Jude Webre
@theotherjude.bsky.social
History & Lit & Music | Faculty at Columbia, NYU-Gallatin, and Brooklyn Institute, Columbia PhD | Bass Clef, Inc. Betwixt and between
This is the final boss of “I could fix her“
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · yesterdayAccording to CNN, Natalie Harp once jumped into the trunk of an SUV after getting into a screaming match with other Trump staffers after being denied a seat in the motorcade heading to a Trump trial appearance. www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/p...
Can’t believe they shut down the ghostbusters containment grid for using too much energy and violating the environment leading to ghost catastrophe but somehow Big Tech’s data centers are ok
I am not even some huge ZZ Top fan they just so happen to be the cosmic lynchpin holding the entire modern western musical canon together is all
For years I’ve wondered why businesses don’t generally support single-payer health care, which would save them tons of money in the long run. The only answer I can really come up with is that for them, the leverage employer-funded care gives over the workforce is worth the price.
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 3d ago“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Happy birthday to Colin Moulding. Here are XTC performing Life Begins At The Hop on What's On in 1979
Interesting that we're not seeing all the white Pod-save fanboys writing a million stories about Troy Jackson, actual working class candidate, actual socialist, the way we did about their bartender friend, the brocialist. www.jacksonformaine.com
Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate
Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat and unseat Susan Collins once and for all. He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, a lifelong labor champion, and former Maine Senate President,...
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I keep thinking about how a man was hounded to his death for alleged plagiarism by a media class more than happy to wax eloquent about the social benefits of genAI — ie, automated plagiarism that lines the pockets of white male billionaires. Funny, that.
François Guizot, a leading figure of the center-right in France’s July Monarchy, described the regime’s centrists as a mix of “indecisive honest men and meticulous intriguers.”
I left my tenure track job in academia when a major magazine offered me more money, and all I had to do was come up with something to say about dangers of "woke" every month. No more grading, no more meetings, no more research.
When you actually take the time to read the humanities research people are doing, the media representation appears increasingly bizarre.
“The idea wasn’t just to retroactively protect ‘the babies of slaves’; it was to prospectively forestall future efforts to deny citizenship based on whatever other non-sovereignty-based criteria might be politically popular in any given moment.” Me on why Trump’s new EO is *still* unconstitutional:
243. Birthright Citizenship, Redux
President Trump's new attempt to cabin birthright citizenship is a lot narrower than the one the Supreme Court struck down in June. Its key provisions are still unconstitutional.
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How to spot a villain in Proust: when they think Debussy is bad
I think the thing we are all in denial about when it comes to the One Cool Trick to win elections forever is that low info swing voters are basically incomprehensible eldritch horrors to politically engaged people. There’s no understanding them and you’ll go mad trying.
hardworking minnesota voters just want what we all want: for a skittish failed basketball player to tell us that california is making the beans gendergay
puts on her little porkpie hat, says DAAWWWW PICKLES, kicks a can, goes back to the Newsie life
VoteHub@votehub.com · 2w agoMichigan U.S. Senate Democratic Primary Washtenaw County, multiple vote types: 🟣 Abdul El-Sayed – 13,843 (69.6%) 🟠 Haley Stevens – 5,674 (28.5%)
Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
How have they optimized every election in the world now to be 49-48 between semi decent social democracy and full crony fash?
Eixo Político@eixopolitico.com.br · 2w ago🇧🇷 ELEIÇÕES 2026 – 2º TURNO 🔴 Lula (PT): 46% (-1) 🟢 Flávio Bolsonaro (PL): 45% (+2) 🔴 Lula (PT): 46% (+1) 🔵 Caiado (PSD): 42% (-1) 🔴 Lula (PT): 46% (-1) 🟠 Zema (Novo): 40% (-2) 🔴 Lula (PT): 47% (=) 🟡 Renan Santos (Missão): 37% (-2) 📊 BTG/Nexus 📅 31/julho a 2/agosto Registro TSE: BR-02874/2026
the wnba alienating their core audience for the sake of people who wouldn’t watch a wnba game to save their child’s life is a bold gambit, to be sure
this is the story i wrote, which i think is about as definitive a cake piece as exists www.billboard.com/music/rock/c...
‘Excess Ain’t Rebellion’: How Cake Has Made Moderation Sound Fun For the Past 30 Years
The way that Cake carved out their own little quiet, anti-rock corner of the then-massive alt rock zeitgeist seems at risk of fading into obscurity.
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Planning to be Joyce-pilled for August (and getting paid to do it ✌️)
