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Pritzker is doing two things here that are smart. One, he's describing this forcefully and unapologetically and in his own terms, not adopting the Admin/media frame. Two, he's making clear that he will blame the Admin for any violence or disorder sparked by their invasion of his state.
this is the first time a major Democratic elected has actually told his supporters what they can do in the face of this as far as I can tell
(Postscript: a great thing about the power of disqualification under 14th Am. §3 is its extension of banishment from "any office … under *any State*" (emphasis added).)
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Happy Labor Day, Kentucky. As you spend time with your family, remember the true meaning of today: to recognize the hardworking labor unions who helped build our country and ensure workers everywhere are delivered the security and fairness they deserve. Thank you to our unions.
Just a teeny tiny slice of despair pie. As a treat
Tired, sad, feeling like a failure
It's probably more common than either of us realize, particularly in Asia: Christian populations are often minority currents in anti-imperial (and later nation-building) streams.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
The creole republics are not okay, but we're all not okay in pretty similar ways and because we're trying to be better in pretty similar ways!
Been thinking about this. Every generation of my family I know of was born in a different place ruled by an entirely different type of person - Singamangaraja XI, Wilhelmina, George V, Sukarno, George Bush. But in every generation, the Gospel has sustained them.
The Almighty shall do as he wills; in earthly eyes, it appears he has turned away his face from the American nation. There is no health in us. All the same, the vast land we dwell upon is his and it is good, as are the multitude of peoples that he, in his wisdom, plants here. Lord, have mercy.
And there was a not-zero chance he'd have joined Jackie Speier and Leo Ryan.
Both of his parents were State - his dad was a South Asia specialist and one of America's experts on Afghanistan!
a thing that may save Platner from Fettermanization, besides the apparent presence of a soul, is that he sounds like the least Online genuinely left-wing politician the left actually got excited for in a while
Doomers: The 2026 election doesn't matter, Republicans are just going to rig the whole thing anyway Various red state republican incumbents: I'm just going to quit now because if I run in 2026 I'm going to get absolutely killed
The first Nazi book burnings were the biggest archive of trans research that existed at the time.
yo this guy is cooking
I think you can just as accurately frame it as the apportionment of resources, of prosperity, of other positive words. But yeah it's about deciding who is deserving of what
i am very skeptical of big lunk white guy populists, and i think there’s still a long way for this guy to go on a very high and very tight wire, but i *do* think he gives some answers in this piece that are meaningfully different from the typical shouty, “fuck the establishment” guys we have seen
the March on Washington, the lynching of Emmett Till, the start of Strom Thurmond's infamous filibuster, the start of the 1964 Philadelphia riots, and the most violent day at the 1968 DNC were all August 28 somehow
Seasteaders played bioshock and thought “that wouldn’t have gone down like that if i was in charge”
we have a crisis of self-respect in this country, among other things
You're assuming they're acting in good faith. They are not. This is a deliberate ane collaborative effort between the shooters and the movements that birth them.
Good job Chuck, this is the kind of thing you should post on this website specifically
Congratulations to the gray haired boomer enviros who used to table for this guy at my local farmer's market because they believed he cared about climate change
so for those who don't know what DHS is referencing, it's an academic study the New Right has grabbed onto about how liberal moral universalism flows outwards while conservative moralism flows inwards in terms of priority
pretty sure every single Framer would have an aneurysm upon realizing that the American people had elected their own Charles II
He's a wartime khan-sigliere
I'd feel infinitely more confident about our future if (1) we had a single branch with a constitutionalist majority and (2) civil society was far more active in calling out this administration
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
I knew a lot of hardcore pacifist and anti-nuclear clergy when I was a kid, and the British police should learn that nobody is more determined than a 70-something who wears socks with sandals and believes with all their heart in a higher law.
there is a direct connection between NIMBYism and the anti-migrant turn in US politics (and you see it happening in Canadian politics too)
GREAT KHAN OF KHANS. SCOURGE OF GOD. THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S.
Yeah this is what I wanted. Verbatim. Thank God. Maybe we’re gonna make it.
To be fair, it's in-house staff, not a firm. And they're quite good. Otherwise, I do indeed look to the plains. Where is my help to come from? The Midwest Khans, the scourges of God upon Earth.
