Enjoy it while you can — RFK has said that he wants all Americans to have a wearable, so there’s strong chance your data will be weaponized against you My next watch will be a dumb one with no Internet
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Enjoy it while you can — RFK has said that he wants all Americans to have a wearable, so there’s strong chance your data will be weaponized against you My next watch will be a dumb one with no Internet
"I watched Snow White when I was a kid and I ain't give a b*tch a poison apple yet" is my favourite line
We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.
His age and physical condition in the first place made him a DEI hire
Brief 🧵, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factors—but motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
Between last fall and today, there have been over 3 million out-patient visits, over 300,000 hospitalizations and over 30,000 deaths from COVID. This data comes from a presentation at the the June ACIP meeting extrapolated forward. Now there will likely be more as RFK Jr. consolidates his power. 4/
I worry that we’ll never rid the internet of the evergrowing scourge that is debate bro culture
The Tea Party is primarily about taxes and small govt v. The Tea Party is primarily about xenophobia and welfare chauvinism. That was a real debate for a time. As many of the same people cheer state economic intervention and rights-violating immigration crackdowns, it's clear the latter was right.
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
Possibly the two most unlikable people on the planet
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
It had more KKK members than any other state in the 1920s. White Supremacy is baked into the state’s DNA
Like @dansavage.bsky.social often says, if clowns raped kids as often as Christians do, circuses would be illegal.
But remember, we’re supposed to quit calling them the Gestapo
It’s amazing that so many institutions see numbers like this and decide “the message is clear, let’s obey in advance harder”
I must continue to insist that this is not a strong regime. It does not have the kind of pan-societal support needed to enforce Gleichshaltung. It has significant elite buy-in and a small popular coalition, but it is brittle and feeble and will collapse if pressed hard enough.
Americans are being conditioned to think of crime as an urban issue. Ask why. Alabama's murder rate is far higher than New York City's. Urban crime is not worse than rural crime. It's just more visible. In cities everything is more visible. So be careful what you blame city leaders for.
As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.
1. Doug Wilson builds mini “fiefdom” in Moscow, ID 2. Doug Wilson disciples set up “hard tech” startups in El Segundo, CA (“The Gundo”) 3. Doug Wilson associates begin building a Christian community in TN 4. Doug Wilson plants new DC church. Pete Hegseth attends. 5. NatCon boosts Doug Wilson 1/
I imagine it’s even more pronounced in Florida
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
He has no clue what is happening. He’s all about grift. No… only about grift. His relationship with all of these demagogues is transactional and that’s it
The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Open season for those about to impose predatory rates
Sorry, but it’s not “downplaying.” It’s a nod and wink to extremists that they will not be monitored or punished
This is quite a statement from Matthew Dowd — the former chief strategist for the Bush–Cheney 2004 presidential campaign.
This is bad for boys, but even worse for girls, who don't feel that the skate park, the fenced pitch or the pump track are 'for them' and so are left with nowhere to go. They say that they hate the 'bedroom culture' but have no way out of it. tiny 🧵
This emphasis on men's physical strength and anti-feminist masculinity are deeply connected. They believe that men should be strong enough to dominate (and women are weak, of course). They are using schools to indoctrinate children into their white supremacist patriarchal ideology.
It isn’t just “bad apples” when the whole orchard is designed to subjugate women & children to direct, divine “revelation” funneled through male authority figures. Pedocon Theory strikes again!
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
Even with his shortcomings, Canada’s neighbors to the south wish we had a Carney administration
From autocracy to military dictatorship. Land of the Free
popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs
This is what is happening right now.
The final stage of genocide is denial.
If they kill birthright citizenship, they can denaturalize anybody who can’t prove their PARENTS’ citizenship. The concentration camps are for anyone and everyone that feel like putting there. We are living under a fascist regime.
He won’t care. We know it fosters uncertainty (bad for the economy) and discredits “official” economic metrics (also bad for the economy), but that will be outweighed by his need for retribution. Might push Murdoch, Vance, and co further toward a 25th Amendment decision to be made…
A reminder that Dems went out of their way to NOT politicize their prosecutions of Trump. Garland dragged his feet. Biden kept his distance. And then they appointed a special counsel to look independent. All a waste of time. You can never appease the GOP. So why do Dems keep trying? ARGHGGHG.
She’s getting a pardon.
For all this talk about Republicans being “tough on crime” and Trump working to “make America safe again,” I live a very comfortable life in what many would call A Good Neighborhood, and I honestly don’t recall the last time in this country I seriously considered the question “will I get criminally…
Tech investor Marc Andreessen’s VC firm, a16z, backs the “Solano Foundry” project in CA. Andreessen also backs the “Network State” movement, which seeks to build new cities w/ the goal of helping them amass enough power that they can become countries. How do we know they won’t try that here? 1/
😬The Supreme Court will consider whether the intentional creation of a majority-minority congressional district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments. If the answer is yes, SCOTUS will effectively declare that what remains of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This is very, very ominous.
