the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state

“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

I spoke with @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social about MAHA, RFK, and White Christian nationalist ableism. open.substack.com/pub/swaj/p/t...

Oh, okay. I'll bite. The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution. The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.

The biggest problem with "popularism" is that its advocates don't fully internalize how much poll question framing can distort measurement. They also don't get that if having unpopular views stopped you from winning, Republicans would never win elections. Many people do not vote based on policy.

This is what happens when you don't look away They want you to look away. To ignore. Don't give them that power

"The Souls of White Jokes" is a fantastic book! Excited to see this conversation on NPR and reaching a wider audience

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Hey. You know how the kid punching the I Love Ice boy and the woman setting fire to a potential concentration camp felt good and right? That’s your worldview starting to change in a very necessary way. Sit with it. Be gentle with yourself and sit with it. We’re going somewhere.

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

when they have me flying a bomber in Civil War Woke im painting this on the payload

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

You have to understand the blanket was special, made of Dalmatian puppies.

If ICE still stands for "Immigration and Customs Enforcement" then why do Republicans want them anywhere near a polling location?

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

One way to judge a society's investments is asking: "what kinds of people and relationships will this investment create?" Sit with this question. Investment in repressive bureaucracies has become so normalized that we are desensitized to how far away from the best parts of humanity it takes us.

Cmon now guys. If any Dem says anything besides shut down until this is all gone then there's no need for federal government at all. These are concentration camps. If you're too scared to say so then you're part of the problem.

Lots of people mad that (a) there are languages other than English, and (b) they aren't the main character Listen, I listen to metal and bands like Rammstein. Even *I* don't understand most of the music I love. And that's beautiful

Also the ICE ad? Fuck ICE. Periodt. Don't try to sell that wickedness to us.

They are saying Kid Rock handed his Grammy to lil’ Kyle Rittenhouse during the halftime show. (Not true. Kid Rock has never won a Grammy).

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Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.

The meltdown tonight by the MAGA chuds over the Bad Bunny performance will rival Chernobyl

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

Awesome, student-led online events!

@gelliottmorris.com continues to have been right about immigration as an electoral issue www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

very excited to have my response included in the latest Boston Review forum against Democratic moderation! here it is, my best argument for why Dems shouldn't "moderate" on transgender rights & LGBTQ issues more generally (as they are inextricably linked): www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

in the slightly abridged words of @diedrichbader.bsky.social

I think this is the essential quality that made CBP/BP and ICE so easily convertible into fascist squadristi www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Cruelty is big business

It's about hierarchy. "Beauty" is subjective, the idea of a black woman portraying the most beautiful woman in the world offends them because white people are supposed to be the most beautiful and it is therefore offensive, it's so straightforwardly racist bsky.app/profile/radl...

this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration

School choice has always been a scam and an exercise in resource hoarding. They want to create modern segregation academies and expand the number of groups they want to exclude, all on the public dime. They want your tax dollars without adhering to anti-discrimination laws and public oversight

For National School Choice Week, supporters keep moving the goal posts Their latest demand: Funding parity for private schools, even though they exclude all manner of kids and aren't held accountable for results. schooledbymikepetrilli.substack.com/p/for-nation...

Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

Just pre-ordered on Bookshop! bookshop.org/p/books/amer...

AMERICAN CAESAR is available for pre-order. "Onishi traces the strange alliance between spiritual warfare and Silicon Valley libertarianism. At the center of it all is the desire for an unbound executive—one man, beyond checks, beyond balance, beyond democracy." us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

90% of conservative political analysis is just "this group I don't like does this thing I don't understand due to motivations I made up."

Conservatives really, really hate liberal and leftist white women. Their anger is rooted in misogyny, but it’s not entirely irrational—white women staying in line and fulfilling their ideal role are a pillar of the conservative project. And they intend to beat us into submission. I hope they fail.

Even when they show signs of weakness or forced regret, we must not give an inch. Authoritarian governments still respond to public opinion, which is why sustained pressure matters. We have to keep making clear that these thuggish actions are unconscionable and will not be tolerated. Don’t let up.

Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.

It's like racists in America being dumbfounded by the attack on Pearl Harbor because they'd convinced themselves that members of an inferior race were biologically incapable of flying planes.

”College kids are the real threat to free speech” was always for rubes and marks who wanted the freedom to be bigoted without repercussions. If you are still writing that at this point you are incapable of acknowledging actual threats or high on your own supply.

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

When your life is a never-ending grift hard to recognize what actual civic behavior looks like

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.