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...

“This is like Babe Ruth, but the part of Babe Ruth’s career when he had syphilis.” — @philipmichaels.bsky.social Sometimes the worst material makes for the best discussions. (I *love* “Magnum, podcast.”)

Did I mention @elysegraham.bsky.social ?

This was meant to be a live link, for cryin' out loud. @elysegraham.bsky.social

“But there is a certain type of person — if you’re reading this book you may be that type — whose heart beats faster at the thought of so much paper, evidence, information.” I’ve read some great books in '25, but few were written just for me like “Book and Dagger” by ‪@elysegraham.bsky.social‬.

One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.

Not that my endorsement carries any weight, but I read this last year, and thought it was an excellent look at a truly pernicious organization.

I disagree with the OP about Mississippi (it has words on it), but absolutely agree about Washington.

nothing has made me lose more hope for the future recently than seeing how many people who claim left wing politics were unable to pass the "is it ethical to stay on the nazi brainwashing site" test. smallest possible sacrifice being asked, and so many people can't even manage it.

This combination of historical analysis and eurodisco is just what we need at this troubled time.

I was not expecting this book to be as mind-expanding and, frankly, moving as it was. No offense intended to the authors, whose podcast I love(d), by that. It just took me by surprise, and turned out to be one of the best things I’ve read this year.

No kings No margraves No burgraves No archdukes No castellans No count-palatines No knyaz

I was in a Nordstom in Sacramento looking at pants. I looked up and on the other side of the display rack was then-governor Pete Wilson. We made eye contact briefly, then I made eye contact with his state trooper bodyguard. The end.

Also, ...

Literally Orwellian. "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Every word of this is nonsensical garbage that reflects the offal excreted by the nest of snakes in Stephen Miller’s brain. But I want to focus on “America will be for Americans again,” & offer a thread on exclusion & inclusion in the history of California specifically. 🗃️ bsky.app/profile/pale...

If the Secretary of Homeland Security shows up in your state to say she’s “liberating” a city from the elected government, you’re goddamn right the state’s US Senator should barge in to ask some questions.

Facebook banned @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for this essay, "Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence." So, make sure to read it and share it! "The Trump Administration is a huge surge of almost every kind of violence." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

I was never a fan of @murray.senate.gov all the years we lived in Seattle. But I admit I’ve changed over the years (more than she has, I suspect) and now I feel like I owe her an apology. IOW, I wish I had a Senator like her today, because the ones claiming to represent me now are the worst.

We are now a country where the government just regularly threatens to imprison opposition officials for speech it doesn't like. Feels worth repeating every now and again.

And people say there’s never any good news anymore.

Just noting that this piece, “The Rise of American Bushido,” is excellent.

How about studies into the thought of a radical Irish feminist activist and writer who's been dead for a century? I would argue that that is of prime strategic interest to Ireland and its system.

New It Could Happen Here @iwriteok.bsky.social sits down with Irish author Padraig O Ruairc to discuss the growth of Ireland's far right anti-immigrant movement since COVID, and what can be done to stop it. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

if you’re curious what the hell the president is talking about when he gets in front of a camera and starts rambling about white farmers being killed in south africa… start here.

The America First position was/is basically that the fascists/Nazis were a normal if not virtuous response to international Bolshevism that went a little too far and had to be reluctantly beaten down by White America, which was then stabbed in the back at Yalta.

“It might be good for the country but we can’t let the Democrats claim a win” has been one of the fundamental operating principles of the GOP at least since Gingrich was Speaker.

nothing good has ever come from presenting disabled and sick people as a literal threat to the nation

What it boils down to, if you need a bunch of complex threads simplified into one sentence: The very act of reading a book is resistance.

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Ai is a tool for digital State capture nothing else. AI is being forced into all of our lives because it is not a feature to help you learn it is a tool to control you and knowledge while also neutering your ability to know anything. It’s knowledge killing technology

Happy birthday, Orla Brady!

Stop. Validating. Fascist. Rationales. They are lying about their intentions. It doesn’t matter what they say they want to accomplish; what they actually want to accomplish is corruption, sabotage, brutality, and mass murder.

Beneath this shitshow over whether the Signal information was classified rests something much deeper in the Trump admin -- their ongoing war on truth. The specific question goes back to the earlier episode, of Trump caught with boxes and boxes of classified files -- where, again, they swore... 🧵

James Alex Fields as a role model for the maga true believer.

This is insane, and needs to be called out by everyone.