Obviously the congressional portion is in everyone’s forefront of interest but if this succeeds including the very likely ultimate appeal to the Utah Supreme Court we’re looking at a situation were the Legislative/Schoolboard maps could be tossed if a case is brought forward
it's so funny how most americans are like "oh yeah things aren't great in DC but they'll sort it out" while people i know who've lived through state collapses, however partial, are like "oh you guys are about to go through some stuff, you know"
I live in DC, right at the Columbia Heights Metro, where ICE has made a habit of showing up in force to nab moped drivers, vendors, and people just using the metro. When you call what we're going through "a distraction" you're saying you don't value our humanity as much as an imaginary white swing.
Small scale good governance thing that is a prime target for some kind of regulation: the various extortionate apps and cards you have to use to pay to do laundry these days in any kind of apartment building. There’s no reason you should have to prepay LaundroBuddy at least $50 with a 25¢ fee
ICE is taking a bunch of people in the Rio Grande Valley. Democrats really should make a big deal out of that. This is another one of those things where listening to David Shor will put you in a defensive crouch that just smells weak to voters, whereas smart decisive action can shift narratives.
Jamelle Bouie Receives the 2025 Carey McWilliams Award The Carey McWilliams Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor major journalistic contributions to society’s understanding of politics. Citation from the Award Committee: The American Political…
Retailers warned that raising wages would "force" them to raise prices and to use automated checkout. Fed min wage remained flat, but they raised prices & used automated checkout anyway. Result: Workers got even poorer as customer service plummeted while prices & profits soared.
If Donald Trump is now a dictator, and he basically is, then we need to organize a color revolution to remove him from office. The important thing to remember: he's actually incredibly weak. Most people don't like him, the military won't support him, and big parts of the intel community hates him.
people want to have an identity without putting in any of the work. it's the immediacy of consumerism but for who you are, in exactly the same way you go from clean girl to mob wife to rockstar girlfriend you go from socialist to trad cath. just outsourcing your inner life to the algorithm
Think a point I would also make is that some men do actually like being married to career women, I cannot imagine having a relationship with someone who did not have a career
Also, specific *kinds* of Christianity. Catholicism and Anglicanism are not Calvinism, and Calvinism's emphasis on covenant theology (God making agreements with humble and oppressed nations) might Hit Different in a nation under occupation.
Calvinism was already comfortable transferring God's favor from one oppressed people (the Hebrews) to another (the church through Jesus) to yet another (the Gentiles through Paul) and finally to themselves (Reformed Anglo-Americans.) From there to Korea, beleagued by Japanese idolaters - easy jump.
Also, there's a general intensity with covenant theology (the idea that God has Made Promises to specific peoples for specific times.)
Nationalism. The Japanese tried to stamp out Christianity during the colonial period. It's no surprise that the most extreme elements in the North (Kim Il Sung himself) and the South (the Unification Church)!emerge out of Korean Reformed churches.
It's becoming apparent to me that many people do not know that before the 90s there was absolutely cigarettes in high school en masse or that many high schools even sold cigarettes themselves! We are a victim of our own public policy successes
"build more housing" is the single most important thing we can do to combat a further rightward drift of the electorate what do you think is going to happen as climate migration accelerates
The state decided it wants to crush just one guy who *didn't do anything wrong*. They picked Kilmar Abrego Garcia because they thought he'd be an unsympathetic target for their abuses. They put in little effort and it turns out he wasn't, that made them look bad, and they're taking it out on him.
everyone involved needs to be permanently barred from public office, for starters www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places
Here's a news story covering Sean's comments & the subsequent retaliation. Judge for yourself, but to me, this is our LA public transit showing how, bit by bit, institutions let fascism take hold. This is a matter of democracy, not just a job. Please share widely: lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-m...
Petro-Fascism comes to the land of the free.
Sons of Caliph-ornia offer their prayers to the Great Blue Sky for the victory of the Khan
Why? The rest of the country didn't stop talking about California when we were on fire, under federal military occupation, and kidnapped by ICE.
It’s more than mildly worrisome that our nation’s political class thinks being on the website where you get rape threats for being in an interracial couple is character building and an essential insight into the volk but being on BlueSky is a torture no one should ever endure.
