You simply cannot say these things without acknowledging the media environment that had disdain for Biden and Dems from day 1

"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement

Here’s me and @lollardfish.bsky.social on something similar (from 2019) www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019...

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Is there such a thing as “sad sack medievalism?” I’m thinking of Dreher but also all the tech bros who sort of read Tolkien (but didn’t get it). Kind of losers with no friends, only yes men, who long for a period they imagine people would be forced to respect them

It was a long-simmering and deepening dismay with what this post describes that motivated me and @cnygren.bsky.social to propose this as one of our four frictions. www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

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Can’t recommend this quiet, beautiful film enough

The thing you have to understand about the modern political right is that they’re giant fucking whiny babies

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That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.

Anyway

AI is the sputtering, belching engine of modern fascism. Do not use it, do not accept it.

The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.

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It’s not even a real major.

It's so striking to me all the essays about the death of the humanities and who and what to blame and blah blah blah and the answer is pretty much the undergraduate business major and everything it represents.

I don’t think, as I’ve said many times, that we can persuade Republicans to stop this. But we could persuade Democrats to stop helping them. As always, it’s exemplified for me by the Obama art history problem.

What The Fuck

people really don't like secret, masked police abducting people off the street to put into concentration camps, it turns out

this rules www.nga.gov/artle

Rod Dreher and JD Vance and their ilk do not, in fact, want to return to the Middle Ages, nor do they want to undo the Enlightenment, what they want is a fascist society that requires a mythical Golden Age that never existed, a neomedieval bullshit sphere to justify their atrocities.

Fuck yeah we’re doing “what really ruined Reconstruction” on here again with a bunch of too online people redoing the Dunning School from first principles!

I'm going to start a history podcast aimed at kids in a few months - I've heard from SO MANY parents whose children are into history but haven't found age-appropriate material, and I've had a lot of practice with my kids, so we're going to give it a shot

butter churns

listen, the American Right is just a smol bean and cannot do anything on their own. they can only be forced to do things by dastardly unamerican leftists

who was also his girlfriend and niece

It’s really incredible that white progressive men don’t seem to understand that Graham Platner’s campaign was grown in a lab to play on their insecurities

The thing that o can’t get out of my head is that these apologists for Platner are SO SURE his tattoo doesn’t mean anything but are also SO SURE that Hegseth’s tattoos do mean something! They’re the same age and got the tattoos in roughly the same situations!

incredible how white men are given the benefit of the doubt when anything coming from marginalized groups are treated with utmost suspicion and distorted beyond recognition

Really don’t need everyone to publicly self-flagellate but Bret is right that the only hope we have is for media to realize that ONGOING coverage of things is the only way to penetrate into the realm of low/no info voters

Your regular reminder that "social media addiction" is a made-up thing and using the language of addiction for social media use causes people to pathologize their perfectly normal use and destroys their ability to self-regulate www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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So religious studies is just giving up. Cool.

I've said it before, but the first school that promotes itself as "AI-free" is going to corner the market on folks committed to learning. (gift link)

there was racist harassment and intimidation of a colleague here at Virginia Tech yesterday wfirnews.com/news/congres...

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Not for nothing but the academic author complaining here is doing the same shit right-wing influencers did to spark the Minneapolis occupation

this fucking guy should fucking wear a fucking suit. he's a fucking senator.

this person quoted has 70 followers. it's just some rando. what's the point of elevating this?

starting an academic book and reading the preface, as you do, and well the author was GOING THROUGH SOMETHING when he wrote this book

Everyone lied about the Biden economy every day of his presidency and now we’re here

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a lot of this bundle stuff is colleges/ universities same model as AI. just suck off the public teat.

Gotta say both would be absolute gangbusters ideas in a medieval monastery Little unseen devils make you sick? Yup. We can wildly speculate in the End based on vague signs and vibes? Bought the t-shirt.

this is a GREAT book, get itttt

less than 1$ a brother. at these prices, you can't afford not to buy

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please have a medievalist on your team if you're gonna do medieval stuff. we've known FOR A LONG TIME that leprosy was not social stigmatized in the medieval world! yes, it's cool that you dug up some graves but don't @ us with Monty Python plague carts! #medievalsky www.popsci.com/science/medi...