The Dead Admonish Us
Martyrdom and Memory
The German socialists had a motto — The Dead Admonish Us — it's written on the memorial to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. The dead admonish us, too.
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They're gonna call it Stancilgrad
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we're winning
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To My Readers
Five Years of Unpopular Front
Tuesday marks five years of Unpopular Front.—
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Jamelle is my friend and collaborator, not my boss.
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They killed another person in Minneapolis, it looks like.
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added a financial markets section
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added another model
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I've also incorporated google trends and news api to take temperature of discourse but its kinda broken still
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Here is the summary
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Now it shows which models are demonstrating the most stress
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The calculator thinks that Trump's base support is still a problem, but I think it's overrating electoral interference risk
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Will Stancil 👍
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The ACI (I thing I made up with AI) doesn't lie
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MLK Jr. and Hegel; Tooze Agonistes; America's ‘Homeland Empire’
Reading, Watching 01.18.26
MLK Jr's use of Hegel; Tooze and his critics; Nikhil Pal Singh on America's ‘Homeland Empire.’
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here is where we are according to the ACI model
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good news, folks. the totally fake mathematical model I built using ChatGPT called the ACI (authoritarian consolidation index) says we're gonna probably gonna be okay longterm
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so your rebuttal to "there are tens of thousands of precincts where votes are tabulated and you would have to january 6 them all" is "there were protests in *idaho* and oregon that were kind of like the thing i'm describing"
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going live on substack at 2pm with @maxread.info and a special guest
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How many Hmong in the US could even possibly be illegal immigrants?
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Dingbat Imperialism, the Lowest Stage of Capitalism
Reading Lenin Today
I tried to apply Lenin's theory of imperialism to Venezuela. It doesn't really work.—
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I think I can do and do do both
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I know I can be very unpleasant, but I don't think I'm intellectually dishonest
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For the most part, no one has ever engaged with my arguments.
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Can you give me an example of that?
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I mean, I don't know if qualifying something is walking it back exactly. And in my defense I was not the only person who read Tooze that way, Rauchway did too. I wasn't like trying to smear him, I took the arguments seriously. You just have an antipathy towards me for some reason
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London Academic- Tracking the American Empire’s foreign policy establishment and its forging through wars and imperial international system building, and its crises; role of Trump and Trumpism in US and globally
Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
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Doing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh. Concocting a thesis, the main ingredients being Right-wing politics, hegemonic formation and some nostalgia. You can find me at your nearest bookshop. 🇵🇷
Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com - Podcast: Is This Democracy https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/is-this-democracy
New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
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Professor of Visual Art, Brown University
I think about the Roman Empire on the reg.
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Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
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phd candidate in political theory @ university of chicago
Writer, political theorist in DC. My book, Furious Minds, about the MAGA New Right is now out. Bylines at The Bulwark, The New Republic, Politico.
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American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW, Brookings
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Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/
Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.
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