Dr. Stuart McCunn
@stubacca01.bsky.social
PhD Classics, book addict, inveterate film buff
Great stuff from some very insightful people.
genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Great stuff from some very insightful people.
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How to kill British growth... All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.
bbc.in/47roVFF
bbc.in/47roVFF
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
bbc.in
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Dick Cheney would be loving this
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Dick Cheney would be loving this
Spot the problems in this chart. I’ll wait. No, you missed one. Plus that one there. And maaaaybe something’s questionable about those numbers.
October 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Spot the problems in this chart. I’ll wait. No, you missed one. Plus that one there. And maaaaybe something’s questionable about those numbers.
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Hasan: The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.
October 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Hasan: The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.
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Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."
October 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."
“After scheduling a meeting with Democratic leaders in the hopes of preventing a shutdown, the president changed his mind for reasons that were bonkers.” Love to see papers saying it like it is.
Nice as it is to have Trump gift Dems a spine I worry it will prevent them from learning needed lessons.
Nice as it is to have Trump gift Dems a spine I worry it will prevent them from learning needed lessons.
The problem isn’t just that Trump canceled a shutdown meeting with Dems the day after agreeing to it.
He also presented the public with a delusional list of Democratic demands that was quite bonkers, even for him, making a shutdown far more likely. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
He also presented the public with a delusional list of Democratic demands that was quite bonkers, even for him, making a shutdown far more likely. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Ahead of shutdown deadline, Trump cancels Democratic meeting he’d already agreed to
After scheduling a meeting with Democratic leaders in the hopes of preventing a shutdown, the president changed his mind for reasons that were bonkers.
www.msnbc.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
“After scheduling a meeting with Democratic leaders in the hopes of preventing a shutdown, the president changed his mind for reasons that were bonkers.” Love to see papers saying it like it is.
Nice as it is to have Trump gift Dems a spine I worry it will prevent them from learning needed lessons.
Nice as it is to have Trump gift Dems a spine I worry it will prevent them from learning needed lessons.
This is how upside down the world is: Bedbug himself is more on point with regards to Charlie Kirk than Ezra Klein.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Owning inarticulate liberal kids in mass audience settings for the sake of producing viral videos isn’t real engagement, much less education,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes about Charlie Kirk. “Did Kirk ever lose an argument, at least in his own mind?”
“Owning inarticulate liberal kids in mass audience settings for the sake of producing viral videos isn’t real engagement, much less education,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes about Charlie Kirk. “Did Kirk ever lose an argument, at least in his own mind?”
Opinion | Our Vanishing Culture of Argument
What the University of Chicago might have taught Charlie Kirk — and the rest of us.
nyti.ms
September 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This is how upside down the world is: Bedbug himself is more on point with regards to Charlie Kirk than Ezra Klein.
Hey, wanna guess what vitally important event in the mid 1960s doesn’t get even a mention for explaining the loss of white Democratic voters (particularly Southern ones)? Funny that. It’s almost like Democratic losses are just an excuse for pundits to preserve their place in the status hierarchy.
Opinion | Democrats Cannot Just Buy Back the Working Class
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Hey, wanna guess what vitally important event in the mid 1960s doesn’t get even a mention for explaining the loss of white Democratic voters (particularly Southern ones)? Funny that. It’s almost like Democratic losses are just an excuse for pundits to preserve their place in the status hierarchy.
This says it all about the shallowness of the pundit class. So long as you are polite when talking they will take you at face value, even if everything else you do violates your supposed values. Kirk was no free speech warrior. He just played one when it benefitted him. He knew no one would check.
September 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This says it all about the shallowness of the pundit class. So long as you are polite when talking they will take you at face value, even if everything else you do violates your supposed values. Kirk was no free speech warrior. He just played one when it benefitted him. He knew no one would check.
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The discourse over Kirk’s career is really hammering home how little the media and so many Dems understand the concept of lying or bad faith arguments.
An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.
An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.
heres fucking democrats being stupid as shit after kirk was killed www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
September 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The discourse over Kirk’s career is really hammering home how little the media and so many Dems understand the concept of lying or bad faith arguments.
An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.
An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.
I put up examples of Trump and Musk reposting Neonazi accounts/memes and students reported me for bias. Judging people by who they associate with and what they actually do rather than what people would like to believe about them and how slick their TikTok videos are is so 20th century.
one of the strangest dynamics these days is the insistence that everyone pretend they were born yesterday when evaluating the seriousness or sincerity of a public figure. i think that by his own past actions and rhetoric i can safely assume that peter thiel is not on the level!
September 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I put up examples of Trump and Musk reposting Neonazi accounts/memes and students reported me for bias. Judging people by who they associate with and what they actually do rather than what people would like to believe about them and how slick their TikTok videos are is so 20th century.
