Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon. The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough. bsky.app/profile/alan...

1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.

Culturally, we've never been able to wrap our heads around the fact that "pedophiles" (quotes bc social media overuses the term) are grandfathers, fathers, uncles, brothers, neighbors. People we know and trust. We couldn't accept it when Freud &Ferenczi spoke about it; we still haven't accepted it.

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

NEW: "This was not a decision to reject the Moderna vaccine. It was a refusal even to think about approving it." www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...

Trump’s endless, opaque bombing obliterates all hope of a free Somalia Over the past 13 months, the US has carried out 157 airstrikes, drone strikes and ground raids in the east African country, writes Steve Bloomfield https://bit.ly/4cuVXYg

If those who claim the authority of law do not obey the law, and the law does not stop them, then they do not have the authority of law, because there is no longer any law.

but who hasn't needed to watch some smaller thing suffer?

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

when MAGA white supremacists like Carl whinge abt passing of 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act they are complaining that it overturned 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, a law limiting immigration to people from Northern Europe, which was drafted by eugenicist Rep. Albert Johnson, with BIG support from the Klan

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We have to push the press corps to say plainly that what they mean is that Democrats are not legitimate Americans. "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

God forbid a woman have a hobby.

Roughly 2 USAIDs

🚨ICE just got access to one of its biggest private detention center operators last night, thanks to a Navy contract. The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.

thepolyphony.org/2026/01/28/w... via @drmonicaross.bsky.social

The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.

People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy. But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing. 27/

A $12 trillion bribe to end a war Putin started.

America 2026. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com wired.com/story/social...

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

To be fair, when you've illegally ended programs that will result in the deaths of millions of people, it's understandable to think you'd need a pretty significant security detail.

Meanwhile www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...

“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Trump’s greatest crime is practically invisible. the dismantling of USAID has killed at least 600,000 to date. about 88 deaths per hour. It includes deaths from malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, malnutrition, diarrhea and more. Two-thirds of these deaths are children. www.salon.com/2025/11/19/t...

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

“Shields up Connecticut”

yet this is what they want not just to ignore, but repeal everything that’s offended them since Reconstruction

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

It's not an exaggeration to say this will result in genocidal-scale death. And I don't mean in the distant, speculative future. Just the tens of thousands of pollution deaths in the relative near-term (Free link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Behold, the genetic superiority of the master race. bsky.app/profile/chri...

"I hate every wave of the ocean, with a fervor." -- seasick Charles Darwin

Judge grants Senator Mark Kelly’s preliminary injunction against Secretary of War Crimes Hegseth: “Defendants have trampled on Kelly’s 1st A freedoms… and threatens the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees.”

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Jan Hoving: A woman stuck with her car in the Pyrenees of France, 1956.

Literarium

Basho’s got a lot

tell it to the hague, buddy

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

Another poem from Mary Ruefle's Dunce (2019)

I can't be the only one who immediately thought of Belfast when I saw that photo.

Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.

Massie: "Here is an email that was sent by the victims' lawyers to the DOJ. It was a list of names not to release. What did the DOJ do with this email? They released it! Literally the worst thing you could do the survivors you did."

In a moment that calls for courage, we get this:

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.