Mikey
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American Studies & Performance Studies
American Studies & Performance Studies
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Seems the NYT does more editing of its employees' social media feeds than the words published in its pages
July 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Seems the NYT does more editing of its employees' social media feeds than the words published in its pages
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i saw this man tie a damsel to the train tracks while wearing a top hat
July 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
i saw this man tie a damsel to the train tracks while wearing a top hat
Imagine being the New York Times and having Jamelle Bouie on staff — by all accounts, one of the best in the business — and censoring him because he correctly told people you sourced a Nazi for a political hitpiece.
July 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Imagine being the New York Times and having Jamelle Bouie on staff — by all accounts, one of the best in the business — and censoring him because he correctly told people you sourced a Nazi for a political hitpiece.
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yes. they literally blame higher education for a social order that doesn’t give unquestioned deference to people like themselves
I do not think people are actually seriously calibrated for how rabidly anti-university the MAGA right is and how core that is to their policy goals. It is probably the #2 issue after immigration for them, and for some of them it’s higher.
May 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
yes. they literally blame higher education for a social order that doesn’t give unquestioned deference to people like themselves
“Moderate” Democrats will call students and Muslims who didn’t want to vote to fund war crimes in Gaza “ideologically pure” or “geopolitically naive” or “short-sighted, single issue voters.”
May 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“Moderate” Democrats will call students and Muslims who didn’t want to vote to fund war crimes in Gaza “ideologically pure” or “geopolitically naive” or “short-sighted, single issue voters.”
Barnes & Noble owes its entire existence to a customer base that still enjoys physical copies of books and media, and yet they put the world’s most annoying stickers on top of every item they sell.
May 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Barnes & Noble owes its entire existence to a customer base that still enjoys physical copies of books and media, and yet they put the world’s most annoying stickers on top of every item they sell.
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May 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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“Kamala Harris would have been a DEI president, but the wrestling lady, the Kennedy who (unfortunately) survived the lobotomy, and Oprah’s diet pill doctor are the qualified people we need to save this country.”
We don’t have to take these people seriously.
We don’t have to take these people seriously.
April 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Kamala Harris would have been a DEI president, but the wrestling lady, the Kennedy who (unfortunately) survived the lobotomy, and Oprah’s diet pill doctor are the qualified people we need to save this country.”
We don’t have to take these people seriously.
We don’t have to take these people seriously.
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Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.
Sunday morning April 20, 2025
Fox News Sunday — Van Hollen
NBC's Meet the Press — Van Hollen
CNN's State of the Union — Van Hollen
CBS’ Face the Nation — Van Hollen
ABC’s This Week — Van Hollen
@vanhollen.senate.gov
#AbregoGarcia #RuleOfLaw
Fox News Sunday — Van Hollen
NBC's Meet the Press — Van Hollen
CNN's State of the Union — Van Hollen
CBS’ Face the Nation — Van Hollen
ABC’s This Week — Van Hollen
@vanhollen.senate.gov
#AbregoGarcia #RuleOfLaw
April 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.
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lol at Matt Yglesias forgetting to switch to his sock puppet account
April 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
lol at Matt Yglesias forgetting to switch to his sock puppet account
Hey as it turns out universities have political power when they want it
April 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Hey as it turns out universities have political power when they want it
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So was Indiana Jones on sabbatical during the events of Temple of Doom or what
April 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
So was Indiana Jones on sabbatical during the events of Temple of Doom or what
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Opinion | I like fascism. I also like my 401(k). I have never felt more politically homeless.
April 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Opinion | I like fascism. I also like my 401(k). I have never felt more politically homeless.
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Sure, bring the manufacturing to America, where the robots will do the work
April 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Sure, bring the manufacturing to America, where the robots will do the work
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“anything we can actually do, we can afford”
stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college
stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college
Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
April 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“anything we can actually do, we can afford”
stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college
stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college
I can’t prove it, and Trump cut all funding for this kind of research so I never will, but there is a direct correlation between the popularization of e-scooters and the break down of society.
April 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I can’t prove it, and Trump cut all funding for this kind of research so I never will, but there is a direct correlation between the popularization of e-scooters and the break down of society.
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if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trump’s tariffs
Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.
www.msnbc.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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my offer to america: we bring woke back
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
my offer to america: we bring woke back
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I replicated the first 50 countries reciprocal “tariffs” with a simple calculation. There’s no way they used the formula they said they did.
open.substack.com/pub/kaburban...
open.substack.com/pub/kaburban...
We Replicated Trump's Napkin Math on Tariffs – It's Worse Than We Thought
The emperor has no clothes. We breakdown the miscalculations behind Trump's tariff plan that might crash the global economy.
open.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I replicated the first 50 countries reciprocal “tariffs” with a simple calculation. There’s no way they used the formula they said they did.
open.substack.com/pub/kaburban...
open.substack.com/pub/kaburban...
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oh man, we've lost bofa
B OF A DESK: “Is this solved if countries negotiate tariff rates down? Friday’s action after ‘progress’ with Cambodia & Vietnam would say no; it was a fleeting bounce, followed by a puke lower into the close. .. a common investor view has been: this tarnished the markets and it opened Pandora’s box”
April 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
oh man, we've lost bofa
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when he said Make America Great Again I didn’t think he meant the Depression
April 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
when he said Make America Great Again I didn’t think he meant the Depression
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
You really gotta feel bad for Duke fans. They haven’t been this heartbroken since the Yankees lost the World Series. At least they have Alabama football to look forward to next year.
April 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM
You really gotta feel bad for Duke fans. They haven’t been this heartbroken since the Yankees lost the World Series. At least they have Alabama football to look forward to next year.
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Hope it was worth it to stop a few of us from peeing.
April 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Hope it was worth it to stop a few of us from peeing.