I worry about this one because it seems a certainty when so many other abuses are unclear. But we have to remember how many voting districts there are and how few ICE agents comparatively. They will rely on uncertainty to terrorize voters. We need to make that terrorism enrage us instead.
he'll send ICE to intimidate us. if i see an ICE agent at my polling place i'm going to walk right past him.
August 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I worry about this one because it seems a certainty when so many other abuses are unclear. But we have to remember how many voting districts there are and how few ICE agents comparatively. They will rely on uncertainty to terrorize voters. We need to make that terrorism enrage us instead.
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Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back.
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
August 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back.
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
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oh, you know it.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
August 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
oh, you know it.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
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Really hard to tell what these targets of Trumps attacks and smears have in common
Trump says Fed Governor Lisa Cook 'must resign' www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Trump says Fed Governor Lisa Cook 'must resign' www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
August 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Really hard to tell what these targets of Trumps attacks and smears have in common
Trump says Fed Governor Lisa Cook 'must resign' www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Trump says Fed Governor Lisa Cook 'must resign' www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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wow that’s fucked up that they killed everyone who didn’t complete the scavenger hunt
August 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
wow that’s fucked up that they killed everyone who didn’t complete the scavenger hunt
1. This is unquestionably illegal and almost certain to fail in court (only “almost” bc our lawless SC runs on Fox vibes).
2. Dems need to figure out a plan if Congress refuses to certify election and tries to long parliament it (your obscure English Civil War ref).
It truly has come to that.
2. Dems need to figure out a plan if Congress refuses to certify election and tries to long parliament it (your obscure English Civil War ref).
It truly has come to that.
Awful: Trump just threatened to try to ban mail voting by executive order. What's telling is he openly linked this to the midterms, showing he will abuse presidential power in every way he can to rig them.
We talked to elections experts about what's coming. It's bad:
newrepublic.com/post/199202/...
We talked to elections experts about what's coming. It's bad:
newrepublic.com/post/199202/...
Angry Trump Accidentally Blurts Out Unnerving New Plot to Rig Midterms
Donald Trump just gave away his own game.
newrepublic.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
1. This is unquestionably illegal and almost certain to fail in court (only “almost” bc our lawless SC runs on Fox vibes).
2. Dems need to figure out a plan if Congress refuses to certify election and tries to long parliament it (your obscure English Civil War ref).
It truly has come to that.
2. Dems need to figure out a plan if Congress refuses to certify election and tries to long parliament it (your obscure English Civil War ref).
It truly has come to that.
Chicago’s Oriental Institute is (was) the single most important center for Near Eastern studies, with a proud history going back more than a century. When thinking about where a world-class archaeologist would be educated, Spielberg and Lucas decided Indiana Jones would be a UoC alumnus. All gone.
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Chicago’s Oriental Institute is (was) the single most important center for Near Eastern studies, with a proud history going back more than a century. When thinking about where a world-class archaeologist would be educated, Spielberg and Lucas decided Indiana Jones would be a UoC alumnus. All gone.
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Imagine writing this in a world where the miracle of MRNA vaccines is deemed untrustworthy.
In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities
Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?
thedispatch.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Imagine writing this in a world where the miracle of MRNA vaccines is deemed untrustworthy.
Genuine question: can you take away a presidential award once given because it was clearly done maliciously for the purpose of spitting in the faces of human rights activists and your political opponents?
i think they're handing this medal out to dipshits *because* it's gone to people like rosa parks and MLK
The ex-DOGE staffer “Big Balls” may receive the highest civilian honor in the U.S., placing him in the company of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa.
August 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Genuine question: can you take away a presidential award once given because it was clearly done maliciously for the purpose of spitting in the faces of human rights activists and your political opponents?
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This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.
It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.
They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.
It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.
They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.
Yo, historians, what the actual ****?
I've seen how LLMs handle "history." This is... not good.
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I've seen how LLMs handle "history." This is... not good.
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July 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.
It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.
They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.
It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.
They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.
Aaaaaaand another one…
“Authors have until the end of August to opt out of the licensing agreement. If they do not, their work will be used to help train AI models.”
Johns Hopkins Press will license its books to train AI models
Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Aaaaaaand another one…
This is 100% right. I’m more center-left in policy goals, but the Dems I hate with a burning passion are all “centrists” for whom the purpose of Democratic Party is to protect their high status and would rather hand every election to the Rs (their peers) than work with those challenging that status.
While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle.
https://trib.al/W6lqYEu
https://trib.al/W6lqYEu
July 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This is 100% right. I’m more center-left in policy goals, but the Dems I hate with a burning passion are all “centrists” for whom the purpose of Democratic Party is to protect their high status and would rather hand every election to the Rs (their peers) than work with those challenging that status.