David Dark
@daviddark.bsky.social
believes radiohead / tenured talker /author of Everyday Apocalypse: Art, Empire, & the End of the World, We Become What We Normalize, & Explain All These Controls: U2 & the Inner America (forthcoming)
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David Dark
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· Oct 27
The Healing Game of Art, y'all. #EverydayApocalypse daviddark.substack.com/p/the-healin...
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This message hits hard.
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This message hits hard.
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GEO, Core Civic and others have horrific records of treatment of prisoners. They were declining until Trump. Fascist corporations need to be held accountable.
December 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
GEO, Core Civic and others have horrific records of treatment of prisoners. They were declining until Trump. Fascist corporations need to be held accountable.
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Between raids like this and the stubborn abuse of Jim Comey and Dan Richman's 4A rights, it's clear the remedies for deliberate abuse need to be expanded.
It was illegal but DHS rewards illegality
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Between raids like this and the stubborn abuse of Jim Comey and Dan Richman's 4A rights, it's clear the remedies for deliberate abuse need to be expanded.
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Today in the archive I found this letter in which Oregon senator Mark Hatfield politely told Jimmy Stewart to go fuck himself. The film he refers to at the end is The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) which is indeed about a brothel.
June 29, 2023 at 11:15 PM
Today in the archive I found this letter in which Oregon senator Mark Hatfield politely told Jimmy Stewart to go fuck himself. The film he refers to at the end is The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) which is indeed about a brothel.
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She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
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December 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.
Scorsese on Reiner is as good as it gets. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...
Opinion | Martin Scorsese: ‘Rob Reiner Was My Friend’
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December 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Scorsese on Reiner is as good as it gets. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...
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I think the ICE agents work hard and deserve a nice little Kavanaugh Snack, as a treat
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I think the ICE agents work hard and deserve a nice little Kavanaugh Snack, as a treat
"This remains the problem with Blanche’s actions and everyone else’s. They’re misunderstanding that this is the scandal they rode in on." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/26/m...
Much of Todd Blanche's Perceived Cover-Up Is Actually Incompetence - emptywheel
I have no doubt that Todd Blanche's actions will one day amount primarily to a cover-up -- such as when he is eventually cornered about his actions to silence Ghislaine Maxwell. But thus far, the chao...
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December 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"This remains the problem with Blanche’s actions and everyone else’s. They’re misunderstanding that this is the scandal they rode in on." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/26/m...
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That movie sucks. Even if he, like totally changes and isn’t an asshole in the ending like you said, he did plenty enough that his wife shoulda dumped his ass a long time ago.
And is there even a follow-up? Bet he’s a jerk again in less than a month. To hell with that dude.
And is there even a follow-up? Bet he’s a jerk again in less than a month. To hell with that dude.
December 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
That movie sucks. Even if he, like totally changes and isn’t an asshole in the ending like you said, he did plenty enough that his wife shoulda dumped his ass a long time ago.
And is there even a follow-up? Bet he’s a jerk again in less than a month. To hell with that dude.
And is there even a follow-up? Bet he’s a jerk again in less than a month. To hell with that dude.
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so, apparently molly has never seen “it’s a wonderful life” all the way through. we tried last night (didn’t finish, lol). these are the last two texts she sent me:
December 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
so, apparently molly has never seen “it’s a wonderful life” all the way through. we tried last night (didn’t finish, lol). these are the last two texts she sent me:
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This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...
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Hi, David, yes, it is.
btw. It was great to meet you and Sarah in Glasgow. A treat.
btw. It was great to meet you and Sarah in Glasgow. A treat.
December 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Hi, David, yes, it is.
btw. It was great to meet you and Sarah in Glasgow. A treat.
btw. It was great to meet you and Sarah in Glasgow. A treat.
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As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
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Same to you, Harry! I’m so glad I asked about Hegel. You’ve got me seeing things differently *and* wanting to read more. Is that yer favorite Kristeva text?
December 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Same to you, Harry! I’m so glad I asked about Hegel. You’ve got me seeing things differently *and* wanting to read more. Is that yer favorite Kristeva text?
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also, I now see it's almost 3.00am here in the early hours of Christmas Day. May you and yours have a truly happy time.
December 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
also, I now see it's almost 3.00am here in the early hours of Christmas Day. May you and yours have a truly happy time.
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I find that same blend of everyday relatability and rigorous theoretical discussion, for instance, in Kristeva, in Powers of Horror, where she talks about the sense of revulsion we get with a warm milk drink when we find the skin in our mouth. Simple human response, with intellectual rigour.
December 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I find that same blend of everyday relatability and rigorous theoretical discussion, for instance, in Kristeva, in Powers of Horror, where she talks about the sense of revulsion we get with a warm milk drink when we find the skin in our mouth. Simple human response, with intellectual rigour.
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So, much as I like Marx, and everyone should at least read Capital 1, I think his line about looking at Hegel and seeing him as 'the wrong way up' is mistaken. Hegel's just fine the way up he is - determinedly opposed to materialistic reductionism.
December 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
So, much as I like Marx, and everyone should at least read Capital 1, I think his line about looking at Hegel and seeing him as 'the wrong way up' is mistaken. Hegel's just fine the way up he is - determinedly opposed to materialistic reductionism.
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What it's not is any of the 'thesis-antithesis-synthesis' stuff which some people see as the be-all and end-all. That, IMHO, is really not much different to Plato's notion of dialectic (which, in the Cave, I go back to again and again).
December 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
What it's not is any of the 'thesis-antithesis-synthesis' stuff which some people see as the be-all and end-all. That, IMHO, is really not much different to Plato's notion of dialectic (which, in the Cave, I go back to again and again).
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It's the sheer ordinariness of that reflection, the relatability of it.
Then b) .. you shift to the Phenomenology of Spirit, and you realise he's still asking that same question. Only, with deep consideration, even spirituality.
Then b) .. you shift to the Phenomenology of Spirit, and you realise he's still asking that same question. Only, with deep consideration, even spirituality.
December 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It's the sheer ordinariness of that reflection, the relatability of it.
Then b) .. you shift to the Phenomenology of Spirit, and you realise he's still asking that same question. Only, with deep consideration, even spirituality.
Then b) .. you shift to the Phenomenology of Spirit, and you realise he's still asking that same question. Only, with deep consideration, even spirituality.
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Where he had me was a passage in the introductory lectures on the study of world history. He talks about standing in the ruins of a once-great city, such as Ephesus. You look around you and wonder, what was the point of all this. You ask about history, Where is it going?
So .. a) ..
So .. a) ..
December 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Where he had me was a passage in the introductory lectures on the study of world history. He talks about standing in the ruins of a once-great city, such as Ephesus. You look around you and wonder, what was the point of all this. You ask about history, Where is it going?
So .. a) ..
So .. a) ..
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I think facing the face is getting down to business with & giving voice to my own experience which is, in one sense, my face.
Have you heard this? m.youtube.com/watch?v=NS3n...
Have you heard this? m.youtube.com/watch?v=NS3n...
Pete Townshend - Face The Face
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December 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I think facing the face is getting down to business with & giving voice to my own experience which is, in one sense, my face.
Have you heard this? m.youtube.com/watch?v=NS3n...
Have you heard this? m.youtube.com/watch?v=NS3n...
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*nods* I hear that. I don’t read “You might say Hegel was Kierkegaard’s Trump” as Marsh saying “Hegel is Trump. I believe Marsh is just noting that K found H upsetting the way M finds T upsetting. I think you’d like M’s book. May I ask you a question?
December 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
*nods* I hear that. I don’t read “You might say Hegel was Kierkegaard’s Trump” as Marsh saying “Hegel is Trump. I believe Marsh is just noting that K found H upsetting the way M finds T upsetting. I think you’d like M’s book. May I ask you a question?
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David, this piece seems very hard on Hegel. I haven't read much Kierkegaard, so I can't speak to his critique of Hegel and whether or not there is anything substantial behind the palace jibe. The author doesn't really establish that.
This isn't the Hegel I've read. To call him a Trump seems unfair.
This isn't the Hegel I've read. To call him a Trump seems unfair.
December 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
David, this piece seems very hard on Hegel. I haven't read much Kierkegaard, so I can't speak to his critique of Hegel and whether or not there is anything substantial behind the palace jibe. The author doesn't really establish that.
This isn't the Hegel I've read. To call him a Trump seems unfair.
This isn't the Hegel I've read. To call him a Trump seems unfair.
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Wheaton theology professor Daniel J. Treier has died from lung cancer at the age of 53.
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An Office with a View
Daniel Treier's Promotion to Glory
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December 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Wheaton theology professor Daniel J. Treier has died from lung cancer at the age of 53.
carmenjoyimes.substack.com/p/an-office-...
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