Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

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

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Republicans control both houses of Congress. Republicans do not have enough votes to pass a spending bill. It is not the Democrats’ job to give them those votes. It is the Republicans’ job to earn those votes by making a deal that attracts a sufficient number of Democratic votes. Period.

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive." Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

Ezra Klein is making money from telling comforting lies to right wingers and he should be shunned and ignored.

Trump gets sanewashed ("oh, he didn't mean what he said"), but he said he's "authorizing full force." "Full force" necessarily includes the same "force" he has repeatedly ordered the military to use off the coast of Venezuela, i.e., killing people on the spot for suspicion of non-capital crimes.

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

Donald Trump is not concerned about safety — only about inciting fear and creating chaos. Federal officers must follow the law in Illinois and respect constitutional rights to peaceful assembly without the fear of intimidation and physical harm.

jurisdiction stripping, packing, forcing an ethics code on them, congressional investigations, meaningful oversight the court is as controllable as an aggressive Democratic party wants it to be

Trump is absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll: Overall approval: 38-54 Approval on economy: 39-56 Approval on trade: 39-54 On National Guard into cities: 42-55 On immigration, his "best" issue: 41-55 Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way:

Another win for "Fuck you. Make me."

it's just a fact. you can't have a global hegemon who every few years is at risk of electing a lunatic government that will undo treaties, start murdering people in international waters on a whim, stop aid programs, and slap wanton tariffs on the world capriciously. we have no credibility anymore

“The “refrigerator mother” myth was used as a justification for taking children away from their parents and subjecting the kids to ever-harsher treatments…now the Trump administration is poised to start a new cycle in which moms are once again blamed for their kids’ autism.” My latest.

honestly its not even lazy. people's lives are busy. they have family and work to take care of. other than us political news junkies they simply dont have the time to sit there and study the news. so they must be force fed easily digestible nuggets of info. the gop thoroughly gets this. dems dont.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

we should wrap ourselves in the flag while defending trans rights. it says in our founding documents that we are all equal and to say that any of us are not goes up against what america is supposed to stand for. real patriots support trans rights. otherwise you're unamerican.

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

the fact they're out here running "abigail spanberger will trans your kids" against one of the most conservative candidates out of the Democratic Party is a great example of why actually standing up for trans people, especially kids, is the only way to go

This. If they're gonna paint you as pro-trans either way, the answer is to explain why standing up for trans people is the correct thing to do, and that trans rights are human rights. See also: if they're gonna say you're a socialist anyway, run on enacting popular policies for the common good.

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

If you're upset about Jimmy Kimmel being "canceled," I'm sure you were just as furious when you heard about Joy Reid and Tiffany Cross or Amber Ruffin or Karen Attiah or Jemele Hill Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were

If you’re too afraid to do your job, you should quit your job. If you’re too afraid to report on what’s going on because you’re afraid of MAGA death threats, you should stop being a reporter. if you’re too afraid to vote against honoring a white nationalist due to death threats, you should resign.

You know what didn’t happen? Pundits going on Gab, Parler, Gettr, or Truth Social to repeatedly say “no one cares about this site, you’re in a bubble, you forfeited your influence, things are awesome on the site you don’t use anymore, so awesome that I come here to tell you you’re dumb unlike me.”

I just wrote about this exactly, at @columjournreview.bsky.social ! www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

"By the end of the year, we aim to have 200 percent more dipshits writing columns for us. As long as you are a Ben Shapiro knockoff who can string together the words 'the intolerant left' and occasionally criticize Trump, you have a home here on our opinion pages."

Also retwoot is you find it maddening that inflation was the biggest story in the world before 1/21/25.

Dave Klion did a Harpers Letter where are they now 5 years later piece in May of this year: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

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If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

The entire centrist establishment writing fan fiction about how Kirk's life was dedicated to building bridges while assiduously ignoring the movement-wide conservative effort to incite a pogrom against trans people.

This narrative that ICE has "backed off" Chicago persists despite a flood of bystander video and reports showing an unprecedented and growing wave of masked terrorists violently kidnapping Illinoisians off the streets in Chicago. I can only assume our media ecosystem is to blame for this.

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

They killed someone on Friday:

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

As always, Adam way out ahead on this one

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Kirk wanted to denaturalize his political opponents. He bussed insurrectionists to the Capital on J6. He attacked our democracy with election conspiracy theories. He urged his millions of listeners to bail Paul Pelsosi's attacker out of jail.

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

posters joking about charlie kirk were held to a higher standard than the wall street journal this week

I’m still cooking my unified theory of neocons in this moment but they are, at minimum, substantially more clear-eyed than Dem leadership at this point

Never before (I think) has a “great power” committed suicide in support of patriarchy, pedophilia, and domestic violence. The misogyny is killing us and no one will benefit.

A few random headlines from the last 24 hours are a reminder that the system of “law enforcement” only attempts to enforce *some* laws against *some* people. Being “tough on crime” always means ignoring crimes of the powerful while ruthlessly crushing vulnerable people and political targets.

Also I really do think I'm onto something with poor people only really ever actually doing survival crimes, desperation crimes & party crimes while those locking us in FUCKING CAGES are all doing money crimes, blood sport crimes, genocide crimes, child rape ring crimes, which to them is a fun party