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I live in pittsburgh and like it. wrote a book about conservative populism. have spent the last 15 years studying the right. go arsenal! I like gin. Book: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817321093/i-the-people/
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have white men really been driven out of publishing by wokeness? a very smart and sensible corrective from @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social

Just witnessed my first “ICE” kidnapping today at 9th/Main DTLA. Masked goons with no plates took a citizen off the street with the abundant help from LAPD. An hour ago and I still feel sick

it lives! official publication date June 24, pre-orders now - more to come about Language Machines @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791932...

the conflation of these two things in our visual vernacular's understanding of "the white working class" is basically 80% of the needed allegory about aggrieved masculinity and neo-authoritarianism of our moment

🚨BREAKING: Trump just totally lost it over Israel/Iran. Wow.

Zone 3. Caller says that is ex-girlfriend goes to his apartment building and rails the other residents to get back at him. He wants to make a report. No street on this one, you perverts.

Gerald Rosenberg stay winning

"institutions of higher learning are about to be pummeled by the looming reconciliation bill which weaponizes working-class families’ debt financing college dreams. not only will it push millions to the financial brink, it will push them out of higher ed altogether." newrepublic.com/article/1970...

Maaaaaybe you could make Trump signify the status quo but we're still so far from him meaning "just another Republican"

Authority outside the individual has been gendered and coded by the right as anti-freedom as(at least)a 60 year project

honestly does seem like the basic dynamic in american politics right now is that a critical number of voters treat Democrats like their (nagging) mom or their (bitch) wife and treat Republicans like the “cool” dad or husband who is at best a deadbeat

This is the kind of weird technical but obviously wrong thing that the GOP used to not try to massage. They'd either cook up intel or just rely on calling then barbarians instead of doing disavowal

still think this is one of the greatest posts ever made

wasn't Fordow the model for the strike mission in Top Gun: Maverick? fucking baudrillard

another post 9/11 style overreaction, this time the 9/11 was "we had a black president"

really just catastrophic and unnecessary and awful

Yikes.

the longstanding Purple Onion adult bookstore in Nashville closed and somehow got an even weirder name

"Rontgen levels in Chernobyl source of some uneasiness"

"why is this one ad for a bourbon with a high life chaser just the same songs by The National?"

good old nashville weather, threatening storms but being weirdly cool?

it was such a pleasure to review this generative book by @jamiemerchant.bsky.social

“As Merchant makes so startlingly clear, there will be a tipping point, a reckoning, a break, an ultimate end, and it may not be that far off." @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social reviews “Endgame.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/conspiracism-nationalism-decline/

this is craàazy