The fact that they are incompetent does not make fascists less dangerous, because they are too stupid and too committed to learn from their mistakes. They will continue to destroy until they destroy themselves, or others destroy them.

When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

read CHIPWRECKED here www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.

“Censors banned 13 films, citing national security reasons, between 2021 and July this year, while 50 films were “required to be modified,” the office said. Hong Kong banned no films between 2016 and 2020, but that figure jumped to 10 in 2023.”

The last time an octopus bloom of the size observed in 2025 was recorded was 1950, with records showing the last bloom recorded prior to that was in 1900 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Doctors Without Borders urges Israel to let critical aid into Gaza as children freeze to death. "At least 13 people, including two-week-old and one-month-old babies, have died from winter weather and a lack of adequate shelter and aid – blocked by Israel" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

I really hate the phrase "anti-trans activist". Nobody says "anti-Black activist" or "anti-Jewish activist" or "anti-Muslim activist" or even "anti-gay activist". The correct term is "bigot". bsky.app/profile/good...

Taiwan shudders. (Remember when Rubio used to portray himself as champion for Taiwan?)

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of

I thought listing coal and gas as 'critical transition minerals' was bad but this is next level, lol

I'm not being funny but how does a normal person share a society with these people

East Africa's wars 2020-present: UAE backed factions carrying out mass slaughter, gold being mined & ending up in the UAE, followed by Emirati diplomatic cover to minimize scrutiny by western countries more than willing to turn a blind eye. This has been the reality in Ethiopia &Sudan for years now.

As the year wraps up, & the breakout of conflict in the Horn of Africa looks increasingly inevitable in 2026, this indepth probe by @clairelwilmot.bsky.social into illegal gold mining from Tigray to the UAE mostly by the way of Eritrea...is a good 101er for how factions are likely to arm themselves.

‪This woman has been one of the most consistent cheerleaders, constant voices of reason, sources of comfort, and most caring, fucking hilarious humans I’ve ever been blessed to know. ‬ ‪I don’t deserve her but I’m so grateful she’s here — and I’ll give anything to keep her here. ‬

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

Israeli human rights group B'Tselem reports 90% of Gazans lost their homes since October 2023, with the average resident displaced six times. www.haaretz.com/gaza/2025-12...

'Asevere cold wave,freezing have hit,Myfamily flooded,without shelter,blankets,that we cannot afford.Their bones are freezing,they are shivering cold.They are now in your care.We were flooded by torrential rains,we need £500 to rescue them🥶😭 Verified @mommunism.bsky.social'

Reminded of the time a lady on here told me Israel isn't a racist state because Israel discriminates on the basis of Jewishness or non-Jewishness and being Jewish is an ethnicity not a race

One might ask: if these are serious ISIS targets, why wait until now, after the deaths of these two US soldiers, to strike them? Or is CENTCOM scraping the bottom of the targeting barrel to produce a wave of strikes that is mainly symbolic, to satisfy Hegseth’s stated desire for “revenge” strikes?

The UN says more than 10,000 ceasefire violations have been recorded since the Israel–Lebanon “truce” began in Nov 2024, w/ almost all of them attributed to Israel. The violations occur roughly every 53 mins & have killed at least 127 civilians, according to the UN. Asked by Sky News why Israel...

I'm on here sporadically and usually just to share book news or essays from here: sarahkendzior.substack.com Substack is also where I post my photos of nature and travel and things like that, because Bluesky will suspend you for anything. They suspended me over Johnny Cash lyrics.

The first of many such comparisons! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...

“You’re wasting your time looking at that crime” says man deeply implicated in crime. The mistake that was made is ever thinking these people were any better than what they are.

A truly poisonous, Both Sides framing that paints calls for a more equitable, inclusive politics as being every bit as divisive and extreme as white supremacist fascism.

2/ I mean, I dunn0 about Chris Minns but, leaving aside the fact that NSW Police were happy to authorise a nazi rally to 'Abolish The Jewish Lobby' outside the NSW state parliament on *checks notes* "November 8", I've never considered the Indigenous movement in AUS as being packed with antisemites?

Even the Financial Times can't just look the other way www.ft.com/content/057a...

The United States and Russia continue to sanction and threaten ICC judges. Just disgraceful.

I take it all back, AI is great

The public: "We are desperate for help with the cost of living. Please do something." Trump administration: "Penis."

Just a reminder that he has no fucking degree in any sort of health-related field and he can fuck all the way off into the goddamn sun with his fucking incoherent word-salad.

What a chart. "This line goes down to nearly -10%"

Once again, "Sherpa" is the name of an ethnic group in Nepal and USG needs to strongly reconsider whether it is appropriate to use this name as a descriptor for something else. www.state.gov/releases/off...

By this standard which nobody actually adheres to Jews would be precluded from identifying as Zionist because of what Zionism means to every Palestinian on the planet. Is this standard reciprocal or do are there competing claims on the basis of standpoint which need to be independently interrogated?

Vanity Fair definitely changed the subject from its disastrous Nuzzi mess with these mugshots.

ICYMI, I wrote about Yglesias making common cause with the right-wing moral panic over critical race theory. His supposed defense of liberalism is deeply illiberal. @liberalcurrents.com

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Crunch time with adorable Ume! The 10-month-old tapir now weighs 483 pounds. 💗 📹: Keeper Katie

There is no clearer expression of the State's firm belief that Black lives do not, actually, matter than the fact that the man who murdered a 12 year old boy continues to be a cop.

Hey losers leave trans folks alone

I see your Goebbels and raise you a Bronnen.

"I am a South African prince, with endless wealth, and I would like you to have my inheritance, but to access it, can you do one time payment of $1 trillion? Your cheque is in the mail."

This sunday was one of the most moving days on this job. So excited to share so much more from this, and in the meantime- finally got an excuse to use this track

a) people were murdering jews for religious reasons for well over 2,000 years before there was a modern state of israel. b) fuck jimmy dore.

Lander has been such an absolute rockstar by just being a normal, gracious human being who wants other human beings to flourish.

Brown University released a statement about a Palestinian student that's being smeared online as the shooting suspect. Not going to share his post because it includes the student's personal info but one of those spreading this harmful rumor was the spokesperson for Turning Point USA, Andrew Kolvet.

There should be a constitutional mechanism for removing a president. Not impeachment, something that actually works, maybe like a catapult

"All the liberals have left the Hitler Youth. It's just full of Nazis now. They have to come back, otherwise how will we win the argument in the marketplace of ideas?" How indeed?

Now I have to find a clinic or pro bono lawyer to take the case because filling out the long and complicated form is no longer sufficient. The bureaucratic killing of people has long been part of this country but this moment is really taking it to new heights.