Very excited that "To Catch a Fascist" by @letsgomathias.bsky.social is in the door today. I listened to his interview with @socialistdogmom.bsky.social on "Weird Little Guys" this morning, and it made me even more eager to get into this!

My hottest take is the reason why Clinton Wing Dems don't retire and choose to die in office is because they know the new crop of Ds are gonna come for them for insider trading and taking payola (or worse re Epstein Files stuff). Why else would Nancy whip votes from her hospital bed to stop AOC

In the not-too-distant future, RiffTrax is making four new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000! Support us on Kickstarter: rifftraxmakesmst3k.com #RiffTraxMakesMST3K @mst3kofficial.bsky.social

It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.

Inshallah.

Question: Is a reference to William F. Buckley more or less obscure than a reference to a telephone directory?

Not being political but just speaking as a professional fundraiser … this doesn’t seem like a very good tactic?

Oh my. Not that anyone at DHS knows or cares, but hopefully there is *someone* left over at the Dept of State (not the people who run the social accounts) who still care about things like this?

I’ve already preordered @bradleyonishi.bsky.social ’s “American Caesar.” Not because my opinion matters, but because Brad’s analysis adds something important. I’ve read LOTS of rise-of-MAGA or Xian Nationalism books. I’m eager to read this. You should be, too. static.macmillan.com/static/essen...

We now take you live to Charlton Heston’s hands.

every time someone complains about it, another gay NATO flag gets its wings

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Absolutely yes. My suspicion is that if we’d done Reconstruction right the first time, we might not be here today. (At this point, may I insert into the record all of @profmsinha.bsky.social ’s work, as a good place to start from, learn from, and build on, please and thank you?)

I don't want to hear any bullshit talk of restoring norms when this is over. We're doing a redux of either Reconstruction or Nuremberg.

democrats are scared people will think theyre against this

Today’s unexpected and cheerful discovery: After (how many?) years, the phrase “The monkey represents sharing” still makes me laugh. @wigu.org

He probably already came back but they killed him again because he was brown.

It’s not about “borders” or “immigration” or “enforcing the law." It’s just straight-up white or not-white.

In hiding... in the United States. Families are in hiding in the United States. Government gangs are forcing families into hiding in the United States of America.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

And of course, they’re using precisely the same approach domestically, as we’re seeing over and over again. newrepublic.com/article/2050...

Greenland has been a Sudetenland for the Nerd Reich for a while.

When you’ve turned Ken Jennings into a “burn it all down” radical ...

I regret it took me a month to discover this, but of course once I did I pre-ordered it instantly! A decade after first reading this, I'm still enthralled by the possibilities of #EvaGoreBooth studies — if that is a thing. And if it isn't, we need to make it one for 2026 and beyond!

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

My reach as an "influencer" barely extends beyond my living room. But may I say that some of the best, most mind-changing books I read in the year of some people's lord 2025 were written by @mpgphd.bsky.social & @profirmf.bsky.social, @johnfugelsang.bsky.social & @lkatfield.bsky.social. Plus ultra.

Make a Bond movie academic No Time

@jasmineforus.bsky.social 2026 @aoc.bsky.social 2028 There we go.

Trump clearly wrote these himself, using some bullet-point list of accomplishments someone put together. Everything, good or bad, is a setup for a great triumph of Trump’s. I'd love to know if Trump did this for all presidents. How did, e.g. Hayes or Van Buren foreshadow Trump’s greatness?

Ooh, this looks good. Also, calling @jillhickskeeton.bsky.social and @cavanconcannon.bsky.social, wherever you are...

Can we just pause for a moment to ask how Aotearoa got so "European" in the first place?

An interesting and insightful thread of possible interest to folks who happen to do a "Magnum" podcast, it occurs to me. @djl.bsky.social, @philipmichaels.bsky.social and @snell.zone, for example. (Mahalo, as always, for the show.)

True, and also the exact summation they … we … have had to deal with going back 200 years.

This reminds me that it’s time once again for my annual listening to @theincomparable.com ep #173, “Santa-Based Christmas”! www.theincomparable.com/theincompara...

When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims they didn't realize they'd just invented Socialism for undocumented refugee immigrants. Happy Thanksgiving.

This is just in the door after hearing @lkatfield.bsky.social on @bradleyonishi.bsky.social ’s essential SWAJ, and I am already loving it. I’ve read a lot of “how did we get here” books in the last few years, and the test for me is, does the author see and understand the NAR? Laura Field does!

Two things we have too much of today: Morality and empathy.

“English muffins with benefits."

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Quick question what would that say about our nation?

What's interesting here is that Trump keeps calling it the Democrat Shutdown and the polling showed that people didn't believe it and blamed the Rs, BUT Chuck folding now and getting nothing makes it look like this all WAS a Dem shutdown for no reason at all. Trump wins again because of Schumer

I can’t have been the only person who saw the name of this movie and hoped it was a “crossover event” in which Sunny, M.K., Bajie, my dear Lydia, The Widow, and the rest of the “Into the Badlands” crew (most of whom, admittedly, died in S3) would reunite to save the planet?

To quote the then-Prince of Wales in similar circumstances, Trump’s mar-a-lago-ization of the White House will be “a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend."

As the holder of a certificate from a U of Washington Extension program (and a donor), may I just say: So proud.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT EXACTLY

Remember. The. Wait, no. That doesn’t work.

This was not in self defense and drug smuggling is not a capital offense. These are extrajudicial killings — mass murder on the high seas illegally ordered by the President of the United States. US service personnel do not get to play judge, jury, and executioner.

TIRED: California governor shitposting on the Internet while sending out 'crime suppression' teams to some *very specific* communities. WIRED: Illinois governor telling incipient fascists, "You come for my people, you come through me." calmatters.org/politics/202...