Tad DeLay
@taddelay.bsky.social
Author of FUTURE OF DENIAL: The Ideologies of Climate Change (Verso 2024) plus several others on religion and psychoanalysis | philosophy prof
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[time machine taking me back to the “is it fascism or are you hysterical?” debates circa 2017-21]:
What if they want to hang the opposition?
What if they want to hang the opposition?
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
[time machine taking me back to the “is it fascism or are you hysterical?” debates circa 2017-21]:
What if they want to hang the opposition?
What if they want to hang the opposition?
Look what he did to my Marx! Can’t even show you the Qur’an he shredded. He had good taste for sure. I had to reorganize my book shelves to stop the madness
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Look what he did to my Marx! Can’t even show you the Qur’an he shredded. He had good taste for sure. I had to reorganize my book shelves to stop the madness
Returning to this strange little guy, remembering when my boy was a puppy chewing up my books
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Returning to this strange little guy, remembering when my boy was a puppy chewing up my books
I was also thinking of Kate Aronoff’s closing argument in Overheated for better sex, that socialist measures we need on climate change lead to, especially for women, security and safety nets to leave bad relationships, experience more independence. Property hierarchies work against that liberation
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I was also thinking of Kate Aronoff’s closing argument in Overheated for better sex, that socialist measures we need on climate change lead to, especially for women, security and safety nets to leave bad relationships, experience more independence. Property hierarchies work against that liberation
It’s funny that a third of guys signing up to be racism police can’t do 15 push-ups or run 1.5 miles, even with a $50,000 signing bonus dangling in front of them!
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It’s funny that a third of guys signing up to be racism police can’t do 15 push-ups or run 1.5 miles, even with a $50,000 signing bonus dangling in front of them!
Pumpkins from me and my five year old, plus my nervous dog
October 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Pumpkins from me and my five year old, plus my nervous dog
They have more power than they’ve ever had, yet 64% of white evangelicals say religion is losing influence. A bit more evidence for cynicism and lying as positive virtues in that subculture
October 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
They have more power than they’ve ever had, yet 64% of white evangelicals say religion is losing influence. A bit more evidence for cynicism and lying as positive virtues in that subculture
Bloomberg reports this compact is being extended now to all colleges, and the first threat is withholding student loans. Multiple points clearly result in desegregating higher ed. I’ll underscore again that it bans professors from talking about “societal or political events”
October 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Bloomberg reports this compact is being extended now to all colleges, and the first threat is withholding student loans. Multiple points clearly result in desegregating higher ed. I’ll underscore again that it bans professors from talking about “societal or political events”
I’ve wondered when they’d try shutting off student loan access to bully colleges into suppressing academic freedom.
The new higher ed compact threatens this unless all college employees “abstain from actions or speech relating to societal or political events”
No more talking about real things
The new higher ed compact threatens this unless all college employees “abstain from actions or speech relating to societal or political events”
No more talking about real things
October 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’ve wondered when they’d try shutting off student loan access to bully colleges into suppressing academic freedom.
The new higher ed compact threatens this unless all college employees “abstain from actions or speech relating to societal or political events”
No more talking about real things
The new higher ed compact threatens this unless all college employees “abstain from actions or speech relating to societal or political events”
No more talking about real things
Walter Benjamin said politicians opposing fascism betray us by 1) a stubborn faith in progress, 2) confidence in mass resistance, and 3) servile integration in an uncontrollable apparatus.
October 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Walter Benjamin said politicians opposing fascism betray us by 1) a stubborn faith in progress, 2) confidence in mass resistance, and 3) servile integration in an uncontrollable apparatus.
I’m really into @peterbrannen.bsky.social’s new book. If you’ve most read anything I’ve written in recent years, it’s indebted to his prior book The Ends of the World
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I’m really into @peterbrannen.bsky.social’s new book. If you’ve most read anything I’ve written in recent years, it’s indebted to his prior book The Ends of the World
A few years ago, I wrote a book on fascist tendencies in US white evangelicalism. It’s strange to look back now. At the time plenty of people told me I was blowing things out of proportion. Now I think I wasn’t harsh enough.
Excerpt here:
christiansocialism.com/2020/08/14/w...
Excerpt here:
christiansocialism.com/2020/08/14/w...
