FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

“Do what we say or we’ll do bad things we’re already doing” is the emptiest of threats, deserving nothing but a scoff. No one should treat Trump officials threatening to illegally remove federal employees as “or else” since they’ve been removing federal employees in violation of the law for months.

“Calling the government’s authoritarian attacks on free speech ‘authoritarian’ isn’t allowed,” explained the authoritarian government official. “In the name of free speech, the government will employ state power to silence its critics,” he continued. “So watch what you say.”

What an incredible homage to its two inspirations, Embassy Vestibule In A 2003 First-Person Shooter and Buffet Room In The Old Soviet Hotel Where I Stayed When I Had Covid In Ulaanbaatar Last Year

This is not the law. This is villainy. www.instagram.com/iowastarting...

🚨 Press conference tomorrow (Friday) 1130 at the Iowa City Ped Mall. Working on getting trauma counselors on site.

Just a reminder that in the Los Angeles ICE case, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence played up the extent to which those *not* properly subject to immigration arrest were detained "briefly" and released "promptly." www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-177-... That wasn't true in L.A., and it isn't true here.

Two competing conceptions of strength: 1) Keep your cool. Show that small mishaps, like an escalator breaking, don’t phase you. You can handle much worse. 2) Flip out. Show that small mishaps really upset you, make a big deal out of it, and claim to be a victim of a conspiracy. A whiny tone helps.

Opinions of James Comey and his time as FBI Director aren’t relevant here. The Trump DOJ manufacturing charges against Comey aren’t really about Comey, they’re about much bigger things: democracy, justice, truth, speech, and rule of law. For all of us.

Bailing out Argentina clarifies "America First." The transnational right is first, everyone else is an enemy. The Trump admin defends it by calling Argentina an ally. But while US-Argentina relations are friendly, they're not allies. US allies are states Trump is antagonizing, such as South Korea.

Your reminder that they cannot arrest millions of people no matter how hard they try. They lack the infrastructure, they lack the personnel, and the economy would straight-up collapse They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it

I'm sorry, I've lost any & all patience for this level of fundamental unseriousness. Vast swathes of our universities are going to be dismantled. Real people are going to lose their jobs. Students won't have the same opportunities anymore. And these people are writing drivel like this. It's gross.

If you want a totally "unchecked situation" about federal grants, it's that One Mad King can now simply cancel federal contracts funding area and language studies at universities around the country, without cause, while Congress does nothing. But that doesn't sell copy, so here are lies instead.

I never teach my students to think of themselves as victims, and don’t know anyone who does. Someone probably does somewhere, but prevailing culture it is not. But what really stands out is hearing this from a political movement whose incessant overriding message to supporters is “you’re a victim.”

The SecDef wants all service commanders and their senior enlisted advisors to come to Quantico on short notice. It’s difficult to understand why. My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/hegseth-qu...

do not fear these people // i will see you motherfuckers in court are dual messages we really need to hear from more of the elites who have been targeted by this admin

Just as there's a long history of US anti-fascism that's worth knowing about...there's also a long history of Americans learning to ignore or accept the presence of fascists in their midst. I was surprised to learn that this latter history began as early as 1946. rightlandia.ghost.io/in-1946-a-wi...

A story about my longtime Republican grandfather, Colin Powell, and Obama from 2008 that feels very relevant here.

Finally, in 1945 the US Army said that another key hallmark of a fascist form of politics was that it would be obsessively fixated on calling everyone to their left "a communist" who posed an existential threat to America. bsky.app/profile/seth...

In 1945 the US Army said that a fascistic politician would also be an angry hyper-nationalist who tried to encourage his fellow Americans to reject ideas like "the brotherhood of man" and the importance of international cooperation as embodied in organizations like the UN. bsky.app/profile/seth...

The US Army in 1945 also noted that fascistic political figures would seek to whip up animosity toward disfavored groups like Black people, religious minorities, and the foreign born, creating "convenient scapegoats" to rile up their followers. bsky.app/profile/seth...

You'll note that in 1945 the US Army flagged the term "Americanism" as a seemingly pablum term that American fascists might try to use to cloak their politics in. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Good news, old people: Today I walked into Planet Fitness, flashed my Medicare card and got a free membership. Meaning the gym bills Medicare. All I do is show up. Plus access to 15,000 gyms across the U.S. 😳 Y’all know about this? I’m almost afraid sharing it will get the program cut. What? 🙃

People seem determined to remember Charlie Kirk as a devout Christian. This includes mainstream and liberal descriptions of him and not just MAGA hagiography. But look, the things he said about people were in direct contravention of Christ’s teachings. It’s deeply perverted to suggest otherwise.

“It could well go down as a moment when a fundamental democratic norm — that justice is dispensed without regard to political or personal agendas — was cast aside in a dangerous way.” Ya think? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Erika Kirk forgiving Charlie’s killer, followed by Trump’s declaration of hate follows the way MAGA Christianity feminizes forgiveness and reserves violence as a masculine virtue. It made me think of this scene from Game of Thrones

Also, I didn’t want to expand my piece — www.lawdork.com/p/trump-weak... — to include all of this, but it *absolutely* fits:

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7/ ICE has previously said its officers “use only the level of force that is objectively reasonable.” But across America, what’s “reasonable” has changed.

The tariff insanity got a little lost in Trump’s terrible Thursday. bsky.app/profile/reic...

Here’s the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social on what happened today and what we need to do now…. snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-ter...

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The transition from EMERGENCY tariffs to whimsical tariffs is a blaring alarm siren that not enough people hear.

he was instrumental in getting trump to pardon war criminals during trump’s first term and is participating in war crimes at the moment. i bet if you pushed him just a little bit he’d tell you that his much vaunted “warrior mindset” just means a willingness to kill civilians

When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Not even 20 minutes later and I guess we’re doing 50% tariffs on IKEA for some reason. He’s a man with a plan to make life more expensive and he can’t be stopped.

Trump has gone completely mad. We have to force this conversation.

“It represents the most significant legal step yet by the Trump administration to harry, punish and humiliate a former official the president identified as an enemy, at the expense of procedural safeguards intended to shield the Justice Department from political interference and personal vendettas.”

Swalwell: It's an awful day for what's supposed to be a free country. This is a mad king picking off each of his political enemies.

Should this man be in any law enforcement position? Now ask this: do you believe this man will face any consequences for this violent assault on an unarmed, emotionally distressed woman? We can call in complaints to the DHS misconduct hotline: 1-800-323-8603 www.oig.dhs.gov/hotline

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

Let’s spell this out. Trump fired a qualified U.S. attorney who refused to do his bidding and installed his own personal lawyer to punish a perceived opponent. Justice needs to follow the law, not politics. This is an attack on the rule of law. Full stop.

Listen, he is nuts on so many levels and everybody knows it including the entire GOP leadership and what is left of non cooked military brass and people just need to pressure them in every front to say so.

We cannot wait for the markets or the midterms.

People who think we can ride this out in a normal fashion are falling into the same collective action failure we have seen again and again. Pushback on every level needs to happen right now. Before midterms are irrelevant and markets are cooked.

Here’s to all the “ordinary people” who are brave when their “leaders” are cowards Be brave, y’all. It’s the only choice you actually have.

Not only does it not matter to him whether the gov't is open or shut, it doesn’t matter whether his words are true or false. Fraud, deceit & confabulation run in his veins, and if he were just some street crazy, rather than the American president, no one would be blamed for saying no to him.