Jason Read

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Yes, "the left" have no power in this country, but somehow everything the right does is somehow their fault. This from the people who believe in personal responsibility.

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

Lucky Day “An existential masterwork that, like life, is equal parts atrocity and delights."—Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of DeathLuc...

I had never read Chuck Tingle, so I put this on my Halloween month reading list. I thought it was an interesting attempt to construct a kind of cosmic horror from the statistical uncertainty of existence. Plus casino owners are the right villains for our age.
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Bento (dog) at night in front of skeletons and monsters bathed in red light

They did the mash

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

Complete dismantling of CDC while the President gets his Covid booster: doubling down on the fiction that individual well being can be separated from collective well being

The second article has just been published! The always brilliant Sherryl Vint argues that Silicon Valley’s core product is a “science-fictional ideology". It promotes an identity where one aims to be capital itself, ever-growing and immortal, erasing the working class & undermining solidarity.

Bento (dog) on bridge over marsh with sun shining

Bento was there too

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Fun fact: the “peace” in Nobel Peace Prize is ironic, like big guys that are called Tiny or Slim.

Blue heron taking off from small creek in field

Surprised this heron on my walk this morning

Erasing the 1960s One Battle After Another, Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

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Glad Trump didn’t get the peace prize but Machado is a racist with ties to the European far right. This is shameful. Shame on the Nobel committee.

The idea that universities should be neutral with respect to politics comes up against the limitation that politics is far from neutral when it comes to knowledge.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’ Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

5 Guys Who Are Still So Mad About Skylar White In 2025

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a woman is decorating a christmas tree with red and yellow ribbons ALT: a woman is decorating a christmas tree with red and yellow ribbons

Every time someone says “antifa”

Bento (dog) standing on back porch and not wanting to come inside

Bento (dog) sitting by me while I go about my morning reading outside

A story in two acts: One: Bento wondering why I am not reading outside while I explain that it is too cold. Two: I give in, bundle up and do my reading outside.

"A government doesn't announce they have become fascist; they announce anti-fascists are enemies of the state."

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

The science is in: COVID boosters are worth it, even if you've been vaccinated and/or infected before. Stay safe out there, friends!: 🧪 🛟 www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Interpreting a Changing World: Labor Power in Virno and Macherey

Yesterday's post on labor power in the philosophy of Pierre Macherey and Paolo Virno
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Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

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"But Weiss didn’t test well with audiences, who didn’t understand her centrist-right contrarian politics. In fact, her focus group scores were so low that she wasn’t invited back to guest host, according to insiders."

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

I once ran into someone who recognized me from my blog and invited me to his wedding. I had a great time.