I don't know about you, but I can't wait for 2026 to be over.

Kyle Rittenhouse hunted and killed BLM protestors and cops bought him a burger, then MAGA had him speak at their conventions. Nicole Good drove her car near an ICE protest and was shot in the face by that gestapo, so MAGA called her a terrorist and celebrated her death. The monsters are in charge.

The argument that fascist governance is a form of ultra-statism is ill-informed, misconceived, and simplistic. Historically, fascist regimes privatise at least as much as they nationalise. They are not normal capitalist states. They work more like corporations or mob families.

Current responses to Trump's megalomania being mooted: - boycott the World Cup - move the UN to Switzerland - European NATO countries conduct Greenland manoeuvres to protect it - arrest warrant for all Trump officials outside USA - petition Brics countries to ditch dollar ASAP

I don't want to hear anyone dissing Joe Brüning or Kamala Hindenburg! The Democratic Party did nothing wrong. There was nothing they could do, and they did all they could. It is your fault for asking them to do better. You did this, you petulant children. Ingrates! Hold on, officer, I am speaking 💥🔫

"The dominant predator force." Please get that phrase into your skulls, EU foreign policy establishment who are prattling on about shared security and NATO and whatnot. You are Chamberlaining your way into fascist world domination.

Machado and the Venezuelan fascists jumped as Quislings(1) and landed as Degrelles(2).

Daily reminded of Tucholsky who said in ca. 1934, "you can't eat as much as you want to vomit."

The German Bildungsbürgertum is starting to get it. Cutting all military ties with the US is an urgently needed first step.

"Wir sind in das Zeitalter des Neoimperialismus eingetreten. Bisher musste die EU in erster Linie den russischen Imperialisten Wladimir Putin abschrecken. Jetzt muss sie eiligst lernen, auch den Imperialisten Donald Trump abzuschrecken. In Grönland sollte sie damit schon mal anfangen."

A quick google search finds that this is true and was reported on. I’m stuck wondering who thinks like this, who just sits there and carves up the world like they’re playing a video game

At least some governments get it right.

Use a typewriter (properly, as shown):

It’s a beautiful day to read Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg

Neoliberale: FREIHEIT Trump: Öl, wir sind da wegen dem Öl Konservative: ein Meisterstück, der grausame Diktator weg Trump: Unsere Firmen kontrollieren jetzt das Öl Liberale: Ein unterjochtes Volk kann nun entscheiden Trump: Also wir sind jetzt die Herrscher Im Chor: Venezuela libre!

So you think you live in a liberal, constitutional democracy. If your government is not starting to prepare for war with the US today, it is naive. If it justifies the abduction, it is an auxiliary of fascism.

The only way that you're going to stop Trump and address the causes of Trumpism is by ending capitalism. Everything he's doing is tied to the US imperial project that's rooted in global capital.

Auf Mexiko ist Verlass. Die waren auch die einzigen, die den Anschluss Österreichs verurteilt haben. Fühlt sich heute an wie 1938. Kallas in der Rolle Chamberlains.

*Brazil’s president Lula responded to the US military attacks in Venezuela* cepr.net/publications...

The Anglo press is using "capture" to describe an abduction. Let's see what the German press is up to.

There is no greater threat to peace and democracy today than the United States. Not even close, in terms of goals, ambition, power, and reach. The hearth of barbarity must be extinguished by a collective effort of humanity.

Good reminder. Will make this my mantra for today.

Hitler took five years to build a military and institutional apparatus for genocide and war. Trump found one ready to go on day one.

Countries should start announcing boycotts of the world cup and the Olympics

Can’t think of a better illustration of how visual media like comics get the point across in a way words alone sometimes, or often, are not able to

Just a reminder the Minnesota republicans have admitted working with nick Shirley to create this racist propaganda. Everything the right is pushing is manufactured from the so called expose to the videos themselves. It’s all coordinated.

propaganda works

Required reading.

Sylvesteressen ist gebongt

Ja, empfehle ich allen zu lesen!

This is a really useful summary of what LLMs are, and how they should be seen, from a computer scientist. Bookmarking and saving for my own LLM policy this semester, with attribution and citation, of course.

Anyone pushing that we must “just let this go” or “move on” without literally holding the billionaire fascist accountable in real material ways ie expropriating their wealth and imprisonment is siding with the fascists full stop. They all just be held accountable or we never regain democracy.

Please watch: What are Americans actually doing to stop this? youtu.be/25HN22xq2ns?...

It's notable how all the ethnonationalists around the world are speaking the same language, so even the Hindu nationalist BJP, in a country without a history of the rootless cosmopolitan Jew as the Other, they can associate their opponents with George Soros and assume their audience understands.

Was ich 2026 nicht mehr sehen will: Bilder eines schlafenden Trump. Er mag schlafen, aber das Destruktionsprogramm läuft trotzdem weiter. #Verharmlosung

I will drop this. But before I do, I have to note that it is excruciatingly clear that Ken is really mad that my reporting highlighted FIRE’s ties to big right-wing money. He’s comparing the revelations of publicly available tax filings as something akin to a “Pharma-Rothschild conspiracy.”

“January 6 Succeeded Here” — Arundhati Roy on Trump, Modi, and Her New Memoir

The story of the last 60 years is that center destroyed and displaced the left, while making life so unbearable for decades that fascists returned to power. Now, the center has no answer, except to collaborate with Nazis, while the left is unorganized, fractured, and dismantled. Things are bleak.

"My name is Jimmy Kimmel. I have learned nothing from my experience. Also, I am a dangerously deluded liberal who wants you to join me in my fatal complacency."

It is that season. I wish you joy and happiness!

“Prime but with human beings” is how you get cattle cars and crematoriums

Fascism is the merger of state and corporation

Es gibt noch immer deutsche Männer mit Schnurrbart und kantigen Visagen die in einem schwulen Porno ca. 1978 nicht deplatziert wirken wurden. Eigentlich schön.

It’s 1905 all over again, in terms of trade policy, race relations, workers rights, and even the navy.

The long history of Hindu nationalists trying ally with White Nationalists via the Caste system stretches back to the early collaboration with the British colonial authorities. To the point that the BJP, Modi’s party was founded to be a copy of the German Nazi Party’s SS in the 1930s.

Hervorragender Artikel über eine Blackbox: Was passiert eigentlich mit Menschen nachdem sie abgeschoben wurden? Diese Geschichten kann eigentlich niemand kalt lassen. 👇 taz.de/Zurueck-in-N...

The 60 Minutes team has much to learn about the rigor and craft that drives investigative journalism. by David Ellison and Bari Weiss

Re: 60 Minutes et al A few lines from “Defying Hitler,” a memoir of 1933 Germany by Sebastian Haffner