Ted Gideonse
@gideonse.bsky.social
Professor, medical anthropologist, writer, erstwhile arts critic and journalist. Area homosexual. Cat dad. Morton's neuroma warrior.
If only Democrats were fascists, then we'd get what we wanted. Because then fascism would be fine, because it would be our fascism. And we'd never do anything wrong.
thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map
July 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
If only Democrats were fascists, then we'd get what we wanted. Because then fascism would be fine, because it would be our fascism. And we'd never do anything wrong.
For the love of god, if you haven't even read more than a headline, don't pretend you know what the decision actually does or says or what the case was even about.
With regard to these terrible Court decisions:
It is *CRITICAL* to resist the urge to give in to doomerism and declare that things not directly accomplished by the decision - removal of books from classrooms, age verification expanding to medical websites, and so on - are now the law.
It is *CRITICAL* to resist the urge to give in to doomerism and declare that things not directly accomplished by the decision - removal of books from classrooms, age verification expanding to medical websites, and so on - are now the law.
June 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For the love of god, if you haven't even read more than a headline, don't pretend you know what the decision actually does or says or what the case was even about.
I know they say it because they hate women and think the most important indicator of intelligence is agreeing with them, but when the dopes on the right say @aoc.bsky.social isn't smart ... it's just really weird. She's very, very, very smart.
June 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I know they say it because they hate women and think the most important indicator of intelligence is agreeing with them, but when the dopes on the right say @aoc.bsky.social isn't smart ... it's just really weird. She's very, very, very smart.
These lists are stupid and incomplete, but they're also kind of fun?
June 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
These lists are stupid and incomplete, but they're also kind of fun?
I was rolling my eyes at Megan McArdle's WaPo column about the BlueSky echo chamber yesterday, and then I looked at my feed today, and I saw the terrible straw man arguments, and Jesus H. Christ, I need to get some acoustic dampeners.
June 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I was rolling my eyes at Megan McArdle's WaPo column about the BlueSky echo chamber yesterday, and then I looked at my feed today, and I saw the terrible straw man arguments, and Jesus H. Christ, I need to get some acoustic dampeners.
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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
June 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
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Here’s an idea: Stop acting like the Gestapo.
May 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Here’s an idea: Stop acting like the Gestapo.
I really, really wish students wouldn't give me money as thanks for writing letters of recommendation for them. It's my duty and my job, and I'm not paid poorly. I appreciate the gratitude and impetus, but it's so effed up that the culture convinced Gen Z a rec letter is worth a $50 AmEx gift card.
May 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I really, really wish students wouldn't give me money as thanks for writing letters of recommendation for them. It's my duty and my job, and I'm not paid poorly. I appreciate the gratitude and impetus, but it's so effed up that the culture convinced Gen Z a rec letter is worth a $50 AmEx gift card.
I'm surprised but pleased that my chancellor is on this list.
353 signatories so far on the @aacu.org Call! AMAZING work by their team. Take a look - organized by the presidents' last names (not the institutions or associations). Is your college/university or academic organization there? #academicsky #skystorians #edusky #higher www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I'm surprised but pleased that my chancellor is on this list.
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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
Very online millennials acting as if they are the only people who have ever suffered multiple catastrophic historical events ... is so incredibly stupid.
April 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Very online millennials acting as if they are the only people who have ever suffered multiple catastrophic historical events ... is so incredibly stupid.
In case you don't know about @policymap.bsky.social, they're amazing, and they've archived all of the datasets that the CDC took offline.
On Friday, numerous essential datasets were purged from federal agency websites, including data from CDC PLACES, the Social Vulnerability Index, and CEJST—to name just a few.
While we don’t know when or if this data will return, we want to assure you that they are still accessible on PolicyMap.
While we don’t know when or if this data will return, we want to assure you that they are still accessible on PolicyMap.
Purged Federal Agency Data Available on PolicyMap
On Friday, numerous essential datasets were purged from federal agency websites, including data from CDC PLACES (Population Level Analysis and Community Estimates), the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI...
www.policymap.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
In case you don't know about @policymap.bsky.social, they're amazing, and they've archived all of the datasets that the CDC took offline.
