Students being progressive is not a bigger problem than a sustained assault by an authoritarian president, please get a grip www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Students being progressive is not a bigger problem than a sustained assault by an authoritarian president, please get a grip www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
Trump did this
Auf Expert*innen hören ist Totalitarismus, sagt der US-Gesundheitsminister (der keinerlei Expertise im Gesundheitsbereich hat)
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
The set is ridiculous, but so the hell what: These are the words responsible leaders need to say. This is the analysis from which corporate media has mostly shied away. If they need a fake kitchen to get there, that's fine by me.
Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ich frage mich immer wie sich solche Takes lesen wenn man als Linker irgendwo in der Lausitz wohnt und täglich von Nazis bedroht wird ohne dass es irgendeinen Vibe-Shift-Theoretiker in Hamburg jemals interessiert
In der neuen Episode vom Bätchcast analysieren @anjaruetzel.bsky.social und ich die Dreistigkeiten während und nach der letzten Rosenvergabe, sowie die Abgründe, die die beiden Herren Bachelors an Content auf RTL Plus nach dem Finale noch rausgehauen haben.
Months before igniting Texas’ redistricting fight, the Trump administration began testing a strategy of using the courts to force favorable political outcomes. The new voting map, signed into law today by Gov. Greg Abbott, is its latest win. With @texastribune.org
Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes. One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
trans Personen sind in den USA, weltweit, unter Beschuss & man debattiert OHNE uns "Ist das ein Genozid?" Dieser Frage habe ich mich auf Kosten meiner Gesundheit mit diesem Video gewidmet. 70 Minuten ~ 200 Quellen. youtu.be/L2fJanfRfcw BITTE gebt uns eine Stimme: Schaut das Video & teilt es.
Das Finale ist da und es ist -genau wie die Aftershow -voller Bodenlosigkeiten. Es bleibt unklar, ob die Bachelors ausblenden, dass sie gefilmt werden & sämtliche Schwindeleien spätestens bei der Ausstrahlung ans Tageslicht kommen, oder ob sie ihren Bullshit selbst glauben @anjaruetzel.bsky.social
When Eric Butler gave talks to groups of 50 or so working class, white evangelical reactionaries in churches and Legion Halls across rural America, he would be marketed as a Christian anti-Communist. It would be more accurate to call him a fascistic, Nazi-adjacent antisemite, but ya know, details.
This is a perfect example of the deranged & maniacal approach to immigration being pursued by the Trump Admin. They conducted a raid on a live fire line in Washington State, taking into custody undocumented people who were engaged in the atrocity of working to contain a life threatening forest fire.
Turns out the TN sheriff who inspired Walking Tall (and carried a big stick) murdered his wife. www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
This thread seems relevant here. It would be great if more mainstream outlets emphasized how wasteful, cruel, and inefficient the Trump admin is being with our public funds. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Another observation from my 101-year-old grandfather, since he's tickled pink that people enjoy his points of view. He says he listened to Father Coughlin's radio show back in his youth and that nothing reminds him of that infamous antisemite and bigot as Tucker Carlson's commentary today.
don't want to let it slip under the radar that racist law prof amy wax lost her discrimination suit against penn and will be suspended from teaching this year
(Yes it’s real, here’s the Fox News piece and clip if you want to see for yourself) www.foxnews.com/media/vance-...
Vance on Newsom trolling Trump: „you can’t mimic the king, you can’t mimic the master“. Just a few days after Trump repeatedly claimed that people wanted a dictator, this is how his VP is referring to him in an interview - as a „king“ and „master“
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Yep. I watched what I believe was the moment when she flipped from grief to racist vengeance fantasy. That was also the moment when she went from ignored grieving mother to celebrated fascist icon. She never looked back.
At around the 22-25 minute marks, Yarvin, JD Vance’s court philosopher, proposes a system where black people would be made wards of religious ministers, who could force them to work as indentured servants and require them to submit to 24/7 “air-tag” monitoring.
Not only did Lee commit treason, but West Pointers in the Union Army seriously debated overthrowing the Lincoln admin & to install a dictatorship. Gen. George B. McClellan, their leader, "joked" that people are "calling on me to save the nation—alluding to the Presidency, Dictatorship &c."
In his excellent book The Undertow, @jeffsharlet.bsky.social identifies the importance of Ashli Babbit to trump’s incipient ( when the book was written) fascist movement. Their first martyr; a powerful performance to coalesce around. He’s only proven more right day by day
On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The new CDC director is trying to kill you. Not just “the most vulnerable”; you, me, everyone. This is a comic book-level evil scenario.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
I’ve seen a lot of fucked up shit in my day, but this might just take the cake.
