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My brilliant friend @lkatfield.bsky.social has a book on the New Right coming out later this year!! 🇺🇸✊🏻👑

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New piece! Martin D. Brown (@martindbbrown.bsky.social) on the right-wing influencer Candace Owens, her forays into "hidden" histories, and the costs of the right's attack on epistemology. Check it out! @ieres-gwu.bsky.social @lkatfield.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Gosh how could I possibly have known that the most obviously full of shit people every to walk the earth were full of shit?

submitted 6 days ago • 96 comments

«… according to a person familiar with the situation, a Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of Mr. Van Hollen and Mr. Abrego Garcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo.» #MemeFascism www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

While we were all sleeping: The Supreme Court, in an order issued in the middle of the night, ordered the Trump administration to not remove anyone under the Alien Enemies Act until other legal steps play out in the lower courts. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 8 days ago • 1750 comments

We recently relaunched our Frontiers of American Reaction series! Now headed by Laura K. Field (@lkatfield.bsky.social), we've published on the Hells Angels and the politics of total retaliation, Trumpism and the ethics of ruthlessness, and the Tech Right. Read them in the thread ⬇️

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

submitted 12 days ago • 104 comments

Let's speak plainly about what is happening. The First Amendment has been terminated for immigrants.

submitted 16 days ago • 115 comments

New article in our Frontiers of American Reaction series! Suzanne Schneider on how Silicon Valley's ethos has shifted away from libertarianism and toward state capture. Check it out! @ieres-gwu.bsky.social @lkatfield.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I’m thrilled that @jcherniss.bsky.social has written this for us @illsp.bsky.social. On Trump and illiberal ruthlessness. Thank you Josh!

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Gretchen Whitmer joins the Gavin Newsom side.

submitted 17 days ago • 20 comments

What in the world could she be thinking?

submitted 17 days ago • 20 comments

I’m thrilled that @jcherniss.bsky.social has written this for us @illsp.bsky.social. On Trump and illiberal ruthlessness. Thank you Josh!

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New article in our Frontiers of American Reaction series! Joshua Cherniss (@jcherniss.bsky.social) on the ethos and ethics of ruthlessness, and how they've come to be embodied in Trumpism. Check it out! @ieres-gwu.bsky.social www.illiberalism.org/the-ruthless...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to @lkatfield.bsky.social and the good folks at @illsp.bsky.social for the chance to share my thoughts on how Trump and co. are inspired by, exhibit, and --perhaps most dangerously -- spread an ethic of ruthlessness:

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Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued used underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

submitted 18 days ago • 185 comments

I get why people go “if they can do this to legal residents, they can to citizens” and “could happen to you”—thinking through implications informs legal rulings, people tend to care more when they could be personally impacted—but I’m still on basic rights good, govt blatantly violating rights bad.

submitted 19 days ago • 31 comments

People don't miss manufacturing jobs. They miss the effects of having 30+ percent union density. And we can build worker power again, with good policies, for the jobs most working class people actually have today rather than hoping mumbo jumbo will make it 1955 again.

submitted 23 days ago • 129 comments

This is the Hands Off! map for Saturday. Nearly 400,000 people have signed up to attend over 1,000 events in all 50 states. We hope to see you in the streets in two days to let Trump and Musk know they can’t intimidate us into submission: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...

submitted 23 days ago • 93 comments

Googling "What did The Jacobins believe about punishing French leaders?"

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

This is very smart www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

submitted 27 days ago • 473 comments

Counterrevolution is more accurate, perhaps most closely analogous to the efforts to undermine and reverse Reconstruction.

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

AP is banned by Trump from WH pool, while this is happening:

submitted 29 days ago • 54 comments

James Baldwin is a figure many of us have turned to in recent years. I am no exception. In my latest piece for @liberalcurrents.com I offer my thoughts on what Baldwin offers us and why we ought to heed his words. Have a read and let me know what you think.

submitted 30 days ago • 10 comments

This captures the vile, racist lawlessness and cruelty of the Trumpist regime so precisely. Hard to come up with something that is further removed from the nobler aspirations in the country’s history - and more in line with the absolute worst version of what America has been.

submitted 31 days ago • 157 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 31 days ago • 1921 comments

The actual substance of the leaked chats revealed a contradiction at the heart of the Trumpist foreign policy project www.vox.com/on-the-right...

