@xankarn This was a good read, thanks! Recommended 👆

Trump wants only sanitized patriotic history. Questioning the morality of the United States, he says, is untruthful and insane. It's treason. But.. "A state in which no one doubts the 'rightness of its cause' is a state in which politics has ceased to exist." The end of politics is the […]

When you think about it, a UFC cage match on the lawn of the White House gives a very good picture of where our Republic finds itself 250 years after its birth. They’ll study this “celebration” someday to unlock the meaning of the past, just like we study the gladiatorial combat events in […]

In 2026, I can finally say I’ve mastered my “deeply disturbed but not surprised” face. 😐😶🫤😐

@xankarn good news... They are running into problems with their concentration camp plans... https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/ice-detention-center-facility-merrimack-new-hampshire/

RE: https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/116133355972098307 Americans should watch this film. The bicentennial celebration leaned into diversity. Americans didn’t have to align themselves to a political party or president to have their humanity and citizenship recognized. Of course, there was […]

In 2026, I can finally say I’ve mastered my “deeply disturbed but not surprised” face. 😐😶🫤😐

Not everyone was in the mood to celebrate the Bicentennial. A good reminder that America has often been a fractious and “polarized” nation. Pretending/insisting otherwise is misleading and, in many regards, politically unhealthy […]

When you think about it, a UFC cage match on the lawn of the White House gives a very good picture of where our Republic finds itself 250 years after its birth. They’ll study this “celebration” someday to unlock the meaning of the past, just like we study the gladiatorial combat events in […]

Social democracy when I can. Liberal democracy when I must. MAGA sado-populism when hell freezes over.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/113974148468663517 This one held up well.

Social democracy when I can. Liberal democracy when I must. MAGA sado-populism when hell freezes over.

The State of the Union is 30-point Dem swings.

I’m old enough to remember when Trump said that Liz Cheney should be put in front of a firing squad for pushing America recklessly toward war. #sotu #iran https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/01/politics/donald-trump-liz-cheney-war-hawk-battle

Ripe moment to repost this. #sotu https://www.salon.com/2024/11/18/the-corruption-of-maga-comedy/

US men’s hockey team, perhaps thinking that their accomplishment transcends politics, foolishly submits to wearing a MAGA dog collar. #sotu

It’s bad when POTUS and the executive branch run headlong from facts and truth. It’s bad, as well, when trusted institutions obey in advance and lead the retreat from reality. https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/politics/gallup-presidential-tracking-poll-approval

"Measurement doesn’t abolish injustice; it rarely even settles arguments. But the act of counting—of trying to see clearly, of committing the government to a shared set of facts—signals an intention to be fair, or at least to be caught trying. Over time, that intention matters. It’s one way a […]

“When we don’t measure things, it makes it much harder to claim that there is a problem and that the government has some kind of responsibility to help alleviate it,” said Sarah Pralle, an associate professor of political science at Syracuse University […]

Trump will give his #sotu tonight. He has said it will be long "because we have so much to talk about." There are good reasons not to tune in. It will be mostly lies and narcissism. There will be political props. It will be needlessly and dangerously antagonistic. But two things may be worth […]

Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh in 2020 and last week the WH posted a video of Trump, reflecting on the "the five years since the lost [sic] of Rush Limbaugh." Limbaugh often complained that conservatives had lost control of America's major cultural institutions […]

Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh in 2020 and last week the WH posted a video of Trump, reflecting on the "the five years since the lost [sic] of Rush Limbaugh." Limbaugh often complained that conservatives had lost control of America's major cultural institutions […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@carstenfranke/116122287707806143 Nothing is inevitable. Organize and fight.

ICE will pursue these projects quietly whenever possible. ICE will obfuscate and sow misinformation to frustrate inquiry. ICE will not alert community leaders where new detention facilities are being planned and constructed. ICE will endeavor to fill every bed in these new camps. Tens of […]

"Without concentration camps, without the undefined fear they inspire and the very well-defined training they offer in totalitarian domination, which can nowhere else be tested with all of its most radical possibilities, a totalitarian state can neither inspire its nuclear troops with fanaticism […]

America will have its own Gulag Archipelago. Twenty-three concentration camps will soon come online, unless, together, we can find and pull the political handbrake. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers

RE: https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/116120793504340920 #utahns, it is our responsibility to press #govcox #governorcox and #tacojcolds #lds #mormon church about this potential concentration camp. It is our shame that #utah lobbied for the Topaz concentration camp in 1942, and we can't condone […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/116120793504340920 #uspol Good morning! I called Sens. Murray and Cantwell. I begged them to hold the line. No DHS money while there is still money for ICE and the BP. I got right through to Cantwell's office (206.220.6400). I left a message for Murray […]

America will have its own Gulag Archipelago. Twenty-three concentration camps will soon come online, unless, together, we can find and pull the political handbrake. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers

Let’s not pretend this is normal. Or patriotic. https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/22/politics/kash-patel-team-usa-hockey-locker-room

Reposting every Monday until, for some reason, I can’t. Not shocked Not awed. Not caving. Not scared. Not blinking. Not packing it in. Not coming to heel. Not building bridges. Not extending grace. Not asking permission. Not accepting the lies. Not quitting. Ever. #rmol

What’s at the heart of our democratic crisis? What has fucked our politics? First and foremost, it’s an aversion to reality. An unwillingness to count and measure in broadly agreed upon ways because a clear picture of reality might require painful changes or, worse, might reveal that we haven’t […]

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The US news media is failing the public in its coverage of a possible war against Iran presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-... NEW from me.

Open the bridge! #hockey

Medal games should not be settled 3 v 3. Too cruel. #hockey #olympics #MilanoCortina2026

Sweater rankings. 🥇Finland 🥈Canada 🥉Denmark #hockey #olympics #MilanoCortina2026

American hockey fan here. I dislike Brady Tkachuk more than Brad Marchand and Tom Wilson combined. Go, Canada. 🇨🇦 #hockey #MilanoCortina2026

You can’t spell POTUS without POS.

You can’t spell POTUS without POS.

And bravery in the face of this: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/25/trump-dc-vandalism-sentencing-00523736

When Trump's Arch is raised, America will need its David Černý. https://kafkadeskdotorg.wordpress.com/2022/04/27/on-this-day-in-1991-czech-artist-david-cerny-famously-painted-soviet-tank-no-23-in-pink/

When the leader, alone, decides who our heroes are, the road back to popular sovereignty (aka democracy) is long and hard. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/14/trump-national-mall-site-garden-american-heroes

The take over of memory runs in parallel with the take over of the state. The re-engineering of memory is part and parcel to the re-engineering of democracy. Things will become less and less recognizable on both fronts, until the sycophants and faciliatros and bystanders decide they've had […]

And, meanwhile, as he re-engineers the memory scape, MAGA engages in a related construction project. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2026-02-03/trumps-45-billion-expansion-of-immigrant-detention-sites-faces-pushback-from-communities

Coming in 2026 https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/politics/independence-arch-dc-concerns-vis

2025 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/gulf-of-america-day-2025/

2025 https://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/army-change-names-seven-bases

2025 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-kennedy-center-name-change-congress-rcna250081

2025 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-east-wing-of-the-white-house-has-been-demolished-heres-a-look-at-its-history