‘Blue Labour’ and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b... Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes @nafeez.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

Here's a link to the entire document. Like all primary sources, it is a product of its moment and does not voice timeless or universal truths. It is, however, interesting how insightful this particular analysis of American fascism, ca. 1945, looks in hindsight. archive.org/details/Army...

the NFL itself tried to run as a nonprofit for *years*. give me a break

NEW Quinnipiac poll of registered U.S. voters: • Half now say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza • Only 47% see backing Israel as a U.S. interest, down from 69% in 2023 • 60% oppose more military aid to Israel • 58% favor UN recognition of a Palestinian state www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

Always important to discuss the enormous gulf between what Stephen Miller would like to do to me and what he can actually do to me.

they literally do not have enough lawyers for this shit

If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.

he was instrumental in getting trump to pardon war criminals during trump’s first term and is participating in war crimes at the moment. i bet if you pushed him just a little bit he’d tell you that his much vaunted “warrior mindset” just means a willingness to kill civilians

really interesting to me that pete hegseth — who incidentally was accused of domestic abuse — is obsessed with war crimes

except in the American system there is no accountability for these executive branch activities inside grand juries, it is designed to be sealed off by multiple levels of shrugging and brick walls. With only fleeting exceptions, i can only think of a handful

GOP lawmaker calls for Dem congresswoman to be executed for urging Trump protests Rep. John Gillette escalates rhetoric despite colleagues’ calls for civility after recent political violence azmirror.com/2025/09/25/j... via @jerodmacevoy.com

quick item on dallas

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...

spain taking action re Gaza flotilla - Israel has been doing unacknowledged attacks on civilian craft in international waters reuters.com/world/middle...

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Handy for researchers - New release v 1.1.0 Open Security Mapping Project / Example Data Sets CSV ICE detention facilities for late September All data freshly scraped in spreadsheet - Latest: github.com/Open-Securit... #ICE

DOGE was a success because the entire point of it was the greatest data theft scheme in history and they did it

NEW: Ed Martin, the head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) vague weaponization task force, in a recent letter threatened to open a criminal investigation into a now-retired FBI special agent who sued the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over Jones’ lies about a mass school shooting.

As the US Marshals Service prepared for Donald Trump’s expected pardon of January 6 defendants, officials went to unusual lengths to facilitate the defendants’ travel home from the DC jail, newly obtained records show.

The fact that this was all going on in the Marshals Service even before Trump began exercising the powers of the presidency makes me really certain that we’ve got to look long and hard at how to root out fascist ideologues from law enforcement agencies.

larry ellison has just been in the background for years, now he is taking over everything

harmeet dhillon, who's in DOJ trashing civil rights now, might have ruined the texas redistricting plan www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

these off cycle special elections (in UK called 'by elections') are not indicative of regular election turnout .. it is promising for the dems but it's not like this %% will translate directly even in that district

wingnut welfare lands another great gig

DACA Recipient Held at Adelanto Detention Facility Dies at Nearby Hospital, 14th Death in ICE Custody This Year austinkocher.substack.com/p/daca-recip...

Genuinely wonder how K-Hive types will grapple with Harris herself openly saying that being associated with her rabidly pro Israel boss and his rabidly pro Israel political impulses was a net negative.

finally some critical stuff. elite behaviors!

interesting on the sim farm thing

this is what peak performance looks like (credit card debt)

this rocks - sometimes people follow these types for business reasons or whatever but it is an early warning for derp warp factor ten

French Member of the European Parliament Emma Fourreau says her assistant’s sailboat was struck by an explosion during ongoing drone attacks on the flotilla, destroying the jib. Drones continue their assault on the mission.

There’s an entire parallel bizarro Bluesky made up entirely of 2017’s top resistance grifters that and possible to be entirely unaware of its existence.

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

epstein files clinching vote considered arizona CD7 (former raul grijalva seat) lol .. daughter adelita grijalva considered likely winner, results expected soon

dang turmoil in Ruby world

Now that Jimmy Kimmel is getting reinstated, many MAGA figures are trying to argue that this shows Trump *didn't* use authoritarian abuses to originally oust him. This is a transparent scam from MAGA, and media figures should not be gaslit by it. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2008...

Useful term: “We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.”

american foreign policy and its intellectual culture are not going to improve as long as people like david rothkopf are held up as respectable. he blocks anyone who points out he is a paid messaging shill for a notorious dictatorship. why is this guy tolerated in polite society?

these shady ICE detainee tracking practices are very menacing situations .. many many missing people

The two councilors, 7th District Councilor Dion McGill and 12th District Councilor Leonardo Quintero say, “Communities cannot afford business as usual. We are facing unprecedented attacks, and it is time we take unprecedented action,” and call for electeds to “take real action.” Full statement:

Per photographer Matthew Kaplan this morning, ICE has now fenced off the street in front of the Broadview processing facility.

transgender tylenol antifa, the triangle of doom!

"I think this current Supreme Court is committed not to leftist liberalism by any means but, basically, to liberalism. They all believe in freedom of speech. They’re all highly committed to freedom of religion. Pluralism is something they embrace." -- Sunstein to Chotiner

glad i got a locked electricity price .. 'drill baby drill' and coal hype is just cover for another monopoly scam sector

How can Israel be considered a partner for peace, asks the Emir of Qatar. “They visit our country and plot to attack it. They negotiate with delegations and plot to assassinate the members of the negotiation teams.”

if you actually watch trump for an extended period of time his looping brain waves are not exactly hard to spot .. i've done this more than usual in the last weeks and it is so weird really

new yorkers are well aware how comically bloated the NYPD budget is