Adrian Daub

@adriandaub.bsky.social

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"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history and gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). Podcasts: The Feminist Present, @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social. Newsletter at adriandaub.substack.com .. more

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Adrian Daub is a German literary scholar and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, who has served as the Director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and serves as the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute at Stanford. .. more

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Sep 24

It's here! It's here! It's here! THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC is now out with Stanford University Press! You can buy it wherever you buy books. Or I guess you can talk about it in front of Alexa and she'll order it alongside a bunch of Pamplemousse LaCroix. www.amazon.com/Cancel-Cultu...

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 7h

somebody who is good at the economy please help them budget this, their bullshit factory is dying

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 8h

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates

A burning platform

on.ft.com

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 8h

I was subjected to this sadistic ritual (it was fine).

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 8h

people who live in a place where the one atom of spice in the entire town comes from the lone kabob stand that keeps mysteriously catching fire every year, think that the rest of the world desperately wants to come to a place that consists in equal parts of parking lots and aggregate concrete. (2/2)

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 8h

Never ceases to amaze me that people who see like no daylight between November and February, who spend the dark months making a muddy hillside into the world's saddest sledding hill while getting belligerently drunk and yelling slogans that are "easily misunderstood", (1/2)

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 8h

The Mallorca rule applies here too: if you can't function outside of Bödefeld-Schmallenberg, just stay in fucking Bödefeld-Schmallenberg. Not like the rest of the world is jonesing for a visit from some of the least fun people on the planet.

Friedrich Merz vermisst "ordentliches Stück Brot" in Angola
In Belém möchte er nicht leben, auch in Angolas Hauptstadt Luanda hat sich der Kanzler offenbar nicht wohlgefühlt: Er habe dort gemerkt, "was man am deutschen Brot hat".

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 9h

This is what our elite institutions, the country's largest companies, and law enforcement are busy capitulating to. But inspiring to me that it is friends, neighbors, and normies in what look to be pajamas who stand up against fascism in ways our leaders don't. We must remember both of these facts.

Becca Esche @beccasaintpaul.bsky.social · 10h

Gas

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Becca Esche @beccasaintpaul.bsky.social · 10h

Gas

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h

In leaked audio recordings, Peter Thiel reveals he told JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral issues, including the development of ethical AI. He also suggested the American pope was 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

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11h

The depositions from the batshit CBP and ICE officials in Chicago have been unsealed. Here's how Russ Hott denied actually knowing anything about one of the weirder claims they made: that a protestor had ripped someone's beard off.

legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Q Thank you. You say that -- in your
3 declaration that "There was an incidence where
4 somebody was pulling the face mask and personally"
5 -- "and forcefully ripping off an officer's beard."
6 Do you see that?
7 A Yes.
8 Q What does that mean?
9 A Well, there was an officer that was
10 wearing a gas mask and a protestor had ripped the
11 gas mask off. This officer had a large beard. They
12 grabbed it and forcefully ripped the beard out of
13 his chin.
14 Q His beard was ripped off of his face?
15 A Yes, a good portion of it.
16 Q Okay. Did you take any pictures of it?
17 A I did not.
18 Q Did somebody else?
19 A I'm not aware.
20 Q How do you know that this happened?
21 A From the officer reporting it.
22 Q Okay. Who is he?
A I don't recall the officer's name.
2 Q Was it somebody that you were familiar
3 with before you began work on Midway Blitz?
4 A No.
5 Q Do you know whether a report was written
6 about this incident?
7 A I don't know that.
8 Q Do you know whether or not the person who
9 allegedly ripped off an officer's beard was charged
10 with a crime?
11 A I don't know that specifically.

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 11h

A lot of these were panics were about our particular geographic area, which I loved!

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 11h

It’s buried at the end of a 100 minute episode (😳), but this was so fun we want to do more of these! Let us know if you’d like some @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social in your neck of the woods!

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 12h

Live from San Francisco, it was MORAL PANIC BINGO NIGHT! For our 108th episode spectacular @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I were joined by Sarah Marshall and @mattxiv.bsky.social to talk reading, drag, Satan, nasties, windshields, masks, cops and much more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Episode 108 -- Live from San Francisco, It's Moral Panic Bingo Night!

Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 11/25/2025 · 1h 41m

podcasts.apple.com

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 23h

Bari is such a creature from the elite lagoon that she thinks “where the vast majority of Americans actually are” is “the Epstein files”

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 23h

Hey he was the subject of the 4th hippest movie … of 1990

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 23h

[Ron Howard narrator voice]: she didn’t want to sideline Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 23h

Elevate who now?

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23h

it appears that you have no attention span, would you like that made worse?

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d

Impeccable timing too releasing this book now

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d

A … a rich text, if ever I saw one

THE TEN BIG ANTI-ISRAEL
LIES
AND HOW TO REFUTE THEM WITH TRUTH
By Alan Dershowitz

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 1d

Waymo privatized another public street:

Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco

Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.

The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.

OP: .tiktok.renaspam18

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d

You’ve heard of the Paw Patrol well now here’s

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d

“America is, if you really think about it, a 3-3-3 court.”

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
America has two political parties but three main ideological groupings, a liberal center divided between the parties that used to be the dominant element in both coalitions and then post-liberal elements that secured the upper hand in the GOP and is gaining ground among Dems.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Into the Twilight of the Trump Era

What becomes of MAGA as Trump’s hold over the movement is weakening, his ability to integrate its different factions is waning?

A deep dive into the state of the fever swamp.

New piece:

Into the Twilight of the Trump Era

What becomes of MAGA as Trump’s hold over the movement is weakening, his ability to integrate its different factions waning? A deep dive into the state of the fever swamp

steady.page

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

evergreen

Tweet from @PPathole

Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart

Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize

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JaneLane @nyjanelane.bsky.social · 4d

What a week for podcasts reading A Certain Kind Of Person for absolute filth @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social @adriandaub.bsky.social @moiradonegan.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d

Someday you, too, could have the moral fortitude to look upon a years-long rape circus organized by the nation's most powerful elites and declare, "The people upset about this are speaking about it the wrong way."

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4d

Mike Pence wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Reading the headline, I was like, "Okay, seems like a normal take."

Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you so much to everyone who came out to our @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social live show tonight! @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I had so much fun with all of you, and with our amazing guests, Sarah Marshall and @mattxiv.bsky.social!!!

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WPRI 12 @wpri12.bsky.social · 5d

#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️

RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern

A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.

www.wpri.com

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 5d

oh wow cool quick follow-up where's my fucking money

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