Trump and the wealthy will continue dismantling democracy and increase surveillance and oppression while the GOP embraces overt Nazism. They’ll wreck any remaining standard of living and any protections I think 2026 is the year our grief turns to rage. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/living-in-...

Trump and the wealthy will continue dismantling democracy and increase surveillance and oppression while the GOP embraces overt Nazism. They’ll wreck any remaining standard of living and any protections I think 2026 is the year our grief turns to rage. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/living-in-...

We don’t talk enough about how the AI bubble is going to seamlessly transition to tech-based state surveillance and oppression of the working and dwindling middle classes as the wealth class steals more and more resources and power and as the climate worsens.

I don’t know, you’d think someone at some point would look at some ridiculous Resistance/Avengers meme and have a Keyser Söze moment where they notice 95% of the people on their side are former Republicans or Cheneys or guys who did crimes for Trump or former GW Bush staffers and go, “Oh. Oh, no.”

“No one’s going to welcome MTG into the #resistance, but you have to have a big tent to win” - Some guy who’s given the Lincoln Project approximately $75,000 dollars in the last decade

People lining up to celebrate MTG or other GOP castoffs despite the damage they’ve done to vulnerable groups and democracy just shows how much they desperately only want their lives to remain the same and are more than fine sacrificing anyone and everything to get there.

Going off grid for a bit. Be safe.

It’s not enough to beat MAGA at the ballot box, these criminals need held accountable to ensure this will never happen again. Anyone asking for our vote needs to commit to prosecuting Trump and his cadre of corrupt conspirators for their crimes. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/lock-them-...

It’s not enough to beat MAGA at the ballot box, these criminals need held accountable to ensure this will never happen again. Anyone asking for our vote needs to commit to prosecuting Trump and his cadre of corrupt conspirators for their crimes. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/lock-them-...

Welcome to the what happens when media consolidation meets resource hoarding meets the capitalist necessity for authoritarianism.

If the Democratic Party actually released an autopsy from 2024 we’d actually find out where all the money went, how billions were set on fire, and maybe find out which popular podcasts and liberal voices and personalities are being paid by the party. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/where-the-...

What’s awesome is that these assholes keep reading popular dystopian novels or watching sci fi movies or just absorb them through cultural osmosis and because their critical and moral reasoning skills are total shit they just use their power to make the nightmares reality.

Have to imagine it’s a good sign that a historically unpopular, dictatorial president who has continually alienated and offended the military and its leaders is now announcing an out of nowhere bribe for them.

It’s incredible to just have a guy who gets to go on tv and just yell lies at us at a rate never seen before.

Reject any motherfucker who tells you we need to abandon a vulnerable population or person. They’re either a fascist or a fascist-in-waiting.

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Trump can be the rock-bottom of our vicious decline, but only if we start focusing on what we want the future to look like rather than what it is that we don’t want. We deserve better than this, but we have to decide what better is and fight for it. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/what-do-we...

Trump can be the rock-bottom of our vicious decline, but only if we start focusing on what we want the future to look like rather than what it is that we don’t want. We deserve better than this, but we have to decide what better is and fight for it. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/what-do-we...

As a former academic, I always love the idea that the Democrats and politics are being pushed toward "Marxism and the extreme left" by a group of workers who are so exploited and live so precariously they're taught how to get on food assistance and are terrified to give low grades.

One of the prevailing worries for years was that with misinformation or deepfakes or AI videos people wouldn’t be able to tell what was real and what was altered. But what got missed was the larger problem: that people wanted and needed to believe the lies being fed to them.

I know everything is so fucked up and weird right now but I just want to remind everyone THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE NEWS.

Trump is a dying husk shambling through his presidency. But he makes an ideal puppet for the wealthy because of his susceptibility to flattery and bribery, his instinct to crush innocent people, his laziness, and lack of loyalty to anything or anyone. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-dying-pu...

Trump is a dying husk shambling through his presidency. But he makes an ideal puppet for the wealthy because of his susceptibility to flattery and bribery, his instinct to crush innocent people, his laziness, and lack of loyalty to anything or anyone. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-dying-pu...

There it is. Radicalization among Middle and Wealth Class MAGA is partially driven by an unbearable and deep-seated unhappiness that they don’t understand, couldn’t name, and is being released through violent fantasies that will turn into actual violence.

Trump will die before the full realization of American fascism is reached. These are the birth pangs. It will get so much worse unless we do something. We should and we must. Take stock of what this feels like, how unacceptable this is. Devote yourself to fighting it.

