Helen
@wokesteppenomad.bsky.social
Editorial board Critical Theory Working Group: @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social
Bassist in Burial Mask: https://linktr.ee/burialmask
She/they
Bassist in Burial Mask: https://linktr.ee/burialmask
She/they
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I feel like this image is going to get a lot of use but I don’t know in what context it could ever be useful
October 8, 2026 at 1:24 PM
I feel like this image is going to get a lot of use but I don’t know in what context it could ever be useful
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It's pretty interesting experiencing even the barest fraction of what it must feel like to have your country occupied by a hostile power
Trump: You wanna see trauma? I said it the other day. Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles.
October 8, 2026 at 1:49 AM
It's pretty interesting experiencing even the barest fraction of what it must feel like to have your country occupied by a hostile power
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Anine is one of the people who worked to expose the research misconduct against trans people at Oslo University Hospital.
Yesterday, she was told she is no longer on their waitlist to receive gender-affirming care.
This is so obviously retaliatory, it's hard to put into words!
Yesterday, she was told she is no longer on their waitlist to receive gender-affirming care.
This is so obviously retaliatory, it's hard to put into words!
Den ene av forskerne ved OUS som jeg har fått felt for grov uaktsomhet og vitenskapelig uredelighet…
…er samme person som avgjør hvilken helsehjelp jeg skal få.
I går fikk jeg beskjed om at jeg ikke lenger er oppført på ventelistene.
…er samme person som avgjør hvilken helsehjelp jeg skal få.
I går fikk jeg beskjed om at jeg ikke lenger er oppført på ventelistene.
October 7, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Anine is one of the people who worked to expose the research misconduct against trans people at Oslo University Hospital.
Yesterday, she was told she is no longer on their waitlist to receive gender-affirming care.
This is so obviously retaliatory, it's hard to put into words!
Yesterday, she was told she is no longer on their waitlist to receive gender-affirming care.
This is so obviously retaliatory, it's hard to put into words!
Goddamn
I don't like how acclimated I've become to seeing insane brutality.
Prehistory of humanity gotta come to a close soon
I don't like how acclimated I've become to seeing insane brutality.
Prehistory of humanity gotta come to a close soon
October 8, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Goddamn
I don't like how acclimated I've become to seeing insane brutality.
Prehistory of humanity gotta come to a close soon
I don't like how acclimated I've become to seeing insane brutality.
Prehistory of humanity gotta come to a close soon
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The person remains on the vehicle, in a makeshift tent of space blankets confining her in the fumes, with BP or perhaps a contractor periodically running the vehicle. BP agents standing on the Roosevelt reservation with pepper balls and tear gas
Border Patrol moved a vehicle with someone lockeddown on it this evening while pepperballing and tear gassing people standing in an adjacent ranch field
October 8, 2026 at 4:33 AM
The person remains on the vehicle, in a makeshift tent of space blankets confining her in the fumes, with BP or perhaps a contractor periodically running the vehicle. BP agents standing on the Roosevelt reservation with pepper balls and tear gas
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Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned.
The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet.
Cowards.
The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet.
Cowards.
Democrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump Demands
The policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.
www.transiticsnews.com
October 7, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned.
The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet.
Cowards.
The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet.
Cowards.
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Tonight in Lochiel, AZ, Border Patrol agents tied the legs together of a person who protested the building of the border wall by tying themselves to the truck. Then they let the driver drive away with them tied to the truck. No word on their condition. www.instagram.com/rally.forthe...
October 8, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Tonight in Lochiel, AZ, Border Patrol agents tied the legs together of a person who protested the building of the border wall by tying themselves to the truck. Then they let the driver drive away with them tied to the truck. No word on their condition. www.instagram.com/rally.forthe...
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Got a good follow-up question re: the claim “anti-anti-imperialists” would likely make that their motive is more “a desire for adherence to communist politics” than a rejection of violence as such, & this was my response
October 7, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Got a good follow-up question re: the claim “anti-anti-imperialists” would likely make that their motive is more “a desire for adherence to communist politics” than a rejection of violence as such, & this was my response
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“How can you be a Horkheimerian who supports armed anti-imperialist resistance movements?”
The conclusion to every essay Horkheimer writes for the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung ~1934-1939:
The conclusion to every essay Horkheimer writes for the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung ~1934-1939:
October 7, 2026 at 7:53 AM
“How can you be a Horkheimerian who supports armed anti-imperialist resistance movements?”
