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Adrian Daub

@adriandaub.bsky.social

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"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history and gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). Podcasts: The Feminist Present, @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social. Newsletter at adriandaub.substack.com

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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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CJ 🦋 @cjeanmartini.bsky.social · 1d

In war-ravaged Portland...
#Portland
#frog
#SafetyDance
#IStandWithPortland

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 23h

@moiradonegan.bsky.social, on far right propagandists: It's… somebody who produces reams and reams and reams of the same dumbass thing over and over again.

@adriandaub.bsky.social: Yeah, the Nazis created a platform for it called the Reichskulturkammer. We created a platform for it called Substack.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

I keep waiting for the powers that be in media to grasp the concept of bad faith, realize how often "restore trust in news" and similar statements mean "stop doing journalism, lie more in ways I like," come from people ideologically committed to destroying trust in news, and can never be satisfied.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

I too am keen to "restore trust in news" by turning a major broadcast network into a 24/7 slurry of right wing culture war propaganda and engagement trolling

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

Courtesy of Prof Bagenstos, the statutory provision is 31 USC 1341(c)(2)

(2) Each employee of the United States Government or of a District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations, and each excepted employee who is required to perform work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for such work, at the employee's standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates, and subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d

For the new episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, @moiradonegan.bsky.social walked me through the idea of Fetal Personhood and how it came to inform policing and policy in the United States. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Episode 99 -- Fetal Personhood

Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 10/07/2025 · 1h 16m

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d

Lesbians do be snacking

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 3d

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately.

The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities.

She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

NPR @npr.org · 3d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d

Das Land der Dichter und Denker, meine Damen und Herren

WELT+
HERTA MÜLLER
„In Gaza würden die ,Queers for Palestine' keine halbe Stunde überleben"

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 3d

we’re in the middle of a fascist crackdown on leftist speech, and Curtis Yarvin is moaning, “look at me, I’m so afwaid of what my enemies will do to me if we don’t crush them.“ the only thing Menshies is in danger of is another fawning profile from the capitalist press

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 3d

curtis yarvin seems somewhat unhappy

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d

They shadow ban anyone who uses the phrase “Makepeace”, “Fenimore”, or “Wadsworth”

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d

Isn’t that also pretty much what happens in Dune??? So even if mention of Thackeray enrages the twittersphere as too fancy…

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d

Some of it predates Nextdoorism unfortunately: this guy mentions he’s gay, and the temptation to play respectability politics with regards to a group of people that — at least where I live — is disproportionately LGBTQ+ is pretty old

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d

(If you work in German media and you’re not getting emails back from me, that might be why. 😘)

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t tell you the number of German news media people who’ve asked me this question this year (“why isn’t there more resistance”) … not even 18 months after spewing psychotic fantasies about the violence that they felt ought to be visited on peaceful protesters

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d

“Why won’t the state incarcerate people indefinitely so I can walk on the sidewalk without getting icked out?” is definitely the sort of thing you’d say if you were a “liberal Democrat”

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Reading about Democrats who agree with Trump's plan to forcibly commit homeless people

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 3d

On our latest episode of Project 1933, our series tracing the Nazis’ first year in power, @adriandaub.bsky.social and I discussed our sense that Stephen Miller, in particular, is evoking the Third Reich on purpose: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 4d

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 5d

Signalgate 2.0, this time not about plans for attacking Houthis in Yemen, but sending the 82nd Airborne to Portland, Oregon

taber @kvetch.gay · 5d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 6d

I'll say this for our self-declared "free speech absolutists": they at least have absolutism part down.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, the one person they cite who doesn't seem bothered by the deal is [checks notes] "the chairman of the Board of Regents for the University of Texas" and [checks notes again] a former Republican member of the Texas Senate

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 6d

Well the one person they cite who doesn't seem bothered by it is [checks notes] "the chairman of the Board of Regents for the University of Texas" who is also [checks wikipedia] former Republican State Senator

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 6d

"Some in higher ed say agreeing to it would end academic freedom"? Some????

Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap.
Trump officials want universities to sign on to conservative priorities to get special treatment. Some in higher education say agreeing would end academic freedom.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 7d

Look, these people are Protestants.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining.

The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

Matt Walsh: Horrific. The whole thing. Pope Leo blesses a block of ice and then stands there while these communist freaks do some kind of weird pagan Earth worshipping hippy ritual. The leader of the Catholic Church shouldn’t be anywhere near this nonsense. What the hell are we doing here

@CatholicSat: The Blessing of the Waters by Pope Leo XIV, at today’s ‘Raising Hope for Climate Justice’ International Conference at Castel Gandolfo.

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 8d

Gift link: essential and sadly brave writing for dark times from Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd.bsky.social). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

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