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This country is ours. Not trumps Not musks. Ours.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Political liberalism has a lot of flaws but one of the cool things about it is how it's constructed around the insight that monarchy is a fundamental affront to human dignity 👍

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

I am not kidding when I say Madison intended impeachment to be used on the first, next, and last President who referred to themselves as a king, and we ought to do him right

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

Last night, Trump declared all federal agencies report only to him & he decides what laws are. This morning his underlings, not for the first time, called to imprison his political rivals. This afternoon, Trump has declared himself a king, and his White House deputy chief of staff shared this:

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

submitted 4 days ago • 296 comments

i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence

submitted 5 days ago • 675 comments

That’s the problem. We’ve been standing by for too long.

submitted 5 days ago • 569 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 5 days ago • 1064 comments

Given how surface-level most people's understanding of the world is, it might legitimately be helpful for spreading class consciousness if we encouraged trump to pass sumptuary laws.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

submitted 6 days ago • 177 comments

It's always been the case that "buying" an ebook from amazon was only actually a loan they could rescind at any point, but lately Amazon have gone harder on this, and it is 100% so that they can wipe banned books from your libraries without your consent. Buy direct from authors. Get your files.

submitted 7 days ago • 255 comments

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

Just as relevant today… “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” - Malcom X (1963)

submitted 6 days ago • 240 comments

It's just so important to look at oneself first. If you're asking why OTHER people aren't doing something that YOU aren't, you'll find part of the answer in why you aren't doing said thing.

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Reassuring gesture #signalis

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 9 days ago • 136 comments

my biggest worry for the future of US government (boldly assuming there's a successful pushback reining in or deposing the musk/trump admin) is that we'll be so focused on Repairing The Institutions, we end up forgetting how dysfunctional they already were and miss the chance to reinvent them

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Our allies will trust us again only if we reform our political system and ruthlessly liquidate the people who broke the old one. It will take a Second Reconstruction, and one that ends with the second Samuel J Tilden gibbeted rather than rewarded.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this. Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

submitted 10 days ago • 1463 comments

I mean I think the obvious answer is that no, Americans have no idea what this means for their lives the "oh shit what have we done" turn we're all hoping for is simply not going to happen until the material ramifications become clear we are going to have to touch the stove

submitted 11 days ago • 158 comments

I am no longer accepting the argument "there are bigger problems than this!" unless you are personally working to stop the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe.

submitted 10 days ago • 345 comments

bernie sleep hypnosis that makes you think you are bernie sanders

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

I do think that one kind of negative impact that quantitative social science has accidentally had is convincing some people that domain experience or qualitative knowledge is fake, because by using symbolic math as a tool of abstraction we’ve made some people think that it’s all that matters.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

ripping out the wiring to find the button that will fix the fact that no one likes them

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

Kitten time

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

It has been completely obvious what the GOP wanted to do since the resolution to the 2000 election. Now they have finally removed all impediment to the execution of that plan.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

These people are genuinely delusional

submitted 14 days ago • 257 comments

“Oh, did a sportsball happen?” I whisper smugly from my vantage point on a distant cliff, the sounds of celebration in the village far below just barely audible over the lonely wind whipping my tattered cloak

submitted 13 days ago • 106 comments

Tremendous new addition to the Louvre

submitted 13 days ago • 142 comments

People of Philadelphia, go out there and act totally normal and calm, the way you always do.

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅

submitted 13 days ago • 115 comments

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

submitted 15 days ago • 765 comments

Leftists when you say Democrats have been inconsistent in opposing Trump: “well said!” Leftists when you say the press has been inconsistent in opposing Trump: “good point!” Leftists when you say the left has been inconsistent in opposing Trump: “face the wall, counterrevolutionary”

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

submitted 15 days ago • 862 comments

trump and musk have been taking big L’s all day and it’s important you celebrate them because these people can be beaten

submitted 17 days ago • 39 comments

Can't get over how confused this kid must be, how often do you get fired for the exact same reason you got hired

submitted 17 days ago • 103 comments

Peeing in a. way that matters

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

i do not think conservatives are going to like the version of liberalism that comes out of the other side of this

submitted 17 days ago • 113 comments

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

submitted 17 days ago • 168 comments

i've seen a lot of people blaming the electorate for the disaster we are now facing but it is underrated how much the past four years have been elites talking themselves into doing this on purpose.

submitted 18 days ago • 47 comments