"Bakhtin’s first principle of ethics is: never treat another human being as wholly knowable and predictable, even in principle." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
"Other talks include 'Build-a-Cult,' moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site praydotcom and 'Build-a-Party,' run by a former White House national security official." @dell.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/leak-e...
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.www.wired.com
Since Mikhail Bakhtin became widely known in the 1980s, his book on Rabelais has perplexed readers for its seemingly contradictory stance to everything else he wrote.www.nybooks.com
"I want to know how a guy using grand jury secrecy to engage in far right grievance got hired last summer into Chicago’s US Attorney’s Office so as to prosecute Democratic candidates & elected officials … & why Andrew Boutros is protecting him." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/06/18/m...
Hey congressional Republicans, are you proud of your party's leader today?
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Over the course of a week, Broadview 6 Matthew Skiba went from presenting as a newbie to claiming the effort of a Trump Train mob to intimidate Joe Biden supporters in 2020 was precedent for the Broad...
"It’s not even clear what 'we' is anymore. There’s no doubt that imperial America lost the war. The question is what comes next. And it would really pay to stop thinking of Trump as the most powerful agent in the room." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/06/18/a...
"It’s not even clear what 'we' is anymore. There’s no doubt that imperial America lost the war. The question is what comes next. And it would really pay to stop thinking of Trump as the most powerful agent in the room." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/06/18/a...
"It’s not even clear what 'we' is anymore. There’s no doubt that imperial America lost the war. The question is what comes next. And it would really pay to stop thinking of Trump as the most powerful agent in the room." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/06/18/a...
GeoManKS, PhD
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Donald Trump promised: Once his war reached unconditional surrender, a new leader would be selected.
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Donald Trump promised: Once his war reached unconditional surrender, a new leader would be selected.
I"ll be running a "Build-A-Guillotine" forum coming up soon.
As you can see I am not one for notifications 😉, but of course. I think it should probably go the other way tho. You are the teacher. There were about 10 people on old Twitter from 2010 to about 2018 that helped me truly understand we were all characters in the Great Divorce. But sure
This is a great point and one that anyone engaging in self reflection should be grateful for. Most of the time, in fact almost always these people would be a too broad generalization. In this case I think it applies pretty accurately to anyone listening to this channel/this guest & expecting facts
