At just 25 years old, and already significantly better than every other wrestler in the sport, the only question that remains for Onosato is how many Emperor’s Cups he will win.

Goodnight

perfect

time to get out

historically, violence

channeling woke Eric Hobsbawm: "traditional American views” is just a euphemism for “shit we invented to justify our violence"

lil kash is just the sweatiest gargoyle. every time he speaks he sounds like he thinks he’s in trouble

boss move by aonishiki: kirikaeshi, “twisting backward knee trip”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuEo...

an impossible choice: tobizaru or ura?

municipalize it

The way that you’ve crafted this statement indicates that you’re not.

or when via a principle of interpassivity television performs our political struggles for us

Those who are against Fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of barbarism, are like people who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf. They are willing to eat the calf, but they dislike the sight of blood.

“You can’t fix it. You can’t make it go away. I don’t know what you’re going to do about it, but I know what I’m going to do about it. I’m just going to walk away from it. Maybe a small part of it will die if I’m not around feeding it anymore.” – Lew Welch

In-class work only, but also a labor-based grading rubric. All work graded in/complete— i.e., no matter how dogshit, any fulfilled assignment is complete. That removes pressure to use genai. Otherwise not much. Some of the rising generation is going to be cognitively impaired.

When the gypsy woman shows up in Michael Kohlhaas. Suddenly the storyworld is gothic.

trump’s dictat is clearly destructive. also, something the tenured class tends to forget is that there are currently hundreds of thousands of qualified, dedicated and underemployed adjunct lecturers who would be delighted to teach for a living wage.

political equivalent of mayonnaise

Yes. That social inequality is not only deforming the lives of the poor but deranging the oligarchs.

pretty sure we’re in a post-hypocrisy environment. the only way charges of hypocrisy work is if the hypocrite is able or willing to acknowledge the contradictions of their behavior.

recommend some reading

usury just got an exciting new look!

SWAT is tricked out like Delta Force, using DOD surplus weapons and tech, employing repressive techniques streamlined in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Schmitt's political forebears demanded that JFK affirm he would not be “taking orders from the Pope."

speculating wildly about something i know nothing about

cafe cronenberg

Before Ken took down his website, The Richmonder was able to pull a photo: www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...

At this moment in history bitching about Thomas Chatterton Williams's self-absorption is like debating which fork to use for the salad nicoise while the gestapo machine guns your family.

We’re watching The Return on Kanopy. (An hour in). Two things: 1) I am all aquiver with anticipation for the scene with Odysseus’s nurse, which will unavoidably be filtered thru Auerbach’s strange and profound commentary from Mimesis and

Two smells defined my childhood: orange blossoms (before the groves were torn out to build strip malls and condos) and carmelizing sugar. I had no notion of the racial/class politics of the latter, but now that I do it’s not all that surprising.

do we have to explain it to you

Just to be clear about the big bill Republicans are passing: it will remove the authority for a President to eliminate federal student debt through executive order. That, sadly, confirms what we already knew — that the authority existed and was clear. This bill is very, very dangerous.

The perils of pedantry: my first instablock, from this guy I probably agree with on many things because I told him proper usage is “based ON” rather than “based off”

10 best films set in San Francisco that manage to give a sense of the city as a real place, in no particular order:

1st year teaching I asked students to read 6 novels in 16 weeks. 17 years later we’re down to 3. That span of time saw the advent of the smart phone, the rise of social media and, now, ChatGPT. Forget forming an argument about connotations. Most struggle with the text's literal meaning.

preemptive nobel

Hegemonies are never settled… … but they don’t just disappear of their own volition. — Stuart Hall

RadVegan graffiti in Bellingham:

From Richard Brouillette’s Encirclement: Neoliberalism Ensnares Democracy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ8X...

That’s fucked. Also consider this:

and an immigrant who gained citizenship via military service

Nothing can heal you; your wound is fatal. All who hear the news about you clap their hands at your fall, for who has not felt your endless cruelty?

Christopher Eccleston as Boethius in Michael Winterbottom’s 24-Hour Party People (2002): www.youtube.com/watch?v=xURs...

If you want a lift watch Rep. Lynch go off. No both-sidesing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyKW...

This man will save us.

Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed. (video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)