political activism in the hyperreal

technologically advance a band: John Coleplane

can you imagine j edgar hoover tweeting out investigations

National dems like to go in front of cameras to play act that they take norms and process very seriously. The problem with their strategy (aside from ineffective) is the rest of society can now stand there and live-stream the senator with no clothes.

so does the Taliban have a truth social account or what

Sean O’Brien values his position as leader more than the survival of the union (and unions broadly). Cowardly, selfish, and the opposite of leadership.

It’s amazing to see a bunch of think tank guys and academics decide they’re also the authority on protests and policing. The “defund was bad messaging” and “don’t wave the Mexican flag” guys are here to tell you how it’s done. Perfect, no notes.

you will never get an ounce of sympathy from me for any university president or board member. if you fire tenured professors to appease a fascist, you better believe i’m laughing and hucking stones when you’re thrown out on your ass

i need to get off the computer

zuck, musk, et al. are undoubtedly raking in billions of ad dollars from a nation doomscrolling the fall of their government… with the knowledge they are personally responsible for the propaganda and death of truth that brought us here

unconstitutionality aside, taking TV away from *Americans* will not go well for them

The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.

This headline is going to give me a stroke

Brian Kilmeade called for mass murder on Fox News the same day

in nazi occupied France they called people like Ezra Les Attentistes, the wait-and-seers

Capitalism redirects Hegel’s telos of history toward freedom for itself by way of its technologies of development. Karp, Thiel, et al. believe this is natural progression and not a perversion of Hegel’s theory.

new press release from hamoudi sabri, who is unable to attend today's TRO hearing. he addresses mayor frey's claim that people "want" encampments, and shares a heartbreaking story from yesterday's eviction - the ashes of a woman's daughter were disposed of in the sweep

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

Tough choice between D and H, but I have to give it to H: pan con tomate con anchoas, steak a/ sauce au poivre, NY/CT pizza, midwestern grandma cuisine

if only we’d known about CTE in 1994

trump take farm

The top 10% of income earners account for 50% of consumer spending. ~70% increase over the course of my life.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Every time something like this happens and I think of all the people who should be standing up to it and aren't, I think of this tweet

When you become a civil, sober politics knower like myself, you understand that by noticing a bad person is bad, you become even worse than them. And they become good

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!" (via @Variety)

CLIPSE BECOME THE FIRST RAPPERS TO PERFORM AT THE VATICAN 🇻🇦🙏🏽

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

i think possibly the most embarrassing thing about me is i was president of the debate club in high school and that experience really informed my views on people like Kirk and Ted Cruz and the pod save guys. I think debate club is really harmful actually, it basically straight up teaches amorality

In a proper country we’d throw someone in jail for the weekend for saying something like this on television.

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

We do not want to live in a society where every single person has become totally numb to witnessing horrifying violence. Claiming that everyone needs to “toughen up” by exposing themselves to horrifically violent imagery is *simply doing fascism’s work for it.*

One of the reasons I'm so harsh on making bold absolute claims about shooters psychology with so little information are the Columbine kids. The media basically rushed to create a narrative and based on all the actual investigation and follow ups it was 180 degrees incorrect in every way.

dinner du nord is downtown as playground: the elites dine on steak on nicollet mall while cops collect OT looking at their phones and an 81 year old woman asks me why buses are gone and she had to walk home to loring

first they came for the ceo of a health insurance corporation and I did not speak out because i was not a ceo of a health insurance corporation, then they came for the white nationalist propagandist and i did not speak out because i was not a white nationalist propagandist, then they, oh wait

the first problem with critical theory is that people can’t read it. the second problem is that they can.

beginning to think that uncritical faith in surveys and polling is the high modernism of electoral politics

JFC the Purge has apparently begun.

This is happening all over America right now. Teachers and public servants are being fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk in death. The way organizations have rolled over for bullying, fascist mobs in the last 24 hours has been quite jarring.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to start self medicating my ADHD

American and world history is chock full of individuals recognizing conditions are ripe for explosion and then either killing someone or carrying out an attack to tip things over. Framing right now has completely avoided this obvious point because people don’t want to wrestle with ambiguity.

I'm finally starting this project to watch the entire Touchstone Pictures filmography (every film associated with the Disney label whether through production or distribution) from 1984-2016 & share my thoughts on each release in this thread. Follow along as I revisit the hits, misses & obscurities.

me most days now

What Elon Musk bought for $44 billion was the ability to fill the brains of people like Ezra Klein with this kind of bullshit www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...