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Adrian Daub
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"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com .. more

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Adrian Daub is a German literary scholar and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, who has served as the Director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and serves as the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute at Stanford. .. more

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Sep 24
It's here! It's here! It's here! THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC is now out with Stanford University Press! You can buy it wherever you buy books. Or I guess you can talk about it in front of Alexa and she'll order it alongside a bunch of Pamplemousse LaCroix. www.amazon.com/Cancel-Cultu...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h
this feels like a Roger Bannister four minute mile moment for "reactionary centrism". a level of reactionary centrism doctors (of political science) assured us was impossible but that training, dedication, ingenuity, and the Indomitable human spirit were determined to overcome
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9h
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Why MAGA Wants You to Think Slavery Wasn’t That Bad Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction. By Thomas Chatterton Williams Sanitizing slavery has become a core objective of the reactionary right under Donald Trump—a malignant response to the progressive left’s oversimplification of American history for their own present-day ends.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 16h
I'm typing this at his desk! 😱😱😱

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 17h
Yes!!!

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 17h
Gonna be writing about 1933 here for a few days

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 17h
„Dichten und Denken ist kein Selbstzweck. Dichten und Denken muss zu Wertschöpfung, Produktion und Innovation in Deutschland und in Europa führen."
Hightech-Agenda soll Auftrieb gebenDie Bundesregierung will perspektivisch 3,5 Prozent der Wirtschaftsleistung in Forschung und Entwicklung investieren. Diesem Ziel käme man schrittweise näher, sagte Merz und unterstrich: "Forschung ist kein Selbstzweck. Forschung muss zu Wertschöpfung, Produktion und Innovation in Deutschland und in Europa führen."

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 18h
An ICE raid and the alleged detainment of an elderly nanny in a quiet San Francisco neighborhood on Friday has ignited concern among immigration advocates and drawn a response from Mayor Daniel Lurie.

Read more → www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/i...

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 18h
Hey remember the shooting in Minneapolis that happened between Renee Good and Alexi Pretti, the guy they claimed was shot by an agent after he had attacked that agent with a shovel? I know it's hard to believe but the agents' story fell apart and charges were dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
Agents Suspended After Their Story of Shooting an Immigrant Falls Apart A judge dropped charges against the immigrant and another man after the top federal prosecutor in Minnesota said new evidence was not consistent with the agents’ testimony.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d
“He got Me Tooed” “He got Epsteined” amazing that people have re-invented the police passive for rapists.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
Also not to put too fine a point on it, but it's rich that The Atlantic would complain about the topic "Trans Liberation in an Age of Fascism" seeing as we owe the need for trans liberation *and* the age of fascism at least in part to the relentless mainstreaming by ... well, you know

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
Ohhhhh my god u went through a list of projects and picked a bunch that would juke an Atlantic reader out of their boots? should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party? should we invite jesse helms, piss christ and the nea?
Under Alexander’s leadership, even as it has cut back on funding for less political projects, Mellon has disbursed enormous sums of money to hyper-liberal academic initiatives at institutions both public and private. These have included grants to Portland State University to help its Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department become more “ungovernable,” creating “spaces where activism is encouraged” and “queer and feminist resistance” takes place; to Texas A&M at San Antonio for the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva (a group of academics and activists who “use Shakespeare to reimagine colonial histories and to envision socially just futures in La Frontera”); to Northwestern University for a project that explores how “Black dance practices” work to “instantiate Black freedom”; to Northeastern University for its Digital Transgender Archive to establish a new “lab” on the West Coast; and to UC Davis’s Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies to create a working group on “Trans Liberation in an Age of Fascism.”

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
I like the fact that this paragraph is introduced in a way that suggests that the author will disagree with it, when in fact he will agree with it but with reversed causation
"Over the past decade or so, conservative critics of higher education have tended to offer a rather simple explanation for the humanities’ decline. Their argument amounts to a version of “go woke, go broke.” According to this theory, ultraprogressive faculty coalesced around an unpopular liberal orthodoxy, turning off undergraduates (and the public) and accelerating the humanities’ collapse. In short, Shakespeare was replaced by jargon-laden prattle about “settler colonialism,” and students took their tuition dollars to more sane, less shrill corners of universities."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d
When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true.

(Published Oct. 2025)
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d
Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
themodsisyphus.bsky.social Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 1d
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d
Just a quick note that if you did the ol' seal clap when the police roughed up student protesters on campuses across the US, you don't get to now be horrified by the entirely predictable downstream outcome. archive.ph/MZJVG
Woman in ICE Custody for Nearly a Year Suffers Seizure After Falling Leqaa Kordia, 33, of New Jersey, was hospitalized after hitting her head at a Texas detention center, her lawyer said. She was initially arrested during a 2024 protest at Columbia University.

