Some rare good news (not me tbc) www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Someone needs to do some archival research to figure out where the idea to solve the discursive problem of the housing market with immigration emerged. Was this idea concocted at Heritage? It is a particularly sloppy idea even for the right; unlike “welfare queens” it can’t subsume its detractions

ok this Joe Wright Mussolini series for Italian TV is so sick, you guys weren't kidding

dude lmao. remember "Jacobingate?" the call sometimes comes from inside the house

dude

the latest @tpnwicmfp.bsky.social episode with @matthiasellis.com and @corbinsmith.bsky.social trawls thru the history of popular music & music docs with METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER. a fun ride. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

NOUVELLE VAGUE was a lot of fun and I did the Leo meme every five minutes

no NO NO

man my COBRA ends next summer and the plan was to go on the exchange and uhhhhhhhh

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

It was because the economy was about to snap in half! And since neither side would budge the Dems decide you and I have to

now trump gets to be like “we don’t know what the shutdown was about, democrats just held the country hostage for 2 months for no reason” and he would be sort of correct

Well, I mean, lol

I don’t think they care

This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.

Mikkel Flohr, The Political Economy of Ideas: Historical Materialism and the History of Ideas www.jhiblog.org/2025/09/15/t...

Quick if you need anything from Donald Trump they are rubber-stamping all requests

loved this piece on the difference between Art History and Criticism in The Brooklyn Rail brooklynrail.org/2025/03/rail...

This is why its so funny that Kerry King is still out there like "yeah. yeah I'm saying something with my new post-Slayer band. everybody needs to hear it: god isn't real. how do you like THAT PMRC?!?!"

I am honestly so glad he is doing this. Finally the truth of the world is starting to reveal itself for what it is

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says online Islamophobia seems to come mostly from paid campaigns on X, highlighting a company called ‘Influensible,’ owned by Brad Parscale—former Trump campaign manager and registered foreign agent for Israel—that she believes runs thousands of coordinated accounts...

I've noticed that there isn't much talk here about the current internecine war that is unfolding on the right, spearheaded in large part by Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I know this shit is insane and feels bad. But this is a mistake (1/)

Embarrassing sign I’m doing too much right now: are you Kate, and do I owe you an email? I got hit with a notification I set for myself and I can’t remember why I put it in my phone 🫣

They’ve FINALLY reached a contradiction they cant sweep under the rug with a sideshow on Fox or social media. I think the Fuentes stuff is key here: it’s taking up crucial energy on the right that in the past has been used to stoke culture war diversions to offload anger onto the left

Weimar Cinema from @matthiasellis.com starts next week. I’ve seen some of the early materials and this is going to be a tremendous experience. cinejourneys.com/weimar-cinem...

Has anyone started a company called openai 2 yet using their theory of intellectual property

man I gotta be honest. I know this is a joke, and it gets at a truth about how weird the prof/undergrad labor relation is in the US academy. But once I got to grad school and discovered there are profs out there who actually do take colloquial honorifics DEADLY SERIOUSLY, and as a politics? woof

A few days left to register before Tuesday's first meeting! I won't have time to "teach" this in the limited Cinejourneys format, but while prepping the syllabus I've come across some great new research, like Paul Dobryden's The Hygenic Apparatus nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014496...

It’s certainly not out of the question in the way that he’s just an old figurehead like Biden. But I think the reality is simpler: Trump is largely sidestepped on domestic and procedural stuff by the institutional GOP, who have shut down the govt to fulfill a lifelong dream of dismantling welfare

super cool video

The "Democratic Tea Party" thing is fun for setting up an antagonistic relationship to party establishment. But as materialists, we should be cautious: these are two radically different class coalitions, w/conflicting relationships to the capital relation www.cbsnews.com/news/tea-par...

i hope jeffries is watching this like "wait you're not allowed to say that"

dog LETS FUCKING GO

Unreal. This is the most serious achievement the American left has accomplished in decades

Capitalist Realism, and the free-floating sense of resignation it bred on the left, is dead in the water folks. It doesn't mean things are good, but don't let anyone pull you back into that dead end thinking

Don't know the cause, but...the 2019 shutdown ended when only TEN air traffic controllers refused to work. They can continue to get off their rocks firing federal bureaucrats, and Mike Johnson can go on TV and play disappointed dad all he wants: the GOP aren't bigger than the free flow of capital.

thanks to @matthiasellis.com for suggesting Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Opus“ as work music on a recent pod — spent all weekend writing to it. Serious and poignant! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OAh...

just came across an account on tiktok making dozens of the same AI video of an asian restaurant/shop owner confronting guys in uniforms clearly and inauthentically marked “ICE”. people are reposting this shit.

We’re about a week out from the first meeting of my @cinejourneys.bsky.social class on Weimar Cinema. There are still seats available! I’d love to have you—$100 gets you access to the materials and the meetings, held over Zoom on Tuesday evenings. Sign up here: cinejourneys.com/weimar-cinem...

new episodes of thee best movie podcast out that as the boys @matthiasellis.com & @corbinsmith.bsky.social dissect Cronenberg's THE SHROUDS, which looks like a perverted perfume ad & has a lovely cameo from Iceland's greatest living actor Ingvar E!!

Well this is massive. One of the very best. www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...

Happy birthday to my favorite geographer!

Liberals around here keep saying stuff like "Platner is a white supremacist, unlike Robert Byrd" or "Leftists love Platner because they're Nazis" and then if you object they're like "curious how many people in my mentions are defending Platner"

RIP Peter Watkins. He leaves us just a day after his 90th birthday. A landmark filmmaker who still hasn't got his due. He reprogrammed my brain, there's cinema before and after Watkins. He didn't change the movies, he changed me. After La Commune and Edvard Munch all movies were different.

Oh damn. A titan:

Check out that research if you haven't already. Rumble is fringe, but as I argue in the pod it is arguably one of the most successful "alt" platforms of the last decade. What happens on that platform is not widely understood, and we're trying to shine a light on it openmeasures.io/rumble-power...

The Inventory of the Library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert is now available online, as a database heurist.huma-num.fr/heurist/ffl_...

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

I've felt for a while now that this rhetorical move of situating "Your" pocketbook or wage growth with "Theirs" was a crucial tactic for dismantling capitalist ideology in culture since 2008; the maturation of Occupy's focus on the "1%." But we're past that moment now--we need to understand WHY (1/)