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Mark Fitzpatrick

@fitzorhowl.bsky.social

Family, books, travel, sports, punk/punk-adjacent music, culture, academics, and politics. He/him Bay Stater. UMass-Amherst alum.

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Mark Fitzpatrick@fitzorhowl.bsky.social · last wk.

Finished "The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops: Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain" (2025) by Celia Plender (University of Exeter). I put this book down almost half a year ago but finally returned to it and finished it.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last wk.

Genuinely bizarre that Douthat would give up the cushiest job in journalism, where management clearly loves him, to join a newsroom whose defining attributes are its internal dysfunction and the constant stream of embarrassing leaks from disgruntled staffers.

Mark Fitzpatrick@fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 2w ago

I really struggle with this. Like the article states, social media is very toxic to kids. On the other hand, I fully agree that without social media, a generation of kids, especially from marginalized backgrounds, would have no connection. www.wired.com/story/bannin...

Banning Social Media for Kids Is a Bad Idea

The risks are real. But banning children from the internet could create new problems without solving the ones that really matter.

wired.com

Senator Ed Markey@markey.senate.gov · 2w ago

Trump’s Big Ugly Bill has stripped SNAP from 4 million people. Families shouldn’t be forced to choose between putting food on the table and paying the bills. We must reverse these cruel cuts—in the richest country in the world, no one should go hungry.

Che Washington Post 1.5 million children lost food aid since last July, analysis says Nationwide, an estimated 4 million people have been kicked off SNAP since the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, the report finds.
Mark Fitzpatrick@fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 2w ago

I want to read Samuel Moyn's "Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It". Dissent has an interview with him. Though I I must admit I am voting for an 80 year old in the primary this year (Senator Ed Markey) dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Know Your Enemy: Gerontocracy in America - Dissent Magazine

Matt and Sam talk to Matt Dinan about Leo Strauss's 1953 book, Natural Right and History.

dissentmagazine.org

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3mo ago

RFK Jr. is a eugenicist. Plain and simple. He's ignorant of science and medicine and lives in a conspiracy-addled world of his own mind. He's is destroying American public health and biomedicine.

Thomas [DARK MODE], DO@tom.medsky.social · 3mo ago

RFK Jr. showing his eugenicist beliefs. Here he is today at The City Club in Cleveland: "The average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases. So what was really killing them? It was almost impossible for COVID to kill a healthy person. It was killing people who were already sick."

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy" screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."
Mark Fitzpatrick@fitzorhowl.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I found this very interesting from @dissentmag.bsky.social written by @resnikoff.bsky.social. I respect anarcho-leftists (a lot in the academic anthropology field) but I found this article a good reminder of my own personal beliefs on the administrative state. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

The Left Needs Bureaucrats - Dissent Magazine

After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better.

dissentmagazine.org

Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 7mo ago

And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration. Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power