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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 6h

I also think that for many men podcasts have filled the slot of leisure time that might have been filled by book-reading

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 6h

Non-ideologically-committed Americans vote for whoever they believe will make stuff cheaper. And most Americans are not ideologically committed. Republicans are hard-pressed this year to present themselves as the party of “cheaper stuff.”

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Watch “Zone of Interest” to see how this is possible

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Worth noting that in psychiatry, SI stands for suicidal ideation

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To be clear, my original point was not intended as a criticism of your post but more a lament that white men seem to be over represented among those with realistic chances of flipping seats— a reflection of the current state of gender/race politics, unfortunately

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks — I hope you are right to be optimistic but it’s still somewhat disappointing to see this list of almost exclusively white men (just two women with very brief mentions)

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A core MAGA belief is that everyone outside of their bitter little world is always scamming. Some republic leaders share that belief and others pretend to, but they all use it to justify their destructive policies.

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Also, he sees himself primarily as a celebrity, a star. He thinks he’s really really good at entertainment (and his inner circle always claps) so a big show, in his mind, demonstrates to the world (and himself) how enormously important and successful he is despite his cratering polls

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Dial M for Murder” is definitely not his best but it still amazes me that the entire plot is explicitly revealed in the first 15 minutes and yet the unfolding of that plot is still gripping

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Winning praise from anti-Trumpers means nothing to him. He got to his current position of power not by courage but by cutting deals and kowtowing to the “right” people. Why would he change at age 68?

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

There were a bunch of disturbing stories about him a few months ago but I don’t think he would probably rank as a maniac

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Maybe the 6 justices of the Supreme Court should spend a few minutes reflecting on the voyage of the MS St. Louis and the fate of its passengers denied entry in 1939

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

One really has to admire the work that People has been doing recently. They seem to be the main journalistic source for this story and have been far less cagey than big papers in their political headlines

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Relatedly, anti-intellectualism is a foundational value of today’s far right. That was not the case for conservatives of earlier periods. Artists need not be intellectuals, but they can’t hold the world of ideas in contempt.

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Yes, and also, exact which Democratic politicians does he have in mind here? I can’t think of one (besides Obama himself sometimes). In a college seminar you can’t just throw in a critique without specific evidence to back it up.

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hype man for the reality tv show that he stars in is the only way he can understand the world

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Coming from the government, this should be appalling to every American

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

And in this worldview, women are by definition unable to project “strength” which is defined in crude masculine terms. Noem and Bondi tried to project masculine “strength” through ruthlessness and cruelty but they were always going to come up short - in part because they also had to be “sexy.”

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

If the construction is permanently halted, the demolition site should be preserved as the perfect symbol of this administration and a warning to future generations

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Yes, liberal/progressive activism is coded female; rural/conservative activism is coded male. Not hard to guess which one is assumed to be more “authentically American.” And that assumption holds for the liberal press as well as the conservative press

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

We should all use Sharpies to blot out the signature when we encounter it. That won’t devalue the bill and the blot would be a fitting symbol of this presidency

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Yes, I agree that issues have shifted. Immigration and political attacks on universities have become more urgent. No doubt student organizing is still happening but it has taken a far less strident form now. I don’t read the article as primarily critical of students. Thanks for the discussion

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It is a fact that there is very little campus protest happening right now. The main reason for that, according to this piece, is campus administration repression. Why is that a problematic argument?

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Please read the article—it argues exactly what you want it to argue even if the title might seem to be faulting students

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates, some time before 1900, not Vienna

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Where are AOC and Raskin? What would be their rationale for not co-sponsoring?

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I’m going to carry a copy of my mother’s German passport from the 1930’s that had a swastika and a big “J” stamped on it

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Clearly meant “destructive.” Easy mistake to make. Simple verbal slip

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

This is also — mainly I think— a campaign to make people afraid to show up

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

My theory is that “sick burns” and “cringy bullshit” are equally useless ways of making people feel, wrongly, like they have some power.

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Can every university considering signing on please look up “Gleichschaltung, 1933”

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Look up the assassination of Ernst vom Rath to see how an act of political violence can become the pretext for a murderous conflagration by a regime intent on persecution

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Maybe both but also money— it would be enormously expensive to fight the government in the courts knowing the case will be appealed ad nauseam up to the Supreme Court where the university might well lose. What are other options? What does “fight back” entail?

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Has anyone proposed asking the Nobel Prize Committee to give Trump a Peace Prize in exchange for his resignation? Probably the best thing they could do to further the cause of peace right now

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Yale has a longstanding tradition of male cheerleaders — though always with a tongue -in-cheek approach like their highly imprecise “Precision Marching Band.”

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I love this and agree that there is significant and underreported student interest in intense intellectual engagement but, of course, political and financial pressures all push in the opposite direction.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Will there be different designs for different ethnic groups, religions, races, sexual orientations, you know, so they can be easily recognized? I feel like maybe there’s a historical precedent for that

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Katrin Schultheiss @kschul.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Here’s a faint silver lining: the levels of ignorance, stupidity, and incompetence on display right now make a strong case for higher education— not just sciences but history, int’l relations, polisci etc etc. Someday we will have to rebuild

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