The damage the Trump administration is doing to this country, rolling back all of these wonderful environmental changes and improvements is priceless. I only hope that we will be able to turn this around.
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The damage the Trump administration is doing to this country, rolling back all of these wonderful environmental changes and improvements is priceless. I only hope that we will be able to turn this around.
This figure from Axios (based on recent data from Gallup) should be illuminating for anyone who wants to understand political polarization in the US. The report also shows a huge approval gap regarding the economy, foreign affairs, and even education. Report is here: news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
Nate silver is a smug homo. We should move all “blueskisim” grace when talking about him. He should give afforded none of the comforts that originated from the left.
The mayor of Baltimore drastically slashed crime despite close proximity to Virginia with its lax gun laws and it was a blip in the news cycle and then a return to the only way to stop crime is law and order. We are a cruel, punitive country with a national press that loves facism.
Literal Nazis: We are very concerned about antisemitism on college campuses Media: We'll keep it on A1 for years Progressives: The President of the United States has vanished, can you look into that? Media: GFY partisan extremists
Brandon Johnson isn’t as smart.
Volkswagen Brazil was found guilty of subjecting workers to conditions “analogous” to slavery between 1974 and 1986 in the Amazon and ordered to publicly acknowledge the abuses and pay more than $30 million in damages.
The party of destruction. #magaisevil
Tribalism is tantalizing and powerful
Same shit, different day. The majority of our history textbooks for decades were brought to us courtesy of racist organizations like the United Daughters of the Confederacy. We've never taught the real history of our nation. Only a racist whitewashed version. www.theroot.com/we-found-the...
"We should start by acknowledging that, with few exceptions, neither Lee nor the Confederacy were honored at West Point during the nineteenth century.... It was not until 1931 that West Point honored Robert E. Lee with the help of the United Daughters of the Confederacy."
Mom's of Liberty = United Daughters of the Confederacy
JFC...They are planning a “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone” in Gaza
This is ABC Martha Raddatz asking why U.S. governors & all Americans shouldn't simply accept authoritarianism, like apparently Raddatz does. This is beyond shameful that we have U.S. media acting like propagandists on behalf of FELON/Sexual Predator Trump & his Nazis - doing Putin's work for him!
You’re too kind.
Crimes per 1M mass transit trips... * NYC: 1.3 * Miami: 2.6 * Dallas: 38.0
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Some operatives from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are joining Airbnb cofounder and DOGE member Joe Gebbia’s new National Design Studio, sources tell WIRED. "My directive is to update today’s government services to be as satisfying to use as the Apple Store" wrd.cm/47QAO8z
Kaoru Yamada #Art
"When the public asks, 'How did we get here?' after each mass shooting, the answer goes beyond NRA lobbyists and Second Amendment zealots. It lies in large measure with the strategies of firearms executives like Richard Dyke." www.propublica.org/article/how-...
The new head of the CDC has no medical education. But he did found the [Peter] Thiel Fellowship.
It was all a lie. It was always about power.
No to the scale of Caitlin Clark.
Re René Girard (Peter Thiel's professor) on.ft.com/4mJ81HQ
I can
Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch has called SCOTUS the “Leo Court,” explaining that Trump “radically changed” the direction of SCOTUS by appointing (anti-abortion) justices “shepherded” by Leo, who he says is “one of the big supporters of the Napa Institute” (founded by Busch). 1/
🚨 Trump’s FCC targeted Disney a week after shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal. Investors voted 99-1 percent to defeat an anti-LGBTQ+ proposal in March.
Very impressive.
"83.3% of LLM users were unable to quote even one sentence from the essay they had just written"
Apparently He’s a CEO.
"The American Slavery 2.0 project is a brilliant conceit precisely because it dovetails so many MAGA governing principles into a single, big and beautiful policy." — @schaller67.bsky.social
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
Oh no!😥
Wonderful. I was referring to white Americans.
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
On this date in 1967, the Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first Black person to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.
“Trump and MAGA have turned the country over to the cruelest, most rapacious, and least honorable among us and directed the force of the state against firefighters, aid workers, civil servants, and children. “ www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
We know all of this because it's right there in public record campaign finance reports. They didn't even bother to hide any of it, because this kind of quid-pro-quo is perfectly legal now. They changed the law to make it that way. www.theassemblync.com/politics/leg...
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From retired General Mark Hertling on Air Force plans to honor Ashli Babbitt @markhertling.bsky.social
Bonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of government
Cartoon by @dennisgoris.bsky.social.
