Madison and Hamilton, with a small contribution from John Jay, wrote 100 essays (roughly 170k words) in 7 months advocating for the Constitution in what became known as the Federalist Papers. It isn't a mystery what they thought about individual rights and state power! They wrote multiple books!

If you read some history, the founders, despite their faults, were very scared of government overreach and oppression, and this concern spanned the ideological gamut from Washington and Hamilton to Jefferson and Madison. Meanwhile, these chuds are like "shut up about the masked thugs. They are Good"

JD Vance: Administration Sophist.

If you read some history, the founders, despite their faults, were very scared of government overreach and oppression, and this concern spanned the ideological gamut from Washington and Hamilton to Jefferson and Madison. Meanwhile, these chuds are like "shut up about the masked thugs. They are Good"

Popularism is a theory where politicians have no agency to shape opinion. If you suggested Trump or the right adopt popularism, they would rightly laugh in your face.

At the end of the day, authoritarianism is the common thread that holds this coalition together. They may nominally care about foreign policy, economics, or the like, but when their policy goals conflict with their authoritarianism they get pushed aside—the real goal is subservience to the hierarchy

Folks, we're 10 months out from the midterms and the path back from fascism is not just through the House and Senate, its through mayorships, city councils, state legislatures, and governor's mansions, too. A little money and effort can make a big difference down the ballot.

Things are spiraling right now, which is terrifying, but also evidence of fragility. They know they're losing and are trying a smash and grab before they face real checks on their power. Organizing is the only proven way to pull this country back from the brink.

So, ICE murdered one of our alumni. So nice to see the Administration try to gaslight the nation by claiming this woman, who won a poetry award as part of her studies, was a domestic terrorist. Zero shame. www.pilotonline.com/2026/01/08/o...

Trump's love of cable news, fake facebook boomer memes, and seeming mental decline mean he is ground zero for disinformation via AI slop.

So, ICE murdered one of our alumni. So nice to see the Administration try to gaslight the nation by claiming this woman, who won a poetry award as part of her studies, was a domestic terrorist. Zero shame. www.pilotonline.com/2026/01/08/o...

“Three years is a long time to resist and to endure with all our might. But it is not long enough for them to triumph, not the way they’re going. We’ve got this. It’s going to be hard, there will be more losses, but we will beat them in the end.” www.liberalcurrents.com/murder-in-mi...

I'm just sad. I don't feel the rage I expected. Just deep profound sadness. I have been saying for months/years that the Trump regime needs, CRAVES, blood on the streets and war with some poor country. They ABSOLUTELY intend to ratfuck/suspend the midterms. Our imaginations are not sufficient

1/ So Ashli Babbit who was part of a violent insurrection that stormed the US Capitol, beat hundreds of cops, broke in against police resistance, found the inner chamber where senators were hiding,

ICE is hiring a bunch of people who flunked out of normal law enforcement channels for being unqualified in the most obvious ways possible and now we’re all reaping the whirlwind.

Folks, we're 10 months out from the midterms and the path back from fascism is not just through the House and Senate, its through mayorships, city councils, state legislatures, and governor's mansions, too. A little money and effort can make a big difference down the ballot.

Keep your eye on the ball, folks. Don't let Trump ending the international order because Greenland looks really big on a map distract you from the fact a dozen eggs are 28 cents more than this time last year.

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

This quest for territorial expansion is directly downstream from MAGA’s effort to redefine America as an ethnostate for White Americans. When you view the world this way, every action is zero sun.

if we can't clearly say that a party whitewashing a coup is anti-democratic and un-American, then we've truly lost the plot

People are sleeping on Alaska as a potential Dem Senate pickup. It is a state with unique libertarian politics and is heavily dependent on federal spending. Peltola has won statewide before and is very much live underdog.

the entire 2024 campaign was a national exercise in mass delusion and gaslighting and nothing in my life compares to it. It was a lonely feeling for those of use experiencing reality.

You see this right down to micro-levels- the person who is an absolute asshole on the community Facebook group shuts up really quickly at the town meeting if you call them out. They're all cowards deep down, hiding behind money and privelege, and it's why it's so so important to stand up to them

Yarvin is not a good thinker, just fundamentally lazy. It's crazy people view him as some sort of oracle--he struggles to string together coherent thoughts. This is just gutter racism masquerading as enlightened thought.

People are sleeping on Alaska as a potential Dem Senate pickup. It is a state with unique libertarian politics and is heavily dependent on federal spending. Peltola has won statewide before and is very much live underdog.

You cannot be “protect western civilization” and reject enlightenment rationalism and the pluralism that is baked into our constitution. They fundamentally reject the mantle they claim to have inherited.

We’re a rogue state governed by barbarians. They’re triggering a chain of events they can neither appreciate nor understand. We’ve empowered a group of people that cannot understand the country’s best interests in the short or long terms. Instant gratification via graft is their only commitment.

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

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.

Trump is reportedly asking advisors what countries we can invade to obtain VHS tapes, Ford Taurus station wagons, and smoking inside restaurants.

Trump is reportedly asking advisors what countries we can invade to obtain VHS tapes, Ford Taurus station wagons, and smoking inside restaurants.

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.