It's amazing how the Third Way (read: Longstanding Establishment Democratic Party) approach to triangulation looks indistinguishable from total capitulation, but if you ever point this obvious fact out you're simply accused of helping or outright supporting Donald Trump and the American right.

Someone on reddit is accusing Lindsey Graham of killing their dog. Which, with the GOP’s track record on pet ownership, I wouldn’t put it past him…

NEW: The abundance movement aims to lift the burden of inefficient regulation off the private sector to unleash equitable growth. Dylan Gyauch-Lewis (@revolvingdoordc.bsky.social) argues that it fails to account for the costs of externalities that many of the regulations it derides seek to address.

Behold the Aryan supermen, the übermenschen, the master race, the one race fit to procreate and rule us all

This is class warfare.

Authoritarians ask Musk to turn over lists of USAID staff The prime minister of Slovakia asked Musk to share information about NGOs and reporters who worked there. In Russia, the state duma speaker said, if USAID is an enemy organization, Russia wants a list, "and we’ll hand it over to the FSB.”

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

Stress knitting.

Great piece covering our new three branches of government: MAGA, the Heritage Foundation, and Silicon Valley overlords

so you’re navigating the institutionally sanctioned collapse of your profession for the first time! here are some pro tips from a historian:

Musk's intern "Big Balls" was in an internet nazi satanic pedophile hacking cult, he was under FBI investigation for cybercrimes and he was given access to US Treasury classified informatIon, including your grandma's social security and bank account numbers just repeat that over and over again

The US Oligarch and Nazi Elon Musk has been defeated by a German court. Germany has ruled that Musk must immediately provide researchers with access to X's data on politically related content ahead of the country’s election. www.politico.eu/article/berl...

Seems a good day to reread this article from a couple months ago: “Vought is not merely a stand-in for the Heritage crew. He is a committed ideologue […] convinced the constitutional order is no more, that the extreme Left has destroyed it, and that truly radical measures are needed to restore it.”

Would be a shame if this thing got overwhelmed with complaints about Josh Hawley and the MO Freedom Caucus loons

NEW: Jon Minadeo is now operating the neo-Nazi hate group Goyim Defense League out of a Springfield, MO ranch he recently moved into. Rival Nazi group Shieldwall Network's loose lips helped us locate him. goyimdefenseleague.noblogs.org/jon-minadeo/ #Missouri #Antifa #Springfield #MidMissouri #GDL

“Cool. Cool. Pushing untested code changes right before a major system migration is the kind of thing that gets you fired from a low-level development job. Here we’re talking about the federal government’s payment infrastructure.”

Despite the Leopards Eating Faces memes on Reddit, it feels like vast swathes of Americans are just collectively shrugging our democracy away. A woman I briefly worked a retail job with posted this and it seems to be the average Trump voter’s attitude in these parts. Even my libby boomer partner

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

At this point, for those of us still clinging to electoral politics, I feel like there could be interest in a general campaign fund disbursed to primary challengers for any dem not demonstrably fighting the administration

Lessons to be learned: 1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration 2. Centrists gain nothing 3. Far-right wins more power

I do not believe in doomerism but we're about to go through the hardest time the labor movement has seen in a century and it's gonna get a lot worse before it gets better I think. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dark-times...

We don't have comprehensive data for the US like they do in Britain but the ratios appear to roughly match: There is a ten-fold difference between the number of kids diagnosed with gender dysphoria and the number of kids prescribed hormones. www.reuters.com/investigates...

If Elon Musk controls communications with the entire civil service, that means Trump does not. So doesn’t that mean mean Musk has just perpetrated a partial coup? Trump controls the military & possibly the Foreign Service, but Musk controls the Civil Service.

Despite reversing the freeze on grants and loans, Trump is still very much illegally impounding funds. The reasons why trace back to a memo written on the last day of Trump's first term, co-authored by Clarence Thomas' best friend. From me: prospect.org/politics/202...

FAFO

Bjork did this first, but go off, I guess.

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵

This goes so fucking hard dude

I wish people on the left would stop using “diversity hire” or “affirmative action” to describe folks like Hegseth. This reinforces the racist, sexist notion that diversity and affirmative action are promoting unqualified people, doing the right’s work for the.

Inspectors General fighting back. Thank goodness.

This will kill so many people living with HIV who depend on PEPFAR programs to stay on their HIV treatment driving further HIV drug resistance. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

id say an easy way to identify a nazi salute is when the person routinely believes, does and says nazi shit in order to impress other nazis

Elon Musk just gave a Nazi salute on live TV!!!

Newsletter: No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin. www.citationneeded.news/trump-memeco...

The sooner folks realize there are no underlying principles motivating these people beyond the acquisition of power, the easier it will be to understand what's going on

Zuckerberg and the other tech oligarchs aren’t bending the knee to Trump and Musk. All these “moderation programs” and “statements of principles” were just PR campaigns meant to hide their antidemocratic actions. They’re not scared, they’re overjoyed. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/what-they-...

When I was running for office in 2022, PBS came out to my little farm to film a documentary. The videographer, Catherine Hoffman, ended up being nominated for an Emmy for this piece. I thought you might like a short video on a Dirt Road Democrat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5za...

X is dominated by MAGA voices and actively suppresses others; meanwhile, the distance between the Morning Joe Libs and hardcore leftists on Bluesky is so vast, there's disagreement here all day. Painting this place as an echo chamber is just lazy, especially at this late date.

In evaluating whether Jesse Singal is acting in good faith, compare and contrast how he portrays criticism here vs. what he does with it when he takes it back to Twitter to his fans there.

Yet another "gender clinic whistleblower" account falls apart as soon as reporters talk to actual patients. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/03/m...

Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

Bluesky has shown me other social media sites could take moderation more seriously, they just choose not to.

Lol

Sunday reading: Elite Acquiescence and Treacherous “Normalcy” I wrote about why ostensibly anti-MAGA elites are normalizing and legitimizing the incoming Trump regime and how to explain this pervasive tendency to accommodate authoritarian power. This week’s piece: