Plaid Mass Panic

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).

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

Enshittification comes for the C18?

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

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.

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

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

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

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."

Thank you for attention to this matter, Governor Spanberger!

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...

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.

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

…

“Pedophile protector”

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.

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."

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

*farm workers

This business dean has no business being president.

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...

I left my heart / in Minneapolis

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

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

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

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

ICE goons just shooting and killing American citizens now

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.

Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

Five years ago.

Gangsters

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