If you need to understand what's happening, this farce is a perfect place to begin. A broken, unhappy man is being given a fake award he doesn't deserve by a corrupt group looking to bribe him and earn favors. It's meaningless, everything he wants, and it won't matter to him within an hour.

On top of so many other offenses and crimes and cruelties, we have to make a decision to never again let people like this anywhere near power.

These motherfucking murderers deserve to spend the rest of their natural lives in prison.

A decomposing president who is easily fooled and is only running on his cruel and self-serving instincts is the ideal puppet of the wealth and oligarchical classes interested in dismantling government and requiring widespread oppression to continue hoarding resources.

The pipe bomb suspect getting arrested by this dumbshit iteration of the FBI after 5 years just proves even more that the people in power over the last few years cared so little about getting to the bottom of the attempted coup of January 6th and just wanted to move on and hope things worked out.

Trump and cronies like Pete Hegseth aren’t just criminal incompetents, they’re utterly dangerous. The combination of cruelty, inadequacy, and corruption destabilizes and endangers all of us, and every day it gets worse and worse. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-hollow...

One of the great untold and most massively important stories of this moment is that the Right Wing authoritarian movement is predicated on abused people fighting like hell to make sure that abuse and trauma continue forward and even accelerates. It's about hurting kids and ruining their lives.

The normalization of this madness is so quick that we’re debating whether a second illegal strike was wrong after an initial illegal strike with no proof of any crime and we’ve already seen just random murders of fishermen normalized with the excuse they’re running drugs, which isn’t legal either.

Just a note to everyone else who has moments of doubt about what they're doing, whether they're capable or talented, just remember that some of the dumbest and privileged fucking people in the world are walking around with all the money and never once consider how unbelievably stupid they are.

Fuck this. Fuck. This. I know people spend so much time talking about Jeffries and this bullshit but this man deserves to be primaried, removed from power, and chased out of Washington, D.C. People like this continuing to hold power will only deliver a fascistic failure of a future.

Trump and cronies like Pete Hegseth aren’t just criminal incompetents, they’re utterly dangerous. The combination of cruelty, inadequacy, and corruption destabilizes and endangers all of us, and every day it gets worse and worse. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-hollow...

We have a fascist regime attempting to take total control and their disrespect of the military and scapegoating of its leaders is far, far from an insignificant thing. There is much to be decided in the near future, but these things are not small.

Stop asking why corporate Democrats keep failing and pay attention to what they do. Jeffries is openly pushing the party to move further into Neoliberal capitalism and championing an agenda that’s defined by a venture capitalist. They’re not failing. They’re in on it. www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...

People are organically shifting to taking care of one another and beginning to rediscover interconnectedness. There’s something growing and it doesn’t matter that it isn’t being harnessed by a political party. At some point it will shift the balance of power.

The wealthy have stolen so much wealth and rigged the system so far that our economy is on the verge of collapse. They’re pushing fascism and dismantling democracy to get at what little remains. We don’t have to live like this. We deserve better. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-game-t...

If you want trusted with power and are asking people to vote for you, you have to promise to hold these criminal fucks accountable.

We created a military state capable of widespread murder and oppression. In the past, that cruelty enjoyed the veneer of respectability, but what’s being exposed now is what this has always been and what cannot be allowed to continue.

It’s time for a lot of people to wrestle with the fact that bad actors aren’t doing these things because they’re being blackmailed or bribed but because they are benefitting financially and they haven’t dealt with their own shit so they are perpetually destroying everything.

The wealthy have stolen so much wealth and rigged the system so far that our economy is on the verge of collapse. They’re pushing fascism and dismantling democracy to get at what little remains. We don’t have to live like this. We deserve better. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-game-t...

This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect. As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.

Just a reminder that we could be living in an America in which Trump and his fellow conspirators are spending the rest of their lives in prison if we had serious politicians and a system that wasn’t hellbent on and designed toward self-destruction. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...

I don’t know, man. I don’t know that I’m going to make it out of this insipid ass period. It’s a trial.

The AI stories about people losing their minds chatting with bots are indicators of a need to regulate these companies but also red flags that mental health is absolutely cratering and the same people who should regulate need to address this increasingly and intentionally precarious environment.

The schism within MAGA does not mean that the Right will simply destroy itself and that things will automatically get better. Unless we embrace collective action to address the material conditions that got us here, MAGA will birth a more extreme, even more fascist and Neo-Nazi movement.

Trump and his supporters are in a poisonous feedback loop where his power is based on encouraging their worst behaviors and thoughts. Calling for the execution of political enemies is an escalation and it makes unchecked fascist violence a reality. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/what-the-d...