“Innovators” will build a little guy that falls over rather than build units of affordable housing.

What about democracy in the United States?

As we see the regime pursue plunder & repression overseas, we should expect to see escalating & interrelated systems of repression w/in the US. This “colonial boomerang”—where colonialism abroad advances fascism at home—represents a longstanding historical pattern & a big part of how wet got here.

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For those wanting more on imperial boomerang @wihorne.bsky.social @jphillll.bsky.social & WEB DuBois insights that connect ICE to Jim Crow to Vietnam to Venezuela, check this convo I had w @drcbs.bsky.social Charisse Burden-Stelly just two months ago. on.soundcloud.com/8Q6dFpRMfWS3...

Thank you for reading! Like so many of us, I’ve been begging folks to take this threat seriously *before* the point of fascist consolidation. Devastating to see this process continue to unfold almost today unabated.

This from @wihorne.bsky.social in July 2022 couldn’t be more on point and prescient for rn. drwilliamhorne.substack.com/p/what-is-fa...

I know this gives folks big feelings & I want to make space for that, but we’re in “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” territory here. What we are experiencing now are the inevitable & historical consequences of the system we have. A new one is simply what is required.

Remember:

Letting the rich & racist govern the rest of us will always lead to miserable & unpopular policies bc they aren't designed to benefit the rest of us. Instead, they advance the narrow & deadly interests of the predator class that exists at our expense.

Been saying something like this for a while. There's no going back to the status quo. Whatever comes after can't and won't be the same as our first 250 years. Something better must be built with the same disregard for norms and decorum that the old thing was destroyed with.

The US system was state of the art for the 18th century. For it to last 250 years, held together with spit and baling wire is quite an achievement. But at some point you probably need a new constitution, a new system. Where you’re not trying to read the intent of people dead for 200 years.

There have to be consequences for this & they have to be devastating.

Land Back more than ever

there will be no consequences

One way or another, consequences for the actions of this lawless cartel of an administration will be borne by the American people, whether in blood or treasure

There have to be consequences for this & they have to be devastating.

My basic points are: 1- that’s not easy 2- they’ve way overplayed their hand in year one 3- even if they fail they will hurt and kill a lot of people 4- throwing them out in 2026 and 2028 won’t be enough, we need to think about what comes after www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...

This right here, & we also need to consider how different sets of tactics work alongside one another to advance the larger goal of democracy & liberation. A key takeaway from the history of these movements.

White people continue to crash out. I hope that Rama Duwaji is having a good day.

Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying www.france24.com/en/americas/... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article !!!! And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY !!!!

𒀭ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℍ𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕕𝕒𝕪𝕤𒀭 Robert Frost once said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought, and the thought has found words.” I couldn’t agree more. When Giving Is All We Have:

The anticipation of a better world makes Christmas Eve one of my favorite days of the year, a meaning that isn't intrinsic to the day, but that celebrants create themselves. Amid all this horror, I am reminded that we are empowered to dream, create, & transform for ourselves & one another. 🔔❤️✊

“The same systems that made sure Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color were last in line for clean air, safe housing, and political power are the same ones making sure we’re also first in line to drown, burn, or be displaced.” - @merirei.com My first for @unicornriot.bsky.social

The Department of Health and Human Services announced several different plans to further restrict gender affirming care to people under 18 across the country. If finalized, these actions could effectively make it impossible for transgender minors to receive most affirming health care at hospitals.

In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.

C[hildren's]H[ospital]O[f]P[hiladelphia] faces threat as administration proposes rules to stop gender-affirming care for minors: Sweeping measure proposes cutting off federal Medicaid and Medicare funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to children, among other new restrictions."

This:

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As with other fascist movements, Republicans are slashing benefits & services in a way that suggests that they do not believe that they will face a meaningful election ever again.

What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.

How fascism works

Some highlights from our Stephen Miller piece: First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

“The Tories, Labour and Reform engage in a deportation numbers bidding war. Labour boasts that it has deported 50,000 people so far. Reform pledges to deport 600,000. We raise you 750,000, the Tories say.”

Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.

This is really bad and probably just the beginning . Trump is collapsing this country. I believe it is intentional and we really are under attack.

Please read this and pass it on.

A student once complained abt me bc I wouldn’t let them turn our class—for which they refused to do the reading—into a semester-long proselytization session. This was *after* I allowed them to redo an assignment that they had plagiarized via ChatGPT that was riddled w fake quotes & hallucinations.

This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money. Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.

Actual climate scientist here. 2.5C is on the optimistic end of the literature on current policy outcomes, which spans the range from 2.3C to 3C. I wrote a review of the literature on the subject earlier this year: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

The Trump administration is doing this in our name "’Officers have crushed detained people's testicles, slammed people to the ground, stomped on them and punched their faces’” “‘The amount of violence that we have heard about officers using against detained people is creating a crisis situation’”

The War on Integration

Great & smart that we live in a country where we require vaccines for dogs & not for people.

“If the complexity makes measuring the water use of a given data center difficult and contingent, isolating the effects at the level of a single user or prompt is nearly impossible.”

This, more than anything, is what the right realized in the wake of the 2000 election: in a moment of chaos or crisis, they can do anything -- *anything*, no matter how overtly criminal or gross -- & just smooth it over later with "both sides" pablum. "Let's not fight, let's look forward," etc.

In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.