Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

People who don’t think this is fascism “yet” aren’t seeing members of their own ethnic group get brutalized and kidnapped by masked men with guns. Some of us already live in the future. Spoiler alert: It’s fascism.

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter: "There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

The right wing media machine incentives the constant production of “evidence” to fit their frames. News influencers “work” by selectively amplifying content that aligns w/ their frames/goals. The left seems to be catching on, but they need to do more than just solicit content, they need to reward it

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

In April, Pro-Trump pastor Mark Driscoll suggested burning The Book of Mormon during his church’s flamethrower giveaway. Driscoll was on the Charlie Kirk show today.

The diagnosis is confirmed. The political autoimmune disease has metastasized. The system's internal rot is now attacking the world. My essay on why this was inevitable: write.as/eliot-sumner...

The Very Smart People advising the Democratic Party are telling them to sacrifice trans people to That Orange Bastard. Everyone needs to call their representatives and let them know this is a red line they’d better not cross.

This is now the second attempted terrorist attack on the LGBTQ community in a week as "revenge" for Charlie Kirk. This follows an attempted mass shooting of a gay bar in Arizona. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“I’m all for unifying. I’m all for bridging gaps. But not at the expense of my neighbor’s humanity.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nikole Hannah-Jones sensitively captures the moral failure of the tributes: "For those who felt denigrated by his rhetoric, the bipartisan tributes... augured something dangerous: the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views." That normalization is the effect. We also need to look at the cause. 🧵

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

Jimmy Kimmel's return opened with the Jack Paar callback: "As I was saying before I was interrupted." That 1960 event happened within days of Rod Serling's warning of self-destruction in 'Maple Street.' This is history repeating. 🧵

The murder of Charlie Kirk wasn't an attack from outside. It appears to be a symptom of a 'political autoimmune disease.' A system attacking itself from within. 🧵

“Christ insists that the measure of faithfulness is what is done for the least among us…Yet the American right and, indeed, American evangelicals have spent decades given over to Nietzschean cults of power worship, masculinity, and narcissism.” Read my latest on the Kirk memorial and MAGA.

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, President Trump has escalated attacks on political foes — labeling “antifa” a terrorist group and amplifying DHS claims of a 1,000% spike in assaults on ICE. But reviews, including our probe of the July 4 Prairieland case, expose holes in that narrative. ⬇️

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Watching TPUSA officials trying to reign in conspiracies about Kirk’s death as if this isn’t the very political environment they helped to create by being unrepentant propagandists and boosting the career of every QAnon fuck they found. Jack Posobiec was Kirk’s podcast co-host for fucks sake.

“Trans people cannot live alongside people who promise to eradicate us from society.” — @katelynburns.com

One of the most interesting things about Jimmy Kimmel, and what I loved most about his conversation with Bill Burr a few months back, was that they’re both middle-aged white comedians who heard how culture has evolved, took notes, grew up, didn’t get defensive, and became *even more* successful.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

“There is a connection between…contemporary tragedies and the fire-eaters of the pre-Civil War period: similar rhetoric.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/beware-tod...

Charles Sumner’s father was woke too From: Charles Sumner by Zaakir Tameez

“It’s reminiscent of the long aftermath of the civil war, when Confederate memorials were fashioned well into the 20th century not by those seeking to grieve any one individual, but rather by those who wanted to send a message about racial politics in the present” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A true honor to perform “American Tune” with #PaulSimon and the incredibly talented students at Juilliard. As I said in the article, I remember first looking at the lyrics of “American Tune” and going “Oh, my God — did you write this yesterday?”

Protests work never let anyone tell you otherwise www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...