But don't describe them as Nazis

Ballard Partners, a lobbying shop with deep ties to Trumpworld, is helping surveillance tech firms land lucrative, no-bid contracts in the administration’s immigration crackdown. Investigation by @schwellenbach.bsky.social and @russchoma.bsky.social www.pogo.org/investigatio...

It should go without saying, but it's doubtful someone opposing ICE would shoot at migrants.

Jacobin have consistently argued for borders; promoted pseudo-Leftists who have done so (Wagenknecht, Nagle +). They've put out an edition both-sidesing borders. Not subscribing just to read it. Here's something I prepared earlier re Marx's position on borders: newsocialist.org.uk/workers-worl...

NEW: @thebarbedwire.com conducted an in-depth review of the court records and statements thus far in the July 4 Prairieland case and found holes that call into question the government’s narrative. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/24/n...

Someone's going to quote a Biblical verse about having to suffer through pregnancy as payment for sin.

For a long time, the default assumption of the Left was that capitalism's normal condition was laissez-faire, unregulated etc. This has always been untrue (cf borders, prisons). And, Franz Neumann was wrong about many things, but his discussion of fascism as state monopoly capitalism is compelling.

The Achilles' heel of "freedom of speech" is that fascist speech is structurally an incitement to violence. Ofren aimed at excluding two-thirds of US from political representation, public spaces, literally speaking in public. Often through dehumanisation — as Pobosiec explicitly does in Unhumans

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Funniest thing I've read today

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

A spectre is haunting the US, ...

It's true: there are no open borders. Indeed, borders around the world became more, not less, militarised and "closed" from the 1980s. So, maybe open borders are worth trying.

How much support does Dolan have among the Catholic Right in the US?

By these mechanisms, health and ill-health are distributed by way of access to private, inherited wealth, and all the purportedly natural hierarchies of the economy (oikos).

For anyone concerned there may be something to the Tylenol-autism BS, I present:

Anyway watch the stocks of whoever has the patent of leucovorin go up after the announcement. That’s all this is. Promoting Leucovorin so adults force their kids to ingest it to “cure their autism”. But what is Leucovorin and why are they claiming it cures autism? 👇

As People Mag Points out, a treatment for autism Dr. Oz just announced Trump’s FDA is approving is sold by a supplement company owned by… Dr. Oz. people.com/what-is-leuc...

The Charlie Kirk memorial is a combined Evangelical mega-church service and Trump rally. Never has Christian nationalism had such a defining and legitimizing stage. This event amplifies evangelic beliefs as an American value like I've never seen before.

Jewish Council of Australia: “The Australian government must ensure that 'recognition' is not merely symbolic. It needs to be combined with immediate action, including sanctions, to help end Israel's ongoing genocide and the deliberate starvation of the people of Gaza.”

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

Interesting to see both a certain kind of liberal and a certain kind of leftist say that recognition of Palestine is meaningless. I do not think so, though I think the symbolism alone is wildly insufficient.

Got sucked into the side of TikTok commenting on the trend in American evangelicalism right now—where there’s a growing belief that that the rapture will happen this Tuesday—September 23rd This is due to a of set of things happening in Israel interpreted through a tangled "Left Behind" theology+

Church gives standing ovation to AI audio clip of Charlie Kirk saying words he never said www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/char...

The vice president guest hosted the Charlie Kirk podcast from the White House—and made sure to amp up the political violence. trib.al/AnYon5E

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Move over lump of labor fallacy! It's time for lump of consumption fallacy!

Describing Kirk as an "evangelist" is quite the choice. And wasn't Paul the more fiercely misogynistic of those named as saints?

Is this a joke?

hey so this is insane

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

The Third Reich had an agency called the Reichskulturkammer, "Reich Culture Chamber". All singers, writers, musicians, journalists, and actors had to apply for membership and were ideologically vetted. Expulsion or failure to gain admission resulted in an occupational ban. Jews were not admitted.

"In actual practice, the heterodox movement has only functioned to sanitize and legitimize an increasingly extremist U.S. right." Hammer, on the history of "free speech" in the US, and the role played by the so-called heterodox centre. www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...

Woody Guthrie, All You Fascists About to Lose (1944) youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ?...

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

designating ANTIFA an enemy of the state is telling on yourself

COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...

We have to consider who are the stifled people and who are the stiflers before we can be sure of our ground.

I would not be surprised if Thiel had been skim-reading Schmitt.

A reminder that degrees are not a statistical proxy for class. This is terrible, pseudo-sociology. (Kirk's wealth has been estimated at $12 million.) But what I'm mostly struck by is the "feminisation" of education, especially universities — and his use of "muscular class" in so doing.

By my count, at least 7 universities have fired faculty or staff for social media posts about Kirk. Clemson, University of Mississippi, U of Tennessee, Newport News, Cumberland University, Middle Tennessee State, UT Knoxville Add to the thread if I've missed some

Vance's antisemitism will go unchallenged because the Right have inverted the meaning of antisemitism to, now, mean criticism of ethnonationalism.

"The U.S. agricultural workforce fell by 155,000 — about 7 percent — between March and July, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That tracks with Pew Research Center data that shows total immigrant labor fell by 750,000 from January through July."

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

You “regret” mistakes. This was not a mistake. They deliberately shackled these people and distributed video of them being humiliated. They detained them for days after. What they regret is that, this time, their gleeful anti-immigrant violence wrought negative consequences for the administration.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

And the emerging defence of these incitements to violence is they "were only giving orders" — which seems far more repugnant and bizarre than the infamous "were only following orders."

He’s gonna get his own child killed and all of these people are going to race to defend him

As others have pointed out, the idea that we can control their behavior by modeling respectability (cooperating with the compulsory grief around Kirk, for example, and not saying truthful/angry things about him) is akin to an abused person's belief that they can control the abuse by being perfect.

Please read this. “Less than one week into President Donald Trump’s surge of deportation arrests in Chicago, an immigration agent shot and killed a man during a traffic stop on a near suburban street Friday morning.”