Erin Vanderhoof
@vanderhoofy.bsky.social
trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair
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Erin Vanderhoof
@vanderhoofy.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Surprise! Even Tradwives Like to Share Nudes, Talk About Sex, and Be Single
“I Grieved Through My Vagina,” Evie Magazine offered up recently. On OnlyFans, a “godly” poster. Key influencers explain tradwife tensions to Vanity Fair.
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as we all know, i am deep in the tradwife space (for research purposes only) and for the last few months, i have been seeing the raunchiest stuff of my whole life emanating from it. so i decided to figure out why! www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
this is why i think the Mamdani "warm embrace of collectivism" line had to at least partially be a joke—he had to know that that the most insane boomers would lose their shit to hear him invoke that word specifically, the one that an entire right-wing edifice emerged to be conspiratorial about
I think Mamdani really hit a nerve with the reactionaries this time. Absolute crack pipe take to say that the sacraments of the Church are individualistic. Not a single one of the sacraments is individualistic. Hell is full of individuals though.
January 4, 2026 at 2:18 PM
this is why i think the Mamdani "warm embrace of collectivism" line had to at least partially be a joke—he had to know that that the most insane boomers would lose their shit to hear him invoke that word specifically, the one that an entire right-wing edifice emerged to be conspiratorial about
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I've been thinking of how Achilles Mbembe says colonialism wears “the tawdry cloak of humanism" underneath which it hides its barbarism. In this respect, Trump, et. al. are nudists.
January 4, 2026 at 12:54 AM
I've been thinking of how Achilles Mbembe says colonialism wears “the tawdry cloak of humanism" underneath which it hides its barbarism. In this respect, Trump, et. al. are nudists.
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400 Ahmed Chalabis
If you wrote this shit as fiction it would be considered too outlandish and cartoonishly conspiratorial.
January 4, 2026 at 1:42 AM
400 Ahmed Chalabis
i've been kind of obsessed with this line from Isaiah Berlin recently, and it seems to sum up this dynamic perfectly. Only incredibly venal, dumb people really want to be responsible for pushing the button on operations like this
January 3, 2026 at 7:36 PM
i've been kind of obsessed with this line from Isaiah Berlin recently, and it seems to sum up this dynamic perfectly. Only incredibly venal, dumb people really want to be responsible for pushing the button on operations like this
Woof I am glad that I am not teaching the kids tomorrow morning because I need a few days in order to not be acting unwise
January 3, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Woof I am glad that I am not teaching the kids tomorrow morning because I need a few days in order to not be acting unwise
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So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 PM
So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
Will Stancil deleted his dumb post about this, but obviously this isn't a call to "get rid of" the constitution, it's an acknowledgment that it's just a piece of paper that is only as real as the compact it represents among all the people who live under it, which is clearly in great decline
In general, we'll probably stand a better chance at beating fascism the less we bullshit people and the less it sounds like we're talking about Santa Claus.
"Congress" as described by civics classes, law professors, Democrats, and libertarians — an independent branch capable of executing designated responsibilities irrespective of the partisan balance of power — does not exist. It is a fiction. Every time these things happen, more Americans see that.
January 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Will Stancil deleted his dumb post about this, but obviously this isn't a call to "get rid of" the constitution, it's an acknowledgment that it's just a piece of paper that is only as real as the compact it represents among all the people who live under it, which is clearly in great decline
something oddly comforting about knowing that amid all of this, an NFL team is still debuting a ridiculous new uniform lol www.espn.com.au/nfl/story/_/...
49ers' 'For the Faithful' look tops NFL Week 18 uniforms
The final week of the regular season doesn't mean NFL teams are keeping it simple for their wardrobes, led by a debut of a combination.
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January 3, 2026 at 4:55 PM
something oddly comforting about knowing that amid all of this, an NFL team is still debuting a ridiculous new uniform lol www.espn.com.au/nfl/story/_/...
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"Congress" as described by civics classes, law professors, Democrats, and libertarians — an independent branch capable of executing designated responsibilities irrespective of the partisan balance of power — does not exist. It is a fiction. Every time these things happen, more Americans see that.
January 3, 2026 at 3:41 PM
"Congress" as described by civics classes, law professors, Democrats, and libertarians — an independent branch capable of executing designated responsibilities irrespective of the partisan balance of power — does not exist. It is a fiction. Every time these things happen, more Americans see that.
