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"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com

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06.03.2026 19:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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06.03.2026 08:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and talking . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and talking .

โ€œItโ€™s obvious Germany is the chaotic ur-mother, a chthonic force that confounds all meaning and wonโ€™t call me back after a second date. And Prussiaโ€ฆ [cries briefly] Prussia is the ordering principle, the egoic sovereign, that cleans up its room and gets the German people pregnant.โ€

06.03.2026 07:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 43 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was trying to figure out what this drivel sounded like and then it hit me โ€ฆ this reads like Jordan Petersonโ€™s interminable Maps of Meaning

06.03.2026 07:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 47 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
โ€œGermany was in the Romantic Age the Volk, the great mother, while Prussia was the State, the great father. Once before Prussia, the father state, impregnated Germany the mother-people. Prussia had been desiccated by the classical spirit of normative reason. It required the pregnant blood of people-nessโ€ฆโ€

โ€œGermany was in the Romantic Age the Volk, the great mother, while Prussia was the State, the great father. Once before Prussia, the father state, impregnated Germany the mother-people. Prussia had been desiccated by the classical spirit of normative reason. It required the pregnant blood of people-nessโ€ฆโ€

๐”–๐”ฆ๐”ฏ, ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ฆ๐”ฐ ๐”ฆ๐”ฐ ๐”ž ๐”š๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ก๐”ถโ€™๐”ฐ

06.03.2026 07:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 82 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.
ESTERN ILIZATION
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Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel
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Steve King 9 @SteveKinglA + Follow Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. ESTERN ILIZATION Voice of Europe @V_of_Europe Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel RETWEETS LIKES 516 688 10:40 AM - 12 Mar 2017 from lowa, USA

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

04.03.2026 17:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 3756 ๐Ÿ” 1013 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 67 ๐Ÿ“Œ 47
The Atlantic

IDEAS
IN DEFENSE OF EFFEMINATE BOYS
If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don't know how I would have responded.
By Ben Appel

The Atlantic IDEAS IN DEFENSE OF EFFEMINATE BOYS If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don't know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel

Iโ€™m sure at some point The Atlanticโ€™s โ€œIDEASโ€ vertical will get around to having a second idea, but until that point I donโ€™t feel the plural is really earned

04.03.2026 07:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 144 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

alongside the corrosive buildup of richly deserved but fruitless rage at so many powerful and shameless people another cumulative toll of these years is the dysphoric experience of simultaneously envying yet reeling from the ability of stone cold monsters to give so few fucks about anything

03.03.2026 17:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 41 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love 2 live in a world where the real checks and balances are the cognitive decline within the unitary executive

03.03.2026 17:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 61 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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They genuinely believe the reason Iraq and Afghanistan were disasters was because of woke

03.03.2026 00:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 310 ๐Ÿ” 56 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13 ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

Weirdly not what you said when your goons gunned down protestors in this country

02.03.2026 23:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 74 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think the fact that so many people who dislike BlueSky are reposting a weird person making an unpopular and insane claim about Jamelle Bouie as a sign of some deeper trend is probably more telling than the weird and unpopular claim. Noah Smith suggests it is a cultural norm that enabled fascism.

02.03.2026 23:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1810 ๐Ÿ” 146 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 138 ๐Ÿ“Œ 74

โ€œWorkโ€ ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

โ€œMeritsโ€ ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

02.03.2026 23:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 167 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Accusing Jamelle Bouie of "exaggerated nastiness" and "hateful, uncharitable commentary" is absolutely insane.

02.03.2026 22:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 2850 ๐Ÿ” 164 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 109 ๐Ÿ“Œ 59

Someone in Stanford's finance hierarchy keeps querying what the "business purpose" of going to an archive is. Maybe if I lied and said I went there to train an AI we'd have less of a language barrier?

02.03.2026 21:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 119 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A scanned image of the first page of a legal document on letterhead from Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, dated February 27, 2026. It is labeled "Opinion No. KP-0518" and addressed to Mr. Darrel D. Spinks, Executive Director of the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. A portion of the first paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "mental health care providers" licensed by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council."

A scanned image of the first page of a legal document on letterhead from Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, dated February 27, 2026. It is labeled "Opinion No. KP-0518" and addressed to Mr. Darrel D. Spinks, Executive Director of the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. A portion of the first paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "mental health care providers" licensed by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council."

A scanned image of the second page of the Attorney General Opinion document. A section in the first full paragraph is highlighted in yellow, which reads: "[f]or the purpose of transitioning a childโ€™s biological sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the childโ€™s perception of the childโ€™s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the childโ€™s biological sex."

A scanned image of the second page of the Attorney General Opinion document. A section in the first full paragraph is highlighted in yellow, which reads: "[f]or the purpose of transitioning a childโ€™s biological sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the childโ€™s perception of the childโ€™s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the childโ€™s biological sex."

