It’ll be fine—just give oligarchs more money and they’ll take care of it for us.

Unlike other NYC mayors with delusions of grandeur, Mamdani need not be pulled towards national ambitions (and the inherent, imperial actions which often accompany them) lithub.com/why-its-a-go...

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

i was just thinking about this. when a fascist squeaks by, it’s a mandate. when a progressive wins by a landslide, he needs to be deferential. it’s such bullshit.

This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order

We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The nonprofit research group Epoch AI is tracking the physical imprint of the technology that’s changing the world.

A message for you all to carry through the year

Great way to visualize Denver’s crazy warm December, with high temps 13.7° above average. Denver had a warmer December than Raleigh, North Carolina - despite Raleigh being nearly 15° warmer than Denver in an average December. #COwx

Pharty Fishback United States, Census, 1900

When clocks strike midnight on the first day each year, a quiet creative revolution starts as hundreds of works move from private control into the public domain, unlocking stories, songs, and images for anyone to reuse. The world celebrates this big moment with an official Public Domain Day. (1/2)

My 2026 advice is cross somebody in The Discourse off the list as soon as you catch them pretending not to understand something they understand fully.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Happy new year to all my homies:

Thinking about those months of dialogue on whether or not it was against the rules to mention white supremacy. Remember that?

We could be in the middle of a major flu outbreak right now and there is no way to know anymore because we gutted the resources and credibility of the CDC over the past year. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

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Today is the last day that you can repost this image

I hate seeing Hiroshi Nagai's beautiful artwork being co-opted to create fascist slopaganda.

They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration. It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.

The entire political economy of techbro-mediated AI deserves to be launched into the sun AND too much of AI criticism has the flavor of “electronic toys need to be banned because they give toddlers a false sense of mastery”

So what I'm gathering from this is that after a year of telling ppl they'll give them gobs of money to sign up they still are well below their recruitment goals

Fascinated by retweet numbers for @yearprogress.bsky.social

This guy? www.thecrimson.com/article/1991...

It passed unanimously. Override the veto.

Whether it's Hillary Clinton making $100,000 in cattle futures 14 years before she became First Lady or Donald Trump making $1.7 billion from his DJT meme stock while serving as president, both sides have made money in controversial ways.

24 seconds of the late Isiah Whitlock Jr saying shit on The Wire youtu.be/5mgCoesUZwI

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No my man, the answer absolutely involves taxing those gains.

Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939

How the Washington Post began the year. How Democracy Docket is ending it. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

One of the best to ever do it

In 1961, the National Review, that bastion of "reasonable conservatism" published a pamphlet by L. Brent Bozell (WFBuckley's bro-in-law) making the menacing argument that Chief Justice Earl Warren deserved a punishment greater than censure or impeachment because he'd "made war against public order."

It definitely won’t be this Democratic Party that is allergic to supporting popular policies.

It makes perfect sense that the idea of the Crusades appeals today to the exact kind of loud, adolescent-brained, self-aggrandizing, just-rich-enough-to-cause-problems idiot that the actual Crusades were designed to siphon out of the body politic like the snake venom they were, and are.

"If something was going on, it'd have been leaked already" I'm sorry, do you understand how the beltway press works? The entire DC press corps will hold an open secret for years, they're all shopping their book deals and we'll get to hear about all the juicy stuff "everyone knew" in March 2029.

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

Another example of how the U.S. political right appropriates digital tools, platforms, and data to create, (re)frame, and remix data visualizations to spread anti-immigrant propaganda. If you're interested in learning more, here's a paper from my research team: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Given how aggressively "the left" is trying to use the media & the educational system to brainwash American youth into Communism, the leader of the America First Party and the Christian Nationalist Crusade is creating Christian Youth for America. The year is 1943. The only problem is...antisemitism

This isn't a popular idea. This is an *elite* belief. There's no mass of voters who recoil from impeachment like this. Majorities wanted him convicted the last two times, and the same would easily poll >50% today. The handwringing about the sacred presidency is DC-driven, it's not voter-driven.