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
Genau! Und dieses Muster wiederholt sich in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik in unterschiedlichen Kontexten immer wieder – wie unser Paper zum Thema zeigt: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Das bemerkenswerte hier ist, dass die Verschiebung eben nicht 2015 passiert sondern 2017. Genau dann wenn Politik und Medien anfangen sich auf die aufsteigende AfD und ihre Themen einzuschießen. Wenn Migrationspolitik verschärft wird und Migranten dämonisiert werden. Es ist nicht Migration an sich.
Das deckt sich auch mit spezifischen Untersuchungen dazu. Nach 2015 haben sich Einstellungen zu Migration verändert, aber sie sind genau dort migrationsskeptischer geworden, wo weniger (!) Geflüchtete untergekommen sind. Dort wo mehr Geflüchtete sind, sind sie positiver. doi.org/10.1086/731833
Here, @lewisgoodall.com really describes the essence of how Labour (like other social democrats in Europe) contributes to the normalization of the far right and to shaping public opinion against immigration. Because they have given up on challenging far-right narratives...
A North Texas lawyer notorious for his involvement with far-right extremist groups — and his legal representation of members of white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups — is working as a court appointed attorney in Denton County. My latest for @thebarbedwire.com. thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/22/c...
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
There's not really a good solution once Senate Republicans abdicate their responsibility to vote down Trump's most lunatic nominees.
Die Linke in Form sozialdemokratischer Parteien hat natürlich zum Aufstieg der radikalen Rechten beigetragen. Durch Austeritätspolitik, restriktivere Migrationspolitik, Normalisierung der radikalen Rechten, Erodierung der Zivilgesellschaft. Nur darum geht es leider selten in diesen Leitartikeln.
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.
Robert F. Kennedy is "an existential threat to public health": www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Congrats to all! 👏
Yikes
This isn't tax rates or a budget allocation. We are talking about people. Humanity should never be up for debate.
Following the recent release of Lucy Connolly, mainstream media outlets, the far right, and Connolly herself have framed the case as a 'free speech' one and represented her as a martyr and symbol of the cause. In light of this, I'm re-posting my @thesociologicalreview.org #UncommonSense interview:
I've written about the concerted effort by the combined forces of the right to turn convicted race hate monger Lucy Connolly into a victim, a saint and a martyr. @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...
A nation which makes a martyr out of Lucy Connolly has lost its moral bearings My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
"Lucy Connolly is no martyr or free speech warrior. She’s not a victim or a political prisoner. She’s a convicted hate monger... Her words were part of the kindling that set fire to this country". Essential piece for understanding the absurd lionising of Connolly. Well worth reading in full.
Labour minister here echoing the Tory/Reform UK "patriotic citizens with legitimate concerns" narrative around racist anti-migrant demonstrations. But how has this come to pass? Below you'll see Wes Streeting explaining that now Labour are in govt, they can do everything the Tories dreamed of.
Some of us have been warning & challenging the mainstream about this for over a decade. It's not the first 'dangerous moment'. If the solution is, as it has been, more legitimisation & moderate versions of far right ideas, it will not work. That is how we got here www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition
Wenn man ein ganzes Volk als Terroristen deklariert und dann entscheidet, dass es legitim ist, alle Terroristen zu ermorden, dann macht man was? www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
It‘s fascinating how many in the UK (including in politics and in the media) still insist on a difference between Farage and the “real” far right. And if you call Farage far right (which he is a textbook case of) you just “call everyone you don‘t like far right“
Bin gespannt!
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
The current Labour strategy on immigration - tough rhetoric, “successful” deportations, “legitimate concerns“ - is nearly a carbon copy of what the last German government did. It led to the historically best result for the far right and the worst for the social democrats.
...erodiert sinnvolle Deliberation und erhält eine Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie am Leben die von diesem Zyklus lebt. Was sind also proaktive Maßnahmen um zu verändern wie unsere Medien und unsere Kommunikation generell funktionieren? Es scheint mir dringend notwendig hier Antworten zu finden.
Es ist ermüdend. Die immer gleichen abgedroschenen und unfundierten Narrative über die Linke und den Aufstieg der radikalen Rechten. Was macht man aber wenn Leitmedien unbeirrt von Kritik und journalistischen Standards den Unsinn reproduzieren? Der immer gleiche Tanz aus Provokation und Empörung...
“First it was independent advisory committees and career experts. Then it was the dismissal of seasoned scientists. Now, Secretary Kennedy and HHS have set their sights on weaponizing public health for political gain and putting millions of American lives at risk” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
„…feels like the Trump administration is taking meaningful steps toward establishing a full-blown American police state. It feels like fascism because it is fascism.“
What an image (J. Scott Applewhite, AP)
I really appreciate folks sharing my piece on the 10th anniversary of the Jade Helm conspiracy theory. We're still spending a huge amount of time rebuilding after the Eaton Fire, and I can carve out time to write thanks to paid subscriptions on Patreon. Patreon.com/MikeRothschild
Im Format für RD werden Em Dashes verwendet, wie in vielen opinions Pieces im englischsprachigen Raum. Wenn ich vergesse sie korrekt als solche zu formatieren, tun das meine Editors, weil das zur Formvorgabe gehört. Also lass einfach deine haltlosen Unterstellungen.
