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Ian Walling
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Political Theorist. VAP at Whitman College. Socialist Aristotelian.
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Mamdani turned his haters into waiters at the table of success
November 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
ianwalling.bsky.social
Having a Chicago Pope really paying off right now.
vuc.bsky.social David✶🇬🇹 @vuc.bsky.social · 8d
He said "Amen" straight into the drop

Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
ben smith’s take from last year when the nuzzi/rfk story first broke aged like cheese on a dashboard
But now that we are in the full fury of American media prurience and self-righteousness, I am going to risk my neck on a slightly contrarian view. Reporters have all sorts of compromising relationships with sources. The most compromising of all, and the most common, is a reporter’s fealty to someone who gives them information. That’s the real coin of this realm. Sex barely rates.
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here
ryanmarino.bsky.social Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 21d
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22d
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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derek.bike
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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missingthept.bsky.social
Worst night for Virginia Republicans since 1860.
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."
Let’s keep this simple. This is not about whether Platner is an irredeemable person, or whether he can be forgiven. This is not about whether people were wrong to find him an intruging candidate in his initial appearances — I agree that he was. It’s about who will be the Democratic candidate in a critical Senate in Maine, and “got a Nazi tattoo and still has it” is transparently disqualifying. You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent who has consistently punched above her party’s weight in the state. His allies are not doing him any favors if they allow him to believe otherwise, and if you don’t like Mills you need to find someone else to challenge her.
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social
The attack on core departments, tenured, and tenure track faculty is now accelerating in blue states, building upon the assault on NTT colleagues. Far from resisting Trump’s assault on higher ed, University admins in Democratic run states are spraying fuel on the fire to make it burn faster.
returnstosender.bsky.social Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · Aug 18
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.
August 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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nug.monster
ozzy osbourne dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (complimentary)"
hulk hogan dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (derogatory)"
July 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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ass.golf
THE HORSES HAVE DISCOVERED BLACK METAL
jelenawoehr.bsky.social Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · Dec 26
the good news is your foal is healthy the bad news is he’s going to put on his sunglasses every time he delivers a perfect one-liner
December 27, 2023 at 12:11 AM
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attackerman.bsky.social
Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies
Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.
www.rollingstone.com
November 30, 2023 at 1:59 AM
ianwalling.bsky.social
In moments of gravity like this, I'm reminded of Byron on another famed diplomat:

"Posterity will ne’er survey
a Nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveller, and piss!"
November 30, 2023 at 2:17 AM
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It’s November, which means we’re coming up on three years since this quote. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...
November 1, 2023 at 12:23 PM
ianwalling.bsky.social
I'll be heading to WPSA, so if you are going and want to meet up, let me know!
October 26, 2023 at 11:07 PM
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i feel like i’m going completely insane otherwise and then i log on and people are just posting like “will the gop mobilize behind Chip Hornk (R-CO)?” i simply don’t know. i don’t know. i don’t know
October 25, 2023 at 2:17 AM
ianwalling.bsky.social
Moby Dick is just sentences like this, piled up to the length of a book, and it rocks.
October 25, 2023 at 4:22 AM
ianwalling.bsky.social
Ngl, this was a weird week to be teaching Gandhi.
October 20, 2023 at 5:07 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
In Noah Pinion's attic hangs a take that just keeps getting smarter and smarter
October 9, 2023 at 6:30 PM
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It's incredibly heartening when students come up to you after class to ask what else you'll be teaching next semester.
October 9, 2023 at 10:14 PM
ianwalling.bsky.social
C: So this function your talking about, that's, what in Greek, it's ergo?
Me: Ergon, Mister Columbo. With an n.
C: Aaaaaah, like ergonomic! You know my wife, she's been after me to get one of those, what do you call it, ergonomic chairs. Is that what Aristotle was after?
Me: Hardly Mister Columbo.
franzferdinand2.bsky.social Green Ben Casserole @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · Oct 2
In an alternate world where you are a murderer and Columbo is investigating you, what would he have to pretend that he and/or his wife are interested in?
October 2, 2023 at 9:28 PM