Important to note that Christopher Caldwell is widely seen as one of the most respectable / least unserious intellectual representatives of the Right. And he really is! Which only hammers home how much of a radical consensus there is on the Right that pluralistic democracy needs to be abolished.
Court rules bank heist illegal, but allows robbers to keep cash for now.
Charlie Kirk mentality. #magaisevil
Good.
Prudent assessment.
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Sure sounds like those “death panels” I heard so much about way back when
Dylann roof killed 9 black people in church. After watching them pray. All conservative southern whites must be held accountable.
We spend so much time talking about the harms of systemic racism and I think sometimes we don’t allow ourselves to take a moment to say, actually it’s personally, emotionally hurtful
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NEW: The White House appears to have instructed leaders at the General Services Administration (GSA) to add xAI’s Grok chatbot to a list of approved vendors “ASAP,” according to an email sent by agency leadership earlier this week, which WIRED obtained.
“This is my rake. There are many like it, but this one is mine.”
NEW: Alaska publishes a quarterly list with the names of Indigenous people reported missing — but it still doesn’t issue a list for those who’ve been killed. When a local nonprofit requested that information, the state said no. By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social of @adn.com
#magaisevil
“Seems alarming”
In case folks need context. This is what cultural genocide looks like, and it’s what he wants. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_bo...
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Ok, pass a law disbanding the Fed and making the president the nation’s central banker, if that’s your view.
Crazy 🤯
How biohackers are working to extend the human lifespan and get rich doing it.
The right has collectively mourned Ashli Babbitt more than every kid that’s ever died in a mass shooting combined.
After years of mass shootings by Trump-supporting bigots spouting the anti-immigrant, replacement theory garbage these assholes push daily, MAGA is exploiting two shootings by trans people to incite a pogrom. And holy shit, that last sentence is some serious projection.
She’s not embraced by white people in the same fashion.
They think slavery and Jim Crow were necessary and not pernicious. They enjoy making a mockery of real racism.
Group co-founded by Stephen Miller is filing complaints and lawsuits against corporations. America First Legal "is a key part of Miller's larger mission to make diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs illegal," by alleging discrimination against white people. www.axios.com/2025/03/08/s...
yup. I wrote something similar last week christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi... "the very word “America” conjures up the celebrated ideal of “America the free”. But “America the free” are just words and they are rapidly losing all meaning."
Trump does not have the type of paramilitary mass organization that characterized interwar European fascism. But he is rapidly and systematically building a machinery that serves a similar purpose and functions to impose martial law in the streets.
What if scientists hadn’t waited until this point to speak about politics Every time I see a headline like this, my brain just shouts Like what if scientists hadn’t sat around silently watching everyone around them get attacked Maybe the fight on campus would have gone differently
"You don't need a partisan lens to see when troops are occupying the nation's capital and masked men are kidnapping people off the street, you should be worried about authoritarianism. If you've cracked the history book once or twice, you don't need much expertise to recognize what we're seeing."
black women telling donald trump to fuck off is a trend america needs to embrace more www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts
something very familiar about yet another person trump is trying to purge cant qwhite put my finger on it
If you thought that Peter Thiel had disappeared from DC, think again. “[T]he most coveted invitation for a MAGA gay in Washington is to one of the parties that Mr. Thiel… has been throwing at his mansion near Embassy Row.” 8/28/25 … 1/
They’re identifying as “lunatic leftist” people like that have more in common with Nick Fuentes than they would have you believe.
An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content. www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
Senate Republicans are prepared to change the chamber’s rules unilaterally to quicken the pace of confirming Trump’s picks. www.semafor.com/article/08/2...
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In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
“We’ve been told a false story about race and work. The myth goes like this: Black people are ‘given’ jobs because of DEI, they’re less qualified, and they have an easier time getting hired. But the reality is the opposite.” - Shari Dunn www.linkedin.com/pulse/myth-b...
one that annoys me is that what these people think is cutting edge new political thinking is just warmed over slaveholder ideology
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Texas republicans love that about him.
NEW: Internal records show how Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt has worked to get Elon Musk access to state and local officials ahead of a formal bidding process for a Houston flood project. Both stand to benefit should Musk be selected. By @lmcgaughy.bsky.social and @chengyilun.bsky.social
I just read an oral interview with the head of a White Citizens Council who insisted repeatedly that they founded the organization in 1956 in response to the invasion of voting rights activists who came in with COFO in ... 1964. cc: @larryglickman.bsky.social's take on fake "backlash politics"
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