ProfGadfly
@profgadfly.bsky.social
Historian, podcaster (isn't everyone?), ex-professor, Canadian and American, consumer of ridiculous amounts of tv and film, grumpy person. https://liesagreedupon.com/
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This encapsulates the insanity of American late stage kleptocapitalism. And it's been so normalized that this doesn't even seem that weird. Of course you have to pay to file. Doesn't everyone, everywhere?
November 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This encapsulates the insanity of American late stage kleptocapitalism. And it's been so normalized that this doesn't even seem that weird. Of course you have to pay to file. Doesn't everyone, everywhere?
Pretty much sums it up.
Trump and his GOP allies are desperately trying to starve 40 million people as hostages so that Dems will let them double everyone's health insurance costs.
All so they can pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
All so they can pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
November 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Pretty much sums it up.
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It’s a cliché at this point how eerily relevant Orwell’s dystopian fiction is to our era, but don’t sleep on his (humblingly voluminous!) essays and columns.
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It’s a cliché at this point how eerily relevant Orwell’s dystopian fiction is to our era, but don’t sleep on his (humblingly voluminous!) essays and columns.
I'm just amazed the Bezos Post reported this.
Recession-level layoffs. More than a million jobs lost this year.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I'm just amazed the Bezos Post reported this.
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
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This is amusing & it’s also to his credit that he didn’t trot out these old high school yearbook photos of his membership in the Judaic Culture club to try to respond to the attack from Cuomo etc.
Sourced from a friend of a friend who apparently went to the same high school as Zohran Mamdani: he was in his high school's Judaic Cultural Society. In case some people were concerned that his outreach to the jewish community was just temporary pandering, he's been an ally for decades!
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This is amusing & it’s also to his credit that he didn’t trot out these old high school yearbook photos of his membership in the Judaic Culture club to try to respond to the attack from Cuomo etc.
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sadly, it cuts off before any painted tunnels, anvils, or dynamite come into play
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
sadly, it cuts off before any painted tunnels, anvils, or dynamite come into play
This thread is comedy gold.
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This thread is comedy gold.
Maybe the dementia patient gets lost?
November 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Maybe the dementia patient gets lost?
He's a pedo and grossly corrupt, but this is obnoxiously performative for just a few items. There are dozens of other way more serious contenders for "nothing should be named after that asshole."
Top of my list: Lord Kitchener, inventor of the concentration camp.
Top of my list: Lord Kitchener, inventor of the concentration camp.
MPs, senators call for Prince Andrew’s name to be removed from Canadian landmarks
The disgraced royal has been stripped of his titles because of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
He's a pedo and grossly corrupt, but this is obnoxiously performative for just a few items. There are dozens of other way more serious contenders for "nothing should be named after that asshole."
Top of my list: Lord Kitchener, inventor of the concentration camp.
Top of my list: Lord Kitchener, inventor of the concentration camp.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Pretty much sums it up. Sometimes, the details aren't complicated.
Shutdown is very uncomplicated. Trump & Republicans will starve 42 million Americans unless Democrats agree to kick 20+ million Americans off of any healthcare insurance. Kicker is that Republicans intend to do both, regardless of what Democrats choose to do at this particular hostage situation.
November 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Pretty much sums it up. Sometimes, the details aren't complicated.
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Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
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It’s funny to think that the masked ICE Agents terrorizing communities are the same folks that spent two years saying they couldn’t breathe with a mask on.
October 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
It’s funny to think that the masked ICE Agents terrorizing communities are the same folks that spent two years saying they couldn’t breathe with a mask on.
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The forgotten genocide.
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The forgotten genocide.
They need to challenge every lazy, stupid question this way.
@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼
October 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
They need to challenge every lazy, stupid question this way.
Jays and Dodgers are getting close to playing a whole extra game of baseball. Incredible.
October 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Jays and Dodgers are getting close to playing a whole extra game of baseball. Incredible.
Genius! The baseball deep state had a plan all along.
I’d like the Jays to win if it guarantees a presidential aneurysm.
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Genius! The baseball deep state had a plan all along.
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Adhering to a new unified theory:
October 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Adhering to a new unified theory:
Damn!
This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.
October 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Damn!
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this is exactly what's happening
The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.
October 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
this is exactly what's happening
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Angus: This is a guy who showed an AI video of himself dumping diarrhea on his own citizens. So the fact that he’s freaking out because we showed a video that just had Ronald Reagan speaking shows he’s not trustworthy.
October 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Angus: This is a guy who showed an AI video of himself dumping diarrhea on his own citizens. So the fact that he’s freaking out because we showed a video that just had Ronald Reagan speaking shows he’s not trustworthy.