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

This was all clearly a psy-op to ban Signal, even though the administration doesn't need a pretext to do that, and even though Signal is for this purpose already banned

submitted 31 days ago • 61 comments

Keep hearing people say protests against first Trump administration were ineffective. Evidence suggests otherwise.

submitted 32 days ago • 33 comments

there are like three overlapping scandals with signalgate — illegal distribution of sensitive government materials by top members of the administration, illegal attempt to circumvent records laws and possible unlawful use of military force — and democrats should be screaming about them all

submitted 32 days ago • 255 comments

Innocent people — undesirables, political dissidents — are being sent to camps here and abroad. A scapegoated minority is being persecuted, made an example of. Wrongthink is being stricken from government institutions and civil society. There is no more "if" authoritarianism arrives. It's here.

submitted 34 days ago • 61 comments

Resistance in the US is widespread & dynamic: “our research shows that street protests today are far more numerous and frequent than skeptics might suggest.” Plus “a tidal wave of lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s early moves.” Plus “withholding labor power and purchasing power.”

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

99-0. Every single senator voted to confirm this ghoul.

submitted 37 days ago • 68 comments

Some of Claremont's sheriffs fellowship alumni have gone on to do noteworthy things. Consider, for instance, 2021 participant Scott Jenkins, who gave badges and guns to people willing to pay him to become "auxiliary deputies" starexponent.com/news/local/c...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The Claremont Institute has been conducting a campaign to radicalize sheriffs to embrace reactionary and nativist interpretations of their roles and responsibilities. See if your sheriff is participating! www.thebulwark.com/p/sheriff-ic...

submitted 37 days ago • 32 comments

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

submitted 39 days ago • 53 comments

Anyone framing the Democratic schism as "left vs right" should be discarded as either uninformed or disingenuous (which is what Politico's attempt to blame "the left" is). The key divide is between those who want to fight back forcefully - and those who cannot imagine anything but accommodation.

submitted 43 days ago • 52 comments

It’s impossible to state how spineless, ineffectual, and dumb Schumer is as leader. Just reprehensible. AOC should announce she’s primarying him right now and she’d have enough donations by tomorrow for the rest of her career.

submitted 44 days ago • 46 comments

Dear Democrats: If the Republicans want a vote from you, make them beg you for it. Beg. Until then, do nothing. Have a price and make it very high. Explain your offer well before the vote to the public. Not this. You gave it for nada.

submitted 44 days ago • 74 comments

i’m sorry, if you’re asking a glorified chat program how you should raise your kids, you should be reported to CPS

submitted 44 days ago • 88 comments

Except, of course, for the author of this report.

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

This is key: Focusing on Trump's "contradictions" tends to perpetuate the idea that he doesn't have any actual convictions. It's true he doesn't care about specific policy positions. But underneath that "flexibility" lies a very consistent worldview of grievance, domination, and hierarchies.

submitted 48 days ago • 11 comments

One of many problems with tariff policy is that big businesses have a direct phone line to Trump, he can dole out exemptions as favors or withhold them as extortion, meanwhile small businesses/consumers just have to bare the costs of all this.

submitted 52 days ago • 45 comments

This @joshtpm.bsky.social piece is very much worth grappling with. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/towar...

submitted 52 days ago • 36 comments

This x 1000 every day. Trying to impact public opinion is also known as known as LEADERSHIP!

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Yes! Ignoring the role of elite cues is one of the biggest, most common errors in talking about culture and politics. Cultural positions don't come from nowhere. They're not something people are born with and keep forever. Most people take signals from politicians, media, etc., and those can change.

submitted 54 days ago • 8 comments