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There's a lot of dishonesty some people are gonna need to tell themselves to make sense of how they helped drive the country into the ditch it's in

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Is it good when you're a company and the kind of people you sell your product to are willing to stand out in the cold to protest your shithead fascist CEO

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purges...

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I’m going to again post my stance on Trump and fascism from my campaign site. A lot of local Dems seemed spooked by this kind of talk, told me to “fight the far right as a private citizen and don’t attract attention to us.” But how much better would Dems be polling if they were talking this way?

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On the history of using the courts to win civil rights; a classic by @marktushnet.bsky.social

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www.youtube.com/shorts/sLn8G...

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Mamma mia!

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The Washington Post wouldn’t need to write headlines like this if it hadn’t normalized Trump for the last decade.

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I would say: make use of the good piecemeal reporting that's being done even by compromised mainstream sources, criticize it where it's flawed, and do not give them one round dime

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I know this is an infinitesimal gripe but it would great if the FTC made it illegal to re-route a phone call to a 'local' branch or store to a central call center. If a number is publicly advertised as belonging to a local branch, it should directly reach it. If it routes you elsewhere, that's fraud

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New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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This is in one of the most conservative districts in Wisconsin ⤵️

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American political press: "As a member of the 4th estate I will lay down my liberty and my life to uphold my commitment to Truth & hold power to account." Also American political press: "If reporting the truth would make me sound silly I will become a loyal propagandist for the president instead."

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This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

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"Looking at map of projected constituency wins, Germany’s old wounds are figuratively lit up in bright lights...The AfD are projected to win all but five constituencies in the former East Germany, and precisely zero in former West Germany. The old Iron Curtain is now a barrier against a blue tide."

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The Rule of Goats: "If you fuck goats, even if you claim you're doing it ironically, you're still a goatfucker."

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"Still, the firings have bewildered federal employees like Powell. If their mission is to reduce government waste, she said, it doesn’t make sense to get rid of auditors like her tasked with detecting fraud." www.nola.com/news/louisia...

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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The University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy League institution with an endowment of $22.3 billion. There is nowhere safe from the total culture war the Trump-Musk administration is illegally waging against America's centers of science & education

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Republican Reps. getting harsh receptions in town halls could get them to follow the Constitution, asserting Congress’s power of the purse against the White House’s illegal firings and cuts, but will probably get Republicans to stop doing town halls.

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

Yes; a stand on legal-constitutional principle combined with specific policy content. That has to be the playbook of opposition

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The flip side of not being able to define 'radical gender ideology' is that anything can be included, and thus subjected to the unlimited coercive discipline of a lawless regime

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Of course, this is part of the point: if everyone is confused about what it means, everyone will try to avoid anything that might even possibly be construed as 'radical gender ideology'.

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We need to avoid hyping “If the GOP does this, the Dems will have an advantage in the midterms.” The “this” is the destruction of a lot of good things, and we cannot wait til the midterms.

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it is not great to me that the entire right is adopting a trolling approach to the Hitler salute

submitted 9 hours ago • 27 comments

To indulge a 2024 vibe: SEND 'EM BACK

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No expense spared for fascist propaganda

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Years ago, when I was doing my postdoc, I chaired a session at a conference on secular evil. It’s an interesting question whether the concept of evil makes sense without reference to theological metaphysics.

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Today for @bloomberg.com, I have a review of the Palantir CEO's new book "The Technological Republic," which is both tedious and creepy. Karp wrote his dissertation on Adorno's critique of jargon, seemingly to reverse engineer it? www.unpopularfront.news/p/palantirs-...

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This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

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Purging the military is what one does to make a dictatorship.

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Keep in mind Trump has already said that 2020 justifies terminating the constitution

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As someone who has been trying to find the right doctoral program, can confirm. Multiple schools have told me that an unofficial version of this is already in effect. An educated public with access to current research is the worst enemy of everything this “administration” is trying to accomplish.

There's a lot of dishonesty some people are gonna need to tell themselves to make sense of how they helped drive the country into the ditch it's in

Is it good when you're a company and the kind of people you sell your product to are willing to stand out in the cold to protest your shithead fascist CEO

purges...

On the history of using the courts to win civil rights; a classic by @marktushnet.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/shorts/sLn8G...

Mamma mia!

The Washington Post wouldn’t need to write headlines like this if it hadn’t normalized Trump for the last decade.

I would say: make use of the good piecemeal reporting that's being done even by compromised mainstream sources, criticize it where it's flawed, and do not give them one round dime

I know this is an infinitesimal gripe but it would great if the FTC made it illegal to re-route a phone call to a 'local' branch or store to a central call center. If a number is publicly advertised as belonging to a local branch, it should directly reach it. If it routes you elsewhere, that's fraud

New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is in one of the most conservative districts in Wisconsin ⤵️

American political press: "As a member of the 4th estate I will lay down my liberty and my life to uphold my commitment to Truth & hold power to account." Also American political press: "If reporting the truth would make me sound silly I will become a loyal propagandist for the president instead."

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

The Rule of Goats: "If you fuck goats, even if you claim you're doing it ironically, you're still a goatfucker."

"Still, the firings have bewildered federal employees like Powell. If their mission is to reduce government waste, she said, it doesn’t make sense to get rid of auditors like her tasked with detecting fraud." www.nola.com/news/louisia...

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

The University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy League institution with an endowment of $22.3 billion. There is nowhere safe from the total culture war the Trump-Musk administration is illegally waging against America's centers of science & education

Republican Reps. getting harsh receptions in town halls could get them to follow the Constitution, asserting Congress’s power of the purse against the White House’s illegal firings and cuts, but will probably get Republicans to stop doing town halls.

Yes; a stand on legal-constitutional principle combined with specific policy content. That has to be the playbook of opposition

The flip side of not being able to define 'radical gender ideology' is that anything can be included, and thus subjected to the unlimited coercive discipline of a lawless regime

Of course, this is part of the point: if everyone is confused about what it means, everyone will try to avoid anything that might even possibly be construed as 'radical gender ideology'.

We need to avoid hyping “If the GOP does this, the Dems will have an advantage in the midterms.” The “this” is the destruction of a lot of good things, and we cannot wait til the midterms.

it is not great to me that the entire right is adopting a trolling approach to the Hitler salute

To indulge a 2024 vibe: SEND 'EM BACK

No expense spared for fascist propaganda

Years ago, when I was doing my postdoc, I chaired a session at a conference on secular evil. It’s an interesting question whether the concept of evil makes sense without reference to theological metaphysics.

Today for @bloomberg.com, I have a review of the Palantir CEO's new book "The Technological Republic," which is both tedious and creepy. Karp wrote his dissertation on Adorno's critique of jargon, seemingly to reverse engineer it? www.unpopularfront.news/p/palantirs-...

This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

Purging the military is what one does to make a dictatorship.

Keep in mind Trump has already said that 2020 justifies terminating the constitution

Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

The crash is beginning in academia.

Trump's Agenda

Brilliant minds all around