Fascism is about exerting power over others. Some power is physical coercion, but more insidious is that fascists want to force you to accept lies that contradict with what you observe with your own eyes. Thus, it’s no surprise that fascists love AI slop.

So if this is accurate reporting (originally from October) then it makes the current talk of investment and “transition” governments much clearer. It seems Maduro was exploring possible negotiated settlements but Rubio drew a hard line at his remaining in power. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Whispers <Venezuela is twice the size of Texas and still has a government>

At the end of the day, these are just some not very bright guys who are in way over their heads.

In this vein, what I keep coming back to is that this group of principals -- especially Trump -- have strong generalized dispositions about how social life works but unusually weak cognitive & institutional frameworks for translating that into policy. (3/n)

for me, the apparent absence of any serious policy process, clear thinking about the national interest or more concrete foreign-policy goals, or effort to look down the game tree is impressive even by Trump standards (1/n)

Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.

Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.

This thing is gonna make Iraq look like an exercise in competence

Congress is a dead letter.

The president is getting intravenous drugs and taking repeated cognitive exams and MRIs with no explanation and the entire country is going along as if business as usual. We need something to pop this bubble of delusion.

The president is getting intravenous drugs and taking repeated cognitive exams and MRIs with no explanation and the entire country is going along as if business as usual. We need something to pop this bubble of delusion.

The entire 2024 campaign was a hallucination. There is no other way to put it. The whole thing was a collective fever dream.

Reuters spent only two sentences of this bulletin on events that took place in the last nine hours.

Holy Yellow Journalism, Batman.

@mcopelov.bsky.social are we at an unprecedented Article I crisis yet?

The media has a tremendous amount of culpability for this.

The entire 2024 campaign was a hallucination. There is no other way to put it. The whole thing was a collective fever dream.

Any Democratic member of Congress who wants to run for president in 2028 should file or endorse articles of impeachment before noon.

At the end of the day, these are just some not very bright guys who are in way over their heads.

"He has redirected resources away from the administration of justice and towards the purging of his personal enemies, and has “erected” the phony office DOGE in order to harass the lawful administrators of American government. Need I go on?" www.liberalcurrents.com/unfit-to-be-...

Indeed it is: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Me reading this headline “is this about Trump’s health? Or did he create a scam health insurance company that I somehow forgot about?”

Folks, your soulless, profit driven insurance company wants you to get the shot because it keeps you out of the hospital. That’s all the evidence of efficacy you need right there.

It’s all happening on X, the everything app.

It’s 2026. This current Era feels like the most unstable period I’ve experienced. We’re dealing with disruptive technologies that are running out way ahead of regulations and the culture’s ability to handle them. Know nothing populism is rampant. Yet, I’m pretty hopeful despite the chaos. 1/x

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/

“We’ve got to offer a positive moral vision and explain how we see technological and cultural changes should fit into this vision. People feel detached from our institutions and want answers. We have to give them something besides blaming immigrants.” Recommend whole 🧵

Fighting Trumpism isn’t enough. We’ve got to offer a positive moral vision and explain how we see technological and cultural changes should fit into this vision. People feel detached from our institutions and want answers. We have to give them something besides blaming immigrants. 5/x

To me, the path forward starts with articulating a clear *moral* vision of what we want the future to look like. we’re a culture that’s morally adrift and we’ve come to tolerate if not encourage a lot of behaviors we’d have rejected as amoral not long ago (sports betting, crypto). 4/x

The culture will catch up to the technology eventually. We will defeat blood and soil nationalism because it is a self defeating ideology in the long run. The bigger question is what type of society we want to build. One thing that’s clear is society isn’t going back to what it was a decade ago 2/x

It’s 2026. This current Era feels like the most unstable period I’ve experienced. We’re dealing with disruptive technologies that are running out way ahead of regulations and the culture’s ability to handle them. Know nothing populism is rampant. Yet, I’m pretty hopeful despite the chaos. 1/x

Gotta say 2025 was a good year for the Orange Man Bad and Russia, Russia, Russia theories of politics

College Presidents, I have a new year’s resolution for you: resolve to stop negotiating, which never works, and fight back, which always works.

2025 was dominated by The Horrors, but we managed to effectively counter mobilize. In 2026, we’re going to fully reverse the momentum. Trump is old, sick, and unpopular. The Midterms are in 10 months. I am here to tell you we are going to win.

2025 was dominated by The Horrors, but we managed to effectively counter mobilize. In 2026, we’re going to fully reverse the momentum. Trump is old, sick, and unpopular. The Midterms are in 10 months. I am here to tell you we are going to win.

In once sense Trump is on the back foot. In another, the opposition will now have to split its focus and both oppose Trump’s actions in government *and* prepare for the Midterms in 10 months. Difficult but necessary to focus on both and connect one with the other.

It’s all happening on X, the everything app.

The true Golden Age was when you could smoke your Pal-Mal 100s inside at Denny’s after you got off your shift at the lawn dart factory.

Trump won in 24 (largely because of structural reasons and Biden) despite, what in my estimation, was the worst campaign ever run by a presidential candidate in my lifetime. Now they’re stuck with a guy who cannot physically do the job, which was evident but ignored during the campaign.

Trump won in 24 (largely because of structural reasons and Biden) despite, what in my estimation, was the worst campaign ever run by a presidential candidate in my lifetime. Now they’re stuck with a guy who cannot physically do the job, which was evident but ignored during the campaign.

On Space Lasers and Blood Libel: Marjorie Taylor Greene Confronts the Coalition She Enthusiastically Helped Create.

On Space Lasers and Blood Libel: Marjorie Taylor Greene Confronts the Coalition She Enthusiastically Helped Create.

Something about COVID turned reality into a “choose your own adventure” and we’ve been living with the consequences ever since. I, for one, don’t appreciate being constantly gaslit.

The last *two* presidents have fallen apart on the job because of aging. We don’t have to live like this folks. We need major institutional reforms that 1) break the two party doom loop, and 2) make it easier to remove an executive.

Too many people are clinging to the notion that congress functions like the constitution supposes rather than dysfunction and abdication we see in reality. Once you get past this oversight, the logic that undergirds the whole system collapses.

The last *two* presidents have fallen apart on the job because of aging. We don’t have to live like this folks. We need major institutional reforms that 1) break the two party doom loop, and 2) make it easier to remove an executive.

Riding a bike to work is good, actually.

As we learned during COVID, the Venn diagram between anti-vaxxer and antisocial dickhead is a single, overlapping circle.

I have an Alpha Male immune system. I take Vitamin D and Zinc and the Dr Oz vitamins Joe Rogan said Aaron Rodgers takes. You cant scare me with your woke infections diseases!!!