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Mahmoud Khalil is a legal permanent resident. His wife is a US citizen. Did he commit a crime? No. Would it matter if he had? No. Did he commit an immigration violation? No. Did ICE have a warrant? Nobody has produced one. Did they take him anyway? Yes. Are they saying where he is? No.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...

submitted 5 hours ago • 78 comments

arbys macht fries

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

I suspect we're no longer in the "irreversible damage avoidance" phase and we're now in the "irreversible damage mitigation" phase. The more time passes, the less we will mitigate.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Secession with a side of neofeudalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This spin ain’t gonna spin. If there’s a recession it’s Trump’s recession, caused by his massive spending cuts and tariffs. Biden left him a strong economy, which he immediately drove off a cliff.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I really wish reporters would fully understand why Trump loves tariffs so much. He believes there should be no international trade at all. He thinks he can force all the world's manufacturing to move to the US. He really does. He's not sophisticated. He's not "negotiating." He's a moron.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Rufo is a terrible person but he actually understands how public opinion works: it’s driven by social dynamics, which in turn are mostly driven by elite discourse. He knew that if he could get useful idiots like Yglesias and Leonhardt whining about DEI, he could crush the legacy of civil rights

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)

submitted 4 days ago • 254 comments

Said it before, but I think you have to sort of invert Marx to get current politics: A lot of rhetoric that’s supposedly about economic interests is a mask for cultural interests. They get reframed for pollsters as being about economics, because that’s a respectable thing to worry about.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

It bears repeating that far-right views are now at the center of the Republican Party. This doesn't mean that every Republican is far-right, but it does mean that far-right views have achieved legitimacy and are embedded in a major political party.

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“Any casual observer of the Supreme Court can see what many prestigious constitutional lawyers can’t, which is that the conservative justices are frequently accomplices to Trump’s assault on democracy,” writes Adam Serwer.

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

Neither should we. Ever.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Just an obvious point that anyone with the inside word on when these these total reversals are going to be announced is in a position to make almost limitless amounts of money. Don't forget that given the kind of people who make up this administration.

submitted 5 days ago • 99 comments

This is a bigger deal than you may think, especially for cities like Seattle that have had problems with combined sewer overflows.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Fascists.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It's not a trolley problem, it's a trolley opportunity

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Which is why the Republican Party continues to go hard-right on economics even as their coalition adds more (materially) working class members

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors... Being silent won't protect you.

submitted 6 days ago • 292 comments

Yes, it's called a "straw man".

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 BREAKING: This is beyond outrageous. Elon Musk, his cranky mother Maye, and one of his young kids were chauffeured in Air Force One and Marine One—straight to the White House, where they’re apparently staying. WTF is going on? It goes without saying, this is not normal. 🙄

submitted 7 days ago • 1323 comments

If you want to see where Big Tech's "sharing" economy is taking us, read this. What a nightmare. substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is describing a policy in which the US government will take billions of taxpayer dollars and hand them directly to his billionaire allies in exchange for fake digital tokens. Stealing our money and paying it to his friends in exchange for nothing.

submitted 7 days ago • 142 comments

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

submitted 8 days ago • 732 comments

Great thread here. I had similar frustrations as Wellerstein's when I taught nuclear history years ago.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

None of the very serious people who believe themselves to represent the nation's opinion leadership want to be reminded that the DOGE putsch for austerity is exactly what they've sought for the past 20 years, as a bold, responsible course of action to "get our fiscal house in order."

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

DOGE takes a chainsaw to the Enlightenment, destroying science for sport:

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

These people have spent years saying the cancellation of college lectures was a slippery slope to totalitarianism. Now that marginalized minorities are losing their rights — literally the Niemöller poem — it's just an oopsie with no broader implications.

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

That does seem to have been a key inflection point. Many of us argued against allowing that purchase to go through. Others thought it would be fine. Clearly, it was not.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

submitted 9 days ago • 774 comments

I spent most of the past decade so unfathomably angry about the rise of US fascism that I could barely function. Existed in a constant state of rage and anxiety. I’m still angrier than I can express in words, but it’s shifted to a cold, rational hatred of my enemy.

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

So Ryleigh Cooper, whose story of voting for Trump, and her subsequent firing from the US Forest Service, was on CNN to speak more about her vote, her regrets, etc.: youtu.be/77WjtNoCta4?...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment