"Trump's speech turned to grievances about immigrants..." He referred to the counties, including Haiti, Somalia, and Afghanistan as filthy, dirty, disgusting hellholes, shitholes and said he wanted immigrants from Norway and Sweden. It was dangerous, obscene white supremacy. Fucking say it.

John Paul Brammer, "'Cloud Dancer': a measured response"

ICE detaining military personnel because they believe they aren’t U.S. citizens is wild as hell but I’m not really surprised by it.

Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces. There’s no such thing as a “free market.” It is designed. It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.

as noted, this was a planned hit job against a trans professor. it's undeniably part of the wider narrative building and consent manufacturing for the ongoing destruction of US higher education,which has been a target of which birthed the Heritage Foundation in the 70s. this has been planned.

Boston University is offering tenured professors early retirement. Yale is talking layoffs. MIT is eliminating 3 libraries. Trump and Project 2025 are destroying US higher education.

Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award Also Boomers:

[Werner Herzog voice] He is monstrous, but in a more profound sense, Cookie Monster is also a victim

i hate it here

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If the Supreme Court makes you mad keep in mind that within the last week Democratic senators have been voting for GOP judges to get on the federal bench

Ghostbara

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

But remember that the magical truth about Christmas gift shopping is

Donald Trump fell asleep during a Cabinet meeting, raising new questions about Joe Biden's health.

the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all

ok I read some of the Nuzzi piece and I am pleased to announce that I will never feel bad about my own writing ever again

'ai is bad'/'anti-ai is ableism' discourse is just arguing about why the *other* person should get thrown into Curtis Yarvin's unproductive-people-shredder and turned into biofuel for billionaires

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

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impossible to overstate the degree to which we are being governed by people whose formative politics is gamergate, but DHS posting Halo memes to recruit for ICE is pretty close.

I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

Trump didn’t just take billions of taxpayer dollars and give it to Argentina with no legal process to help a politician he likes avoid losses in domestic elections and hook up a billionaire he knows who made a bad bet on Argentina. He gave away billions of Americans’ money and it didn’t even work.

For those of us without clear memories of politics in 1971.

There's a very strong argument that the failures of Democrats and liberals to halt the authoritarian takeover comes down to them spending 25 years building an ideology & media infrastructure designed to avoid accepting or even acknowledging the truth of this one FDR quote.

things bullets say

oh no please not that, that would be terrible

If you ever called the Democrats "controlled opposition," you need to stop applauding MGT for condemning Johnson etc. She's clearly there just to satisfy the Conservatives and Moderates who are getting nervous about Trump's agenda.

oh good, Dem leadership is challenging to a debatea Repub leader whose party has long abandoned good faith arguments and any interest in adhering to truth and honesty. what a wonderful idea.

my theory remains Israel has blackmail on Elon re: Epstein, which keeps re-triggering his childhood Afrikaner NeoNazi white supremacy and that particularly vile brand of conspiratorial hate for Jews.

you can tell Hegseth is one of the repubs who uses Grindr with all that 'no fats no fems' he's on about

when your morality system centers on making into good one evil (white supremacy/ apartheid), all the other evils become easier and easier when one turns vice into virtue/foul into fair (and likewise the inverse), less and less stops you from seeing evil in the exercise of unequal power - even CSA.

VT is joining, just a paperwork delay.

Feels fortuitous to read, given I just sent in my grad school applications for a social scientist degree.

this administration started with a guy seig heiling repeatedly from the inauguration stage, I feel like there's not really any secret to uncover here

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

Donald Trump has long treated 14-year-olds as adults so this makes sense

* ORACLE, SILVER LAKE, ANDREESSEN TO CONTROL TIKOK IN US: WSJ $ORCL

Reporter (about protesters): “They still have First Amendment rights though?” Trump: “Well, I’m not so sure.” Not so sure. About free speech.

They're going to keep going until they get trans people killed. They want trans people murdered en mass.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

this is the GOAT tumblr post and always will be

Thinking about the times Dems refused to do this. Wouldn't be sporting, or whatever they said at the time. Once again, whatever the GOP does is seen as the norm and acceptable, and anything Dems do is seen as a transgressive overreach.