Werner Herzog's Bear
@jasontebbe.bsky.social
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 https://jasontebbe.substack.com/
Substack: I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I Try to Be Amused https://jasontebbe.substack.com/
As I’ve said, “Bari Weiss” will soon be shorthand for “out of their depth doofus” like “Scaramucci” is for “comically short tenure at a job.”
“.. The Monday interview is on pace to shatter clips of Colbert’s December interview with pop superstar Taylor Swift ..”
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February 18, 2026 at 1:53 AM
As I’ve said, “Bari Weiss” will soon be shorthand for “out of their depth doofus” like “Scaramucci” is for “comically short tenure at a job.”
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There's a very basic social arithmetic involved in extremist movements; only those who are outside the respectable social mainstream are attracted to them—before they rise to power. This objective misfit quality selects for clowns, morons, degenerates. And that's who staffs extremist governments.
February 17, 2026 at 2:07 PM
There's a very basic social arithmetic involved in extremist movements; only those who are outside the respectable social mainstream are attracted to them—before they rise to power. This objective misfit quality selects for clowns, morons, degenerates. And that's who staffs extremist governments.
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The U.S. killed 11 more civilians in boat strikes yesterday -- 8 in the Pacific Ocean and 3 in the Caribbean.
We're tracking the increasing toll of these extrajudicial killings in a tracker @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
We're tracking the increasing toll of these extrajudicial killings in a tracker @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
February 17, 2026 at 10:37 PM
The U.S. killed 11 more civilians in boat strikes yesterday -- 8 in the Pacific Ocean and 3 in the Caribbean.
We're tracking the increasing toll of these extrajudicial killings in a tracker @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
We're tracking the increasing toll of these extrajudicial killings in a tracker @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
Recent events on here have made it easier for me to give up posting (except for my long form stuff) for Lent.
February 18, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Recent events on here have made it easier for me to give up posting (except for my long form stuff) for Lent.
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☢️🍊's first term: Concentration camps for kids. Separation. No toothbrushes for kids.
☢️🍊's second term: Concentration camps for kids. Separation.
MAGA: I'm so shocked that he did concentration camps for kids... this isn't what I voted for...
Sometimes maggots do eat the brain...
☢️🍊's second term: Concentration camps for kids. Separation.
MAGA: I'm so shocked that he did concentration camps for kids... this isn't what I voted for...
Sometimes maggots do eat the brain...
February 17, 2026 at 8:22 PM
☢️🍊's first term: Concentration camps for kids. Separation. No toothbrushes for kids.
☢️🍊's second term: Concentration camps for kids. Separation.
MAGA: I'm so shocked that he did concentration camps for kids... this isn't what I voted for...
Sometimes maggots do eat the brain...
☢️🍊's second term: Concentration camps for kids. Separation.
MAGA: I'm so shocked that he did concentration camps for kids... this isn't what I voted for...
Sometimes maggots do eat the brain...
Just saw Send Help, which if you’re a fellow honest, hard-working plugger with a track record for being bullied for being awkwardly earnest and being passed over for not being a kissass will be VERY cathartic.
February 17, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Just saw Send Help, which if you’re a fellow honest, hard-working plugger with a track record for being bullied for being awkwardly earnest and being passed over for not being a kissass will be VERY cathartic.
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fun fact: "chick-fil-a" actually derives from a french-canadian word, "chicfeauxleilles," meaning "white guy burning coolant in f150"
February 17, 2026 at 7:12 PM
fun fact: "chick-fil-a" actually derives from a french-canadian word, "chicfeauxleilles," meaning "white guy burning coolant in f150"
Need a hand: anyone have a good explainer on how what "luxury apartments" actually means? The NIMBYs in my town are at it again and they are once again using "luxury apartment" in bad faith.
February 17, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Need a hand: anyone have a good explainer on how what "luxury apartments" actually means? The NIMBYs in my town are at it again and they are once again using "luxury apartment" in bad faith.
The mid-90s were not a good time to be on the left, especially in a place like Nebraska. Jackson’s “keep hope alive” was real, not just rhetoric. That speech certainly gave me some confidence that things actually could be changed.
