Jeremiah Crotser
@jeremiahcrotser.bsky.social
Community College English Instructor; literature and culture, politics, psychoanalysis, random ideas
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Left-wing populism: this is monopolistic behavior
Right-wing populism: If this cartoon character does not fuck girls I will set off a fertilizer bomb
Right-wing populism: If this cartoon character does not fuck girls I will set off a fertilizer bomb
bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok
December 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Left-wing populism: this is monopolistic behavior
Right-wing populism: If this cartoon character does not fuck girls I will set off a fertilizer bomb
Right-wing populism: If this cartoon character does not fuck girls I will set off a fertilizer bomb
It obviously is not as simple as that and the class first people are misrepresenting it as such. Nevertheless, it’s also the case that yes Trump is more appealing to poor people than Republicans used to be. It may be worth actually addressing that question as opposed to pretending it doesn’t exist.
ah yes, the thing that makes me a “cultured elite” is i am not a big enough rube to believe that trump is some bottom-up populist phenomenon bsky.app/profile/zacs...
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It obviously is not as simple as that and the class first people are misrepresenting it as such. Nevertheless, it’s also the case that yes Trump is more appealing to poor people than Republicans used to be. It may be worth actually addressing that question as opposed to pretending it doesn’t exist.
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Attendees at last night’s White House dinner honoring MBS were all doing business with him and Saudi Arabia.
Under Trump, the only normative rule is to gain as much power and money as possible.
Power and wealth are honored, even if the honoree has greenlit a brutal murder.
Under Trump, the only normative rule is to gain as much power and money as possible.
Power and wealth are honored, even if the honoree has greenlit a brutal murder.
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Attendees at last night’s White House dinner honoring MBS were all doing business with him and Saudi Arabia.
Under Trump, the only normative rule is to gain as much power and money as possible.
Power and wealth are honored, even if the honoree has greenlit a brutal murder.
Under Trump, the only normative rule is to gain as much power and money as possible.
Power and wealth are honored, even if the honoree has greenlit a brutal murder.
Mamdani is not exactly peak woke: he started his campaign talking to Trump voters, he focused relentlessly on economic issues throughout, shamed no one, and spoke of inclusive community building as a chief aim of his politics. He also redefined Dem Socialism to be inclusive of all.
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Mamdani is not exactly peak woke: he started his campaign talking to Trump voters, he focused relentlessly on economic issues throughout, shamed no one, and spoke of inclusive community building as a chief aim of his politics. He also redefined Dem Socialism to be inclusive of all.
I don’t think it’s just that they don’t have advocacy infrastructure, I think it’s that the majority of Democrats are unwilling to advance really big proposals for anything. I think with the green new deal it would’ve been fantastic if it had had the muscle of the party behind it, but it did not.
Democratic policies are much more popular policies than Republicans. But because they have little advocacy infrastructure, the public generally doesn't know that it agrees with Democrats.
Messages and policies don't matter if they can't be heard.
Messages and policies don't matter if they can't be heard.
Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I don’t think it’s just that they don’t have advocacy infrastructure, I think it’s that the majority of Democrats are unwilling to advance really big proposals for anything. I think with the green new deal it would’ve been fantastic if it had had the muscle of the party behind it, but it did not.
Was just rewatching Rear Window and thinking of the importance of that courtyard--to the storyline, to the lives of the characters, to the theory of the gaze. I like the abundance emphasis on "high density" living, but there has to be open space, too, and a lot of it, for community to even exist.
November 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Was just rewatching Rear Window and thinking of the importance of that courtyard--to the storyline, to the lives of the characters, to the theory of the gaze. I like the abundance emphasis on "high density" living, but there has to be open space, too, and a lot of it, for community to even exist.
The nationwide lesson that Democrats can learn from Mamdani’s campaign is how to appeal to apolitical Trump voters who voted based on perceived self interest rather than racial/regional identity or nationalism: you win them through economic populism.
October 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The nationwide lesson that Democrats can learn from Mamdani’s campaign is how to appeal to apolitical Trump voters who voted based on perceived self interest rather than racial/regional identity or nationalism: you win them through economic populism.
I love Eliot’s line “torment / of love unsatisfied / the greater torment of love satisfied”—I feel like this maps onto the imaginary/symbolic distinction in Lacan. What is the symbolic but accepting the greater torment?
October 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I love Eliot’s line “torment / of love unsatisfied / the greater torment of love satisfied”—I feel like this maps onto the imaginary/symbolic distinction in Lacan. What is the symbolic but accepting the greater torment?
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How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
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Monday will be the 50th anniversary of the release of Bruce Springsteen's BORN TO RUN & over the past year, I've been writing deep dives about each song on the record. this month is the title track!
The Evolution of Born to Run: "Born to Run"
Side 2, track 1.
buff.ly
August 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Monday will be the 50th anniversary of the release of Bruce Springsteen's BORN TO RUN & over the past year, I've been writing deep dives about each song on the record. this month is the title track!
