it might be like the opening scene in For all Mankind... we know people are gathering, to see the moon landing, but the excitement isn't there....and we find out that's because, in the counterfactual show, the Soviet Union got there first
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it might be like the opening scene in For all Mankind... we know people are gathering, to see the moon landing, but the excitement isn't there....and we find out that's because, in the counterfactual show, the Soviet Union got there first
And he finds it "hysterical" that some of us pointed out the 1488 code in Homeland Security's post of Gast's American Progress... www.thebulwark.com/p/bizarre-dh...
The full speech is here...astronauts on the moon! Daniel Boone! Pilgrims! The telegraph! Lucky Lindy's trans-Atlantic flight! Taming the wild frontier! Jesse James! Manifest Destiny! Mt. Rushmore! All wrapped up in an extended version of the 14 words! www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/02/s...
last i checked, the way to make babies was not, actually, rocket science
I don't think SCOTUS-granted immunity/royalty holds up at the Hague
Thanks. I can't this as an online or article source, but if I had to guess I would have thought it was something I saw online. Perhaps it's in a book somewhere...I don't think it's Fryd's, though.
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
yes, i agree
"Presidential Medal of Licentiousness"
The stereochrome mural is Emmanuel Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire, in the US capitol. But I can't remember, for the life of me, where I read an analysis, with this diagram and discussion of the ship on the SF bay...Anyone recognize it? đď¸ @cjslaby.bsky.social @mlobelart.bsky.social
wait, what happened? I'll check it out. Tadej could definitely catch up.
these people have no problem envisioning reinstating slavery targeted at their favorite others, and seeing it all as natural.
Black people as replacement field hands.
as a "royalist" and is eagerly read Vice-President Vance) coyly queried, âI wonder if there is another domestic population capable of agricultural labor.â Yarvin, who believes âslavery is a natural relationship...one to which humans are biologically adapted,â is nominating
"This land is your land" or paintings that propagandize manifest destiny....When one supporter of these removal policies posted âI will gladly pay $50 for a tomato...so long as I never have to hear spanish in public again,â Curtis Yarvin (the far right influencer who describes himself
dresses. A white family. (More on this in the link)....The imagery on the Homeland Security's feed on X is decidedly one of a white homelandâwhether they are posting videos of white people enjoying America's natural wonders to the tune of Woody Guthrie's drive.google.com/file/d/1fWEp...
Making the hands of farm workers invisible in the marketplace is made easier because of the dominant image of farms in Americaâsome bucolic scene with a red barn, happy cows and chickens, and amber waves of grain, all tended by a single nuclear family wearing denim overalls or print
all across the country, though it is often rendered invisible. Part of that is because capitalist agriculture hides the conditions of food production and distribution from consumers.
speed and skill of farm workers, simply check out the social media feed of the @ufw.bsky.social United Farm Workers. The backbreaking work they do brings food from fields to supermarkets and ultimately kitchen tables
Re-upping for labor day, with another outtake: These are the roots of what Trump is casually spouting today when he says "they do it naturally." In fact, farm workers are skilled workers, but not because "nature made them that way." To get a sense of the astonishing bsky.app/profile/us.t...
I wrote something about Trump's, and this nation's, contradictory ideas about "Los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas." #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. đď¸ bsky.app/profile/us.t...
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
Good point, & clearly there is a lot more to be said about the visuals (not to mention the Aryan Nation code, which they don't mention). Sandweiss, though not an art historian, is a very accomplished historian of the visual culture of the American West. www.marthaasandweiss.com/print-the-le...
And how about the man calling for this, who represented a 10k square foot penthouse as a 34 k, among other baloney?
this is indicative of the whole corrupt, cruel and self-destructive shebang: not fighting fire with fire using fire to keep us from fighting fire in other words, when the US attacks immigrants it is attacking US
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that's bad. but if it set us back to 2003, that would be like 4 years worse.
We know what Cuomo will do when the chips are down.
I second that. (And I'm a Doug).
Years of avocado toast prepared us for us for this day.
Looks tremendous! do we have the sense that this will be on a dedicated youtube channel, or will it be handled by the general Yale one? @jbf1755.bsky.social
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That is what I says.... (Just between me and you...the president of the Agricultural History Society said he hopes "a million people read it." With all that is going on, I'm hoping for 25 people following on here taking a look today). đď¸
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the all time hypocrisy. Donald 330000 square foot penthouse* Trump is outraged about mortgage fraud? * it was actually 10900 square feet. www.forbes.com/sites/chasew...
And I highly recommend Orwell's Roses as well.
My Senator is Patty Murray! Go Patty!
Yarvin is not being ironic in pointing his finger at Blacks as suitable replacement field hands: he believes "slavery is a natural relationship...one to which humans are biologically adapted." That paragraph didn't make it in the piece, though: theconversation.com/these-people...
among some 60000 other followersâcoyly queried, "I wonder if there is another domestic population capable of agricultural labor." The answer he wants to conjure depends on the history of racializing and naturalizing exploitative farm work, where some sweat and toil while others profit.
When one user posted "I will gladly pay $50 for a tomato...so long as I never have to hear spanish in public again," Curtis Yarvinâthe blogger philosopher king of the far right who describes himself as a "royalist" and is eagerly read and cited by Vice-President J.D. Vance,
Yes, and it's woven into their labor policy. The audacity of the Sect of Labor claiming that he was "transformative," and wrapping the Labor Dept building in his mug shot. I wrote about Yarvin's rekindling slavery ideology in my take on Trump's farmworker rhetoric and policy...
Not even half a loaf.
Just call it Vanity.
