When the landscape reflects the world as you currently find it. A few minutes ago on a run, somewhere in Montana.

When a country of overall nice people.... Ukranian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

On this day in history, 2 October 2025: The Overton Window morphed into a black hole, devouring the Hatch Act and every other road block, check and balance, and third rail in sight.

Ezra Klein pitchbot: Let's Imagine a World Where The US Military Does Occupy US Cities and Does Good Things #abundance #EzraKlein #bullshit

Jane Goodall has died, Her spirit, wisdom, and courage live on through her tireless work to protect the environment, a refuge for all life. I am so grateful for all I learned from her over many years: teach the children, love the wilds, and live with peerless integrity and care.

Empathy + Action = A Better World Thank you, Jane Goodall

Can we just deify Jane Goodall already?

Ezra Klein pitchbot: Let's Imagine a World Where The US Military Does Occupy US Cities and Does Good Things #abundance #EzraKlein #bullshit

No president in modern history has done more to actively set back cancer research than Donald Trump. No president in modern history has done more to reduce the access to health care of kids (and grown ups) than Donald Trump. That's the record. The WH is offering lies.

This. This. This. Every fucking hour of every fucking day. Authentic, aggrieved, oppressed, when they are no such thing.

Wait, what's wrong with "stop the fascists?"

Same

At this point I think what it likely that the United States fragments in to two or three nations with a haphazard and dangerous patchwork of border controls between the three new entities within five years time.

Right wingers in 2017: Dumb libs think words are violence Right wingers in 2025: Words are violence and we're going to throw you in jail for saying the wrong ones, which is terrorism bsky.app/profile/atru...

this guy has no idea what the american military is (the most sophisticated logistics operation ever assembled in human history)

Turns out, contra Tears for Fear, everybody does not want to rule the world. Only some white guys intent on destroying the world while working through their own psychoses, and an entire nation is fucking letting them.

Even “old” petrostates are investing in solar + other renewable energy to bolster their national production, lower energy costs, and generate revenue from exports Current US “policy” to end solar/wind projects, invest in coal, destroy public lands is nonsense that hurts the interests of Americans

We must pay billions to farmers Because we cut off their customers with tariffs And pay billions to Argentina Whose farmers are selling to the customers we forfeited Because that is America First

you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

You think any of the Magaist-Republican idiots are beginning to understand patriotism doesn't consist of Fox News, a cross, and flags waving from your monster truck? ... Nah, you're right. Probably not.

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

State investigation commissions represent one of the few tools available to Democrats right now. Let's go. www.thebulwark.com/p/state-comm...

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

The tent collapsed save for the Christofascists and the predatory snake oil salesmen. This is how worlds end, not with a bang, but with a prayer.

The 1970s-era Republican party made a deal with the devil. That is to say they made a deal with the evangelicals, the Christofascists. The party thought it could keep the zealots in one cordoned off corner of the GOP tent...

Now would be a good time to reread Orwell on nationalism and false patriotism. The essay has flaws, but it's a good place to start when countering the Magaist-Republican demagogues. share.google/YdxB1TeAyHcE... Source: The Orwell Foundation

This looks to me like adults at a very bad kids' talent show performance. They're tolerating it because they have to. (Dear Reader: They should have never have had to do so.)

Compare and contrast. Exhibit One: Masha Gessen, born in Soviet Union, journalist in Russia under Putin, NYRB essay, 10 November 2016. Exhibit Two: Ezra Klein, 2 February 2025, one week after the second Trump inauguration in the US. This is the problem with Ezra.

The Question: who is there to stop him? Not a flaccid Congress, not a sycophantic Supreme Court... The checks and balances neither checked nor balanced, and whatever comes in the aftermath will require a new constitution.

quite something that almost every court in the land except like one in Amarillo and the highest in the land routinely tell Trump to go pound sand

Fascism in all of its manifestations is nothing if not consistent in its gas lighting and psychic projection. So in the name of military discipline a yes man leader gives free license to the rogue, to the man - specifically the man - who Ignores the guidelines of military discipline and war.

To understand Hegseth’s announcement of impunity for misconduct, you must understand that Eddie Gallagher is the model. This is what he means by “warrior ethos.” Trump may have even selected Hegseth because of his similar appearance to Gallagher. Remember? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...

The reason for military rules of engagement and adhering to laws of armed combat is not “political correctness,” it’s better strategy, serves long-term national interest, and is a way to make an awful part of the human experience a little less awful, based on lessons learned from centuries of blood.

For context Hegseth was basically fired from every job he had, including resigning from his national guard duty because he had a Deus Vult tattoo. He got fired from all his other jobs for drinking and abusing women on the job. Heres a letter his own mother wrote to him about his treatment of women

Anyone else detect a homoerotic subconscious subtext in the rhetorical fantasies of that DoD speech? Something more than young fascist Pete's perfect GI Joe play soldier set?

The white supremacist giving the talk today to generals and military leadership most of whom whose shoes he's not worthy to lick, let alone tie: He has the mannerisms of a televangelist. A Ted-talk-mic-wearing-televangelist. Performative fascism and they're not even good at that.

This is old news but when I wake up in the middle of the night often the first thought is: without white evangelicals this fascist regime would not be in power. Your own personal Jesus has a helluva lot to answer for.

Ezra Klein pitchbot: Please be patient, god isn't finished with me yet. 🤢

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Good night. Peace.

We don't just have fascism. We have dumb fascism. And the millions of Magaist-Republicans who have no concept of how films get made, who watch franchise after franchise, are yelling 'Hell yeah, that'll show them.'

For research I have been watching a lot of megachurch services: for rhetorical devices, authoritarian and patriarchal subtexts. One takeaway: There is nothing more nefarious than TED-talk style fundamentalist sermons. Give me the yelling, fried-chicken-stuffed preacher of my early childhood any day.

One can read Rebecca West, James Baldwin, Orwell, Martha Gellhorn and find relevance now. With Klein, there's hardly relevance the day of publication, let alone next week.

So I began to pay closer attention to his columns and would argue Ezra Klein is the most overrated columnist writing in English today. His analysis and depth of historical knowledge (that should be a necessary condition for such a platform) is shallow and weak...

For research I have been watching a lot of megachurch services: for rhetorical devices, authoritarian and patriarchal subtexts. One takeaway: There is nothing more nefarious than TED-talk style fundamentalist sermons. Give me the yelling, fried-chicken-stuffed preacher of my early childhood any day.