I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Harvard/25th is the exit DHS agents use to go to and leave work and the exit used to transport migrants, many of whom have been detained w/o warrants and are legal residents. ISP is essentially coddling DHS agents, making sure they don't have to hear folks tell them to get the fuck out of Chicago.

Yeah the nice thing about Columbus is he neatly sidesteps debates about historical relativism by just being bad relative to every time. Superbad, but in the analytic philosophy way not the cool way.

CBS News is no longer a legitimate journalism outlet, pass it on

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Also, all the people he tortured, raped, enslaved and mutilated were also people of their time. I suspect if anything they felt rather *more* strongly that Columbus was a bad person than even the most fingerwagging person on Bluesky does. Always worth thinking who we count as "of their time".

"The liberty and security of our fellow citizens is our great object, and not the prompt execution of the laws. Indecision, delay, blunders, nay villainous actions in the administration of government, are trifles compared to legalizing the full exertion of a tyrannical disposition."

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

A perennial.

For my newsletter today, I wrote about the American police state and how Democrats are going to have to kill it if they have any hope of rebuilding from the authoritarian Trump regime. www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu...

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article. www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

The ability to "be natural" in front of, let alone toward, a camera lens is a freakish artificial skill and the demand for it almost certainly has left scammers and sociopaths overrepresented in political leadership; probably not great that we've now organized everyday society around it too

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

The tell is when the "free speech" warrior's argument equates to "the people criticizing me are silencing me and should therefore be made to shut up." It's a pretty obvious tell; makes you wonder about those who keep falling for it time after time after time. Or maybe not wonder so much.

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

instead of traditional political debates, the only prompt candidates should have to respond to is “please explain the themes of Watchmen and also the movie Parasite” and we can see what happens

police are gangs that we all collectively pretend answer to elected officials because the truth is scary i'm not even properly an anarchist but i thought we all knew this

under pritzker's watch. if he doesn't just WANT this (if) the only conclusion is politicians are more afraid of "their own" cops than of the executive branch or of their constituents. this is obviously unsustainable

I'm not sure I've ever seen a more repellent, subservient person than Vance. He's seems not to have a self at all. There isn't a boot in America he wouldn't lick if it would bring him an additional iota of power.

this platform is silencing me instead of exchanging ideas, by which I meant exchanging their good ideas for my bad ideas and not criticizing me for them in any way

Every JD Vance interview: REPORTER: The president literally declared war on Democrats to military leaders. Do you agree? JD VANCE: Umm haha what I DISAGREE with is Chuck Schumer telling the American people they have to give their cars over to immigrants. But you wont report it!

Ask not how many cars you can power with solar power instead of biofuels, but how e-buses, trains, and e-bikes can move people affordably in a clean grid. #Sufficiency

Opened a haunted house. It's just a big, windowless room full of Radical Centrist columnists lauding Bari Weiss. Entrance is free but it costs $50 to get out. Anyone know if I take a Hefty bag full of cash to the bank, will they count it for me.

Imagine, if you will, fifty protesters in inflatable animal costumes converging on ICE agents while blowing Aztec Death Whistles youtu.be/x12hyuonfFI?...

Listen for the loud whistles. Carry them and use them. 3 short blows for sightings, 3 longs blows if you see someone being kidnapped. Fuck these fucks

How many alleged TRO violations is that just today

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once: — Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — Against raising the minimum wage — Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

Send every ICE employee to the fucking Hague.

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

this is your fucking job that you're being paid to do. Imagine asking your plumber to stop your dishwasher from flooding your apartment and he's like "well what exactly do you want me to do?" The specifics are your part dog idk!

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

We are amphifa

“The Biden FBI” Who was President on January 6?

An Illinois-based federal judge has ruled, for now, that the Trump administration cannot deploy the National Guard to Chicago, saying that the administration’s “perceptions of events are simply unreliable.” “I am very much struggling to figure out where this would ever stop.”

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

I spent time medicking otg yesterday in Broadview, and yes things were absolutely as chaotic and violent as this video depicts, especially stuck in the middle of it as ISP stampeded at protestors with batons raised. At one point, they opened their line just to drag someone away. Terrifying.

Thirty years of mocking English majors and chanting "learn to code" has led to this.