paul johnson

I hate every droid i see/from r2 to c3/ no you'll never get a bounty off of me

All timer line

YES! I should have thought to link to this lol

It's solid

'Hilarious' that our national repetition compulsion can't get us away from "the 1970s found us humiliated by Arab agency"

Truly at the intersection of my academic expertise, this joke

Obviously i hope you're right! But we're hitting key Iranian infrastructure, we replaced our crack anti terror fbi ppl with young white nationalists, what will we do if we get hit here....

Oh it's not inconceivable the US does it for deranged bloodlust/end times reasons. And i don't say this lightly or from a place of ignorance. Just a possible trajectory given my qualitative research work. Def not something conventional security or economics thought would countenance (understandably)

there is a macroeconomic reason novels are not written in the third person anymore and it is not good

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Bruh trump looks like a skeleton

Wow he looks bad

Old testament?

!!!

I'm getting in the car right now

That's wiiiiild

Solidarity as threat: pretty bad!!

Holding a copy of AJ Bauer’s new book, “making the liberal media”.

I have been digging into @ajbauer.bsky.social ‘s excellent and timely new book – I highly recommend it!

Montana senator taking a abt how our meth is better

Yearning for the halcyon days of Walter White's baby blue

ok but this is an actual essay one could write

Omg i just got out of lecture

trump saying noem out at dhs, markwayne mullin in

Folks, they're calling it "The Monkey's Paw Timeline"

of course!

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social for your Too Long List

christ, yes

i dont have a lot of confidence about any good things right now but i do think the "ok its time for wartime footing" mass mobilization demand from the government to join the fight in WW3 is going to receive an all-time negative reception from the public

thanks dan!

cc @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @katewagner.wehwalt.net given your recent doings

The painter of right: Jon McNaughton and the conservative challenge to visual culture In the last decade, conservative artist Jon McNaughton has gained notoriety. This essay reads McNaughton to make better sense of conservatism's relationship with liberal democratic visual culture. ...

I have a new essay out on the right-wing artist Jon McNaughton. Come for an explanation of how the right-wing perverts Walter Benjamin's understanding of art; check out how race-as-viral-modernity explains a lot; don't miss the potshots at new materialism!

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NGAN2...

James Fishback's Real Real Dumbasssssssss Song

How liberals lost the internet | Robert Topinka In the first part of our series on digital politics, we look at how centrists have lost ground fighting disinformation – when the real battle is over emotion and attention, says digital media academic...

“The overwhelming liberal focus on disinformation misreads how digital platforms work: misleading content is everywhere, but the real battleground is over emotion and attention”

A must read by @robtoes.bsky.social in @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You read the book Reverse Colonization?