There is no ambiguity about this. There are no dog whistles. It is a full-throated defense of genocidal conquest, dispossession, and domination.

No it’s what he said. Read what he said.

(“But why would you want to give away your own power?” Oh man, y’all, there is nothing some people hate and fear more than real freedom. It’s fucking terrifying being responsible for your own actions.)

Yes to this thread. AI “creates a permission structure” designed to concentrate power at the top, dramatically enhance the power of disinformation by destabilizing images and information, and hollow out the power of labor through deskilling while providing cover and impunity.

permit me to observe that 'land speculation' is (again) curiously omitted, viz. in which the Lords Proprietor secretary observes that the acquisition of 'N****s' is essential to 'planter success'

It is remarkable to me that Trump’s signature campaign promise of 2016–building a wall and having Mexico pay for it—was completely memory-holed in 2024 campaign coverage and beyond. Yet another way in which Trump is graded on a curve.

Ok this is a very good joke. And dark. So dark.

“You have to use AI to save time and meet your production metrics” “But it has a high error rate; why would I use something that unreliable?” “You have to check it’s work” “Okay but that eats up all the time I ‘saved’” “Use it anyway”

Today In completely unsurprising ironies. Just as scholars such as @josephinequinn.bsky.social are making clear how much ‘Western Civilisation’ was based on borrowings from multiple other traditions, Conservatives in the US and UK are declaring its pristine supremacy.

The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb

Direct involvement in gardening, like growing potatoes, carrots, peas, and zucchini, offers hands-on learning opportunities about the growing process and the care plants need . Starting with easy-to-grow vegetables can spark children’s interest in gardening and healthy eating. vegplotter.com/schools

Part of my theory of change is to share the words white men need to hear, spoken by white men. This is because creating defections is crucial to stopping authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. This is because almost everyone else is already off the Trump train.

Can you not just call it corrupt? 'Increasingly transactional' sounds so legit.

#OtD 15 Feb 2003 huge protests occurred around the world against war on Iraq, including 1.5 million on the streets of London: the biggest demonstration in UK history. But the war began regardless, teaching many that passive protest alone is not enough stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8665...

In Dr. Valerie Wilson, we trust. TLDR: The job losses among Black women in 2025 were mostly driven by federal layoffs and buyouts. While there were gains in some private industries, Black women saw net job losses in 6 out of the 12 MAJOR private sector industries. This is #TheDoubleTax.

This level of depravity is monstrous.

Pretty obvious who benefits from Trump being president.

You should be asking yourself why dhs and ice are so focused on building a vast unaccountable concentration camp network and exactly what that means. This is not a purely political threat anymore this is existential and we are blundering into territory that is extremely dangerous

And yet the Post just laid off 13 climate reporters.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

If more people studied history, they'd know that the things present-day rightwing arseholes say about women are just the things the Nazis said about women, which are just the things that a bunch of 18th-century pricks said about women, as soon as modernity started to give them opportunities.

MSNOW can't get enough of our heartthrob mayor. Which means we are the spouse watching our man be delightful at a party while thinking, if you like him so much, take him home with you.

Replies are turned off, but if the OP doesn’t know Rustin’s music, she has a treat in store for her. m.youtube.com/watch?v=We99...

To sum up: The only people acting rationally regarding the deployment of an anti-drone laser at a party balloon over El Paso was the person at the FAA who shutdown air traffic.

So it turns out that the most effective leftists in Minnesota are the people who organize church potlucks. I'm kinda surprised but I probably shouldn't be.

Talk of building a good society is often met with the charge of utopianism. But this is wrong, argues @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social. The blueprint for a fairer society lies in front of us – but it requires moving away from “trickle-down” economics #LSEInequalitiesBlog

please do all your planning for this year with the thought in mind that ICE has bought a billion dollars in warehouses to use as concentration camps and they probably don’t intend to leave them empty

Poster is an El Paso City Council Rep:

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

"If democracy rests on mutual recognition, on our capacity to see each other as full and equal persons, then the power to speak and be heard lies at the foundation of democratic life."

25 years ago, analysts and futurists joked that "Water is the new oil." We already knew it was going to be a huge problem way back then. In the years since, nations and corporations have quietly been moving to control more water and acquire water rights. /1

The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures perception of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople.

I’m beginning every panel I chair for the rest of my career with this frontal attack…

This administration has an infinite supply of stupid shit they can do: release detainees into the ocean, release detainees 3 meters above the ground, release detainees chained to a boulder, etc. There is no legal strategy that will stop that. They simply need to be shut down.

wow - this is an astonishing high-up view of the police tactic of "kettling": trapping protesters and then squeezing that space smaller to provoke confrontation and justify police officers violently bashing and attacking protesters

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Honestly, I feel we should concentrate most of our attention on the positive. Let MAGA whine about Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl. Let them ruin their sleep and engage in performative outrage. Let them be miserable in their hate and racism. The more we ignore their rage bait, the more they suffer.

Ring: “selling you a police state as simplified living and consumer protection”

You can love people without understanding them. It’s encouraged.

*Corporate interests dominate the organization planning the reconstruction of Gaza* by Ellen Ioanes February 9, 2026 prospect.org/2026/02/09/b...

Incredible thread!

Yes, and their anxieties about the pandemic--when they felt their controls over labor slipping, and when capitalist production and consumption was, for a brief second of time, NOT the primary motivating principle of society. A whole lot of them radicalized themselves willingly since COVID.

I keep thinking about Ted Cruz, who fervently backed Texas Republicans' partisan gerrymandering scheme, crying online about how mean it is that Virginia Democrats pulled off a partisan gerrymandering scheme. I know he has no principles, but Jesus Christ, man, have some self-respect and dignity.

100% serious that this should be the motto of the 3rd Reconstruction