Nazis used courts to preserve capitalism but wouldn’t be constrained by them: “Where the Prerogative State doesn’t require jurisdiction, the Normative State is allowed to function... The limits of the Prerogative State aren’t imposed from… outside; they are imposed by the Prerogative State itself”

"Nostalgia for a past that never existed" absolutely is the summary of an ideological turn fully immersed in AI aestethics.

Oh: - The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July. - China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period. By @akshatrathi.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Yes, the way we teach this stuff makes it seem like we can win by memes & PR stunts. I only recently learned the peace activists burning draft records weren't just making a symbolic statement. The draft board didn't have copies - every file destroyed was a man who'd never be called up to war.

Don't forget to go outside and look at the supermoon tonight! I will be pointing my Seestar at it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth” I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans? www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

I haven't dived into the underlying report, but this article is jaw-dropping. Data centers are apparently not *one of* PJM's demand-side problems. They are *the* problem.

Worker owned social media when

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

The underlying refrain here is that if you spend anytime in the BWCA you come out thinking why the hell would anyone want to spoil this pristine treasure?

I have literally never seen anything like this in my life.

“An independent analysis of 45 right-wing groups advocating against trans rights found that 80% have received donations from fossil fuel companies or billionaires.”

“But AI wOnT afFECt eNErgY pRiceS thAt’s a MyTH”

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

Proposed in a suburb of Duluth daily water use equivalent to 160 homes.

“It gives the illusion I was standing as some lone warrior in a cloud of gas,” Evans said. “It just happened to be the way the photo was framed. But people got hurt, people were hurt purposefully.”

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: < A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Quoting Lincoln in spine-starching column: "What will convince them? This, and this only: Cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly — done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated — we must place ourselves avowedly with them."

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

By quickly pushing people to believe that the elderly, disabled, poor, and others were a necessary sacrifice, the ruling class and corporations primed the public for more fascist incursions. They observed how many give in to destroying one another and themselves. prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.

People in regions across the globe are unhappy with their political systems and elected officials. However, many of those who want significant political change in their country are not confident it can happen.

This is precisely the problem, the refusal by centrist elites to differentiate between challenging ideas and debunked lies. It's not "challenging" to hear that black people are stupid or gay people are degenerates, it's just wrong.

What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures? Let us pierce the veil. For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture. Consider this an urgent warning: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

Today, Israel has launched a full military takeover of Gaza City, escalating famine and genocide. We urge the U.S. and global community to act now to stop it and hold Israeli leaders accountable.

In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.

"How to Blow Up a Planet" "What happened to the future? When did we lose it,..." www.nybooks.com/articles/202... "The collapse of that future-oriented legitimacy is at the heart of the crisis of American political life. "

We really need to remember this warning: “We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” ― Louis D. Brandeis

Liturgical (non)participation as an early indicator of secularism. “the Participation-Importance-Belonging (P-I-B) sequence…generations first shed aspects of religion that require more time and resources. People are slower to shed religious identity, which is not necessarily as burdensome”

CW: School Shooting. In these first days following the tragedy that took place at Annunciation Catholic School and Church less than 2 miles from our home, my only priority and concern has been caring for and honoring the victims.

this is an entire culture, an entire epoch built on burning the world and swearing the fires will never touch us, an entire civilization founded on denial of the basic idea that we are animals living on a planet with other animals who share their fate. that culture has to die if we're going to live

The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.

They can issue JOINT health guidance, they can buy up supplies of needed vaccines, etc... [just on the health front]. Hire all of the excellent people who are resigning.

We need gun control now, our children are dying. Minnesota has now faced the murder of a state legislators in her home and children in their school, within just months of each other. Minnesota, what will you do to protect your children? America?

The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.

Read this exceptional piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

The sun will win,

Seems relevant to Duluth: "Tourism from Canada has had the sharpest decline — Canadian visits in May decreased by 38% by car and 24% by air compared to the same month in 2024" www.yahoo.com/news/article...

People being green-pilled by their Episcopal church: When I Go, I’m Going Green www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/h...

No president has ever been more unpopular at this point in their presidency than Donald Trump — even Trump himself in his first term. Yet all of America's institutions are eagerly surrendering to him.

Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...

“And of course, the number of Christian Zionists in the U.S. outnumbers all the Jews in the world, much less Zionist Jews.” We can’t forget that there exists a large vocal number of anti-semites who tolerate Jews ONLY because their bastardized Christianity requires a Jewish war to bring Jesus back.

North Shore folks: my church in Two Harbors is hosting a bracing-and-empowering talk by @angeladenker.bsky.social on the dangers of Christian Nationalism - Aug 29th www.mobilize.us/thbreakwall/...

Why the climate zeitgeist may have gone from apathy to fatalism, beautifully captured by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Climate change is “turning Canadian forests into a tinderbox. ‘The United States is, for the most part, the main reason for that,’ said Dr. Waddington, referring to the role of the US as one of the biggest generators of planet-warming greenhouse emissions.” www.nytimes.com/article/cana...