They still haven't consolidated full authoritarianism yet; they can still lose
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They still haven't consolidated full authoritarianism yet; they can still lose
Book trailer time. Please take a tour with me through my Ohio hometown to see why I wanted to tell the story of how how Urbana became a microcosm for the nation's fracture. The book's out Oct. 7.
NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Absolutely horrific. Israel continues to murder journalists in all directions with complete impunity, including this latest attack in which it killed 31 journalists in Yemen. This marks the deadliest single attack on the press in 16 years, per CPJ. www.washingtonpost.c...
The one surefire way to get people to stop saying mean things about you is to send out a press release, insisting that they stop saying mean things about you. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...
Tonight they're gonna party like it's 1939...
Pyongyang on the Plains. Oklahoma targets teachers for insufficient mourning of Charlie Kirk.
It's been more than three days. Has Charlie Kirk risen yet?
This is the same guy.
secret police of the fascists
This isn't a lawsuit. It's blackmail. And the only question is whether Sulzberger will hold firm or fold. I guess we'll see.
Why are single-stair buildings actually SAFER than two stair buildings in some circumstances? It seems counter intuitive… obviously, more redundancy is better, right?
Stephen Miller: “We are gonna channel all the anger we have over the organized campaign to led to this assassination to uproot & dismantle these terrorist networks … we are going to use every resource we have at the DOJ, Homeland Security & throughout this govt to dismantle & destroy these networks"
Memphis is 63% Black, but not one Black person was with Trump today when he signed his presidential memorandum to send the National Guard to the largest Black city in America. The Black mayor of Memphis, the Black mayor of Shelby County, and the Black police chief, were not involved.
“The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ‘corrosive ideology.’”
Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”
Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...
Oliver Darcy has obtained the termination letter sent to Karen Attiah by the Washington Posts’s HR chief. The letter specifically mentions her postings about “white men” violating Washington Post policy. Oliver’s Newsletter: bit.ly/4me42St Karen’s Substack Statement: bit.ly/3VOZTcO
Broadcasting from the White House, JD Vance vows to use the government to dismantle nonprofit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
"If ICE is mocking legal South Korean detainees with slant-eyed gestures, you'd think Congress should do something and what is this org going to look like in a year?" bsky.app/profile/shar... "korean reporting nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in" bsky.app/profile/shar...
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:
I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!
An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"
The stupid ass Green Bay Packers mentioned Charlie Kirk in their pregame ceremony, no mention of the school shooting yesterday. Yankees yesterday now the Packers today, this country is so fucked.
ICYMI — REP. @sarajacobs.house.gov : “It’s interesting (Nancy Mace) is so obsessed with trans people when many in this body have received gender-affirming care — boob jobs and Botox are gender-affirming care.” *Nancy Mace loses it*
Nancy Mace is a hateful Trunt.
Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies" Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."
To honor a deceased bad faith advocate of free speech, the government will now ban free speech
Whatever happened to 2A proponents’ “now is no time to politicize the victim’s death” admonishment that always follows a lethal shooting?
Students are trying just to wait outside the board meeting, which is being illegally constituted, and the admins are ordering the cops to clear them. One officer already put his hands on a student to push him off the rotunda steps
The Board of Visitors at UVA, which has no legal quorum to do business, is mysteriously meeting anyway. A cop tried to push off a peaceful student protester who has every right to be there.
"The Board of Supervisors voted Sept. 10 to prohibit Confederate or segregationist street names in Loudoun County. Amendments to the county ordinance were passed 8-0-1 (Chair Phyllis Randall was absent) at a public hearing in Leesburg."
👀 i don't think she's formally announced yet, but it looks like shannon taylor is coping with losing the AG primary by running for congress
It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.
Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.
I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
The BBC claims to have identified the image on the shirt of Charlie Kirk's alleged killer. Probably not what his fans would have anticipated.
What a great day to be Brazilian
Would it though? time.com/7316346/matt...
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
The MAGA Saint Charlie Kirk is declared
Totally. A national strike is what's needed. Only when the labor force that hasn't already been deported or terrified into hiding shows up and says no more, will attention be paid Corporate Business is profiting from fascism each and every minute, they aren't listening
There’s no “stakes” on the weekend. The “power” doesn’t care if you waste your time off. Waste the time of the “power”. On a fucking weekday. Ffs. You’re not getting it America. And you’re gonna lose it. Weekends are powerless to change. Fix that. Please. Fuck.
