‘One of the greatest challenges in combating fascism, both in the early-to-mid-twentieth century and today, is getting comfortable, middle-class, politically moderate people to understand that its adherents actually mean what they are saying.’

#Flassbeck rejects the idea that #China's export strength emerged through some unfair surprise attack on Western economies. His argument is that Western corporations deliberately moved production to China b/c they wanted:

Same office that covered up prosecutor's crimes in the Broadview Six case just covered up a police shooting. Feds said a teen beat up a cop before he's shot. They have clear video evidence showing the kid just squirmed away from him. They hid it from the judge. Judge just set a sanctions hearing.

I love this. Share a vision of what good should look like. How America -should- run. Minorities have never been an issue in America. The issue is folks who make money from a community and never reinvest in it.

This is real. A no-bid reflecting pool contract went to a sleazy Trump donor with a history of bribery and illegal loans. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Another brazen lie from Captain Condescension JD Vance gets community voted 👇🏽🤥

America has a trillionaire (on paper) and more people are missing meals. Some "Let them eat cake" mentality in this place.

your Tesla, your X account, and your SpaceX shares all directly support the most powerful racist alive

www.congress.gov/members/find... Call your reps. I do this pretty much every weekday myself, and the entire time between the first and the last call is under 5 minutes. Have a list, be ready to leave voicemails, and be polite. You're not going to change minds screaming at people.

Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

I don't want the Kennedy family heroine dealer running special education in the USA.

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

hm I wonder what happened "on or about January 11th" that might've merited an "Emergency Meeting on Resistance to ICE Operation."

And yes, there is empirical, peer-reviewed support for the conclusion that climate deniers, in general, are truly awful human beings: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

a lot of people out there need to take the threat from Russia a LOT more seriously

A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears. www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t...

If you talk about Michelle Obama today, please make it about this video

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Yale Law School.

I had some thoughts on the press coverage of the SpaceX IPO

Obama had Paul McCartney perform in the east room and broadcast it on pbs

This point can’t be stressed enough. Just as Musk bought Twitter to try to make himself seem popular, he bought Tesla to make himself seem smart. The only thing he’s actually invented is a mythology about himself

Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:

1. Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.” A Popular Information investigaiton reveals that it's a GOP front group. Following along for receipts. 🧵

FIFA inspecting Pinochet’s stadium prison camp to ensure it is up to FIFA standards

LOL, the Trump admin just shut down the newest Claude model for *everyone* because Anthropic has no way to ensure it can't be accessed by foreign nationals in the U.S. Wouldn't surprise me if the underlying cause was Elon Musk telling Stephen Miller to do this because nobody wants to use Grok.

they really said you’ll get paid in exposure to the city of los angeles

Biden & Obama era officials & lawmakers bellyaching about Musk… Tesla, SpaceX & Twitter workers, investors, customers, researchers took huge risks to tell reporters like me their concerns which we published. what did you do with that hard won info?

The net retained earnings from SpaceX and Tesla combined is in the *negative* $5 billion range. Musk's other ventures assuredly combine to make billions more in accrued losses. Musk, Inc has been around for 2 decades and never generated positive returns on capital. It's all an illusion, even now

[email protected] & I wrote an Opinion piece for the @houstonchronicle.com abt SpaceX's IPO. It massively incentivizes Musk to get 1 million people on Mars in ~30 years. We won't know if it's safe for 1 million people to be on Mars on that timeline www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

Let's just be completely crooked about the SpaceX IPO, right out in the open.

NEW: In 2022, Bitcoin miners promised Corpus Christi millions in tax revenues in exchange for the de-annexation of their water-sucking cryptomine. Four years later, the city is in a water crisis & the mine has yielded only a minute fraction of what was promised. www.texasobserver.org/corpus-chris...

here's another guy who shouldn't be able to show his face in polite society www.wsj.com/business/mus...

Worth noting that in 1921, the American Yiddish-language press described the anti-Black Tulsa massacre as a “pogrom,” because they knew that was the word that would best make their immigrant Ashkenazi Jewish readers understand what happened. ingeveb.org/blog/the-mos...

The chatbot responsible for goading someone into starting a wildfire, multiple shootings and several self-exits is about to bring a new age of fraud.

“.. creating a ‘chilling effect’ that pervaded local economies, hurt businesses and affected American-born workers ..” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

what the fuck 🫠

Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...

NEW YORK! Yep, we're at it again. After the IPO makes Elon the world's first trillionaire (barf), Jamie Dimon is throwing him a part-ay. Let's show up to rain on it. actionnetwork.org/events/stop-...

A reminder, those who would like you to believe it is the immigrants and other ethnicities causing the problems in the world know the truth. The world is made worse by extractionary forms of capitalism. Removing money out of rural areas to the pockets of the c-suite that do not actually do work.

Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

A reminder that Nazis were by and large funded by the lazy oligarchs of industry from America and Germany. Thyssen, Ford, Porsche, etc. These lazy slobs never worked a day in their life, but expected to have a minority race of slaves they could work to death for profit. Politicians are cheap.

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

A burning cross was found in Grant Park on Tuesday, city officials confirmed. blockclubchi.co/49RgAMt

They gave DHS more money than the Navy and its going to run through a huge amount on graft lol