Joe Stieb
@joestieb.bsky.social
Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill. Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels. Political liberal, hoop reactionary. Posting goodreads reviews regularly.
Now listening to "The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed teh Truth about Al-Qaeda, Its Leader, and His Family" by Nelly Lahoud.
I don’t think there’s enough vote for Stevens left but this will be a close result. My hope is that the El-Sayed/DSA/far left contingent don’t get despondent but realize that both factions need each other. It’s time to cut the shit and fight MAGA, not Democrats.
*sigh* fine But can Sayed jettison Piker, like, now?
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 6h agoI meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.
Ppl being shitty in the replies here are just miserable wreckers who are more interested in winning social media arguments than actually seeing Republicans lose control of congress.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4h agoA gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
How on god's green fuckin earth are people STILL equating support for Israel and support for Ukraine
Samuel Moyn@samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 6d agoOver the last 20 years (which is what we are asserting)? A lot. It's promising that anyone could doubt this, and we will have to see what happens when liberals are back in power. Backing not just Ukraine but Israel was seen as just by the last Democrat in office. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Backing Ukraine is just, dude.
Samuel Moyn@samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 6d agoOver the last 20 years (which is what we are asserting)? A lot. It's promising that anyone could doubt this, and we will have to see what happens when liberals are back in power. Backing not just Ukraine but Israel was seen as just by the last Democrat in office. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... Interesting piece that cites scholars who refute the myth that in doing 9/11 UBL intended to draw the US into a series of quagmires rather than spark a Beirut-like bugging out of the Middle East.
What Happened to al-Qaeda?
Twenty-five years after 9/11, analysts can’t decide if the terrorist organization is all but defunct or more threatening than ever.
theatlantic.com
It’s sort of like when people claim Disney has “lost its magic” No You were 7
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 15h agoSo this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary
So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary
Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
there is something deeply wrong not only with the person who wrote this but the editor who published it
Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago
Setting the scene with "It's 6:29 AM on a Tuesday". At a music festival. TUESDAY MORNING. (Oct 7th, 2023 was a Saturday) Immediately getting the date wrong of the event she's writing about is at least a nice early warning of how uninterested in facts the author is lol
ESPN opted to gut their veteran reporter/commentator roster so that guys like Pat McAfee and Aaron Rodgers can yuck it up over medical conspiracy theories. It's been a long time since ESPN was great, but now they're just peddling trash that's ultimately in the service of anti-intellectual fascism.
I will never understand why they did this. They gutted their newsrooms to pay guys like McAfee & Stephen A Smith ungodly amounts of money, as though guys like them aren't completely replaceable Remember when they got rid of Skip Bayless & no one gave a shit?
Nathan@ngtcollectibles.bsky.social · 20h agoESPN opted to gut their veteran reporter/commentator roster so that guys like Pat McAfee and Aaron Rodgers can yuck it up over medical conspiracy theories. It's been a long time since ESPN was great, but now they're just peddling trash that's ultimately in the service of anti-intellectual fascism.
oh hey we're doing degenerate Jewish art but leftishly.
Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago
would you be shocked to learn that this describes the murder-rape spree at a music festival as the concertgoers being 'caught in the crossfire'
My observation, especially in the last year, is that the real insidious thing isn’t even the rise of outrageously obvious antisemitism. It’s the complete refusal by many on the left to call it out or do anything about it. After over a decade of calling out every kind of niche reactionaryism.
Dalassa@dalassa.bsky.social · 22h agoRight now there doesn’t seem to be any movement in the US opposed to antisemitism.
Judge Mehta's J6 Requiem "That book is now closed. Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and ... officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy ... to buckle."
WWII facts I want to share from Overy’s Blood and Ruins. First, the massive increase in income tax coverage in the US during the war:
Worth noting that in 2018, Lauren Underwood and Haley Stevens each flipped a red House seat to blue and have held that seat ever since. The test of a party is the ability to win on the other party's turf. For all the talk of DSA ascendancy, they've not once flipped a seat.
R. Souissi@rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 2d agoImma just say it. At 85%, White Kids who came from a place of privilege running the DSAs after they helped benefit from gentrified communities, have no survival instincts. That's why they are scared to challenge Red Districts. They are scared to face their parents.