I have suspected for awhile that we are already seeing the violence that runs downstream of (mostly) privileged (mostly) men with gambling addictions. And it will only get worse. Everything will, in the end, have been about crypto and fossil fuels and we are mostly just casualties. Sigh.

We’ve basically spent the last week of my class looking at the work of Black thinkers from across the 20th century who envisioned forms of antifascist & anticolonial agitation & solidarity that look A LOT like this.

1. When they protested (which is more than you did) they were arrested and beaten and expelled, and you insulted them for it the whole time 2. Several of the largest protests of all time have happened since Trump took office last year and students were at them

Just saying the quiet part out loud now, I see. I can’t decide if this smacks of incredible hubris or desperation.

Astute nymag.com/intelligence...

I thought we were supposed to pressure Dems to prevent genocide, or did I misunderstand the thing 2 skeets below this?

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

I would like for it to be much harder to major in spreadsheets.

The predicament of fascism America has now was not beamed down by aliens from a spaceship. It was built on & improved, many administrations put their brick in the wall for Trump to have a great totalitarian structure. We must examine the past factors that bring us to this point. It's uncomfortable.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Omg they’re going w “high oil prices are good, actually.” God bless ‘em.

Utah authorities arrested a man because he had dried pinto beans. They thought it was drugs. By the time they realized it was beans, they dropped charges, but it was too late: ICE had found and detained him.

“They must see Americans as strange liberators... Even though they quoted the American Declaration of Independence in their own document of freedom, we refused to recognize them. Instead, we decided to support France in its reconquest of her former colony.”

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids." That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

This is necessary bc western civilization has failed to realize that peace is not the opposite of war, just its absence, & what that entails for our responsibility.

Reposting for the reading list!

This was *the* case pro-Israel defenders would point at to say "See? Israel takes human rights violations seriously!" And after all that — including mobs of Israeli rioters and politicians storming a military base to protest the arrest of these soldiers — it's being dropped.

We’ve basically spent the last week of my class looking at the work of Black thinkers from across the 20th century who envisioned forms of antifascist & anticolonial agitation & solidarity that look A LOT like this.

eventually the rest of the world is going to come to the conclusion they have no choice but to punish the american electorate collectively for refusing to take our responsibility seriously

My column this week speaks to this point that Trump is plainly incapable in acting in a way that isn’t self-destructive. (gift link)

I wouldn’t wish this fear on anyone, not my worst enemies. It’s a unique and terrible hell to be sitting in the diaspora worrying about your family, as massive bombs hit their city, even if it’s something you’ve experienced all your six decades. It only gets worse, each time.

This.

The language of austerity is simply an expression of power masquerading as powerlessness.

A Haitian asylum seeker detained by ICE died after being refused timely medical attention for a severe toothache. At least 40 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office — a two-decade high. The monstrous cruelty of Trump's police state knows no bounds.

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after. It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

read Marx

the president of the united states just said he found out the country he started a war with had boats sometime after he started that war

When the hacker expressed disgust at the child abuse images on the server and threatened to report them to the FBI, agents had to get into a video chat with the hacker to convince him they WERE the FBI. We continue to live in the stupidest possible timeline. www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

The word for this effort—which coincidentally we’ll be discussing in class today—is genocide.

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit. An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans. It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“The West has never been civilized. It has no right to speak of itself as a civilization. Our struggle is to overthrow this system which feeds itself & expands itself through the economic & cultural exploitation of nonwhite, non-Western peoples— the Third World.”

The language of austerity is simply an expression of power masquerading as powerlessness.

Which btw is not an expression of “partisanship” so much as an accurate diagnosis of what is causing the fascist crisis. While the party falls short here, voters do not, in fact, want political leaders to “compromise” w fascists.

Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children. A major throughline of the Trump administration.

Which btw is not an expression of “partisanship” so much as an accurate diagnosis of what is causing the fascist crisis. While the party falls short here, voters do not, in fact, want political leaders to “compromise” w fascists.

There is no evidence that voters are clamoring for candidates who distance themselves from progressive policies. Nor are there signs that voters are despondent about the party’s prospects of winning a general election that they will accept a nominee with a Republican-lite platform. trib.al/kRVhBoa

Also not good that the leading edge, the NAR, descends from the Latter Rain, which drew upon Aleister Crowley. There's a damn good reason orthodox Pentecostals regard them as heretics & pagan syncretists. william-branham.org/site/researc...

Probably it isn’t good that one of the two major parties is animated by religious extremists who are committed to bringing about the end of the world.

This is actually becoming a thing on the right again. A bunch of Republican primaries in Texas have been about stopping Sharia law. www.texastribune.org/2026/01/26/t...

Does any cis woman really think attacks on trans rights *benefit* her? My guess is it's motivated by straightforward bias plus self-hatred and sublimated rage around being a woman and gender conformity... They have this idea that being a woman is supposed to be hard / no one is supposed to enjoy it

“.. a claim that, if true, would constitute an unprecedented breach of security protocols at an agency that serves more than 70 million Americans.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

marx wanted capitalism to go into overdrive. he wanted massive corporations. he wanted unfathomably large/efficient economies of scale that would create endless abundance. he wanted this machine of hyper-concentrated economic power to come into being - and *then* be seized and run by the proletariat

"Ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste." — Karl Marx, 1882

The escalating No Reason War in the Middle East is an articulation of the systems, institutions, & partnerships the U.S. has built over generations & illustrates, once more, that the only way forward is out of this repugnant farce that has been called American democracy.

Let's send Lindsey to the City Council! secure.actblue.com/donate/linds...

Speaker Johnson could call the House back and vote to fund TSA today. Let’s be clear: long lines at the airports are a direct result of Republicans insisting ICE be able to defy court orders, kidnap and murder people and face zero consequences.

Great work by NYT showing Trump's war is the most unpopular ever. Supports my argument (see below) that in some ways the public rejection of Trump across the board is a very heartening development:

Nothing says "we care so much about fighting antisemitism" like suing institutions that refuse demands to provide the government with lists of Jews. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...