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I'm truly a nobody and I quit twitter because I got on their radar and bombarded with threats. Face photoshopped onto Auschwitz memes. People doxxing where I live, contact info for employers. Saying they'd get me at certain events. It's why I still don't post in advance about events I'm attending.

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

The Trump’s campaign promise was to finish the job they started on Jan 6 and this is what it looks like.

submitted 25 days ago • 206 comments

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

submitted 27 days ago • 237 comments

The unelected, not-Senate-confirmed, not-security-cleared, not even actually employed by the US government techbros of Musk's weird militia are conducting a coup one agency at a time.

submitted 26 days ago • 33 comments

And, just in time (on Holocaust Remembrance Day), the Gleichschaltung of the Federal Government proceeds apace.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

cc @mcopelov.bsky.social for "Today in c̶o̶m̶p̶e̶t̶i̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ authoritarianism" In functioning democracies, incumbent governments do not withhold natural disaster aid as a way to coerce a change in institutions that would apportion more seats to them.

submitted 32 days ago • 47 comments

Beyond media and business, there were some center-right academics who were (quietly) saying the same thing.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Fucking stormtroopers.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

www.theunpopulist.net/p/biden-fixe...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

You can’t make an omelette without breaking the bank for eggs.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

The expected Muslim Ban has arrived. Except, I guess, not expected by the folks who couldn't bring themselves to vote for Kamala Harris because they thought she should be punished for her administration's Gaza policies.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

This is a clear attack on free expression and debate.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.

submitted 38 days ago • 365 comments

Truth.

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

My grandfather stormed the beaches of Normandy, risking everything to wipe Nazis off the face of the Earth. Now this administration brings Nazis into our nation’s capitol spitting on the sacrifices of everyone who fought for and bled for this country.

submitted 39 days ago • 51 comments

Further infliction of pain -- and betrayal of allies -- by the new administration.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

"I have come to see that America is in danger of losing her soul and can so easily drift into tragic Anarchy and crippling Fascism. Something must happen to awaken the dozing conscience of America before it is too late." - MLK Jr., Sep. 5, 1958 kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

A few hours old, the 2nd Trump administration has already upended -- and likely ruined - lives: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism. So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1

submitted 39 days ago • 142 comments

i gotta say, this wasn’t even a good sieg heil. he can’t even be a nazi without fucking it up

submitted 39 days ago • 237 comments

Well, this is our government (or, "government") now.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Those of us with the privilege not to experience it directly, should reflect on the pain of those who came to this country because of its incredible promise and must now fear that a knock on the door will come today, tomorrow, or soon that will upend forever the lives they’ve built.

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

Attn @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

I was once talking w/a colleague on a project of essays by diff authors defending various liberal institutions and I said if invited to contribute I'd be interested in writing about the secret ballot/privacy of voting. Thinking of that project for no reason ...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Removing US national security and other government officials based on who they voted for is (1) a recipe for weakening America and (2) illegal. I thought it was a bad idea to empower people who want to weaken the country and aren't subject to rule of law. But a plurality of voters disagreed with me.

submitted 46 days ago • 21 comments

OTD: Jan. 13, 2021, President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House over the violent Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol, becoming the only president to be twice impeached; ten Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach Trump on a charge of “incitement of insurrection.” via AP.

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

Traitors only, please.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Contrary to what people like Harris and Schumer feel constrained to say, today shouldn't be regarded as a triumph for American democracy. It should be viewed as confirming that the United States has one political party that will peacefully cede power when it loses an election. Until & unless... 1

submitted 53 days ago • 30 comments

One failed attempt at a shoe bomb 23 years ago and we all still take our shoes off at the airport. One failed attempt at violently overthrowing our country 4 years ago and we allow the guy who orchestrated it to be certified as President so he can do it again. Disgraceful.

submitted 54 days ago • 48 comments

Norms don't just "erode;" democracies don't just "slide." It's conscious destruction and direction. Actors have agency. Which means: One can hold particular people accountable. "Processes," not so much.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Trump is dreaming of a white isthmus www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 67 days ago • 9 comments

I'm very pleased to share this piece, now published in the journal Society. A shortened version of a piece commissioned for publication in French, it represents me getting unwontedly (?) preachy about contemporary politics -- albeit in typically general terms rdcu.be/d4mSu

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

The physics definition of resistance—energy dissipation—is useful here. The measure of effective resistance isn’t just whether or not you can stop something. It’s how much you can slow it down and weaken it.

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

Yup. On many issues, many current judges and justices are happy to ignore the plain text of the Constitution. But you don't have to stop shaming them by telling them they're wrong. And you can never give up trying to get our Constitution actually enforced again and the bad rulings overturned.

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

ICYMI, Pete Hegseth attends a church that belongs to the CREC (Communion of Reformed Evangelicals Churches). CREC is the denomination co-founded by Idaho pastor Doug Wilson, a self-professed Christian Nationalist. Here are some Doug Wilson quotes. h/t @edwam.bsky.social 1/

submitted 86 days ago • 186 comments

1. The announcement of the end of the Assad regime on Syrian State media. The liberation of Damascus and the overthrow of the tyrant Bashar al-Assad have been achieved, along with the release of all unjustly imprisoned detainees from the regime’s prisons.

submitted 83 days ago • 94 comments

One things leads to another but I don’t think you get the collapse of Assad’s regime without Israel’s successful campaign against Hezbollah (and Ukraine’s against Russia).

submitted 83 days ago • 10 comments

I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you! go.bsky.app/77uSk3m

submitted 113 days ago • 104 comments