You have to hang Jefferson Davis. You have to put Bull Connor and Richard Nixon in their own prisons. Otherwise you get Connor, and then Nixon, and then Trump.

The only constitutional amendment MAGA judges like is the Second Amendment, and as soon as citizens try to bear arms in a place ICE has invaded, the MAGA judges will turn against that too.

As for the argument, it may be comforting to believe we have a good state and a bad state rearing its ugly head, but it’s just the state. (Related: the country has not “polarized” into two realities; there’s just reality, where we all live and breathe, until we don’t.)

Man I don’t even know what to say. It’s just comment after comment explicitly supportive of Nazi ideology. I didn’t even look for this, it was a fucking *push notification*.

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

dudes rock, every frat bro should be issued a speed gun for shenanigans

It’s gonna be super sick to watch Hellboy foil a MAGA influencer gang in their attempt to bring back Charlie Kirk through a portal to the void opened by pseudo-Christian chaos magick

Dead Kennedys made like three records about it

LOOK AT THEM!!!! The first paper I ever read on them was titled "A Species at The Sunset" and it said there was no way to hold off extinction by 2100. By The Great Squirrel, if I have to drag this species back from the brink through sheer willpower alone, it's getting done

I still maintain that Colman Domingo at the Golden Globes two years ago is the best a human has ever looked

This is art. It wasn't before the act of consumption.

"Nothing good can happen and if it does then it doesn't matter" ok brother thanks for your input

As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods

I think all of us in academia knew this was coming. I've talked for years how, before the rise of the nazis, you needed to know German if you wanted to understand the most important physical science being done. After the war, you only needed to know English. The nazis destroyed German science.

Strategy is operative when either side is employing violence or the threat thereof, not just both sides. Strategies of non-violence are understudied in strategic studies/war studies (which is another beef I have with my own discipline).

Lmaoooooooo

noticing that if what donald trump wants is violence in the streets, and citizens are responsible for making sure that doesnt happen, the conclusion being made is that ICE agents are not performing violence in the streets because the state doesnt count as “violence”

They aren't specialists in violence they're just dicks the government gave badges to, don't mythologize being a thug because you're scared of loud noises

one of strongest opinions is that any university or research institute that takes public money should have to make itself 100% open to the public. Not just citizen library cards, but full access. and campus restrictions should be obliterated too.

I'll let this video I have saved to my hard drive speak for itself. Keep going and don't be afraid to fail.

A huge chunk of our political class has "book-you-see-in-an-airport" brain. Just no interest in rigour.

The people of MN give me far more hope than the largely feckless “opposition” leaders of our country or the deeply compromised and ineffectual media both-sidesing white nationalist totalitarianism.

Banning social media for kids may be good or bad but that guy is a comically obvious bullshit artist with entire books full of trite lessons extrapolated from anecdotes that are themselves barely half-true.

i have been meaning to write something longer about how the various ideologies of the tech right are just warmed over pro-slavery apologetics

As I am often saying, the central pillar of Cantor Thought is Tarpeian Socialism, the idea that in a society of significant size, the occasional slob is going to rob a 7-11 and that's not great, but whatever, but if you're given power by society and abuse it, we push you off a big rock.

How about make a society that feeds and clothes and houses and educates the people it already has before you make more. I know babies are cute but you can’t just get abandon your humans when they get big and rowdy!☝🏼

The biggest electoral challenge in America is getting voters to believe the indisputable reality that their government is full of nazi freaks

this is our boy's time to fuckin shine ✊

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

Elon needs to end his days in prison and I won’t feel that anything about current politics is approaching a just conclusion until that’s guaranteed

Absolutely correct: “If our authorities exist for the protection of the people, then the laws should exist for the protection of the people, not the protection of authorities. If the law exists for the protection of authorities, then the authorities do not exist for the protection of the people.”

One no longer has to be circumspect about this in public at all. Trump describes his position as one of supreme power lacking any constitutional or legal constraints. That's a dictatorship.

Jesus Christ why are we here. The reason pridewashing is bad is because it makes you say things like “bend the knee to my civil and human rights” when that is not what they are doing. Corporations don’t care about your rights. Corporations are not your friend.

Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of

Renee Good was killed just blocks from George Floyd’s murder.

The national media, the ADL, corporate leaders, etc. are not revisiting their decisions about Musk now afaict. Musk is just allowed to be a very public Nazi accelerationist as well as a CSAM publisher without any mainstream scrutiny.

Presidentialism, in fact, was a grave mistake & sits at the root of our current inability to properly deal with the onslaught of lawless authoritarianism. The ministerial resignations & toppling of the Mad King prime minister would have happened months (years) ago under parliamentary government.

*whispering* this is the performance of public virtue and should be feted

this is the kind of blatant lie that twitter users spend all day marinating in. it's literally in the dhs appropriation act that members of congress gave the express right to do this exact thing, at any time and without notice.

It's funny how everyone thinks the theme of Rashomon is everyone has a different view of the truth and we'll never know when the intent clearly is everyone tells a false story where they're the hero, and the knowable truth is that they are all selfish people beclowning themselves.

That sense really is pervasive - that many Dems are annoyed they have the responsibility of dealing with this moment, and wish they let someone else handle it while keeping the job. And it comes through every time they dismiss the fury and passion of their own base as an irritation.

I would bet my life savings this isn't going to happen. This guy is the world's biggest bullshitter.

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

"The day a cop killed Good" is a hell of a thing to fight against. (The fact that we haven't had banger headlines totally dismantling the new regime for this based on her last name alone is such a compelling indication the entire media apparatus is controlled by the billionaire nuReich)

This is American culture. It’s no joke like the most important thing right now that we reclaim this attitude from people who think “fuck you make me” is for allowing themselves to abuse and rob the weak and vulnerable.

"degenerate echo chamber where perverts and paedophiles are welcome" is a pretty good descriptor of what every hard right message board organically became before the world's richest man put his thumb on the scales to create such an environment artificially at twitter

wrote about this exact point yesterday in the context of figuring out what/where/how musk's power lies. musk making himself twitter (and vice versa) is a strength for musk but a weakness for twitter maxread.substack.com/p/why-wont-s...

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

250 years ago today, Thomas Paine published his greatly influential Common Sense, which helped catalyze the American Revolution. “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”