A Texas woman had a miscarriage. She was jailed for five months. jessica.substack.com/p/texas-jail...

Just wrapped up another year at George Washington University. I’m impressed by the bravery and moral determination of our students. If only university administrators had the same courage and integrity.

@davekarpf.bsky.social still fits in his wedding suit!

Marlene Laruelle and @stevenlivingston.bsky.social open this issue by addressing the 2024 US elections and a potential #illiberal turn in the growing embrace of Christian nationalism. www.illiberalism.org/christian-na...

Happy to see this new publication w/ my dear friend Babak Bahador. We fit Benkler et al's propaganda feedback loop concept into James Carey's communication ritual framework, arguing that the logic of the former is explained by the latter. shorturl.at/u0pOF

What explains such reckless behavior . . . Oh, right.

Irony is so delicious. youtube.com/shorts/3vVIZ...

"While Money, Lies, and God is a copious recounting of relationships and rhetoric nurtured by right-wing money, at its core, the book is a cry of the heart to left-leaning donors and organizers to create institutions built to last, outside of...the party box." democracyjournal.org/magazine/76/...

Casey: There’s this whole mentality that MAGA has painted—like you’re either MAGA or you’re, you know, drinking soy lattes or whatever. But there are a lot of people who are just like, “We’re just regular people—we don’t want a dictator, we don’t want to see people’s benefits ripped away..”

While the Russian Useful Idiot in the White House is busy claiming bullshit wartime authority to further his efforts destructing Democracy, just a reminder that everything he has said is a lie & everything that he says going forward will be a lie. As for his enablers, screw them.

Let me get this straight. The genius decided it was a good business move to get cozy up w/ right wingers who think climate change is a hoax while insulting the folks most likely to buy his stale line of EVs. I mean, what could go wrong?

I want to see this bastard go down in flames, just like his rockets.

My first mentor was a refugee who didn't speak English when he arrived in the US. John Shalivashvili spent 4 decades serving his country in the US Army, rising through the ranks from private to a 4-star general and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Bonespurs Trump is a fraud.

Katherine Stewart knows this landscape extraordinarily well. See her Lies, Money, and God

Lance Bennett and I have a new article out in Perspectives on Politics. We offer an alternative take on the role of social media and democratic backsliding. It is available here: shorturl.at/Yxayi

Waste and Fraud.

So you say you plan to buy a Tesla.

My AP interview about Musk was picked up by PBS.

Swasticar sales are way down.

For Stunned Federal Workers, Sleeplessness, Anger and Tears www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

Remember when we were suppose to become alarmed by Hillary Clinton's emails?

German Protesters Condemn Chancellor Front-Runner Merz for Working with Neo-Nazi Party

I'm so looking forward to participating in this Disinformation Summer Institute UC San Diego in June.

According to Wired magazine, the Doge team is being led by a group of six “young and inexperienced” engineers aged 19 to 24, one of whom is still in college.

And I wonder how Tesla will sell in Canada

Of course it did. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

George Washington University offers its employees only UnitedHealthcare medical insurance.

While the cost of deductibles has skyrocketed, wages have remained stagnant.

An interesting comment to a YouTube video talking about UHC. Make Oligarchs Afraid Again

Here is More Perfect Union's terrific explanation of the rise and practices of United Healthcare Group. www.youtube.com/watch?v=frr4.... To learn more about MPU, see here: perfectunion.us/about/

I'll just leave this here for now.

JD Vance is unable to say that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. This is his demonstration to Trump that he is more of a toddy than Pence.

Walz is too often using fragments of sentences.

Vance is making Harris the incumbent.

Boom. Walz on housing. Good job. Lives in the same house he bought with the GI Bill.

I look forward to seeing the analyses of this VP debate. It seems Harris has been the object of attention far more than Trump. That is not a good thing for Harris/Vance.

Vance has one answer to all questions: Those immigrants. BS.

Pro woman. Yes

No, no, no. Walz needs to remind people that it was Trump who appointed 3 Supreme Court Justices who overturned Roe. That is the point.

I met Hadley, the young woman who Walz mentions, here in Flint. She is amazing.

This is a disastrous moment for Waltz. The answer is I wasn't there as I claimed. American democracy is on the ropes on this stupid gotcha question.

Hey y'all, I'm new here. If you are from a German language speaking country, check out Amerika ungeschminkt vom 1. Oktober 2024. See the final 50 some minutes of the video to see the die letzten 90 Sekunden im deutschen Fernsehen

Walz is now more comfortable, hitting his stride. Vance obsessive attack on Haitians is weird. Yes, weird.

Calling Pete Buttigieg.