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Adam Kunz

@adamkunz.com
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Asst. Prof. of poli sci at UW-Eau Claire | PhD at UC Davis, JD at GWU Law | political theorist | cult watcher | apatheist | ex-Mormon | father | 13th-level warlock www.adamkunz.com www.uwec.edu/profiles/kunzas www.lalichcenter.org

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not bring iced coffee to an interview. Ask them where their coffee machine is, and when they tell you it's broken, stare at it deeply for 90 seconds, hit it precisely in its weak spot, and then use the now-working machine to make coffee for everyone, demonstrating that you are a team player.
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 25/09/2026
This came to me in a vision last night, and the irony of my using AI to make it is not lost on me.
An unapologetically AI-generated image in the style of a New Yorker cartoon depicting a classroom where a student is telling a teacher “My dog ate my AI.”
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 18/09/2026
Whoopsies www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 18/09/2026
It was a real pleasure hosting @radiofreetom.bsky.social this week for Constitution Day at the @uwec-menard-ccs.bsky.social. Come back and visit anytime, Tom! We’ll get a copy of “Command & Conquer: Red Alert” and fire up an old Packard Bell!
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 11/09/2026
As someone who was a high school senior 25 years ago and has had my entire adult life defined by post-9/11 bullshit, I’m not *at all* looking forward to the endless, performative hot takes tomorrow.
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Jurassic Park: Hold On To Your Butts!
ALT: Jurassic Park: Hold On To Your Butts!
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 10/09/2026
I’m sorry, what fresh hell is this?
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I know that AI-apocalypticism is the flip side of AI-utopianism, the two sides united in thinking this is the most important tech in the world of utterly transformative importance. And I know that a lot of us on here are allergic to both sides of that, me very much included. 1
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 10/09/2026
Whoops.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Liberals say that our democracy is in a death spiral. They're wrong—our republic is in a death spiral.
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 06/09/2026
Dr. Pepper is a woman and a department chair. She makes 90% less than Mr. Pibb, the newly hired football coach.
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 04/09/2026
A government of ghouls www.cnn.com/2026/09/03/p...
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Video game that lets users arrest undocumented immigrants debuts on official White House web site | CNN Politics
The Trump administration launched a series of arcade-style games on the official White House website Thursday to tout its priorities — the latest turn in its aggressive online effort to troll Democrat...
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 04/09/2026
Wendell never gave up on the good parts of Jeffersonian democracy.
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 04/09/2026
Settle a debate for me: When you turn your phone horizontally to watch something in full screen, is the volume on the top or the bottom?
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 02/09/2026
So much for ambition
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Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Only analytic philosophers get to disparage analytic philosophy. When others do it it’s in poor taste.
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 27/08/2026
It was a pleasure meeting and speaking with Jess for this article. Thanks to @noemamag.com for interviewing me!
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In no real sense is the academy, especially the elite academy, "radical." Sure, there are radicals here. But it hews close to its longstanding function as a machine of class reproduction. The supposedly radical elite academy churns out finance & tech bros (of all genders), lobbyists, nice doctors.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 20/08/2026
keywords (so far): Natalie Harp, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Jon Ossoff, Zohran Mamdani, Gretchen Whitmer www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACfJ... join us, this is live right now
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Natalie Harp Is the Most Powerful Woman in the World
YouTube video by Liberal Currents
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 20/08/2026
Which circle of hell is the annual college retreat?
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 19/08/2026
That one business major who’s taking the IR class as an elective.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 17/08/2026
I just want to say this: @liberalcurrents.com unites both of these groups, understands that both concerns are interconnected, and in addition to our usual articles on the topics, has published a collection aimed at all of it www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...
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The Reconstruction Papers
The Reconstruction Papers is ready to order in the US. US Readers Order Here For nearly a century, the conservative movement's white whale was the government the New Deal and the Great So...
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 17/08/2026
The contract period starts tomorrow, and I just don’t think I have it in me this year.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“I have to be blunt here: Our critics are really fucking stupid, and we’ve given them way too much leeway to conjure senile fantasies out of their own illiteracy. We need to stop taking their trolling in good faith, and we need to stop apologizing for our work.” This is exquisite on The Discourse.
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Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 12/08/2026
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 12/08/2026
The problem has never been the picture or picture taking. The problem has always been that Very Smart People spend all of their time trying to convince the public that the picture is a reliable way to decide where to park, when that is not the case.
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 12/08/2026
More of this sassiness.
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 12/08/2026
Sorry to the Kalshi bros.
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 12/08/2026
Cooke had better have this playing behind her campaign ads until November, or I’ll lose it. youtu.be/k5hWWe-ts2s?...
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Meat Loaf - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad (PCM Stereo)
YouTube video by MeatLoafVEVO
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 12/08/2026
I’ll go a step further: maybe the political science profession should rethink its obsession with the quant veneer of certainty in the first place since, you know, the last ~20 years worth of data science has been about as accurate as a theorist with vibes.* * I say that as a theorist with vibes.
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 12/08/2026
I concur. Damn good book.
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 12/08/2026
“A poll! A poll! My kingdom for a poll!” - some Dem politico in Wisconsin, probably
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026
* SPACEX PLANS TO ESTABLISH "CHEESE MINES" ON THE MOON TO DISRUPT GLOBAL DAIRY MARKET * SPACEX ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH ANDURIL TO PROTECT CHEESE MINES FROM BIKER MICE FROM MARS * ELON MUSK CALLS LACTOSE INTOLERANCE A "WOKE LIE", DONATES $1.5B TO PRO-LACTOSE SUPER PAC
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
TFW the journal that desk rejected your manuscript (because it was "better suited for law review journals") is now hounding you for the review you agreed to do
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Disappointed Disappointed Fan
ALT: Disappointed Disappointed Fan
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Skeleton key accounts of history fall short
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The Master Key of Modern Politics?
Ibram X. Kendi's new book "Chain of Ideas" promises an alluringly straightforward model of modern politics.
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 05/08/2026
Update: Kornacki’s on TikTok Live, and I just saw a Perez Hilton skeet. So, my algorithm is the same regardless. I blame myself.
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 05/08/2026
Abandoning all social media except Bluesky and TikTok is a wild experience. Tonight, it’s a choice between endless Dem primary hot takes or wading through the fallout of Perez Hilton’s psychotic break.
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Here’s an old slide on late volatility in presidential primary/caucus preferences. Common to have lots of movement in the last week, including diffs between final polls and results. Partly by real change, & partly b/c pollsters have to guesstimate who might turn out & weight their results by that.
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that the Education Department has finalized a rule that will force schools to prove that the loans students are taking out are paying off. 

Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music, and cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest. For-profit programs will also be hit particularly hard.
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JasonKeays 🇨🇦 @jasonkeays.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
For years, Canadian Dimension has been laundering Russian propaganda to Canadian audience. This week, it joins other similar influencers trying to depict Ukraine's military campaign against Russian war industry as a conspiracy to merge their war with Trump's war against Iran.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The man endorsed by Sarah Huckabeast in this video is Arkansas state Rep. Austin McCollum. McCollum was arrested today on charges of aggravated assault against a family or household member, first-degree false imprisonment, and third-degree domestic battery. www.nwaonline.com/news/2026/au...
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 30/07/2026
If you’re on the criminal justice market this year, come work at UWEC! You can have great colleagues like @drmiakelly.bsky.social! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Wow. Barnes drops out of WI governor's race. www.wbay.com/2026/07/30/m...
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Mandela Barnes drops out of Wisconsin governor’s race
The one-term lieutenant governor made the announcement on social media.
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 30/07/2026
“Persecuted”
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Let’s just be clear that while a lot of Palestine activists operated and operate in good faith in bad circumstances, Sawant was clear that Trump being elected was her best case scenario for 2024
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 26/07/2026
"Even modest annual reductions in (MMR) vaccine coverage among young children generate a nonlinear increase in cases & hospitalizations, with costs totaling $7.77 billion over a 5-y period." 🛟😷📈🧪 health policy sociology polisky
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The health and economic repercussions of declining MMR coverage in the United States | PNAS
The resurgence of measles in the United States, driven by declining childhood vaccination coverage, poses a substantial public health and economic ...
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 24/07/2026
Stephen Miller’s rhetoric is getting more and more authoritarian. And he’s not even being original about it. open.substack.com/pub/adamkunz...
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You Know What Normal Is
Stephen Miller and the Oldest Grammar in Politics
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
i do find it kind of funny that John Rawls gets occasionally centrist coded online when either regimes justified by the ToJ would still put America well to the left of the status quo
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 24/07/2026
It’s a small thing, but AI has also ruined the joy I used to get from sharing memes and funny videos with my wife. Am I the only one whose partner requires a purity test before viewing dog videos?
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Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com · 24/07/2026
It’s awesome that our benchmark for competence these days is “They haven’t killed anybody this year.”
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