Bryan Klausmeyer

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Assistant Professor of German, Virginia Tech https://bryan.is
Goethe-Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts https://goethe-lexicon.pitt.edu

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In retrospect, it’s unsurprising that the most vocal people calling for Biden’s resignation – a proposal that is in itself not entirely unreasonable – are some of the worst people on the planet

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change dot org petition für wiederholung des urknalls weil gab ja ne menge fehlentscheidungen seitdem

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In case Bluesky folks haven't seen this (from the No Context Brits account on t'other site): Jacob Rees-Mogg (aka "the Minister for the 18th century," tho' that's unfair to the 18th c) hearing of his election loss, while standing on a platform beside another candidate wearing a baked bean balaclava

I’m sure the wealthy donors have all our best interests in mind

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www.zeit.de/kultur/2024-...

Thomas Piketty: Die Mitte ist kaputtwww.zeit.de Wir brauchen zwingend ein klares Rechts und Links, sagt der Ökonom Thomas Piketty. Nur echte Widersprüche könnten die Demokratien vor einem Rechtsruck bewahren. Pardon?

The final sign that your intellectual project has completely collapsed is when you decide to publish in Compact Magazine

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"On Monday, John Roberts did far more damage to America's instituions than Donald Trump did on January 6." drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/07/03/n...

No longer a liberal democracydrafts.interfluidity.com drafts @ interfluidity

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joe biden must seek out a rare blue flower growing only on the eastern slopes of the mountains in bhutan and carry it to the top of the mountain

Breaking news: President Biden and his senior team said they accepted the grim ultimatum they’ve been hearing from almost all quarters of the Democratic Party — to demonstrate his fitness for office or face a significant effort to force him to step aside.

Biden and aides concede he needs to quickly demonstrate his fitness for officewww.washingtonpost.com Critics have been shaken by his relative inaction to directly address the panic ignited by his halting debate performance last Thursday.

Never underestimate Labour’s ability to reverse these numbers in less than 12-16 months

🚨 BREAKING: The Tory party is set to suffer total annihilation, according to a final mega poll. Full story: trib.al/BeoNk1z

UK election: Tories set to suffer total annihilation, final mega polls predicttrib.al Keir Starmer’s Labour will romp to victory, according to pollster YouGov.

Gathering ingredients at the Mercado de Mar in La Cruz de Huanacaxtle

It’s worth recalling that the Nazis were backed by a powerful cadre of conservative-revolutionary jurists, judges and legal theorists, who cheered the nomination of Hitler to chancellor and laid the legal groundwork for the “prerogative state”

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I keep coming back to "all this for literally Donald Trump," but it fits. There's not some more competent aspiring autocrat who'd somehow "earn" or "win" this. This is how it has always gone: feckless/evil elites attaching themselves to the sociopath they believe will get them where they want to go.

Trust the process (civil war)

Not the news I was hoping to see when stepping off the plane

Deep cut

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In der schleimigen Ursuppe bilden sich durch Wärme und Elektrizität erste komplexere Wortverbindungen, Aussagen koagulieren, der Roman kriecht an Land

Arthritis is the third constituent element of the writing scene

Scribes in ancient Egypt wrote while sitting down for extended periods. A new analysis of their skeletons found they probably had pain in the knees, fingers, thumb, ankles, shoulders, lower jaw, right collarbone, neck and back. Perhaps you can relate. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...

Ancient Egyptian Scribes Suffered Back Pain, Toowww.scientificamerican.com The skeletons of scribes from ancient Egypt show deterioration from sitting and kneeling

Good day to watch Petzold’s Transit

Looking for a nice curio cabinet to store all my objets petites a

Replace Biden with the dictatorship of the proletariat

“In order to beat Trump, we need to replace Biden with a candidate no one has ever heard of who’d govern like George H. W. Bush. Signed, somekne who didn’t vote for the Democratic Party until 2016.” Yeah, that’s an opinion worth taking seriously.

Replace Joe Biden with Olaf Scholz

The best thing you can do right now is tune out and stop reading social media

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6. De-fund the courts. No clerks/staff, electricity, supplies. 7. Reinstitute circuit riding since SCOTUS so out of touch. Of these, #2 requires a constitutional amendment. #s 1, 6, 7 can be done without amendment but would require Dem majority in Senate + House. # 3, 4 requires Dem Prez as well.

Reminder that there are five ways to address the current SCOTUS problem. 1. Impeach some justices 2. Impose term limits 3. Expand the courts 4. Pass legislation limiting court prerogatives 5. Keep winning the presidency for the next 16 years or so while periodically also holding the senate.

You don’t even need a second Trump presidency or Project 2025; the Supreme Court has already rolled back the United States to the nineteenth century in a span of a decade

the conservative movement's roots is an alliance of business interests livid about the new deal, southern racists livid about the civil rights movement, and church ladies livid about the sexual revolution. scotus will continue unabated until they've rolled all those back (or democrats stop them)

What a country

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The Democratic party is in a very difficult situation, but, luckily, all the decisionmakers who will navigate that situations are the dumbest and most cowardly hacks you can imagine, you cannot believe the depth of their absence of vision and leadership

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When future historians periodize US history, 2013 will mark the end of the US's first era of officially consensual multiracial democracy. After Shelby County v Holder began a period of acute struggle over democracy in the states and eventually at the federal level. The denouement remains to be seen

Eleven years ago, SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act in #ShelbyCounty, arguing that "things have changed" since the 1960s. Today, we know that things have changed since this ruling: namely, that the turnout gap exploded in formerly-covered places 1/n www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Trump and Biden tied in the polls here in Virginia. Remarkable.

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There's this assumption deeply woven into US political culture where far too many of us assume that all democratic gains are permanent--like same-sex marriage, or the Civil Rights (1964) and Voting Rights Acts (1965). But Dobbs is a reminder that history has never just move in one direction.