why are tech Nazis literally always on speed

They have no plans to ever win over the public again. They instead have plans to not have to.

Thread on the huge shift in US policy towards Russia visible in the new National Security Strategy - the biggest change since the collapse of the USSR. 🧵

Terrifying. "More and more, influential voices in the Maga movement and the far-right Republican party are calling to strip women of the franchise." "The opposition to women’s suffrage has entered the mainstream as the Republican party has radicalized." https://bit.ly/4oDPcWK

Our national security strategy contains points lifted directly from TASS

list on the screenshot describes most journalists and all editors

major debacle in Italy, as writers as famous as Scurati are decrying the inclusion of a fascist booth in a major book fair... note the ecofascist implications of "journey to the woods" and the Italian translation of Sellner's "remigration"—something we have heard about... www.ft.com/content/833f...

not to mention pushing Germany to rearm while also ... promoting the new German Nazi party ...

currently -6 degrees at my brother's house in Minneapolis

we need to see Gov Walz putting the Natl Guard in the streets to protect the Minnesota Somali community from ICE

TWENTY-SIX shackled people taken by ICE today in Baltimore by Eastern Air Express.

thinking a lot lately about how some western leftists, such as Katrina Vanden Heuvel of @thenation.com, continually tell us that allowing Putin to occupy and enact genocide on Ukraine is "peace." You can call it non-war, you can call it ceasefire, there are many words for this! But it's not peace.

actually he said a klan of pedophiles, spell it right, he definitely said this with a k

I’m seeing a new Israeli/American talking point essentially saying that Lebanese citizens and government need to understand Israel is working in our best interest and if we aren’t able to understand that they are ready to attack. Do i add this to the dystopian thread?

this is true for politicians as well - they should be practicing their political speeches in small HS classrooms by explaining their platform to students and letting the kids grill them - if you can't successfully defend your platform to HS students you have no business running for office

here's another way to think through this assignment: can you clearly explain your thesis, your evidence, etc, to HS students? a lot of HS English and/or History teachers would love to let you come to class and try -

Minnesota, here's a sign to show your support for Somali neighbors. Share it, print it, pass it on. PDF here >> www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s89ru...

Somali Americans have every right to go to work and school with the protection of their state's national guard - the Trump Admin can sue later, that's fine, that's how law and order works - in the meantime Tim Walz has an obligation to protect Minnesotans from kidnapping.

whenever a straight person tells us queers we don't know our own history we have a label for that and it's "homophobic"

first holiday cookies I've been given here in Warsaw are pretty gay

Congratulations to @mwpalen.bsky.social, whose book Pax Economica won the Peace History Society's Elise M. Boulding Prize! This award honors an outstanding English-language nonfiction book that has substantial bearing on the field of peace history. Explore this exceptional work: hubs.ly/Q03VZ0VV0

there's an easy case to be made that Gov Walz has an obligation to protect the citizens of Minnesota from wanton kidnapping; have the MN Natl Guard protect Somalis and let MAGA whine all they want about it, regardless, the kidnapping must be stopped

we need to see Gov Walz putting the Natl Guard in the streets to protect the Minnesota Somali community from ICE

I've written about Ukraine as an outside observer but I felt this, from a Ukrainian leftist (and current soldier) @vlstarodubtsev.bsky.social was a great contribution regarding the history of Republicanism and Egalitarianism in Ukraine and a perspective unique to a Ukrainian author

Well, they might not have brought peace with Ukraine, but at least they are now also talking about war with Europe, so we are going forward

Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara notes the MPD will not work with federal agents & says "In moments like this, I know how real the fear is in our community. People are going to want to speak out, protest, & exercise their 1st Amendment rights. We will absolutely defend people's right to do just that"

Absolutely stunned and honored to see THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US on this list. I'm grateful beyond words to the five families who trusted me with their stories and allowed me to witness their struggle to secure a home.

the nuns who sell Christmas trinkets to fund the war machine slaughtering people in Ukraine

His last truly great record, a 1972 masterpiece. Powerful, monolithic and hook-heavy with brilliant no-nonsense anti-patriarchy, pro-feminist lyrics. Stan Bronstein's sax is magnificent, Lennon's voice awesome.

so I'm glad that this is getting more attention - the far right's obsession with the crusades is way more than just Hegseth's white supremacist tattoos in this THREAD I'll collect some of my own recent work on how the American right has used the crusades 1/

Jean Valjean and Don Corleone both stole things and in my essay I will show

Introducing PROJECT SALT BOX. Baltimore salt boxes help neighbors prevent ice. We help you do the same by tracking federal procurement so you can see what they're planning before ICE shows up in your neighborhood. projectsaltbox.substack.com

my mom raised me on old school films from the '30s through the '60s so I'd have to say Katherine Hepburn; there's something both noble and silly about her work -

Sooners, it's time to support academic freedom at our alma mater and help protect a trans graduate student from Turning Point USA's bullshit. markham at ou dot edu

you, too, can send Dean Markam at U. of OK an email; the letter below is such a great template -

I’ll be on reporting internationally on @democracynow.org tomorrow for the first time, live from Kampala, Uganda. I’ll be talking to Amy Goodman about our @pulitzercenter.org - Fund for Investigative Journalism series for @theintercept.com. Tune in!

the nuns who sell Christmas trinkets to fund the war machine slaughtering people in Ukraine

My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law. Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it. No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors. That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.

entire history of the US is pretty much just One Scopes Trial After Another

Swiss rule of law strikes back:

just gauging by the growing divide between red and blue states, I'm not sure what happened at OU - and what's also happening in TX unis - will be copied in blue states? if anything, it might lead to unis in blue states going the other way - 🫰

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

on school shootings and Christian fascist youth, via @petermanseau.bsky.social "It wasn’t a tragedy; it was an opportunity. Why would you want to prevent something if it was presented to you as the ideal situation in which to speak up for your faith?"

looking forward to learning whose forearm will be used to measure off the universal Oklahoma Cubit

these eager fascist youth are not motivated as much by profit as they are a chance to help build a Jesus Valhalla

one thing being lost in the U. of Oklahoma discussion: this has been a longterm project, going back decades (hey, even to the Scopes trial, and earlier) that gets at the fundamental tension in the existence of institutions of "higher learning" in fundamentalist Christian states like Oklahoma -

as young people in blue states are banding together to fight ICE, etc, many young people in red states are part of a new fascist vanguard able to accomplish things their elders have not - that is, the Kingdom - they are calling ICE on neighbors, they are getting their professors fired, etc

as young people in blue states are banding together to fight ICE, etc, many young people in red states are part of a new fascist vanguard able to accomplish things their elders have not - that is, the Kingdom - they are calling ICE on neighbors, they are getting their professors fired, etc

these people have been CHOMPING AT THE BIT, FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS, to finally put professors and other enemies of god in their place; they are now enlisting an emboldened fascist youth in this fight, the youth are accepting the mantle, and the tide is finally beginning to turn

This is a really well-done corrective to the NYT/Atlantic party line on how attitudes about trans people affect Democrats' electoral prospects. Liberal Currents continues to shine. www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-...