Werner Herzog's Bear
Teacher, historian, and blogger. Born and raised in Nebraska, working and living in Jersey.
Substack: I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I Try to Be Amused jasontebbe.substack.com
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearI think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearThe president constantly lying about stolen elections, after staging a coup attempt, & now threatening to federalize & steal future elections, should be the primary news story in the country 24/7 & on every front page until he is impeached & removed next week.
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearOn X, @osinttechnical.bsky.social reacted with this bloosk by @tommchenry.bsky.social
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearJeff Bezos' wedding last summer cost somewhere around $50M. That, alone, could have saved all 300 positions cut today at The Washington Post for a year. Of course, he wouldn't have to choose. He could do both because he's worth $250B, which is nearly the GDP of New Zealand.
- My latest, expanding my thoughts on Stefan Zweig and discussing the need for visions of the future. open.substack.com/pub/jasonteb...
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- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearThe people with the most power in our society appear to be nothing more than a pack of rabid chimpanzees singularly focused on destroying the works of people immeasurably better than they are.
- Reactionaries thought 2024 would be like 1980, not just an election win, but a new economic/social/cultural arrangement. They are way over their skis because the public really dislikes a program they arrogantly assumed had consensus.
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's Bearevery malcolm gladwell book starts from the premise that any idiot can become an expert on any topic and then spends the entire book underlining how wrong that premise is
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- The dynamics of NIMBYism might do some good work for once.
- Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearIt’s important to keep in mind the existence of a lot of antipathy toward D.C. specifically, and its limited capacity to protect itself because of its relationship to the federal government.
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's Bearone area where popularism is most preposterous is where voters are quite obviously confused
- Pew finds 60% oppose pausing visas and 66% oppose nixing asylum! People overinterpreted 2024 as a seismic shift to Trump on immigration. But the data is showing very broad opposition to the restrictionist, ethnonationalist, anti-humanitarian aspects of Trumpism. 5/5 newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearBezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearBezos has the resources to make WaPo into the BEST sports outlet and BEST science outlet and BEST place to get trusted news without feeling any sort of negative financial impact but is happy to turn it into Quillette because he’s lost whatever creative spark he had and turned into a vapid dullard
- Video call: WaPo Executive Editor Matt Murray says the paper plans to lay off hundreds of staff, cutting into its local, international, and sports coverage (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
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- Garth Brooks, “Friends in Low Places”
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearIt's wild to me that, even before all this, we had on record Bannon saying something along the lines of "we're going to use gamergate to turn kids into Nazis" and barely anyone flinched
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearIs it just me or does it feel like the 'ushers' are on a hair trigger of late, lunging in front of the cameras to rescue Trump whenever he starts doing a dementia.
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- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearYou can really see why they fought so hard against Me Too, they're all implicated either in deed or silence and it's hugely fucking embarrassing for the Masters of the Universe
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- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearIf you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearYou should be ashamed of yourself if you’re still defending Noam Chomsky in 2026. Discard him in the regrettable dustbin of history where he belongs.
- Fleeing Germany in the “hungry (18) forties,” dodging the Kaiser’s draft post unification, getting some land that couldn’t be had in Germany or Sweden.
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearThis guy literally had himself photographed dressed up like Christ on the cross while holding a sign saying “atheist”
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearIf you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearNot the Onion, somehow.
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearHaiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.…
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- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearProfessional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's Bear10 YEARS AGO NOBODY CLAPPED
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearLol these three journalists spent months publishing "Harvard is about to cave" stories based only on WH sources
- The current situation is just not sustainable. If Republicans refuse to break their omertà with Trump things are going to get “interesting.”
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- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearEach of these 7 items would easily be the biggest scandal for like 45 Presidents.
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearUniversity of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's Bearmultiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's Bear1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearIf you watch the reaction of everyone else in the room, it seems very unlikely that this “sound effect” has been added for comedic purposes. The fact that everyone sprints away like there’s a Sarin leak… I’ve seen enough, our president shit himself in the oval office on live TV.
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearThe classic of the genre, from the British Daily Star: On the left is a picture of, and a leering caption about, the 15 year old singer Charlotte Church On the right, fire and brimstone about the perverts behind Brass Eye, and the "Paedogeddon" episode* corrupting the nation...
- So are all the centrist media outlets going to demand that Republicans have to be less extreme after the Rehmet win? Just asking because any time a Democrat loses a blue district the entire political media apparatus says Democrats have to support conservative policies.
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearYesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearIt's easy to see these academics as individual bad actors. But I'd argue--they were enabled by "elite" schools' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name abusers, and by the fact that, societially, we treat people associated with "elite" schools as automatically deserving of deference.
- How I know the tide is turning: if you criticized Trump in public last year conservatives would push back and defend him or go after liberals; now they just say “There’s no need to get political.”
- Serious question: if we were to draw up articles of impeachment against Trump, how things could we could come up with? Let me try: - Boat strikes - Suing the govt to oversee his own settlement - Kidnapping a foreign head of state - Doing so without consulting Congress - Warrantless ICE raids 1/
- Any president other than the Very Special Boy would be impeached by Tuesday and removed by Friday for doing this.
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- At my school’s annual international pot luck sampling amazing food from all over the world made by immigrant families, all in an atmosphere of joy. This is the world Trump and the whole fascist international wants to kill and I’ll be damned before I let them do that without a fight.
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- Thinking about HRC and others praising Saudi Arabia this week and commenting on its “freedom.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearTranslated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's Bearthis guy’s an antisemite? this guy? next you’re gonna tell me elon musk is in the epstein files
- New:Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, made disparaging remarks in reference to the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, an Orthodox Jew, people with knowledge of the phone call said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
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- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearMissed all the Gen X discourse yesterday, but those of us who are actually in the generation have explained this ad nauseam. We had the ultimate worst bullies and mean kids in our generation growing up, and they were never, EVER checked because adults didn't GAF. Also, Black Gen X is Democratic.
- Reposted by Werner Herzog's BearHoly crap. Minnesota police chief tracks down ICE agents in his car and de-arrests a woman who lives in his town.
- "MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
