Adam Kunz
@adamkunz.com
Asst. Prof. of poli sci at UW-Eau Claire | PhD at UC Davis, JD at GWU Law | political theorist | cult watcher | apatheist | ex-Mormon | father | 13th-level warlock
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· Jan 14
This showed up in my “on this day” album in OneDrive, and I feel like it’s the closest thing to prophecy I’ve ever seen.
I might actually watch baseball!
I would like to hear Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski call a baseball game
February 14, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I might actually watch baseball!
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Gandalf crusading public interest lawyer ass wizard. Gandalf stoner ass who has to save his neighborhood wizard. Mark Ruffalo ass wizard.
February 12, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Gandalf crusading public interest lawyer ass wizard. Gandalf stoner ass who has to save his neighborhood wizard. Mark Ruffalo ass wizard.
There’s a lot of us here who are Redditorian as well…
Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords
yeah Bluesky is primarily a Tumblric language
February 6, 2026 at 9:36 PM
There’s a lot of us here who are Redditorian as well…
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The latest Epstein files from the DOJ name two more of the sex criminal’s billionaire clients: real estate mogul Mortimer Zuckerman and Rothschild heir by marriage Ariane de Rothschild. They apparently paid an unusually high premium for his services, experts say. www.forbes.com/sites/giacom...
New Details On How Jeffrey Epstein Got So Rich
The latest Epstein files name two more billionaire clients: real estate mogul Mortimer Zuckerman and Rothschild heir by marriage Ariane de Rothschild.
www.forbes.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:19 AM
The latest Epstein files from the DOJ name two more of the sex criminal’s billionaire clients: real estate mogul Mortimer Zuckerman and Rothschild heir by marriage Ariane de Rothschild. They apparently paid an unusually high premium for his services, experts say. www.forbes.com/sites/giacom...
There’s no nice way to say it: these people are bat-shit insane. fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example | Fortune
The Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.
fortune.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:20 PM
There’s no nice way to say it: these people are bat-shit insane. fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...
There is absolutely zero chance that a lawsuit on this basis would survive a motion to dismiss.
FTC crackdown on law firm DEI efforts tests antitrust limits reut.rs/3LUSrMe
FTC crackdown on law firm DEI efforts tests antitrust limits
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission took a fresh tack last week in the federal government's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, warning 42 major law firms that their hiring practices may violate federal antitrust law.
reut.rs
February 4, 2026 at 10:31 PM
There is absolutely zero chance that a lawsuit on this basis would survive a motion to dismiss.
Endorse heartily.
He's 100% right, and I'm not going to caveat every 300 character post about what the law is or why something's wrong with repetitive "but of course they try anyway and might succeed." Which people inevitably chime in with to repeat ad nauseum, often in a stupidly hostile way that merits insta-block.
Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.
February 4, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Endorse heartily.
I’m old enough to remember when the Snowden/Wikileaks debacle was the greatest threat to US national security. Turns out, the bigger threat was an unintelligent, pedophilic man-child who stumbled into wealth in the 80s and bought out every political elite for three decades.
Poland has a long history of dealing with Russian intel operations.
The Trump/Russia connection is real and the Epstein files have blown it open.
The Trump/Russia connection is real and the Epstein files have blown it open.
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 10:25 PM
I’m old enough to remember when the Snowden/Wikileaks debacle was the greatest threat to US national security. Turns out, the bigger threat was an unintelligent, pedophilic man-child who stumbled into wealth in the 80s and bought out every political elite for three decades.
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i don’t want men exiled. i just want them to process through their own trauma from patriarchy.
the first person that patriarchy teaches a man to harm is himself.
oppressive violence against others is more palatable if someone has already first been convinced to rip the copper wiring out of their own soul.
oppressive violence against others is more palatable if someone has already first been convinced to rip the copper wiring out of their own soul.
February 4, 2026 at 2:57 AM
i don’t want men exiled. i just want them to process through their own trauma from patriarchy.
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"adam tooze comes out as a treatler"
You bolt awake in the shores of Little St James. You are not online. It is 1997 AD. You are the Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The financial industry must not be deregulated
You bolt awake in the shores of Little St James. You are not online. It is 1997 AD. You are the Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The financial industry must not be deregulated
February 2, 2026 at 4:48 PM
"adam tooze comes out as a treatler"
You bolt awake in the shores of Little St James. You are not online. It is 1997 AD. You are the Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The financial industry must not be deregulated
You bolt awake in the shores of Little St James. You are not online. It is 1997 AD. You are the Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The financial industry must not be deregulated
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“Plus it’s also minus twenty degrees centigrade. ICE’s invasion of Minneapolis was like Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, if nineteenth century Russians had also been world-leaders at organising cook-outs, help-meets, and charity drives.”
Minneapolis is a place that means a lot to me, so I wrote a short Substack about the city, its people, and what we all owe them.
benansell.substack.com/p/my-minneap...
benansell.substack.com/p/my-minneap...
My Minneapolis
An ode to a city that knows who it is
benansell.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:18 PM
“Plus it’s also minus twenty degrees centigrade. ICE’s invasion of Minneapolis was like Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, if nineteenth century Russians had also been world-leaders at organising cook-outs, help-meets, and charity drives.”
Those protest votes against Harris are really paying dividends. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...
Board of Peace Set to Hand Trump Sweeping Powers Over Gaza
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Those protest votes against Harris are really paying dividends. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...
I’m spending this entire first week of two classes explaining what political theory is and why it matters. I have a feeling my colleagues in the business college don’t have to do that.
I agree that it’s high fucking time that we stopped acting like we need to grovel and constantly justify the existence of some of our most incredibly elemental and ancient human pursuits.
