I have been talking about US autocracy but @dhnexon.bsky.social lays it out more clearly-- the American system has failed. The checks and balances didn't work, so we will need a new constitution and new institutions once the regime is eventually toppled www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

genuinely impossible to overstate what the secret police are doing. It is state hooliganism. It is gangsterism as policy. It is the jouissance of the original klan nightriders that followed the civil war. they terrorize minority communities while intentionally paralyzing local governments.

Who tf thinks any of this is okay?? If your friends and family do anything less than condemn this whole heartedly they are un-American. These are some of our fundamental rights in this country.

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

"Woke" has got nothing to do with whether or not the runways on Diego Garcia are 3 feet underwater. The pentagon is acutely aware of climate change and is actively preparing for it because it is material to Whiskey Pete's ability to fight his beloved "war."

The Mad King. The one bright spot, is there is not much of a response on what he expected was his laugh line of "I say, they spit, we hit." If he gave this line at his normal rallies there would have been hooting and hollering. There's a little stir that goes through the crowd, but not much. 🤞

I like to think this is happening bc they saw the shit version that went up recently in L.A. I'd really like to see this one tho.

While the senile old man rides in carriages around castles, builds his ballroom, puts gold on everything, plans parades, attends a variety of sporting events, threatens people, and reads the scripts put in front of him, this psychopath is the one actually running the country.

Morning walk

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.

The Flatiron Building, painted photography, 1880s Snapchat, baseball-by-telegraph, and authenticity. [kottke.org]

Great conversation between @richardrushfield.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social on The Rushfield Lunch. In particular the discussion about Whittaker Chambers' "Witness" at the end, and how Communism and Fascism arose as a response to the conflagration of WW 1. The one thing I think was missing tho -

Abrash admits last five years hasn’t evolved as fast as his earlier predictions

Michael Abrash talking about what he said at Oculus Connect 2 and 3 is giving me warm fuzzies and transporting me back to sitting in those rooms dreaming of today. Those were the good old days, my friends. Love this dude (and Hofstadters law ;)

Just one 7 minute episode with an AI version of Diego Luna recanting his sins against the Emperor.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them. This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Follow this man's example of courage under authoritarianism and follow this man on BlueSky @modestholdings.com ✊️

Well, as the Main Character, I can tell you we're not going to back down – but someone might ask the Governor how she feels about the threats being sufficient I've had to go to ground.

I am taking a mountain of shit right now. I can't go home and I can't be with my partner. If nothing changes I will be satisfied in my decision, but Christ i hope I'm opening room for some folks to be brave.

Now that I have your attention:

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

When you write a piece noting that a guy promoted racism and violence, his followers immediately prove you right

Following a copyright takedown request, Reuters removed a hot mic video of Putin and Xi discussing life extension and immortality.

They recognize their own much more readily than others are prepared to understand.

oh well, onward and upward

the conflict I think we have is this: the idea that everyone deserves justice, even if they sucked shit, is essentially a liberal principle. Liberals believe in the *concept* of justice, as something independent of the person to whom it applies. Conservatives, by contrast, do not have princples.

I have receipts on this. I have done many investigative stories on horrible situations & sources had themselves been damaged ofc, but often they came forward bec they were upset at what was being done to others. colleagues, friends, the less powerful. They took risks to try to help/protect others.

Here you go: as it happened

I recently published what I consider one of my best poems in one of the best and most difficult to get into journals in the country! bsky.app/profile/todd...

I wrote about why I'm grateful for Melissa Hortman's work, and for her persistent refusal to give into the destructive right-wing games Democrats fall for time and again. badfaithtimes.com/melissa-hort...

damn, Apple made a babelfish 😁🐠

Only 40 days have passed since Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were tragically killed by an unhinged Trump supporter, yet this story has largely faded from national awareness. We must not allow that to happen.

Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted the ruling, saying it would bring "a parade of racial terror" in L.A. "This isn’t about enforcing immigration laws. It’s about targeting Latinos and anyone who doesn’t look or sound like Stephen Miller’s idea of an American," he said. www.latimes.com/california/l...

In the Fourth Republic, we're going to resurrect the Postal Service with postal banking, public email accounts, and neighborhood post offices that provide constituency services and free legal advice. It's going to be so good.

No price is too high to pay to own the libs.