Colin J. Beck
@cjbeck.bsky.social
Revolutions and so forth. Next book without a red spine. https://colinjbeck.sites.pomona.edu
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Colin J. Beck
@cjbeck.bsky.social
· Jul 4
No thanks.
I love getting blocked by a papermill. Tells me I’m doing my job.
Unfortunately it’s in the US.
HAITI ARE INTO THEIR FIRST WORLD CUP IN HALF A CENTURY ❤️
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Unfortunately it’s in the US.
If you read the article, you can get the gist.
"I liked their dissertation better than the book" is the "The debut record is okay but I like their first EP more, you probably haven't heard it" of academia.
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
If you read the article, you can get the gist.
Nuzzi is cultivating sources in the right way.
“There are some stories where there are no winners—only losers. This is one of those stories.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Epstein’s journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Nuzzi is cultivating sources in the right way.
I hear Michael Wolff is available… oh, wait.
I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I hear Michael Wolff is available… oh, wait.
Somebody put me on a group text called “Yurt Time Feb 2026” and you have no idea how upset I am.
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Somebody put me on a group text called “Yurt Time Feb 2026” and you have no idea how upset I am.
Congrats to the UCLA AAUP chapter, and I really feel like it's time for Pomona faculty to unionize. #sharedgovernance
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Congrats to the UCLA AAUP chapter, and I really feel like it's time for Pomona faculty to unionize. #sharedgovernance
Did the bat have COVID or was it, like, a regular bat?
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Did the bat have COVID or was it, like, a regular bat?
Prices are getting so out of control that Sabrina Carpenter is buying Nespresso.
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Prices are getting so out of control that Sabrina Carpenter is buying Nespresso.
Times like this I hate living in SoCal.
Aurora Day 2: Twin Cities folk, the boat launch at Ham Lake has a pretty good view.
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Times like this I hate living in SoCal.
Great, Friedman has finally discovered world risk society.
Opinion | The Post-Cold War Era Is Over. What Should We Call This New One?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Great, Friedman has finally discovered world risk society.
Primary them all.
a man with a beard is holding a stick and a sword and says you shall not pass .
ALT: a man with a beard is holding a stick and a sword and says you shall not pass .
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Primary them all.
Reposted by Colin J. Beck
I keep thinking things can’t get worse and then Theory & Society emails its table of contents.
November 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I keep thinking things can’t get worse and then Theory & Society emails its table of contents.
George W. Bush: Fool me once shame on you. Fool me, you can’t get fooled again.
Senate Democrats: Hold my beer.
Senate Democrats: Hold my beer.
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
George W. Bush: Fool me once shame on you. Fool me, you can’t get fooled again.
Senate Democrats: Hold my beer.
Senate Democrats: Hold my beer.
@padilla.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov please walk over to your colleagues‘ offices and tell them surrendering now is the dumbest thing they could do and you’ll endorse their primary challengers.
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
@padilla.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov please walk over to your colleagues‘ offices and tell them surrendering now is the dumbest thing they could do and you’ll endorse their primary challengers.
Some days I wish it to be just me and Chuck Schumer and a high stakes game of poker.
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Some days I wish it to be just me and Chuck Schumer and a high stakes game of poker.
A CS colleague and students just announced that they made an AI tool for undergraduate advising and I can‘t even. Dude, bruh.
November 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
A CS colleague and students just announced that they made an AI tool for undergraduate advising and I can‘t even. Dude, bruh.
Does anyone know what happened to regular sessions for the 2026 ASA annual meeting? @asanews.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Does anyone know what happened to regular sessions for the 2026 ASA annual meeting? @asanews.bsky.social
I open every class with a joke. Yesterday:
Two democratic socialists go out on the town to celebrate Mamdani’s victory.
They walk into a bar.
The first one says “ouch!”
The second one says “that’s going to leave some Marx.”
Two democratic socialists go out on the town to celebrate Mamdani’s victory.
They walk into a bar.
The first one says “ouch!”
The second one says “that’s going to leave some Marx.”
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I open every class with a joke. Yesterday:
Two democratic socialists go out on the town to celebrate Mamdani’s victory.
They walk into a bar.
The first one says “ouch!”
The second one says “that’s going to leave some Marx.”
Two democratic socialists go out on the town to celebrate Mamdani’s victory.
They walk into a bar.
The first one says “ouch!”
The second one says “that’s going to leave some Marx.”
Hear me out: maybe free social services, taxing the rich, and supporting the oppressed is actually popular?
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Hear me out: maybe free social services, taxing the rich, and supporting the oppressed is actually popular?
Ross Douthat is doing commentary in the right way.
Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Ross Douthat is doing commentary in the right way.
Ezra Klein is doing punditry the right way.
if mamdani wins huge it's an outlier because it's new york, if he loses he needed to do more to protect women's sports. if dems win big in NJ and VA it's because they disavowed crazy positions taken in 2020. if dems lose in NJ/VA it's because they needed to do more to protect women's sports
Whatever happens in the elections tonight, it will prove that reactionary centrists were right.
November 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Ezra Klein is doing punditry the right way.
Lost bigly.
The GOP vile anti-trans campaign failed miserably. Earle-Sears made it her dominant issue - and lost hugely
Should be duly noted by the punditry (but don't count on that)
Should be duly noted by the punditry (but don't count on that)
Abigail Spanberger (D) wins the Virginia governor's race, NBC News projects, defeating Winsome Earle-Sears (R).
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Lost bigly.
I keep thinking things can’t get worse and then Theory & Society emails its table of contents.
November 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I keep thinking things can’t get worse and then Theory & Society emails its table of contents.
Halloween at our house.
November 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Halloween at our house.
My hot take is that Roman Coppola is Wes Anderson’s weakest collaborator.
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
My hot take is that Roman Coppola is Wes Anderson’s weakest collaborator.