Jude Webre
@theotherjude.bsky.social
History & Lit & Music | Faculty at Columbia, NYU-Gallatin, and Brooklyn Institute, Columbia PhD | Bass Clef, Inc. Betwixt and between
Beware of any random late LP track named "Mama Frog"
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Beware of any random late LP track named "Mama Frog"
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Instead of watching Stranger Things, maybe we should start building stronger things, like the rule of law and a commitment to democratic norms
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Instead of watching Stranger Things, maybe we should start building stronger things, like the rule of law and a commitment to democratic norms
👀 checks out. For a very certain kind of nerd in your life. Turn every pick swap.
NEW: Thunder GM Sam Presti is a huge fan of the legendary historian Robert Caro and frequently cites Caro’s “turn every page” mantra as a guiding light for the powerhouse Thunder. “I am truly touched, if you want to know the truth,” Caro tells ESPN. www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
How a legendary historian is quietly fueling OKC's championship rise
As OKC GM Sam Presti formed a Thunder team built for a dynasty, he was inspired by a man who has been working on the same project for more than 50 years.
www.espn.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
👀 checks out. For a very certain kind of nerd in your life. Turn every pick swap.
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NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
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you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
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Here, have some cardinal-in-autumn vibes.
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Here, have some cardinal-in-autumn vibes.
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A “You’ve Got Mail” remake set on Bandcamp Friday where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are rival noise artists who accidentally buy each others’s tape because they both released under a new alias.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A “You’ve Got Mail” remake set on Bandcamp Friday where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are rival noise artists who accidentally buy each others’s tape because they both released under a new alias.
Mildly regretting not teaching the entire Golden Ass (just Psyche & Cupid)
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Mildly regretting not teaching the entire Golden Ass (just Psyche & Cupid)
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I want to see a review of an organ concert where they say "He/she pulled out all the stops."
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I want to see a review of an organ concert where they say "He/she pulled out all the stops."
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couldn't find this clip anymore so i watched an hour of Siskel and Ebert on Letterman clips to find it. wow. here it is: why Gene didn't like Free Willy
March 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
couldn't find this clip anymore so i watched an hour of Siskel and Ebert on Letterman clips to find it. wow. here it is: why Gene didn't like Free Willy
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My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
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That's some really good communication there.
“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
That's some really good communication there.
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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oh, alas, i've been informed that there was another velvet underground of paducah, kentucky, and this was almost certainly them.
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
oh, alas, i've been informed that there was another velvet underground of paducah, kentucky, and this was almost certainly them.
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one political truth still holds: the president loves handsome guys
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
one political truth still holds: the president loves handsome guys
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William Carlos Williams - Charles Sheeler, 1926
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
William Carlos Williams - Charles Sheeler, 1926
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Lawyers learning history
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Lawyers learning history
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Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
Shredding party is gonna be so lit
The U.S. Justice Department will release files from its investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days, Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Wednesday, after Congress voted nearly unanimously to force President Donald Trump's administration to make them public.
US Justice Department will release Epstein files within 30 days, Bondi says
The U.S. Justice Department will release files from its investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days, Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Wednesday, after Congress voted nearly unanimously to force President Donald Trump's administration to make them public.
reut.rs
November 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Shredding party is gonna be so lit
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Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.