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?
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“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...
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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
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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
@margaretconnor.bsky.social would like LA to commission Brian Eno to compose Music for Flyaway Buses for the upcoming Olympics and this is a great idea.
January 6, 2026 at 9:57 PM
@margaretconnor.bsky.social would like LA to commission Brian Eno to compose Music for Flyaway Buses for the upcoming Olympics and this is a great idea.
If I'm reading NATO's Article 5 correctly, Kier Starmer and the UK's Trident subs have the chance to do the funniest thing
*TRUMP AND TEAM DISCUSSING OPTIONS TO ACQUIRE GREENLAND: REUTERS
Reuters heads:
TRUMP AND HIS TEAM ARE DISCUSSING A RANGE OF OPTIONS FOR ACQUIRING GREENLAND AND 'UTILIZING THE US MILITARY IS ALWAYS AN OPTION'- WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT
Reuters heads:
TRUMP AND HIS TEAM ARE DISCUSSING A RANGE OF OPTIONS FOR ACQUIRING GREENLAND AND 'UTILIZING THE US MILITARY IS ALWAYS AN OPTION'- WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT
January 6, 2026 at 9:33 PM
If I'm reading NATO's Article 5 correctly, Kier Starmer and the UK's Trident subs have the chance to do the funniest thing
Top: A well-reported story about how ChatGPT basically killed a kid giving him drug advice
Bottom: A desperate plea to help SFGate survive in the era of Google's AI summaries
In between: A GenAI ad for an impossible object that dispenses butter, and generates the money to pay for the reporting
Bottom: A desperate plea to help SFGate survive in the era of Google's AI summaries
In between: A GenAI ad for an impossible object that dispenses butter, and generates the money to pay for the reporting
January 6, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Top: A well-reported story about how ChatGPT basically killed a kid giving him drug advice
Bottom: A desperate plea to help SFGate survive in the era of Google's AI summaries
In between: A GenAI ad for an impossible object that dispenses butter, and generates the money to pay for the reporting
Bottom: A desperate plea to help SFGate survive in the era of Google's AI summaries
In between: A GenAI ad for an impossible object that dispenses butter, and generates the money to pay for the reporting
Maybe if we got more of film twitter over here
Wait, no, not like that
Wait, no, not like that
i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts
I'd be happy with big non politics accounts.
January 6, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Maybe if we got more of film twitter over here
Wait, no, not like that
Wait, no, not like that
"I'm gonna make a killing doing some insider trading on our upcoming invasion. But first I gotta trade some fartcoin." An oligarchy of dipshits
Update: someone dug into the wallets connected the the wallet used here and found that it was connected to an ENS domain called Stevencharles.sol
Steve Witkoff's middle name is Charles
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_W...
Steve Witkoff's middle name is Charles
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_W...
January 5, 2026 at 10:22 PM
"I'm gonna make a killing doing some insider trading on our upcoming invasion. But first I gotta trade some fartcoin." An oligarchy of dipshits
“I’m not the dog you kill. I’m the dog you give treats…I’m Shiva the dog of death!”
January 5, 2026 at 3:11 PM
“I’m not the dog you kill. I’m the dog you give treats…I’m Shiva the dog of death!”
If I had to sum up my posting style in 2 skeets
January 5, 2026 at 12:14 AM
If I had to sum up my posting style in 2 skeets
If we’re really rushing headlong back into a Sphere of Influence–dominated world, then the brutal corollary will be a renewed “scramble for Africa.” The deportation fights, the incoherence of the international response to the RSF, the strikes in Nigeria, etc. all part of the ramp-up.
January 5, 2026 at 12:01 AM
If we’re really rushing headlong back into a Sphere of Influence–dominated world, then the brutal corollary will be a renewed “scramble for Africa.” The deportation fights, the incoherence of the international response to the RSF, the strikes in Nigeria, etc. all part of the ramp-up.
Help me, Kevin Hart, I lost $62,000 on this game and am being evicted
January 4, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Help me, Kevin Hart, I lost $62,000 on this game and am being evicted
🎶Hiiigh-way to the lameass zone🎶
GOP Rep. Pat Harrigan: "There are members of Congress that they just cannot trust. And I understand that. We have folks that are Somali first and not America first."
January 4, 2026 at 1:26 AM
🎶Hiiigh-way to the lameass zone🎶
Perfect continuity from screen to world
January 3, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Perfect continuity from screen to world
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Lord forgive me but it’s time to go back to tha old me
*pulls American Idiot CD out of cold storage*
*pulls American Idiot CD out of cold storage*
January 3, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Lord forgive me but it’s time to go back to tha old me
*pulls American Idiot CD out of cold storage*
*pulls American Idiot CD out of cold storage*
The statue and the bomb, or, the Hall of Fame and the kinetic strike, or hosting a television show and carrying out a coup “literally like I was watching a television show”
It’s gonna be weird when this thing comes out in like 2029.
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
The statue and the bomb, or, the Hall of Fame and the kinetic strike, or hosting a television show and carrying out a coup “literally like I was watching a television show”