I honestly feel like that’s the lesson of the Trump era the country is gonna take the longest to learn. like oh okay so we have been lionizing the founding fathers for 250 years and it turns out they didn’t do their ONE JOB. they didn’t Mad King-proof ANYTHING! first Mad King crashed the system!!!

"The dictator's trap" is term for when a leader demands such loyalty from those around him that they avoid giving him accurate but bad news and instead feed him only cooked books to stoke his ego. That leads him to make self defeating mistakes. Case in point:

Because when this administration doesn't have enough killing to do, they're starving people in Cuba to death.

How’s Operation Change-the-Subject going?

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

The funny thing about QAnon was that this whole time the call was coming from inside the house. 🤔

remains striking the extent to which trump quite loudly does not see himself as president of the united states and more as a clan leader for his supporters

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Furthest I’ve been: N: Edinburgh, Scotland E: Tokyo, Japan S: Labuan Bajo, Indonesia W: Vancouver, BC

• Mamdani is not in the country illegally • He does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism • Mamdani hasn’t actually said or done anything antisemitic • He did not call to ‘globalize the intifada’ • He’s not a communist

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

Trump pardoned the violent J6 insurrectionist freaks and they walk among us, thirsting for revenge. One of them, Zach Alam, did a home invasion the other day.

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

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Is America great again yet?

also a demonstration of how over-caution can easily become dangerous. sometimes the less risky move is the bold and aggressive one. milling around like a lost sheep when a knife-wielding maniac is charging at you is not averting risk

He said he would only be a dictator “on day one.” We’re now on day 23 of Day One.

Elon Musk is now bragging about getting rid of the team that put together the 'Direct File' tax filing system, which allows citizens to easily file their taxes for free. Direct File is a big target of the for-profit tax prep industry including corporations like Intuit and H&R Block.

youtu.be/eeheoxWzf2o?... I know who plan to support in 2028

Microsoft and Google users trying figure out how to turn off their ‘AI assistants’.

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I’m always looking for things that explain a lot but that people have a hard time remembering. Examples: Air is stuff. Pee comes from blood. All land vertebrates have a single common ancestor. Venus is bright enough to cast visible shadows. Clouds are heavy. Bones are alive. Any others you know?

I don’t know much, but this talk from the incoming administration about possibly getting rid of the FDIC is just about the dumbest of the dumb ideas I’ve ever heard of. Keeping fucking around, America. The finding out part is gonna be hell for ALL of us.

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

Sixteen things Biden, Harris & the Dems can—but would never—do in the next six weeks to stymie Trump, thwart the rise of U.S. fascism, protect the American people, and safeguard global democracy.

Follow these kids! (And not just because one of them is my son 😉) www.stcurbandesign.org

So a reminder: It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom. It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president. It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child. For the record.

Time to rethink EVERYTHING, folks.

Apropos of everything Trump…

Fuck Twitter/X

They have their own TV channels, personalities, media. They deride fact checking and (well) moderated debate. They buy social media platforms to manipulate algorithms and amplify content that suits their preferred ends and worldview. What they are threatened by are places of alignment + organizing

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

Given everything he's gotten away with, I wonder if Trump ever has a fleeting thought like, "I could have let Epstein live."

All these people complaining about Bluesky being an “echo chamber”.. yeah? So what. Sometimes it’s nice to just walk into a bar where everyone there is cool, the tunes are good, no one’s fighting, and you can actually hear what the person sitting next to you is saying.

As I used to say at the old site, Republicans bragging about their civil rights record in the 1860s is about as impressive as Pabst bragging about the blue ribbon it won in 1893.