terrorism
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On unintended consequences.
Drones can keep soldiers safe, but they put everyone else at risk.
A Theory of the Drone, assassination, Chamayou, dope, drone, drone pilot, drone pilot suicide, drone pilots, drone strikes, drone war, drone warfare, drones, drug overdose, drugs, drugs in jail, drugs in prison, grass, Gregoire Chamayou, jail smuggling, marijuana, military, military suicide, military suicides, military violence, philosophy, philosophy of war, politics, pot, pot replacer, prison mail, prison smuggling, spice, suicide, synthetic marijuana, terror, terrorism, terrorist, terrorist attack, violence against civilians, War on Drugs, war on terror
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On white supremacist vegetables and watchful eyes.
There have always been watchful eyes on our farmers market — it’s down the street from the county jail.
45, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Bastards of the Reagan Era, Bloomington, Bloomington farmers market, Bloomington fourth street festival, Bloomington Indiana, conservative, Donald Trump, executing drug dealers, family klan, farmers market, fourth street festival, hate, hate speech, high school, high school white supremacists, identitarian, Identity Evropa, identity politics, jail, jail poetry, jail windows, KKK, Klan, M.G., Market, norms of public discourse, norms of social media, poetry in jail, poetry reading, PotUS, prison, protest, public discourse, racial injustice, Reginald Dwayne Betts, right wing, right-wing terrorists, Sarah Dye, social media, social media outrage, spoken word tent, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, teaching writing in jail, Terrance Hayes, terrorism, Trump, Twitter, unsafe spaces, what it's like to write in jail, white identity, white supremacist, white supremacist terrorists, white supremacists, white supremacists at the farmers market, white supremacy, you don't seem to want it but you wanted it, you don't seem too haunted but you haunted
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On vengeance and Ahmed Saadawi’s ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad.’
We all share blame for the ills perpetrated in our names, but some among us are made to suffer outsize portions of the costs.
Ahmed Saadawi, Albany, Arabic fiction, cocaine, cooperation, Correction, Correction (pt. ii), Correction part 2, corrections, evolution of cooperation, evolution of eusociality, forgiveness, forgiving, Frankenstein, Frankenstein in Baghdad, incarceration, injustice, Iraq, jail, jail poetry, Jonathan Wright, justice, Lori Milks, mass incarceration, most provable murder case I have ever seen, murder, murder victims, neurology, neuroscience, philosophy, poetry, poetry in jail, prison, public defender, punishment, rehabilitation, reprisal, restorative justice, retribution, Saadawi, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, terrorism, the healing power of forgiveness, the neurology of justice, vengeance, victims of terrorism, violence, War on Drugs
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On violence and gratitude.
Although I consider myself a benevolent tyrant, some of my cells have turned against me. Mutinous, they were swayed by the propaganda of a virus and started churning out capsids rather than helping me type this essay. Which leaves me sitting at a YMCA snack room table snerking, goo leaking down my throat and out…
animal cruelty, animal life, animal welfare, apoptosis, appreciation, autotroph, biology, biology from a cell’s perspective, cancer, cancer biology, cell biology, cell death, cellular biology, cold, competition, consciousness, cooperation, cost, defection, DNA, do plants have feelings, doom, eat more plants, ethics, farming, gamete, genetics, germ cell, herbivore, heterotroph, immunology, inevitable death, irrationality, metastasis, microbiology, molecular biology, multicellular organisms, other perspectives, photosynthesis, plant-based diet, plant-based lifestyle, programmed cell death, psych experiment, psychology, Richard Dawkins, sacrifice, self sacrifice, selfish gene, sick, somatic cell, Suzana Huculano-Houzel, terrorism, The Human Advantage, the inevitability of death, tyrant, value, vegan, veganism, vegetarian, violence, viral infection, virology, virus, we value what we pay for, wine, wine tasting
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On asymmetry and ‘The Hatred of Poetry.’
Like you, the people in jail have stories to tell.
