What do you mean it’s your bed

There has to be a way out of this mess

On the one hand, AI will destroy what we have left of nature. On the other hand, it will also destroy what we have left of culture.

Randomly came across this discussion of "anxiety neurosis" in Japanese interment camps 🗃️ Of course the internees were worried about starving or being poisoned! I would love to dig deeper into this topic.

Randomly came across this discussion of "anxiety neurosis" in Japanese interment camps 🗃️ Of course the internees were worried about starving or being poisoned! I would love to dig deeper into this topic.

This is a shanda

The Konsum department store was keen to help East Germans stay warm at Christmas

Stephen Miller's grandmother wrote a memoir about fleeing anti-Jewish violence in the Pale of Settlement, in which she write about her Jewish family trapped in what is now Belarus after the 1924 Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, which Stephen Miller has praised. assets.newrepublic.com/pdf/1998-Pre...

As they used to say on Twitter, "the writers are getting lazy."

I assume he'll be fired for posting this

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o... Moving & beautiful essay by @sharonbrous.bsky.social

By the time this nightmare ends, the fucker is going to be too sick and frail to stand trial and will Erich Honecker his way out of facing justice

Worst Hanukkah ever

Amidst the darkness we will be putting a whole bunch of light into the world tonight.

Exile and Theater! CfP for the biannual Feuchtwanger conference at USC, September 2026 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Calling all Freudians, Lacanians, Kleinians, etc. Check out @unhappinesspod.bsky.social, now in their higher education death spiral campaign. Support their amazing work if you can! ordinaryunhappiness.com/login?ru=%2F...

Sorry, guys, I have no answers today

When Bari Weiss gets fired, she’s going to claim antisemitism. You heard it here first!

NYC 1976. The last era of department stores.

www.lbi.org/news/confere... I'm excited to promote this upcoming conference. Hope to see you in NY in October 🗃️

www.lbi.org/news/confere... I'm excited to promote this upcoming conference. Hope to see you in NY in October 🗃️

I rediscovered this post I wrote in May, about how Trump has shifted the money the US used to spend on curing cancer into snatching your neighbors. I think I'll keep harping on this point. www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...

On a news blackout

While we’re demonizing and terrorizing Somali immigrants and their descendants, it’s worth remembering just how brutally Somalia was colonized and exploited by Britain and Italy

Wait, Brecht and Feuchtwanger wrote a play together and I'm just finding out about this now?! www.concordtheatricals.com/p/4372/the-v...

Nothing like a Nuremberg rally to make you not care about losing health care or being able to pay your rent

Tell me classes are over without…

UC Berkeley’s Austrian Studies Program seeks a Visiting Professor to teach the 5-week Botstiber Compact Seminar in Spring 2027. Topics on Austrian lit, history, or culture welcome. For More Information, see the Link Below: ies.berkeley.edu/austrian/bot...

#academicsky drop everything and read this

NY Times Spelling Bee is more politically astute today than the Opinion pages

Good morning

Spotify Wrapped says I have the musical taste of a 43 year old and my kid a 72 year old. My work here is done!

Perhaps apropos. In a 1939 internal note, NBC regretted *not* censoring announcer Walter Winchell after he called Hitler a "madman".

holy fuck i think i'm writing a play

I give up

Sunday night blues after a long weekend

Everything sucks but the parrots just came by on their semi-annual trek across LA. This time they didn't land in our tree so I couldn't get any pictures but here's an old image. moorelab.oxy.edu/research/fre...

"Academic freedom is being eroded internally by university administrators as well as externally by politicians." -USC @aaup.org president Laura Isabel Serna in the LA Times www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... archive link: archive.ph/TxBWo

🗃️ Hot off the presses: "The Power of Photobooks: Crafting (Jewish) History from Below by (my student) @swsamols.bsky.social. Congratulations, Steven! www.ghi-dc.org/fileadmin/pu...

Good news, just about ten years too late

The only one having turkey here

The friends we made along the way

First time back in Topanga since the fires. Lots of feelings

It me today. Happy thanksgiving from Lynx

I’m guessing ICE goons are missing the irony here

The AI could not decipher Brecht's handwriting

Breaking News: Trader Joe's pumpkin ice cream is a grave disappointment. Holiday is off to a bad start

The ultimate timeline cleanse

Sunday night blues

We're not even trying to hide the empire anymore I guess