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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 .. 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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h
a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3h
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3h
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4h
Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:
We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly
Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 18h
Eh, give it three days
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 1d
Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Jim Caviezel Won’t Return as Jesus for Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’
Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 21h
And soon thereafter—boom—the soul went from his eyes.
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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 1d
President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...
Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23h
an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d
anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide
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larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d
her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 23h
I’d invite German newspaper readers to reflect on the number of articles you’re seeing atm about a researcher on anti-fascism having to flee the US (I found 2) compared to the time a student thought the bánh mì was inauthentic.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d
I love how the big news on Trump’s tariff announcement is how moments before he made it a bunch of people made insanely profitable shorts on crypto, a thing that Bitcoin Bros are all astounded to see happening in a completely unregulated market of a fake currency primarily used by criminals.
BREAKING: Look at this. A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning. 30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF. The market dumped. The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours. Unusual. JUST IN: An anonymous trader opened massive crypto short positions just 30 minutes before Trump’s tariff announcements yesterday. They made an estimated $192M in profits. Someone knew the market would crash…. A Random brand new fresh wallet opened a massive $BTC short just 30 minutes before Trump’s tariff announcement and this trader made $88,000,000 profits. Donald Trump needs to go to jail. He is thief, he is literally robbing people internationally. He announced 100% Tarrifs on China and sends the US stock market into a death spiral. At the same time someone put over 1 Billion dollars into crypto with orders for 100 million being placed on Ethereum and Bitcoin and other crypto currencies across the board whilst markets got wiped after what he said. Billions, and I mean fucking billions got wiped out, whilst Bitcoin had it a biggest dip ever in a single candle losing 20k per Bitcoin, Whilst alt coins lost over 60-70% of value, everyone with leverage on the market with even 2 x leverage got murdered and robbed. This was co ordinated, this was market manipulation with one anonymous wallet making over 200 million dollars in one day with trades showing that they knew Trump was going to announce this and crash the market.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
No, it's in there! I just don't identify the anime haha
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 1d
Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Jim Caviezel Won’t Return as Jesus for Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’
Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 1d
President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...
Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.
www.cnn.com
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d
The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
Huge congrats who helped make this happen you guys will be remembered as history's real heroes
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d
Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.
An easel sign reads, “UCLA ATTENTION No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities. Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest. Scan for policy information.”
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d
Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.
An easel sign reads, “UCLA ATTENTION No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities. Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest. Scan for policy information.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
First as Speer then as farce
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
Hmm what does that remind me of?
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
Let me find the passage! Give me an hour or two?
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
It's One Piece, iirc
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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 1d
Also please read @adriandaub.bsky.social's searing and hilarious commentary on Thiel.

He's reminded of Apocalypse Now where a character meets a platoon "and asks who’s in charge here. 'Ain’t you?' Ain’t you running the world, Peter? If it isn’t you, who is?"

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Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d
Yes hello police? I’m being threatened with a good time again
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d
I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher
www.theguardian.com
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 2d
Once again, it's pure extortion, and this "compact" must be resisted. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d
VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

​Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

​Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

​​Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 3d
As we were saying … podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d
@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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CJ 🦋 @cjeanmartini.bsky.social · 4d
In war-ravaged Portland...
#Portland
#frog
#SafetyDance
#IStandWithPortland
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 5d
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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