Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield
@patblanchfield.bsky.social
US culture, violence, politics, psychoanalysis | associate faculty at the brooklyn institute of social research | co-host @unhappinesspod.bsky.social podcast
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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
Schumer: "Republicans must -- if there was ever a time, they must step up to the plate. This is the time. And if they don't, they're gonna feel the heat from their constituents."
January 5, 2026 at 3:06 PM
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
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finally, we're living through precedented times
January 4, 2026 at 6:56 AM
finally, we're living through precedented times
tfw your entire job and worldview is at stake
January 4, 2026 at 1:16 PM
tfw your entire job and worldview is at stake
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Incredibly funny that this is the closest Matty Yglesias will ever get to admitting he was wrong about American empire. “Looks like that leftist was right. Like a fucking IDIOT”
January 4, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Incredibly funny that this is the closest Matty Yglesias will ever get to admitting he was wrong about American empire. “Looks like that leftist was right. Like a fucking IDIOT”
it’s even more important in an era where your consent doesn’t matter that you still proactively get out there and credit ghoul politicians after they do heinous shit, because Balance and Reasons and Multiple Things Being True etc
January 4, 2026 at 1:05 PM
it’s even more important in an era where your consent doesn’t matter that you still proactively get out there and credit ghoul politicians after they do heinous shit, because Balance and Reasons and Multiple Things Being True etc
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we are not going to have “boots on the ground” - gen alpha wears wedge sneakers
January 3, 2026 at 6:15 PM
we are not going to have “boots on the ground” - gen alpha wears wedge sneakers
we are going to “run Venezuela” ok. ok
January 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM
we are going to “run Venezuela” ok. ok
you’d like to think the clarity that comes from knowing it’s all ultimately just about power would be something other or more useful than simply exhausting
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
you’d like to think the clarity that comes from knowing it’s all ultimately just about power would be something other or more useful than simply exhausting
at the rate things are going we’re gonna need to have another Comey Day to restore legitimacy ASAP
January 3, 2026 at 1:41 PM
at the rate things are going we’re gonna need to have another Comey Day to restore legitimacy ASAP
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It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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an “inherent power” to respond to an “imminent” attack is just a license for aggressive war on the president’s whim
How does launching air strikes and a commando raid fall under the remit of self defense for an arrest operation
January 3, 2026 at 12:39 PM
an “inherent power” to respond to an “imminent” attack is just a license for aggressive war on the president’s whim
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"we had to bomb Venezuela bc it resisted arrest" is a pretty good one, though. keep innovating, psychotic war state!
January 3, 2026 at 12:49 PM
"we had to bomb Venezuela bc it resisted arrest" is a pretty good one, though. keep innovating, psychotic war state!
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Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
January 3, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
that’s decencyslop. you’re only having this reaction because despite the odds some shred of you retains basic human impulses
January 3, 2026 at 11:50 AM
that’s decencyslop. you’re only having this reaction because despite the odds some shred of you retains basic human impulses
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fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
January 3, 2026 at 10:47 AM
fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
I’m against wars of aggression illegitimate state violence and imperial overreach but as an Adult in The Room I am committed to ensuring that whatever happens next is for the good of Free Market Democracy and the Rule of Law 🙏👼🇺🇸👶🧠
January 3, 2026 at 11:45 AM
I’m against wars of aggression illegitimate state violence and imperial overreach but as an Adult in The Room I am committed to ensuring that whatever happens next is for the good of Free Market Democracy and the Rule of Law 🙏👼🇺🇸👶🧠
rules based international order goes BRRR
January 3, 2026 at 10:05 AM
rules based international order goes BRRR
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This Upton Sinclair quote never misses
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
But can anyone tell me what this bit means? “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”
January 2, 2026 at 1:56 PM
This Upton Sinclair quote never misses
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
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That's just memoryslop. You only recalled that because you ate a cookie.
January 1, 2026 at 6:04 PM
That's just memoryslop. You only recalled that because you ate a cookie.
Amazing! We're now further in time from the release of turn of the century classic "Smooth" by Rob Thomas feat. Carlos Santana than "Smooth"'s debut was from the convictions of John Mitchell, HR Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman for their involvement in what was known as the "Watergate Break-In"! Wow!
January 1, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Amazing! We're now further in time from the release of turn of the century classic "Smooth" by Rob Thomas feat. Carlos Santana than "Smooth"'s debut was from the convictions of John Mitchell, HR Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman for their involvement in what was known as the "Watergate Break-In"! Wow!
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unsarcastically: I give credit to Michael Walzer for explicitly saying, in essence, "btw I didn't read any of this and am just gonna vibe it out" in the intro to his racial capitalism article rather than the pretend reading done by most in this genre
We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.
December 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
unsarcastically: I give credit to Michael Walzer for explicitly saying, in essence, "btw I didn't read any of this and am just gonna vibe it out" in the intro to his racial capitalism article rather than the pretend reading done by most in this genre
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Really striking how career scholars have published not only magazine articles but also entire books rebutting the concept of prison abolition that cite perhaps 2 or 3 texts to represent their rhetorical foil
We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.
December 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Really striking how career scholars have published not only magazine articles but also entire books rebutting the concept of prison abolition that cite perhaps 2 or 3 texts to represent their rhetorical foil
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Cheryl Harris's 1993 "Whiteness As Property" identifies this sort of personal injury as a new, post-Brown form of whiteness as property that emerged from anti-affirmative action lawsuits in the late 70s and 80s
obvious but still significant that one of the primary and most socially tractable ways some people experience their own “whiteness” is when they decide they’ve been personally deprived something they’re owed, whereas when they get or have things, it’s what they’ve personally earned as an individual
December 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Cheryl Harris's 1993 "Whiteness As Property" identifies this sort of personal injury as a new, post-Brown form of whiteness as property that emerged from anti-affirmative action lawsuits in the late 70s and 80s