Adorno's Alter-Ego
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"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying glass." - Theodor Adorno
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The Bulwark
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Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."
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Mimi Rocah
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When you hear the inevitable critique of Smithās 100% accurate description, remember that they openly brag about doing most of the things he cites. Prosecute enemies? Hell yeah! Fire prosecutors for working on cases? You bet! But we are not corrupt.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...
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Jack Smith Calls the Justice Dept. āCorruptedā by Trump and His Allies
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/us/politics/jack-smith-justice-dept-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Ian Dunt
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She sounds as you would expect from an anti-elite insurgency party. "I really like ambassadorās dinners, Ferrero Rocher, that sort of thing." Course you do mate.
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Retribution might be a rare promise he delivered on: "Reuters documented at least 470 targets of retribution... federal employees...prosecutors...universities and media...The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government."
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The Revenge of Donald Trump
Reuters documents U.S. President Donald Trumpās historic campaign of vengeance against his perceived enemies ā and details how it is remaking American government.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/trump-retribution/
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London Review of Books
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āMany conservatives now claim that OrbĆ”n canāt have been an autocrat, since he ended up losing an election and conceded. But in the kind of system created by Fidesz, defeats for authoritarians canāt be ruled out entirely.ā
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on Hungary.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Jan-Werner Müller Ā· Short Cuts: OrbĆ”nās Fall
Can there be poetic justice in politics? Perhaps once in a lifetime. In 1989, a young Viktor OrbƔn bravely told the...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n08/jan-werner-mueller/short-cuts
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Just call me S'Pammy (Anderson)
6 days ago
Front page ft
www.ft.com/content/95f5...
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āIām fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.ā
A drone pilot and her all-women unit are waging a new kind of warfare on Ukraineās eastern front
https://www.ft.com/content/95f501d0-1493-47b0-8ada-dc7c942036c9
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9 days ago
www.projectcensored.org/violation-ca...
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The Violation and Capitulation of Higher Education
Radio show on attacks on sociology and higher education ā guests discuss censorship, corporatism, and resisting academic control.
https://www.projectcensored.org/violation-capitulation-higher-education/
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Don Moynihan
12 days ago
When people talk about self-censorship, they often focus on campus events or classroom discussions. But self-censorship of research is different and more impt. Big difference btw "I don't want to offend others" to "I don't want to speak truth to power"
www.chronicle.com/article/near...
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Nearly One-Third of Faculty in Red States Say Theyāve Censored Their Research
A new survey of 4,000 academics looked at the effects of state laws barring ādivisive conceptsā and federal grant cuts.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/nearly-one-third-of-faculty-in-red-states-say-theyve-censored-their-research
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Does Kid Rock have a Polymarket account?
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Daniel Moser
12 days ago
Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Josh Shepperd
14 days ago
Delighted to return to University of Chicago for two theory talks. I'll discuss primary document findings that detail how Theodor Adorno's engagement with early communications researchers helped inspire the "Culture Industry" chapter of Dialectic of Enlightenment.
voices.uchicago.edu/massculture/...
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Tim Onion
11 days ago
Tremendous economy, "the hottest in the world," they're saying, incredible economy, yes, we're buying cartel gold and selling it as our own, they're saying it's the greatest economy of all time.
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U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as āAmericanā
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/world/americas/us-mint-gold-drug-cartel-colombia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d1A.gDwR.j8RJGq9AcUPc&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Zach Everson
11 days ago
New: āHow the Trumpsā Billion-Dollar Crypto Stake Depends on a Company That Helped Iran Evade Sanctions.ā my first report for
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Conflict Coin: How the Trumps' Billion-Dollar Crypto Stake Depends on a Company That Helped Iran Evade Sanctions - Public Citizen
Trumpsā World Liberty Financial is heavily dependent on Binance, a crypto exchange that pleaded guilty to helping Iran evade sanctions
https://www.citizen.org/article/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial-binance-iran-sanctions/
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Very interesting study on class consciousness and religion by
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"...Christian nationalism...approval of economic inequality among those who benefit from it..higher-income Americans."
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Reuters
16 days ago
Colombian sent from US to Congo says she faces pressure to risk danger back home
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Colombian sent from US to Congo says she faces pressure to risk danger back home
"The goal is clear: put āpeople in a place so unfamiliar that āthey give up and agree to ā return home, despite the immense risk they face there," says a U.S.-based lawyer representing one of the migrants in Congo.
https://reut.rs/4sPYot0
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Common explanations like average rents, unemployment, immigration, and substance use were not significantly associated with year-on-year changes. Displacement due to property damage and loss from climate disasters such as floods, fires, and storms accelerated the rise.
