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whet moser

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newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor

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whet moser@whetmoser· 24d

surprising choice for christopher nolan to adapt but i’m looking forward to it

$the collected comic book ody-c cycle one by matt fraction and christian ward$

whet moser@whetmoser· Feb 18

wuthering heights (2026, dir. emerald fennell)

cartoon drawing of the orange cat heathcliff on a billboard that reads "in heat by heathcliff", via https://www.creators.com/read/heathcliff/04/24/367456

whet moser@whetmoser· Feb 17

they’re calling it the world’s least interesting headline

top of the espn app: “Stephen a. happy for tyreek hill after release”

whet moser@whetmoser· Feb 16

score (i was looking for the pdf my friend bootleged me last week)

klaus theweleit’s “male fantasies,” on sale for $12

whet moser@whetmoser· Feb 15

IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE LOVE IS LOVE WE INVENTED THE CURVEBALL

historical plaque:
133 CLINTON STREET
This house was the former home of the Brooklyn Excelsiors, baseball champions of the United States in
1860. Constructed in 185l, the building was once the Jolly Young Bachelors clubhouse. The Bachelors evolved into the Excelsiors baseball team. One of its pitchers, James Creighton, 3O7 Henry Street, Brooklyn, is said to have tossed the first curve ball. During the Civil war the Excelsiors introduced the game to soldiers from various states. Because of its popularity, similar team were established in other cities. Thus, baseball, as a national sport, can be considered as having its origins

whet moser@whetmoser· Feb 15

had never heard of this but it’s amazing (free verse translation that pound gave her advice on)

vintage pocket paperback of “sappho: a new translation” by mary barnard, with a gold cover and two women with harps drawn in an ancient greek style

whet moser@whetmoser· Feb 14

yeah wouldn’t want to get your backpack dirty on the hook underneath

a backpack on a coffee table bar

whet moser@whetmoser· Feb 9

hey, i heard they made you the olympics mascot www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/s...

A stoat is a relative of the weasel with sharp teeth. Its coat changes dramatically from brown in summer to white in winter. (That white fur is known as ermine.) Found throughout Europe, Asia and North America, the stoat ranges from six inches to a foot in length.

whet moser@whetmoser· Feb 9

👋

map of green dots with me near american journalists and policy experts, american journalists and policy analysts, and tech policy and press journalists

whet moser@whetmoser· Feb 9

bluesky when it sees linux in a super bowl ad

leo pointing meme

whet moser@whetmoser· Feb 8

saw a possum out the window, that’s a good omen

a fat possum walking on a wooden fence

whet moser@whetmoser· Feb 7

it came! they sold out of it at SLAM and had to put the last order online

large hardback book reading “anselm kiefer: becoming the sea”

whet moser@whetmoser· Feb 4

ok but if the individual believers that the government consists of follow the greatest commandment [furrows brow, begins counting on fingers]

facebook post from speaker mike johnson
In the press gaggle following today's vote, 1 was asked to defend the Biblical case for border security and immigration enforcement. I did so, and then promised to post a longer explanation that I drafted during the Biden Administration. Here it is, and I hope
it's helpful: Despite the insistence of the progressive Left, people of all religious faiths should support a strong national border-and Christians CERTAINLY should. Critics are fond of citing particular Bible verses out of context to claim that Christians and Jews are being "unfaithful" if we oppose their radical open borders agenda. It has become increasingly important for us to set this
record straight. Perhaps the verse most often cited by the Left is Leviticus 19:34. Whether they know it or not, that passage happens to be from the instructions Moses delivered to the Israelites when they were on their journey through the wilderness in Sinai, before they reached their own Promised Land. The verse reads as follows: "But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land
of Egypt: 1 am the LORD your God." (KJV)
CONTEXT IS CRITICAL It is, of course, a central premise of Judeo-Christian teaching that strangers should be treated with kindness and hospitality. We are each called to love God first and to love our neighbors as ourselves
(Deut. 6:5, Lev. 19:18, Matt. 22:36-40, KJV). However, that "Greatest Commandment was never directed to the government, but to INDIVIDUAL
believers.

whet moser@whetmoser· Feb 4

this is indistinguishable from malicious compliance

According to the center’s website, two classes will be available to UI students in March: American Culture and Values and Political and Economic Institutions in the United States, which will feature lectures by Timothy Hagle and Alex P. Smith, who are both political science professors at the UI.

Both classes count for one credit hour and are graded on a pass/fail basis. Political and Economic Institutions in the United States will feature lectures from CEOs and former Republican Congressman Greg Ganske, pending approval.

