"Rhetorical School Takes Out Suit Against Trump Administration for White House Destruction: 'Too Obviously Symbolic'" bringingthemtheplague.medium.com/rhetorical-s...

some a-mus-ings. Alas, all 2 little on the culture wars for fans of moral panics. bringingthemtheplague.medium.com/academic-fre...

att culture warriors, who think "western civilization" is more threatened by "wokeism" than MAGAism: "O, when degree is shaked ..."

Strongman: "Friday: During their meeting at the White House, Trump told Zelensky to concede land to Russia to bring an end to Russia's invasion of Ukraine."

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?

In the absence of anything approaching an actual uprising, Trump still threatening military action against American citizens.

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

What a metonym and metaphor, all at once- this photo.

When the Chant Fades, Who Builds the Future? open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

wow. he looks lethal. probably funded by soros, who is known to love chickens. do your own research, bro!

360info.org/europes-far-... we need to talk about social media and algorithms, peeps. outrage and hatred gets eyeballs. far right feeds on outrage and hatred. ergo? a good society would legislate to monitor the platforms, "free speech" not being absolute.

create false equivalence, sow confusion, do what your project onto the enemy in blame, militarise culture and public life to excuse extraordinary actions. 360info.org/how-authorit...

Going Full Venezuela open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

Making the world safe for the very few. medium.com/the-springbo...

even the military and intell community can now see the writing on the wall, unless it is stopped by the people. sfg.media/en/a/us-comp...

"Today it seems...almost inevitable that an overly strong sympathy w the irrational leads 2 pol reaction...1st comes the gr8 gesture vs “civilization”—...that...holds a strong attraction for intellectuals—suddenly one arrives at the cult of violence, then in no time at Hitler." Klaus Mann 1933

this has been foreseeable for five years. still, another barrier crossed. not many left now. October 8, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

to understand what is happening to the US, it helps to understand Nietzsche, not the whitewash liberal Nietzsche of the postwar, but of the interwar and today. Losurdo is the guide, and the texts read completely: the philosopher of antidemocratic reaction par exc. thesiseleven.com/2025/10/06/i...

nihilism for Camus is the cultural failure & malaise that allows people to scorn and kill others with indifference, whether based on religious or secular ideas. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Interview down under on Camu as a thinker of fascism and the unfolding MAGA disaster. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

"we must rediscover the values wh sustain that [common] conscience, destroyed...by terror...we must create commnties of reflection wh will initiate dialogue across frontiers...this world must cease bg one of policemen, soldiers & $ & bcome 1 of men & women, productive work&considered leisure." Camus

"Mais, après tout, rien n'est vrai qui force à exclure. La beauté isolée finit par grimacer, la justice solitaire finit par opprimer. Qui veut servir l'une à l'exclusion de l'autre ne sert personne, ni lui-même, et, finalement, sert deux fois l'injustice." Camus, 1954

free countries prosecute insurrectionists. those who don't, lose their freedom. and so it will always be. "Brazil Rejects Trump’s Bullying and Convicts His Ally Bolsonaro for Insurrection." no US exceptionalism, democracy goes under. open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

Donnie tantrumed at the Australian ABC. Poor Donnie, to still have to take qns from independent journalists, when Vlad doesn't have to! www.getup.org.au/campaigns/ra...

the US Left needs to brace for Kirk being used as justification of police action, as touted by Miller et al. They are champing at the leash to declare all organisations they disapprove of "radical leftists" who "sponsor violence". It is predictable, and therefore can be opposed with foresight.

Cover for the 2026 book on Why Camus matters, en face de post-truth, nihilism, unworldly political romanticism and the collapse of leftism, lurch of rightism into neofascism, and the ecological collapse.

Well, no Bloomsbury but a Waterstone's page. Why Camus matters in a world of cynicism, nihilism, fascism, and democratic and ecological collapse. Because his times were oddly sadly like ours. www.waterstones.com/book/why-cam...

There was a man.

I love how some commentators are wondering still whether the US is on the path to authoritarianism. Is the Pope Catholic, and has been since 2021 when he wasn't prosecuted for trying to overthrow the Vatican? Wake up and struggle for your freedom.

This may be news to some, but "Liberals Cannot Stop Authoritarianism by Compromising With It "https://open.substack.com/pub/theunpopulist/p/liberals-cannot-stop-authoritarianism?r=3fyde&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

will we ever see another like him. the mozart of football #messi. makes life better. www.bing.com/videos/searc...

Just 14, with no intended reference to that number in Far Right meme lore. bringingthemtheplague.medium.com/14-points-on...

Um.

Liberals Need Moral Clarity, Not Moral Purity, in Their Struggle Against Authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

So tragic - the power of money and bastardry ascendant

Australia is a democratic nation. theconversation.com/the-united-s...

we need to think for ourselves about what is being visited upon us under the sign of "necessity." www.wsj.com/opinion/ai-r...

Socrates contra RFF and "MAHA", Charmides 170: "then he who conducts his inquiry aright will consider the doctor, as a medical man, in connection with cases of health and disease." About that ... "But the mainstream medical establishment bro ... big pharma ... WHO ..."

bringingthemtheplague.medium.com/socrates-inc... #satire #socrates #philosophy