J.D. Connor
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Next fall's grad seminar will fall under "Narrative Theory" (we haven't taught it in forever; if we don't, we lose the number). Two wolves: an idiomatic triad of choice, control, and violence or a Back to the Roots of cultural expressionism: Leo Marx, Kracauer (Nietzsche!), Moten, etc. Thoughts?
Cowboys vs Aliens reboot suuuuuuucks
“We’ll Have Our Home” again is a song that’s extremely popular with white nationalists. It’s all over Telegram. I think the first time I heard it was from a video of a secretive group called the Mannerbünd.
January 10, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Cowboys vs Aliens reboot suuuuuuucks
Psych! Blade will actually be hours 5 & 6 of Avengers: Doomsday
Marvel Reportedly Shelves “Blade” Film
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January 10, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Psych! Blade will actually be hours 5 & 6 of Avengers: Doomsday
A 3 hour 45 minute Avengers movie will crush its box office. There is simply no way to show that movie twice on a weeknight past the opening week hype (6–10:10 with trailers; 10:20 [tight!] to 2:30am)
Once Upon a Time in America levels of flopping after the opening weekend
Once Upon a Time in America levels of flopping after the opening weekend
January 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
A 3 hour 45 minute Avengers movie will crush its box office. There is simply no way to show that movie twice on a weeknight past the opening week hype (6–10:10 with trailers; 10:20 [tight!] to 2:30am)
Once Upon a Time in America levels of flopping after the opening weekend
Once Upon a Time in America levels of flopping after the opening weekend
Once they finish the ballroom which CEO gets to skip the meeting as the Designated Survivor?
REPORTER: The Capital Planning Commission is concerned the 89,000 square foot ballroom is going to dwarf the rest of the rest of the WH. Do you worry about that?
TRUMP: No no. People love the ballroom. We need it. If we would've had the ballroom today, we could've had all the oil companies there.
TRUMP: No no. People love the ballroom. We need it. If we would've had the ballroom today, we could've had all the oil companies there.
January 9, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Once they finish the ballroom which CEO gets to skip the meeting as the Designated Survivor?
I could listen to Melinda Cooper *all day*. The synoptic view that takes us from 1970s working class decomposition and antifeminism to the Trump ascendancy is breathtaking. Only on @thedigradio.bsky.social, of course (thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...)
Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper
Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the...
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January 9, 2026 at 11:30 PM
I could listen to Melinda Cooper *all day*. The synoptic view that takes us from 1970s working class decomposition and antifeminism to the Trump ascendancy is breathtaking. Only on @thedigradio.bsky.social, of course (thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...)
No, no. I’m still young. I can go. 9:30 isn’t late.
January 9, 2026 at 5:03 AM
No, no. I’m still young. I can go. 9:30 isn’t late.
Tell me again, grandpa, how you beat Ole Miss.
Not now, kid, there's still 20 seconds on the clock
Not now, kid, there's still 20 seconds on the clock
January 9, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Tell me again, grandpa, how you beat Ole Miss.
Not now, kid, there's still 20 seconds on the clock
Not now, kid, there's still 20 seconds on the clock
I am in my 37th year of college football
January 9, 2026 at 4:19 AM
I am in my 37th year of college football
Sorry, but the Ninja Transfer logo looks like a Weeble flashing boobs
January 9, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Sorry, but the Ninja Transfer logo looks like a Weeble flashing boobs
For @flaminghydra.com, I wrote about the underwear dads of awards season. If you're catching up on the Oscar contenders this evening, or this weekend, be on the lookout
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flaminghydra.com/taking-it-ly...
Taking It Lying Down
A Look at Cinema’s Top Dads
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January 8, 2026 at 10:37 PM
For @flaminghydra.com, I wrote about the underwear dads of awards season. If you're catching up on the Oscar contenders this evening, or this weekend, be on the lookout
flaminghydra.com/taking-it-ly...
flaminghydra.com/taking-it-ly...
