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@jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social
Historian, author of Inventing Philosophy's Other: Phenomenology in America, science fiction reader, birder.
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One the one hand, yes - sure. On the other hand arguments (in particular public debates) do fall under the category of "things happening."
Man I am getting a completely different takeaway from this chart than everyone else. This is a sign that electoral politics isn’t really about policy or messaging, it’s about large groups of people reacting to events. People don’t hear arguments, they see things happening and change their stances.
Commiserations to Matty Yglesias, the merry band of well funded centrists, and all the major politics desks behind them
January 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM
One the one hand, yes - sure. On the other hand arguments (in particular public debates) do fall under the category of "things happening."
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I dont see how any of my fellow Jewish Americans can be more fearful of college students protesting about Palestine than they are of a militarized ICE stacked with avowed Hitler supporters
BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court
James Rodden, who the Observer identified last year as the operator of the account that routinely posted hateful statements, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
www.texasobserver.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:01 AM
I dont see how any of my fellow Jewish Americans can be more fearful of college students protesting about Palestine than they are of a militarized ICE stacked with avowed Hitler supporters
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America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
Philosophy is like a box of slop chocolates
November 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Philosophy is like a box of slop chocolates
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I'm ready for apologies from pundits and politicians who showed their bigoted asses and suggested we needed to abandon trans people in order to win.
looks like "fairness in girls' sports" wasn't the unbeatable wedge issue you thought it was, was it? kinda makes you look like a dumbass, huh?
looks like "fairness in girls' sports" wasn't the unbeatable wedge issue you thought it was, was it? kinda makes you look like a dumbass, huh?
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm ready for apologies from pundits and politicians who showed their bigoted asses and suggested we needed to abandon trans people in order to win.
looks like "fairness in girls' sports" wasn't the unbeatable wedge issue you thought it was, was it? kinda makes you look like a dumbass, huh?
looks like "fairness in girls' sports" wasn't the unbeatable wedge issue you thought it was, was it? kinda makes you look like a dumbass, huh?
Always a good day when I can post the Hopkins monkey story
(Washington Post, 10/6/1913)
(Washington Post, 10/6/1913)
October 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Always a good day when I can post the Hopkins monkey story
(Washington Post, 10/6/1913)
(Washington Post, 10/6/1913)
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Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped
This is awesome. I need an excuse to go to LA between now and May
Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
October 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This is awesome. I need an excuse to go to LA between now and May
Hey - the world is dark, but here's a white-headed woodpecker!
October 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Hey - the world is dark, but here's a white-headed woodpecker!
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I regret to inform you that Gwar has pushed the boundaries of good taste.
September 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I regret to inform you that Gwar has pushed the boundaries of good taste.
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“woke right” comes from this incredibly stupid meta idea that “wokeness” is a discrete tendency in american politics whose style has been imbibed by the political right. note: believing this requires you to be almost totally ignorant of the shape of american politics going back to the 1930s.
Honesty, I have no idea what "woke" means in the first place, other than that it's something Trump hates. And "woke right" makes even less sense to me. What's with this nomenclature?
The Woke Right Comes Of Age
And you thought they were in favor of free speech!
open.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“woke right” comes from this incredibly stupid meta idea that “wokeness” is a discrete tendency in american politics whose style has been imbibed by the political right. note: believing this requires you to be almost totally ignorant of the shape of american politics going back to the 1930s.
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It may be the first climate-driven bird hybrid found in nature.
Unusual hybrid bird found in Texas for the first time
It may be the first climate-driven bird hybrid found in nature.
bit.ly
September 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It may be the first climate-driven bird hybrid found in nature.
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I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
August 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
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Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.
August 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.
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March 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
forward.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
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We learned a lot about the Holocaust in Hebrew school and the mantra of "never again." I think most people understood "never again" to mean never again, but Netanyahu and his patrons (there and here) distorted that into "never again, unless we're the ones doing the butchering." Which is nauseating.
Harrowing lead story and image on the Washington Post homepage right now. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
July 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We learned a lot about the Holocaust in Hebrew school and the mantra of "never again." I think most people understood "never again" to mean never again, but Netanyahu and his patrons (there and here) distorted that into "never again, unless we're the ones doing the butchering." Which is nauseating.
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I wrote about how the 2020 protests hurt Trump politically. I also wrote about how counternarratives about left-wing violence are just spin — and wildly at odds with the reality of extremist violence. Gift link: wapo.st/3SOEv6e
June 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I wrote about how the 2020 protests hurt Trump politically. I also wrote about how counternarratives about left-wing violence are just spin — and wildly at odds with the reality of extremist violence. Gift link: wapo.st/3SOEv6e