Wie bitte? Unterstellst du mir, der Text sei mir Chat gpt erstellt? Sincerely, fuck off.
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Neue Episode von @anjaruetzel.bsky.social und mir zum Halbfinale der RTL-Bachelors: gruseligste Adrenalin-Dates (die bestimmt keine Versicherung abdeckt), ein Bachelor, der sehr empfindlich reagiert, wenn ihm freundlich Grenzen gezeigt werden, Realitätsdämpfer - und unsere Nerven am Ende. Enjoy!
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Really liked it!
Samantha Shannon hat mir auch sehr gut gefallen!
“A lot of people are saying ‘maybe we’d like a dictator’” feels a test balloon—or maybe just Trump’s way of telling America she’s asking for it. We eagerly await Fox’s forthcoming segment on why it would be good for America to have a dictator, actually.
We @religiondispatches.org sincerely doubt that Trump has read, much less understood, any Shakespeare. But nominally refusing the crown to elicit more public support for authoritarian rule is definitely giving Julius Caesar.
I wrote about Trump‘s claim that people want a dictator for @religiondispatches.org. Right after the piece was done, he repeated it a second time. Thanks to @mpgphd.bsky.social for getting this piece out so fast!
Sicher - aber: bsky.app/profile/fund...
1. Rechte Christen unter sich: Dass Olaf Latzel zum Jubiläum seiner Martini-Gemeinde Peter Hahne einlädt, wundert nicht wirklich - beide sind extrem rechts. Dass die Bremische Evangelische Kirche die Veranstaltung auf ihrer Homepage bewirbt macht hingegen fassunglos... buff.ly/PL6AiCY
„Der frühere ZDF-Moderator Peter Hahne hat am Sonntag in einer Predigt in der queerfeindlichen St.-Martini-Gemeinde in Bremen den den Nationalsozialismus ("Hakenkreuz-Religion") und queere Menschen ("Regenbogen-Religion") gleichgestellt.“
This is what happens if you give an aspiring dictator immunity, John Roberts. All official acts, amiright?
Well-paid Democratic consultants urging what’s basically political suicide and complicity in light of Trump‘s authoritarian takeover is truly amongst one of the most feckless, cowardly and stupid „strategies“ I’ve seen in politics. With consultants like these, who needs enemies? (Don’t answer that)
Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States. Democrats are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks who helped get them into this situation — and whose advice is to avoid discussing what Trump is doing. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
There is no sadder, more pathetic group of people than Trump’s second Cabinet.
God this is pathetic. And dangerous. Both can be true at the same time.
That’s the issue, though. Shit like this is the reason sundown towns still exist (and often thrive) in this country. Their founders and town leaders are treated with respect that they do not deserve, nor is it warranted Could a non-white reporter do this story? No
In a bold change from senate norms, Chancellor Palpatine has declared himself "Galactic Emperor"
fucking christ man
The President claims people want a dictator for the 2nd day in a row while armed troops patrol the Capitol, and has threatened military occupation of other opposition-led cities.
No amount of appearing reasonable and trying to avoid provoking them will stop them from escalating against you. The only thing you'll do is inspire revulsion in everyone else: if you won't even stand up for yourself how can you stand up for anyone else
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
What can go wrong? Everything. Deliberate attempt by Stephen Miller to incite violence to invoke Insurrection Act and declare martial law. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
The folksy, aw shucks, down home, clowning affect of that post (combined with the very serious menace) was exactly the way the Klan presented itself to the public in the 1920s. Silly looking guys in robes with funny names, but who are also very willing to kill you if you step out of line.
The messaging from this administration has the same vibe as a cross set ablaze in someone’s front yard. It’s about communicating menace and instilling terror, the opposite of what the government of a free and democratic society should be doing.
„Pasadena megachurch pastor Che Ahn, who announced his candidacy earlier this month with an anodyne press release, told his audience just a few months earlier: “We are the family of God, but we are also in the army of God. And the moment you’re born again, God calls you to warfare.”
„the militant Protestant movement that fueled both the January 6 insurrection and the recent political assassinations in Minnesota—is rearing its head once again, this time in the 2026 race for California governor“
Ex-pastor at Pete Hegseth’s church calls for public executions and says Bible backs Ice raids: Podcast host Joshua Haymes voices range of extreme views and says liberalism a greater threat to US than neo-Nazism. Pete Hegseth has appeared on his podcast 4 times.