45, agitation for change, asymmetry, asymmetry of attention, attention, attention economy, Ben Lerner, By Any Measure, county jail, criminal justice, dipole moment, Donald Trump, grammar, hate crime, Hatred of Poetry, idiosynchratic grammar, imprisonment, In Between Poems, incarceration, Jack Gilbert, jail poetry, Jana Prikryl, lockdown, lyric, lyric poems, lyrical poetry, mass incarceration, MFA, Orlando shooting, Philip Warren Anderson, physics, physics of poetry, physics of symmetry, plea for attention, poet, poetry, prison poetry, reading poetry in jail, rehab, rehabilitation, school to prison pipeline, symmetry, teaching in jail, teaching poetry, terrorism, The After Party, The Hatred of Poetry, the internet, the power of words, Thirty Thousand Islands, waning attention spans, why read poetry, why water flows, why write poetry, writing poetry in jail, [jumpsuits]
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On radical religious terrorists targeting the United States.
Radical Christian terrorists have wrecked egregious violence throughout the United States, but few politicians speak out against them.
abortion, Abraham, Alta Vista Hospital, Aryan, attacking doctors, attempted murder, Bible, born into hostage situation, Camus, Christian apologist, Christian Identity, Christian terrorism, conception, Curtis, Danny Davis, Deliver Them from Evil, faith, Fear and Trembling, fetus, Gods of the Blood, gun violence, gynecology, homocide, hostage, hostage situation, intimidation, Israel, jail, Job, Kierkegaard, King James, knight of infinite resignation, leap of faith, Matthias Gardell, McDonalds, Michael Griffin, miscarriage, miscegenation, Mix My Blood with the Blood of the Unborn, Paul Hill, Phineas, Phineas actions, reproductive health, reproductive rights, Richard Kelly Hoskins, self-aborting zygotes, Shelly Shannon, shootings, suicide, terrorism, terrorist, The Pagan Revival and White Separatism, The Phinehas Priesthood, tubal ligation, Utah, violence against doctors, violent vanguard of the Christian Identity movement, when does human life begin, white supremacy, women’s reproductive health, women’s right to choose, zygote
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On isolation.
When a government tortures people on *your* behalf, do you share the blame? If so, what should you do?
addiction, ADX, Bruce Alexander, cetacean communication, confinement, constitutional rights, deprivation tank, dolphin, dolphin communication, dolphin hand job, drug abuse, false confessions, Harry Harlow, Hell is a Very Small Place, innocent until proven guilty, isolation tank, Jeanne Theoharis, Jesse Wilson, John C. Lilly, Juan Mendez, laboratory animals, LSD, Margaret Howe, memory, morphine, opiates, Rat Park, Ray McGovern, Richard Feynman, sensory deprivation, social isolation, solitary, solitary confinement, solitary watch, stimulus deprivation, sunlight, supermax, Syed Fahad Hashmi, teaching dolphins to talk, terrorism, torture, Torture of a Student, Voices from Solitary Confinement
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On the Bush years, from the perspective of the 45th.
The great thing about the horrific Bush years is that now we know what to expect.
45, Ashcroft, ass-hat, Bush, Bush Chronicles, Donald Trump, Dubya, electoral college, Eliot Weinberger, George W. Bush, Ghostbusters II, Mark Danner, politics, Republicans, stealing representation, stealing votes, terrorism, Trump, U.S., United States, W, war on terror, What Could He Do, What Happened Here
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On fear.
Activating the neurons behind fear makes mammals attack. And 45 campaigned on fear.
amygdala, Chicago, civil war, climate change, climate strife, Clinton, Comoli, Daesh, Donald Trump, fear, Functional mapping of the prosencephalic systems involved in organizing predatory behavior in rats, gene expression, immigrant ban, Integrated Control of Predatory Hunting by the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala, ISIL, ISIS, Ivan de Araujo, Laboratory Animal Welfare Act, laser-activated neurons, Manchurian candidate, mind control, prejudice, refugee ban, Restaurant Depot, retrovirus, Syria, terror, terrorism, terrorists, Trump, violence, violence against conspecifics, voluntary research participation, war, Wenfei Han
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On my own attempt to understand what motivates people to join the terrorist organization Daesh.
Kent Russell’s essay on juggalos helped me think about Middle Eastern terrorism.
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