NEW: The National Guard analyzed its mission and found it is perceived as "leveraging fear, driving a wedge between civilians and the military, and promoting a sense of shame among troops and the military." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
Useful frame for understanding Trumpism from @aselrod.bsky.social: "It’s not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists. Trump/MAGA have turned the country over to the cruelest, most rapacious, and least honorable among us." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago remove a statue of Christopher Columbus 🔥 According to Port-of-Spain Corporation the statue was removed on 6 August 2025. The process commenced at approximately 10pm in Independence Square in the capital city. Shout out 2 “Rastaman” who took down the statue ❤️💛💚✊🏽🔥
NEW: Christopher Columbus statue REMOVED from public square in Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹🔥 ✊🏾 The statue was taken down by the Port of Spain City Council following extensive discussions and technical assessment. Pic Credit: Port of Spain City Corporation www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...
Trinidad and Tobago removes Christopher Columbus statue amid reckoning with colonial past | Africanews Aug 8, 2025 www.africanews.com/2025/08/08/t...
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
Robert E. Lee, West Point and Civil War Memory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
US to refuse visas to Palestinian officials at UN summit on state
I still think its wild that you can get pardoned for storming the Capitol but be prosecuted for throwing a sandwich
Everyone watches Trump’s circus. Few see the man behind the curtain: Stephen Miller, the architect of America’s authoritarian future.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland
Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode opinion by Jonathan Freedland Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
It’s the best little taco truck. It’s next to Taco Bell — and it’s 100x better.
Good.
The Republican Party simply does not believe in representative democracy anymore. It’s turned its back on a bedrock principle of our country in favor of grabbing power by theft.
Dominion wants to build data centers, and make us pay for it. www.whro.org/environment/... Public comment: www.scc.virginia.gov/case-informa...
Military occupation of areas loyal to the political opposition is what you see in a civil war, kids.
BREAKING: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore just announced he refuses to authorize National Guard deployment in Maryland. 🧵
It was honestly funny seeing people's reactions to learning who made the Staten Island ferry free but also really helped show how even his free bus overall concept is nothing new and was implemented on the ferry
CCS parents you may have seen this petition related to SROs. If you have issues with the implementation and/or the return of CPD to our children’s schools please comment and sign here: chng.it/s4PMKLQfJ6
Reminder to my Cville friends: the start of public schools and return of UVA students inevitably results in an upturn in COVID (and other respiratory illnesses). This is a good time to start wearing a mask indoors again.
I don't need to read it. I'm living it.
If any Dem president tried this, it would literally start a war. This isn't a distraction. He's invading blue cities begging for violence so that he can unleash his own.
I deeply resent having to defend John Bolton but “the president sends his goons on a fishing expedition to raid anyone who criticizes him” is in fact very alarming
Trump is about to put me in jail for no reason. But I’m still proud that I wrote in Dwight Eisenhower instead of voting for Kamala Harris
Two things can be true, Bolton sucks and the FBI should not target the president’s enemies
somebody get John Bolton to post the Niemöller poem www.newsweek.com/john-bolton-...
We spent years hearing that the free market had chosen coal, so we should generate power with that. But now the free market has chosen wind, so Republicans are simply making it illegal to build wind, and solar is next. It was never about the free market.
This is extremely bad, the national intelligence equivalent of firing the BLS commissioner because Trump didn’t like the jobs numbers. We are sliding into authoritarianism so fast.
Swollen hands. Edema due to heart failure?
www.landgrabu.org
You know who DIDN'T have trouble registering voters or raising money this summer? @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Whom the clowns in this photo haven't yet endorsed. The answer is RIGHT THERE but party leaders are pretending they can't see it.
Japanese American groups blast the use of Fort Bliss, a former WWII Japanese internment camp site, as an ICE detention center. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
Will someone please primary these guys??
Time to build a university governance model that serves our students, staff and state first and shields our world-class institutions from federal overreach. @creighdeeds.bsky.social and I spent time listening to professors as we work towards legislative solutions to do just that.
Literally repeating the Michael Dukakis tank bit.
…and in perhaps related news www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
When I went to my office yesterday to get some books, I noticed that all the signs in Divinity Hall have small pieces of white paper taped over wherever any references to "diversity" or "inclusion" used to be...
We should make literal 💩 sandwiches
D.C. — Trump is joining the police and military on the streets tonight. Any business that welcomes this wannabe dictator will be boycotted. #FreeDC
Any business in our communities that welcomes this president tonight will be subject to an immediate boycott.
What is he talking about?? Union Station removed their waiting room benches, so nobody, including vagrants, can sit there.
REPORTER: Why are troops stationed here at Union Station and at the National Mall instead of areas where crime is higher? JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.
#visibilitybrigade #bebravewithus #fightfacism
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Correction: St3ph3n M¡ll3r called them “stupid white hippies.”
Regime officials dismiss protesters as “bizarre…old primarily white people” and “crazy communists” who are “stupid old hippies…over 90 years old.” The sleeping giant of retired white boomers is showing up during working hours to resist, and I am here for it. ✊🏾 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.