Yeah, that the future of the planet might hinge on the very worst people in a West crippled by fascisms that are parasitic on postimperial decay with no prospect for reversal is uhhhh not promising

You know what, i've been mulling on this all day and concluded "making a case for liberalism" is not in fact what Sunstein is trying to do anyway Silly me

That he felt the need to redefine liberalism as actually just conservatism attests to how scared the reactionary centrists are that the response to this moment is not going to go very well for them, I think

That Sunstein interview, lawd. Imagine how incompetent you have to be to come out like a fool making a case for liberalism *now*! under consolidating fascism! God we deserve better intellectuals

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.

I really do think we need to see the rape and abuse of women and children as not like a peculiar indulgence or hypocrisy of the right, but as a foundational practice from which their worldview proceeds. Rape is the metaphor from which they draw their other conclusions about domination and hierarchy.

Alright here we go: You Love America. I started writing this last year; it had this same title last year; depressingly little had to be changed for it to fit in to this moment. open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...

This lady did a photo shoot at an offshore concentration camp

few things better than chicago in september

Having grown up in a fascist family I think it's highly likely that much of the MAGA urge to see a permanent state of exception whipped up to facilitate fash consolidation stems from the prurient obsession American evangelicals have with apocalypse

We have rapture discourse today so I will note how utterly traumatized I was as a little kid at the prospect of being left behind and facing murder at the hands of the Antichrist, in no small part because of those dystopian Tim LaHaye novels. Much of American evangelicalism is straight child abuse

Some professional news, as the saying goes, from our junior partner Olivier Simard-Casanova!

The editor of some news site or another said that Jimmy Kimmel had it worse than Mahmoud Khalil because Khalil "got deported anyways"

A lot of very influential elite liberals and centrists wouldn't have given a single shit about the brutality of the current US government if it was applied to just immigrants, trans people, and Palestinians instead of also being extended to their buddies with fancy sinecures

There are many different Christianities.

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.

These are the real ones out in the tear gas making sure protesters aren't disappeared. Please support today:

Remember it’s not just the H1-Bs who represent the best of American meritocracy

Bourdain: ‘No one understands and appreciates the American Dream … better than a non-American. The Ecuadorian, Mexican, Dominican and Salvadorian cooks I’ve worked with … make most [Culinary Institute of America]-educated white boys look like clumsy, sniveling little punks.’

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

And Macron! He did all this! Libs can still come through!

Absolutely detest having to hand it to Starmer today

Australia recognizes the State of Palestine

Canada officially recognizes state of Palestine www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

For my friends, anything; for my enemies, the law

But there are gonna be regular white liberals who will continue to give Klein time and space when it is very clear that he won’t invest in the inclusive politics necessary to make overcoming this situation possible. He’s on the other side.

And what I mean is, Klein is out of the coalition. No matter how good his ideas may be, Black voters will not trust him to preserve our interests, and there simply aren’t enough white voters who will convert. Worse, Klein has basically indicated that he’ll accept segregating policy to enact it.

"Ron Paul Maoism" is a beautiful girl's name

AOC responds to the Tom Homan story.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Lemme be absolutely clear *every* H-1B visa employee at my (large cap) US firm was summoned back to the office from wherever they were in the world today for this crap. For some, it was utter panic. Appalling.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

This country was not a full democracy before the VRA. If you’re willing to negotiate over that, you’re not actually fighting for political liberalism at all

These guys imagine that they can hold together the republic by agreeing to negate historical progress just back to the point where “democracy” meant “all the white guys are in the room”. Assuming that that definition will always include them. Which Klein should know better than to do!

The thing, too, about saying Dems should run pro-abortion candidates in red states, or abandon "woke" and trans rights, is that it's easy to suggest *someone else* in the coalition sacrifice core protections. But which core protections are white male Dems willing to sacrifice?

POTUS repeatedly engages in dirty, white supremacist propaganda work of misleading Americans to think immigrants claiming *political asylum* from violence have anything to do with "insane asylums" It's so illogical, most people miss the move But it muddies the issue & scares millions of others

The list of countries that are confirmed to be set to recognize the State of Palestine on Sunday and Monday, September 21st and 22nd. The United Kingdom France Canada (conditional, gradual) Australia Belgium (gradual) Portugal Luxembourg Malta Andorra San Marino

Amongst the many, many other faults and follies of the party, perhaps the single most dangerous problem with the Democratic Party today is their incessant habit of reinforcing the idea that there is absolutely *no* principle that matters, no policy that is sacrosanct that they will stand behind.

Absolutely shattering details in this Sun-Times piece chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

turning the entire economy and governance into a fealty-based patronage system

Chicagoan here. We know

The H1-B visa thing is straight-up just affirmative action to multiply sinecures for mediocre Americans. White supremacists’ superiority complex hides their overwhelming fear that they’re not good enough. Because they’re not

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

The H1-B visa thing is straight-up just affirmative action to multiply sinecures for mediocre Americans. White supremacists’ superiority complex hides their overwhelming fear that they’re not good enough. Because they’re not

This appears to be the 3rd lethal US strike in the Caribbean. Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified. No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing. President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n

I’m delighted to share that link to my PBS interview about INHERITED INEQUALITY is now available! Follow the link below: youtu.be/w1P79Ryy50w?...

Reasonable I think to suspect that any folks posting hagiographies of fash icons now will soon be reporting your posts to the censors. Steer well clear