Turns out @harikunzru.bsky.social’s “Red Pill” was more prophecy than fiction.

The below presents as good a reason as any that everyone should read Feuerbach, who outmoded Schmitt’s equivocations in “Political Theology”before he was born.

do you all have a moment to discuss the Good News of seitan

I have no doubt the below is as advertised… But the argument that “Sure, we systematically excluded/discouraged women and POCs from the academy for forever until we were forced not to, but otherwise we’ve had a nice little meritocracy going on” isn’t very convincing.

Last night I sat down with Mikey and Nance for a conversation about my new book, covering everything from Hegel and metaphysics to desire and left-accelerationism. I had a great time: youtu.be/sGWJ1Nq_hLo?...

< 40 years from now, some right wing CHUD will write a book arguing “MAGA was leftist, actually.”

I can’t even imagine how painful this video is to the worst people I went to high school with.

The EATS Act has been resurrected in the farm bill under other names. Humbly ask folks to check out why #defeateats matters and how to support CA Prop 12 and state laws like it:

Laudan and Mayo

Tough to beat this one for album cover of 2025.

Lewd lube luge

If you were to add “Umpteen” to the teens, where would you put it? I’m thinking between 17 and 18.

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Rorty decided in the 70s to become the philosophical mascot for the latter.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

The Supreme Court has effectively demonstrated it has no confidence in the judicial branch writ large. The majority do not believe lower court judges are reliably capable of determining what will succeed on the merits.

So we’re just not doing POWs anymore? That’s just not a thing?

This cope is visible from space.

One of my favorite pieces of PMC autofiction is that the top economic quintile save for the 1% is just dying to give up its position if ONLY THE POORS WOULD LISTEN.

Everything now is just “See why the Rich Dad Poor Dad guy says sell your organs before it’s too late!” and I hate it.

Attn: @repsuhas.bsky.social @markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov @abigailspanberger.com As your constituent, I request a forceful public condemnation of the President’s racist insults hurled at an elected official and 1000s of citizens/persons legally living in the US.

Gentle push back to this, because I agree with the overall sentiment, is that the maintenance of capitalistic social relations is not driven by intersubjective intentionality and is not determined by the actions taken to fulfill the profit motive.

Captain Planet is our true species being.

I'm all for woke 2 as long as we agree woo-woo is out, I want aggressively pro-science and medicine thanks

I've seen a lot of people argue on here that what our society lacks/needs is shame, but the problem is that shame is morally vacuous and can be used to enforce literally any position that can be made persuasive to an aggressively self-righteous population

it would indeed seem that elites are capturing much of our politics

IDK who needs to hear, but the Handbasket had Fed workers backs from day 1 & did the best/bravest reporting on a deeply fraught & unsexy subject when it mattered absolute most. The people in this story wouldn’t have done that kind of journalism. Not this time, not next time, not ever. Plz support

Whenever you see any version of this picture, the associated headline smells like farts.

These arguments are all alike: say "quantum" or "noncomputable" or some similar word which has a meaning, but whose meaning is entirely beyond the speaker's ken, round its function off to "determiner for mystery", and then infer the mystery can do anything you want it to do

Read this, not that (whatever that is)

Didn’t read, but today’s Nuzzi thing can only in itself be marginally more annoying than the discourse about it.

There is an annoying tendency on the left to accuse folks on the other side of some idiosyncratic line as doing “literal fascism.” That is a few orders of magnitudes less dangerous than reactionary centrists claiming fascists aren’t doing fascism because they haven’t yet achieved its purest form.

Yes. Let the mantra be “fuck you we’ll still win anyways.”

Abolish all private education.

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

Lot of unkind words about Schumer when he is clearly the greatest Republican since Reagan.

Now that Dems have capitulated, at the very least they should now make every future extension of funding contingent on Trump following the law. Any lawbreaking must be met with: No more votes from us, period. My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point: newrepublic.com/article/2029...

All #virginiademocrats #democrats #dsa - there either needs to be a serious primary challenge to @markwarner.bsky.social or organized write-in campaign to send a message that using @kaine.senate.gov , not up until 2030, to vote “yes” will not stand. We will not forgive or forget this.

The arrogance of a Senator who is not even running again to take the lead in undermining the Caucus and the voters.

@repsuhas.bsky.social - do you agree that, at a minimum, @schumer.senate.gov and @durbin.senate.gov should step down from leadership and @kaine.senate.gov should step down from all ranking member assignments?

Infinite shame on the Capitulation Caucus.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

@markwarner.bsky.social - please issue a statement regarding your opinion of @kaine.senate.gov supporting the betrayal of so many Virginians affected by the shutdown who sacrificed their pay/jobs/benefits/food in solidarity with the 24M+ ACA participants who will now be kicked off/priced out.

@abigailspanberger.com - Are you ok with this? Is this the kind of leadership you think Virginians deserve?

Caving now will teach Trump and Republicans that they can win any fight simply by threatening to cause terrible harm to regular people. no possible way that could have future adverse consequences

BTW - It doesn’t matter if this is some 4D chess move to make the shutdown the House Rs problem/move the discharge petition. The fight was supposed to be about ensuring 24M+ didn’t get kicked off/priced out of ACA as of Jan 2026. Kaine & the other jellyfish just proved it wasn’t.

@kaine.senate.gov - from a constituent: This is a shameful betrayal of all of us impacted by the shutdown, none more than SNAP recipients you could’ve stopped the Rs from starving if you’d wrapped your coward arc up by Halloween I’ll support any/every primary campaign against you in perpetuity

What do you call a leader with no followers? Just a guy taking a walk. He's not just a senator. He's the *leader*. His job isn't his personal vote. His job is to unify and lead his caucus against the regime.

Chuck Schumer and friends. #DoNotCave Red alert. Call these Senators.