why does this tool even exist?? oh right techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/t...

see:

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Hey why haven’t I seen an all-hands press conference from democratic leadership saying the president must be impeached for threatening to use troops on US citizens? Like why aren’t 25 key Dems in a room right now with every camera in the country? @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? @schumer.senate.gov ?

Picabia’s less visually witty, more direct Adoration of the Calf (1941-42) is the image I keep trying to forget these days

Grosz's 1928 painting "The Agitator," which depicts a demagogue riling up a crowd with all the means at his disposal, seems pretty resonant of late www.stedelijk.nl/en/collectio...

These days I think a lot about artist George Grosz, who barely escaped from Germany to the US in 1930s as the Nazis rose to power. His scathing critiques of the rise of a fascist society put him at real risk of retribution. This is his "A Little Child Shall Lead Them (Family)" from 1932

Judge finds that Noem and Rubio conspired to violate the Constitution

“This trial exposed their true aim: to intimidate and silence anyone who dares oppose them,” he added. “If we fail to fight back, Trump’s thought police won’t stop at pro-Palestinian voices – they will come for anyone who speaks out.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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If you want me to print up some dollars for you so you can make your bank payments and feed your family, you gotta applaud me: bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Trump opens with a threat to the generals: "I've never walked into a room so silent … Have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud ... If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. but you just feel nice and loose."

Everyone who has a stake in America should read pages 96 through 100 of Judge Young's opinion. (I mean, read the whole thing, of course. But those pages are more broadly important.)

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

Argentina’s Military Dictatorship disappeared folks all the time Including children Grandmothers protested by banging pots & pans at their windows so everyone could hear bsky.app/profile/hear...

In 1974, "Western Front," an L.A. organization run by followers of Gerald LK Smith, the founder of the American First Party & the Christian Nationalist Crusade, sent out this flier about "The Enemy Within" which supposedly controlled Hollywood, the media, government, churches, & education.

I know, everybody's been bombarded by clips from this horrible speech, but this one's worth watching. 🙏

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

I've stepped down as Vice Provost at @upenn.edu to focus on public scholarship & outreach, which I feel is so important at this moment. I remain Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science & Director of @penncssm.bsky.social Statement here: michaelmann.net/announcement/

Adam Smith, the “Father of Capitalism”: Governments should use their power to create the currency for broad public purpose. Thus creating low cost economy for the many, not just the few. Woke !!!!

Lincoln and Marx wrote letters to each other And Lincoln said “labor comes before capital” Woke !!!!

Gen. George Washington wrote two rule books on military behavior stressing the need for “decency” and humane treatment of captives and civilians. Evidently Army National Guard Maj. Hegseth finds Washington too woke.

Creating a false sense of objectivity through mathematization has a long history of serving and obscuring power. "There is no alternative" has always been the dictum. Now it's merging with the legal fiction of corporate personhood. AI personhood is the perfect way of holding nobody accountable, ever

bsky.app/profile/did:... OK I was unsure if my politician-lists were current so I'm making some new ones. Starting with Democratic Senators!

We've been in a slow-motion government shutdown for months, as the Trump administration withheld appropriated funds and engaged in mass firings. Now we're going to finally admit it. From me and @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: prospect.org/politics/202...

Given today's speech, a reminder that POTUS has asserted a prerogative to use of the US military to kill outside the law—a prerogative without any clear limiting principles. www.justsecurity.org/120568/carib...

This is a way, way, better list of questions than I’ve seen any American do. It’s stuff like this that gives me more hope for UK & Europe than for my own country: bsky.app/profile/bena...

It doesn’t get any clearer than this:

Trump is talking about protests:

This is a superb essay by @pastpunditry.bsky.social. The only thing I would add is that one could backdate the history of conservative "cancel culture" even earlier, if we consider the first Red Scare in the WWI era and the "gag rule" in the antebellum period. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Chris Hayes, who knows better because he’s had Stephanie Kelton on his show, thinks we should talk about identity politics minus the understanding that our government can always pay for an Economic Bill of Rights that includes a Job Guarantee for all bsky.app/profile/chri...

No more creating our national currency for anyone we don’t like. bsky.app/profile/radl...

Time for blue states & blue cities getting creative and using their public institutions to create public money bsky.app/profile/kati...

Mussolini Fascism: The state will create the currency to reward & punish government chartered banks & corporations depending upon their support of Dear Leader. Patriotism is the worship of Dear Leader & his banks & corporations Hitler: True. And we’re gonna exterminate whoever

Our government will crease as much of our national currency as they need to in order to crush our Consitutional Public Money bsky.app/profile/atru...

Universities already have the legal structure to create public money They already create public money when they give some folks some university credit money a student can spend to pay for university services Universities could create way more public money bsky.app/profile/jwmu...

Anyway, “laws and rules don’t apply to us because the internet” has been the SV ethos for nearly two decades. Can’t imagine that will change now

Crypto dudes: Destroy the nation state with their national currencies that are under democratic pressure And create CEO Fiefdoms that issue crypto, a private “money” token that is not under democratic pressure.

an obvious point which seems to be waaay over the head of most intellectual types who weigh in on political and economic issues.

Laws, lawyers & court decisions create markets to begin with. Beginning with enclosing commonly held land & kicking everyone but a few off. Thus creating Landlords, a real estate market & a labor market that needs money to eat: youtu.be/yqTLfJS2yiE?...

“The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” Whistleblowers reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency New from Committee on Commerce, Science, Transportation Ranking Member Maria Cantwell. NOTE: This is indeed what I have seen going on inside NASA. 🧪🔭 www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

I don’t think Schumer understands our institutions. If he did, he’d have pressured Biden to mint high value Platinum Coins in response to the Republicans threatening down the government when Biden was President Now the Fascists get to decide to use the Coin or not bsky.app/profile/aafk...

FT: Several people said they expected the transaction to go through fairly easily. “.. What regulator is going to say no to the president’s son-in-law?" 🤡 @financialtimes.com $EA www.ft.com/content/61ce...

Exactly. Fascism is expensive. And, Fascists know that the state creatures the currency & banks issue loans Argentina has dollar denominated debts. Which is why it needs Trump to print dollars to pay those dollar denominated debts. UK has no foreign debts bsky.app/profile/theo...

In his beloved USA, Farage’s private health cover premiums would vary from a staggering $25,000 to a stroke inducing $120,000 a year. These Figures are based on Farage’s publicly available health profile. Can you afford Reform? (he can)!