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Adrian Daub
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"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com .. more

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Adrian Daub is a German literary scholar and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, who has served as the Director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and serves as the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute at Stanford. .. more

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Jun 13
My book WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING will be released on August 18! It is now available for pre-order! bookshop.org/p/books/what...
The awesome cover of What Tech Calls Governing, which you should pre-order before it comes out on August 18!

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 13h
Yeah I'd say so. Deeply uncomfortable though

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 14h
I knew the Elizabeth Holmes documentary would be a ride but holy shit was it a ride

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 20h
Goddamnit

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
Feels like a real case for this meme

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d
so many of us saw this coming (Radley included), from January 2025:

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 1d
Corporate power over speech and state power over speech are just one big oozing gelatinous monster these days.
Musk suggests US behind slowdown in Ukraine's Starshield system
Elon Musk said any restrictions on Ukraine’s Starshield satellite system are controlled by the US government, not SpaceX. Ukraine’s former defence minister called for the removal of speed limits to st...
www.euronews.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d
Republicans' anti-democracy project has a fast track (Trump) and a slow track (Roberts Court).

They sometimes disagree on specifics, but both tracks backslide the US, and do more in concert than they could on their own.

If you excuse the slow track because it's not the fast track, you're a sucker.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
This is your brain on Jesse Singal
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Trump: "They want to cut your children. It's unbelievable what they do. Your son leaves as Jimmy and comes home in three days as Janet, and they don't even ask you. They can take your child out of school and do whatever the hell they want. Minnesota is one of those states."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d
While we don’t have a smoking gun yet, there is reason to believe that earlier this year the Trump admin ordered USCIS to arbitrarily cap the number of immigrants who can become citizens each month.

Backlogs in the naturalization process are now skyrocketing.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d
Easy to laugh at a dude like this but fully half of “anti-woke” punditry is basically this and respectable outlets run it
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Q: What brings you to the Trump rally?

GUY: I don't like Biden

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "They want to cut your children. It's unbelievable what they do. Your son leaves as Jimmy and comes home in three days as Janet, and they don't even ask you. They can take your child out of school and do whatever the hell they want. Minnesota is one of those states."

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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 2d
In addition to the broader literacy crisis, we're also in a power literacy crisis. Many folks deeply misunderstand how political power works, who has it, and how to build it.

And all of that is happening while more folks are using the language of organizing without grasping its most basic tenets.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Q: What brings you to the Trump rally?

GUY: I don't like Biden

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d
Sullivan’s research process

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article).
1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention.
Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”