Phillip Maciak
@pjmaciak.bsky.social
TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
https://linktr.ee/phillip.maciak
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
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Phillip Maciak
@pjmaciak.bsky.social
· Apr 16
I'm writing a cultural history of the DAD! With Plume! Get ready for Father's Day 2027, friends! This is what's happening now! @duttonbooks.bsky.social
tHe LefT sHouLd eMBRrace pRo-NatAliSm
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
tHe LefT sHouLd eMBRrace pRo-NatAliSm
Re-upping this to say that there are still spots available at New York Magazine as well.
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Re-upping this to say that there are still spots available at New York Magazine as well.
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Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
The Most Underrated Thanksgiving Vegetable
Embrace cabbage.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
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I've never been a huge fan of Mark Kelly as a candidate, but they sure are handing him an opportunity to dunk all these guys through the hoop in 2028.
Sen. Mark Kelly on MS NOW: "I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I've been nearly shot down multiple times … My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head, six people killed around her … We know what political violence is. And we know what causes it, too."
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I've never been a huge fan of Mark Kelly as a candidate, but they sure are handing him an opportunity to dunk all these guys through the hoop in 2028.
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The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
Writing myself into a corner where I might have to pay a licensing fee to reproduce the lyrics to "Wild Wild West" by Will Smith in my book?
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Writing myself into a corner where I might have to pay a licensing fee to reproduce the lyrics to "Wild Wild West" by Will Smith in my book?
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
I asked J.B. Pritzker to rank the best SIMPSONS episodes. His list is disqualifying.
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I asked J.B. Pritzker to rank the best SIMPSONS episodes. His list is disqualifying.
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Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
www.vulture.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...
Y'know, I wrote a kind of "calm down, everybody" review of this show last season, but, watching this teaser, I realize I really missed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWpb...
HBO Original Industry | Season 4 | Teaser | JioHotstar
YouTube video by JioHotstar
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Y'know, I wrote a kind of "calm down, everybody" review of this show last season, but, watching this teaser, I realize I really missed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWpb...
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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
Today I learned that Andy Borowitz named Carlton on The Fresh Prince after Carlton Cuse.
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Today I learned that Andy Borowitz named Carlton on The Fresh Prince after Carlton Cuse.
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A useful essay. It strikes me again while reading this that it's through critical analysis of the care economy that the stakes of a Marxist labor theory of value versus a Marxian critique of the labor theory of value should come most starkly into view.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Care Factory - Boston Review
In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.
www.bostonreview.net
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A useful essay. It strikes me again while reading this that it's through critical analysis of the care economy that the stakes of a Marxist labor theory of value versus a Marxian critique of the labor theory of value should come most starkly into view.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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You know for a FACT this guy has been to a few raves in the 80s. In Chicago. On the SOUTH side. Where house EDM was born 😎🎶
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
You know for a FACT this guy has been to a few raves in the 80s. In Chicago. On the SOUTH side. Where house EDM was born 😎🎶
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What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
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Growing up my friend lived on the same street as Wozniak and on Halloween he gave out full bars and we stanned for him then and we stan for him now.
Silicon Valley picked the wrong Steve to lionize.
Silicon Valley picked the wrong Steve to lionize.
November 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Growing up my friend lived on the same street as Wozniak and on Halloween he gave out full bars and we stanned for him then and we stan for him now.
Silicon Valley picked the wrong Steve to lionize.
Silicon Valley picked the wrong Steve to lionize.
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Not going to read too much into it, obviously Trump is the worst man alive, and is going to revert to saying the most odious shit imaginable in like an hour, but it's funny that this is coming a couple hours after 90 democrat losers voted to say "socialism is bad" for no reason.
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Not going to read too much into it, obviously Trump is the worst man alive, and is going to revert to saying the most odious shit imaginable in like an hour, but it's funny that this is coming a couple hours after 90 democrat losers voted to say "socialism is bad" for no reason.
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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the way he literally likes Zohran more than his own sons
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
the way he literally likes Zohran more than his own sons
Tyrese Maxey fandom has officially become too mainstream, which is why my favorite basketball player is now two-way power forward Dominick Barlow.
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Tyrese Maxey fandom has officially become too mainstream, which is why my favorite basketball player is now two-way power forward Dominick Barlow.
Of course RFK lied, but the important thing, I think, is that there's also no way Bill Cassidy believed him. He voted for RFK because, despite being a doctor, he doesn't actually care that much about the health of his constituents.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Cassidy after CDC vaccine website change: 'Life is lived forward'
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed a claim on its website about vaccines not causing autism.
www.politico.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Of course RFK lied, but the important thing, I think, is that there's also no way Bill Cassidy believed him. He voted for RFK because, despite being a doctor, he doesn't actually care that much about the health of his constituents.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
lol at "Every single country in the world has different legislation around loot boxes and kid gambling."
me: oh god it can't get worse can it
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
lol at "Every single country in the world has different legislation around loot boxes and kid gambling."
My take here is that, during the lockdowns, a lot of dem voters/politicians adopted a characteristically right-wing style of panic about schools that made them feel momentarily populist/non-partisan, but it's incompatible longterm w/ left/liberal education goals. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/18/w...
Which party really has an edge on education?
Voters still tend to trust Democrats more than Republicans, according to most polls.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
My take here is that, during the lockdowns, a lot of dem voters/politicians adopted a characteristically right-wing style of panic about schools that made them feel momentarily populist/non-partisan, but it's incompatible longterm w/ left/liberal education goals. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/18/w...
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I'm going to ignore the context and just choose to celebrate the fact that our editor-in-chief saying "we are following in the footsteps of the Butthole Surfers" made it into this PW profile
University of Texas Press Celebrates 75 Years
The Austin-based academic publisher has evolved from a modest regional publisher into one of the most innovative academic presses in the United States, striking a balance between scholarly and trade s...
www.publishersweekly.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I'm going to ignore the context and just choose to celebrate the fact that our editor-in-chief saying "we are following in the footsteps of the Butthole Surfers" made it into this PW profile