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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d

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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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 1d

Terrific piece, at once eye-opening and entertaining. Also made me think momentarily of that dude (whose relationship to academia was, well, no less complicated):

a man in a suit and tie is talking on a fox news channel

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking on a fox news channel

media.tenor.com

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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 1d

Friedensnobelpreis für eine Frau aus Venezuela, die für Freiheit, Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Menschenrechte kämpft.
Besser kannste Trump nicht trollen.
Gratulation, María Corina Machado.

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 1d

Three cheers for Maria Corina Machado! And congrats to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. A wise choice. And a slap on the hand to those who think an authoritarian bully who sinks ships and tramples on civil rights can pass as peacemaker.

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 1d

Give me the Peace Prize or else...

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 2d

Since about 2020. Thanks for these!

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 2d

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 2d

It feels like ages since I read a fine contemporary American novel.

Can you give me your must-reads? Thanks a lot!

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 2d

Bin Laden, another prominent postliberal.

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Jens Temmen @jenstemmen.bsky.social · 2d

Im @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy wurde gerade diskutiert ob man Trump nicht doch den Friedensnobelpreis verleihen sollte.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 2d

Für die Militarisierung der Innenpolitik und das Versenken von Schiffen.

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 2d

Douthat probably can’t stop high-fiving himself for coming up with the term “post-liberal” to smear what is left of the Democratic opposition to T.

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 3d

This is TPUSA‘s political project in action - trying to get professors they deem liberal or left-leaning fired & harassed. @mark-bray.bsky.social teaches about the history of anti-fascism - and has had to relocate to Europe as threats mounted after TPUSA targeted him.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

Right! Mistook it for the Last Temptation of Christ.

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

It’s Willem Dafoe, so yes.

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

I’m thinking about teaching a seminar next spring “Jesus in American history.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

Pritzker/Newsom see it as a defining fact of the moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily and using it to subjugate Blue America like an enemy nation within. Other Dems should stop the Beltway-speak about Trump laying "traps" for them and engage.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

I always wondered what the end game would be for conservatives who since the Tea Party revolt of the early 2010s have insisted that the US was not a democracy but a “constitutional republic.” E voila.

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

Just the usual hyperbole 😣

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

@radiofreetom.bsky.social, are we getting closer?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

President Trump has called for the jailing of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, both Democrats, for “failing to protect” ICE officers who have been sent to the city.

Trump says Chicago mayor, Illinois governor should be jailed for response to ICE

Trump, without providing evidence, said Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker should go to jail for “failing to protect” immigration agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Rabea Rittgerodt-Burke @rabeari.bsky.social · 3d

Super excited and proud to announce the start of the De Gruyter Brill/GSA Dissertation Prize!!

thegsa.org/prizes/de-gr...

Cannot WAIT to check out everything people have worked on - please spread the word and/or submit, prize is a 1000EUR and a free OA publication :)

@thegsa.bsky.social

thegsa.org

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

I decided to spent some time on this beautiful morning to read up on the "Boston Massacre" in 1770, when British troops dispatched to the city by a distant regime fired into a group of protesters.

Sound familiar?

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Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social · 3d

Toooodddaaaaay!

Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social · 3d

Sooooooo….this is starting tomorrow ⬇️

#ComicsStudies

www.comicgesellschaft.de/wp-content/u...

Poster der Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Comicforschung. Mehr per Link (im Pist).

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

Doing author guessing the right way.

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