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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 8h

I was reading your reviews in 7th grade, taking the subway back from school. I’d pick up a NY Press and read you and Armond White. Formative experiences.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13h

These different incentives from standalone media owners vs. "common owners" like Benioff is the subject of one of my working papers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/07aux...

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 12h

Under a corrupt or authoritarian leader, wealth concentration incentivises the crazy-rich, with widespread business interests, to make loss-making media acquisition. By currying political favor, they gain rents - whether with enthusiasm (Musk) or more reluctance (Bezos). Here's the economic model.

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why does this menu item look like the worst Jeopardy category

A block of text reading “grilled fish on salad” in all caps

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The deployment of National Guard troops into cities has been so normalized that it barely merits a mention in the press or among the public anymore. D.C. remains occupied, Memphis is occupied, so is New Orleans... It's incredible to me.

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Saw a bumper sticker today that read “heal the world: cook a meal” and I do think there’s a point at which we need to encourage people to raise their bar for activism a little

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If it is an attack, then they are admitting the incompatibility of such a vision with the structure of the Israeli state

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So we now each have the power to treat all culture like the music industry has treated Black American culture for the last 150 years

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Precisely so. Also: a truly terrible show except for Spader.

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look we binged Blacklist during the lockdowns, this isn’t personal

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also I hear “hands clean” there in the voice of Joe Don Baker playing a crooked sheriff in some 80s movie where he’s explaining how things Really Work to our hero

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Can’t Make an [Not Fascism] without breaking a few [Undesirables]

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is good that David Ellison looks like he’s playing James Spader in a shitty James Spader biopic

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

These shitheads exist in a world where claims to basic humanity are theoretical grievances.

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh, just in the forces involved, it can feel over the top when I’m seeing so many people struggle to put a string quartet together

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I find Messiaen, despite his brilliance, to be on the edge of decadence. I got really angry seeing Des canyons aux étoiles once. Again: the edge. He’s one of my favorite composers. But it’s pushing it.

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

when instead of arguing from first principles you argue from a final principle of white supremacy

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My kids are like the monsters in A Quiet Place, but only for the crinkling of a chip bag

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is incredible and hilarious, and also represents conservative grievance culture in a nutshell

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My friend went to an Albanian fortune teller in Sheepshead Bay during his bachelor party and she said he was cursed and insisted they do a blood ritual then and there. He wasn’t in the greatest spirits when he got to the bar back on Atlantic. So - something along those lines

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This will be our world, for as long as we know it. This will be us, conditioned to fluidity and responding to the realities of the moment. We will help buffer the worst effects and preserve what we can. That’s our lot in this moment and it’s all we can do, and it’s everything.

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So many effects of climate change are awful. Some are obvious, others are subtle. We feel them here, as everywhere. But this season is a season of fluidity. Of ambiguity. The things that still live here are conditioned to variation. So they can thrive in a changing world. It’s fascinating to see.

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today, countless wasps were about the house. They’ll die soon. They’ve done their job. In some years they’d be dead already. But they carry on as long as the weather and their bodies will allow. Many things are like that in this period. Climate change, here, merely extends what was already strange.

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This period after summer but before the frost is one of our new ambiguous climate change zones. How far can we push it? Can the fruit on my outdoor fig tree actually ripen here in zone 5? Can the sheep again graze into December? Some years yes, others no. But the ambiguity is built into the system.

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Gavadon @gavadon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I skipped high school to buy tickets for The Phantom Menace. The following day my Dad asked ," how was school?" I replied, " It was fine " He then threw this newspaper at me and asked , " how the fuck would you know?" He was so pleased with himself that I didn't actually get in trouble.

Newspaper where I am on the front page, in line for Star Wars tickets , having given the reporter my full government name

Closeup of the photo from the Newspaper where I am on the front page, in line for Star Wars tickets , having given the reporter my full government name .

As one pal put it, " a very John Conner look "

Closeup of the text for the photo that says

" Ticket wars

Left: The line of area residents waitinng for advanced ticket sales for the May 19 release of "Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace" stretched outside the Grand Central Mall's Regal Cinemas onto the sidewalk outside. Above: Inside, Jordan Baker, Joe Peyton, Mat Lyons, Josh Lemley and Steve Roberts passed time by playing Star Wars Trivial Pursuit as they awaited the Lucas epic.

Photos by Tony Kemp

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s a strange period in the northeast…many birds have left, others are molting and quiet, the geese are migrating and the big trees are changing colors…but the peppers still cling to their branches, the fruit trees are still green, the katydids & crickets still call at night in a memory of summer.

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pretty weak stuff here. Good on the journalist for asking this question

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Great Replacement logic seems like an estuary between classical antisemitism and the version you’re talking about. Jews serve a specific racial function as a hinge, the enemy within white culture that opens the gates to the barbarian horde.

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m certainly not the knowledge holder here…just trying to apply my homeowner logic lol

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But I’m not understanding what “Jewish” is doing there - unless you’re saying that Jewish people are being singled out from other white German protesters to be beaten. Which I have not seen evidence to support. So what’s left is just antisemitism as legacy?

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That would be my only actual advice here lol!

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm confused as to why that would knock out the lights? It seems like some circuit is still not completing properly, no? (These are real questions, since you certainly know more than I do)

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is a thought-provoking thread, thank you. Can you clarify the distinction you're implying (if any) between antisemitism, as applicable to all/any people (not just Jews), and other forms of racism?

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