rare you see a guy like Josh be like "this sitting Dem is trash" but like...yup! he is!

"CHARLIE BROWN WOULD HIT NFL RECORD FIELD GOAL UNDER NEW DEAL WITH LUCY TO STAGE A KICK" - Politico

I'm playing bass with Chariot Fade and joining Garment District on trumpet tonight at the brillobox. If you're in Pittsburgh and don't yet have plans, consider attending!

Patriots are in control

Got to tell a Post Gazette writer asking for a quote today my perspective on unions. A true joy.

nice to read a thoughtful academic treatment about the relationship between trauma and representation, one that really breaks from some of the conventional wisdom about the need to represent hideousness etc.

lovely wackadoo weather again today.

the monetization of masculinity as failure continues apace, case no. 5,643

Tuesday's elections were about the Democrats finally waking up to the idea of power, maybe open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality

I agree with most everything John Podhoretz says on this day after election episode of the Commentary pod. But definitely not the turn at the end where he recommends Houellebecq's Submission as especially important after the Zohran win. www.commentary.org/abe-greenwal...

BREAKING - Jury finds DC sandwich guy not guilty www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus... by @ryanjreilly.com

weirdly reality keeps becoming a metaphor

RFK genuinely looks at him like "I poisoned that guy, uh oh" then leaves

MTG running for president, yep. Noteworthy not just because she has real political savvy (don't confuse that with me saying she's *good*) but because its a sign of internal understanding about where the current GOP's public standing is (and where its going)

daily grateful for taking a graduate seminar on feminism (which I foolishly at the time with hesitation) and another on queer theory (which I thought I had no interest in) because without those I would have *zero chance* of understanding our apocalyptic environs

Producerism: the cause of and only partial solution to capitalisms excesses

Nyt is in the business of owning the libs (amongst others)

Yea sure I'll read gramsci by candlelight tonight before i lecture tomorrow

Weird storm, still no power over here

Good stuff

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

cannot get over how amazing that ai slop song about 9/11 giuliani posted is www.youtube.com/watch?si=_ip...

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, does this sound like a fascist stormtrooper who had...all he could eat?"

many academics: i've been working on my book about the unrepresentable misrecognition of universal trauma in 9/11 and he just....tweeted it out

is now to the Dems what 1964 was to the GOP? time will tell!

Story of press getting these elections wrong is (at least) a story of four things: -increased consolidation into oligarchical hands to message as propaganda with no care about reality -editor/reporter internalization of white grievance politics as right which distorts reality

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Zohran can give a fuckin' speech

God we've got to bury these reactionary fucks in their own necropolis

(is “hope”…. back?)

Eugene Debs, we should see how he polls before you say the name...

Newsmax2 leading with Jim Comey

Bad night for the GOP, fearing for Latin American fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico tomorrow

I finally have a pdf version of my book chapter "Soccer as Civil Society" and I have now also made it freely available on my Researchgate page. Hope you like it! ⚽

one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.

It's pub day for FURIOUS MINDS: THE MAKING OF THE MAGA NEW RIGHT! The audio is out too, read by yours truly. Thank you to everyone at @princetonupress.bsky.social. It was a joy to work with PUP! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

the extent to which all our politics is currently contoured by a poorly repressed forgetting of #MeToo is something should warrant constant reflection, per the last RT

Another thing (and so they should consider leaving me alone) is that this “we need to forgive people for what they said in the past to grow the party” owes a significant discursive debt to the MeToo backlash that has unilaterally sold the idea that “woke feminism” went too far.

yup. and if not intentional it is *at best* the descendent of the 1994 "year of the angry white man" campaign nationalization which served to consolidate the next trajectory of the Long Southern Strategy.

The problem with most of Yglesias’s advice for Democrats is that Republicans do the opposite and win all the time. So it’s either bad advice or evidence of an asymmetric playing field, which he never addresses.

"You smear Zohran for having a really good looking wife?" "Yea boss, just like you asked."

I miss the FDA

Good seminar tonight on The Bad of the Internet

Orson Welles in Transformers: The Movie I rest my case.

just saw an ad for Kalshi that compared the individual risk trader to, in no particular order, the Wright Bros, the Spartans at Thermopylae, and a prisoner escaping Alcatraz, complete with oddsmaking for all these historical events lmao

think Schumer's Imagined Bailey Family shit could be read for filth by theories of gender, race, and ineffability: just an unkillable specter of normative rationalization of the known to prevent any real encounter with doubt or uncertainty

Those 'welfare queen' gen AI images are a great example of how its epistemology is neither indexical nor normative; what matters is its ability to produce media aligned with what patriarchal racial capitalism has led people to feel is true.