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 2d
Starting to think filling the government with egomaniacal buffoons might have some downsides apnews.com/article/faa-...
Pentagon let CBP use anti-drone laser before FAA closed El Paso airspace, AP sources say
The agency says it will ground all flights to and from the airport for "special security reasons."
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d
I mean they xeroxed it from Heritage Foundation emails, so they can't claim copyright but

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d
I wonder whether Julian Nida-Rümelin, René Pfister and Susan Neiman are pleased that for the Super Bowl, Turning Point USA was playing their song...
Lee Brice singing "... in this cancel-your-ass-world" at the TPUSA Halftime Extravaganza

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3d
I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change
Screenshot of the article which reads: Professor Thomas K. Hubbard requested the money for a conference held in April 2016 named “Theorizing Consent: Educational and Legal Perspectives on Campus Rape.” Hubbard said he received no money from the J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation. Attendance at the conference was required for students in Hubbard’s Mythology of Rape class, according to its syllabus.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d
Look at who is PHVing Abbe Lowell and team into MN to represent Don Lemon.
Document Number Date Filed Description Download PDF 106 Feb 10, 2026 MOTION for Admission Pro Hac Vice for Attorney Isabella M. Oishi. Filing fee $ 150, receipt number AMNDC-12663387 by Don Renaldo Lemon. (Thompson, Joseph) (Entered: 02/10/2026) From RECAP with PACER fallback 105 Feb 10, 2026 MOTION for Admission Pro Hac Vice for Attorney David A. Kolansky. Filing fee $ 150, receipt number AMNDC-12663357 by Don Renaldo Lemon. (Thompson, Joseph) (Entered: 02/10/2026) From RECAP with PACER fallback 104 Feb 10, 2026 MOTION for Admission Pro Hac Vice for Attorney Abbe David Lowell. Filing fee $ 150, receipt number AMNDC-12663338 by Don Renaldo Lemon. (Thompson, Joseph) (Entered: 02/10/2026) From RECAP with PACER fallback 103 Feb 10, 2026 NOTICE OF ATTORNEY APPEARANCE for Don Renaldo Lemon. (Thompson, Joseph) (Entered: 02/10/2026) From RECAP with PACER fallback A NYT story. Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, was among those who resigned as the Justice Department sought to examine the woman’s supposed ties to activist groups. A picture shows Joe Thompson.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 3d
I’m never going to talk about my lawsuit ever again, so if you want the gossip, here’s your chance: @adriandaub.bsky.social and I talked about the Epstein files as a document of Me Too backlash on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
In Bed with the Right: Moira’s in the Epstein Files

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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 4d
ICE agents knocked on Wilmer Andrade’s door claiming a warrant for his arrest. He has a work permit, a pending visa application and no final order of removal. In Operation Metro Surge, people like him are targets.
ICE increasingly targeting Minnesota immigrants with active work permits
ICE agents knocked on Wilmer Andrade’s door claiming a warrant for his arrest. He has a work permit, a pending visa application and no final order of removal. In Operation Metro Surge, people like him...
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 4d
seen in my neighborhood in south Minneapolis
Sign attached to a small tree: A PERSON WAS ABDUCTED HERE by I.C.E 12-30-25 DEFEND612.com

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 4d
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d
This is one of things. Bigtime.
Elon Musk: Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another. There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime. Elon Musk • @elonmusk. 26m SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon. This will so insanely cool 12:59 PM • 2/9/26 • 543K Views

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d
Bari Weiss bravely invites us to focus on the real fascism in Minneapolis
www.thefp.com/p/mob-rule-c...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “Hello I am Ender and I am 12 years old, I have been at this center  for 2 months. I arrived here for an immigration appointment and I don’t think they should grab immigrants who are innocent, like instead of grabbing criminals because I mean they prefer to lock up children than look for people who really shouldn’t be in the U.S. They told me I could only be here 21 days but I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals, going outside and that the majority of guards never pay attention to people, eating dinner  always the same as the day before, seeing people cry every day for the same reasons, trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed, going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “…going to wait for the bad answers from the judges, hearing the bad news from people who no longer have hope, having to share a room with minimum 3 families, and all that so they send us back to our countries.” Below the text is a drawing in pen of three women, titled “My family” and labeled with “Mama,” “Sister,” and “me” in Spanish.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 6d
Tag yourself, I'm Salpetersachen

Also Schulden
A list of headings in German: "Salpetersachen, Salzverlag, Schatzungsrecht, Schifffahrt, Schulden"

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 6d
Deutsche Probleme möcht ich haben

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d
WaPo editorial board when TX imposes a legislative gerrymander: don't freak out guys! Not a threat to democracy!

When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship.

There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.
The Texas gerrymander freakout What’s happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy. August 20, 2025 Brass-knuckled hypocrisy in Virginia Voters will get a chance to reject anti-democratic gamesmanship in an April referendum.