Once again, allow me to invite you to consider the breathless National Conversation™️ about lack of respect for Real Americans that we would have if a Democratic Cabinet Secretary said something like this about the mayor of even a single small town in rural Wisconsin.

- No clerks - No building - No shadow docket - Massively restricted regular docket 👇 - No pay raises - Riding the circuit, preferably on horseback And yet, also <why_not_both.gif>:

It is actually worse. He asks "who got more votes?" and he refuses to answer. This is a simple matter of fact. It would be like asking "is the sky blue?" and the nominee claiming he couldn't answer. We are made so much dumber by authoritarianism.

My author copies of the paperback of _I Have Avenged America_ arrived! (Read it to learn why the Haitian #WorldCup soccer jerseys were rejected as "political") The official release date is July 13! @yalepress.bsky.social

2024 GOP Platform: "War breeds Inflation while geopolitical stability brings price stability. Republicans will end the global chaos and restore Peace through Strength, reducing geopolitical risks and lowering commodity prices."

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Musk/DOGE brought Texas screwworm, but read the whole thread.

"[Most stay-at-home moms aren't the tradwives of social media; they're] just exhausted, low-income moms who can’t afford child care. 'The real path to becoming a tradwife,” Jessica Calarco, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told me, 'is typically through economic precarity.'"

They are putting up posters of the ten commandments on the walls of all classrooms at Louisiana public universities as required by LA law. Here’s one “approved” version, featuring house speaker Mike Johnson as the modern equivalent of “Moses the lawgiver.” Church? State? Who knows the difference?

Teachers are more effective than before. Students are smarter than before. We rely more on different kinds of assessments than in the past which are different measures. Etc. Can find lots of posts like this, but an article not so much. Thanks in advance if you can direct me to some!

This reporter for @sahanjournal.bsky.social is 100% the Minnesota version of the Boston Globe reporter who went viral. I’m obsessed with him www.instagram.com/reel/DZUoxjg...

“The fraud cases the report revolves around have received public attention and investigative scrutiny for years.” Reminder that this shit is known and a lot of these problems have had fixes since MN began investigating

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

Motherfucker who made jokes about an assassination in my state has thoughts on decency

this censorial dufus never stops now he's taking aim at the $3 billion FCC E-Rate program (which brings affordable broadband to schools and poor kids) under the pretense he's worried about kid "screen time"

Reminded of the time Pelley did a story in Congo and misleadingly represented a conflict-free mine as a source of conflict minerals. He's right about Weiss, but Pelley is plenty problematic on his own.

And it's always a good day to hear about the guarantee clause.

Funny way to admit that he's a Nazi.

A historian looks at Hegseth's D-Day address:

Currently reading this fantastic book by @juliagaffield.bsky.social, really enjoying it, and realizing that every once in a while, reading a book about the Haitian revolution is a much needed exercise, especially when written by great historians.

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There are concentration camps in the United States in the year 2026. There are CONCENTRATION CAMPS in the United States in the year 2026. THERE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE YEAR 2026.

Sending love today to anyone who has ever been treated like garbage by an angry man who everyone else sees as charming and charismatic. 💜

After nearly four months in ICE detention while in need of surgery for a cyst, 23-year-old Andrea Pedro Francisco has been released. Written by Robert Moore and Cindy Ramirez from @elpasomatters.bsky.social

Sahan Journal reporter Becky Dernbach has received a national education award for her yearlong project following two immigrant students in Minneapolis.

Well deserved. She's one of the best reporters in town. And Sahan should be a model for much larger media orgs in how to balance ethics and critical, community-based coverage.

Latest from me: For Posterity and for the Moment: Trump Was and Is a Threat to Democracy ryandenos.substack.com/p/for-poster...

It’s a very effective message with their colleagues on the Hill. “Fraud” is seen as a bulletproof argument for “serious” people.

This repost is an endorsement! I saw it at the Penumbra last weekend and it was excellent

There is no acceptable '29 dem trifecta where we don't pack the court before Valentine's Day Rename the nine justices *judges* and send them to the circuits Make the CJ the Art.3 CEO and have SCOTUS composed of panels of appellate judges, see @dogsinautumn.bsky.social @liberalcurrents.com

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

Functionally the word “conservative” is useless in describing a broad set of beliefs save “Fuck you, do what I want.” There’s nothing, from school district reading materials, to broadcast networks, to the Constitution, they wouldn’t utterly destroy if they can’t find a way completely control it.

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

Minnesota GOP Party Chair Alex Plechash defends MNGOP's moment of silence for Chauvin at their convention: "There are a lot of people I think that believe Derek Chauvin was improperly convicted & not treated well & those people wanted to have a moment of silence in recognition bc they felt that way"

fascism has a constituency and partisanship is powerful. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/why-isnt-t...

PSA: No Kings is supporting watch parties for the Committee for the First Amendment Concert on June 14th- not mobilizations. There are several non-affiliated scam PACs trying to raise money by promising a mass protest that's not actually happening on June 14th. Block them and tell your friends.

The correct terms are "racism" and "sexism," not anti-diversity politics.

Well, the Strib finally covered this after 2 days of stalling and only then after being shamed by social media. And then it gives us this carefully managed and protective story emphasizing that party leaders didn't plan this (wildly racist) action. And then the Strib doesn't allow comments. 1/

The US military is being run by a gutter racist whose obsession with what he calls merit belies his own total lack of competence or qualifications

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

Last night, law enforcement outside of Delaney blocked news media coverage. Don’t let the truth be buried. Share this story and keep ALL EYES ON DELANEY HALL. 🎥 @msnownews.bsky.social

I don’t mean to be snarky to this professor, but could he just not be good at the teaching part of his job? I think some of this is a misunderstanding of what is the point, utility, and responsibilities of a teacher.

At the Republican convention today they opened with a moment of silence for…. Derek Chauvin. No, seriously. That’s the party we’re up against. We cannot let them win any state races or take control of the House or Senate in November. They had a moment of silence for a convicted murderer. #mnleg

Today, the Minnesota Republican convention stood for a moment of silence "in honor of" Derek Chauvin, the convicted murderer of George Floyd. www.startribune.com/live-battle-...

Out of curiosity, have any Republican electeds come out against the moment of silence for Derek Chauvin at today’s Republican convention?

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

I added Swan Lake ballet music

the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to