Today’s #ObtuseTactics (not #ObliqueStrategies) card: “If it had no lasting consequences, it’s only an error, not a failure.”

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I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy: There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

People in the U.S. are really, really angry at the wanton destruction of the parts of government that did good, and we want to know there will be consequences and restitution. IMO, it's not Magyar's center right creds that won, but his promise of consequences. We need that here, stat. 🧵 👇🏽

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Several folks in my mentions said they quit watching the new Count of Monte Cristo on PBS because it features Black actors. My friend, you are going to be shocked when you learn the ethnicity of Alexandre Dumas.

How someone reacts to changes in what speech is acceptable, expressly because said speech is dehumanizing, is very telling about their general regard for the basic humanity of the “other.” In concert with everything else wrong with Platner, this is a crimson flag.

Elections like yesterday reinforce my belief that researching the political and economic conditions under which democratic mobilization is unleashed (in the world of energy and climate, and beyond) are crucial to the current moment, and do not need to be only depressing

“We need to imagine a more democratic, more egalitarian, more generous country, one that operates in recognition of an abundance of wealth that should serve all of us-and nature and future generations too-rather than is driven by the moral poverty of billionaires” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Implicit in liberalism is, in fact, the ingredients necessary for fascism to occur. Don't confuse "the beliefs liberalism espouses" for "the things liberalism ultimately allows to happen." A thing is ultimately What It Does, not What It Is Supposed To Be

can't stop thinking about how casually these monsters are dismantling everything good and useful the government does in a year and a half and comparing it to Joe Biden who couldn't even manage to fire Louis DeJoy in four

At this point in the US, there are so many grotesque moral crimes for which no one has faced any accountability that it's getting difficult even to keep all of them in your head. We're too exhausted to catalog them much less seek any resolution or justice.

Apropos of nothing, just something I think about a lot: During the worst pandemic in a century, lots of people told a bunch of outrageous lies that caused much, much more death. It was one of the more grotesque moral crimes I've ever witnessed & zero (0) of those involved faced any consequences.

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

This feels like something “Cat Pictures Please” by @naomikritzer.bsky.social would say clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_01_15/

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

🔥 @rokhanna.bsky.social to Democratic leadership: “Get out. Let a new generation lead. You’ve been ineffective. The base doesn’t like you. The base wants fighters.”

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

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Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

We may have reached the situation I worried about but always considered to be the likely outcome even before this war began:

This whiplash where the president terrifies the world for a few days with unhinged threats and then says “never mind” and then there’s this implication that anyone scared of his unhinged threats was overreacting is very domestic abuse but make it a country.

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide. Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session. Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

Wrote something over my second cup of coffee - even though it’s a first draft and there’s no chorus, I want to put it out into the world RIGHT NOW #songwriting #protestsong #protestmusic #antifa

the 'electability' question is increasingly clear www.sosavstate.com/p/gavin-news...

This is a marvelous project and we need thousands more all over the country. www.sfgate.com/la/article/c...

Reader, you will not be surprised to learn that Christopher Rufo is at the center of yet another manufactured right wing outrage cycle.

when you lose a battle of moral integrity against a theocratic regime that just slaughtered thousands of their own citizens

ok if we just shut up and give them this one then play the long game, it opens up a lot of poetic irony come 2028

Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine. They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal. A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.

Seriously it’s like there is a giant chunk of tech people who don’t understand that when you’ve learned how to write, you feel proud, you look forward to doing more of it, you cheerfully neglect your other work just so you can write more

You have to laugh because the alternative is contemplating that we, as a country (I mean, I voted for the qualified Black lady), engaged in an act of world historic irresponsibility, the suffering of which will be born by millions of people worldwide, but will stain our very souls nonetheless.

With Tax Day coming up, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)

Dear Sen Schumer; GTFO. You failed us, again and again. And now here we are. Still. You’re not up to the job. Get out and let someone else do it.

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The commentariat is fixated on how No Kings will affect the November election. Obviously I'm hyperfocused on how it's overtly or implicitly affecting court decisions, but also, I'm kind of obsessed with how much No Kings is shifting American culture itself www.theverge.com/policy/90440...

1. I think it's time for us to accept the bitter truth. We are going to pay, and continue paying for a long time to come, for the president’s war of choice against Iran. Such are the consequences of politics. Maybe Americans will take their democracy seriously next time.

They're not going to leave in any substantial number, just as they didn't after threatening to when WA passed a capital gains tax, just as they didn't after CA passed a millionaires tax in *2004*

Thanks to Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill, big corporations paid $65 BILLION LESS in federal taxes last year. For reference, $65 BILLION could pay for over 2 years of ACA tax credit extensions. They literally cut healthcare to give mega-corps like Amazon & Meta a tax cut.

All day, every day. Transphobes are not welcome here.

And the press spends all of its time shitting on the protesters, but then turns around like a typical backstabbing fascist collaborator and asks "hey where'd all the protesters go?" after helping persecute & attack & arrest & imprison & even murder them. Fuck the political press straight to Hell.

Not sure whether you should show up on Saturday? @timothysnyder.bsky.social (an expert on authoritarianism) explains why historic protests like No Kings Day really matter.

Pete Hegseth called them “narco terrorists” and the official statement from the Trump administration called it a training camp for drug traffickers. It was a dairy farm. They murdered Ecuadorian farmers. With our money. The War on Drugs has always been a fascist plot to kill Black and Brown people

TRUMP 2.0: - Crashed economy - Stole billions of dollars - Killed American citizens - Protected pedophiles - Started World War 3