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C18 scholar. Director of Graduate Studies and Father Functions. Starting over.

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This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(πŸŽ₯ LCI πŸ‡«πŸ‡·)

12.03.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 17799 πŸ” 7059 πŸ’¬ 610 πŸ“Œ 567

Commonwealth

12.03.2026 01:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what is a nonviolent way to absorb phd overproduction

11.03.2026 09:57 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 0
Wolfgang von Kempelen's "Mechanical Turk" wearing a placard identifying him as a Waymo. The first of Benjamin's theses on history is scrawled on the back of the placard (not visible).

Wolfgang von Kempelen's "Mechanical Turk" wearing a placard identifying him as a Waymo. The first of Benjamin's theses on history is scrawled on the back of the placard (not visible).

07.02.2026 02:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ICE just killing 2A-believing nurses who work at the VA.

25.01.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Enshittification comes for the C18?

23.01.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I try to start with the ESTC and then use the links/ids. May help as a sanity check?

23.01.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall  that says "Slavery was real"

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

23.01.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 8697 πŸ” 3255 πŸ’¬ 99 πŸ“Œ 156

I’ve been teaching Quixote and so responded to the image of
Mambrino’s helmet at 3:21.

23.01.2026 05:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(Would love to see the β€œmiddle powers” do something, anything, to pull an emergency brake about now. Maybe this is the bracing, spine stiffening inanity they need to hear?)

21.01.2026 02:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe don't trash our strongest call for solidarity, however hollow it may have sounded in β€˜80s Czechoslovakia, when international solidarity is most needed?

21.01.2026 02:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, Canada, … there is no neoliberalism for middle powers in the post-45 nuclear order.

This Kinsey consultant vamping a la Havel: "We placed the sign in the window."

Yeah, but your sign has always said, "Workers
of the World, Get Fucked."

21.01.2026 02:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for attention to this matter, Governor Spanberger!

17.01.2026 22:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A statement from 201 concerned faculty about U.Va. President Beardsley’s appointment By acting in bad faith, the Board has flouted its fiduciary duties to the University and has violated its own bylaws calling on it to protect the University from outside interference.

We have concerns! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026...

16.01.2026 20:04 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 6

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.

If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

15.01.2026 04:27 πŸ‘ 17827 πŸ” 8366 πŸ’¬ 302 πŸ“Œ 490

Surge protector
Screen protector
Flock protector
Lord Protector
Eye protector
Habitat protector
Leather protector
Peace protector

…

β€œPedophile protector”

14.01.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.

A citizen.

Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.

"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.

Agents took and sold his phone

And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

13.01.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 9007 πŸ” 5055 πŸ’¬ 358 πŸ“Œ 685

Sometimes I am walking my dog and she finds some cat poop and gobbles it up. And I think, with Hegel, that the doggos don't just stand idly by in front of sensuous things as if they possessed intrinsic being, but "despairing of their reality, they fall to without ceremony and eat them up."

13.01.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Modest proposal. Abolish ICE, round up all the DHS goons, and then send them to the provinces to be reeducated by farm workers.

13.01.2026 03:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*farm workers

13.01.2026 02:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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12.01.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

This business dean has no business being president.

12.01.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.

A blistering critique of UVA’s presidential search process that also raises some serious concerns about Beardsley’s resume. That guy has got to go.

augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

11.01.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 142 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 28

I left my heart / in Minneapolis

10.01.2026 05:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is why they why they mask? Vicious, murderous … clowns?

10.01.2026 03:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes

10.01.2026 02:51 πŸ‘ 16043 πŸ” 3762 πŸ’¬ 956 πŸ“Œ 528

Oof. Hats off to the guy who took the video. That took some onions.

09.01.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 2487 πŸ” 508 πŸ’¬ 113 πŸ“Œ 28

"Before I was shot, I suspected that instead of living I’m just watching TV. Since being shot, I’m certain of it"

08.01.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ICE goons just shooting and killing American citizens now

07.01.2026 19:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A gif from the movie Anchorman: the character Brick Tamland yelling "I don't know what we're yelling about." Posted because something of Brick's tone and volume is recapitulated in Stephen Miller's obnoxious on-air affect.

A gif from the movie Anchorman: the character Brick Tamland yelling "I don't know what we're yelling about." Posted because something of Brick's tone and volume is recapitulated in Stephen Miller's obnoxious on-air affect.

06.01.2026 23:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0