Rhetorical & Ethical Theory Lab

NEW BOOK: Panic Now? Tools for Humanizing (U Tenn Press, 2024):

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Grateful to @utennpress for making this book. It's written for ordinary people ready to take reality seriously: not without the comfort of tears, but without false hopes or make-believe about how our #collapse is going.

Taking polycrisis seriously opens new, real possibilities.

[University of Tennessee Press @utennpress]

Out today! Ira J. Allen's "Panic Now?: Tools for Humanizing" is a master class in how to create more humanizing outcomes by confronting the panic that comes with the realization that the world as we know it is ending.

Order your copy today wherever fine books are sold!

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@enoughformethx One of several reasons the maniacal Dem focus on gun control has always been a pickled red herring.

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While you were out . . .

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

1.36°C 2016 ✔
1.68°C in 2023/24 ✔
1.96°C by 2028/29

Global warming is accelerating.

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@PalmerLuckey Lol at yr confirmation bias

[W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School @AbolitionSchool]

Subscribe & tune in Monday at 6:15pm EST for our discussion of Chapter 4: "The General Strike"!

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I am fucking BEGGING YOU to stop asking John Bolton the walrus-faced mass murderer for opinions about war

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@samhaselby "The best embezzlers and gropers money can buy!"

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@rafkhach The fact that most tt (and aspirational ntt) faculty *still* don't believe that they are labor in any strong sense bodes, uh, ill.

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Quick! Let's make sure we hear from a person whose professional job is PR spin! It's the only way to get the truth of the matter!

Hard to overstate how much being Dem aligned today is just a commitment to being gaslit at all times.

[Alex Thompson @AlexThomp]

Former Biden press secretary Karine Jean Pierre on the post-debate fall-out.

“It was a firing squad…I had never seen anything like that before…that was shocking, shocking…It was truly, truly unfortunate. And I think it hurt us more than folks realized.”

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@MattPolProf @AlbertBikaj Literally no competent mind in the year 2025 could arrive in good faith and as a result of serious interlocution at the take you responded to here. It's not just risible as proposition, but impossible as result of functional dialogue.

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

It is entirely possible

that the United Health CEO was killed by a corporate-hired hitman due to the huge lawsuits happening,

Like the Boeing whistleblowers who were killed

and that evidence was planted on Luigi Mangione to frame him.

I dont know- but its possible.

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Read this essay and learn something!

https://t.co/aDmI8V96p0

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@natashalennard @theintercept The fact that a deeply smart person like you has to spill this much ink--and I agree that you do, to be clear!--to make a case this exceedingly obvious resonate for Dem-adjacent ppl in the US is, in itself, diagnostically *terrible*.

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@Jason @USPS Hey, btw, fuck you

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@podsekalnikov It's even worse than capitalist realism. Easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, and impossible to imagine anything BUT the undisrupted reproduction of society.

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I don't have much use for Maddow in general, but good for her here in trying to get the Dems to be *for* anything at all.

And Jeffries with just the nothingest and most Dem Party imaginable response: "We're ALREADY doing a great job!"

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Maddow tries to shake @RepJeffries into meeting the moment: "Policy doesn't feel like the main conversation… we are in the middle of a Ketamine-fueled middle of the night autocratic power grab rendering Congress irrelevant, making the rule of law an afterthought if not a joke."

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

How it started: How it’s going:

[Scientist Rebellion @ScientistRebel1]

3/ 🔭 Extractivism is a lens through which we can look at capitalism. When we look through that lens we see... violence.

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@podsekalnikov Go birds