There are at least 2 ways to read @mattlevineofficial.bsky.social's MoneyStuff. One is to see it as an ironic chronicle of the rot in our financialized world. This is usually depressing fun. The other is to imagine that inside the rot there are real people you might run into. >
January 8, 2026 at 7:48 PM
There are at least 2 ways to read @mattlevineofficial.bsky.social's MoneyStuff. One is to see it as an ironic chronicle of the rot in our financialized world. This is usually depressing fun. The other is to imagine that inside the rot there are real people you might run into. >
Texas Tech relaunches as Oops! All Critical University Studies!
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
January 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Texas Tech relaunches as Oops! All Critical University Studies!
One of the great things about college radio is DJs who absolutely do not have "radio voices": slow talkers, quiet-as-a-mouse talkers, whiners, folks with speech impediments, thick accents, people who have off-the-wall pronunciations for words. Love it all
January 8, 2026 at 6:34 PM
One of the great things about college radio is DJs who absolutely do not have "radio voices": slow talkers, quiet-as-a-mouse talkers, whiners, folks with speech impediments, thick accents, people who have off-the-wall pronunciations for words. Love it all
Reposted by J.D. Connor
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
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A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Reposted by J.D. Connor
TODAY: @jdconnor.bsky.social on the dads of cinema, present and past. “You can learn a lot about dads in films by the way they spend their time in the bathroom” flaminghydra.com/taking-it-ly...
Taking It Lying Down
A Look at Cinema’s Top Dads
flaminghydra.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:26 AM
TODAY: @jdconnor.bsky.social on the dads of cinema, present and past. “You can learn a lot about dads in films by the way they spend their time in the bathroom” flaminghydra.com/taking-it-ly...
How will capital respond to naked imperialism? Ask it.
It's not Lenin and the Economist, it's me and Bloomberg (we're both softer, but the analogy is good enough)
It's not Lenin and the Economist, it's me and Bloomberg (we're both softer, but the analogy is good enough)
January 7, 2026 at 10:35 PM
How will capital respond to naked imperialism? Ask it.
It's not Lenin and the Economist, it's me and Bloomberg (we're both softer, but the analogy is good enough)
It's not Lenin and the Economist, it's me and Bloomberg (we're both softer, but the analogy is good enough)
Work life balance, Strategy of Tension edition: A new restoration of Rosi’s volcanic indictment of Italian politics on the edge of the years of lead
January 7, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Work life balance, Strategy of Tension edition: A new restoration of Rosi’s volcanic indictment of Italian politics on the edge of the years of lead
"You know, Mikhaila, you have some good ideas"—RFK
January 7, 2026 at 5:07 PM
"You know, Mikhaila, you have some good ideas"—RFK
You can bow or you can teach another class—how about this one that meets at 8am? The room will be empty so you can say whatever you want
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 7, 2026 at 4:35 PM
You can bow or you can teach another class—how about this one that meets at 8am? The room will be empty so you can say whatever you want
You know if you ran at this guy and got decent leverage you and he would go over the marble balustrade together. It would be great tv. The trick is to shout “Who’s the dominant predator now?!” before you splat
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
January 7, 2026 at 4:29 PM
You know if you ran at this guy and got decent leverage you and he would go over the marble balustrade together. It would be great tv. The trick is to shout “Who’s the dominant predator now?!” before you splat
Michelle Malkin? Takes me back. Somewhere 'round here I got a copy of The Poor Man Institute's Liberal Fascism. It was back in aught-eight, I think it was
On January 6, 2021 we called out seven specific Coloradans for stoking election conspiracy theories and trying to overturn the election results.
Here's where they are five years later. It's been a rough go for many of them.
Here's where they are five years later. It's been a rough go for many of them.
January 7, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Michelle Malkin? Takes me back. Somewhere 'round here I got a copy of The Poor Man Institute's Liberal Fascism. It was back in aught-eight, I think it was
Very eager to finish this book which has ceased to be productively annoying and settled into being annoying annoying
January 7, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Very eager to finish this book which has ceased to be productively annoying and settled into being annoying annoying
Is this the Greenland slush fund?
"I know ecofascists who use subtexts, etc. etc."
"I know ecofascists who use subtexts, etc. etc."
Trump: “I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President”
January 7, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Is this the Greenland slush fund?
"I know ecofascists who use subtexts, etc. etc."
"I know ecofascists who use subtexts, etc. etc."
Shorter translation: Get wrecked, Jair
January 6, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Shorter translation: Get wrecked, Jair