William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸
Political theorist in Montreal, via Custer, Lubbock, New Underwood, Rapid City, Northfield, State College, and WashPa. Free Palestine.
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸To lose one fighter jet is a tragedy. To lose two begins to look like carelessness.
- This, from Holly Lewis, is excellent.
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- A nice (unwitting) demonstration of the universalizing (if never completed) tendency of basic political rights: if due process is only for citizens, then no citizen has due process, since the police can call them an alien and disappear them without a hearing.
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸We really do have an open genocidaire in Congress.
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.
- Yeah, they have identified with the Empire and with Vader for a while. Here's the head of the Premier Sector of the USBP on Twitter.
- Just found out that Marx's Inferno will be appearing in Spanish translation in 2026 from Edicions Bellaterra. And, if you haven't read it on English yet, now is a good time to get it, since PUP is having a 50% off sale right now.
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸In 2010, Senator Chuck Schumer called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to investigate whether the Gaza aid flotilla that Israel attacked was tied to Al Qaeda
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne. The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews. Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸Makes sense. It's working. Gotta put a stop to it.
- SCOOP: Two Democratic aides and a lawmaker told @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has discouraged further member excursions to El Salvador
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸Reposted in memory youtu.be/d6qc8EqN_XI?...
- It's a big group chat, and you're not in it.
- I can't believe Joshua Clover is gone.
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸voters just want to be taken seriously and treated like adults
- Pathetic and embarrassing.
- The healthcare workers of 1199SEIU proudly endorse Andrew Cuomo for Mayor of New York City. #linkinbio for our full statement: digital.1199seiu.org/3YOW89f
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸I think we should raise the salience of this.
- BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com
- Unfortunately, every day reveals to the world a new nutcase from Montreal/McGill.
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸Wow. Just, wow
- NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸16 years ago, I reported on a video in which a forensic charlatan used the dental mold of a suspect to fabricate bite marks on the corpse of a young girl. It took way too long, but this week a Louisiana court finally overturned Jimmie Duncan’s conviction and death sentence.
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
- In two weeks, I will be presenting at the CUNY Graduate Center Political Theory Workshop. (The paper title has changed to "Freedom and control at work") Details below. If you want to meet up while I'm in NYC, drop me a note.
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸It's frankly ridiculous that we even have to make this suggestion. It's Politics 101.
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- I'm not too worried about it.
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸what's more interesting about this than many other hallucinations is that it is an attack on a fundamental feature of the systems as they exist today: they _can't_ say I don't know in response to genuinely novel formulations, but have to come up with some probable continuation.
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸they understand it, they dishonestly use polls to support their preferred agendas. they are liars, not idiots
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸pictured: elite capture, 1940 to present
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸Editor creates an AI executive who is "an expert at building and scaling digital media companies." Decides within minutes that the AI is "one of the most knowledgeable and energetic colleagues" he's ever had. Asks the AI to create a headshot of itself. It does. He sexually harasses it immediately.
- Transport and logistics systems blinking red.
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸Observe that the one that complied and the one that didn't comply are treated exactly the same way.
- The Slate Star guy somehow manages to outdo himself. How do you look at the period since WWII and say this without your brain spontaneously exploding and dribbling out your nose?
- I managed to read the SSC "maybe I fucked up?" dialogue and it was telling me to that even the persona representing his regret still couldn't quite bring itself to fully repent. I was very struck by the quoted. That's the trente glorieuses she's talking about! Stagnation cos not enough race science!
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸Nobody who went to Yale could be bad (not picking on Rob here but a deep belief of our political media class is that "Yalies" might not be perfect but they are still superior beings - including morally - to penn state grads)
- You can't parody these people. They want Trump's results, but by a more procedurally palatable means.
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border
- Reposted by William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸Yep American infrastructure means that cyclists need a much higher risk tolerance than the general population, which tends to select for 18-34 year old men, a population with a high dickishness rate. As always, the best dick-reduction strategy is better infrastructure. bsky.app/profile/plan...
- 1. This is a weird list. 2. Rather than finger-wagging, you can always translate whatever you think is valuable in Yggy, Noah, Silver, or whoever. Just *say* what you think people are missing! It doesn't have to be attached to a particular person.
- I feel like this has become a "must always retweet" instance.
- Honestly didn't realize that American politicians were still capable of expressing feelings of embarrassment and shame. Good for her.
