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As we watch this, it's important for people NOT to understate the normal Kafkaesque US immigration system. There's a great deal of arbitrariness, and has been for decades. This is far worse, but check what happens a lot and what does not.

submitted 10 hours ago • 12 comments

Literally manufacturing consent as we watch. Fuck this.

submitted 11 hours ago • 15 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 11 hours ago • 188 comments

They're only banned if you let them be banned. The proper response from any agency is "Fuck you. See you in court." All of this website scrubbing and exhibit purging is cowardly and disgraceful. As Timothy Snyder has observed, it's simply teaching power what it can do.

submitted 19 hours ago • 29 comments

Vote for odd molting, f-bombs, false daughters, beach of boners, death destroyers, and passive aggressive cannibalism (including the heart); a vote for Absolution is a vote for uncanny anarchy.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

This isn’t a novel concept, it’s highly popularized. And the fact that we’re seeing this attitude resonate so deeply within the so-called opposition party should alarm the shit out of overton-window watchers.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 1923 comments

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

submitted 3 days ago • 815 comments

Remember when a bunch of liberal and centrist pundits were mocking Sanders for talking about "oligarchy" and claiming regular people couldn't comprehend the term?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Trump on NATO: "If the United States was in trouble and we called them. We said, 'We got a problem, France.' Do you think they're gonna come and protect us? Hmm. They're supposed to. I'm not so sure." (Literally the only time NATO Article 5 was invoked was after 9/11 on behalf of the US.)

submitted 3 days ago • 1649 comments

The actual trajectory of Democratic opposition to Trump since 2016 is that Democrats first engaged in #resistance and cultural progressivism, won the House in 2018, defeated Trump and won a trifecta the year of the George Floyd protests, tacked right under Biden, and lost in 2024.

submitted 4 days ago • 109 comments

The USA's $45 billion trade "deficit" with Canada is due to the USA being huge and buying things from Canada, and Trump's obsession with it is idiotic. I also have a trade deficit with the convenient vending machine on my floor, doesn't mean I need to annex it. economics.td.com/ca-canada-us...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Newt Gingrich says the "McKinley Model" requires high tariffs over a three-year transition period. Notable: Three years after the 1890 McKinley tariff, the economy had fallen into a severe depression. The GDP shrank by 10% and unemployment hit 18%. Certainly not the economic model I'd be copying. 😳

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Think of all of the taxpayer money Trump and Musk have wasted forcing DOJ to defend policies that judges are now ruling unconstitutional. I doubt any administration has wasted so much money on legal defense in so short a period of time. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Meme in real life

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 4 days ago • 1573 comments

sometimes it feels like a sad avocado is staring at me

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

It’s striking how effectively republicans tied mainstream dems with random internet communists, despite the two groups hating each other, while the vice president and shadow president are clearly in a million group chats with literal nazis and people hardly notice

submitted 4 days ago • 57 comments

A core issue we face is that incredibly generous rich-people-funded wingnut welfare exists for most any psychopath with fascist views, while no such system exists to support the work of Democrat and left wing journalists and pundits (who continue to largely be precarious and underpaid)

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

hey guys do adjunct professors cost $20k per month trying to evaluate something

submitted 4 days ago • 58 comments

The U.S. is finally being run like a business. Specifically a software business that ships glitchy code out and then makes you download a patch a week later rather than get it right the first time

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

"if we run actual leftists we might lose!!" ohhh nooo i wonder what it would look like if we lost. like if we didn't control a single branch of government. can u imagine

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Not just that, Republicans would still be talking about it in 20 years' time.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

“When someone talks about ‘free speech’ while actively working to control speech, that’s not a contradiction or a mistake — it’s the point. It’s about consolidating power while wrapping it in the language of freedom as a shield to fool the gullible and the lazy.”

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

My contempt and loathing for people who talk about the Trump/Musk GOP supposedly being on the side of free speech grows every day.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

“In its governmental guise, patrimonialism is distinguished by running the state as if it were the leader’s personal property or family business. It can be found in many countries, but its main contemporary exponent—at least until January 20, 2025—has been Vladimir Putin.”

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

At this point countries should consider banning Musk products and sanctioning him outright like he’s a Russian oligarch. Nothing better you could do for the pro-constitutional forces in the US than helping economically annihilate this man

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments

It’s human nature to desire wealth/privilege (resources). One example is we all get old or sick at some point and want to be able to survive w/o working, etc. It is pathologic, antisocial behavior to hoard excess resources while watching others suffer for lack of. There are no ethical billionaires

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

FLOW is a very good movie. Our cats loved it.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

So the desi editor/writer/'entrepreneur' who lashed out at my sharing an anti-genAI essay escalated to using his magazine, 1 of the few sff mags based in India, to do full-on anti-art techbro propaganda. I've been reprinted in Mithila Review in the past, & have mentioned it. Never again, stay away.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv

submitted 6 days ago • 842 comments

It's amazing that all this societal instability is being cheered on by the crypto people, whose entire hobby/financial grift is dependent on enough people having enough money to want to speculate on digital assets, a thing that seems very unlikely to be true during, like, a Great Depression scenario

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

submitted 6 days ago • 337 comments

I agree that the Democrats desperately need to pay attention to how Zelenskyy recognized that groveling and moderation get you nowhere with the fascist demons squatting in the White House right now.

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

Raising chickens is more expensive than grocery store eggs, but also, bird flu is endemic in wildlife at the moment. Asking people to do this with zero safety precautions or knowledge is a great way to get more people infected and raise the chance that we get a human transmissible version.

submitted 6 days ago • 119 comments

Just a reminder that JD Vance funded a company called AcreTrader, which allows rich people to buy up farmland as an investment asset. So guess who will benefit if a bunch of farms go under and the acreage can suddenly be snapped up for pennies on the dollar?

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

This tweet from Elon Musk is, of course, false. The first known victim of DOGE died around February 2 after the refugee hospital that was giving her oxygen shut down. But the tweet will be useful as there's abundant proof he's lying (or ill-informed) about Ebola & restarting payments.

submitted 6 days ago • 79 comments

Looking forward to the wave of cultural criticism papers to come in about 10 years explaining how the 2017 film THE BOSS BABY served to make the Trump administration palatable to the American public

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

i moved his (dusty) son so I could clean his chair and found him sitting like this

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

The overwhelming sentiment of the past few weeks is that the US Government is no longer a good faith employer. In a global marketplace with competition from both private companies and state actors, this is going to prove much more costly to the US taxpayer than any savings, which they will never see

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

oh ok

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

This is literal fascist propaganda. Anyone making this claim is not just wrong. They are actively contributing to the far right ability to walk over this country like Jesus on water. They don’t actually want to fight to protect the country from fascism they just want to go back to having brunch.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

It is important that people understand and accept as fact that our government is compromised. I don't mean compromised in some cloak-and-dagger sense, I simply mean that this government no longer accepts core democratic principles and is angling toward an autocracy that's part of a New Axis of Evil.

submitted 9 days ago • 193 comments

It's more than a little bizarre that the press was more vocal and judgmental about Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal than the current unscheduled rapid disassembly of our entire democracy and civil service.

submitted 10 days ago • 108 comments