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Adrian Daub

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"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com

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Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.
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Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel
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10:40 AM - 12 Mar 2017 from lowa, USA

Steve King 9 @SteveKinglA + Follow Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. ESTERN ILIZATION Voice of Europe @V_of_Europe Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel RETWEETS LIKES 516 688 10:40 AM - 12 Mar 2017 from lowa, USA

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

04.03.2026 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3296    πŸ” 885    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 41
The Atlantic

IDEAS
IN DEFENSE OF EFFEMINATE BOYS
If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don't know how I would have responded.
By Ben Appel

The Atlantic IDEAS IN DEFENSE OF EFFEMINATE BOYS If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don't know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel

I’m sure at some point The Atlantic’s β€œIDEAS” vertical will get around to having a second idea, but until that point I don’t feel the plural is really earned

04.03.2026 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 143    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

alongside the corrosive buildup of richly deserved but fruitless rage at so many powerful and shameless people another cumulative toll of these years is the dysphoric experience of simultaneously envying yet reeling from the ability of stone cold monsters to give so few fucks about anything

03.03.2026 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Love 2 live in a world where the real checks and balances are the cognitive decline within the unitary executive

03.03.2026 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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They genuinely believe the reason Iraq and Afghanistan were disasters was because of woke

03.03.2026 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 308    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 14

Weirdly not what you said when your goons gunned down protestors in this country

02.03.2026 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the fact that so many people who dislike BlueSky are reposting a weird person making an unpopular and insane claim about Jamelle Bouie as a sign of some deeper trend is probably more telling than the weird and unpopular claim. Noah Smith suggests it is a cultural norm that enabled fascism.

02.03.2026 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1806    πŸ” 146    πŸ’¬ 137    πŸ“Œ 74

β€œWork” πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

β€œMerits” πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

02.03.2026 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 163    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Accusing Jamelle Bouie of "exaggerated nastiness" and "hateful, uncharitable commentary" is absolutely insane.

02.03.2026 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2552    πŸ” 153    πŸ’¬ 105    πŸ“Œ 57

Someone in Stanford's finance hierarchy keeps querying what the "business purpose" of going to an archive is. Maybe if I lied and said I went there to train an AI we'd have less of a language barrier?

02.03.2026 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
A scanned image of the first page of a legal document on letterhead from Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, dated February 27, 2026. It is labeled "Opinion No. KP-0518" and addressed to Mr. Darrel D. Spinks, Executive Director of the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. A portion of the first paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "mental health care providers" licensed by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council."

A scanned image of the first page of a legal document on letterhead from Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, dated February 27, 2026. It is labeled "Opinion No. KP-0518" and addressed to Mr. Darrel D. Spinks, Executive Director of the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. A portion of the first paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "mental health care providers" licensed by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council."

A scanned image of the second page of the Attorney General Opinion document. A section in the first full paragraph is highlighted in yellow, which reads: "[f]or the purpose of transitioning a child’s biological sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex."

A scanned image of the second page of the Attorney General Opinion document. A section in the first full paragraph is highlighted in yellow, which reads: "[f]or the purpose of transitioning a child’s biological sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex."

A scanned image of the third page of the Attorney General Opinion document. The text discusses various statutory and dictionary definitions of the terms "health care provider" and "health care". There are no highlighted sections on this page.

A scanned image of the third page of the Attorney General Opinion document. The text discusses various statutory and dictionary definitions of the terms "health care provider" and "health care". There are no highlighted sections on this page.

A scanned image of the seventh and final page of the Attorney General Opinion document, showing the "SUMMARY" section and the signature block for Ken Paxton. The entire summary paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "The definition of a β€œhealth care provider” in subsection 161.701(2) of the Health and Safety Code unambiguously encompasses the professions regulated by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. Any licensee that facilitates the provision of unlawful procedures or treatments that aim to transition a child’s sex are thus forbidden from receiving public money in support of those efforts and, separately, risk revocation of their licenses to practice."

A scanned image of the seventh and final page of the Attorney General Opinion document, showing the "SUMMARY" section and the signature block for Ken Paxton. The entire summary paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "The definition of a β€œhealth care provider” in subsection 161.701(2) of the Health and Safety Code unambiguously encompasses the professions regulated by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. Any licensee that facilitates the provision of unlawful procedures or treatments that aim to transition a child’s sex are thus forbidden from receiving public money in support of those efforts and, separately, risk revocation of their licenses to practice."

