One thing I realized is that definitely people didn't realize that forcibly deporting the undocumented parents of American citizen children would end up requiring violence. They thought the deportations were going to be invisible to them.

Kennedy fleeing the scene like just he’d given him ivermectin.

I mean

“‘The distance between [white nationalist] Fuentes and the mainstream Republican Party isn’t really that large,’ said Richard Hanania, a conservative writer who once posted under a pseudonym in white supremacist forums.” Gifted.

“Of the 8,769 referrals where the type of concern is specified, 21%, or 1,798 cases, were due to “extreme rightwing concerns”; 10%, or 870, were referrals connected to Islamist ideology; and 56%, or 4,917, were for individuals judged to have no identified ideology.”

The far-right and its centrist enablers are grossly overestimating the resistance to a Mamdani-type candidate in the 2026 Midterms. Their Trump Stockholm Syndrome prevents them from seeing how unpopular he is. Most people will accept almost any alternative to the current GOP!

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

“and another thing, i’m not dragging my party down. please don’t put in the paper that i’m dragging my party down.”

The best I can come up with is he’s thinking about people writing checks for groceries, which to my recollection was fairly common until maybe the 90’s? Being generous, that’s the last time he updated his worldview, so this checks out.

Failed as far as the election, succeeded as far as ginning up hostility. I watched Cuomo’s concession and his supporters tried to shout him down when he struck a conciliatory tone. Worse than when McCain tried to shut down Obama “secret Muslim” concerns.

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Looking forward to all the deranged takes on the right today.

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

Hell. Yess!

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Guarantee you that actual ICE agents are taking advantage of the confusion to commit the same crimes. In addition to the crimes they’re officially committing, I mean.

I was murdered dot gif.

Want.

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honor dick cheney’s memory by shooting someone in the face and making them apologize for it

Any newspaper whose obit doesn’t mention Dick Cheney shooting his friend in the face isn’t a serious newspaper. I’d lead with it. “Dick Cheney, who shot his friend in the face and was also vice president, has died at 84.”

This is literally true about him

Every single journalist with expertise in extremism I know has been fired or their publication has folded. Not a coincidence, of course. Grateful for their work, but unfortunately for almost all of us, this work will now have to be the side hustle.

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someone with three followers put me on a block list only they use, i guess ill have to kill myself. this is what some people sound like

Merde!

Today I learned Matt Walsh doesn't know how to use Google.

“It has no real purpose other than to strategically plant lies into a reference manual. This renders it not only a malevolent product, but a lousy one.” www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

The NYC mayoral election is tomorrow, but that won't stop some people from begging for several weeks for Curtis Sliwa to drop out.

UC Provost Katherine Newman has announced plans to defund this program, a preemptive capitulation with the feds that has not been ordered and should not occur. Newman has done this with zero consultation with campus-level leadership and none with any faculty — mentors or former fellows included.

I decided this morning that I will now approach every online video I see as fake - and attempt to be doubly wary if it supports or illustrates my main prejudices.

"Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin-Pritchard, the authors of children’s picture book “The Day the Books Disappeared,” said…the principal of San Ramon’s Country Club Elementary School asked them to talk only about their book and refrain from speaking about 'book bans or the types of books being banned…'"

That’s what they’re saying but I’ll bet it’s more because it makes them feel like GI Joe.

I just read The Silence of the Lambs (written in 1988), and came across this gem: "[the supermarket press] love Lecter even better than Prince Andrew."

I hate to keep saying that "this is straight from white supremacist websites," but tech bros and the Trump administration keep saying and doing things straight from white supremacist websites. As soon as someone says "South African farmer," you can walk away before they finish "farmer."

New scam dropped. I just got a calendar invite that makes it look like I've been charged for a McAfee subscription. A calendar invite! Any application that allows people to communicate will be used for scams and harassment.

Yet another example of Trump trying to return to his childhood. He’ll try to dig up Eisenhower, next.

This guy's no John McCain. (And McCain wasn't 1/100th the honest man legend made him, so that's a pretty low effin bar, and still Cuomo slithers under it.)

Great quiz if you’d like a feel for how complicated the electorate is. Neither Trump nor Harris voters are monolithic. Like many decisions, people rationalize their choice after the fact, so take their explanations with a grain of salt. I got 8/16.

"ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are actively using smartphone facial recognition technology in the field, including in stops that seem to have little justification beyond the color of someone’s skin"

Tressie cooked here: "Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."

Does it matter that the "critics" here are bad-faith fascists and the criticism they are making is laughably false?

“Gelsinger has made it a core mission to soft-power advance the company’s Christian principles in Silicon Valley, the halls of Congress and beyond.” “Which Christian principles? Feeding the hungry and protecting the vulnerable?” “Oh, you know the ones.”

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👀 The right wing Harvard Salient published an article stating “Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans” & calling 4 values based on “‘blood, soil, language, & love of one’s own.’” Their alumni board suspended them but they won’t obey 1/

Good thread about how Grokipedia handles fascist groups

Great thread discussing this report. I'll try not to repeat David's observations because they're very good and I agree 100%. Some additional thoughts: