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“The Nazis…the Fascist party dictatorship…the party insisted that it was a movement…in order to attract the masses, became evident as soon as it seized the state machine without drastically changing the power structure of the country; being content to fill all government positions w/ party members.”

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Trump is describing a policy in which the US government will take billions of taxpayer dollars and hand them directly to his billionaire allies in exchange for fake digital tokens. Stealing our money and paying it to his friends in exchange for nothing.

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Wrote a thing about DOGE and Program Review. TLDR - Don't use DOGE as your short-hand for Program Review. medium.com/@jennifer.ro...

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America has just been Freedom Fried.

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Is @dandrezner.bsky.social still doing the POTUS as toddler thing?

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For those of you who prefer podcasts, I am uploading the Marx 13/13 seminar soundtracks to Soundcloud and Spotify. Here is Seyla Benhabib's keynote address on Hannah Arendt's reading of Marx: soundcloud.com/user-8320653.... The full series is here, Season #2: soundcloud.com/user-8320653.... Enjoy!

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The Ides of March were on Feb 28 this year.

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“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

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this part should be aired over and over — the complete off the charts mental derangement of the president of the united states as he declares, minutes after threatening World War III, his eternal bond to Putin, as a victim of stuff that came out of Hunter Biden’s bathroom

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“Trump just presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history. Tempers flared, voices were raised & protocol was shredded…As Trump got into a shouting match with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a horrified Europe watched the post-second world war order crumble before its eyes.”

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“Perceived intransigence”. Thumos is a helluva drug.

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There’s a very old blog post that’s worth recirculating: www.tumblr.com/fucktheory/5...

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worth saying again that this was a bait and switch. if trump had openly announced he was running on allowing companies to discriminate against women and minorities he would not have won wapo.st/43aVQg1

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A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

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Why don’t you wear a suit?

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Reminder that also we found out this morning that we're probably already in the Trump recession.

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Running an organizing training and no one in the group knew what “above the fold” means because they don’t read physical newspapers. I am Methuselah, I’m Father Abraham, I am old as dust.

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The day I muted Matt Yglesias many many years ago my enjoyment of the old bird site went up.

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Something I've been banging on about in group chats is the simple fact that "efficiency" means something vastly different in government programs.

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Cicero’s De officiis seems to support Vance’s view—our beneficence should weaken as our relationship with the beneficiary is more distant—but Cicero also insists on two points that Vance ignores. 1/

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HE’S QUOTING BREIVIK

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a drunk, a junkie, a kremlin asset, and a bunch of thieves and sex criminals crowd into a bar — bartender says, what is this, a cabinet meeting?

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The King’s Two Bodies

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All of this from @pastpunditry.bsky.social. The crisis is not legible. Even politically attentive people have no idea - the media are not conveying the scope and magnitude of what's happening. It has to be made legible through political and institutional resistance, not passivity and resignations.

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What if it were possible to keep track of what's going on?

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remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

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‘Learn to code’ Should’ve done a proper degree like sociology or political science

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It’s like Trump heard that some scholars of fascism said they hesitated to call him one because he showed no interest in expansionist territorial aggression and he decided to erase this lingering ambiguity.

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Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

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Almost always, this video could've just been a post

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GEORGE: The Thundercats are loose, Jerry!

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Kamala Harris certifying her own defeat with dignity to a guy who tried to overthrow the government last time to prevent his is a fitting epitaph for our democracy.

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How about we become the 11th Province instead?

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The protestant reformation was a mistake.

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a little late to the commentary on this one, but if you want to understand what's going on here, you have to accept that The Atlantic in its current form is essentially a radicalization project designed to pull liberals to the center right

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This is exactly the type of commentary we need more of this year with AI in education. Informed skepticism, moderated hopes: open.substack.com/pub/erichuds... #edtech #highered

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This happened in grad school to all the grad students. It takes approx 20 replies for sarcasm and 30 for pet pictures.

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Amongst the furor over the dungarees debacle, let’s not forget two amazing performances from Murzin and Humpy!

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Instagrammatology

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“hole in the ozone layer” levels of erasure. my mom was a project manager who busted her ass for years to make sure IBM was ready for Y2K and completely succeeded, only for it to get turned into a late night joke. funny how the stories of mass collective action to avoid disaster rarely get told

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