Texas AG Ken Paxton has declared that it is illegal for mental health providers and therapists to treat trans youth. It means that trans youth will be denied access to any mental healthcare that isn't conversion therapy. Paxton also threatens parents of trans youth with child abuse investigations.

02.03.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2207    πŸ” 1101    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 143

ASTRONAUT 1: Wait, is β€œthe campus left” just a fantasy object the center right can displace their cognitive dissonance on?

ASTRONAUT 2 [cocks his gun]: Always has been.

02.03.2026 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I lived a few streets down from the site where the Philadelphia Police Department firebombed an entire city block in 1985, and when I mention it in lecture most of my students seem absolutely incredulous

02.03.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1772    πŸ” 407    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 10

You could pitch that sentence to several important newspapers and get it printed

02.03.2026 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Das VΓΆlkerrecht hasst man aus denselben GrΓΌnden, aus denen man das Asylrecht hasst: weil beide fΓΌr die SchwΓ€cheren da sind, und fΓΌr die hat das Land der Dichter und Denker mittlerweile nur noch Ekel ΓΌbrig. HΓ€tten sie mal nicht so schwach sein, oder ihre Schulen in unseren Bombenhagel bauen sollen.

02.03.2026 06:49 β€” πŸ‘ 276    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4
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Er hat natΓΌrlich Recht, die einzig logische Lehre aus der deutschen Geschichte ist das ZerhΓ€ckseln des VΓΆlkerrechts.

02.03.2026 06:44 β€” πŸ‘ 335    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1

(For people not familiar with the iconography: that would be one (1) SA man between two rows of policemen looking the other way.)

02.03.2026 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A cartoon from "VorwΓ€rts": "The SA Man Ruled the Street" showing a single SA man walking down the street while two rows of police are lined up on either side of him with their backs turned.

A cartoon from "VorwΓ€rts": "The SA Man Ruled the Street" showing a single SA man walking down the street while two rows of police are lined up on either side of him with their backs turned.

"The SA Man ruled the street" -- cartoon from VorwΓ€rts, January 24, 1933

02.03.2026 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Oh look it's the "fetch" of Democratic politicians

01.03.2026 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, I'm sorry, was my pointing that out "revenge" @nypost.com? Or just "cancel culture"? I'm having trouble keeping up

01.03.2026 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for making it explicit: if you assert that you have rights as a member of a minority group, the @nypost.com understands this as you taking "revenge"

01.03.2026 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

"actually, there was no school, it was a school they bombed themselves, there was a military base beneath a school - all these things are 100% true at once, but also one thing's for sure, they were Iranians, and so isn't it rather suspicious that you care about whether or not they live or die?"

28.02.2026 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This statement is appallingly bad--like, the administration *illegally bombed a school.* It's mind-boggling to me for this to be the reaction from a human, much less a purported leader of the Democratic Party. I need a new senator stat

28.02.2026 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2586    πŸ” 542    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 17

Board of War is Peace

28.02.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

X as a website encourages people to do bigotry for likes and affirmation and this is the people who identify as left wing on there have decided it is morally acceptable to indulge in bsky.app/profile/bfis...

28.02.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1864    πŸ” 269    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 10

im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization

28.02.2026 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4035    πŸ” 561    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 12

β€œStudents demanded the firing of a teacher for being a well-known sex pest (he wasn’t fired). The government is forcing universities to end certain departments, stack faculties with professors the government likes, and is abducting students for writing op eds. Who is to say which is worse?”

28.02.2026 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œMean lefties on social media and government censorship boards are the same I run the American Council on Education.”

28.02.2026 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIn his speech, he also criticized the closure of Columbia’s gates, an action that has restricted public access to campus for over two years.

'It is easier for ICE to walk into a dorm than it is for me, a Morningside Heights resident, to walk across campus,’ Northrup said.”

27.02.2026 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think this is ultimately the tree to bark up on the present authoritarian capture of US media. the tilt within legacy media is pretty unmistakeable (news deserts + right wing oligopoly of major outlets) but it's hard to see how the strategy holds up without the right wing state in the background

27.02.2026 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 325    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2