Patrick Clarkin

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Here is my latest for The Chronicle inspired by the Vanderbilt Report’s sub-report on Anthropology, authored by Joseph Henrich www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Bears repeating: the house philosopher for half of Silicon Valley and JD Vance is a racist who hates democracy

These results are completely unacceptable. www.boston.com/tag/best-bos...

Abolish ICE.

Seems to me Anthropology has a lot to say about the present moment, given the urge some people have to essentialize groups again. (3/3) h/t @livinganthro.bsky.social www.livinganthropologically.com/purpose-of-a...

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What an open sewer of racism and bigotry the right has become.

In 2018, he denied reports that he called countries "shitholes." Now he uses similar language at rallies. www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

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Grok fact-checks its master 👇🏽 👀

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

There’s an open house for prospective students on campus today. If they forget my name badge, I’ve got some backups.

Pretty damn evil.

In “The Gulag Archipelago,” Solzhenitsyn described the threshold of evil.

The level of hatred and harassment that Trump is directing at Ilhan Omar is appalling. He's inciting some disturbed person to commit violence against her. The entire Republican Party already has blood on its hands, and it's eager for more.

Look at that.

My archaeology colleagues have told me that this is a potential disaster. Spread the word. cc: @whitehouse.senate.gov www.106strong.com

Saw a raccoon, a coyote, and a rabbit this morning (not all together). Gonna take this as a good omen.

The moral rot is top-to-bottom in the GOP. But let’s focus on the more specific issue here: Trump and his party like rape. Whether it’s child abuse or campus sexual assault, they think rape is ok. Maybe they even think it’s funny.

Violence is an essential tool of fascism.

Elon Musk has already declared war on Democrats and begun fighting it on several fronts. This fight is happening, whether or not some centrists want it. There's no real choice now but to make a clear case in the election and then go hard after him when they retake Congress.

🚨 BREAKING: Russian "humanitarians" struck Kyiv with 21 ballistic missiles shortly after a new round of negotiations, Zelenskyy says. The strike damaged residential buildings, energy infrastructure, metro facilities, and shopping malls across the capital.

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Officially out in Social Science & Medicine led by @mreiches.bsky.social on the false promises and faulty assumptions that underlie digital menstrual cycle tracking in sport linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0277953626008671

“The speculative marginal benefit does not justify the potential harms of discounted athlete experience, invaded privacy, exploited data, and the diversion of resources from structural change” (Reiches et al. Social Science & Medicine 2026) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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This is a major, major talking point on the right. Elon Musk rails against "suicidal empathy" and the term has caught on among millions. They believe that society is collapsing because we are tolerating too much and not punishing enough.

“We will not prevail.” -Zelenskyy www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Waterfire, my hometown.

"what's going on with the man whose name shall not be mentioned is way bigger than the man. It's going on all over the world... the greatest heist in the history of the world... it's the crown jewels: it's freedom, it's democracy, it's the fucking Enlightenment." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu92...

India's Ministry of External Affairs said the incident "adds to growing concerns over racist hostility and anti-India hate in the US". www.bbc.com/news/article...

Racist demagogue. Always has been, always will be.

Russia was never a hoax

I’m alarmed that more people aren’t alarmed by Trump targeting Somali Americans and labeling them “garbage” and “crooks” who “contribute nothing.” Most of them are U.S. citizens, yet Trump says, “I don’t want them in our country.” If you know history, you know the horror this can lead to.