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Sam Menefee-Libey

@sml47

Antifascist. Abolitionist. Anthropology, Critical Theory, American Studies, dogs, film, music, democratic pedagogy, degrowth and bioregionalism in greater Los Angeles. This world (system) we must leave.

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Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· 23d

Crime and No Punishment: Wealth, Power, and Violence in America by Marie Gottschalk (Princeton University Press, 2025)

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691275253/crime-and-no-punishment

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jul 14

Oh holy shit they have him reffing a goddamn semifinal???

Screnshot of FotMob match info for France v Spain semifinal listing Iván Barton as main referee

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jul 10

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jul 6

My sister calls this cocaine helicopter ball

Jon Bois
@jon_bois

why watch overtime playoff hockey when you can simply snort cocaine and ride a motorcycle out of a helicopter

10:15 PM • Apr 16, 2014

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jul 3

History keeps me awake at night

One day this kid will get larger. One day this kid will come to know something that causes a sensation equivalent to the separation of the earth from its axis. One day this kid will reach a point where he senses a division that isn't mathematical. One day this kid will feel something stir in his heart and throat and mouth. One day this kid will find something in his mind and body and soul that makes him hungry. One day this kid will do something that causes men who wear the uniforms of priests and rabbie, men who inhabit certain stone buildings, to call for his death.
One day politicians will enact legislation against this kid. One day families will give false information to their children and each child will pass that information down generationally to their families and that information will be designed to make existence intolerable for this kid. One day this kid will begin to experience all this activity in his environment and that activity and information will compell him to commit suicide or submit to danger in hopes of being murdered or submit to silence and invisibility. Or one day this kid will talk. When he begins to talk, men who develop a fear of this kid will attempt to silence him with strangling, fists, prison, suffocation, rape, intimidation, drugging, ropes, guns, laws, meance, roving gangs, bottles, knives, religion, decapitation. and immolation by fire. Doctors will pronounce this kid curable as if his brain were a virus. This kid will lose his constitutional rights against the government's invasion of his privacy. This kid will be faced with electro-shock, drugs, and conditioning therapies in laboratories tended by psychologists and research scientists. He will be subject to loss of home, civil rights, jobs, and all conceivable freedoms. All this will begin to happen in one or two years when he discovers he desires to place his naked body on the naked body of another boy. (David Wojnarowicz)

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jul 3

As much as I’m reluctant to hand it to him, Bernard Harcourt’s 2015 book “Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age” gathers some helpful tools for thinking this through, and why this has been where it’s going since the emergence of internet-enabled phones.

Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age by Bernard Harcourt (Harvard University Press, 2015)

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jun 29

(One of) the first double feature(s) at my movie theater

The Lives of Others (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)

The International (dir. Tom Tykwer, 2009)

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jun 21

…and should have understood for so very, very long…

Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State edited by Alfred W. McCoy & Francisco A. Scarano (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009)

Killing Hope: US Military and C.I.A Interventions Since World War II, The Updated Edition by William Blum (Common Courage Press, 2004)

Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873 by Brendan C. Lindsay (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jun 20

Blaze That Ass by Big Freedia and SOPHIE (2026)

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jun 13

Um we do Chairman Bob did that ages ago

CONSTITUTION
For The New
Socialist Republic In
North America
(Draft Proposal)
Authored by Bob Avakian
Adopted by the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jun 10

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jun 8

New corollary

Inside you are two bricks:

Brick 1: “Throw me at a FASCIST”

Brick 2: “Use me to build COMMUNITY”

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jun 6

I had this on the inside of my binder in college and required blatant reminders with embarrassing frequency…

W.A.I.T. (Why Am I Talking) flowchart

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jun 3

An excellent entree into this accessible and demystifying new book

Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World by Henry Snow (Verso, 2026)

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jun 3

Mountain goat 1: I hope you die.
Mountain goat 2: I hope we both die.

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· Jun 2

This is a fun one

A sticker in the style of “I Voted” that replaces the national flag with a black flag and reads “I Rioted”

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· May 31

This book was/is prescient www.upress.umn.edu/978151790523...