September 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A few years ago, I wrote a book on fascist tendencies in US white evangelicalism. It’s strange to look back now. At the time plenty of people told me I was blowing things out of proportion. Now I think I wasn’t harsh enough.
Excerpt here:
christiansocialism.com/2020/08/14/w...
Excerpt here:
christiansocialism.com/2020/08/14/w...
He’s so stupid the “knave or fool?” question goes nowhere. You think of a fool as having actual beliefs, if idiotic, but he doesn’t rise to that level with any convictions at all. Each problem is a hoax, or it kindof depends, or it’s the greatest, or it doesn’t matter, or I forgot, whatever
September 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
He’s so stupid the “knave or fool?” question goes nowhere. You think of a fool as having actual beliefs, if idiotic, but he doesn’t rise to that level with any convictions at all. Each problem is a hoax, or it kindof depends, or it’s the greatest, or it doesn’t matter, or I forgot, whatever
“Is this actually God I am talking to?” Man I love this stuff. We are about to see levels of narcissistic delusion we can’t imagine
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
September 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“Is this actually God I am talking to?” Man I love this stuff. We are about to see levels of narcissistic delusion we can’t imagine
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
After days of people losing jobs and facing threats for not feeling the correct emotions, I’m thinking again about Burke’s “preventative murder” and confiscation when commoners don’t display fealty
September 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
After days of people losing jobs and facing threats for not feeling the correct emotions, I’m thinking again about Burke’s “preventative murder” and confiscation when commoners don’t display fealty
I’ve been working through this volume. It’s wild how much his writing on conservatives, and on how socialists can or can’t work with liberals, still holds up today
September 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I’ve been working through this volume. It’s wild how much his writing on conservatives, and on how socialists can or can’t work with liberals, still holds up today
About time for a life update. We moved to Grand Rapids over the summer. I joined the faculty at Lansing Community College. It’s been a very good change.
August 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
About time for a life update. We moved to Grand Rapids over the summer. I joined the faculty at Lansing Community College. It’s been a very good change.
Neighbors are escalating flags and signs in battle between the liberal house and the nazi house. The addition of Israel and a”support ice” flags are new this week
July 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Neighbors are escalating flags and signs in battle between the liberal house and the nazi house. The addition of Israel and a”support ice” flags are new this week
When the plan is mass killing conducted through starvation, daily shootings of a few dozen at food distribution points look like they’re for sport.
From journalist Anas Al-Sharif:
From journalist Anas Al-Sharif:
July 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
When the plan is mass killing conducted through starvation, daily shootings of a few dozen at food distribution points look like they’re for sport.
From journalist Anas Al-Sharif:
From journalist Anas Al-Sharif:
Argument seems to be “Ostracizing him wouldn’t have altered his behavior” but, for maturing people, criticism of terrible values/actions leads to change all the time. That’s most ex-conservatives’s story. The assumption here is that conservatives can’t mature
July 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Argument seems to be “Ostracizing him wouldn’t have altered his behavior” but, for maturing people, criticism of terrible values/actions leads to change all the time. That’s most ex-conservatives’s story. The assumption here is that conservatives can’t mature
It’s trite but every day news reminds me of what Deleuze and Guattari called the fundamental problem of political philosophy:
“‘Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?’ How can people possibly reach the point of shouting: ‘More taxes! Less bread!’?”
“‘Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?’ How can people possibly reach the point of shouting: ‘More taxes! Less bread!’?”
June 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It’s trite but every day news reminds me of what Deleuze and Guattari called the fundamental problem of political philosophy:
“‘Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?’ How can people possibly reach the point of shouting: ‘More taxes! Less bread!’?”
“‘Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?’ How can people possibly reach the point of shouting: ‘More taxes! Less bread!’?”
When I explain temperature change, it’s critical to get ahead of this nonsense by saying, yes, temperature has always changed—but in response to CO₂ and/or Milankovitch cycles.
I put a chart in Future of Denial to make it extremely obvious how three measurements move together
I put a chart in Future of Denial to make it extremely obvious how three measurements move together
June 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
When I explain temperature change, it’s critical to get ahead of this nonsense by saying, yes, temperature has always changed—but in response to CO₂ and/or Milankovitch cycles.
I put a chart in Future of Denial to make it extremely obvious how three measurements move together
I put a chart in Future of Denial to make it extremely obvious how three measurements move together
Spotted this one at @greedyreads.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Spotted this one at @greedyreads.bsky.social