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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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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 19h
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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...
sahanjournal.com

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 2d
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...
www.mprnews.org

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
Deutsche Probleme möcht ich haben

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d
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.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 6d
He’s taught less than Alice Walker these days, from what I hear

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 6d
It’s just audience handjobbery with extra steps. You’re seeing Shakespeare for the umpteenth time, but this time you get to tell yourself that you’re being challenged and are tangling with difficult materials — unlike those mollycoddled university students you just made up
name it, he wrote about it. But there'll be nothing left if we make everything 'nice'. We shouldn't be afraid of challenging the audience at every opportunity." He added: "My response is simple - why read, see or do the play if you've been warned that it may upset you? It's meant to upset you.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 6d
As a nation we need to set up a swear jar but for this paragraph all debt will be wiped out within a year I swear
Noting that some universities would not study Shakespeare "because they don't want to upset students", Doyle said: "Shakespeare wrote about everything that there is to be about the human condition at its darkest. Incest, murder, regicide, you name it, he wrote about it. But there'll be nothing left if we make everything 'nice'. We shouldn't be afraid of challenging the audience at every opportunity."

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 6d
Ohhhhh my god u think that trigger warnings risk mollycoddling the audience? should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party?should we invite the other five million interviews where someone said this.
Trigger warnings risk 'mollycoddling' theatre audiences, says Tony-winning director Exclusive: John Doyle says theatre should be able to disturb and challenge audiences, and not sanitise difficult themes

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 7d
paragraph 48: "In Mr. Trump’s second term, Ms. Britt has voted in line with the president 100 percent of the time."
Screenshot of a New York Times puff piece about Katie Britt, "The G.O.P. Senator Who Can't Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained"

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 7d
I have managed to literally write hundreds of letters of recommendation over the past 20 years without even *once* referring to a student's physical appearance. I also have also yet to receive the kind of follow-up call described here, "asking for aesthetic detail".
bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 7d
This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association.

Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.

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Screenshot of the article that includes a quote from the professor's explanation to the dean: “I was recommending her for a job I thought she'd like. When you do that--when you actually care about a rec letter--you keep the potential boss's habits in mind,” Gelernter wrote in the email to his colleagues, seemingly referring to Epstein. “This one was obsessed with girls (like every other unmarried billionaire in Manhattan; in fact, like every other heterosex male), and if I hadn't said what I did in that letter ten-odd years ago, he would certainly have called me & asked for a lot more aesthetic detail. (This is how men behave.)”

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 7d
This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association.

Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.

yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
Screenshot of the article that includes a quote from the professor's explanation to the dean: “I was recommending her for a job I thought she'd like. When you do that--when you actually care about a rec letter--you keep the potential boss's habits in mind,” Gelernter wrote in the email to his colleagues, seemingly referring to Epstein. “This one was obsessed with girls (like every other unmarried billionaire in Manhattan; in fact, like every other heterosex male), and if I hadn't said what I did in that letter ten-odd years ago, he would certainly have called me & asked for a lot more aesthetic detail. (This is how men behave.)”

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 7d
The DA of Santa Clara County, California, is the only prosecutor in the country to try a felony case against pro-Palestine student protesters since campus demonstrations began. The trial began last month and a verdict is expected soon.
In Bay Area, Felony Charges Against Student Protesters Prompt Free Speech Concerns
Local prosecutors are seeking felony-level charges against pro-Palestine demonstrators. Even if they don’t stick, critics say the response is harsh and could chill protests.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 7d
He’s a sundowning malignant narcissist with weird welts on his hand terrified of being blackmailed over things he barely remembers, what’s your excuse?

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 7d
To be clear this particular lie wasn’t *that* much more coherent when media, including ostensibly “liberal” newspapers, couldn’t stop printing it
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "I stopped the mutilation of children. The mutilation. The word is mutilation. They mutilized, you know, mutilation of children."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "I stopped the mutilation of children. The mutilation. The word is mutilation. They mutilized, you know, mutilation of children."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d
Persistent reports of ICE using drones, including this highly suspected ICE drone photographed being launched from a suburban park. It’s a HoverFly Spectre, a “tethered” surveillance drone flown over unspooling fiber-optic cables. I’d be curious if anyone knows a civilian use case

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 8d
I can't speak to whether it is actually bortac and whether it is actually mortar launchers but I mentioned in my piece yesterday that I had witnessed tear gas being launched in the air in an arc over people's heads. This video I found on IG shows what I described

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nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · 8d
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual