Adrian Daub

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and talking . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and talking .

“It’s obvious Germany is the chaotic ur-mother, a chthonic force that confounds all meaning and won’t call me back after a second date. And Prussia… [cries briefly] Prussia is the ordering principle, the egoic sovereign, that cleans up its room and gets the German people pregnant.”

I was trying to figure out what this drivel sounded like and then it hit me … this reads like Jordan Peterson’s interminable Maps of Meaning

“Germany was in the Romantic Age the Volk, the great mother, while Prussia was the State, the great father. Once before Prussia, the father state, impregnated Germany the mother-people. Prussia had been desiccated by the classical spirit of normative reason. It required the pregnant blood of people-ness…”

𝔖𝔦𝔯, 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔰 𝔞 𝔚𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔶’𝔰

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."

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 “IDEAS” vertical will get around to having a second idea, but until that point I don’t feel the plural is really earned

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

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

They genuinely believe the reason Iraq and Afghanistan were disasters was because of woke

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

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.

“Work” 😂😂

“Merits” 😂😂😂

Accusing Jamelle Bouie of "exaggerated nastiness" and "hateful, uncharitable commentary" is absolutely insane.

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?

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 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 “health 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.

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

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

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

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

Das Völkerrecht hasst man aus denselben Gründen, aus denen man das Asylrecht hasst: weil beide für die Schwächeren da sind, und für die hat das Land der Dichter und Denker mittlerweile nur noch Ekel übrig. Hätten sie mal nicht so schwach sein, oder ihre Schulen in unseren Bombenhagel bauen sollen.

Er hat natürlich Recht, die einzig logische Lehre aus der deutschen Geschichte ist das Zerhäckseln des Völkerrechts.

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

A cartoon from "Vorwärts": "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 Vorwärts, January 24, 1933

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

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

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"

"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?"

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

Board of War is Peace

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...

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