Finished the lectures!

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I mean 10 years ago you also couldn’t give a Nazi salute on public television, a lot has changed

Not only metaphorically but also literally: the only growth sector of the American economy is wiping old white people’s asses

Did we ever find out who was afraid of Virginia Woolf

Schopenhauer: poets vs. philosophers (from Parerga & Paralimpomena, trans. Hollingdale)

This sucks extra hard bc Ireland is one of the few European countries I’m sympathetic to. The EU does not get any moral high ground later if they help Trump fuel his death machine.

Every day I spend time reducing the number of emails in my inbox and the next morning there are a bunch of new emails. Anyone have this problem

Scoop–CFPB just fired employee alexisgoldstein.bsky.social for allegedly disrupting &documenting a meeting a year ago between CFPB & DOGE www.bloomberg.com/news/article... She says she's being retaliated against after asking DOGE visitors who they were & if they'd completed training on handling info

There’s one of those on Flushing Ave on the way to Knockdown Center and I always stop to give it two middle fingers before continuing.

Most people don’t know that Dow Jones and Davey Jones were brothers

“Home DNA test for your dog” how about thermonuclear detonation instead

Wait. Wait wait wait.

Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals with immigration enforcement officials, according to three people familiar with the situation, appearing to breach a legal fire wall intended to protect taxpayer data.

This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us. Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.

Washington Heights weather update: Snowing

4 lectures done, the last one is 50%. Trying to finish today.

That gross scab academic who still writes for Artforum is on my TL lecturing people about ethics. You really cannot make this shit up.

People in the US love to describe having boundaries as “being upset.”

NEW: The Trump admin publicized the arrest of an "antifa domestic terrorist," implying he was charged with threatening federal agents. But the criminal complaint suggests Kyle Wagner was charged with Instagram beefing with controversial rightwing agitator Jayden Scott. zeteo.com/p/trump-admi...

Test balloon.

If the academics had had had the guts and integrity to strike and shut down the universities we would not be here right now. I will die on this hill. Harvard hired Sean Spicer and all of them shrugged. The academics have been on the vanguard of normalizing fascism for over a decade.

Academics will be like “Oh man, now the university wants to shove white-hot steel rods up our asses every morning until we die!?” and still show up to work the next day.

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

I need to get out of here. Please donate to my gofundme so I can get the fuck out of here before they close the border.

Center and follow the people who have been in the struggle and leading the struggle, not the people with big platforms who are newly enthused about it. Mostly the people you’re looking for are not academics or white men.

It’s not enough that you don’t own a home; as a renter, you should also have chronic diarrhea.

If email is your favorite way to communicate that’s a red flag

Maybe they can conquer Greenland on steamboats

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Holy shit.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Center and follow the people who have been in the struggle and leading the struggle, not the people with big platforms who are newly enthused about it. Mostly the people you’re looking for are not academics or white men.

This is why I begged people to find literally any other person on the ground in Minneapolis to follow/repost for updates. There is ZERO need to center this centrist in the struggle. Like, it’s great that you get to be an action hero for the first time in your life but it’s truly not about you.

Anybody who wants to help reject an ICE prison camp in their community, this has some concrete things you can do to get the project killed

When I look at the acknowledgments of academic books I always think “How did you get two years of funding and a Mellon grant and your books still fucking sucks.”

Great example of why you don’t represent a fascist state at an overseas event! If you fuck up instead of sympathy it will be forwarded around the world as a metaphor for your country’s failings

One day I will write a book about the different literary genres of philosophy and it will be really good.

It’s hard not to mention that I’m leaving soon when having an honest conversation about almost anything but it’s also impossible to mention that I’m leaving without immediately getting a hundred invasive questions I don’t want to talk about.

Cannot believe this is real 😭

I wrote about this and similar questions for NYRB once upon a time

It brings me no joy to say this but honestly except for Nietzsche most German philosophy sucks and is bad. Germans convinced themselves they were good at philosophy in much the same way that Americans convinced themselves a quadruple burger dipped in cheese is good food.

solidarity with striking workers everywhere

It is urgently imperative that we wrest control of society back from dorks.

One thing I truly fucking hate about social media is the way people adopt new ideas so smugly and condescendingly and immediately start lecturing and preaching like the thing they just learned has always been self-evident. We can see your posts from a year ago. Have some fucking humility.

The Stonewall Inn is a privately owned establishment. They still have their pride flag. The government removed the pride flags from the Stonewall Inn National Monument across the street from the Stonewall Inn, which is technically a national park.

It was a mistake to let white gays start describing themselves as “DL.” Sister you aren’t DL you’re just in the closet.

Jacobin is so lame and sucks so much ass and I just wish I could make the scales fall from people’s eyes about that rag, which was founded by a former Young Republican who then repeatedly busted efforts to start a Jacobin union. Just truly rat turd level stuff.