A scanned image of the third page of the Attorney General Opinion document. The text discusses various statutory and dictionary definitions of the terms "health care provider" and "health care". There are no highlighted sections on this page.

A scanned image of the third page of the Attorney General Opinion document. The text discusses various statutory and dictionary definitions of the terms "health care provider" and "health care". There are no highlighted sections on this page.

A scanned image of the seventh and final page of the Attorney General Opinion document, showing the "SUMMARY" section and the signature block for Ken Paxton. The entire summary paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "The definition of a โ€œhealth care providerโ€ in subsection 161.701(2) of the Health and Safety Code unambiguously encompasses the professions regulated by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. Any licensee that facilitates the provision of unlawful procedures or treatments that aim to transition a childโ€™s sex are thus forbidden from receiving public money in support of those efforts and, separately, risk revocation of their licenses to practice."

A scanned image of the seventh and final page of the Attorney General Opinion document, showing the "SUMMARY" section and the signature block for Ken Paxton. The entire summary paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "The definition of a โ€œhealth care providerโ€ in subsection 161.701(2) of the Health and Safety Code unambiguously encompasses the professions regulated by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. Any licensee that facilitates the provision of unlawful procedures or treatments that aim to transition a childโ€™s sex are thus forbidden from receiving public money in support of those efforts and, separately, risk revocation of their licenses to practice."

Texas AG Ken Paxton has declared that it is illegal for mental health providers and therapists to treat trans youth. It means that trans youth will be denied access to any mental healthcare that isn't conversion therapy. Paxton also threatens parents of trans youth with child abuse investigations.

02.03.2026 16:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 2207 ๐Ÿ” 1102 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 94 ๐Ÿ“Œ 141

ASTRONAUT 1: Wait, is โ€œthe campus leftโ€ just a fantasy object the center right can displace their cognitive dissonance on?

ASTRONAUT 2 [cocks his gun]: Always has been.

02.03.2026 16:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 87 ๐Ÿ” 15 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I lived a few streets down from the site where the Philadelphia Police Department firebombed an entire city block in 1985, and when I mention it in lecture most of my students seem absolutely incredulous

02.03.2026 16:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 1771 ๐Ÿ” 405 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29 ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

You could pitch that sentence to several important newspapers and get it printed

02.03.2026 07:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Das Vรถlkerrecht hasst man aus denselben Grรผnden, aus denen man das Asylrecht hasst: weil beide fรผr die Schwรคcheren da sind, und fรผr die hat das Land der Dichter und Denker mittlerweile nur noch Ekel รผbrig. Hรคtten sie mal nicht so schwach sein, oder ihre Schulen in unseren Bombenhagel bauen sollen.

02.03.2026 06:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 276 ๐Ÿ” 50 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Er hat natรผrlich Recht, die einzig logische Lehre aus der deutschen Geschichte ist das Zerhรคckseln des Vรถlkerrechts.

02.03.2026 06:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 336 ๐Ÿ” 44 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

(For people not familiar with the iconography: that would be one (1) SA man between two rows of policemen looking the other way.)

02.03.2026 04:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 58 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A cartoon from "Vorwรคrts": "The SA Man Ruled the Street" showing a single SA man walking down the street while two rows of police are lined up on either side of him with their backs turned.

A cartoon from "Vorwรคrts": "The SA Man Ruled the Street" showing a single SA man walking down the street while two rows of police are lined up on either side of him with their backs turned.

"The SA Man ruled the street" -- cartoon from Vorwรคrts, January 24, 1933

02.03.2026 04:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 119 ๐Ÿ” 21 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Oh look it's the "fetch" of Democratic politicians

01.03.2026 22:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 56 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, I'm sorry, was my pointing that out "revenge" @nypost.com? Or just "cancel culture"? I'm having trouble keeping up

01.03.2026 22:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 54 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you for making it explicit: if you assert that you have rights as a member of a minority group, the @nypost.com understands this as you taking "revenge"

01.03.2026 22:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 95 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"actually, there was no school, it was a school they bombed themselves, there was a military base beneath a school - all these things are 100% true at once, but also one thing's for sure, they were Iranians, and so isn't it rather suspicious that you care about whether or not they live or die?"

28.02.2026 19:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 82 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This statement is appallingly bad--like, the administration *illegally bombed a school.* It's mind-boggling to me for this to be the reaction from a human, much less a purported leader of the Democratic Party. I need a new senator stat

28.02.2026 17:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 2585 ๐Ÿ” 541 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 86 ๐Ÿ“Œ 17

Board of War is Peace

28.02.2026 18:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 76 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

X as a website encourages people to do bigotry for likes and affirmation and this is the people who identify as left wing on there have decided it is morally acceptable to indulge in bsky.app/profile/bfis...

28.02.2026 16:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1862 ๐Ÿ” 269 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23 ๐Ÿ“Œ 10