Emile Novis
@podsekalnikov.bsky.social
A-anti-anticapitalista.
Selena is a cultural experience that I am very unfamiliar with because of where I grew up, but it is essential that one respects that Selena is a cultural experience while also appreciating the sheer musicality of her songs.
December 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Selena is a cultural experience that I am very unfamiliar with because of where I grew up, but it is essential that one respects that Selena is a cultural experience while also appreciating the sheer musicality of her songs.
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Things like this are intentional. Learn about ACTA and find out what it's doing on your campus - here's a great guide (if TLDR; scroll all the way to the end for instructions - but highly suggest you read this!)
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Things like this are intentional. Learn about ACTA and find out what it's doing on your campus - here's a great guide (if TLDR; scroll all the way to the end for instructions - but highly suggest you read this!)
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
All three of the higher education institutions where I earned degrees are either under direct political threat by a government or indirect political threat through finance and the board of trustees.
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
All three of the higher education institutions where I earned degrees are either under direct political threat by a government or indirect political threat through finance and the board of trustees.
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See for example how #17 in this extortion agreement claims to take measures to “protect Jews” when #29, in close proximity, rolls out a host of measures that discriminate against trans individuals. This is such incredible pile of 💩, shame upon Northwestern for caving to this nonsense.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
See for example how #17 in this extortion agreement claims to take measures to “protect Jews” when #29, in close proximity, rolls out a host of measures that discriminate against trans individuals. This is such incredible pile of 💩, shame upon Northwestern for caving to this nonsense.
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This was such a fun experience with @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social . Listen to me and @podsekalnikov.bsky.social discuss Simone Weil, abolishing political parties, and the possibility of hope in dark times.
The @CBCradio.bluesky.social Show and Podcast "Ideas" aired an episode on October 20 on Simone Weil featuring Scott Ritner and Kate Lawson of @WeilSociety.bluesky.social
Listen here:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Listen here:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This was such a fun experience with @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social . Listen to me and @podsekalnikov.bsky.social discuss Simone Weil, abolishing political parties, and the possibility of hope in dark times.
Alice's Restaurant - Original 1967 Recording
YouTube video by Stiletto
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November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In this article Douthat defends Christian Zionism and claims that William F. Buckley held antisemitism in the conservative movement in check. Which leads to the question of his (Douthat's) historical knowledge and reading comprehension.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
Opinion | What Conservatives Should Do About Nick Fuentes
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM
In this article Douthat defends Christian Zionism and claims that William F. Buckley held antisemitism in the conservative movement in check. Which leads to the question of his (Douthat's) historical knowledge and reading comprehension.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
Naomi Hample, featured alongside her sisters here, is my mom's aunt.
One Bookstore, 3 Sisters and 100 Years
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Naomi Hample, featured alongside her sisters here, is my mom's aunt.
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
Guy in Nazi institution has Nazi tattoo is obvious, but the Jewish Insider is a Zionist rag so their own position on genocide is similarly Nazi-influenced.
Jewish Insider just sent out an email with an article with more Platner info. And yeah, this guy is DONE done.
October 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Guy in Nazi institution has Nazi tattoo is obvious, but the Jewish Insider is a Zionist rag so their own position on genocide is similarly Nazi-influenced.
Stop looking at politicians like they are Messiahs and you won't have to flail at every moment of "ex-military politician has Nazi tattoos" (because of course he does, he was a white guy in the US Military the Nazis of the post-1945 world).
October 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Stop looking at politicians like they are Messiahs and you won't have to flail at every moment of "ex-military politician has Nazi tattoos" (because of course he does, he was a white guy in the US Military the Nazis of the post-1945 world).
The @CBCradio.bluesky.social Show and Podcast "Ideas" aired an episode on October 20 on Simone Weil featuring Scott Ritner and Kate Lawson of @WeilSociety.bluesky.social
Listen here:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Listen here:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
www.cbc.ca
October 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The @CBCradio.bluesky.social Show and Podcast "Ideas" aired an episode on October 20 on Simone Weil featuring Scott Ritner and Kate Lawson of @WeilSociety.bluesky.social
Listen here:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Listen here:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Tonight syndicated across Canada at 8pm!
The cbcradiocanada.bsky.social Show and Podcast Ideas will air an episode on October 20 on Simone Weil featuring the AWS's own Scott Ritner and Kate Lawson as well as Michael Ignatieff! More information including direct links to come!
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October 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Tonight syndicated across Canada at 8pm!
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Democrats are fawning over this guy who also thinks more cops are the solution.
California is getting safer.
Homicides down 20%
Robberies down 19%
All within this year.
And we're deploying CHP officers to more regions across the state to keep this momentum going.
Homicides down 20%
Robberies down 19%
All within this year.
And we're deploying CHP officers to more regions across the state to keep this momentum going.
August 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Democrats are fawning over this guy who also thinks more cops are the solution.
These are not mental health issues. They are political and social issues and this kind of thinking is the opposite side of the bad apple theory of police violence or the bone theory of racism.
This argument already bugs me. Racism, misogyny, homophobia, hate - which are behind a lot of mass shootings - are not recognized as mental illnesses. Maybe, maybe, a willing person, with a great therapist, can grow from those issues in therapy, but these shooters are not going to do that.
August 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
These are not mental health issues. They are political and social issues and this kind of thinking is the opposite side of the bad apple theory of police violence or the bone theory of racism.
American liberals don't understand fascism because they can't imagine anything worse than communism. So they acede to every part of fascism except the corporatism.
What’s Next, Comrade Trump? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
What’s Next, Comrade Trump? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Opinion | What’s Next, Comrade Trump?
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
American liberals don't understand fascism because they can't imagine anything worse than communism. So they acede to every part of fascism except the corporatism.
What’s Next, Comrade Trump? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
What’s Next, Comrade Trump? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Always cutting at the expense of people who need it, never at the expense of new cars or guns for the state police though.
Colorado governor will cut spending on Medicaid, higher education and grants to plug $750M hole in state budget
Colorado governor will cut spending on Medicaid, higher education and grants to plug $750M hole in state budget
During the special session, the legislature passed a bill ceding the responsibility of cutting the budget to the governor’s office
coloradosun.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Always cutting at the expense of people who need it, never at the expense of new cars or guns for the state police though.
Does anyone have a pdf of Joshua Clover's introduction to the new edition of Mark Bray's Antifa?
Thank you in advance.
Thank you in advance.
August 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Does anyone have a pdf of Joshua Clover's introduction to the new edition of Mark Bray's Antifa?
Thank you in advance.
Thank you in advance.
This about face in the aftermath of November 2024 is one of the least expected I've ever seen. (His politics are still terrible, but at least he's thinking for himself now.)
If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research
August 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This about face in the aftermath of November 2024 is one of the least expected I've ever seen. (His politics are still terrible, but at least he's thinking for himself now.)
Read a history book!!!! For fuck's sake! Learn what communism is/was! Shut the duck up about Putin and the USSR!
I’m sure Trump doesn’t want to be called Comrade Trump, even though he’s assisting Putin’s desire to rebuild the USSR and he’s demanding governing ownership of the means of production. Is Comrade Trump now one of the communist lunatics he decries?
August 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Read a history book!!!! For fuck's sake! Learn what communism is/was! Shut the duck up about Putin and the USSR!
Jeffries, fascism light.
Jeffries on Trump planning a military crackdown in Chicago: "We should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he's deeply unpopular"
August 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Jeffries, fascism light.
Simone Weil Died 83 years ago today.
August 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Simone Weil Died 83 years ago today.
What, pray tell, is an "academic hothouse"? And how do I get a job there?
It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
August 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
What, pray tell, is an "academic hothouse"? And how do I get a job there?
The irony is that many people think academic writing is too "obscure." The reality is that journal norms have instead made the writing too formulaic and so the age of the long-form essay that explores an idea is long over and we just have boring formulaic writing without narrative.
Maybe academic writing shouldn't be villainized or feared. Maybe education should be supported and promoted. Maybe- just maybe- people should be supported and helped to understand why certain language is more appropriate to be used and that it's okay to be learning and open to new ideas. Ffs.
August 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The irony is that many people think academic writing is too "obscure." The reality is that journal norms have instead made the writing too formulaic and so the age of the long-form essay that explores an idea is long over and we just have boring formulaic writing without narrative.