Are the humanities the only disciplines whose classes begin with modules speaking to the importance of studying the humanities? "Why study the humanities?" and "Why the humanities are important" must be cliches.
January 28, 2026 at 2:48 AM
I’m spending this entire first week of two classes explaining what political theory is and why it matters. I have a feeling my colleagues in the business college don’t have to do that.
One of the tactics of the Third Reich was to create overlapping areas of control, pitting offices against one another in a social Darwinian game of “who could please the Führer the most.” It made for rabid ambition below (eg, Himmler vs. Göring, Rust vs. Goebbels) and deniability above for Hitler.
Stephen Miller blaming Bovino. Noem blaming Miller. Some Republican senators blaming Noem.
January 28, 2026 at 2:37 AM
One of the tactics of the Third Reich was to create overlapping areas of control, pitting offices against one another in a social Darwinian game of “who could please the Führer the most.” It made for rabid ambition below (eg, Himmler vs. Göring, Rust vs. Goebbels) and deniability above for Hitler.
The average person doesn’t understand (or care) what an uphill battle it is to be a professor in 2026. On top of the general destruction of higher ed, everything at the modern university - IRB, procurement, dean of students, athletics, etc. - is designed to make it harder to work. It’s exhausting.
January 27, 2026 at 8:03 PM
The average person doesn’t understand (or care) what an uphill battle it is to be a professor in 2026. On top of the general destruction of higher ed, everything at the modern university - IRB, procurement, dean of students, athletics, etc. - is designed to make it harder to work. It’s exhausting.
Thank god. My broken eyes had me so confused by the original.
January 27, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Thank god. My broken eyes had me so confused by the original.
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Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
January 26, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
“Absent those actions, Europe must consider any pause in America’s attempt to annex Greenland as temporary and subject to renewal whenever 40,000 Wisconsinites are aggrieved about the price of eggs.”
@jvl.bsky.social speaking The Truth
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
@jvl.bsky.social speaking The Truth
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
This Is the End
Putinism abroad always morphs into Putinism at home. And we chose this path. Why? Because something-something the price of eggs.
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:06 AM
“Absent those actions, Europe must consider any pause in America’s attempt to annex Greenland as temporary and subject to renewal whenever 40,000 Wisconsinites are aggrieved about the price of eggs.”
@jvl.bsky.social speaking The Truth
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
@jvl.bsky.social speaking The Truth
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Trump spent 72 minutes insulting and threatening America’s former allies while explaining that the liberal order in America is over. Let us count the ways:
Donald Trump vs. the World
In his Davos rant, the president lied, insulted allies, and depicted America as a hellhole.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Trump spent 72 minutes insulting and threatening America’s former allies while explaining that the liberal order in America is over. Let us count the ways:
People really do need to start taking him seriously. Part of what has put us in this position in the first place is elites’ habit of inventing “four-D chess rationales” for everything he does. When he says he’s going to bomb an ally because he wants the land, we have ample reason to believe him.
Sorry, but this is not just distraction sauce.
Trump is fixated. Let's not impose a rational actor model on a guy who is clearly psychotic and sociopathic.
He admitted to the NYT this is psychological--he feels better owning stuff, since he hasn't faced any costs (thanks to SCOTUS), why not.
Trump is fixated. Let's not impose a rational actor model on a guy who is clearly psychotic and sociopathic.
He admitted to the NYT this is psychological--he feels better owning stuff, since he hasn't faced any costs (thanks to SCOTUS), why not.
Thinking, Whatever's in the Epstein files is even worse than we all imagined, and plenty of us have revoltingly lewd imaginations.
This is I'll-start-a-war-to-make-you-forget-for-10-minutes horrific. It's gotta be.
This is I'll-start-a-war-to-make-you-forget-for-10-minutes horrific. It's gotta be.
January 19, 2026 at 9:53 PM
People really do need to start taking him seriously. Part of what has put us in this position in the first place is elites’ habit of inventing “four-D chess rationales” for everything he does. When he says he’s going to bomb an ally because he wants the land, we have ample reason to believe him.
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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
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Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
A woman left a comment on Facebook criticizing the Mayor of Miami Beach,.
The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.
The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.
January 19, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
“And all this could happen—for what, exactly? The vainglorious demands of one man who can’t read a map?”
Danish and Greenland ministers just left the White House. It did not go well.
I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III.
(Gifted.)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III.
(Gifted.)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s Most Dangerous Gambit
His irrational obsession with Greenland could lead to global conflict.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:48 PM
“And all this could happen—for what, exactly? The vainglorious demands of one man who can’t read a map?”
I’ve spent way too much time around the “but free speech” crowd over the last few years, and they fall into two groups:
(1) honest scholars committed to liberal ideals, and
(2) crypto-fascists.
It’s nice to see that Group 1 might be realizing that hanging out with Group 2 was a bad idea.
(1) honest scholars committed to liberal ideals, and
(2) crypto-fascists.
It’s nice to see that Group 1 might be realizing that hanging out with Group 2 was a bad idea.
"They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. 'I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be.... You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.'"
Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
January 17, 2026 at 3:20 AM
I’ve spent way too much time around the “but free speech” crowd over the last few years, and they fall into two groups:
(1) honest scholars committed to liberal ideals, and
(2) crypto-fascists.
It’s nice to see that Group 1 might be realizing that hanging out with Group 2 was a bad idea.
(1) honest scholars committed to liberal ideals, and
(2) crypto-fascists.
It’s nice to see that Group 1 might be realizing that hanging out with Group 2 was a bad idea.