Masked ICE agents hauled workers out of a pizza place in my Massachusetts town today. Do I feel safer? No, the opposite. Do I feel wealthier? Not a bit. Do I feel that justice is being served? No, not that, either. I’m mostly infuriated by armed, masked men roaming around and grabbing people.
while tech bros and armchair philosophers contemplate rights for hypothetical conscious machines, the reality is that actual people (labourers) are treated worse than exiting machines
I don’t want to visit Confederate territory
The FBI arrested a terrorist today for plotting to kill 30,000 Black Cincinnatians. Let’s see what Moreno says about that.
Posted in April. Aged like wine
The kakistocracy continues
They’ll decry “fake news.” Sorry, I meant “FAKE NEWS!”
Such Alphas…
It’s almost like they are trying to undermine trust in elections at the same time more questions are being raised about the 2024 election
Behold, the leading political philosopher on the right.
As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.
The richest person in the world complaining about “the elite”. SMDH
“Art of the Deal”
But especially #3. And apply that to the entire DOJ and DHS
Kremlin passed a new law prohibiting Russians to look up over 5,500 topics online. Plus, if businesses rely on WhatsApp and Telegram, these will be “spoken to and helped to quit their bad habits”. Essentially, if they search online for something prohibited or, worse, use VPN, they can go to jail.
When I was one of the first people to call out Garland, I was told I was being hysterical. I was hysterical when I asked Pelosi to impeach TACO the first time. I was hysterical when I warned that filing the docs case in FL was NUTS and guaranteed failure. I was hysterical when I said DOJ is
Also, very few true celebrities with a platform to make a difference
When you strip away humanity
Newsom: They play by a different set of rules . And we can sit back and act as if we have some moral superiority and watch this almost 250 year experiment be washed away. We are not going to allow that to happen. We have agency. We can shape the future
And of those 19, I wonder how many of them are the techno-fascist Yarvinites who had comprised the PayPal Mafia
Vance is the one that both the Heritage Foundation and the techno-fascists want
They also ignore the papers and steal the papers, but “don’t you ever say that again”
They’ll bribe her with a pardon in exchange for lying
People can only truly understand this if they’re aware of the goals of Yarvin, Thiel, and Vance.
Everything’s been so predictable for anyone paying attention. They knew that ICE raids would result in labor shortages. How would they fill that gap? Arrest people and enslave them, which the constitution allows. But the arrests would be the result of an expanded definitions of various “crimes”
I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
America in the Trump era
In other words, unless you are racist, they're coming for you
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“So, as head of a department that doesn’t really exist, I am commanding universities to do a better job of promoting viewpoint diversity, especially those views that are racist, bigoted, misogynist, and colonialist. Failure to do so will result in a loss of funding.”
But they used the word “cultivate” so they must be serious about critical thinking
The most recent U.S. ambassador to Orban’s Hungary writes: “After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence”
We always knew the awful conditions were the reason why they wouldn’t let members of Congress in. Imagine how much worse it is when nobody is looking
Disgusting. Also, I legitimately thought those were stormtroopers at first glance.
“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
The horrific abuses of Abu Ghraib/Guantanamo are being used on people who just a week ago were working at the local US home depot or were kidnapped off the street. Over 55 Canadians are being held by the US as these abuses go on. With MAGA, cruelty is the point. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Republicans in a nutshell
The common theme: far-right authoritarian governments
Good reporting. Authoritarian receipts. Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against him www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
You can talk about being family friendly, and offer money for people to have more kids, but you can't really build a thriving and attractive society via authoritarianism. People who know better, who value freedom, with options - they will leave.
He always goes back to the well
“Have you tried…not being a mutant?”
Oh no, they can’t visit America and risk having them and their families kidnapped
It’s always the ones you most suspect
I'm on anti anxiety meds and I have to fill out this little form about my anxiety level every time I go to the doctor. I feel like it needs to be revised for living under fascism.
Look at Pouty McPout-Pout Face who’s entire identity has been mocked
The far right pretty much globally peddles this idea that cities are unsafe, and the funny thing about it is that literally everywhere, it is in fact bullshit.
“ Inside the Unseen War Against Black Memory, Generational Wealth, and the Truth They Swore You’d Never Learn “ medium.com/@gxldsociety...
I’m so exhausted with technogarchs. They’re not geniuses nor artists nor inventors. They’re hustlers without style, con artists without art, auctioneers without verbal swag. They want so badly for the wealthy business side of technology to be seen as creation, as art, as genius. Hi tech whining.
1/ Very moving interview. Coach of a college prep baseball team on UWS NYC speaks about half dozen armed ICE agents approaching and harassing the kids (Latino and black youth, all U.S. citizens). "I am willing to die today" to protect the kids.
It’s just another way to racially profile without saying racially profile
The final Trumpification of Fifa (so far), what might happen next, and how there’s a direct link between all of this and what is happening at Morecambe and Sheffield Wednesday Infantino has been totally emboldened, with big ambitions www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
A film where a fascist key ally to the US run by a imperialist racist tyrant funded by the US military industrial complex and a billionaire tech bro so they can colonize land that isn't theirs. It isn't even subtle about it. And it's the biggest debut in Superman history
The latter
I believe that if Superman landed in practically any other country in 1995, that in 2025 he wouldn't be stopping the Boravian invasion of Jarhanpur, he'd be in the Ukraine, and Gaza, and Southern California, and at these sites (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...), and at Guantanamo Bay, doing good.
I think about this constantly