stephen.daedalus
@stephendaedalus.bsky.social
i got values but i don't know how or why
Pinned
i keep going back to "they just let you do it."
we're watching this guy grope and assault and abuse our republic, and the people we've elected to represent us and our interests (as the body politic of this republic), the institutions we depend on to advocate for us--:they're just letting him do it.
we're watching this guy grope and assault and abuse our republic, and the people we've elected to represent us and our interests (as the body politic of this republic), the institutions we depend on to advocate for us--:they're just letting him do it.
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Ah, @pennpress.bsky.social has just announced their holiday sale! 40% off means that the paperback of my book on philosophy's encounter with "the public intellectual," Thinking in Public, is about $20.
100% of the historical analysis for 60% of the price.
www.pennpress.org/978081222434...
100% of the historical analysis for 60% of the price.
www.pennpress.org/978081222434...
Thinking in Public – Penn Press
Long before we began to speak of "public intellectuals," the ideas of "the public" and "the intellectual" raised consternation among many European philosophe...
www.pennpress.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Ah, @pennpress.bsky.social has just announced their holiday sale! 40% off means that the paperback of my book on philosophy's encounter with "the public intellectual," Thinking in Public, is about $20.
100% of the historical analysis for 60% of the price.
www.pennpress.org/978081222434...
100% of the historical analysis for 60% of the price.
www.pennpress.org/978081222434...
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Disbarring the not-prosecutor is the LEAST they should do. Prominent, immediate motion to disbar, to give future Halligans and Bondis cause to fear for their livelihood.
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Disbarring the not-prosecutor is the LEAST they should do. Prominent, immediate motion to disbar, to give future Halligans and Bondis cause to fear for their livelihood.
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This cover oozes with contempt for the magazine’s history and its readership
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This cover oozes with contempt for the magazine’s history and its readership
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As Charlie notes, so many of America's top assignment editors still rely on Twitter to get and share their ideas. Here's reason # 735879374985783478509 why that is fucking nuts.
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
As Charlie notes, so many of America's top assignment editors still rely on Twitter to get and share their ideas. Here's reason # 735879374985783478509 why that is fucking nuts.
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Read this. These atrocities are happening right here in this country. Right now.
Unconscionable. Full stop. No excuses to be associated with or endorse or remain silent: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | ‘The System Is Meant to Break You’: What ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Read this. These atrocities are happening right here in this country. Right now.
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
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A depraved and decadent Trump WH dinner for MBS was a stunning low for an American ruling class that's stopped pretending to carry a moral compass
It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...
It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...
The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil
For America’s deeply corrupt billionaires, time heals all wounds — even from a murderous Saudi prince’s bone saw.
www.inquirer.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A depraved and decadent Trump WH dinner for MBS was a stunning low for an American ruling class that's stopped pretending to carry a moral compass
It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...
It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...
turning the page worked out really well in the weimar era
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
turning the page worked out really well in the weimar era
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There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
the upside (?) to bezos' having trashed the reputation of this once great newspaper is that serious people no longer take it seriously.
The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
the upside (?) to bezos' having trashed the reputation of this once great newspaper is that serious people no longer take it seriously.
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Russia rejected their own peace plan?
Russia flat out rejects Trump's 28-point peace plan: "Even in a reduced military and territorial form, Ukraine would remain a significant danger, requiring us to keep our forces on the western borders."
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Russia rejected their own peace plan?
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/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Stewart Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy and released by Trump, visits Capitol Hill
Rhodes, the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder, was found guilty of orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Tr...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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You learn how political constituency is getting built to back military dictatorship, or at least stand aside, should it arrive.
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
You learn how political constituency is getting built to back military dictatorship, or at least stand aside, should it arrive.
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Note that Trump's call came two days ago. I didn't see any of the lefty sites , listservs, social media accounts, I follow mentioned this. Maybe some did, but I didn't see any. But some things that you need to know are best found by fascists against their grain. In this case...
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Note that Trump's call came two days ago. I didn't see any of the lefty sites , listservs, social media accounts, I follow mentioned this. Maybe some did, but I didn't see any. But some things that you need to know are best found by fascists against their grain. In this case...
