Jonathan Strassfeld
@jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social
Historian, author of Inventing Philosophy's Other: Phenomenology in America, science fiction reader, birder.
https://www.jonathanstrassfeld.com
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https://www.instagram.com/strasstrix/
Philosophy is like a box of slop chocolates
November 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Philosophy is like a box of slop chocolates
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I'm ready for apologies from pundits and politicians who showed their bigoted asses and suggested we needed to abandon trans people in order to win.
looks like "fairness in girls' sports" wasn't the unbeatable wedge issue you thought it was, was it? kinda makes you look like a dumbass, huh?
looks like "fairness in girls' sports" wasn't the unbeatable wedge issue you thought it was, was it? kinda makes you look like a dumbass, huh?
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm ready for apologies from pundits and politicians who showed their bigoted asses and suggested we needed to abandon trans people in order to win.
looks like "fairness in girls' sports" wasn't the unbeatable wedge issue you thought it was, was it? kinda makes you look like a dumbass, huh?
looks like "fairness in girls' sports" wasn't the unbeatable wedge issue you thought it was, was it? kinda makes you look like a dumbass, huh?
Always a good day when I can post the Hopkins monkey story
(Washington Post, 10/6/1913)
(Washington Post, 10/6/1913)
October 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Always a good day when I can post the Hopkins monkey story
(Washington Post, 10/6/1913)
(Washington Post, 10/6/1913)
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Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped
I declare this post off the record
October 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I declare this post off the record
This is awesome. I need an excuse to go to LA between now and May
Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
October 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This is awesome. I need an excuse to go to LA between now and May
Hey - the world is dark, but here's a white-headed woodpecker!
October 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Hey - the world is dark, but here's a white-headed woodpecker!
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I regret to inform you that Gwar has pushed the boundaries of good taste.
September 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I regret to inform you that Gwar has pushed the boundaries of good taste.
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“woke right” comes from this incredibly stupid meta idea that “wokeness” is a discrete tendency in american politics whose style has been imbibed by the political right. note: believing this requires you to be almost totally ignorant of the shape of american politics going back to the 1930s.
Honesty, I have no idea what "woke" means in the first place, other than that it's something Trump hates. And "woke right" makes even less sense to me. What's with this nomenclature?
The Woke Right Comes Of Age
And you thought they were in favor of free speech!
open.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“woke right” comes from this incredibly stupid meta idea that “wokeness” is a discrete tendency in american politics whose style has been imbibed by the political right. note: believing this requires you to be almost totally ignorant of the shape of american politics going back to the 1930s.
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It may be the first climate-driven bird hybrid found in nature.
Unusual hybrid bird found in Texas for the first time
It may be the first climate-driven bird hybrid found in nature.
bit.ly
September 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It may be the first climate-driven bird hybrid found in nature.
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I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
August 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
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Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.
August 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.
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March 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
forward.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
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We learned a lot about the Holocaust in Hebrew school and the mantra of "never again." I think most people understood "never again" to mean never again, but Netanyahu and his patrons (there and here) distorted that into "never again, unless we're the ones doing the butchering." Which is nauseating.
Harrowing lead story and image on the Washington Post homepage right now. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
July 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We learned a lot about the Holocaust in Hebrew school and the mantra of "never again." I think most people understood "never again" to mean never again, but Netanyahu and his patrons (there and here) distorted that into "never again, unless we're the ones doing the butchering." Which is nauseating.
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I wrote about how the 2020 protests hurt Trump politically. I also wrote about how counternarratives about left-wing violence are just spin — and wildly at odds with the reality of extremist violence. Gift link: wapo.st/3SOEv6e
June 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I wrote about how the 2020 protests hurt Trump politically. I also wrote about how counternarratives about left-wing violence are just spin — and wildly at odds with the reality of extremist violence. Gift link: wapo.st/3SOEv6e
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪
Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ...
www.federalregister.gov
May 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪
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This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
www.nytimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...