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midwest academic, political science + psychology / inveterate fan of The Fall / cat enthusiast / boring social democrat / photographer
- one socially significant thing about feminism is just how less mature and professional men are without it; these horny old fucks can bitch all they want but at the end of the day it's for their own good
- Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
- hell awaits
- These 2 kids detained last week were brought back to MN today. But school officials say many others from the Columbia Heights district are missing. They're not sure if they're in ICE detention or have moved away with their families. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Eraserhead
- jabbafication
- I’ve said before and I will say it again: the MAGA gender aesthetic can be concisely characterized as “cis drag”
- my erudite take as a scholar is that Bezos is a cock who should be paying more tax
- speaking as a paesan, I think we need to regroup around someone different too, like Marty Scorsese, Mother Cabrini, or like Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth
- our real-life version of William S Burroughs's Nova Mob!
- First, we can move the attention towards the elite "polarization entrepreneurs" in politics and the media who manufacture divides, among others by creating the false image of a deeply divided society. As e.g. here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
- good 🧵; among other things, it is important to recognize that polarization, sorting, and dimensional alignment are more pronounced among elites and the most engaged segment of the mass public than the rest of the population -- we often generalize too much from the former to the latter.
- The US is often seen as an extreme case where polarization erodes democracy bc partisanship now permeates all everyday sociability and affects. But this is now being contradicted by a whole number of studies. Besides the really interesting new work by @jonadejong.bsky.social, there is... (quick 🧵)
- a good start; now send the rest packing
