yuri forever. you understand.
October 9, 2026 at 1:14 AM
yuri forever. you understand.
"Possibly perpetuating pop, personalism, postpunk and postconceptualism: 7 decades of Jenny Watson" at Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Melbourne.
October 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"Possibly perpetuating pop, personalism, postpunk and postconceptualism: 7 decades of Jenny Watson" at Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Melbourne.
Urho Kekkonen single handily proving that semi personalism semi autocracy is 80 percent drip
I’m not sure whether we have to, under any circumstances, hand it to autocrats, but I’ve been under the impression that life during Tito wasn’t entirely horrible...
(And here we Finns really can’t be throwing stones after all the autocratic bullshit we happily accepted from This Guy for 25 years)
(And here we Finns really can’t be throwing stones after all the autocratic bullshit we happily accepted from This Guy for 25 years)
October 8, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Urho Kekkonen single handily proving that semi personalism semi autocracy is 80 percent drip
one paradox of personalism is that the more personalistic the regime, the more people instinctively attribute high and grand intentions to the ruler’s actions (good tsar bad boyars), and the smaller and more pedestrian his actual motivations become (family shit, petty revenges, superstitions, etc.)
October 7, 2026 at 11:02 PM
one paradox of personalism is that the more personalistic the regime, the more people instinctively attribute high and grand intentions to the ruler’s actions (good tsar bad boyars), and the smaller and more pedestrian his actual motivations become (family shit, petty revenges, superstitions, etc.)
Yeah I was appalled at the personalism and I was right to be BUT the Christian nationalists are always worse, especially the sincere ones
October 6, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Yeah I was appalled at the personalism and I was right to be BUT the Christian nationalists are always worse, especially the sincere ones
"The United States does not need a sovereign wealth fund administered as a menagerie of individual stakes. We have an enormous and growing economy, and the way to provide public goods on that basis is, once again, taxes collected according to general and neutral rules."
Editor's Notes: The Point of Government Equity Stakes Is Personalism
It is not industrial policy. It's the rule of men rather than of laws.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 5, 2026 at 10:40 PM
"The United States does not need a sovereign wealth fund administered as a menagerie of individual stakes. We have an enormous and growing economy, and the way to provide public goods on that basis is, once again, taxes collected according to general and neutral rules."
"Equity stakes allow Trump to avoid being bound by rules. Instead he can make 'deals' with each company in turn. This is the rule of men, not laws. This is crony capitalism in action." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
Editor's Notes: The Point of Government Equity Stakes Is Personalism
It is not industrial policy. It's the rule of men rather than of laws.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 5, 2026 at 8:06 PM
"Equity stakes allow Trump to avoid being bound by rules. Instead he can make 'deals' with each company in turn. This is the rule of men, not laws. This is crony capitalism in action." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
Editor's Notes: The Point of Government Equity Stakes Is Personalism www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
Editor's Notes: The Point of Government Equity Stakes Is Personalism
It is not industrial policy. It's the rule of men rather than of laws.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 5, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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It's always personalism www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
Editor's Notes: The Point of Government Equity Stakes Is Personalism
It is not industrial policy. It's the rule of men rather than of laws.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 5, 2026 at 5:08 PM
It's always personalism www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
Obviously the conservative justices aren’t motivated by a liking for Trump’s personalism. They are motivated by a sense that Trump is the dangerous tiger they’ve got to ride in pursuit of policy goals that they would prefer to pursue by more placid means - by feigning adherence to Originalism.
“The disaster being created by today’s conservative justices isn’t motivated by a liking for Trump’s personal style of governance. It’s driven by their blind adherence to the foolish dogma of originalism.” —Noah Feldman
Eradicating the ‘Fourth Branch’ | Noah Feldman
By ending the independence of federal agencies, the Supreme Court has taken another step toward the creation of an elected presidential dictatorship.
www.nybooks.com
October 3, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Obviously the conservative justices aren’t motivated by a liking for Trump’s personalism. They are motivated by a sense that Trump is the dangerous tiger they’ve got to ride in pursuit of policy goals that they would prefer to pursue by more placid means - by feigning adherence to Originalism.
Imo I think personalism and “great men” of anarchism (or women like Goldman and de Cleyre) is less prominent in the late classical and post-classical anarchist periods (including ours, even wrt Bonanno) bc we got a lot better at depersonalizing organization. So we talk of FAu, AF, BRRN, CNT, etc.
October 2, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Imo I think personalism and “great men” of anarchism (or women like Goldman and de Cleyre) is less prominent in the late classical and post-classical anarchist periods (including ours, even wrt Bonanno) bc we got a lot better at depersonalizing organization. So we talk of FAu, AF, BRRN, CNT, etc.
I'm going to write my book about how stealing the taxpayers' pianos at a loss exemplifies the stupid personalism of this admin. Months after the East Wing was demolished, I'm still fixated on the apparent disappearance of the incredibly valuable/historic piano from its foyer.
