I’ve been a Toyota guy since I got my license, I’m intent on my next vehicle being an EV, and I’m definitely radical-urbanist-adjacent in my transportation philosophy, but every time I see a new Bronco on the road I’m the distracted boyfriend meme.

Once you realize the NYT is trying to help him you can’t stop seeing it

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

good ol' us-easy-1, the big easy, I like call it

... that the modern breed of media-bubble rightie even understands, cognizes, that there *is* an empirical reality beyond the game of own and counter-own on the screens. What they are doing with those words is expressing that the left is illegitimate, which to them is true, so the words are true.

When they say "their protests are funded by rich Jews" -- or "the 2020 election was stolen," or "they are communists" -- they are not doing what people like us are doing with words, ie, trying to describe empirical reality. As I've said before, it's not even clear ...

The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.

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George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle. And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

Amazing that “No kings and no Nazis” is suddenly a controversial slogan and up for debate in 2025. These are the two most basic creeds of American history.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

No kings pls! Tnx 😘

One last post (for the moment!): Why the costumes? Authoritarians grab power with fear. They can’t STAND mockery. It weakens their hold. That’s why.

the whole point of mass protest is to demonstrate overwhelming opposition to the political direction, at a scale that can't be cracked down on dress comfortably and stay away from anyone inciting violence, but don't let clout chasers scare you into losing sight of how the basic concept works

I really hate using a generational lens for everything, but the point about millennials feels right. Gen-x democrats mostly read as performing (Harris, Jeffries, Booker) and millennial/gen-z democrats (Mamdani, Buttigieg, AOC, Abughazaleh) mostly seem to have it.

“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.

Remember the first few months of this year, when all we talked about was DOGE and spending cuts and waste, and this administration gutted USAID? And now they’re giving $40 billion (!) to Argentina. Insane the amount of amnesia in this country and in our politics and media.

Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted." That will change the frame of the story.

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

This is a really important point. They’re performing power for an audience. For us. To convince us that they have more power than they do. They’re fear-harvesting.

I have some very specific annoyances with Apple Health medication tracking (and all the highest rated ones in the App Store). I've been threatening to make a local-first PWA alternative for awhile, and decided to use v0 to prototype it. It's done a very passable job, and also I hate it?

"Agents report that they enjoy working with Beads..." Uh, they do? The robot told you it likes your thing and you understood that to be expressing an emotion?

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once: — Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — Against raising the minimum wage — Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

Turns out protest alone was never what changed things, it was protest *plus media coverage of protests*, which prompted officials to respond to protests, which increased public awareness of protests, etc. If the protest happens & corporate media simply ignores it ... it's inert.

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

I don't care if you think the ends are just (you are wrong), the means are so completely fucked. A bunch of fucking thugs. If they can this to them, they can do it to you.

"The US, which has positioned itself as a major fossil fuel exporter, sold $80B in oil and gas abroad through July, the last month with data available. China exported $120B in green technology over the same period." Like the man said, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. 🌬️

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees: -the right of the people peaceably to assemble -to petition the Government for a redress of grievances -the free exercise of religion -freedom of speech If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

"Democratic strongholds" in this militaristic context makes it sound like we're terrorists or insurrections or warlords. I cannot express how angry I am at American journalism for enabling this moment.

I'm in the eating-the-kids-half-eaten-poptart-for-breakfast phase of life, turns out

I’d be very happy to join any podcast or video to talk about the Ruby Central security situation. I’m not directly involved but I’ve probably spoken to more people that were involved than anyone else at this point. I’d be especially happy if someone from Ruby Central’s board joined too.

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

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So everyone on the right so upset about the political violence of Charlie Kirk’s murder (even before we knew the facts) is going to speak out loudly and clearly about this too, right?

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

I've never seen such escalation and use of force toward ends I just could not see. There was no real property destruction, no pushing into the neighborhoods to make arrests, very little obstructing of traffic. Saw chemicals and bangs deployed down streets the feds were not facing and did not travel.

This was done at the direction of Pam Bondi. The US government is now dictating what apps you can have on your phone. The underlying threat here is if Apple didn't comply, they'd slap billions in tariffs on Apple products.

Those big Trump cuts to Dem states? Well, we analyzed them and found loads of similar projects in red and swing states that got to keep their money — even though it came from Biden’s climate agenda, too.

There’s an Amazon brand that sells toddler stuff, Onasti. Upon reflection it’s meant to be pronounced like “honesty”, but my spouse and I both read it as “oh nasty”

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

North Americans...Summer is coming ! An extremely long and intense warmer than average spell will affect almost the whole Continent for most of October with summer like conditions. Records will be hundreds if not thousands. Prepare for an extreme event which will rewrite history.

Trump doesn’t need to go after Portland, this guy just murdered it. Theater kid? Brutal!