Tristan Schweiger
@tjschweiger.bsky.social
C18th studies. Academic worker. Instructional professor of English/Humanities. SEIU Local 73 steward. He/him. Cohost, @betterreadpod.bsky.social
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Reposted by Tristan Schweiger
this is legitimately an insane thing to think when looking at your child
January 20, 2026 at 12:32 AM
this is legitimately an insane thing to think when looking at your child
This has got to be the funniest, stupidest, and most deranged collapse of an empire in the history of the world by a wide, wide margin.
January 20, 2026 at 12:18 AM
This has got to be the funniest, stupidest, and most deranged collapse of an empire in the history of the world by a wide, wide margin.
Reposted by Tristan Schweiger
And they say the Democratic Party isn’t responsive to its base.
The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant - The American Prospect
Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.
prospect.org
January 19, 2026 at 3:01 PM
And they say the Democratic Party isn’t responsive to its base.
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There have been many false-start "This is it" moments but bear with me. There is literally no constituency for this Greenland shit (polls at 30% *among GOP*). There are mechanisms in place to stop this and people with power to use them. If those people and mechanisms fail now, they will never work.
January 19, 2026 at 2:45 PM
There have been many false-start "This is it" moments but bear with me. There is literally no constituency for this Greenland shit (polls at 30% *among GOP*). There are mechanisms in place to stop this and people with power to use them. If those people and mechanisms fail now, they will never work.
The most disastrous VP choice in US history is Lincoln swapping Andrew Johnson for Hannibal Hamlin. The second most is probably FDR swapping Truman for Henry Wallace.
The most instinctually revolting one is JD Vance. (I mean Cheney is way up there, too.)
The most instinctually revolting one is JD Vance. (I mean Cheney is way up there, too.)
January 16, 2026 at 6:34 PM
The most disastrous VP choice in US history is Lincoln swapping Andrew Johnson for Hannibal Hamlin. The second most is probably FDR swapping Truman for Henry Wallace.
The most instinctually revolting one is JD Vance. (I mean Cheney is way up there, too.)
The most instinctually revolting one is JD Vance. (I mean Cheney is way up there, too.)
Americans love telling ourselves this mythology that the United States was founded in revolution to oppose tyranny and yet turn into the most pathetic, bootlicking swine any time there’s a protest movement.
January 16, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Americans love telling ourselves this mythology that the United States was founded in revolution to oppose tyranny and yet turn into the most pathetic, bootlicking swine any time there’s a protest movement.
Dune is mainly the juvenile ravings of a libertarian crank, but the Butlerian Jihad against the thinking machines probably does need to happen.
January 4, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Dune is mainly the juvenile ravings of a libertarian crank, but the Butlerian Jihad against the thinking machines probably does need to happen.
The worst people in the world are so mad about Mamdani’s inaugural speech, and that’s beautiful.
January 2, 2026 at 1:20 AM
The worst people in the world are so mad about Mamdani’s inaugural speech, and that’s beautiful.
Senate Democrats are led by a man who, by his own account, bases major political decisions on what an imaginary elderly Long Island Republican couple who live entirely in his mind tell him.
Just a shockingly pathetic political “opposition.”
Just a shockingly pathetic political “opposition.”
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Senate Democrats are led by a man who, by his own account, bases major political decisions on what an imaginary elderly Long Island Republican couple who live entirely in his mind tell him.
Just a shockingly pathetic political “opposition.”
Just a shockingly pathetic political “opposition.”
Listening to university administrators talk about the "crisis" in higher education, you really do see the hard boundaries of the bourgeois liberal imaginary. Material conditions are mysterious forces of nature to be pathetically reacted to, not things that can be changed via political pressure.
October 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Listening to university administrators talk about the "crisis" in higher education, you really do see the hard boundaries of the bourgeois liberal imaginary. Material conditions are mysterious forces of nature to be pathetically reacted to, not things that can be changed via political pressure.
It was a catastrophic mistake letting the fucking MBAs run a public good like higher ed.
October 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
It was a catastrophic mistake letting the fucking MBAs run a public good like higher ed.
Whenever I start a class with Gulliver rather than Robinson Crusoe, I feel like students won't understand my benevolence in not inflicting Crusoe on them unless they've already read Crusoe.