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos
www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
www.alternet.org
October 1, 2026 at 8:36 PM
I'm going to write my book about how stealing the taxpayers' pianos at a loss exemplifies the stupid personalism of this admin. Months after the East Wing was demolished, I'm still fixated on the apparent disappearance of the incredibly valuable/historic piano from its foyer.
these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos
www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
www.alternet.org
October 1, 2026 at 8:20 PM
these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
It could be or it could not be, having government take equity in companies per se isn’t the problem, it’s that it’s all part of the overall personalism and corruption of this administration
September 30, 2026 at 6:07 PM
It could be or it could not be, having government take equity in companies per se isn’t the problem, it’s that it’s all part of the overall personalism and corruption of this administration
I would genuinely question the usefulness of "center", "right"...etc when talking of French politics, obvs there are sides, but so much more is pure personalism
September 28, 2026 at 12:03 PM
I would genuinely question the usefulness of "center", "right"...etc when talking of French politics, obvs there are sides, but so much more is pure personalism
Streamers are impactful precisely because they have among the most highly engaged and easily mobilized online communities that grow around them. But they’re not the only path to community (nor, we would argue, are they the healthiest and most stable path). www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
Editor's Notes: Personalism, Streamers, and Effective Statelessness
Today we released an episode of Out of the Jaws where Ryan Geddie and I interview At Dawn Campaign's Sam Drzymala. Sam is a veteran of putting new media to work for political ends. Much of his most re...
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 27, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Streamers are impactful precisely because they have among the most highly engaged and easily mobilized online communities that grow around them. But they’re not the only path to community (nor, we would argue, are they the healthiest and most stable path). www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
"Trump has taken our country terrifying far down the path of personalism and that is not a bell that will simply be unrung. Just as Trump and the whole MAGA ecosystem have transformed our society, we must seek to transform our society as well." www.liberalcurrents.com/democratic-t...
Democratic Transitions in Next Year's Issue of The Reconstruction Papers
The most important question facing our country.
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 22, 2026 at 5:08 PM
"Trump has taken our country terrifying far down the path of personalism and that is not a bell that will simply be unrung. Just as Trump and the whole MAGA ecosystem have transformed our society, we must seek to transform our society as well." www.liberalcurrents.com/democratic-t...
The image and headline of “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED” was presented to Trump by MAGA grifter Bill Pulte, who previously claimed that Federal Reserve renovation cost overruns justified removing the head of the Federal Reserve. Pulte is precisely the type of lickspittle who is empowered by personalism
September 22, 2026 at 12:45 PM
The image and headline of “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED” was presented to Trump by MAGA grifter Bill Pulte, who previously claimed that Federal Reserve renovation cost overruns justified removing the head of the Federal Reserve. Pulte is precisely the type of lickspittle who is empowered by personalism
Factionalism and personalism are so perilous, man.
So many people care only who says it, not what’s actually being said.
So many people care only who says it, not what’s actually being said.
September 22, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Factionalism and personalism are so perilous, man.
So many people care only who says it, not what’s actually being said.
So many people care only who says it, not what’s actually being said.
A real problem here with “personalism,” of leaving government in the hands of a single person or a few people who don't feel obligated to follow anything but their own personal desires. Also, Saudi Arabia has...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thing...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thing...
Things Fall Apart (in the Middle East): The Donald Trump Story
One of the key arguments for a great power — other than...
talkingpointsmemo.com
September 22, 2026 at 11:07 AM
A real problem here with “personalism,” of leaving government in the hands of a single person or a few people who don't feel obligated to follow anything but their own personal desires. Also, Saudi Arabia has...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thing...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thing...
Maureen Tkacik dives into The Macklemore/Sheeran/Kraft story to show that the clash of more-or-less powerful individuals is just as much a tale of antitrust, collusion, and creeping personalism. I've always dug her maximalist style, on full display here
prospect.org/2026/09/19/m...
prospect.org/2026/09/19/m...
Macklemore vs. Everybody - The American Prospect
The wokest rapper took on the NFL’s plutocratic ownership, the Israel lobby, and the Live Nation ‘flywheel’—and won.
prospect.org
September 21, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Maureen Tkacik dives into The Macklemore/Sheeran/Kraft story to show that the clash of more-or-less powerful individuals is just as much a tale of antitrust, collusion, and creeping personalism. I've always dug her maximalist style, on full display here
prospect.org/2026/09/19/m...
prospect.org/2026/09/19/m...
That's such a good point!
Racism <-> Stupid Crank Beliefs (RFK)<-> Trump Personalism formed a majority by being handcuffed to each other in a way that makes it hard to try to run with one without being stuck with the other two.
Racism <-> Stupid Crank Beliefs (RFK)<-> Trump Personalism formed a majority by being handcuffed to each other in a way that makes it hard to try to run with one without being stuck with the other two.
September 21, 2026 at 6:03 PM
That's such a good point!
Racism <-> Stupid Crank Beliefs (RFK)<-> Trump Personalism formed a majority by being handcuffed to each other in a way that makes it hard to try to run with one without being stuck with the other two.
Racism <-> Stupid Crank Beliefs (RFK)<-> Trump Personalism formed a majority by being handcuffed to each other in a way that makes it hard to try to run with one without being stuck with the other two.
maybe the problem with personalism is that when you think your power derives entirely from your self you become blind to any other source of power; as a version of narcissism, it is structurally incapable of witnessing competing sources.
September 20, 2026 at 12:55 AM
maybe the problem with personalism is that when you think your power derives entirely from your self you become blind to any other source of power; as a version of narcissism, it is structurally incapable of witnessing competing sources.