I'll wait. Meantime, I'll snack on some potato chips.
We forget how far weâve come, and how far back we can go. Lead poisoned us, is still doing soâŚand probably turned some people into monsters who killed others.
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âIn the old days, I had to copy Michelleâs speech by hand, but nowâŚâ
or in emoji: đđĽ
Trump can only remove a Fed board member âfor cause." This has meant something like a real reason grounded in actual misconduct, not a fake reason that the president pulled out of his ass. But fake pretexts are the coin of Trump's realm. (cc @kjephd.bsky.social) newrepublic.com/article/1996...
out of touch eggomaniac says what?
Seems to be parallel to how the captured SCOTUS operates. Front facing: Balls and strikes, the Constitution!, originalism, textualism, plus our version of history and tradition. What's really going on: screw all that if needed in order to support whatever the hell Trump wants to do
McWilliams would be happy with this choice.
Well said. This slow violence is not registering as it should be. In part because of all the frantic violencd of this regime. But these cancellations of protections will kill kill kill.
not hard to pull off with a trifecta, at all. (the trifecta is hard).
yes, that's it precisely.
Congrats @jamellebouie.net. Factories in the Field big for me. I got to write the foreword to the reissue. www.ucpress.edu/books/factor...
Like that desk he is sitting, fashioned from the wood of a British ship called the Resolute, which was abandoned when searching for a lost British explore in the arctic, Trump should be seen as a relic of failure. www.hnn.us/article/the-...
Walz. Saying it plain and powerfully. (Wonder if Third Way would have a problem with his use of #2?)
Oh pick me..."We're not racist, but these policies actually make a lot of sense, now...that this guy is in office instead."
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will groping the flag be classified as desecration?
does the next poster show white man and woman pushing Black man off the scaffolding, then she heads home, her work done?
First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out (because the message test performed at a low percentile rank compared to other messages in our testing bank for non college men who opt into online surveys through various consumer reward programs)
or paint it sky blue, like Ana Teresa FernĂĄndez has done...to erase the border. anateresafernandez.com/borrando-la-...
but radically pluralistic by this regime's standards. wait till the dhs boyz get ahold of that feed.
like my vw id.4 (good deals on used, on account of the mediocre interface, but i can live with that)
I once got intercepted on my way to the bathroom by management, who assumed I was skipping out on the check. Combined with the food, they were AppleF's in my book ever after.
narrating every gruesome atrocity of Bundy and some of the others, but I've stayed away from "true crime" for a reason, before this. I found the memoir part compelling as well.
Corporations poisoned us, massively...with lead, among other things. That poisoning created the ground out of which a few monsters emerged. I agree with the thesis. I like the writing, and the larger analysis of corporations as serial killers too, directly and indirectly. I understand the choice of
Good article. And more encompassing than my piece on this from a couple of weeks ago: www.thebulwark.com/p/bizarre-dh...
Never apologized. Never admitted he was wrong. Never acknowledged their innocence.
2nd city you're first in my heart now. along with LA and DC
This year, they seem more interested in the bird feeders, fortunately. I was going to cover the bushes with netting on 2x2 framing, but ended up not needing to.
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Paint it Martha Stewart Sky Blue insteadâand erase the wall, like Ana Teresa FernĂĄndez did.
And donât forget âtan suit!â And âshirtsleeves!â
My one gardening rec: if you are in a climate that works for blueberries and have the space, plant blueberries. This morningâs harvest
Iâm sorry.
On the white nationalism of Homeland Security: www.thebulwark.com/p/bizarre-dh...
for more historian takes on Trump regime actions & ideas...On "naturalizing" while expelling farm workers:https://theconversation.com/these-people-do-it-naturally-president-trumps-views-on-immigrant-farmworkers-reflect-a-long-history-of-how-farming-has-been-idealized-and-practiced-in-america-262858
The Luddites were skilled workers! They werenât opposed to âtechnology,â they were opposed to political-economic systems of domination juiced by new techs! They didnât want their lives ruined!
Nation of Grand Slam. Take that, Denny's
I guess they decided not to go with "an uneasy mixture of capitalism and mobsterism"
common ground: 6 feet under
Clint Smith has a new piece on this: bsky.app/profile/clin...
"an uneasy mix of batshit and horseshit"
Not mine, but two recent amazing books are Clint Smith, How the Word is Passed, and the inimitable Tiya Miles' All that She Carried.
Excellent piece. And bonus: you get the knowledge and perspectives of two stellar Indigenous scholarsâNick Estes and Kim TallBear (now back below the 49th parallel).
Just call him AK-47 already
"Tan suit"! "Shirtsleeves"! etc
a thought i have reading @clintsmithiii.bsky.socialâs wonderful piece is that one reason the administration wants to erase any mention of the worst of our past is because it is intent on recapitulating those atrocities www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
That style I call Knoxious
Yarvin, who believes âslavery is a natural relationship...one to which humans are biologically adapted,â is nominating Black people as replacement field hands.
so long as I never have to hear spanish in public again,â Curtis Yarvin (the far right influencer who describes himself as a "royalist" and is eagerly read Vice-President Vance) coyly queried, âI wonder if there is another domestic population capable of agricultural labor.â bsky.app/profile/nkal...
Not everything in this short piece made it in. I spent some time researching Curtis Yarvin, due to a tweet of his related to the topic. (I'll never get that time back). Anyhow, here's the bit that got yanked: When one supporter of these removal policies posted âI will gladly pay $50 for a tomato...
NMAAHC and NMAI are both targets of Donald 1984 Trump.
just saw it again. i agree.
"Very fine people on both sides...but the finest dressed in grey"