October 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Whenever I start a class with Gulliver rather than Robinson Crusoe, I feel like students won't understand my benevolence in not inflicting Crusoe on them unless they've already read Crusoe.
The obstacle the Democratic Party faces is not "wokeism" or the "groups" or this right-wing fantasy that suddenly a supermajority of the country are fascists. It's that party leadership is far more committed to the interests of capital than workers.
That's it. That's all.
That's it. That's all.
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The obstacle the Democratic Party faces is not "wokeism" or the "groups" or this right-wing fantasy that suddenly a supermajority of the country are fascists. It's that party leadership is far more committed to the interests of capital than workers.
That's it. That's all.
That's it. That's all.
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what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
September 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
I'm sorry, yes, all sports team owners suck ass. But if you root for a team owned by *Jerry Jones*, I cannot take you seriously as a person.
September 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I'm sorry, yes, all sports team owners suck ass. But if you root for a team owned by *Jerry Jones*, I cannot take you seriously as a person.
They have taken untold millions
That they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle
Not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power --
Gain our freedom when we learn --
That the union makes us strong!
Happy (US) Labor Day, comrades.
That they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle
Not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power --
Gain our freedom when we learn --
That the union makes us strong!
Happy (US) Labor Day, comrades.
September 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
They have taken untold millions
That they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle
Not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power --
Gain our freedom when we learn --
That the union makes us strong!
Happy (US) Labor Day, comrades.
That they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle
Not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power --
Gain our freedom when we learn --
That the union makes us strong!
Happy (US) Labor Day, comrades.
Based as hell.
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 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Based as hell.
RFK Jr is such a great argument for setting the inheritance tax at 100 percent.
August 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
RFK Jr is such a great argument for setting the inheritance tax at 100 percent.
It should of course go without saying, but absolutely no one should be scabbing for Columbia.
August 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It should of course go without saying, but absolutely no one should be scabbing for Columbia.
You could read all these university presidents lining up to do Trump’s bidding just as all the severe weaknesses of his power base are exposed as stupidity and cowardice.
Or you could correctly read it as they’re all fully on board with the reactionary project.
Or you could correctly read it as they’re all fully on board with the reactionary project.
July 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
You could read all these university presidents lining up to do Trump’s bidding just as all the severe weaknesses of his power base are exposed as stupidity and cowardice.
Or you could correctly read it as they’re all fully on board with the reactionary project.
Or you could correctly read it as they’re all fully on board with the reactionary project.
In retrospect, it was a huge mistake to turn over the public good of higher education to MBA dipshits. Who could have ever foreseen???
July 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
In retrospect, it was a huge mistake to turn over the public good of higher education to MBA dipshits. Who could have ever foreseen???
University administrators would love nothing more than to have no students and no faculty and simply run the real estate investment firms of their dreams.
UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures”
“The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.
chicagomaroon.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
University administrators would love nothing more than to have no students and no faculty and simply run the real estate investment firms of their dreams.
Twenty years later, David Harvey’s A Brief History of Neoliberalism continues to explain [gestures wildly] all of this shit better than 99 percent of texts out there.
July 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Twenty years later, David Harvey’s A Brief History of Neoliberalism continues to explain [gestures wildly] all of this shit better than 99 percent of texts out there.
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It’s very annoying Larry Summers is considered a genius when it takes him years to figure out stuff that is instantly obvious to the median lefty shitposter
July 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
It’s very annoying Larry Summers is considered a genius when it takes him years to figure out stuff that is instantly obvious to the median lefty shitposter
There is a direct line from Gaza to the brutal suppression of student dissent to the dismantling of US higher ed — which boards of trustees/regents and university presidents are enthusiastic participants in.
If you don’t see this is all part of a huge ruling-class power grab, you don’t get it.
If you don’t see this is all part of a huge ruling-class power grab, you don’t get it.
July 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
There is a direct line from Gaza to the brutal suppression of student dissent to the dismantling of US higher ed — which boards of trustees/regents and university presidents are enthusiastic participants in.
If you don’t see this is all part of a huge ruling-class power grab, you don’t get it.
If you don’t see this is all part of a huge ruling-class power grab, you don’t get it.