Saul Tobias
@saultobias.bsky.social
Humanities Prof @CSUF. Rootless cosmopolitan. Literature | Social and Political Philosophy | Religious Studies. Schubert and Sibelius stan.
‐ plugging away at that novel, same as everyone -
‐ plugging away at that novel, same as everyone -
Queen across the water
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Queen across the water
To celebrate the Supreme Court not taking that stupid case and also for the gays and the jews and the liberal intellectuals. Hit it, NPH.
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It's Not Just for Gays Anymore - Neil Patrick Harris
YouTube video by The xNYr
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November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
To celebrate the Supreme Court not taking that stupid case and also for the gays and the jews and the liberal intellectuals. Hit it, NPH.
youtu.be/3BHyfYiBt5o?...
youtu.be/3BHyfYiBt5o?...
The reconquest is imminent!
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The reconquest is imminent!
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#ResistanceRoots
Dorothy Day was born on this day in 1897 in New York City. Day was a journalist and social activist who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement. She dedicated her life to serving the poor, advocating for social justice and pacifism and practicing nonviolent civil disobedience. /1
Dorothy Day was born on this day in 1897 in New York City. Day was a journalist and social activist who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement. She dedicated her life to serving the poor, advocating for social justice and pacifism and practicing nonviolent civil disobedience. /1
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
#ResistanceRoots
Dorothy Day was born on this day in 1897 in New York City. Day was a journalist and social activist who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement. She dedicated her life to serving the poor, advocating for social justice and pacifism and practicing nonviolent civil disobedience. /1
Dorothy Day was born on this day in 1897 in New York City. Day was a journalist and social activist who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement. She dedicated her life to serving the poor, advocating for social justice and pacifism and practicing nonviolent civil disobedience. /1
Govt: Tariffs are not revenue-raising. Best tariffs would never raise revenue because Americans would just stop buying foreign goods.
Sotomayor: then why not just ban the imports, which govt clearly has the authority to do? 🤣
Sotomayor: then why not just ban the imports, which govt clearly has the authority to do? 🤣
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Govt: Tariffs are not revenue-raising. Best tariffs would never raise revenue because Americans would just stop buying foreign goods.
Sotomayor: then why not just ban the imports, which govt clearly has the authority to do? 🤣
Sotomayor: then why not just ban the imports, which govt clearly has the authority to do? 🤣
Says a lot when a self-promoting hack like Rick Grenell refuses to do interviews.
Exclusive: Nearly nine months after President Trump took over the Kennedy Center, sales for orchestra, theater and dance performances are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover
Nearly nine months into Trump's oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they've been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Says a lot when a self-promoting hack like Rick Grenell refuses to do interviews.
Tomorrow I'll be adding Frankenstein to the short list of movies I've seen on the big screen since Covid. The others are Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Poor Things. Cellphones in theaters have kept me away. Sad.
November 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Tomorrow I'll be adding Frankenstein to the short list of movies I've seen on the big screen since Covid. The others are Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Poor Things. Cellphones in theaters have kept me away. Sad.
Just discovered these. They're very good.
October 16, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Just discovered these. They're very good.
Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by PaulMcCartneyVEVO
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October 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just got to hear Gustavo Dudamel conduct Mahler's Resurrection symphony. Here's my favorite performance of my favorite part. Janet Baker mezzo, Bernstein conducting.
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Mahler Symphony No. 2 - IV. Urlicht (excerpt) | Leonard Bernstein - London Symphony Orchestra
YouTube video by Leonard Bernstein
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October 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Just got to hear Gustavo Dudamel conduct Mahler's Resurrection symphony. Here's my favorite performance of my favorite part. Janet Baker mezzo, Bernstein conducting.
youtu.be/K6MRfaA4n78?...
youtu.be/K6MRfaA4n78?...
The great flapjack debate in which I feel deeply invested
We are realizing that we have no idea what British people think a “flapjack” is.
October 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The great flapjack debate in which I feel deeply invested
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9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive.
Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist, organized by paul Carter
Paulina's long time friend Steve Rappaport writes,
"Support P… paul Carter needs your support for Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist
www.gofundme.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive.
Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Reposted by Saul Tobias
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
Shanah Tovah!
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BARBRA STREISAND - AVINU MALKEINU
YouTube video by Sasha Charan
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September 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Shanah Tovah!
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I have questions:
1. Could Harris not afford a better editor?
2. Which is more satisfying: throwing Biden under the school bus then or now?
3. When she says the White House does she means Donilon, Dunn or Jill?
4. Is she running?
1. Could Harris not afford a better editor?
2. Which is more satisfying: throwing Biden under the school bus then or now?
3. When she says the White House does she means Donilon, Dunn or Jill?
4. Is she running?
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden’s decision to run for reelection in 2024 “wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition,” Kamala Harris writes in her forthcoming memoir. “It should have been more than a personal decision.” https://theatln.tc/twTAsCxV
September 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I have questions:
1. Could Harris not afford a better editor?
2. Which is more satisfying: throwing Biden under the school bus then or now?
3. When she says the White House does she means Donilon, Dunn or Jill?
4. Is she running?
1. Could Harris not afford a better editor?
2. Which is more satisfying: throwing Biden under the school bus then or now?
3. When she says the White House does she means Donilon, Dunn or Jill?
4. Is she running?
Playing this in class tomorrow. We've been talking about the gilded age and reading Robert Putnam's The Upswing. Mamdani's name had come up, so this ties things together nicely.
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Playing this in class tomorrow. We've been talking about the gilded age and reading Robert Putnam's The Upswing. Mamdani's name had come up, so this ties things together nicely.
I'm rereading Brideshead Revisited and honestly, the perfection of that man's prose is just staggering.
September 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I'm rereading Brideshead Revisited and honestly, the perfection of that man's prose is just staggering.
Spent 3/4 of yesterday's Academic Senate meeting discussing university policies on what to do if federal agents enter campus. Fun times!
August 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Spent 3/4 of yesterday's Academic Senate meeting discussing university policies on what to do if federal agents enter campus. Fun times!
Don't know much about Gov Ferguson but listening to this press conference he really reads mensch.
Nothing like threat of arrest from the feds to put a little fire into your efforts at resisting fascism. governor.wa.gov/news/2025/go...
Governor Ferguson responds to shameful letter from U.S. Attorney General Bondi | Governor Bob Ferguson
governor.wa.gov
August 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Don't know much about Gov Ferguson but listening to this press conference he really reads mensch.
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How could you be a linesman and not have night cravings for Battenburg cake.
August 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
How could you be a linesman and not have night cravings for Battenburg cake.
Love getting reader reviews on an article submitted a year ago then 2 weeks to resubmit with substantial changes! Sorry students!
August 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Love getting reader reviews on an article submitted a year ago then 2 weeks to resubmit with substantial changes! Sorry students!
I don't get it. Alex Lee applauds Texas Dems but doesn't support midterm redistricting in CA. Yes, Alex, we get it. It's bad. But so is fascism. You don't resist authoritarian destruction of democracy by playing by the rules when they ignore them.
abc7news.com/post/governo...
abc7news.com/post/governo...
August 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I don't get it. Alex Lee applauds Texas Dems but doesn't support midterm redistricting in CA. Yes, Alex, we get it. It's bad. But so is fascism. You don't resist authoritarian destruction of democracy by playing by the rules when they ignore them.
abc7news.com/post/governo...
abc7news.com/post/governo...
Such self-sabotage on such a massive scale. Mind-boggling.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End
America’s run as the premiere techno-superpower may be over.
www.theatlantic.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Such self-sabotage on such a massive scale. Mind-boggling.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...