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dottore, ingegnere, avvocato When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from @fsgbooks https://www.unpopularfront.news/

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watch here! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

04.03.2026 19:02 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

going live on substack w/ @lioneltrolling.bsky.social at 2

04.03.2026 18:52 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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volcano in progress

03.03.2026 20:40 👍 141 🔁 3 💬 6 📌 1

If Jamelle is a Nazi collaborator, call me Johnny Goebbels I guess

03.03.2026 14:23 👍 110 🔁 2 💬 34 📌 11

My BA (with honors) is in history

02.03.2026 22:19 👍 91 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0

MFA

02.03.2026 22:11 👍 155 🔁 3 💬 11 📌 0
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Against All Enemies Foreign and Domestic

The gyre widens.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/against-al...

02.03.2026 14:34 👍 53 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 6
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Testing the Fascism Thesis Keeping Myself Honest

FWIW.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/testing-th...

01.03.2026 16:02 👍 28 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

seems pretty likely that the DoD/Anthropic showdown is being driven by katie miller crashing out over the anthropic constitution using the phrase "classical liberal democracy"

26.02.2026 01:33 👍 264 🔁 25 💬 9 📌 1
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I Told You So... Assholes

They keep doing the same thing over and over.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/i-told-you...

24.02.2026 14:44 👍 104 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 6
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Hazlitt's Committed Disinterest; Wuthering Lows; Dark Enlightenment's fell philosopher Reading, Watching 02.22.26

Tom Paulin's Hazlitt book; Barbara McClay on Wuthering Heights; James Duesterberg on Nick Land
www.unpopularfront.news/p/hazlitts-c...

22.02.2026 15:28 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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it's so funny to try to legitimize a moronic argument by claiming that it is supported by a growing movement of diverse thinkers and then you list the people who belong to that movement and every single one is stupid and/or racist

19.02.2026 14:27 👍 4029 🔁 651 💬 217 📌 217
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G.I. Jane (feat. Hilary Matfess) Podcast Episode · Unclear and Present Danger · February 19 · 1 sec

I went on "Unclear and Present Danger" (w @jamellebouie.net and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social) to talk about GI Jane, American discomfort with women in combat, and how hot Viggo Mortensen was in those little khaki shorts. You can listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

20.02.2026 15:26 👍 164 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 0
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Polybius seems to think Supreme Court Ruling is important

20.02.2026 16:40 👍 31 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Talking with Max Read about AI and the Left A recording from John Ganz and Max Read's live video

In my latest chat with @maxread.info, I share my hangover curee secrets with Max, who had three martinis the night before.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-wi...

19.02.2026 14:35 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 1
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The Age of Jackson Jesse Jackson's Lost Legacy

There is still much to learn from Jesse Jackson.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-age-of...

18.02.2026 12:24 👍 74 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 3

Low Life by Lucy Sante

16.02.2026 13:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bluesky gave me an adult content warning for a Titian painting of Venus

15.02.2026 15:56 👍 75 🔁 3 💬 6 📌 0
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Chip Berlet, in memoriam; Poland's Perils; Matters of Church and State Reading, Watching 02.15.26

Remembering Chip Berlet; Poland's perilous democracy; do progressives need the Church?
www.unpopularfront.news/p/chip-berle...

15.02.2026 15:56 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why the Clock Broke: America in an Age of Crisis | King's College London A lecture with best-selling author, John Ganz.

London! March 26th!
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/why-t...

14.02.2026 21:49 👍 39 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Stancilgrad.

12.02.2026 22:18 👍 159 🔁 14 💬 6 📌 3

Very excited we will be hosting a lecture by the one and only John Ganz - info and sign up here!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-the-cl...

12.02.2026 08:17 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/trumps-pink-economy

Trumpism promised a return of macho producerism, but the only growing sector is care work.—
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11.02.2026 15:57 👍 47 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
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Poe's Sci-Fi; Lord Byron and the Luddites; Visconti's ‘Conversation Piece’ Reading Watching 02.09.26

Edgar Allan Poe's Science Fiction; Lord Byron and the Luddites; Visconti's ‘Conversation Piece.’—

www.unpopularfront.news/p/poes-sci-f...

09.02.2026 13:58 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

08.02.2026 19:02 👍 1151 🔁 343 💬 8 📌 13

this is how the British press talked about Mussolini lol

07.02.2026 16:00 👍 294 🔁 40 💬 2 📌 0

did you put the models on? or just run it without them

06.02.2026 01:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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New Polybius score — not a big change

05.02.2026 16:42 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Trying to assess what's actually going on is never the wrong thing to do.

05.02.2026 16:06 👍 69 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

No it's not

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