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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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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 15h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 18h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 16h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 17h

Huge congrats who helped make this happen you guys will be remembered as history's real heroes

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 17h

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 17h

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 18h

First as Speer then as farce

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 18h

Hmm what does that remind me of?

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 18h

Let me find the passage! Give me an hour or two?

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 18h

It's One Piece, iirc

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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 20h

Also please read @adriandaub.bsky.social's searing and hilarious commentary on Thiel.

He's reminded of Apocalypse Now where a character meets a platoon "and asks who’s in charge here. 'Ain’t you?' Ain’t you running the world, Peter? If it isn’t you, who is?"

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

www.theguardian.com

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 21h

Yes hello police? I’m being threatened with a good time again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 22h

I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

www.theguardian.com

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, it's pure extortion, and this "compact" must be resisted. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

www.thecrimson.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d

As we were saying … podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

@moiradonegan.bsky.social, on far right propagandists: It's… somebody who produces reams and reams and reams of the same dumbass thing over and over again.

@adriandaub.bsky.social: Yeah, the Nazis created a platform for it called the Reichskulturkammer. We created a platform for it called Substack.

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CJ 🦋 @cjeanmartini.bsky.social · 3d

In war-ravaged Portland...
#Portland
#frog
#SafetyDance
#IStandWithPortland

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 3d

Courtesy of Prof Bagenstos, the statutory provision is 31 USC 1341(c)(2)

(2) Each employee of the United States Government or of a District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations, and each excepted employee who is required to perform work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for such work, at the employee's standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates, and subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d

For the new episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, @moiradonegan.bsky.social walked me through the idea of Fetal Personhood and how it came to inform policing and policy in the United States. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Episode 99 -- Fetal Personhood

Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 10/07/2025 · 1h 16m

podcasts.apple.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

I keep waiting for the powers that be in media to grasp the concept of bad faith, realize how often "restore trust in news" and similar statements mean "stop doing journalism, lie more in ways I like," come from people ideologically committed to destroying trust in news, and can never be satisfied.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

I too am keen to "restore trust in news" by turning a major broadcast network into a 24/7 slurry of right wing culture war propaganda and engagement trolling

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d

Lesbians do be snacking

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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NPR @npr.org · 5d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 5d

Das Land der Dichter und Denker, meine Damen und Herren

WELT+
HERTA MÜLLER
„In Gaza würden die ,Queers for Palestine' keine halbe Stunde überleben"

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 5d

curtis yarvin seems somewhat unhappy

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 5d

They shadow ban anyone who uses the phrase “Makepeace”, “Fenimore”, or “Wadsworth”

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 5d

Isn’t that also pretty much what happens in Dune??? So even if mention of Thackeray enrages the twittersphere as too fancy…

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 5d

Some of it predates Nextdoorism unfortunately: this guy mentions he’s gay, and the temptation to play respectability politics with regards to a group of people that — at least where I live — is disproportionately LGBTQ+ is pretty old

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 5d

(If you work in German media and you’re not getting emails back from me, that might be why. 😘)

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 5d

I can’t tell you the number of German news media people who’ve asked me this question this year (“why isn’t there more resistance”) … not even 18 months after spewing psychotic fantasies about the violence that they felt ought to be visited on peaceful protesters

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6d

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

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