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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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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 2h
The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 4h
We have one final episode to edit, after that there will sort of be a forking path: @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social will have a series on denazification next year (shorter than 1933, but multipart for sure). And Project 1933 will become a book! Coming October 2026!!!

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In Bed with the Right @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social · 4h
To close out 2025, we at @inbedwiththeright wanted to take a moment to thank all our listeners and to look back on a super fun and busy year. Between the main feed and the Patreon (please subscribe to our Patreon!), we will have put out a full 68 episodes in 2025 by the time the 31st rolls around!

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
Any @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social sickos out there: did you see we posted two classics from our Patreon archive as a Holiday treat for y’all? JIC you need to find a reason to shout “I’m sorry I have AirPods in” at all approaching relatives for 3 hours and 10 mins podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
From the Vaults: Andrew Sullivan, Part 1
Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 12/23/2025 · 1h 36m
podcasts.apple.com

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 1d
I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship

'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'

thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
What I suggest is different. Although broadly in the spirit of Aquinas’ two-or-three generations test insofar as it emphasizes the duties rather than the rights of immigrants who becomes citizens, it is derived not from theological principles but from a civil-law analogy — an analogy to the Roman law of adoption. After all, inclusion within “our posterity” may ordinarily arise not only through natural descent, but through legal adoption. In brief, I suggest that the legal immigrant should understand himself as an adopted son of a natural and concretely existing family, the American family, and this brings with it particular duties of filial piety and reverence for that particular family and for its thick heritage and traditions. Our laws as made, interpreted and applied should reflect that understanding as well. Because it is an analogy, not an identity, what I propose is not a set of legal rules to be directly mapped from Roman law into the American legal system. Rather it is a suggestion that the Roman law of adoption rested on a set of discernible principles of legal justice and political morality that represent the spirit of the laws bearing on immigration and citizenship in America — a time-honored mode of legal interpretation here, albeit not an originalist mode. Such principles should affect the interpretation of actually existing legal texts, rules, and doctrines; they should be understood as the soul of our law of citizenship. Needless to say, this does not answer or even purport to speak to all questions bearing on immigration. I do not speak here, for example, to the enforcement of the immigration laws against illegal immigrants, or to prospective questions of policy about exactly how much legal immigration, if any, there should be, and from where. All I address is the question what principles of legal justice and political duty apply, under existing law, to the immigrant who is already here legally. To that end I suggest a conceptual model for understanding the role and obligations of that immigrant — what justice classically understood requires of him.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
I see this on the right - the idea that the existence of foreign academic staff and faculty are evidence of discrimination against natives. It's not discrimination, its selection: academia is a global marketplace, the US is the biggest center of that market. So yes, some foreign talent will win.
mclem.org Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 2d
Striking nativist editorializing by the federal judge who just upheld the $100,000 tax on high-skill immigrants.

She opines that it’s “troubling” that universities hire talent from abroad at all, instead of only native grads.

Then admits (!) that opinion is irrelevant (So why write it? Venting?)
“For instance, nine of AAU’s members submitted declarations on behalf of their universities disclosing that they employed, in total, approximately 4,500 H-1B employees, including as faculty and in research positions, see ECF Nos. 18-8 to 18-16—raising puzzling questions about why these same academic institutions are not producing sufficient numbers of adequately skilled American faculty and researchers—or whether other factors are at play—but those questions range far beyond the purview of the current case to answer.”

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 2d
A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.
daviddarmofal.bsky.social David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 2d
They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead.

The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead.
www.nytimes.com

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d
Es muss sich um den Reiseschriftsteller Josef Ponten handeln.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d
DANKE! Jetzt habe ich ihn:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_P...
Josef Ponten – Wikipedia
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d
Kann jemand entziffern, um wen es sich bei der unterstrichenen (und fantastisch gekleideten) Person handelt?
"????? erscheint mit der Majestät bewusster Verspätung; er trägt zu einem löwengeblebn Anzug eine senfbraune Weste, dazu ein rosa Hemd und einen himmelblauen Schlips, dann -- Gipfel durchdachter Eleganz! -- der lichtlaue Taschentuch."

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d
Yada yada long story short don’t go near the Imagine Mosaic in Central Park now the whole place stinks of emu carcass
tapirtrouble.bsky.social Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 2d
RFK Jr. had a pet emu, and it imprinted on him and saw his wife Cheryl as a threat, so it would chase after her and try to attack her.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L229...
Cheryl Hines: My breaking point with our former pet emu
YouTube video by Graham Bensinger
www.youtube.com

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 2d
RFK Jr. had a pet emu, and it imprinted on him and saw his wife Cheryl as a threat, so it would chase after her and try to attack her.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L229...
Cheryl Hines: My breaking point with our former pet emu
YouTube video by Graham Bensinger
www.youtube.com

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d
Stars Bloody Hollow

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.

Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
www.nytimes.com

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 4d
#Cringeraiser
a person with spikes on their head is holding a glowing object
ALT: a person with spikes on their head is holding a glowing object
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 4d
Das stieße ein Portal auf in eine Dimension reines Fremdschämens

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 4d
Turns out the Pottery Barn rule applies to the constitutional order too, Brett: you break it, you own it.
rgoodlaw.bsky.social Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 4d
Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.

He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4d
These declines are MASSIVE.

And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.

“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”

THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.

Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
jeffasher.bsky.social Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 4d
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 4d
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 4d
Twas the night before Christmas Eve, so you know what that means
Settlers of Catan

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 4d
Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.

He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 4d
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 4d
Dieses LLM wird mittlerweile richtig ausgefeilt. Das zum Training verfügbare Datenmaterial ist allerdings natürlich enorm.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 5d
Two young women were shopping right next to me and one said „Who the hell is Neil Young?” The other one didn’t respond, but said “This is the book I was recommending to , it’s weird but I loved it.” The book: E.M. Forster’s Maurice. Young woman #1: “Oh, cool it’s a gay thing!” What a roller coaster!

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 5d
to Bari (verb): To attempt to bury a damaging political story—only to amplify it massively by drawing attention to the act of censorship itself.

Example:

“They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 5d
Wir lesen alljährlich gemeinsam Zettel’s Traum (Bargfelder Ausgabe), um danach in aller Beschaulichkeit den Kindern beim Musizieren (Feldman Streichquartett Nr. 2) zuzuhören.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d
New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada
Website: university of Austin - forbidden courses

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 5d
Your annual confirmation that Fairy Tale of New York still slaps even though it has an offensive term* in it

*NYPD choir

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

is.gd/paU8Ko

(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)