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Factors Associated With Rising Homelessness Within US States, 2019 to 2024
This cohort study investigates whether state-level factors were associated with change in homelessness in the US from 2019 to 2024.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2847336
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derek guy
17 days ago
how it feels to say "sprezzatura"
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Ian Dunt
26 days ago
Peter Magyar has offered a template which can be used, without too much alteration, in defeating populists worldwide
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Rima I Anabtawi
22 days ago
New
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is launching a new investigation into President Donald Trumpās son-in-law āĀ and Iran ceasefire negotiator ā Jared Kushner, citing his āglaring and incurable conflict of interest.ā
www.ms.now/news/iran-ne...
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Iran negotiator or private investor? Raskin launches investigation into Jared Kushner.
House Judiciary Democrats want answers about how Kushner can āboth be a diplomat and a financial pawn of the Saudi monarchy.ā
https://www.ms.now/news/iran-negotiator-private-investor-raskin-launches-investigation-jared-kushner
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W.E.D.em Boyz
22 days ago
This is compelling from Klein on the reality of Zionism, but it also ends in a kind of Zio-pessimism in which we are supposed to bear witness to suffering for which nothing can be done. Klein literally concludes "I don't think this is a time to talk about solutions" but to "confront realities."
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The Bulwark
24 days ago
āThis is pathetic.ā Bill Kristol reacts to Vice President JD Vance saying that a tit for tat brawl over economic terrorism will become the administrationās priority, over reopening the Strait of Hormutz.
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Brendan Nyhan
24 days ago
What kind of Orwellian stuff is this? "addresses free speech on college campuses" by banning walkouts? I oppose the heckler's veto but come ON
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That's me as a doctor.
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MaddowBlog
25 days ago
Maddow on what keeps despots in power and why they fall apart: "Nobody actually likes a corrupt despot. They all just support him because they think he's going to be in power forever so you need to stay on his right side in order to get anything for yourself."
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derek guy
25 days ago
I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."
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Melissa Nadia Viviana šø
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Hungarians singing šµ We are the champions šµ after finally finding out their vote is their power. š¤ š³
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Delusion vs Inevitability. It's an old story.
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When Ceausescu went to Tehran: A cautionary tale for today's authoritarians | Opinion
Romanian Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu Believed, Until the Very End, That He Could Defy the Forces of Historical Gravity and Shut His Country to the Events Encircling It. Yet He Was Ultimately Deposed by...
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-04-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/when-ceausescu-went-to-tehran-a-cautionary-tale-for-todays-authoritarians/0000019d-8249-dda0-a1ff-8eef35ea0000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=Content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=b799d3cb08
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So, the difference between us and the mullahs is...š¤
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Anne Applebaum
26 days ago
Illiberalism is not Inevitable
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable
If Viktor OrbƔn can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/illiberalism-not-inevitable/686778/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK32zuGE3vqLJtJTyIvvK-8_M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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ChrisāļøJustice
28 days ago
š "Mr. Orban, you are not a patriot. You are just a useful idiot of Russia and China." Moritz Kƶrner, European Parliament
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Acyn
29 days ago
Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.
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Catherine Rampell
about 1 month ago
Summary (via a friend): They closed the strait again b/c war that isnāt a war that we already won has a ceasefire that isnāt a ceasefire that was just violated, now strait thatās completely open that will also open up naturally is closed but thatās fine we donāt need it also open the f---in strait
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Alex Paknadel from off of comics
about 1 month ago
You see the darnedest things on the tube.
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Ian Dunt
about 1 month ago
Just read a very good article at the US Library of Medicine. My research will be vastly improved as a result. If only I could do that for most academic articles, rather than be blocked out by an unaffordable charging system
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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Zachary Levenson
about 2 months ago
Read the full piece in
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the RaceāClass Debates
This paper intervenes in contemporary sociological debates over the relationship between race and class by excavating the early writings of Michael Burawoy. Against the prevailing polarization betwee...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.70104
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Acyn
about 1 month ago
Frost: What Blanche said, I think he was fed that by the administration. He's been told to say, hey, listen, we're moving on beyond thisā¦. but we're not going to move on because the law has been broken. The law that was voted on by damn near every member of congress to release the files
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Is she going to seek asylum in Russia or somewhere else?
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Live with Scott MacFarlane
A recording from Scott MacFarlane's live video
https://open.substack.com/pub/macfarlanenews/p/live-with-scott-macfarlane?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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She couldn't keep the Dow at 50,000 š
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Warmongers are also war profiteers? Shocking!!!
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Justin Wolfers
about 1 month ago
In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop:
www.ft.com/content/744e...
In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.
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Anna Grzymala-Busse
about 1 month ago
Viktor OrbƔn created a new state foundation that forced independent media owners to transfer ownership, changed the state media into a propaganda mouthpiece, and hounded the remaining few free media with tax audits, raids, and surveillance. Over 80% of the media in Hungary is now in his hands.
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