The very online left is so determined to avoid coalition building, compromise, and workable policy proposals that it's hard for me not to conclude they're not infiltrated by COINTELPRO.
February 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The very online left is so determined to avoid coalition building, compromise, and workable policy proposals that it's hard for me not to conclude they're not infiltrated by COINTELPRO.
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We need to amplify this—the Republican House refused Secretary Buttigieg’s request for safety improvements at Reagan International.
January 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We need to amplify this—the Republican House refused Secretary Buttigieg’s request for safety improvements at Reagan International.
Trump To Victims’ Families: ‘I’m Doing Everything Possible To Resegregate Flight Schools’ — theonion.com/trump-to-vic...
Trump To Victims’ Families: ‘I’m Doing Everything Possible To Resegregate Flight Schools’
WASHINGTON—Pledging to restore racial purity to the nation’s aviation programs, President Donald Trump assured the families of American Eagle Flight 5342 victims on Friday that he was doing everything...
theonion.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Trump To Victims’ Families: ‘I’m Doing Everything Possible To Resegregate Flight Schools’ — theonion.com/trump-to-vic...
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I entered various LGBT keywords terms in the CDC search portal, and 90% of the pages that were listed led to "The page you're looking for was not found." I think it's pretty clear that the other 10% will vanish in hours.
Just confirmed this with my source: They were told the entirety of cdc.gov is going down imminently and to backup what they need.
January 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I entered various LGBT keywords terms in the CDC search portal, and 90% of the pages that were listed led to "The page you're looking for was not found." I think it's pretty clear that the other 10% will vanish in hours.
I found myself unwilling to do anything on my to do list, so I started playing Genshin Impact, which is the first game of its kind I've ever touched. I'm entranced by its astonishing nonsense.
January 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I found myself unwilling to do anything on my to do list, so I started playing Genshin Impact, which is the first game of its kind I've ever touched. I'm entranced by its astonishing nonsense.
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This guy stared at me the entire way from DC to LA and I was convinced he was going to follow me and kill me before I realized his sunglasses were just on the back of his head.
January 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
This guy stared at me the entire way from DC to LA and I was convinced he was going to follow me and kill me before I realized his sunglasses were just on the back of his head.
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I see people saying “you mustn’t look away”, but what do you gain by watching the fascists and bigots over and over again - you can fight for a better world without constantly staring at the brutality - it is not a dereliction of duty to miss some of the Nazi salutes
January 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I see people saying “you mustn’t look away”, but what do you gain by watching the fascists and bigots over and over again - you can fight for a better world without constantly staring at the brutality - it is not a dereliction of duty to miss some of the Nazi salutes
The thing is, people have always been posting this stuff on social media platforms. Facebook would *occasionally* remove some of it, but no queer person I know has ever felt safe from bigotry and slurs on any Meta product.
NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit”
theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”
theintercept.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The thing is, people have always been posting this stuff on social media platforms. Facebook would *occasionally* remove some of it, but no queer person I know has ever felt safe from bigotry and slurs on any Meta product.
It'd be great if y'all would stop reflexively sharing every skeet about LA that confirms your particular political ace to grind. Most of these things going viral are not true, only vaguely accurate, or just inflammatory unhelpful crap. This is breaking news, not a clout building exercise.
Since I'm seeing it everywhere:
I worked in LA City Hall when the budget passed. Our office voted No. But the idea that LAFD was "defunded" to increase the LAPD budget is not accurate. Both got increases due to salary hikes. LAFD's deal just happened after the budget process -- LAPD's was before.
I worked in LA City Hall when the budget passed. Our office voted No. But the idea that LAFD was "defunded" to increase the LAPD budget is not accurate. Both got increases due to salary hikes. LAFD's deal just happened after the budget process -- LAPD's was before.
January 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
It'd be great if y'all would stop reflexively sharing every skeet about LA that confirms your particular political ace to grind. Most of these things going viral are not true, only vaguely accurate, or just inflammatory unhelpful crap. This is breaking news, not a clout building exercise.
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