Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

just guess

I'd rather read Finnegans Wake than watch a 3-minute video

Whenever friends send me video content, I always think, "Send me the text version."

I’m sure it’s fine that we’re all trapped in one old guy’s dying mind

Senator: (after spending 8 hours crafting the perfect tweet) Instead of acting illegally, the president should consider the price of turnips at the grocery

Just spent a solid hour getting harassed on here by a lunatic Stalinist. Not a fun experience. first time i’ve had to block someone in a while!

my theory is that FOX or OANN showed stock footage from 2020 protests/riots and because Trump's brain is dog food he decided it was happening right now

not true

The thing I never get about online communists is: you can just repudiate Joseph Stalin. He sucked. venerate Lenin or whatever, but literally nobody is making you defend the second worst dictator!

CHOTINER: So as I understand it, your argument is that you couldn't break your soldier's oath to the Fuhrer? GERMAN GENERAL: Honor would not stand for it. CHOTINER: What confuses me, though, is that you swore the same oath to the Weimar Republic.

CHOTINER: And you didn’t know this person - what did you call him again? CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty? CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived CHOTINER: So you’ve said

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new Assault Terminators revealed today #40k #wh40k

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

trump pulling a hardboiled egg out of charlie kirks corpse on stage and shows it to the audience as they scream. he is asking them if he should take a bite of it and they are cheering

Me: I need more power Gf being cute: I’m stronger than 10,000 samurai😊 Me: haha..no you’re not. The strength of ten thousand samurai is immeasurable. [2 hrs later] Ten thousand. Wtf In tears as I bend the knee in servitude: Daimyo.. Her thinking Im proposing: ohmygodohmygod

Ezra Klein 🤝 Neera Tanden Despite the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights in all states, we should surrender instead

Trump being evil does not mean it was good that our last president was incapacitated. Especially given his immoral and bloodthirsty foreign policy

ben smith, boy, i dunno

confused about the new Assassin's Creed: Shadows DLC promising 10+ more hours of play. if they launched a DLC that took the gametime down by about 20 hours I might be interested.

just read a book bozo. guaranteed, works every time, when you’re done you can read another book

be careful. this is genuinely frightening and they’re going to use this to crack down hard. get deleting those posts people

Don’t kid yourself. Virtually every powerful institution is on board for this regime’s authoritarian project

literally only paternalistic posts on my sky timeline right now. kind of jarring. idk i'm a lawyer and you should think about what you're doing and saying but there are people posting a lot about the "current moment in the country" and like yeah we've been here for a while now.

You shouldn't post incriminating shit on here, sure, obviously. But I'd argue that acting really scared on social media is just as dangerous, and just as likely to make you a target of right-wing violence, as posting bellicose agitprop.

Is there some mass group of posters wanting to live through a period of civil strife and violence? This place is insufferable today! Nobody wants this to be the way things are! Everyone on bluesky hates firearms!

the serenity of our great Republic can surely withstand this minor convulsion. wait, scratch that, is that a barbarian army marching on the capital?

big balls getting beat up by a child led to a military occupation of dc

BREAKING: Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been shot at an event at Utah Valley University, a spokesperson says.

it works to describe specific trajectories, it's not a general descriptor of authoritarianism. for instance, British policing tactics against striking miners in the 1980s were literally based on playbooks developed in Hong Kong in the 1960s.

Good morning to everyone except people still posting about the freaking salt trucks

a good start would be to convince him it was a racist 17 year old Twitter power user

The empire, long united, must divide

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i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

Before any misinformation spreads, we were at the Walter Reed ER from Saturday at 4:30-1:30 am. The first gate Siri routed us to was closed. We had to find one that was open. Standard weekend/holiday schedule. And I have an appt there tomorrow that hasn’t been cancelled.

People need to calm down with the conspiracy theories, here’s Trump today at his Virginia golf club with MAGA radio host John Fredericks

This is isn’t even political. This is just a really bad person with a rotten spirit and a desiccated heart.

i think in medieval times my job would be Byzantine dynastic loyalist. I would serve the emperor to my dying breath

This is a good piece. Living in agony radiating from your spine is a bad way to be. take it from someone who knows (me)

can we swap this guy in for Hakeem Jeffries? he’s like an alternate reality version who joined up with DSA

it's not a crime because Sam Altman is a billionaire

i think we just move to a regime where the populous cities dominate the political system and the rurals are dependent hinterlands, rather than the reverse, where cities are treated as cancerous tumors to be taxed and militarily occupied

Amazing how many, including some nominal leftists, convinced themselves Trump couldn't undermine democracy or break the law because "our institutions are too strong." Instead, American institutions haven't been just weak but mostly active collaborators happy to speed things along.

Democratic scientists should invent a version of Hakeem Jeffries who doesn’t suck ass

Press like this are so committed to being neutral they come across as naive or outright idiots. Like why do you need him to explicitly tell you his evil plan? Are you a little baby?

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

LOL, he blocked me, which is a shitty strategy to kill posts that alert people that you are posting disinformation. He is doing this systematically to others also. Folks, if you don't like being lied to, block: @thomaspayne.bsky.social