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Really important to duck into right-wing media from time to time, if you can manage it. Blaze is Glenn Beck's site. Beck is still going very very strong. The editor is a top guys at the Claremont Institute, making Blaze the public face of that institution's efforts to build fascism--full stop.
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Really important to duck into right-wing media from time to time, if you can manage it. Blaze is Glenn Beck's site. Beck is still going very very strong. The editor is a top guys at the Claremont Institute, making Blaze the public face of that institution's efforts to build fascism--full stop.
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i didn't know that i could do this. i look forward to asserting this privilege when i am questioned by the government in my company's upcoming antitrust trial.
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
i didn't know that i could do this. i look forward to asserting this privilege when i am questioned by the government in my company's upcoming antitrust trial.
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@aimeemann.bsky.social's beautiful cover of "Rainy Days and Mondays" may be from the soundtrack to The Chair Company, but it is what happens when you let @programme4.tv into your heart. Also, it is raining in LA, I am strung out from the world—not me weepy in a cafe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Ry...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Ry...
Rainy Days and Mondays (from "The Chair Company")
YouTube video by Aimee Mann - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
@aimeemann.bsky.social's beautiful cover of "Rainy Days and Mondays" may be from the soundtrack to The Chair Company, but it is what happens when you let @programme4.tv into your heart. Also, it is raining in LA, I am strung out from the world—not me weepy in a cafe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Ry...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Ry...
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Very disappointed none of you told me that Lewis Mumford made a 1963 film about car dependency, and it's available on YouTube.
"The motor car inflates our private ego, proclaims our social status, and provides us with the illusion of freedom and power."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKZ...
"The motor car inflates our private ego, proclaims our social status, and provides us with the illusion of freedom and power."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKZ...
November 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Very disappointed none of you told me that Lewis Mumford made a 1963 film about car dependency, and it's available on YouTube.
"The motor car inflates our private ego, proclaims our social status, and provides us with the illusion of freedom and power."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKZ...
"The motor car inflates our private ego, proclaims our social status, and provides us with the illusion of freedom and power."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKZ...
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The historical lesson of Nazism is to destroy Nazis before they get control of the government. We should actually follow the lesson, but we are not.
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The historical lesson of Nazism is to destroy Nazis before they get control of the government. We should actually follow the lesson, but we are not.
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The clubby rich pedophile world they're so sad to see gone isn't even "lost" or "gone," it's alive and well in the White House.
Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.
Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The clubby rich pedophile world they're so sad to see gone isn't even "lost" or "gone," it's alive and well in the White House.
Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.
Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.
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Bruce Lummy’s typically funny, informative take on the making of tartan.
At 7:50 he introduces a “wee woman in Crieff,” my super-talented daughter-in-law Samantha.
youtu.be/efy-_DDwhGY?...
At 7:50 he introduces a “wee woman in Crieff,” my super-talented daughter-in-law Samantha.
youtu.be/efy-_DDwhGY?...
I Never Knew It Took This Much to Make Tartan
YouTube video by Scotland History Tours
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Bruce Lummy’s typically funny, informative take on the making of tartan.
At 7:50 he introduces a “wee woman in Crieff,” my super-talented daughter-in-law Samantha.
youtu.be/efy-_DDwhGY?...
At 7:50 he introduces a “wee woman in Crieff,” my super-talented daughter-in-law Samantha.
youtu.be/efy-_DDwhGY?...
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I am trying to imagine the Democratic pundit minds that think it is not effective to say, "The president and the leader of the Republican party is a corrupt pedophile who is going to war with his own party to avoid disclosing his extensive relationship with the most notorious pedophile of all time."
November 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I am trying to imagine the Democratic pundit minds that think it is not effective to say, "The president and the leader of the Republican party is a corrupt pedophile who is going to war with his own party to avoid disclosing his extensive relationship with the most notorious pedophile of all time."
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I’m being glib but I’m semi-serious about this: send more white collar criminals to prison; prison conditions will improve
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I’m being glib but I’m semi-serious about this: send more white collar criminals to prison; prison conditions will improve