Really funny because the answer is that Ronald Reagan decided to mass defund mental institutions in the 1980s. There were of course problems with those institutions, too, but that's what put so many people out on their asses.
JD Vance on homelessness: "I don't know why we accepted that it was reasonable to have crazy people yelling at our kids. You should not have to cross the street in downtown Atlanta to avoid a crazy person yelling at your family. Those are your streets."
August 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Really funny because the answer is that Ronald Reagan decided to mass defund mental institutions in the 1980s. There were of course problems with those institutions, too, but that's what put so many people out on their asses.
It'd be interesting to try--sure--but I'll bet a hundred bucks that if this were the case, there would instantly be more accidents than there are now because people wouldn't be able to effectively maneuver.
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
August 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
It'd be interesting to try--sure--but I'll bet a hundred bucks that if this were the case, there would instantly be more accidents than there are now because people wouldn't be able to effectively maneuver.
I think what really confounds the Dems about Mamdani isn't "intifada," it's that he takes the working class seriously. His campaign proves that A). Trump's victory was more about inflation than a population turned fascist and B). You CAN win back the WC if you're real with them.
July 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I think what really confounds the Dems about Mamdani isn't "intifada," it's that he takes the working class seriously. His campaign proves that A). Trump's victory was more about inflation than a population turned fascist and B). You CAN win back the WC if you're real with them.
I grew up in a rural area--Lawrence, MI, population 900something, one stoplight. Lotta truth to some of the stereotypes but also a lot more libs than this guy images, and also (like lots of rural mw areas) lots of immigrant migrant workers in the summer, many of whom stay and make families there...
The reasonable conclusion to draw from the poll (and all the other polls, and everything else we know) is that rural Americans are -- not all, but mostly -- ignorant & bigoted.
But America's own noble-savage mythology does not permit anyone, on either side, to say that out loud.
But America's own noble-savage mythology does not permit anyone, on either side, to say that out loud.
June 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I grew up in a rural area--Lawrence, MI, population 900something, one stoplight. Lotta truth to some of the stereotypes but also a lot more libs than this guy images, and also (like lots of rural mw areas) lots of immigrant migrant workers in the summer, many of whom stay and make families there...
I feel like one of the great failures of our specific moment will in hindsight clearly be not creating a federal oversight board for AI. Like, we just have no cultural method for such a thing anymore and it's fucked.
'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
June 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I feel like one of the great failures of our specific moment will in hindsight clearly be not creating a federal oversight board for AI. Like, we just have no cultural method for such a thing anymore and it's fucked.
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when you've totally given into despair and no longer have any hope for a better future, that's when the whole foods salad bar starts to taste really really good
June 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
when you've totally given into despair and no longer have any hope for a better future, that's when the whole foods salad bar starts to taste really really good
You can't beat fascism just by saying it's fascist. It's true of course, but you have to offer an alternative vision. The antidote to fascism requires something of love, of risk, of vision--all of the things that fascism isn't.
June 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
You can't beat fascism just by saying it's fascist. It's true of course, but you have to offer an alternative vision. The antidote to fascism requires something of love, of risk, of vision--all of the things that fascism isn't.
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more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.
Seeing a lot of “But they don’t deserve…” And no, of course they don’t. What the fuck does that have to do with anything? The house is on fire. Pass a bucket to whoever wants to put it out. You can remind them what an ass they’ve been later.
February 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.
AI is like The Clapper, but it only works for things that harm society.
May 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
AI is like The Clapper, but it only works for things that harm society.
Bluesky is progressivism as if the unconscious had never been discovered.
May 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Bluesky is progressivism as if the unconscious had never been discovered.
Bouie should be more honest about the failures of the pundit class, including himself, to see this coming and to mark it. It was a terrible, terrible failure, and people saw it coming! They say it coming and folks like Bouie told them to sit down and shut up. And now he doesn't want to bring it up?
somehow reading this made me even more persuaded that this is more about the resentments and ax grinding of professional commentators than an honest electoral analysis www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Biden Scandal Goes Well Beyond the Aging Cover-Up
The former president’s stubbornness and narcissism led to disastrous Trump victory.
www.thenation.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Bouie should be more honest about the failures of the pundit class, including himself, to see this coming and to mark it. It was a terrible, terrible failure, and people saw it coming! They say it coming and folks like Bouie told them to sit down and shut up. And now he doesn't want to bring it up?
Ezra Klein is a sociopath. He really doesn't care about anything ideological at all. It's not that he avoids ideology, it's that he thinks it doesn't even exist in any kind of real, meaningful way. I mean, we're living under Trump, ffs, and he still doesn't get it.
May 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Ezra Klein is a sociopath. He really doesn't care about anything ideological at all. It's not that he avoids ideology, it's that he thinks it doesn't even exist in any kind of real, meaningful way. I mean, we're living under Trump, ffs, and he still doesn't get it.
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let's fucking go
May 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
let's fucking go