Adam Rodger, a historian.
@adamrodger.bsky.social
PhD, University of Kansas 2024. Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, civil war and revolution, 1930s European political history, history of empire, communism, nationalism, fascism, and migration. Good thing none of THAT is relevant anymore!
Can't wait to find out what the age of consent is there.
Belgian crypto billionaire Olivier Janssens is planning to establish a "libertarian community" with its own legal system in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Belgian crypto-billionaire wants to build the ‘Dubai of the Caribbean’
Belgian crypto-billionaire wants to build the 'Dubai of the Caribbean'
www.brusselstimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Can't wait to find out what the age of consent is there.
I feel like people have been banging the "Don't Make Thinking Robots" drum for quite a while, actually.
We started reporting this profile of @edzitron.com in July. Zitron's message has only grown more urgent since then. Read @harrymccracken.com's full story @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91448284/ed-...
Meet Ed Zitron, AI’s original prophet of doom
Ed Zitron has built a small media empire on the argument that AI is not only a bubble but a fraud, and it’s headed for a spectacular crash.
www.fastcompany.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I feel like people have been banging the "Don't Make Thinking Robots" drum for quite a while, actually.
"You take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Scotland afore ye" Yeah I bet you will, cuz you're making me trek up a damn mountain on the way, sheesh
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
"You take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Scotland afore ye" Yeah I bet you will, cuz you're making me trek up a damn mountain on the way, sheesh
Future historians will devote their entire careers to studying Trump's corruption, and they'll have to leave our enormous piles of sources for the sake of preserving college students' spine curvature.
This man ripped off teachers, nurses, small business owners - people from all walks of life and professions. Some lost their life savings. Not only did Trump let him out of prison, he also doesn’t have to pay back the victims.
December 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Future historians will devote their entire careers to studying Trump's corruption, and they'll have to leave our enormous piles of sources for the sake of preserving college students' spine curvature.
Important to note that this isn't a professor, this is a graduate student, who I think (as a former grad student) is exhibiting uncanny care and tact in their response. The student wrote a terrible essay that didn't answer the question, cited no sources, and literally demonized her fellow students.
idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
December 1, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Important to note that this isn't a professor, this is a graduate student, who I think (as a former grad student) is exhibiting uncanny care and tact in their response. The student wrote a terrible essay that didn't answer the question, cited no sources, and literally demonized her fellow students.
I cannot imagine how satisfying that must've been.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I cannot imagine how satisfying that must've been.
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From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
"I have slightly improved the problem that I previously made much much worse. Nobel Prize pleeeeease??"
BREAKING: President Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices.
Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"I have slightly improved the problem that I previously made much much worse. Nobel Prize pleeeeease??"
A "member" of something is a part of a whole, like a member of an organization. To me, this implies that to "remember" something is to make it a part of you again, at least while you're remembering it, which I don't know I guess is just a really nice thought, sponsored today by the movie Coco.
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A "member" of something is a part of a whole, like a member of an organization. To me, this implies that to "remember" something is to make it a part of you again, at least while you're remembering it, which I don't know I guess is just a really nice thought, sponsored today by the movie Coco.
So, according to someone who is friends with Megyn Kelly & very involved with Epstein (something I wouldn't have admitted), Epstein liked "barely legal" 15-year-olds (not how that works) who could pass for much younger but also look much older (which makes no sense) so I guess it's all fine then.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
So, according to someone who is friends with Megyn Kelly & very involved with Epstein (something I wouldn't have admitted), Epstein liked "barely legal" 15-year-olds (not how that works) who could pass for much younger but also look much older (which makes no sense) so I guess it's all fine then.
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Turns out @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social was right about how explaining the difference makes you sound like a pedophile.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Turns out @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social was right about how explaining the difference makes you sound like a pedophile.
Breaking: Heil-Hitlerer Endorses Sexual Predator
Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.
November 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Breaking: Heil-Hitlerer Endorses Sexual Predator
If the Young Republicans (where have I heard that name recently...🤔) pull this off, it will establish a dynamic where, at best, the majority party can force opponents off of any ballot in the country. More likely, it'll be Republicans who can do that, and never Democrats.
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Exclusive | House Republicans exploring ways to prevent Mamdani from being sworn in as NYC mayor if he wins on Election Day
House Republicans are exploring ways to prevent Zohran Mamdani from ever being sworn in as mayor even if he prevails in Tuesday’s election by using the Constitution’s “insurrectio…
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November 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
If the Young Republicans (where have I heard that name recently...🤔) pull this off, it will establish a dynamic where, at best, the majority party can force opponents off of any ballot in the country. More likely, it'll be Republicans who can do that, and never Democrats.
nypost.com/2025/11/01/u...
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If nothing else, this shows that Democrats are well-equipped heading into this 2016 election season. 🙄
i'm fine with a deeper focus on economic issues over social issues but man does plank 2 give the game away
October 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If nothing else, this shows that Democrats are well-equipped heading into this 2016 election season. 🙄
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FYI: it’s, uh, *not nothing* that the head of an entire Christian denomination — here Rev. Karen Georgia A. Thompson of the United Church of Christ — issued a statement decrying DHS agents for shooting one of her pastors in the face with a pepper round, adding, “No one is safe from tyranny."
October 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
FYI: it’s, uh, *not nothing* that the head of an entire Christian denomination — here Rev. Karen Georgia A. Thompson of the United Church of Christ — issued a statement decrying DHS agents for shooting one of her pastors in the face with a pepper round, adding, “No one is safe from tyranny."
Trying to think of right-wing sci-fi authors who might come close, and not coming up with much. Ender's Game? Who owned Peter and Valentine's blogging platform where they wrote blog posts so logical that the whole world fell in line?
Easily the most off anyone ever was about internet discourse.
Easily the most off anyone ever was about internet discourse.
There are many good science fiction novels. Not a single one that I have read delivers a happy vision of the future in which aged right-wing billionaires control the media.
October 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Trying to think of right-wing sci-fi authors who might come close, and not coming up with much. Ender's Game? Who owned Peter and Valentine's blogging platform where they wrote blog posts so logical that the whole world fell in line?
Easily the most off anyone ever was about internet discourse.
Easily the most off anyone ever was about internet discourse.
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The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.
No more.
Hot damn!
GASP
October 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Hot damn!
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Trump’s agents have detained innocent American citizens and residents, from children asleep in their homes to an Alderman’s staffers.
All demanding proof of citizenship, without probable cause, with only the victim’s skin color as a reason.
This isn't about crime or safety.
All demanding proof of citizenship, without probable cause, with only the victim’s skin color as a reason.
This isn't about crime or safety.
Border Patrol Agents Detain 2 City Employees During ‘Lawless’ Little Village Raids, Ald. Rodriguez Says
“These federal agents are operating lawlessly, demonstrating utter disregard for our constitutional rights,” Ald. Mike Rodriguez (22nd Ward) said.
news.wttw.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Trump’s agents have detained innocent American citizens and residents, from children asleep in their homes to an Alderman’s staffers.
All demanding proof of citizenship, without probable cause, with only the victim’s skin color as a reason.
This isn't about crime or safety.
All demanding proof of citizenship, without probable cause, with only the victim’s skin color as a reason.
This isn't about crime or safety.
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There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.
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this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
He shuts down after saying plenary, but he gets through this just fine?
His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/Autz5f8
“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”
“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”
October 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
He shuts down after saying plenary, but he gets through this just fine?