Jesse Jackson came to speak at my college campus in 1996. Student body was pretty conservative, but he immediately won over the audience. He was by far the most gifted political speaker I’ve ever seen.
February 17, 2026 at 12:21 PM
The mid-90s were not a good time to be on the left, especially in a place like Nebraska. Jackson’s “keep hope alive” was real, not just rhetoric. That speech certainly gave me some confidence that things actually could be changed.
Jesse Jackson came to speak at my college campus in 1996. Student body was pretty conservative, but he immediately won over the audience. He was by far the most gifted political speaker I’ve ever seen.
February 17, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Jesse Jackson came to speak at my college campus in 1996. Student body was pretty conservative, but he immediately won over the audience. He was by far the most gifted political speaker I’ve ever seen.
"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face"
What’s the best song lyric in history?
February 17, 2026 at 2:50 AM
"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face"
As a historian I can't stop thinking about the 1850s and 1930s because the political malefactors are getting away with it because people are too scared to call them out because they know if we all admit what's actually happening that will necessitate great sacrifice and real danger.
February 17, 2026 at 2:41 AM
As a historian I can't stop thinking about the 1850s and 1930s because the political malefactors are getting away with it because people are too scared to call them out because they know if we all admit what's actually happening that will necessitate great sacrifice and real danger.
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Coming soon to a “university” near you when the far right authoritarian power gains control of your state
🔔PRESS RELEASE: UT System Board of Regents to vote on new course content restrictions just days after UT Austin collapses ethnic and gender studies departments. 👇
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aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-re...
UT Regents To Vote on Sweeping Course Restrictions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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February 17, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Coming soon to a “university” near you when the far right authoritarian power gains control of your state
Democrats are going to do very well in the elections, which is why reactionary centrists are back on their bullshit. They are scared to death of Democrats from the fighting wing of the party getting into power.
February 16, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Democrats are going to do very well in the elections, which is why reactionary centrists are back on their bullshit. They are scared to death of Democrats from the fighting wing of the party getting into power.
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"peter thiel is funding clavicular, a meth addict who hits his face with a hammer on livestreams"
You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn
You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn
February 16, 2026 at 7:49 PM
"peter thiel is funding clavicular, a meth addict who hits his face with a hammer on livestreams"
You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn
You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn
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Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.
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it’s breathtaking to see how this country is in decline by every possible metric
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
February 16, 2026 at 2:55 AM
it’s breathtaking to see how this country is in decline by every possible metric
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Broadly speaking: reality tv is bad for democracy, influencers are bad for democracy, streamers are bad for democracy, YouTubers are bad for democracy.
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
February 15, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Broadly speaking: reality tv is bad for democracy, influencers are bad for democracy, streamers are bad for democracy, YouTubers are bad for democracy.
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
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"Americans are to a greater and lesser extent all psychologically traumatized from watching more than a million Americans die from COVID, and explain that general sense of malaise through economic sentiment" has always struck me as a parsimonious explanation.
February 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
"Americans are to a greater and lesser extent all psychologically traumatized from watching more than a million Americans die from COVID, and explain that general sense of malaise through economic sentiment" has always struck me as a parsimonious explanation.
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Our story @chicagotribune.com: Chicago teen Ofelia Torres, whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer, dies. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...
February 15, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Our story @chicagotribune.com: Chicago teen Ofelia Torres, whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer, dies. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...
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I love this America so much. I am aware that I am in a constant fight, one with existential stakes but which will not be conclusively resolved, to determine whether the America that exists is the one I love or the one people like Rubio love. But it is a fight to which I am wholly committed.
i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
February 15, 2026 at 1:56 AM
I love this America so much. I am aware that I am in a constant fight, one with existential stakes but which will not be conclusively resolved, to determine whether the America that exists is the one I love or the one people like Rubio love. But it is a fight to which I am wholly committed.
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The lady who set fire to that ICE warehouse was wearing sandals and a t shirt because she is brave and the guys kidnapping babies and abuelas wear masks to hide their identities and tactical vests because they're all cowards
February 13, 2026 at 10:19 PM
The lady who set fire to that ICE warehouse was wearing sandals and a t shirt because she is brave and the guys kidnapping babies and abuelas wear masks to hide their identities and tactical vests because they're all cowards
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You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
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Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.