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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

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DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS

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06.03.2026 16:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Top notch replies on here, I feel proud to be a Blueskyer today 🫡

06.03.2026 15:30 👍 140 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 0
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40 nations in The Hague propose sanctions on Israel over its settlement policy in West Bank The Hague Group recommends arms embargoes, traveler screenings to enforce international law, according to statement - Anadolu Ajansı

"History will judge us not by the speeches we delivered, but by the actions we took."

Read more from yesterday's meeting of The Hague Group in Anadolu Ajansı.

06.03.2026 11:25 👍 69 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1
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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

We don’t yet know if Estefany Rodríguez’s detention was in retaliation for her reporting but we certainly wouldn’t be surprised.

ICE abductions of noncitizen journalists take the reporters best equipped to cover immigration enforcement off the beat.

06.03.2026 00:43 👍 191 🔁 95 💬 6 📌 0

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

28.02.2026 14:20 👍 26160 🔁 8852 💬 286 📌 330

“What is a woman???” I cried as the gender-fluid grenades exploded in rainbow colors all over the field, and the diversity cannons echoed in the distance

06.03.2026 15:15 👍 134 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0

Can’t forget storming the beach on DEI Day, getting pinned down by the TikTok and CRT. It was gender fluid for hours.

06.03.2026 14:05 👍 124 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0

Never fight a land acknowledgement war in Asia

06.03.2026 13:14 👍 172 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1

“I acknowledge that I am bleeding out on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Iroquois…”

06.03.2026 13:27 👍 131 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

We thought trigger warnings would help, but they did nothing to stop the brutality of land acknowledgement statement trench warfare, where each side refused to steal more territory.

06.03.2026 13:56 👍 55 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

what explains a miss this large?

06.03.2026 14:03 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...

one google data center in virginia

two million gallons of water per day

information only released under court order & risk of contempt

05.03.2026 22:13 👍 623 🔁 423 💬 11 📌 59

Just lobbing pronouns indiscriminately at civilian populations.

06.03.2026 13:04 👍 187 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 0

Hearing “Oberlin” triggers the thousand-yard stare

06.03.2026 13:12 👍 92 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1

African-American and Caribbean Diaspora Hawk Down

06.03.2026 13:08 👍 98 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

A big reason why we're in the situation we're in is because the impact of Woke War II has slowly faded from public memory.

06.03.2026 13:08 👍 96 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0

we will not forget. we will bring them before the Tumblr Court of Justice

06.03.2026 13:17 👍 91 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Allied Powers -> All DEI Powers

06.03.2026 13:04 👍 50 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

where did you serve, old timer? I did my first tour at Swarthmore

06.03.2026 13:14 👍 54 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

This solves what looks like a severe problem for this account: if conservatives are deeply motivated by a need to preserve extra-human order, why did so many of them give themselves so quickly to *Trump*? Where’s their St Thomas More?

06.03.2026 12:24 👍 32 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

It’s a mistake to think that conservatives’ public talk under broadly liberal norms of discourse will fully express their basic motivating ideas; it‘s at least worth checking what they say when they’re closer to control of public talk, whether in the colonies or under segregation.

06.03.2026 12:20 👍 42 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

My unit has done a frank and open self-inventory about that and a harm reduction roadmap is in place for the next amphibious assault.

06.03.2026 12:54 👍 152 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

I found my buddy, what was left of him, on the beach. The haunted look in his eyes as he struggled for breath. “They called me ableist,” he said. “Tell my wife…tell her I wasn’t problematic.”

06.03.2026 12:49 👍 387 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 2

Hey man, you go to war with the safe spaces you have

06.03.2026 12:46 👍 146 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand

06.03.2026 12:43 👍 2228 🔁 327 💬 88 📌 35
Radical-right behavior is increasing across Western democracies, often very fast. Previous research has shown, however, that political attitudes and preferences do not change this fast. How, then, can we make sense of these patterns?
 
I argue that, to explain them, one needs to appreciate the crucial role of social norms as drivers of political behavior. Social norms can make one's behavior conditional on expectations of what others deem appropriate. In so doing, they can block the translation of preferences into behavior, and bring about changes in behavior even under preference stability.
 
Building on a theory of how norms affect political supply and demand, I argue that growing radical-right behavior is driven by individuals who already had radical-right views, but who did not act on them because they thought that they were socially unacceptable.

Radical-right behavior is increasing across Western democracies, often very fast. Previous research has shown, however, that political attitudes and preferences do not change this fast. How, then, can we make sense of these patterns? I argue that, to explain them, one needs to appreciate the crucial role of social norms as drivers of political behavior. Social norms can make one's behavior conditional on expectations of what others deem appropriate. In so doing, they can block the translation of preferences into behavior, and bring about changes in behavior even under preference stability. Building on a theory of how norms affect political supply and demand, I argue that growing radical-right behavior is driven by individuals who already had radical-right views, but who did not act on them because they thought that they were socially unacceptable.

Basically this, except that paying attention to empire was a cheap way of catching conservatism unfiltered.

06.03.2026 12:29 👍 51 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1

once you pay careful attention to empire, there‘s very little reason to deny that conservatives are as interested in race as fascists were uniquely supposed to be; nor is there any longer much reason to deny that they were were quite happy to endorse extreme violence

06.03.2026 12:14 👍 52 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.

06.03.2026 12:19 👍 1750 🔁 447 💬 50 📌 14
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Epstein files: Missing FBI documents related to Trump allegations released Donald Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Jeffrey Epstein, and his press secretary said allegations in the newly released files are "baseless".

Under the cover of war, the US DoJ has just quietly released some of the missing Epstein files that directly relate to Trump.

In which, he is accused of sexual assault by a then 13 year old who says he tried to force oral sex on her.

Shameless. news.sky.com/story/epstei...

06.03.2026 08:50 👍 203 🔁 99 💬 7 📌 3

😭

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