The American Culture and Values class will offer various lectures titled, “Freedom: Its Costs and Benefits,” “Self-Reliance as an American Value,” and “Why Capitalism Rocks!”

whet moser@whetmoser· Feb 3

nightmare blunt rotation

"Could this be the best book on football ever?" — Tyler Cowen: a blurb about a chuck klosterman book

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 30

i have just the man

lee ross played by andrew scott in wake up dead man

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 29

1) i think people know the score but expect the very public and quantifiable nature of it to sink in somewhat with the people doing it 2) i am not 100% confident everyone involved is expecting it to be a total failure. people can talk themselves into remarkable things

It is a little weird that people keep acting like MELANIA not making back its money is some kind of ... own? or surprise? It was not supposed to *make* money, folks. That was not the point.

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 28

how i feel about houses

mitra jouhari’s “i am a dumb bitch with terrible taste, i will never change, i will never improve, that is a promise” powerpoint

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 27

mfw i'm at the amazon fresh

carol from pluribus at the sprouts grocery store

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 27

[squints]

clothing label that reads "soffe's choice, medium pre-shrunk cotton"

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 25

package of oreo enrobed white

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 24

chat,

WSJ alert:
Is this your last chance to get rich before the American dream dies?
now

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 23

[crowd] PLAYER COACH PLAYER COACH (idk why espn’s app won’t give me a url to link to)

post from Adam Schefter:
ESPN sources: former Colts QB and current St.
Michael Catholic High School coach Philip Rivers is interviewing today for the Buffalo Bills head
coaching job.

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 20

he told me "the polecats bring beans to the refinery when the mayor tells them to." kids are calling it "gas town."

a screenshot of ice-t in SVU

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 19

post a car picture you took

a truck with an airbrushed wolf and night landscape on the gate that reads “born free” and a skull and crossed guns sticker on the rear windshield

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 19

stealing @sodrock.bsky.social’s bit

graphic of caleb williams in the “we’re back we’re so back it’s over it’s so over” cycle meme

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 17

is there anything better (going to stl overnight for the anselm kiefer exhibition)

train seatback tray with the financial times, the chicago tribune and a cup of coffee

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 16

this is an amazing detail www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

Amid the discussions last summer, the C.I.A. delivered an early assessment that Ms. Rodríguez, then Venezuela’s vice president, was a pragmatic politician, rather than an ideologue, who would be willing to negotiate and potentially even work with the United States.

One intelligence report circulated to senior policymakers mentioned that she wore a $15,000 dress to her inauguration, prompting an official to quip that “she is a socialist but the most capitalistic one I’ve seen.”

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 16

guy who's only seen a really racist version of boss baby:

tweet from david frum: "a way to understand the minneapolis shooting: it was a MAGA version of a third world honor killing"

whet moser@whetmoser· Jan 16

yes, everyone identified was right-wing or IDW. but there was also larry summers

Kanelos identified 32 people as trustees, faculty members and advisers to the new university including Jonathan Haidt, the NYU professor whose work Kanelos evoked in proclaiming that UATX would produce an “antifragile” cohort with the capacity to think “fearlessly, nimbly, and inventively”; Summers; Pinker; the playwright David Mamet; Glenn Loury, an economist at Brown University; computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman; authors Andrew Sullivan and Rob Henderson; the journalists Caitlin Flanagan, Sohrab Ahmari and Jonathan Rauch; Stacy Hock, an investor and philanthropist; and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a conservative, Dutch politician-turned-writer known for criticizing Islam’s treatment of women, and who is married to Ferguson.
The list leaned right, to be sure. Loury, who is Black, zealously opposes affirmative action. Mamet had called Trump “the best president since Abraham Lincoln.” Hock served as chairwoman of an organization called Texas GOP 2020 Victory. Several of the academics had experienced backlash for taking conservative positions. These included Dorian Abbot, a geophysicist who’d had a planned lecture at MIT on extraterrestrial life canceled over his views on DEI; Peter Boghossian, who’d resigned from Portland State University in part because of the institution’s response to his sending hoax articles to academic journals; and University of Sussex professor Kathleen Stock, who’d faced protests over her allegedly transphobic views, which she disputed.
But Summers had served in Bill Clinton’s Cabinet and as Barack Obama’s chief economic advisor. Others were unconventional, independent thinkers, and several, including Haidt and Strossen, had made advocating for free inquiry and open dialogue a major part of their life’s work. It was possible to believe that the group had just enough viewpoint diversity, and a depth of commitment to civil libertarian principles, that it might transcend the virtue signaling, intellectual hegemony and inclination to cancel that h…