Werner Herzog's Bear
@jasontebbe.bsky.social
Teacher, historian, and blogger. Born and raised in Nebraska, working and living in Jersey.
Substack: I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I Try to Be Amused https://jasontebbe.substack.com/
Substack: I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I Try to Be Amused https://jasontebbe.substack.com/
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Jeff Bezos' wedding last summer cost somewhere around $50M. That, alone, could have saved all 300 positions cut today at The Washington Post for a year.
Of course, he wouldn't have to choose. He could do both because he's worth $250B, which is nearly the GDP of New Zealand.
Of course, he wouldn't have to choose. He could do both because he's worth $250B, which is nearly the GDP of New Zealand.
February 4, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Jeff Bezos' wedding last summer cost somewhere around $50M. That, alone, could have saved all 300 positions cut today at The Washington Post for a year.
Of course, he wouldn't have to choose. He could do both because he's worth $250B, which is nearly the GDP of New Zealand.
Of course, he wouldn't have to choose. He could do both because he's worth $250B, which is nearly the GDP of New Zealand.
My latest, expanding my thoughts on Stefan Zweig and discussing the need for visions of the future.
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The World of Yesterday...And Tomorrow
Austrian writer Stefan Zweig wrote his memoir while living in exile in Brazil during World War II, shortly before taking his own life.
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February 4, 2026 at 10:13 PM
My latest, expanding my thoughts on Stefan Zweig and discussing the need for visions of the future.
open.substack.com/pub/jasonteb...
open.substack.com/pub/jasonteb...
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Iowa voters, come get your gerrymandered fucked up state before your electeds kill us all.
Iowa legislators have just passed a bill out of committee that would end childhood vaccine requirements for school entry.
A state legislator said vaccine exemptions aren’t enough—the whole system must go—because to have to claim a medical or religious exemption is against parental rights.
A state legislator said vaccine exemptions aren’t enough—the whole system must go—because to have to claim a medical or religious exemption is against parental rights.
February 4, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Iowa voters, come get your gerrymandered fucked up state before your electeds kill us all.
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The people with the most power in our society appear to be nothing more than a pack of rabid chimpanzees singularly focused on destroying the works of people immeasurably better than they are.
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 9:19 PM
The people with the most power in our society appear to be nothing more than a pack of rabid chimpanzees singularly focused on destroying the works of people immeasurably better than they are.
Reactionaries thought 2024 would be like 1980, not just an election win, but a new economic/social/cultural arrangement. They are way over their skis because the public really dislikes a program they arrogantly assumed had consensus.
February 4, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Reactionaries thought 2024 would be like 1980, not just an election win, but a new economic/social/cultural arrangement. They are way over their skis because the public really dislikes a program they arrogantly assumed had consensus.
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every malcolm gladwell book starts from the premise that any idiot can become an expert on any topic and then spends the entire book underlining how wrong that premise is
Holy shit this is bad and Gladwell just sounds like an an arrogant know it all asshole who clearly has no idea what he is talking about
Someone got this for my birthday lol
February 4, 2026 at 8:18 PM
every malcolm gladwell book starts from the premise that any idiot can become an expert on any topic and then spends the entire book underlining how wrong that premise is
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The dynamics of NIMBYism might do some good work for once.
Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed.
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country
The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:01 PM
The dynamics of NIMBYism might do some good work for once.
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It’s important to keep in mind the existence of a lot of antipathy toward D.C. specifically, and its limited capacity to protect itself because of its relationship to the federal government.
With the closing of the Kennedy Center and the cuts at the Post, the Washington, DC metro area has lost its biggest arts institution and of its largest local journalism outlet.
February 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
It’s important to keep in mind the existence of a lot of antipathy toward D.C. specifically, and its limited capacity to protect itself because of its relationship to the federal government.
