Pseudospectre
@pseudospectre.bsky.social
post various things I’m reading, photos, and political/philosophical musings - trans rights are human rights - black lives matter - free palestine - he/him - check out my blog twilliambell.wordpress.com
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hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
Romance alert: Trump's reckless tariffs have Valentine’s Day costs up across the board:
Roses 🌹16.6%
Chocolates🍫 18.7%
Ribeye 🥩 25.4%
Restaurant meals 🍽️ 4.9%
Roses 🌹16.6%
Chocolates🍫 18.7%
Ribeye 🥩 25.4%
Restaurant meals 🍽️ 4.9%
February 14, 2026 at 6:19 PM
hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
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lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
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Some people are calling it the flag of Woke 2
February 14, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Some people are calling it the flag of Woke 2
Melinda Cooper does a great job tying Epstein’s system of sexual subjection to a wider return to household staffs among the ultra-rich and to America’s political personalist project under Trump www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
www.equator.org
February 14, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Melinda Cooper does a great job tying Epstein’s system of sexual subjection to a wider return to household staffs among the ultra-rich and to America’s political personalist project under Trump www.equator.org/articles/eps...
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a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 12, 2026 at 1:29 PM
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
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it's funny following this discourse while being on the philosophy job market and hence being aware of just how many jobs every year are specifically earmarked for conservatives
Maybe it’s just because I’m in PPE circles where these are prominent, but the basic premise doesn’t even make sense. There are loads of right wing (be it libertarian or conservative) funding bodies for the humanities and social sciences already. Things like IHS and Mercatus on the libertarian side
The Atlantic is indistinguishable from Compact.
February 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
it's funny following this discourse while being on the philosophy job market and hence being aware of just how many jobs every year are specifically earmarked for conservatives
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The best advice one can give potential philosophy job applicants is: be a Catholic
it's funny following this discourse while being on the philosophy job market and hence being aware of just how many jobs every year are specifically earmarked for conservatives
Maybe it’s just because I’m in PPE circles where these are prominent, but the basic premise doesn’t even make sense. There are loads of right wing (be it libertarian or conservative) funding bodies for the humanities and social sciences already. Things like IHS and Mercatus on the libertarian side
February 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
The best advice one can give potential philosophy job applicants is: be a Catholic
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It's cool how Israel has bought and paid for most of the post columnists and are trying to shut down any and all independent media in Canada.
Active threat to our democracy and out politicians are doing shit.
Active threat to our democracy and out politicians are doing shit.
A Tel Aviv-based group that describes its mission as going on the "legal offensive against Israel’s enemies" says it is trying to "shut down" Canadian news organization @readthemaple.com
Shurat HaDin is lobbying Canadian police to arrest a Canadian journalist
www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...
Shurat HaDin is lobbying Canadian police to arrest a Canadian journalist
www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...
February 13, 2026 at 2:55 PM
It's cool how Israel has bought and paid for most of the post columnists and are trying to shut down any and all independent media in Canada.
Active threat to our democracy and out politicians are doing shit.
Active threat to our democracy and out politicians are doing shit.
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Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.
there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Not only did they murder hundreds of thousands of people. They also stole the money.
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what is with these people and dogs?
February 11, 2026 at 9:07 PM
what is with these people and dogs?
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as the last thing M.I.A. ever said or did, what a way to go out
February 11, 2026 at 5:33 PM
as the last thing M.I.A. ever said or did, what a way to go out
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This is a position that a member of Congress can take.
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
February 12, 2026 at 3:59 AM
This is a position that a member of Congress can take.
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"The median voter theorem made sense in an era of stable coalitions, low polarization, and localized elections. That era is over. Democrats need strategies built for this new reality."
February 7, 2026 at 4:37 PM
"The median voter theorem made sense in an era of stable coalitions, low polarization, and localized elections. That era is over. Democrats need strategies built for this new reality."
St Teresa of Avila expressing some shade for people who organize their penances to God to avoid hurting themselves
February 7, 2026 at 4:06 PM
St Teresa of Avila expressing some shade for people who organize their penances to God to avoid hurting themselves
The Epstein/MeToo stuff is a real microcosm of the whole thesis of ‘identity politics is class politics’: a universal demand in the MeToo movement (accountability at all levels) sparks a class-based response from those who most definitely don’t want accountability. The victims also defined by class.
February 7, 2026 at 2:59 PM
The Epstein/MeToo stuff is a real microcosm of the whole thesis of ‘identity politics is class politics’: a universal demand in the MeToo movement (accountability at all levels) sparks a class-based response from those who most definitely don’t want accountability. The victims also defined by class.
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“Partisanship is inherent and permissible in the legislative districting process” — Ted Cruz in September, in an amicus brief supporting the Texas gerrymander. www.cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
February 7, 2026 at 1:40 PM
“Partisanship is inherent and permissible in the legislative districting process” — Ted Cruz in September, in an amicus brief supporting the Texas gerrymander. www.cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
February 4, 2026 at 1:45 AM
i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
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liberals have orders of magnitude more people, financial resources, and institutional support than anarchists do in this particular part of the world and this particular part of the world still looks like what it looks like, maybe chill out a little
i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
everyone should have some goddamn humility.
February 4, 2026 at 2:14 AM
liberals have orders of magnitude more people, financial resources, and institutional support than anarchists do in this particular part of the world and this particular part of the world still looks like what it looks like, maybe chill out a little
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Can't now find it but there's a classic old tweet which said something like "Every time we're on the verge of achieving class consciousness in America a CIA sleeper agent activates and, their eyes glowing red, they just tweet out "John Brown was a white saviour"" and I think about it often.
February 2, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Can't now find it but there's a classic old tweet which said something like "Every time we're on the verge of achieving class consciousness in America a CIA sleeper agent activates and, their eyes glowing red, they just tweet out "John Brown was a white saviour"" and I think about it often.
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Can't believe I hadn't put these together. The reason MeToo caused a panic and we're still living with the subsequent Gender reverberations is the very same as that huge swathes of the international business, entertainment, political, and academic elite were besties with a sex-trafficking paedophile
in retrospect in the wake of the epstein files being released, no wonder ‘me too’ was met with such anger and ultimately those in power it meant to target never face many consequences
February 2, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Can't believe I hadn't put these together. The reason MeToo caused a panic and we're still living with the subsequent Gender reverberations is the very same as that huge swathes of the international business, entertainment, political, and academic elite were besties with a sex-trafficking paedophile
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Looks like one of the CBP agents who murdered Alex Pretti was recruited under Obama, the other during Trump I. Violent abuses by the Border Patrol go back much farther than that. Now we're seeing the true cost of creating and expanding that monster.
The Guardian says Jonathan Ross has been an ICE agent for 10 years, so recruited late in Obama's second term. Which doesn't take any blame off those who have now completely unleashed ICE, but he's a product of ICE's longer term history: The monster created and expanded under both Bush II and Obama.
February 2, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Looks like one of the CBP agents who murdered Alex Pretti was recruited under Obama, the other during Trump I. Violent abuses by the Border Patrol go back much farther than that. Now we're seeing the true cost of creating and expanding that monster.
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TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue
TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend
TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend
February 2, 2026 at 2:42 AM
TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue
TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend
TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend
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Just started this newer book and finding it to be quite good and relevant 🤔
February 2, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Just started this newer book and finding it to be quite good and relevant 🤔
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I thought for sure this was an old quote. He said this statement this morning.
February 2, 2026 at 12:25 AM
I thought for sure this was an old quote. He said this statement this morning.