have you heard? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Yes it's true, I regard today's vote in VA as a refutation of voting in general as a decision procedure. Gazing squarely at the situation, I could see committing myself to never voting again, @abigailspanberger.com

I've been getting texts that say "today is the most important election of our lifetimes." this pertains to the virginia 'yay gerrymandering" vote today, believe it or not.

I live in VA. No I am not voting in favor of ever-heavier gerrymandering. But to you who are, I point out that you are really opponents of the democracy you profess to endorse. I'd suggest voting "Nes" or "Yo," or, you know, just staying home.

Anyone who accepts Rawls's principles of justice or his method of arguing for it (original position, veil of ignorance &c.) is rationally obliged to be an anarchist. I proved it, bubba! youtu.be/ncMEpYwepfU?...

New periodization of American art and popular music history (by ingestion): The Booze period: 1925-1970 (Pollock, Jerry Lee Lewis) The Cocaine era: 1971-1990 (Warhol, Chic) The SSRI epoch: 1991-2023 (The Weeknd, Barbie the movie) The GLP-1 period (now): still to be decided…

Noam Chomsky: The Last Anarchist Professor by Crispin Sartwell @crispinsartwell.bsky.social #anarchism www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI-w...

Let me ask you this: Have SSRIs led to a decline in the quality of popular music and film? Discuss. www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/...

📚#DidYouKnowWed — #Ubalt Prof. Marion Winik is marking the 30th anniversary of her acclaimed memoir First Comes Love with a new edition and audiobook, featuring a fresh introduction by the author. 🎧✨ 💛 To learn more, visit: tinyurl.com/CAS-Win30 #MarionWinik #FirstComesLove #Memoir #BookNews

Marion Winik reflects on telling secrets, writing fiction versus nonfiction, and her 1994 memoir, First Comes Love.

My goal in writing this was to make it impossible for anyone who read it to persist in believing that Bob Dylan is a good lyricist. I think I accomplished that, several times over. www.splicetoday.com/music/a-new-...

i've blown up the distinctions between individualism and collectivism and between competition and cooperation. If those are close to the heart of your politics or your ethics, you need to tear down and start again. youtu.be/VCYWQ2mxLRg?...

Well damn @crispinsartwell.bsky.social is on BS.

that talkshow hosts have been the primary leaders of the american left over the last decade or so: is this a really good idea? ps they're all white guys, your woke leadership. this is how the guardian covers politics:

that talkshow hosts have been the primary leaders of the american left over the last decade or so: is this a really good idea? ps they're all white guys, your woke leadership. this is how the guardian covers politics:

Heather Cox Richardson, in "Letters from an American" on Sep 12, gathered every rumor and innuendo she could find to make Tyler Robinson a right-winger. Has she reflected?

I was essentially bullied into reading and watching the original Harry Potters. So I’m very much looking forward to bullying all the people who watch the new ones. Oh how the tables have turned.

A first? Foreign journalists barred from Pennsylvania event featuring members of Congress via @pennlive.com by @iveythewriter.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2ftztmfa

A longtime local York newspaper columnist - US born - couldn’t cover the event either because he has neither a Real ID or passport.

20th and final episode of Peace Now! Great American Pacifists podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

the holocaust is one of the causes of slaughter in gaza www.splicetoday.com/politics-and...

what judith butler gets right about gender. youtu.be/_TKGGJqLnZM?...

if (for example) vanderbilt university, the maryland institute college of art, or dickinson college wanted their names associated with projects like this, they should have pulled back just a bit on the extreme humiliation and pointed extrusion. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

what is beauty? youtu.be/lD4W-LGAV80?...

let me draw a contrast between two songs, one supposedly a profound piece of poetry, the other a modest lyric about heartbreak: dylan's 'blowin' in the wind' vs the oak ridge boys' 'gonna take a lot of river.' 🧵

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

These people were wrong about more or less everything (wrong in both senses: their assertions were false and their positions ethically indefensible). I refer to enthusiasts for oppression such as Plato, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau, Žižek...⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

video version with cool natural reflected-sky effect youtu.be/gTlMh1LmHss?...

I know you've been concerned, but there's a new episode of Peace Now! Great American Pacifists. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

moments of beauty continue at the nytimes! (my concept, if i do say so, originating in 'sic names of beauty') www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm the most writerish mofo you ever saw. www.splicetoday.com/writing/plac...

hoping to connect with others who vividl experience placegrief. www.splicetoday.com/writing/plac...

i know this is gonna rock the sky on flag day www.splicetoday.com/writing/why-...

“…sometimes an insurrection is justified, and as the forms of domestic repression of dissent mutate and intensify, the forms of resistance dedicated to preserving people’s lives and well-being have to do the same.”

Philosophy- heads! Pacifism is incompatible with utilitarianism and teleological ethics. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

We feed you. They hunt us.

Protecting our neighbors is how we build community TRUST. Nobody trusts the state, and with good reason. All we have is one another.

This moves closer and closer to dead civilians on the streets.

"Staff writer at The Atlantic."

Trappist monk and political radical: latest episode of Peace Now! is about Thomas Merton. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

A solid, elaborate presentation of the work of one of the most important living philosophers, I believe! youtu.be/h-rXFGQwCmY?...