@varnvlog.bsky.social
Podcaster, poet, educator, former expatriate, angry person, “moralist," Buddhist. Author of Apocalyptics and Liberation. Host Varn Vlog ☸
Had a great conversation with @varnvlog.bsky.social about my writings on Immanuel Wallerstein
youtu.be/Y58ZkwpFC_E
I was there, this is what it felt like. 😆
(except everything still smelled like cigarettes)
"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."
07.02.2026 02:20 — 👍 4776 🔁 1060 💬 126 📌 141
I underestimated human depravity and reaction in response to relative decline, but it has made me abandon the idea that make majority of society could halt the money men, experts and cons from social capture. Look at what is tolerated by capitalists & elites otherwise.
05.02.2026 15:28 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 Munitions inventory leaked to me shows Border Patrol is stockpiling over 35,000 weapons in Minneapolis for crowd control.
Full inventory here:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/in-ices-wa...
Varn Vlog is generating self-study programs and reading lists to go with episodes and consistently misguided concepts. While these are on my Patreon, they are completely free to access in full. You don't even need to be a free subscriber. You just need to go and find them.
04.02.2026 21:48 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Lovecraftian part of society is the realization that so influence can be had by venal con men who fail up until becoming the real life equivalent of evil Forest Gump and apparently may or may not had world historic effects.
01.02.2026 20:06 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don’t lose sight of the general rot because of the shock of the particular acute rot. It is general rot from which most particular comes.
31.01.2026 16:43 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0If anything surprises is that bourgeois society’s rot was actually as bad as portrayed in paranoid occult conspiracy thrillers, except the dark power is almost only money. We knew that in abstract, but apparently this new unclassified files proves it in particular.
31.01.2026 15:39 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
26.01.2026 23:40 — 👍 10497 🔁 3194 💬 1280 📌 3656
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
24.01.2026 17:48 — 👍 17743 🔁 5541 💬 173 📌 180This guy is a former Scalia clerk and GWB appointee btw.
24.01.2026 18:06 — 👍 67 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0I'm not doing a lot of posting here, but I can tell you, Maine is absolutely under seige. When ICE comes in, they come bringing terror.
24.01.2026 17:44 — 👍 432 🔁 206 💬 17 📌 4“The government has also argued that I must accept this as true because they said it, and they are the government…I respectfully suggest that the petition is frivolous.”
The judge who wrote this is a Bush appointee and two-time Scalia clerk.
BREAKING:
The Minneapolis Police Chief says of the shooting victim:
"Based on the information that we have, which is very limited, this is a 37-year-old white male who is a Minneapolis resident."
He adds: "We believe he is a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry."
The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.
24.01.2026 17:58 — 👍 7244 🔁 2574 💬 57 📌 60
Tell me that managers and not capital control everything again
22.01.2026 16:56 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
What does it say about a culture that can’t not elect a president it actually likes and now can only yell about the fever dreams of aging men it keeps allowing to dotter into power.
What does it say about the economic system that produces that culture too.
“It’s all culture war issues now”
Well, with the the social reproduction crises we face; eventually what culture will be left to war about.
