Also ”entertainment” 🙈

Oh dear, so predictable

Great chart from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com 👌

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Nothing complicated or subtle or hard to understand about what is happening: -"forcibly entered homes without a judge’s warrant" -"interrogated people because of their ethnicity or accents" -"broke windows and dragged occupants from their cars" -"used force on people who were already restrained"

The democratic backsliding happens slowly then suddenly. Respect to these prosecutors for resisting.

This dirty org needs to be dismantled for many reasons archive.is/2025.07.03-0...

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

The implication is severe: careless responding on MTurk isn’t rare noise; it’s systematic enough to flip the sign of relationships and generate results that are the opposite of what they really are. Wow; this is pretty damning. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Update: As of January 7, The Trace has identified 28 incidents, including 14 shootings, in which federal agents shot someone or held them at gunpoint during an immigration enforcement action under Trump’s crackdown. At least four people have been killed and five others have been injured.

Jack Smith Deposition quotes

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

It is extremely troubling that the migration minister in Sweden has a son who is a white supremacist. It is even more so, when the minister in question has adopted the far right position of wanting to weaken the rule of law by revoking permanent residency status. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Amazing piece

Trump: "We have a fool at the Federal Reserve. I mean, Biden reappointed him. It's too bad. You would have thought he wouldn't have done that." (Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)

I wrote about this claim forever ago when he made it on Joe Rogan's show:

Well-written piece, important and horrifying

What I never understood, is what Tegnell hoped to achieve with the inadequacy of the pandemic response? Now we’re seeing his brownstone maffia buddies populate high ranking positions in the Trump/RFKjr health department, continuing to set the stage for even more death and suffering, but why??

This is what happens when you let malevolent or deeply incompetent people into power. I’m especially looking at you, honorary doctor at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social , Martin ”death cult” Kulldorff

More absurdities from the NYT headline writer. No, Tina Peter was charged, tried and convicted for election fraud—not for being a "denier." And there is no "legal controversy," the Constitution is clear. There is a president seeking to exercise totalitarian powers.

Trump's MAGA affiliated European resistance appears largely to be something strung together and funded by the Russian intelligence services. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

A little bit of history repeating… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua...

“How did American democracy backslide?” “Two ways: gradually, then suddenly” Trump is the culmination of GOP trends that have been accelerating since at least Ford’s pardon, then Reagan’s rogue pre-presidency foreign policy & Iran-Contra, through everything in the GWB admin. All of it unpunished.

The Great Barrington Declaration was a bloody disaster. One of the greatest human follies of the modern age. Sheer arrogance and cynicism.

And yet, he did, so

Just goes to show the extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean has nothing to do with drugs.

Very tragic and entirely expected. Now watch the fascists use this in their hate propaganda, regardless of circumstances, in three… two… one…

Calling them the “Seditious Six” & branding their statements “despicable” before review is textbook definition of prejudgment. No panel, judge, or reviewing authority can claim neutrality once the SECDEF declares the accused guilty. This looks like the procedures used in dictatorships, not the US.

The "peace president."

”public man-made death”

This!

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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

The Trump regime has fired an estimated 70 immigration judges since February. This is happening as immigration courts face a record backlog of cases. Remember: it was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty.

Interesting and disturbing paper on gender inequality in economics 👀 aliciasassermodestino.com/wp-content/u...

Democratic backsliding to a fascist state

"Gradually, then suddenly" ... "What began as a way to increase the pace of deportations has come to look like a national police force, answerable to the president..." www.economist.com/interactive/...

"Witnesses and school employees said they thought the school was under attack and scrambled into rooms and vehicles outside in search of safety." One mother who walked in right after described "a room of crying kids, crying parents and crying teachers" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Donald Trump moderated the Republican Party on...trade? Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

Hey, remind me what happened after the Roaring 20s?

New #dataviz in @sociusjournal.bsky.social: how closely linked are motherhood penalties🤰💶📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼👩‍💼 in local labour markets in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪? Link btw♀️ ♂️earnings gap and 🤰 penalty holds across borders,but is even stronger within countries 🧵👇 w/ @sanderwagner.bsky.social,P Achard,I Amend

You know things are utterly FUBAR in the US when @bellingcat.com is doing satellite imagery analysis of the White House.

DHS just got caught telling multiple lies about federal agents shooting a US citizen multiple times newrepublic.com/article/2019...

The Great Barrington Declaration remains one of the best-timed confidently-wrong statements ever published. Usually there's some wiggle room in the data when it comes to science, medicine, public health, etc; it's rare to make a big generalized assertion that is instantly proven wrong.

There are many iconic photos that depict the rise of the MAGA dictatorship. This is one of them. Using inmates of a Salvadoran torture prison as a backdrop for your fascist image-building, that's Kristi Noem.

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

❤️ Chicago! Fuck fascism!

Israel accused of “sowing division” by rolling out the red carpet for far-right thug and EDL founder Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (also known as “Tommy Robinson”) @sayeedawarsi.bsky.social and @sundersays.bsky.social quoted