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Adrian Daub
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"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history and gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). Podcasts: The Feminist Present, @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social. Newsletter at adriandaub.substack.com .. more

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Adrian Daub is a German literary scholar and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, who has served as the Director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and serves as the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute at Stanford. .. more

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Sep 24
It's here! It's here! It's here! THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC is now out with Stanford University Press! You can buy it wherever you buy books. Or I guess you can talk about it in front of Alexa and she'll order it alongside a bunch of Pamplemousse LaCroix. www.amazon.com/Cancel-Cultu...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12h
I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.

In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”

And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 15h
Lol. Lmao even.
Die Rechercheplattform Correctiv inszeniert einen Skandal um ein Forschungsprojekt der Islamismus-Experten Beatrice und Ahmad Mansour. Dieser wirft ein Schlaglicht auf die journalistischen Methoden des Netzwerks. The investigative journalism platform Correctiv is staging a scandal surrounding a research project by Islamism experts Beatrice and Ahmad Mansour. This sheds light on the network's journalistic methods.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19h
People are mad at Democrats over on Threads. Do you understand? THREADS.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
“Now witness the puny firepower of this fully disarmed and inoperative battle station”

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
💯💯💯

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
Joe Lieberman’s Force Ghost?

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
Wrong answers only
The New Work Times OPINION BINYAMIN APPELBAUM Mamdani Isn't the Future of the Democrats. This Guy Is.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
gordondarroch.bsky.social Gordon Darroch @gordondarroch.bsky.social · 2d
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
nrc.nl NRC @nrc.nl · 3d
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’

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Gordon Darroch @gordondarroch.bsky.social · 2d
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d
Diese Leute werfen anderen ständig “Gruppendenken”, “Politisierung”, “Kampagnen”, “Filterbubbles”, “Unwissenschaftlichkeit” vor und in. absolut. jedem. Fall wird umgekehrt ein Schuh draus.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d
Donald Trump's administration is banning prayer outside a public building in the Chicago suburbs. Super curious how the right wing - including SCOTUS- squares this with their claims that religious expression is under attack from the left...

blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org

Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner, Adrian Daub, Björn Heile

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d
theonion.com/fact-checkin...
Claim: My uncle says Mamdani will abolish the entire NYPD. True: Your uncle does say that.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d
Wait did the literal dumbest people on the planet tell a less-than-accurate story???

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d
But wait, I thought X was the world’s agora and snowflakes like me were wrong to abandon it for the brain rot of “Blueskyism”!!!
passantino.bsky.social Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 3d
Ben Shapiro tells Megyn Kelly that to avoid vile extremists like Nick Fuentes “the first thing people need to do is turn off X, which is poisoning brains and making people think not true things.” Yet, Shapiro continues to post there, often multiple times a day. youtu.be/tprng5mObQg?...
Ben Shapiro Responds to Tucker Carlson, Plus Sydney Sweeney and Newsom, with Knowles and Klavan
YouTube video by Megyn Kelly
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 3d
Latest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 3d
Ben Shapiro tells Megyn Kelly that to avoid vile extremists like Nick Fuentes “the first thing people need to do is turn off X, which is poisoning brains and making people think not true things.” Yet, Shapiro continues to post there, often multiple times a day. youtu.be/tprng5mObQg?...
Ben Shapiro Responds to Tucker Carlson, Plus Sydney Sweeney and Newsom, with Knowles and Klavan
YouTube video by Megyn Kelly
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d
Hard not to come away with a sense that (however they might vote) many a university's leadership agrees with the Tr*mpist vision on some visceral level. They think they have erred in allowing *those people* access to any level of power, say or attention, and they're only too happy to course correct.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d
It feels so telling to me that our elite institutions are caving just as everyday people are seeing first successes in their push back against the authoritarian onslaught.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: Cornell caved.

Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
SIGNATURES For Cornell University: Michael I. Kotlikoff President of Cornell University Office of the President 300 Day Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Ben the Winited States (including but not limited to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Servives and the U.S, Department of Education): /N istant Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 For the Department of Health and Human Services: Paula Matana S Paula M. Stannard Director, Office for Civil Rights U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 Effective Date: 14/7/2025.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: Cornell caved.

Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
SIGNATURES For Cornell University: Michael I. Kotlikoff President of Cornell University Office of the President 300 Day Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Ben the Winited States (including but not limited to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Servives and the U.S, Department of Education): /N istant Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 For the Department of Health and Human Services: Paula Matana S Paula M. Stannard Director, Office for Civil Rights U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 Effective Date: 14/7/2025.

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 4d
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 4d
Change in Abstract
Before: And can conservative feminism fix it? After: And if so, can conservative feminism fix it?

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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 4d
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
NYT INTERESTING TIMES Did Women Ruin the Workplace? And can conservative feminism fix it? By Ross Douthat and Victoria Chamberlin

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 5d
What is the posing as an ICE officer compared to being an ICE officer?
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 5d
Getting new details on this now:

As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 5d
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.

The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
19thnews.org

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 5d
Once more for the "pendulum"-claims in the back:

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 5d
“Government civil rights enforcement is now being driven by the equivalent of a YouTube comment section.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Surge in antisemitism investigations at US universities after October 7 attacks, data shows
A report shared exclusively with the Guardian documents how a civil rights law has become a tool to impose ideological priorities on US schools
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Adrian Daub, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d
The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Kelly Loeffler: "This is gonna be a crisis in the city of New York, to have a communist in there talking about seizing the means of production ... this is the face of Democrat Party now, and you saw that with everyone coming and bowing to him."