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As the old adage goes, "There are no atheists in foxholes."

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So... In other words when given a choice between white supremacy and a multiethnic America, white supremacists stick with their racialized value structure. Which makes sense, because otherwise they would not be white supremacists in the first place. If anything, priming probably creates a backlash

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

We are only in a state of war because Trump has all but declared war on America

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Because the opt in voters knew what Trump was because they paid attention. The opt out voters believed his lies and were caught flat footed.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Complain all you want about media coverage, but low-info voters are getting this information somehow

submitted 17 days ago • 26 comments

Minitrue

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

submitted 30 days ago • 828 comments

. East Germany (1989) The Berlin Wall didn’t fall because of bombs it fell because East Germans protested week after week, peacefully, until the regime cracked. Real power lies with the people, not the walls they build to control us. #FallOfTheWall #WeAreTheMajority #BerlinWall .

submitted 38 days ago • 74 comments

It is very funny that NYT let noted trade columnist Paul Krugman walk like six months ago or whatever because he wanted to produce too much trade content for their taste

submitted 38 days ago • 90 comments

Before there is no-one left to speak up for me, to paraphrase Bonhoeffer. Look, if they are going to come after you eventually anyhow, stand together to make it harder for them to go after ANYONE. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

The🌎economy is in a crisis, & yet the dollar is falling. Investors are turning up their noses at US debt, instead snapping up gold & German bunds as "safe assets" The Trump admin's policies are, to borrow from Bob Gilpin, tarnishing the "prestige" of the US economy & the 💵🧵1/

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

So now all the “fiscal conservatives” in Congress who complained for the last 4 years that the Biden/Pelosi budget deficits were “mortgaging our kids’ futures” are on a path to pass a budget that will explode the deficit exponentially to far more than any of the Biden years.

submitted 43 days ago • 228 comments

And this is why I have been saying that it is futile to count on the courts to stop this fascist administration. They are a delay tactic at best. SCOTUS is in the bag, 6-3 (well 5.5-3.5... Turns out ACB isn't 100% on board with the dictator thing).

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

a handful of billionaires, given control of the government to "fix the economy," are ending tax collection for rich people and putting an additional 10-54% regressive sales tax on everything regular americans buy

submitted 45 days ago • 13 comments

Producerism is not an economic position. It is, in fact, a gender ideology. Making Things = Manly, Authentic, Rooted Service = Feminine, Inauthentic, Cosmopolitan This is disguised by pretending to punch up at elites who “don’t make anything” and “just move numbers around.” That’s why it confuses

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

It’s the good ol fashioned patriarchy. If you don’t believe women should leave the house or vote, then why would you make work easier for them? Any accommodations to women working just encourages what is, from a Christian Nationalist viewpoint, aberrant behavior. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

submitted 49 days ago • 93 comments

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

submitted 51 days ago • 1377 comments

Disgusting

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

We tore them down once. We'll tear them down again.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t you try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

submitted 57 days ago • 112 comments

So the official position of the white supremacist government is, unsurprisingly, that “race is a biological reality.” Apparently, not believing this is “insane.” Important to note that for fascists, ALL the identity categories (race, sex, etc.) have to be “real” and frozen so they can manage them

submitted 56 days ago • 23 comments

WARNER: “Were you in the group chat?” GABBARD: “I won’t get into specifics.” WARNER: “Is that because it’s classified?” 🎯 🔥 Warner rightly dragging them for an unbelievable situation. 🎪

submitted 59 days ago • 313 comments

odysseus: wait agamemnon: ??? odysseus: why does jeff goldberg know about the horse

submitted 59 days ago • 11 comments

I understand the instinct to hedge: to say "may" or "could." But we're past that point. The system does not possess the internal mechanisms to save itself. If democracy survives Trump 2.0 it will do so despite the defects of the American political order. 1/

submitted 59 days ago • 4 comments

Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador

submitted 63 days ago • 1750 comments

“Because we said so” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

What the hell? I guess we can't offend Nazis, now that we're courting them, now can we?

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Read up on techno-feudalism. The techbro billionaires want to be the new aristocracy www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Being critical of Trump is being reclassified as terrorism. And terrorists get disappeared without due process. Get it?

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, hate to say it, but as a patriot who wants our country to live up to her promise and potential, please, PLEASE boycott us.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

There are plenty of protests out there. They just aren't getting reported on as much as they were in 2017. I wonder if that was because that was before the oligarchs that own the media bent the knee...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

ICE detained Julio Noriega, a 54 year-old US citizen who was born in Chicago, for over 10 hours on January 31st. He was walking around "Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses." They didn't show him a warrant. They didn't give him paperwork. And he's now suing.

submitted 66 days ago • 1404 comments

Accidentally telling on yourselves, Heritage.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

submitted 66 days ago • 197 comments

Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…

submitted 68 days ago • 567 comments

Schumer would have let Khrushchev put nuclear missiles on Cuba, because if he didn’t we’d have World War III.

submitted 69 days ago • 347 comments

It's the people doing Nazi salutes who are fighting antisemitism. It's the people threatening students, universities, and the media over their speech who are fighting censorship. It's the people who want to invade our neighbors and blame Ukraine for being invaded who are pro peace. Essential.

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

1984 was not meant to be an instruction manual.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

I mean, that writing was on the wall when they politicized COVID vaccines. RFK just highlighted it www.yahoo.com/news/researc...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

The right wing imagined this,wrote it down,built power over decades&is implementing an incredibly unpopular&destructive agenda.Every time somebody from center to left tells me what’s not possible it shocks me.Look around. Political imaginaries+ daring+ resources makes the world.For worse or better.

submitted 71 days ago • 26 comments

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

submitted 71 days ago • 503 comments