Who do I have to write to get them to oust the chuds on Virginia Tech‘s BOV?

that’s right

You love to see it.

I recently suggested to our local cocktail bar that they get a spinning cake display

Over the last year the entire "free speech on campus" beat has been revealed as an utter fraud. Years of punditry puked out in ignorance and bad faith. Yet even as the fraud becomes undeniable we still get stories about wide-eyed idealists who just wanted 'ideological diversity' and 'open debate'.

Profound #blessed

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For purely selfish reasons we just have to make it until at least July without a Greenland invasion

Trout amandine with lentils du put and green beans

Maybe something good will come of this, like killing off the Nobel Prize

Twin Peaks: Norma and Big Ed sitting in a booth at the Roadhouse.

Finally getting around to the Paul Reubens documentary - so good

Unser Handeln verschiebt sich: Entscheidungen werden an Systeme und Algorithmen delegiert. Was bleibt, ist Vollzug statt Urteil und das wachsende Gefühl von Ohnmacht. »Situation und Konstellation« ist ein kluges Plädoyer von Hartmut Rosa für Spielräume und lebendiges Handeln: shrk.vg/Situation-B

I‘d know that anywhere. That’s Luigi’s Mansion

My most (only?) Gen X-coded trait is my uncritical embrace of Jason Hartley and Britt Bergman‘s Advanced Genius Theory - although that’s complicated by the fact that the theory (really more of a heuristic/typology) is aimed squarely against the Gen X discourse of „selling out“

A lot of people in my view wrongly having a suddenly ironclad ideological belief in central bank independence just because the worst human on earth is pushing against it.

the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.

From the Lumiere brothers and Brothers Skladanovsky, to the Coen brothers and Safdie brothers - what's the deal with brothers making movies?

Very funny that General Motors co-sponsored the production of the 2010 Chinese film THE FOUNDING OF A PARTY.

we should be no kinder in our assessment of Schumer and Jeffries abject uselessness in this moment than history has been in its judgment of Neville Chamberlain (a figure so reviled that maga hasn’t even bothered trying to launder his rep and valorize his accommodation of nazism)

one thing I've been pondering this week is whether genAI is inherently an oligarchic project and—if so—why there isn't a stronger leftist movement against AI as a plan to take away jobs

The Republican Party is the American Nazi Party

Interesting.

Boiled a whole chicken to make dakgaejang. Perfect for a cold wet evening. Replaced fernbrake with watercress.

Tons of rallies tomorrow in Virginia against ICE bluevirginia.us/2026/01/satu...

"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior." latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...

Unterschätzte Kulturtechnik „Das hat nichts miteinander zu tun“

Siskel & Ebert, 9/20/1998 part 1/2 : 790s

For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.

No one is legally required to vote for these losers and collaborators.

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Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Pretty much every other episode of Cheers season 1 involves Diane getting sexually assaulted

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

"Civilization can afford no compromise with the social forces which would gain renewed strength if we deal ambiguously or indecisively with the men in whom those forces now precariously survive." -- R. Jackson, Nuremberg trial opening statement

I’m super excited to discuss the new translation of Günther Anders with @morbuscriticus.bsky.social Chris Müller and @elkeschwarz.bsky.social Monday, March 2, 2026 2:30pm ET 7:30pm UK 8:30pm DE sign up! www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/are-w...

RIP Béla Tarr. I attended an all day retrospective of his work when I was in my 20s at Lincoln Center. It was memorable, even if I did fall asleep at one point during Werckmeister Harmonies. It all felt like a delirious fever dream. Beautiful, slow, and heady. And lots of animals.

Losing the vocabulary to capture the grotesquerie we're witnessing.

Broken record: The obsession with "kitchen table issues" imagines an electorate too obtuse or amoral to be reached by any appeal to abstract principle, morality, or any longer-term consideration than the immediate health of their bank account. If that's accurate, the game's already over.

“Does war sometime dream about itself?” Clausewitz (as invented by Werner Herzog)

We need to be honest with ourselves and our leaders about Venezuela We are a rogue state, a global pariah Trump is ruling as a dictator, period An axis of evil wants to carve up small, resource-rich nations The message for 2026 is clear: No kings! My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Truly the only laugh-worthy aspect of this whole sick farce

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

DSA Baltimore

Special military operation

Das Kalkül dürfte lauten: Halten wir uns zurück, dann kommen wir heil raus. Aber sie werden Europa nicht schonen.

I’m too old to be out in NYC until 4:30am

One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Wunderbar zum Zuhören: Steffen Martus‘ im Gespräch über sein neues Buch, das Gegenwart von ihrer Literatur ausgehend erzählt www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/erzaehlte-we...