"No Nazi sympathizers to elected office" seems a fairly low bar for a political party.

Yeah sure Storm the Capital, Change Laws of the Constitution, force Americans to get and pay for unobtainable requirements to vote..to weed out the (avg) of 4 illegal immigrant votes per Election

If you take two seconds to imagine the life of an individual undocumented immigrant in this country, it becomes clear that *voting illegally* would not be high on the to-do list

Back in 2017 after the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville by a white supremacist participant in the “Unite the Right” march, the Libertarian Party put out a strong statement rejecting racists and bigots. There was an organized movement by white supremacists to infiltrate the LP after that.

The Libertarian Party of Colorado has rejected the Republican backroom deal negotiated by ousted Chair Hannah Goodman. No more moving over for the GOP, the Libertarian Party in Colorado is back to running candidates for public office on a distinctly libertarian platform, not compromising with MAGA.

aoc went i think tyranny is bad and literally the worst collection of people on earth from across the political spectrum bubbled up to call her a ****

Non-interventionism is divided between people who believe in international law and people who believe that we should recognize the de facto situation in the world and not try to oppose it in any way based on morality and the most annoying libertarians and leftists back the second.

“These sorts of events are common in the rest of the world…At some point, the conversation is not about whether the proto-autocrat can legally do something. It’s whether those around him allow him to try, and whether the opposition has the means to stop it.” open.substack.com/pub/rorytrue...

Trump’s endless, opaque bombing obliterates all hope of a free Somalia Over the past 13 months, the US has carried out 157 airstrikes, drone strikes and ground raids in the east African country, writes Steve Bloomfield https://bit.ly/4cuVXYg

There is no way this is a coincidence. I worked with David at @npr.org, and NotebookLM sounds *precisely* like him, including his conversational cadence.

The State Department orders libraries to stop providing passport services to customers. This is part of the “save act”. Voter suppression is against the law. He knows if he can discourage people from voting this is the only way he can win. #SheShed #VoteBlue apnews.com/article/pass...

I renewed mine at the local library with my family shortly after the second fascist term started. Good experience and resource. The only reason to kill it is to set conditions that will prevent citizens from voting.

if we are retreating to “violence is only ok when the state is doing it” then all right but that’s just begging a lot of questions about what you’re supposed to do when the state is controlled by your enemies.

john brown was a terrorist. he had a plan. he was delusional in many ways but at its core his plan was to heighten the contradictions so as to move public opinion in both the north and the south to hasten a reckoning. by those standards the plan worked.

been mulling lately how the thoughtful position on john brown during much of my life was some version “his cause was righteous but it’s wrong to kill people” instead of “there are certain crimes that are so offensive to basic humanity and to god that violence, as a last resort, is righteous”

To me the primary red flag here — aside from the tattoo itself — is the whiny attitude he had when he got in trouble. He was all “how DARE you” about people calling out his mistake. Is that a guy who’s going to be accountable when he’s in office? Is he going to take his duty seriously?

or ignoring the self-vetting, which is pretty much the story we’ve gotten and is arguably worse

Graham Platner's campaign is a test of whether the Democratic voter base is willing to compromise on bigotry in order to attract bigoted voters who had previously supported Donald Trump. Gavin Newsom's friendly podcasts with white nationalists are a similar test. What are Democratic values?

Rep. Angie Craig: "Democrats need to hold the line. The Senate needs to hold the line. I will not forgive anyone who doesn't stand their ground at this moment in time and I don't think the American people will either."

The Right’s vision of white Christian patriarchal domination is indeed deeply rooted in U.S. history. To counter it, we should take heart from that other American tradition, that boldly democratic promise of egalitarian pluralism. Make MAGA un-American, finally.

There is an American tradition of egalitarian pluralism that puts the Right’s vicious, exclusionary domination fantasies to shame. We should invoke it as a reminder to the Trumpists that their claim to be the sole representatives of “authentic” Americanism has no historical basis.