The conclusion to every essay Horkheimer writes for the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung ~1934-1939:
The conclusion to every essay Horkheimer writes for the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung ~1934-1939:
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Horkheimer from the same: Never trust someone “who becomes a human being only when tears are to be shed for a Tsar” &, “learning of the nexus of imperialist world politics, [European] prisons, & colonial terrors, flies into rage—but [first & most] at who exposed, not authored it.”
Despite what the “anti-anti-imperialists” who claim the tradition today would have you believe, orthodox critical theory was actually, as Horkheimer wrote in Twilight, all about utter contempt for the “vacuous pacifism which condemns a colonial war & a prison revolt in equal measure for ‘violence.’”
October 7, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Horkheimer from the same: Never trust someone “who becomes a human being only when tears are to be shed for a Tsar” &, “learning of the nexus of imperialist world politics, [European] prisons, & colonial terrors, flies into rage—but [first & most] at who exposed, not authored it.”
Getting really into anarcho-primitivism so I can level myself a philosopher of AI
October 7, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Getting really into anarcho-primitivism so I can level myself a philosopher of AI
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Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
October 7, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
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Being a Pictish warrior was lowkey woaded
October 7, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Being a Pictish warrior was lowkey woaded
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I’m on a flight next to a guy who is listening to Seinfeld with no headphones and all I hear is the laughtrack and the worst bass noises of all time every 15 seconds and all I can think about is this.
October 7, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I’m on a flight next to a guy who is listening to Seinfeld with no headphones and all I hear is the laughtrack and the worst bass noises of all time every 15 seconds and all I can think about is this.
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Mohammed is a great guy, he has the purest most loving heart. He always shows me love, & that's special, his love for me is very empowering. He loves his two daughters so much too, he lives for them & would give anything for them. One has severe conditions & needs an inhaler & medical care. Give.
💔 Sometimes, the hardest thing for a father is watching his little girl suffer and not having enough to save her.
I have two daughters, and one of them suddenly suffered a heart crisis. She urgently needs treatment and an inhaler. I just want to see her well again. 🙏
chuffed.org/project/2038...
I have two daughters, and one of them suddenly suffered a heart crisis. She urgently needs treatment and an inhaler. I just want to see her well again. 🙏
chuffed.org/project/2038...
October 7, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Mohammed is a great guy, he has the purest most loving heart. He always shows me love, & that's special, his love for me is very empowering. He loves his two daughters so much too, he lives for them & would give anything for them. One has severe conditions & needs an inhaler & medical care. Give.
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SUGGESTION - Brother, you should put me in front of a firing squad. I have no words for how I failed you.
October 7, 2026 at 9:49 AM
SUGGESTION - Brother, you should put me in front of a firing squad. I have no words for how I failed you.
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The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one.
Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
October 7, 2026 at 12:07 AM
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one.
Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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This is Elias, who is going blind.
Today is my son Elias’s birthday. Imagine this is your child, losing his sight while you can’t save him. He has already lost one eye, and the last light is fading. Please give Elias the birthday gift he needs most: a chance to see again.
Verified by : molly shah✅
chuffed.org/project/196611
Verified by : molly shah✅
chuffed.org/project/196611
October 6, 2026 at 2:16 PM
This is Elias, who is going blind.
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i think about this tweet every day
October 7, 2026 at 3:25 AM
i think about this tweet every day
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Anwar Shaikh, grand économiste hétérodoxe (marxiste), est mort.
October 7, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Anwar Shaikh, grand économiste hétérodoxe (marxiste), est mort.
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'I don't think trans people's lives matter enough to be an election issue' is not the rousing defence of trans people some liberals seem to think it is.
October 7, 2026 at 5:18 AM
'I don't think trans people's lives matter enough to be an election issue' is not the rousing defence of trans people some liberals seem to think it is.
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Good response to the piece already from Neel, who not only recognizes & appreciates it *as* a polemic but also starts outlining a counter-argument by trying to tease out what he considers the real points of contention. Other detractors, step it up!
substack.com/@philneel/no...
substack.com/@philneel/no...
October 7, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Good response to the piece already from Neel, who not only recognizes & appreciates it *as* a polemic but also starts outlining a counter-argument by trying to tease out what he considers the real points of contention. Other detractors, step it up!
substack.com/@philneel/no...
substack.com/@philneel/no...
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Bolsheviks in July of 1917
October 7, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Bolsheviks in July of 1917
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![The good news is that antifascism, [badly photoshopped] boycotting Harry Potter, [photoshop ended]Reconstruction 2.0, the abolition of billionaires, and the Butlerian Jihad are all one project now](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jivzxrinjz53ojvhpk4ofeuu/bafkreiabiylvi2gprhwidxemtummvrahj3pfom2jsnyr3i2fldueanxqui)