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one area where popularism is most preposterous is where voters are quite obviously confused
Pew finds 60% oppose pausing visas and 66% oppose nixing asylum! People overinterpreted 2024 as a seismic shift to Trump on immigration. But the data is showing very broad opposition to the restrictionist, ethnonationalist, anti-humanitarian aspects of Trumpism. 5/5
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
February 4, 2026 at 3:55 PM
one area where popularism is most preposterous is where voters are quite obviously confused
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Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
February 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
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Bezos has the resources to make WaPo into the BEST sports outlet and BEST science outlet and BEST place to get trusted news without feeling any sort of negative financial impact but is happy to turn it into Quillette because he’s lost whatever creative spark he had and turned into a vapid dullard
Video call: WaPo Executive Editor Matt Murray says the paper plans to lay off hundreds of staff, cutting into its local, international, and sports coverage (New York Times)
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February 4, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Bezos has the resources to make WaPo into the BEST sports outlet and BEST science outlet and BEST place to get trusted news without feeling any sort of negative financial impact but is happy to turn it into Quillette because he’s lost whatever creative spark he had and turned into a vapid dullard
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The shocking thing about Epstein isn't just the fact somebody doing that sort of thing existed and was a... uh, provider to high-end rich people. It's the sheer scale of it and how much of the core big name most powerful elites were in on it w/ this one guy. Including not one but two presidents!
February 4, 2026 at 11:39 AM
The shocking thing about Epstein isn't just the fact somebody doing that sort of thing existed and was a... uh, provider to high-end rich people. It's the sheer scale of it and how much of the core big name most powerful elites were in on it w/ this one guy. Including not one but two presidents!
Garth Brooks, “Friends in Low Places”
Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.
February 4, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Garth Brooks, “Friends in Low Places”
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
What’s everyone’s favorite dad movie
Trying to do a daily dumb little prompt to not think about The Horrors
February 4, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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Inventing a colonial Williamsburg style theme park where every day is November-December 1999 and you get to relive the glory days with all the other people who read That One Zine back in the day
Building a theme park called "Catharsis" where you can light shit on fire and break windows and shit to your heart's content.
February 4, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Inventing a colonial Williamsburg style theme park where every day is November-December 1999 and you get to relive the glory days with all the other people who read That One Zine back in the day
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“play la marseillaise”
February 3, 2026 at 11:56 PM
“play la marseillaise”
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It's wild to me that, even before all this, we had on record Bannon saying something along the lines of "we're going to use gamergate to turn kids into Nazis" and barely anyone flinched
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
It's wild to me that, even before all this, we had on record Bannon saying something along the lines of "we're going to use gamergate to turn kids into Nazis" and barely anyone flinched
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Is it just me or does it feel like the 'ushers' are on a hair trigger of late, lunging in front of the cameras to rescue Trump whenever he starts doing a dementia.
Trump can be heard still complaining about Kaitlan Collins not smiling as reporters are ushers out of the Oval Office
February 3, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Is it just me or does it feel like the 'ushers' are on a hair trigger of late, lunging in front of the cameras to rescue Trump whenever he starts doing a dementia.
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More than anything because they didn't fucking work
Everyone doing Opsec Discourse should read this book and realize that the radical underground movements of the 1960s and 70s should not serve as role models for 2020s activism, no matter how cool and badass they appear in hindsight.
Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough: 9780143107972 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
"A fascinating look at an almost forgotten era of homegrown terrorism . . . Utterly captivating, coupling careful historical research with breathless accounts of the bombings and the perpetrators’...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
More than anything because they didn't fucking work
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You can really see why they fought so hard against Me Too, they're all implicated either in deed or silence and it's hugely fucking embarrassing for the Masters of the Universe
February 3, 2026 at 7:30 PM
You can really see why they fought so hard against Me Too, they're all implicated either in deed or silence and it's hugely fucking embarrassing for the Masters of the Universe
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Paranoid conspiracy theories are a way for stupid people to feel smart and important.
February 3, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Paranoid conspiracy theories are a way for stupid people to feel smart and important.
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If you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...
Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."
February 3, 2026 at 11:12 AM
If you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...
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You should be ashamed of yourself if you’re still defending Noam Chomsky in 2026. Discard him in the regrettable dustbin of history where he belongs.
lol lol lol
Epstein invited Thiel to have dinner with Chomsky.
You got to hand it to old Noam, buddying up with two billionaires while playing a tankie revolutionary in public.
Epstein invited Thiel to have dinner with Chomsky.
You got to hand it to old Noam, buddying up with two billionaires while playing a tankie revolutionary in public.
February 3, 2026 at 1:11 AM
You should be ashamed of yourself if you’re still defending Noam Chomsky in 2026. Discard him in the regrettable dustbin of history where he belongs.
Fleeing Germany in the “hungry (18) forties,” dodging the Kaiser’s draft post unification, getting some land that couldn’t be had in Germany or Sweden.
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Fleeing Germany in the “hungry (18) forties,” dodging the Kaiser’s draft post unification, getting some land that couldn’t be had in Germany or Sweden.