5 simple steps to avoid stupidification 1) block richard hanania 2) block richard hanania 3) block richard hanania 4) block richard hanania 5) have takes on fewer things
Posting my twelfth "good times create weak men" meme right before I post several times about how terrified I am of public transit.
fwiw it's not hard to craft a line that nods to kitchen table issues but still captures some urgency. "you put this asshole in office to make your life easier but all he's done is cut taxes for his rich buddies, kidnapped your neighbors and sent the military to tell you to shut up when you complain"
This scavenger hunt is so charming and smart and actively engaging. It gets New Yorkers out and about, exploring the city, talking to one another, taking advantage of public transportation and working toward a common cause. The levels! It’s just so great.
“I grew up in a world where national security elites wielded the violence of the state with impunity…but as the FBI’s raid of John Bolton’s home proves, the imperial boomerang circles back even to elites.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-meanin...
President Trump’s federal takeover of D.C.’s local police is unprecedented. “The last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George,” a legal scholar said.
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
If a Democratic president starting sending Blue state national guard troops to occupy a red city as a power grab, the GOP officials in that state would arrest the invading guard troops to send a message that they are defending their sovereignty.
if you’re on the left, the question of “should you be on a platform consciously designed to turn people to the right” shouldn’t be some head-scratching dilemma
In 1968, 43 African American soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas refused deployment for riot control at DNC in Chicago. “We shouldn’t have to go out there and do wrong to our own people." When will our state's National Guard do the same? #RESIST through #PeacefulProtest #NONViolenceIsPower #StopICE
[The three richest people in the U.S. own more wealth than the bottom 50 percent of Americans combined] Democrats: We figured out our problem—we were being too nice to trans people 😊
No frickin way #allythepiper #piperally #freebird
That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s? So, we asked them. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
I'm glad Cyberpunk 2077 came out just in time to provide us with all the correct slang and terminology we need to navigate this fucked up dark future, chooms.
He don’t do all that extra he just states the facts I’m sorry the Khan of the Plains has my allegiance for the foreseeable future.
everyone demands to speak to the manager but uh there is no manager
This is because rural areas are over represented in political power, and power deforms our thinking in the direction of power. The solution is for cities to have fair political representation, by giving every metro area that is more than 2x the population of Wyoming the right to become a state.
Capital deciding to back fascism out of fear of communism was stupid in Weimar Germany, where the KPD polled around 15%, and it’s even stupider now.
Posting again for reference.
The Plot to Enslave America
The bones are good. We are younger than most industrialized countries, we have even younger (demographically) neighbors who are culturally and linguistically similar enough to work together pretty well, and we have pretty great geography. The next century can be a more just, decent American one.
We are not wither bound. If anything the wake of this administration present an almost unprecedented break with path dependency
Today, the president threatened to militarily occupy numerous American cities without authorization or rationale. He was also praised by a notorious child sex trafficker, with whom he obviously cut a deal, to cover up evidence he sexually abused kids. The GOP is united behind him. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@vanjackson.bsky.social you got @alinau27.bsky.social on about this and I'm a little captivated by it.
The next great fight of my life is between the Honorable Martian East India Company and the Space and Freedom Party. But that's a while off.
Unfortunately I don’t think evil people dying at age 89, having largely won the great contests of their lives, is a cause for much comfort
Textbook coup maneuvers. Seize the ports/ points of entry, capture the broadcasters, take the palace. The legacy / public media in the capital city has been captured/severely damaged. Our most seasoned journalists and trusted voices in DC being bought out, pushed out, or leaving the profession.
whatever you think about newsom or redistricting, putting it to a vote is still significantly more small-d democratic than anything happening in texas
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@liberationroad.bsky.social has a socialist strategy for this conjuncture that I find compelling. But whatever your strategic orientation, I recommend their Main Political Report, which makes assessments of conditions I think nearly everyone will find compelling. roadtoliberation.org/our-2025-mai...
the idea of a) believing in ideals beyond profit and power b) caring about people who you can't immediately and fully relate to is just fundamentally alien to the entire conservative world view
“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea." - Matthew 18:6. This is about James Dobson.
all projection, all the time
very weird to me when the left sees something like the Frey ratfucking months after Zohran's win and thinks anything but 'we're going to win even harder over these people' let alone 'welp can't change the Dems time to run third party'
it is genuinely maddening to see pundits and reporters say things like “well trump has an advantage on crime” while the public consistently says “we think this guy sucks on crime”
That's generational. World-historical, even. Fwif, DVTL is a hell of a launch.