Geoff Pfeifer

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

I am not sure what you mean. Like Trump personally wants real estate in Iran? That would be a strange theory. You could just see this as pure power politics and part of a well documented larger geopolitics of imperialism.

Starting to think these fucks are just george w bush republicans with a bit more dumb and a lot more white supremacy.

Philosophy/critical theory folks: if you were revamping an undergraduate social and political philosophy/critical theory syllabus for this moment what short(ish) pieces would you add?

Very good analysis in the link.

@kazedkaz.bsky.social just got around to reading this. So good. Thanks for the pointer!

Folks on here like ‘we bombed Iran to distract from epstein’ come on folks, if there is one thing we know about this country broadly and this regime specifically is that it is straightforwardly imperialist and genocidal.

Absolutely.

I mean, I guess it is nice to see a business standing up to this administration but folks, there is no way an AI company is on ‘our side’. Please stop saying that. It is silly. They are still a techbro slop machine company that does not care about you.

Extra selfish car brain-y in this city this morning. Be careful out there folks.

Front matter for the PCW journal listing articles on philosophical counseling, Neural fascism, Honneth and the Iranian Women’s movement, and others.

New Issue of the PCW Journal is out.

The Shabani and Hall article on Honneth and the Iranian 'Women, Life, Freedom' Movement is our open access article for this issue. All articles the are great. Check it out here: www.pdcnet.org/collection-a...

#philosophy #philsky

One of the many great things about teaching is that I get to keep being excited about a snow day basically in the same way as when I was a kid.

One thing this shitty moment we are living through has done is that its helped my gen X brain recall what it was like to remember numbers before smart phones. I can memorize the fuck out of a license plate and vehicle description so fast.

EXCLUSIVE: Markey says transgender rights fight is ‘next frontier’ Mass. senator, 79, running for re-election

Massachusetts folks considering Moulton over Markey because of age ought to read this interview. Markey may be older but he is still way more progressive than Moulton and not only on this issue.

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Rent Board Resignation Clears Path for Mamdani Rent Freeze Promise The new mayor is now able to appoint a majority to the Rent Guidelines Board, giving him the numbers for a signature campaign promise.

looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:

Sorry. Did not mean for the OP to be cryptic but can see now how it was, lol.

Yes! Dig them. I meant that public art is for everyone. It resists enclosure and those who would restrict it based on who they think deserves such luxury.

Kraken arms coming out of a building in downtown Boston

Artificial humans public art in Boston.

Fascism sucks. Public art in this city is resistance.

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…

“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

Lol. It is a machine.

This is good. And Ring is still shitty surveillance.

tfw 39 degrees feels like shorts weather.

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

When we're annoying and say America is a continent not a country this is what we mean.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.

The Bad Bunny halftime show syllabus we are going to get in the coming days is going to be awesome.