Waterboard Confessional

The racist video posted by the President is perhaps the most egregiously racist thing shown in the White House since Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation there in 1915. Here's an article from Denver's Black newspaper in 1915 calling for Americans to denounce such racist imagery.

Oh, were there other, less racist things, senator?

Every American to the left of Susan Collins is somewhat responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk, but it’s unclear if the President is responsible for the video he posted.

Glenn Beck thinks Bad Bunny is an anti-Trump psy op because no one ever talked about the [checks notes] guy who was Spotify’s most streamed artist in 2020, 2021, and 2022, who was named Billboard’s pop artist of the year in 2022. www.billboard.com/music/pop/ba...

"Twitter is cooking their brains" theory looking pretty strong

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

Moderate Republican Nelson Rockefeller trying to coax the GOP to "move into the 20th century!" Spoiler: It didn't work. Roy Justus, Minneapolis Star, 5/2/1968.

Trump is what you’d get if you distilled the worst impulses of Andrew Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, and Richard Nixon; poured them into a sausage casing; and then put a suit and tie on it.

Chip Berlet (1949-2026) When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one who made the first moves. He gave us the blueprint that antifascist researchers go by today. Thank you, Chip, we will take it from here.

Today's edition of "is it Elon Musk's Twitter feed, yesterday's Tucker Carlson monologue, or an article from The White Sentinel in 1960 written by a white Christian nationalist who ran a paramilitary training camp for neo-Nazis and Klansmen in Colorado?"

Could also include our national love of “get rich quick” multi-level marketing scams whereby 1% make decent money at the expense of the 99% of participants who make very little or (in many cases) lose money.

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth

DHS posts on Facebook about how “Americans” OVERWHELMINGLY support what Trump, Noem, and ICE are doing, citing a poll of “likely GOP voters” who, presumably, are the only Americans whose opinions matter anymore.

Trump is paraphrasing the far less well known scripture portion known as the “Sir-man on the mount” where Jesus advises a sycophantic military leader on how to most effectively and sadistically murder his opponents. Not many people know about those passages.

“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." --Tom Lehrer

As @jeffsharlet.bsky.social documented in The Family, honoring brutal right wing dictators from around the world has been a National Prayer Breakfast tradition since the 1980s.

Y’all, I’m losing my mind over here. I need everyone to read this article. I can’t go it alone!!! “Epstein argues that teaching children to write may be harmful because writing forces “linear” and “narrow” patterns of thinking, whereas the greatest thinkers never wrote.”

in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits

DC is actually being treated thoroughly as occupied territory. Tearing down monuments/media institutions, hostile takeover of its core economic engine and industry, suppression of its local municipal government and security forces

This Sunday on Straight White American Jesus @ardenthistorian.bsky.social interviews @sethcotlar.bsky.social:

“Democracy dies in darkness.” First as warning, then as how-to manual.

The Venn Diagram of people who think a) drinking milk straight out of a cow’s udder is a good idea and b) that pee is stored in the balls, is a circle.

Jeff Bezos could have spun off the Washington Post into an independent nonprofit with a few billion dollars for an endowment and been a hero by spending what, for him, is pocket change.

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

I have a degree in Biblical studies from JTS and the fact that Mike Johnson thinks that providing the full context for this quote is some kind of gotcha has convinced me he’s not just a liar, but he is a spectacular fucking idiot as well. Just a genuinely very stupid person.

ChatGPT-ass hermeneutics

for more about the "Biblical case for border security" and about the political philosophy motivating religious zealots like Mike Johnson and what makes them see the world this way and seek power in it i spent 3 years writing a book about the movement he's part of bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

I taped this week's Reign of Error episode with @briankaylor.bsky.social yesterday before Johnson's statements, but we discuss this very thing: why evangelicals and Southern Baptists like Johnson promote this view of the Bible. You're going to want to listen to this one. Drops tomorrow a.m.

Speaking on behalf of a religion that actively sought to spread itself to every country in the world whether invited or not, Speaker Johnson would like to share with you the Biblical case for strong borders.

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

3 yrs ago I started writing a book that is in stores TODAY. It's narrative nonfiction, anti-fascist spy thriller set in Trump era. It's timely as hell & I'm proud of it. A thread of what people are saying abt it & why I hope you'll help make it a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

"say the line, Bart!" GOD FORGIVE WOMEN HAVE HOBBIES

IMO, the ultimate outcome of Trump 2.0 will depend on wch feature of it predominates: malevolence or incompetence. The malevolence of Trump's DOJ is unbounded, but it's ability to do stuff is hamstrung by the fact that it's increasingly staffed by parking garage lawyers & women Trump thinks are hot.

Looks like lying Mike here just signed up for a heap of 9th Commandment, bearing false witness smiting. Unless, of course, he doesn't actually believe those Commandments apply to him.

I would like to order three of the uh-steemed buns please.

It's notable that there's a Christian Nationalist J6er running for Governor of Oregon (with the blessing of MAGA influencer Benny Johnson) on a "Jesus Joy" platform when 75% of Oregonians are NOT evangelicals. It's one of the least religious states in the country. Burn that money.

man if i got beaten up by a bunch of random emo teens in Buda, Texas I think I'd never leave my house again

What a strange coincidence that Harlan Crow, the billionaire with the collection of Nazi memorabilia, is also the patron of Charles Murray, the guy who thinks Black people are not a part of "western civilization."

Just No. 1) Immigration judges aren't "judges." They are part of the executive branch. 2) ICE's administrative warrants aren't even signed by IJs. 3) A real judicial warrant is required for arrests in homes (absent exigency). Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573 (1980).

a class analysis of actually existing US fascism

Battle not with Stancil lest ye become a Stancil too

In case you were wondering how a failed Australian politician who ran on a platform of euthanizing the nation’s pigeons…letting that sink in for a sec…became Trump’s nominee to be the US Ambassador to Malaysia, this thread is for you.

"Nearby, a six-year-old wondered if the unicorn she saw marching earlier was ok. "

Mine: they were fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe organized by cynical political leaders who told their angry and aggrieved countrymen that a hated minority was responsible for all of their problems, and that once their countries were purged of those people then everything would be great again.

Great admirer of Charlie Kirk, this guy. The lesson he seems to have taken from Kirk's murder was tens of millions of his fellow citizens needed to be treated as a Satanic threat.

A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?” A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages. It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Do the steps sound familiar?

Do you get whats coming? #SolarHockeyStickOfHope bsky.app/profile/mark...