dave, flying letter📨

Temporarily retired from the academic job market

[dave, flying letter📨 @dbaten3]

A lot of liberals have been grumbling about the state of their cities and saying that rising disorder is why trump won, in this blog post I examine the evidence and conclude that the support for the general disorder thesis is very weak (link in reply)

[dave, flying letter📨 @dbaten3]

I suspect platner will have slightly different crosstabs than fetterman, far from being the candidate of low status men or w/e all the clips of people defending him are angry 55+ establishment libs and indies

[dave, flying letter📨 @dbaten3]

I understand a lot of money, attention and emotional energy are being dumped into this race, not sure it will matter

[dave, flying letter📨 @dbaten3]

My take on the platner race is that it will be decided entirely on the trajectory of conditions, if things are turning around indies will quietly go with the known quantity but if voters feel hopeless platner wins in a landslide no matter the allegations

[dave, flying letter📨 @dbaten3]

The platner revelations are very funny because right wingers who endlessly defend the most boorish and misogynistic behavior are forced to feign offense while actual respectability liberals have to rationalize his behavior because deep down they want an agent of revenge

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officially tells Congress it considers Iran war 'terminated' despite presence of US armed forces in region.

[dave, flying letter📨 @dbaten3]

@kvallier AI is accelerating the decline for sure, but the trend has been going since COVID if not earlier, my own sense is that unless we have a pretty drastic structural transformation of higher ed institutions, outside of a few elite colleges a lot of us are toast

[dave, flying letter📨 @dbaten3]

The whole rufo-right liberal battle is a fight over one small slice of a disappearing pie, whether research sinecures go to progressive globalist liberals or high church Aristotle scholars or based Claremont straussians is not going to matter in 10 years

[dave, flying letter📨 @dbaten3]

The broad American middle increasingly finds liberal academia useless, they hate the conservative version as well, just look at what's happening to America's non elite parochial colleges

[Faytuks News @Faytuks]

BREAKING: President Trump tells Fox News that he has unilaterally cancelled Witkoff and Kushner’s trip to Pakistan to meet with the Iranians.

[dave, flying letter📨 @dbaten3]

@d08890 I get that the anger is because they are lefty green types but on the scale of egregious academic sinecures you could do a lot worse than a political leader and best selling author

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Diplomatic sources tell CBS that Donald Trump personally agreed to include Lebanon in the ceasefire deal, with Israel also accepting the terms.

[dave, flying letter📨 @dbaten3]

Now is the time for the democratic establishment to lock in, anger at the GOP is at an all time high so it is time to put all those new angry donations to good use, like by paying staffers to watch thousands of hours of hasan piker streams to look for anti semitism

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Iran's Fars says that oil tanker traffic through Hormuz has been halted due to Israeli ceasefire violations in Lebanon.

[dave, flying letter📨 @dbaten3]

Iran figured out that the US government is a defense contractor that must answer to an increasingly globalized, mono-culture capital owning class, by focusing their fire on the former and showing restraint to the latter, they are poised to win unimaginable concessions

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

Statement on behalf of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran:

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

Trump says he accepts Iran’s 10 point plan as framework for negotiations. Iran says the deal is ships pass through the Strait of Hormuz *in coordination with Iran’s armed forces.* Trump says 2week ceasefire. Iran says it will halt its defensive ops if U.S.-Israel cease attacks.

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

🚨Trump announces two week ceasefire with Iran and says, “We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate.”

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

JUST IN - U.S. and Arab officials say talks are now centering around getting a deadline extension, not a deal — WSJ

[War Monitor @WarMonitors]

⚡MTV sources report that Lebanese political sources have been informed that there is a strong possibility of a ceasefire being declared, including in Lebanon, within the hour.

[Joseph Keegin @jmkeegin]

Now that the ink is dry, I can announce that I’ve accepted a position as assistant professor in the @miamiuniversity Center for Civics, Culture, and Society, starting this fall. Thrilled to build something beautiful with @FlaggTaylor4, @GregMcBrayer3, and others. Love and honor.