"We are not the elites the billionaires claim we are. Most professors don’t have tenure. The humanities professoriate don’t even have full time jobs, have been known to sleep in their cars. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?" www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

The people of Canada have spoken: Wokeness must return to power Les peuples du Canada disent : « Le Wokisme doit retourner au pouvoir. »

Political scientists have come a long way. The new ones are astonishingly lifelike #mpsa

If you’re going to MPSA in Chicago this week and have nothing to do Thursday at 8 a.m. you could come see my talk about Laclau and Mouffe’s concept of the frontier

Nazi gives Nazi salute at Nazi rally, leading many to ask: is this guy a Nazi or something?

Dad’s birthday is January 6. He’s a big MAGA guy. Every year now we tell him “sorry no big gift like in 2021 Pop”

About 1/3 of non-academics who hear I’m getting a PhD in political philosophy don’t care, another 1/3 think I’m an august sage, and the final 1/3 treat every conversation with me like a boss battle. It’s really fun to pull that lever every time I meet someone new

Theory Bro New Year’s Eve

Quite a damning report on APSA's actions at the LA conference

I "graduated" from Accutane today, but because I am 30 years old (unlike most Accutane patients), the dermatology nurse gave me the option of not honking the "Accutane horn." I am perhaps too dignified; though my heart yearned to, I did not honk

DISTURBING: political theory grad student calls politics “politricks” on account of the endemic deceit in public decision making

In episode five of #WolfHall: The Mirror and the Light, the incomparable Abraham tapestries in Hampton Court’s majestic Great Hall have been meticulously recoloured to show their original vibrancy. The result is stunning—so much kudos to the brilliant art department.

The CFB playoff debate shows fans yearn for formalization of rules while capital incentivizes programs to seek deformalization. Of course, this dynamic is already familiar to readers of Franz Neumann’s “Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944”

Imagine getting assassinated by Banksy

Union beanies arrived @indianagrads.bsky.social

Looking to connect Bluesky's legion of philosophy PhD students. I've gotten a start based on my followers, please let me know if I should add you! (Apologies if I've missed a mutual here...)

Unlike our football team, graduate workers will never be defeated

True wokeness has never been tried, and it’s about time we started

It should be easier to switch between multiple accounts on this app. That’s my only complaint. Oh, and the posts aren’t as funny and not as many of my friends are here

When are they adding Fleets to Bluesky?

Since it seems like these classics from the bad place are re-circulating here, I humbly present my most (only?) viral post to date: types of political theory paper…

I went to see an opera right before the Paul-Tyson match. That’s probably the biggest Smart-to-Stupid swing I’ve ever experienced

Was interviewed for the student newspaper about our grad union @indianagrads.bsky.social www.idsnews.com/article/2024...

In 2018, I debated RFK Jr.’s brother Max on Medicare for All and won. This has no bearing on the news. Just gloating about that again

Okay fine I’ll post here, too

Two years @themountaingoats.bsky.social shouted out the Indiana Grad Workers Coalition and played Solidarity Forever in Bloomington and it was so meaningful to us! Let us know if you want any more union buttons or t-shirts at your show tomorrow!

It's fucking insane that there's not more news coverage of Sinno's suspension. IU has 45,000 students, more than any of the Ivies. But it's just fucking crickets from the media

Going home for Christmas is a beautiful way to hear one’s MAGA-style father say, for example, “Michael, do you know an interviewer called Ziwe?”

Listen, I love Bluesky plenty, but you just can’t have this interaction on the platform yet. The technology just isn’t there

Everyone in hell rising from their chair and doing a slow clap as Henry Kissinger walks in the door

“Derek Chauvin stabbed in prison” is a sentence that really completely disproves that police or prisons stop crime

Comp exam finished. 7911 words and a gallon of nervous sweat accumulated in the past 9 hours

depluralize a band woon

Complaining that life in the state of nature is "Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and *short*" is a bit like the old Borscht Belt joke about the husband who complains endlessly about a diner's food while his wife opines, "And such small portions!"

Calling it now: final deathblow to Twitter will be one of those massive Illinois class action privacy lawsuits after Musk accidentally gives everyone’s banking info to Moldovan hackers. Resplendent in white and crowned in laurels, J.B. Pritzker will swing the sword of justice himself

Everybody’s got that one homie who’s the mirror and the light of other princes

Fascists gloating about Ryan Carson’s death seem very comfortable debating the justifications for their incivility, but they’re really shying away from the fact that they’re wrong about the causes of and solutions to crime

Biden has the right—and I would argue, the duty—to prorogue the dysfunctional House

Had a couple conservatives get apoplectic at my post on the other site about how the Constitution mandates that we arrest whoever blocked the door on Jamaal Bowman’s path to the House chamber. Feels good

More like Die-anne Die-nstein

This shit went so well. It was wild. Incredible turnout and 700 (!!!!) cards signed on day one!

Our union card campaign begins today 💪😈😤

This paragraph was meant to drive me, consummate Freudo-Marxist, insane. Mr. Aristotle, sir, you're canceled!

Drake happy reaction: Michael Paulauski banned from Twitter Drake sad reaction: Michael Paulauski on Bluesky now

If Lydia Tár was still alive she’d be recording orchestral versions of viral comedy songs like “planet of the bass” and “sitting”

Would you pay $78 to have dinner at the airport with Jay-Z?

He's killed Twitter again

The tendency of the rate of profit to fall? She just died? Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time. She led an amazing life. What else can you say? She was an amazing woman, whether you agreed or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. I'm actually sad to hea