Killing human beings is never anything to make light of – particularly when it comes from someone who has the most powerful military in the history of the world at his disposal. This is beyond obscene.

Maybe he used the AutoPost

Other, apparently more morally developed countries, deal with this stuff appropriately.

🧵 An observation: I’m often disappointed when people, particularly academics, declare “AI is bad.” It seems intellectually lazy. It’s like saying “books are bad” because a reader did something dumb based on bad information from a book. The tech is bigger than a bad recipe answer from ChatGPT. 1/9

Very much this.

Terrific

The Mirage of “Direct to the People”: How Trump’s Healthcare Plan Would Destroy the System Overnight It sounds populist. It’s actually a handout to insurance companies and a disaster for working Americans. My new piece for the Resistance Manual.

Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility

It’s a safe bet he’s never read The Great Gatsby, but the irony couldn’t be sharper. Fitzgerald’s novel is a searing critique of obscene wealth, selfishness, and moral decay – and yet, Trump’s circle saw it as a party theme.

“I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.” —Thomas Paine, “The American Crisis”

I love this. Candy + a book. Fantastic.

sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is

Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes within military bases. This would seem to portend not good things.

They are, of course, talking about farm workers, house cleaners, construction workers, small business owners and small children. That’s “the flood” that apparently requires Trump’s heavily armed Stasi/Gestapo of sociopaths.

SNAP benefits are ending. Food banks are bracing. And the GOP’s blaming Democrats for a shutdown they caused. The good news? America sees through it — and you can help your neighbors while keeping truth alive.

Jack DeJohnette has died. His work as a leader, and with Keith Jarrett, Miles, Pat Metheny and so many others changed modern jazz. What a legacy.

Loved this from @meredithmeredith. A plain-spoken look at the nuts-and-bolts reality of running a service like Signal. This is a clear-eyed explainer on what it takes to make apps like Signal work at scale – and the dependence on a staggeringly complex infrastructure only a few companies provide.

He’s a Billionaire, a Reformer, and a Farmer. America May Finally Have Its Everyman.

🧵 I tend to avoid weighing in on Irish politics — it’s not my place. But I’ve been fortunate over the years to spend some time with President Michael D. Higgins and his wife, Sabina, and I can’t let his tenure end without saying something. 1/5 #ireland

Who could have seen that coming? 🙄

In a logical mind, declaring open season on authoritarian dictators might be the sort of thing that would trigger a moment of self reflection before being said out loud by an authoritarian dictator.

It continues to feel like we’ve crossed into Idiocracy territory

If the U.S. military is now obeying illegal orders to carry out extrajudicial killings of civilians in foreign waters, it means they’ll do the same here. That’s a violation of their oath and a grave warning to every American.

@gregsargent.bsky.social – Your Daily Blast podcast keeps airing Kristi Noem ads, promoting her thuggish, anti-immigrant policies. Are you aware of this? Have you contacted your ad network? I would like to assume you are not OK with getting revenue promoting this garbage to your audience.

Show up and know your rights. Be loud. Be safe.

Tomorrow I’ll stand with millions of Americans who refuse to bow to one man. No leader is above the law. No crown belongs in a republic. #NoKings

🧵: Last June, more than 5 million Americans joined #NoKings rallies across the country, protesting President Trump's authoritarianism. And this Saturday, with your help, it's going to be even bigger and better.

The U.S. passport just fell out of the world’s top 10 for the first time. Under Trump’s creeping authoritarianism, America is being walled off by the world. Freedom of movement mirrors freedom itself: both in decline.

This.

For all of you history and propaganda film aficionados out there, I’ll just leave this handy, interesting, and appropriate comparison to a famous Leni Riefenstahl movie from 1934. h/t @paleofuture.bsky.social

Kate is spot on.

Seconded. If you help ICE run, you help the system that brutalizes families and kids. Nobody working in that machine gets a moral pass — and history should remember them the way it remembers those who served the Nazis. We shouldn’t forget those who enable cruelty. We need to remember and ostracize.

Let’s stop pretending ‘antifa’ is some organized movement with leaders and membership cards. It’s shorthand for people who oppose fascism — a principle, not a club. The myth of ‘organized antifa’ is just a scare tactic used to justify repression.

Sure, let’s give a foreign monarchy its own air force facility inside an American base. Just wait – before long they will be leasing Fort Bragg to the Saudis.

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Resist. ✊

Back from Spain and Portugal. Wonderful trip, but sobering how others see the U.S. now. An Aussie couple hoped we were Canadian. An Iranian cab driver said he pitied us. Trump is widely mocked as an authoritarian clown. People still like Americans, but they’ve lost faith in America.

Amen

Anne Frank wrote of people dragged from homes, families torn apart, children left alone. Today, ICE raids mirror those horrors. History warns us: forgetting leads to repeating. We must see the cruelty clearly and choose justice, or risk walking the same dark road again.

War crimes = OK. Oh. And his boss just said that the “enemies of our country” are citizens of Chicago, Portland, New York and LA.

The only story coming out of Quantico: Trump told the highest ranking officers in the military that he will deploy troops against US citizens who oppose his policies. He will order them to kill Americans. That’s it. It should be the only thing the media focuses on. Nothing else materially matters.

WA Sec. of Health has issued a standing order authorizing healthcare providers to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to all persons aged 6 months and older, including pregnant individuals. In the state of Washington, you simply bring a digital or printed copy of the standing order to a local pharmacy.

This is not good.

With two more extra-judicial killings of alleged drug smugglers, I am shocked (but not surprised) there isn’t more focused discussion about the military commanders following what appear to be clearly illegal orders. This does not bode well for America, given Trump’s March toward authoritarianism.

🧵 1/6: This is insane. While nobody should be applauding or condoning murder, it is entirely possible and appropriate to condemn political violence, without honoring a person like Kirk.

🧵1/5: Political violence rarely strikes those in power. Instead, it falls hardest on people with the least protection. It is deeply unjust, but it is the reality.

Stuart Stevens hits it on the head with regard to Dem messaging.

State and local government is the critical bulwark. It is vitally important people are engaged and voting in local elections. Too often the focus/energy is directed at the federal level. At this moment in history, the states and municipalities will be key to saving democracy.

Welcome to the new Pyongyang.

Firefighters risking their lives to protect Washington communities were arrested by Trump thugs while fighting a wildfire.