Red Dawn (John Milius, 1984)

Inshallah

What’s Love Got To Do With It?

There going after CUNY because CUNY doesn’t hide behind donor-friendly circumlocutions to describe what it’s doing. MAGA hates that.

getting rid of grades entirely would be much more effective at curbing surreptitious use of genAI than any amount of surveillance, would do vastly less harm to the pedagogical relationship at the heart of education, and wouldn't be another massive economic windfall for the creepiest people you know

This would be like making a silly little Airplane!-like spoof of 9/11 in 2014

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” A good mantra for fighting fascism too.

This is probably the most traditional possible behavior for the family of a pope.

Karl Polanyi’s institutionalist conception of market society, the double movement, and the nature of democratic crises under capitalism are a valuable conceptual basis for building left/liberal cooperation in 21st century conditions.

This is all discussed in the first chapter of Brave New World.

Scheming viziers? In this White House?

Me reading your skeets over a balanced breakfast

Thinking about how consultants insisted that Walz be muzzled at the ‘24 VP debate in the interests of decorum. Welp.

Never trust people who prattle on proudly about their birth status, something they did nothing to earn. By this logic, Hank Hill is a New Yorker.

That outta hold those SOBs

Album cover for a scary seeming band your older sibling listens to and then you finally play the album one day and it’s just ska

“Ode for the American Dead in Asia” By Thomas McGrath

“Carentan O Carentan” by Louis Simpson

“For The Union Dead” by Robert Lowell

Yeah I got on-the-nose metaphors for imperial decay and dystopian futures. What are you in the market for? You like DeLillo? I got some real nice DeLillo-esque metaphors, primo shit.

At a basic level, party leaders have collectively raised billions of dollars in political spending, the great bulk of which has been directed to ads instead of permanent organizing or media infrastructure. Generational strategic failure regardless of policy preferences and ideology. RIP OFA.

Billionaires scrambling to be the first to seize the honor of Dying Horribly In Space

Worth noting that this is actually a meta-question-- it's not "what policy do you think is good?" It's "what policy do you think other, imaginary people would think is good?" This encourages the "Everyone Think Like a Pundit Rather Than as a Citizen" disease that plagues political commentary.

“Move to the left” “move to the center” “moderation” “populism” — this poll has a lot of mystifying synonyms for “vibes”

The purpose of taxing you as you deserve, Jeff, is not to help a teacher in Queens but to permanently break the power you hold over the rest of us.

My undergrad library had these and I've never come across them again. I yearn for them. I have dreamed of them.

Smashing the glass on my Julian Jaynes alarm

exactly one Jan 6th protestor received proportionate punishment and she received it on Jan 6th

Read theory

*mentally replaying the West Wing firefight scene from Civil War with my own, um, cast of characters for the third time today* I too struggle to keep my discourse at an appropriate level of genial detachment.

Loved seeing Life and Fate on the Guardian’s list of the 100 best novels of all time. Saved from further obscurity & championed by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, it’s more than just a great reading experience — it’s one of the great experiences of any kind in my entire life.

Reports indicate the drones may target the USS Maine

I dislike him for the only legitimate reason: failing to live up to the promise of being his father’s son, the premier Gramsci scholar writing in English. What a waste! Otherwise he’s fine I guess.

She’s just mad that her high profile makes it almost impossible to lure wandering children into her gingerbread house anymore

No other American TV show has come remotely close to its critique of Iraq and the War on Terror

I take refuge in Frederick Douglass. I take refuge in the Abolition Democracy. I take refuge in the Reconstruction Amendments.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Happy Black Helicopter Day to all who celebrate.

This is just a chart showing that the Left is more politically coherent than the Right, which generously makes room for fifty distinct varieties of racism.

“Whipped dog” electorate is a real problem for any plan to restore democracy.

The most effective thing I’ve ever done to convey the hypervirulent racism of the early 20th century to my 21st century students is to screen these exact clips

In my feelings today, politically speaking

High time for political theorists to dust off Locke and start talking up the right of revolution. 250 years since 1776 is a moment we’d be fools to let slip by.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Incredibly rare instance of Both Are Correct

You could make this a popular cause by aggressively prosecuting some of the most hated people in America and demonstrating that our society's punitive instincts can, in rare cases, serve the public good

I’ve seen skeets you people wouldn’t believe.

Hard to conceive of people with less self-respect than the Republicans who say they couldn’t take Trump in a fight. Unless those people are all in iron lungs, boy, I dunno…