A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal by Andrew Culp (University of Minnesota Press, 2022)

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· May 31

21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· May 29

(Intended as a funny callback to twitter, not an insinuation that this renders your book moot)

Jared Yates Sexton
@JYSexton
I...worked on this story for a year...and...he just...he tweeted it out.
9:37 AM • Jul 11, 2017 • TweetDeck

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· May 29

#lastfourwatched #letterboxd

That Which Once Was (2011)
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
Seeds (2024)
The Deadman (1989)

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· May 29

Holy shit this is amazing

7 of 9 performers have cancelled for Trump concert series

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· May 29

Perhaps even funnier, 6 of the 9 acts publicly rebuked concert series on social media! They can’t even book Milli Vanilli!

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· May 28

Tic tac toe!

Trump concert cancellations

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· May 27

New favorite band name nervous-gender.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

Music From Hell by LA post punk band Nervous Gender

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· May 23

Chernobyl 1986

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· May 20

Joyce Carol Oates is about to get The Bluesky Experience

Jerry, no!

(@jcsalterego.bsky.social
"bluesky is an upscale mall" *nods knowingly*
Forever 38
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assbutt @nasboat.org • 2h let's be mufos (mutual followers)
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Bill Paxton in Twister @moviesiscool.bsk... • 2h
Yeah follow assbutt mrs oates
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Brian @brian215.bsky.social • 2h
Agree. She should follow assbutt.
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i don't know either of the two above people but joyce they're right. you should follow assbutt.
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Eileen Clancy • @clancyny.bsky.social • 3h 1/2 Some tips.
Hi. Well, I might have thought you were an imposter. (We get some.) You might want to get verified. (Official blue check.) It's free. Then people will be more confident they're addressing the real JCO.
Also, there is no algorithm. Posts are presented chronologically. I'll explain.
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Eileen Clancy • @clancyny.bsky.social • 2h 2/2 Your 6:08 pm post (ET-my time) went once to your followers. Even if 1,000 "like" it, it won't move further. If reposted, that person's followers see it.
On X, posts are invisibly weighted. JCO? Great!
Go to all users! *
On Bsky, you need reposts to circulate. I recommend following more people.
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Eileen Clancy • @clancyny.bsky.social • 2h
Ms. JCO, I'm sorry I only have dull things to say about algorithms and so on. If you like, I can tell you how to get a lot more followers very quickly. Everything will change!
Yes, I may seem like a bore. But, I promise you
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Booster
@b00ster.bsky.social
Have you tried getting involved in @whstancil.bsky.social discourse?
3:34 PM • May 19, 2026
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Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· May 19

Very excited to read this. I keep thinking about this track, especially the section at 1:30-2:15. youtu.be/9ZrAYxWPN6c

Take the word 'overseer' like a sample
Repeat it very quickly in a crew, for example
"Overseer," "overseer," "overseer," "overseer"
"Officer," "officer," "officer," "officer"
Yeah, 'officer' from 'overseer'
You need a little clarity? Check the similarity!
The overseer rode around the plantation The officer is off, patrollin' all the nation The overseer could stop you, "What you're doin'?" The officer will pull you over, just when he's pursuin' The overseer had the right to get ill
And if you fought back, the overseer had the right to kill
The officer has the right to arrest
And if you fight back, they put a hole in your chest (Woop!) They both ride horses
After four hundred years, l've got no choices!

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· May 16

"that ‘animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b)
embalmed, (c) tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g)
stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j)
innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera,
(m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off
look like flies’. In the wonderment of this taxonomy, the thing we
apprehend in one great leap, the thing that, by means of the fable, is
demonstrated as the exotic charm of another system of thought, is the
limitation of our own, the stark impossibility of thinking that." from the preface to Foucault's "The Order of Things" (1966)

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· May 15

You know, to prevent this

Still from Leave The World Behind (2023)

Sam Menefee-Libey@sml47· May 15

Ok hear me out

Burning Waymos at a Fuck ICE protest in Los Angeles, June 8, 2025