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The Trump people claim to be fighting antisemitism, and the media often accept that framing. I believe, on the contrary, that these actions are antisemitic in intention and in execution. I explain in a short video: snyder.substack.com/p/fomenting-...

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If this were happening in a third world nation with an aspiring authoritarian government, we’d know what to call it: a purge. www.cbsnews.com/news/longtim...

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Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates. Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.

submitted 3 days ago • 218 comments

"The attack on DEI by many on the right is not a good-faith reconsideration of the excesses of DEI. It’s an attack on the real diversity that characterizes today’s America, the real equity a nation can aspire to, the real inclusion that marks a healthy society." www.thebulwark.com/p/how-tariff...

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

CNN: Trump’s decision to leave for Florida a day earlier than usual created “a split-screen of being on a golf course in one of the wealthiest enclaves in America as economic worries deepened.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/p...

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

"You can drive yourself crazy, listening to these admin people lie and spin. So it’s nice when we get a day like yesterday—when the lies are so obvious, so transparent and crude, that it’s effortless to conclude: Yeah, these folks are just utterly full of shit." www.thebulwark.com/p/wakeup-cal...

submitted 11 days ago • 73 comments

To all the members of Congress whining and hand-wringing about Trump’s tariffs: You delegated the power to him by legislation. Take it back. “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises” is the first power of Congress in Article One, Section Eight.

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

"In Greenland what we saw was American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain." snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-g...

submitted 15 days ago • 153 comments

The GOP Congressman in Michigan’s 10th district is one of many who are refusing to do town hall meetings with voters. So my friend @maxwellfrost.bsky.social and I are heading there on Saturday to make sure every American has a chance to hear about the Trump and Musk’s corruption.

submitted 16 days ago • 207 comments

Yes, when you back Russia, you are taking the side of Iran and North Korea.

submitted 15 days ago • 145 comments

“'It feels like veterans are being personally attacked by Elon Musk,' said one veteran in the ad. 'I did not put my life on the line for some tech bro billionaire from South Africa to come in here and try to destroy our country,' said another." www.thebulwark.com/p/veterans-g...

submitted 25 days ago • 86 comments

Utterly predictably, Putin rejects the unconditional ceasefire offered by Ukraine, sends Trump off on the errands of making the Russian invasion easier and denying Ukrainian sovereignty, while Trump claims he has accomplished something.

submitted 26 days ago • 171 comments

Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites" snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...

submitted 29 days ago • 51 comments

SunTzu had lots of things right —and he mastered the art of brevity:

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“A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president as currently occupies the office.” — Charles Pierce (Oct. 2018)

submitted 36 days ago • 62 comments

“It was [a] shameful moment…And while the focus of opprobrium should be on Trump and his smarmy understudy, a special shame also attaches to the explainer class of analysts who, without even the excuse of fearing voters, perform pirouettes on their principles.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-vanc...

submitted 39 days ago • 50 comments

Putin was counting on Trump. He was Russia’s only hope. And Trump is now delivering for Putin.

submitted 38 days ago • 153 comments

“Trump’s overriding goal is destabilizing democracy and creating American Orbánism. That’s his agenda. Pursuit of this agenda has very little to do with passing legislation and a great deal to do with atmospherics and the raw application of power.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

submitted 39 days ago • 20 comments

The putrid connections between great wealth and great power are now on display for all to see. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/27/america-billionaires-bezos-zuckerberg-musk

submitted 40 days ago • 145 comments

"... after three years of fighting one of the largest and best-armed armies in the world, most of Ukraine is still free. Ukraine is also a democracy, and it is well on its way toward joining the European Union. Ukraine will never again be a colony of Russia."

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

The House will vote this week on the GOP's budget proposal, which includes massive cuts to Medicaid and food stamps to pay for even more tax cuts for the rich. Call your representatives now and tell them to reject it: (202) 224-3121

submitted 48 days ago • 426 comments

Not content with purchasing the presidency, Elon Musk now wants to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court as well. His PAC just pumped $1M into supporting anti-choice right-wing extremist Brad Schimel. Wisconsin — don't become Musk's latest acquisition! Vote @crawfordforwi.bsky.social.

submitted 49 days ago • 182 comments

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It’s a conundrum. 🤷‍♂️

submitted 53 days ago • 712 comments

Don't let Trump flood your zone. Stay focused. Keep your eye on what this corrupt regime is really doing — looting the government to line their own pockets with massive tax cuts and the ability to steer more federal contracts their way.

submitted 56 days ago • 110 comments

With this list of Trump lackeys and relatives of lackeys, it’s full-on North Korea.

submitted 59 days ago • 75 comments

“No American can be proud of a govt that carries out change in this way. Neither can these actions be rationalized by discussion of past grievances or appeals to efficiency. Everything can be more efficient, but adherence to the rule of law is paramount” www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 61 days ago • 424 comments

I have no problem with 25-year-old DOGE apparatchik Marko Elez being fired. But Elon Musk has said things as bad as Mr. Elez, and more often and more consequentially. The DOGE fish rots from the head down. So the question is: Why is it ok that Musk himself is a "special government employee"?

submitted 65 days ago • 107 comments

“Ignore the media headlines reporting that these moves ‘raise questions’ or ‘push the boundary.’ It’s an anticonstitutional lawbreaking spree.” www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

submitted 65 days ago • 122 comments

Good. Now tie the Senate in knots until Thune agrees to bring the resolution to the floor.

submitted 76 days ago • 58 comments

[email protected]: "Putin’s regime is now predicated on the domination of Ukraine by Russia and its annihilation as a sovereign, Western-oriented nation...The only way to end the war in Ukraine is to ensure that Russia loses and that Ukraine wins." www.thebulwark.com/p/bad-things...

submitted 75 days ago • 8 comments