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Out of all the bullies and monsters in the administration, Marco Rubio seems like the purest specimen of how Nazism happened—not a sincere bigot or ideologue, just an empty shell who has literally no limits on what he will agree to do or pretend to believe, embracing brutality to fill his weakness

submitted 1 hour ago • 99 comments

Trump’s attack on US institutions, even if fully expected, is dispiriting, discombobulating and dangerous. In this very difficult time, we have to remember one thing: This is not normal, and it should not be normalized.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Co-director @dacemoglumit.bsky.social explains why he's concerned that AI could be used for "so-so automation," which displaces workers from tasks they used to perform without achieving productivity improvements or cost savings.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Sharing some resources for people trying to figure out how they might want to plug in if they aren't already: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

You know what stories I would like to read and hear about? People who have been pushed even more to the left/progressive/ Dem socialist side after the last several years-- and after everything happening with the Dem establishment now.

submitted 1 hour ago • 151 comments

DOGE is the kind of thing you read about in a history textbook a century after the fact and think “no wonder that country violently disintegrated”

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Stop pretending that the authoritarian repression is BECAUSE of the problems in {higher education, the media, the law, government, immigration policy, etc.}. This is what authoritarians do. If they didn't focus on these justifications, they'd come up with other ones.

submitted 42 minutes ago • 10 comments

We need leadership that understands the role of the opposition party. And it’s not to be enablers or fixers for the ruling party- especially when the ruling party is behaving as badly as this one.

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

It's a Made for TV Administration. Just like Trump always wanted. Government as performance, not substance. While Elon Musk takes the whole thing over from the inside out.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Fascists call it "annexation." But that's a euphemism, meant to lull you to sleep. The correct word is "invasion."

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

What we learned is that every single Senate Democrat is fine with fast tracking trillions of dollars to fund a fascist coup.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Last week they censured one of their own for standing up to Trump. This week they changed their tune at the 11th hour and gave Trump/Musk a blank check CR to further dismantle the government. What will they do next week to show us who they are?

submitted 15 hours ago • 149 comments

Authoritarians don't willingly cede power. The oligarchs didn't spend billions simply for a brief taste of feudalism. If you're dreaming of comebacks via midterms and elections, you're kidding yourself. It will take an uprising. By trying to prevent it, the democrats are doing their bidding.

submitted 16 hours ago • 127 comments

The word you're looking for is: cowardice.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Me pushing for impeachment is not a messaging play. It is literally in the constitution as THE thing to do when Presidents are committing high crimes. Yes, of course we need to push for it!

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Mutuals keep reposting meltdowns into my feed, yet aren't unfollowing me after my constant barrage decrying & condemning the meltdown being weaponized as leverage to depress voter turnout in upcoming special elections & the midterms. That tells me what they've trained the algorithm to show them.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

The libertarian critique of democracy didn’t just fail—it became the blueprint for the next authoritarian state. Musk. Thiel. Yarvin. Srinivasan. They’re not debating democracy. They’re replacing it.

submitted 14 hours ago • 18 comments

I know a lot of postal workers and all they ever tell me is how understaffed every post office and route is

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

If you’re protesting this weekend, know your rights.

submitted 2 hours ago • 12 comments

Sometimes I wonder if I care too much about this tech shit and whether it's all out of my hands. I don't know. It feels when I write the newsletter and do the podcast like I exist in another reality to people saying AGI is imminent. It's discouraging and frustrating. I won't stop, though

submitted 22 hours ago • 119 comments

Bunch of accounts with inexplicably large followings built via "The Resistance"—people many like to pretend we know, though none actually do—who are now using their platforms to mainline an unlimited supply of the attention they're now addicted to directly into their egos... at America's expense.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Totally independently another NIH source told me today that if the rumored RIFs move ahead paired with assaults on university funding it would mean “the functional end of NIH and academic research in the US.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.

submitted 3 hours ago • 167 comments

ELON IS TRYING TO BUILD OUT HIS FASCIST GRANDFATHER’S FANTASY “The Technate will encompass the entire American Continent from Panama to the North Pole because the natural resources and the natural boundary of this area make it an independent, self-sustaining geographical unit.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

📄 NEW: "To Survive This, We Must Break the Fourth Wall" With a potential government shutdown looming, old frames of left vs. right political conflict are breaking down. We're dealing with something much bigger — and it's time we talk about it frankly. america2.news/to-survive-t...

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“To the crowd, Walz was encouraging, saying their anger is justified. ‘The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting,’ he said. ‘You’re not.’” www.yahoo.com/news/somethi...

submitted 12 hours ago • 79 comments

I’m convinced American exceptionalism is a big part of what made us vulnerable to Trump. We’re so used to thinking of ourselves as the Special Freedom Country that a lot of people find it inconceivable we could rapidly collapse into shabby despotism even as they watch it happen.

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Given that this is the third German treated horribly by ICE, I think Germany should turn Elon's support for Neo-Nazis into a diplomatic issue. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

submitted 5 hours ago • 47 comments

Beneath your feet is a complex network of fungal trade routes carrying essential nutrients from the soil to the roots of plants. Dr. @tobykiers.bsky.social joins us to talk about how these complex networks form.

submitted 21 hours ago • 27 comments

Guys, our Democratic representatives and senators need to read the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. We’re at the stall everything point. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Citizens United, which allowed unlimited corporate, interest-group, and individual spending on elections, triggered plenty of dire predictions. But even the most pessimistic among them fell short of imagining American reality today. ICYMI @jilldlawrence.bsky.social:

submitted 3 hours ago • 35 comments

Congratulations to @schumer.senate.gov and the others who just played into the hands of an insane dictator who just said it's illegal for cnn and msnbc to criticize him

submitted 17 hours ago • 666 comments

They're coming for the dissidents, the scholars, the lawyers, and the media first, which is what dictators often do. Shut up the loud opposition, shut up the people who know history best, shut up the tools of legal opposition, and shut up those trying to provide transparency.

submitted 11 hours ago • 61 comments

At this time, my state of alarm over the stability of our constitutional order has never been higher. Things are escalating towards incredibly dangerous tipping points, and the Democratic Party leadership is completely fucking incompetent. We're in trouble, and it's going to get a lot worse.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Walz: There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA.

submitted 18 hours ago • 180 comments

Not sure when the penny is going to drop that this dude means what he tweets, does and sig heils www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...

submitted 11 hours ago • 270 comments