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Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era
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This is a man whose conduct would have gotten him fired from literally anywhere I’ve ever worked, any piddling school committee I’ve ever served on, the neighborhood beautification committee, anything — what the fuck why are we allowing this
January 3, 2026 at 2:18 PM
This is a man whose conduct would have gotten him fired from literally anywhere I’ve ever worked, any piddling school committee I’ve ever served on, the neighborhood beautification committee, anything — what the fuck why are we allowing this
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Genuinely a chilling observation.
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Genuinely a chilling observation.
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The first things you learn in journalism school
•love America
•never apologize for it
•love America
•never apologize for it
January 2, 2026 at 11:38 PM
The first things you learn in journalism school
•love America
•never apologize for it
•love America
•never apologize for it
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This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.
i'm really having a hard time getting past the "surely we can all agree that Somalis are worse than trash" thing. this feels new and very bad
January 2, 2026 at 6:32 PM
This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.
The idea that faculty hiring should be determined by SAT score would be something that would read as over-the-top in a satire about conservatives! But someone really proposed it! Insane
The insistence on SAT scores underlines their deep commitment to the idea that the investment in building knowledge and expertise itself has no value. This is exactly the same logic that populists use to gut experts from the public sector. They assume the work is simple enough that anyone can do it.
January 2, 2026 at 6:13 PM
The idea that faculty hiring should be determined by SAT score would be something that would read as over-the-top in a satire about conservatives! But someone really proposed it! Insane
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Reveals how so much of American “secularism” is just unselfconscious protestantism
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 1, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Reveals how so much of American “secularism” is just unselfconscious protestantism
Max and I have never seen Hamilton and as a joke we just put it on the TV and god this is awful
January 1, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Max and I have never seen Hamilton and as a joke we just put it on the TV and god this is awful
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thin skin, white masks
December 31, 2025 at 2:17 AM
thin skin, white masks
i used to think the "oh, satanic panic happened because people were mad about daycare" was a psychoanalytic answer, arrived at far later, but living through the redux has made it clear that daycare hate was never subtext. they were just going around saying it! i loved this book so much!
*taps my book wild faith* as noted in literally the first chapter, the Satanic Panic never ended, it just took a nap for awhile
this shit about daycares is literally just the 1980s warmed over. can we bring back cool hair instead of christian vigilantism
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...
this shit about daycares is literally just the 1980s warmed over. can we bring back cool hair instead of christian vigilantism
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...
Wild Faith
Esquire Best Nonfiction Books of 2024The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that la...
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December 31, 2025 at 2:05 AM
i used to think the "oh, satanic panic happened because people were mad about daycare" was a psychoanalytic answer, arrived at far later, but living through the redux has made it clear that daycare hate was never subtext. they were just going around saying it! i loved this book so much!
I didn't know Tatiana very well, but back in 2009, she was the first person ever to edit a music essay I wrote! She encouraged me to start writing and to keep going, and it was a gift I will be grateful for until the day I die www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Tatiana Schlossberg, environmental journalist and Kennedy scion, dies at 35
In November, she announced her terminal cancer diagnosis in a New Yorker essay that took aim at one of her cousins, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I didn't know Tatiana very well, but back in 2009, she was the first person ever to edit a music essay I wrote! She encouraged me to start writing and to keep going, and it was a gift I will be grateful for until the day I die www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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We should all be asking ourselves why it is that university leaders and even some members of the professoriate have been happy to jettison entire fields of humanistic scholarship on the grounds that "no one cares about the Middle Ages", when it is very clear that many members of the public DO care.
December 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We should all be asking ourselves why it is that university leaders and even some members of the professoriate have been happy to jettison entire fields of humanistic scholarship on the grounds that "no one cares about the Middle Ages", when it is very clear that many members of the public DO care.
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I agree with all this, though at some level there needs to be a tacit understanding that mistakes are baked in — these are large imperfect institutions after all. More importantly for coalition, though, is admitting nobody considered the political economy of diversity in a shrinking pie.
December 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I agree with all this, though at some level there needs to be a tacit understanding that mistakes are baked in — these are large imperfect institutions after all. More importantly for coalition, though, is admitting nobody considered the political economy of diversity in a shrinking pie.
as silly as this story is, i do really think we have to grapple with how many people feel comfortable saying "a generation of white guys just won't be academics" as i have heard people on the internet insist. That is essentially an admission that academia doesn't matter to society and will decline
Two, I very much doubt that Hankins is making up this story out of whole cloth, which leads to an obvious question: what, exactly, did the people making these decisions think was going to happen when the politics inevitably shifted?
December 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
as silly as this story is, i do really think we have to grapple with how many people feel comfortable saying "a generation of white guys just won't be academics" as i have heard people on the internet insist. That is essentially an admission that academia doesn't matter to society and will decline