What Is America, and for Whom? Two competing forms of nationalism: A pluralistic democracy with egalitarian aspirations – or a white Christian ethno-state with strict hierarchies? American society has always been divided over what this country should strive to be.

If we can get rid of the willfully naïve exceptionalism that glorifies America, let us not replace it with its dark mirror equivalent that only serves to confirm MAGA’s tale – but with an aspirational creed, fueled by an acknowledgment of injustice, as our common understanding.

MAGA claims that “real America” was only ever intended to be and only ever existed as a white Christian ethno-state. To renounce America’s aspirational tradition is to help them perpetuate this idea that the injustices of the past and present represent the one true essence of the nation.

But to insist that America – its history, identity, and political tradition – is solely defined by these continuities of racist authoritarianism and white patriarchal domination is equally ahistorical. From the start, the American experiment was also shaped by an egalitarian promise.

What the MAGA government is doing does not constitute some accidental departure from an otherwise heroic democratic tradition. America has a long tradition of racial violence perpetrated and condoned by the state, of state authoritarianism in service of a white supremacist vision.

Sunday reading: What is “Un-American”? We must acknowledge America’s history of state authoritarianism and racial violence – but also dare to claim its aspirational tradition of egalitarian democracy. Let’s Make MAGA un-American, finally. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

🧵; *completely* identifying the US with its authoritarian and racist cultural strains ignores the cultural forces that push in other directions — it sounds edgy in some spaces but it really just does pro-bono ideological work for fascists

Once again, Prof. Wurman is spreading misinformation about the history of early modern England. His refusal to answer basic methodological and substantive inquiries is revealing. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Fortunately, the Notre Dame Law Review is about to publish more of his work.

Personally, I think it’s important to take note of the people eager to solidify racial revanchism as a given.

Yeah, the Nazi tattoo is part of the appeal for Platner for a lot of people. His candidacy is supposed to signal the left no longer concerns itself with “woke” issues like public displays of bigotry.

The fact that everyone from the Pod Save people to Bernie closed ranks around the guy communicates how important his particular candidacy with this particular messaging is to them.

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i hope they do sever ties to Anthropic and/or that Anthropic severs ties with the US government

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that is the fucked up thing. since these bitches are probably out of work now because its trivial to steal from Americans the chances of them actually "liking you for your personality" have gone up significantly

there isn't much classified for Natasha, Xiaoxiao, Carlota, Farah, Amélie, or Tamar left to steal that their bosses haven't already gotten elsewhere

this is a "y'all got jokes" moment considering that there is no more security discipline left in the US national security establishment anymore. The director of national intelligence is a foreign cutout, strike plans are shared on insecure group chats, teenage cybercriminals ran loose in gov

The RFK number seems like a massive failure of the media to explain what RFK is doing to our public health system and how catastrophic it will be

this is a really important point. the district courts are trying to contain this administration. the circuits, by and large, are still working, with the occasional exception of the 5th, 8th, and DC circuits. the Supreme Court is on an island. lawless and completely rogue.

When I first transitioned, I would drive a mile to a public gender neutral bathroom rather than use one at work. I found out later a dozen staff held “meetings” about what they would do if I used the women’s room. I was their boss’s boss at the time, still had no recourse, just had to let it happen.

“AOC needs to publicly commit to hard military action in Taiwan and the fact she has refused to do so shows she’s fundamentally unserious” that’s crazy man anyway quick question what is the policy of strategic uncertainty again and who else is guilty of it

The one reason I'm somewhat worried about an AOC presidential run is that the levels of Gender that would result are possibly cataclysmic.

Drove me nuts when they were doing the same thing with the coup in Egypt (2014) The insurrection at the Capitol (2021) The genocide in Gaza (2023-?) And authoritarianism in the US (2025-?)

Can’t believe we are still doing this

Yes, meaning it world have made NBC give time to give good faith coverage to people against gay marriage, pro ICE enforcement, and for invading Greenland. It would not have applied to cable channels like Fox News.

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