Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

"a culture of domination necessarily promotes an addiction to lying and denial." —bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 1994

America 2025:

Hey Pete - I found one of those woke, bearded, overly sensitive, not in the best physical shape generals who wore a dirty uniform regularly. He was certainly ready to win, though. 🗃️🧵

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

Imagine you're a career military general being summoned for a pentagon strategy lecture by a former game show host and a former weekend talk show host.

Two things about tonight's news: 1) "Power doesn't panic." -Cassian Andor 2) "The <Trump Regime's> need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." -Karis Nemik

The most (unintended) self-aware moment Trump has had in his entire life. 🤣

this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

MSNBC has zero moral authority to talk about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA when they did exact thing in their termination of me and others. They are doing the exact thing they complain about others doing.

Historian hereQuoted in an article for E&E News by Politico on erasing history. Statues celebrating proslavery Confederate traitors and Lost Cause mythology is not history and censoring and deleting our past is not saving history. A sad day when civil liberties and the Constitution is violated daily

"When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest...The monster who will come for us all soon enough is <the MAGA movement>."

Seeing the story below this morning is so ironic. Today is the 163rd anniversary of the Battle of Antietam – the bloodiest single day of the Civil War (about 22,717 killed/wounded/missing/captured), and American history overall – ending the first invasion of US territory since the War of 1812. 🗃️🧵 1/

The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Matthew Dowd — strategist of the ugly 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign that railed against gay rights and swift-boated Kerry — thought Charlie Kirk practiced a hateful politics. The “liberal” cable network fired him for saying that. We shouldn’t celebrate a death but we also shouldn’t whitewash a life.

Pundits are focusing on Kirk’s willingness to debate people while studiously ignoring the people whose basic humanity he was willing to debate

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS by the Trump Regime is an offshoot of its broader war on professionally-produced American history in museums and national parks. 🗃️ 🧵 1/

Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."

Last time, his supporters smeared their own shit on the Capitol building's walls. This time, he's doing the work himself in the White House. In all honesty, shit would be an improvement over this gaudy display.

Orwellian. Authoritarian. Attack on free speech. Purely and completely un-American. That’s how to describe the Trump administration’s latest assault on our museums, national parks, and other public history fields who are trying to tell true American history, no matter how messy or difficult. 1/

For years, progressives screamed that January 6 was just the beginning-that the coup by Trump and the Republicans had never ended The implementation of Project 2025-by embedding its founders in government-and the intention to effectively impose martial law is pretty damning evidence they were right

I'm old enough to remember when, during an active insurrection at the United States capitol, it was the Speaker of the House Pelosi who decided if deployment of the DC National Guard was necessary.

The biggest criminal syndicate threatening Washington DC meets regularly in what's called a 'Cabinet meeting' at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They're openly recruiting untrained foot soldiers to infiltrate government at every level, esp law enforcement, endangering our very democracy.

The same president that wants to call up the National Guard to handle crime in DC, which is at its lowest rate in years, instigated one of the most violent uprisings in the city, all for the purpose of maintaining power. Donald Trump is the gravest threat to peace in Washington, DC.

So Trump is ordering the FBI and the National Guard to DC. May I remind you the same guy refused to do anything on January 6th 2021 against the violent Capitol Hill insurrectionists even when Congressmen from his own party were begging him? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...

Moving sucks regardless, but between my book collection growing from grad school plus my comics collection (mostly TPBs), I'll have a significant number of small but heavy boxes when that time does come.

This only gets more relevant every day.

You always have and always will.

As someone with a disabled brother who relies on state and local government assistance to survive, this thread is spot on.

On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.

I'm imagining Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, John Brennan, etc. "writing" the Epstein Files like WWE Chris Jericho circa 2016.

Holocaust Survivor Bernard Marks, 87 survivor of Auschwitz & Dachau confronting elected sheriff & I.C.E. Director

You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism. It's a lie.

This might be why the administration is hostile to humanities ed, museums, and historic sites - if ppl take 30 secs to learn about the good and bad that happened in the past, they can make informed decisions about the politicians and policies to support rather than rely on memes and disinformation.

Please help me spread the word about this rally in support of the National Park Service, which will take place at the Eternal Light Peace Memorial at Gettysburg National Military Park on June 16 from 4-6:30PM. Thank you. #NationalParks #PublicHistory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

Musk: we "saved" a few $million by cutting basic weather services! Awesome! Sad Reality: 9 people died this weekend in area that stopped doing overnight tornado warnings. No single person has ever proved the efficiency and value of federal employees as effectively as Musk.

"Fictional comic supervillain Lex Luther once became President and was given a $200 million dollar luxury jet as a bribe. In the story, he was arrested by Metropolis police and imprisoned for 25 years. American justice is the real fiction." - Pete Buttigieg

Explain to me again why @aoc.bsky.social isn't part of the House Democratic leadership.

We’ve become so desensitized to corruption that the Attorney General who spent years lobbying on behalf of Qatar approved a private jet gift from Qatar and it’s not even in the top 10 scandals of the week.

Good Night World

NEH Grantees with Terminated Grants--the 30 day window for appeal is almost here. If your DOGE termination letter is dated April 2, then it is recommended to submit via eGMS by May 1. Having spoken w/ a number of sources, here's the best info I could gather on appealing your grant termination.