here: http://www.unemployednegativity.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Dan Mauler 🎃@meelar.bsky.social

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

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Nathan Goldwag
@goldwagnathan.bsky.social

Goddamn.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Jason Read
@jasonread.bsky.social

In America you can call everyone from Somalia “low IQ” and imply that every Muslim is a terrorist and the media will just shrug its shoulders, but come after the decor of the Cheesecake Factory and they will come for you.

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Nathan Newman
@nathansnewman.bsky.social

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com

New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff

washingtonsun.comWhite House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior StaffConservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.
Jason Read
@jasonread.bsky.social

One of the basic premises of the Democratic Party in the US is if we could just raise enough money from ordinary working people to counter the billionaires we could win. It is an absurd premise that only results in spam texts and a bloated consultant class.

Jason Read
@jasonread.bsky.social

Thesis: Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto Antithesis: Haraway's Companion Species Manifesto Synthesis: Whatever the hell this is. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.
Jason Read
@jasonread.bsky.social

Sometimes I think that Bento is so dedicated because A) He is a dog and B) I always treat him with kindness but sometimes I think it is C) I am incapable of eating without dropping crumbs everywhere

Jason Read
@jasonread.bsky.social

So the people in Ramaswamy's campaign thought one of two things putting together that advertisement. 1) People will see Amy Acton's own mother calling her a liar, take it at face value and have no further questions about their history or its context.

Jason Read
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2) The story of Acton's childhood will come out and that will work out well for him because he is going for the pro-childhood abuse/"sexual assault victims are liars" vote. The first one is incredibly stupid, but the second one is immeasurably worse.

Jason Read
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It is really quite amazing how much Trump's second term has made it easy for other Republicans to double down on being the absolutely worse people possible (and distressing how effective it is) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

nytimes.comRamaswamy Campaign Attack Ad Featuring Amy Acton’s Mother Turns Ohio Governor’s Race Uglier (Gift Article)A Republican ad features Amy Acton’s estranged mother calling her daughter a liar. The two have not spoken since Dr. Acton’s mother backed her husband after his arrest on rape charges.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social
@lastpositivist.bsky.social

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social

i don't think we can come to a reasonable compromise with this

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lastpositivist.bsky.social
@lastpositivist.bsky.social

Genuinely don't know how nihilistic to be here but: it's not at all obvious that "man mocks a woman for being the victim of child rape" actually counts against him with modern Republican audiences. Indeed her having the temerity to complain, and him reminding them of that, might activate the base.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Unearthed footage of Vivek Ramaswamy mocking Amy Acton for being a survivor of childhood abuse: "She has no vision other than to complain about what someone else did to her"