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Bookstore inhabitor, music listener, and Caroline Polachek reposter.

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@GregorianSimon @POTUSupporters Seek mental health

[josef k hole @poeticdweller]

i don’t understand the anti-theory fetishization of reading primary sources in grad school. anyone can read novels and poetry, graduate programs should train you in specialized knowledge *about* literature (that the literature itself often misses), exactly what theory is

[franiola @granolaparabola]

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[Charli @charli_xcx]

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[𖦹 @kozovo_]

Aún pienso en este performance

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

Just donated to @HIMANSHU at http://t.co/gFmjyv2b6U 'cause @SwetShopBoys 1st EP was so 🔥🔥🔥.

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@PhilWMagness Unfollowing because of this unlettered criticism. Fact is is that Marx is an essential text for the critique of capitalism. It is the only or even a necessary text? Of course not, but it is the most prevalant in modern discourse.

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@PhilWMagness It is not absurd given the highly romantic aspects of early Marx. Marxist literary criticism is not from some modern institutionalization of Marxist thought. Trotsky's Literature and Revolution, for example, is a key text is Marxist Literary theory, Walter Benjamin too.

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Agree for the most part, especially with the scholarship of Audrey Truschke, but there is a legitimate reason why Indians are resistant of white people being an authority on India. The history you write is also informed by your blood and citizenship.

[Audrey Truschke @AudreyTruschke]

I'd like to answer this directly -- Absolutely, people of any background, including Indians, can comment on American history. History rests on knowledge and studying, not your blood or citizenship.

There are some great, insightful non-American American historians.

[Audrey Truschke @AudreyTruschke]

This isn't Shiva. It's more likely adapted from proto-Elamite iconography, showing an Eurasian deity "lord of animals."

Indian history is amazing, wonderful, and fantastic -- It's well worth getting it right.

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@korewadiego I'm saying this as a regular user of LibreOffice: the UI is often frustrating. I use the Word-clone ribbon layout and sometimes you will see a bunch of pressable icons without any contextual meaning. Its good for simple tasks though.

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@samuelmoyn You have thoroughly pissed-off "TakingHayekSeriously" in the comments. It seems their critique is that this article doesn't take Hayek seriously.

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

John Rawls "stakes the psychological motivation of the modern citizen on a Whig history that reaches back to the seventeenth-century Puritan liberty of conscience." Good piece. https://t.co/3NuwbU6skk

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@ferretfyre @EamonWhalen This is ignorant and reductive. Familiarize yourself with what Boots Riley really believes in.

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"He speak about Singham as friends call him: 'Roy Singham.'" Some excellent reporting here.

[Asra Nomani @AsraNomani]

On Twitch just now, Marxist Hasan Piker makes an important admission: he says American Marxist pro-China tycoon Neville Roy Singham has funded a "political movement" in the US.

That's a significant characterization. PIker went to Cuba as part of a convoy organized by nonprofits funded by Singham.

As I've reported @FoxNews Digital, SIngham has pumped $285M since 2017 into pro-communist nonprofits, including CodePink, which is also facing Treasury Department scrutiny for possibly violating sanctions against the Communist Party of Cuba.

The groups that Singham has funded are 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) NONPROFITS that ARE NOT supposed be part of "political movements" but have clearly been politically motivated, supporting candidates, protesting administration (both Dem and Republican) policies and messaging consistently anti-US political positions.

Piker claims "the goal" of a probe into his Cuba trip isn't him but Singham.

He speak about Singham as friends call him: "Roy Singham."

"He's been a funding vehicle for a lot of like political, uh, a lot of political movements in the country, a lot of activism...They're trying to jam him up....That's it. That's the goal here....They get to chill speech."

Piker says Trump Administration national security advisor Sebastian Gorka is "behind" the scrutiny. He didn't provide evidence.

Follow @FoxNews for coverage of this issue -- why does it matter? Because these "political movements" are changing the dynamics in America, promoting the propaganda of America's adversaries.

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@michallaire @saruhschwartz Have not seen it yet. Is it a problem with Tune-Yards or other songs on the soundtrack.

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@ranjodhd Never thought I’d see a meme featuring that Wendy Chun text.

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Here is an example of a grant one could qualify as "Marxist." Again, I agree with the main idea but this author doesn't even try to attempt at any sort of data collection. TL;DR: Don't post your unlettered attempts at data analysis to twitter.

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Get the sentiment, but academics should be critical of such lazy data collection. You didn't even bother putting quotes around the search term. Also what are you even searching for? Below are examples of grant descriptions—I fail to see how Marx would be mentioned here.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

On the academia is full of Marxists debate: it’s illustrative to look at Mellon, the largest source of academic humanities funding by orders of magnitude.

Projects tagged w/ Marxism in their grant database? 0
Gender studies? 46
Black studies? 25
Social Justice? 42
Latinx? 451

[David Benedict 🏳️‍🌈🕎 @eggsbened]

There are days when I miss being an editor and I particularly loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.