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Great piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social. Reminder that this isn’t the first time the federal workforce has been resegregated: Woodrow Wilson’s 1913 order to impose Jim Crow rolled back almost half a century of progress that saw Black people working at every level of the federal government.

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One aspect of doing a political purge of the military and civil service is you can't come back in afterwards and just revert to status quo ante policies. A counter-purge becomes a necessity before you can then restore usual norms and protections. The people he's installing can't be left in place.

submitted 3 hours ago • 19 comments

Important thread. As Sara Ahmed states “When you expose a problem you pose a problem”.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Pleading with people to understand exactly this:

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in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 202 comments

Feels like academia - especially in the humanities - is rapidly being murdered globally.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

submitted 16 hours ago • 55 comments

I think it was interesting there was an appetite for loudly talking about how trans people didn’t lose democrats the 2024 election in December and now that Trump is legally trying to out trans people on our identity documents cultural commentary doesn’t seem ready to have the energy to yell about it

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

today in breaking laws no matter how obscure, ladies and gentlemen, the Goldwater-Nichols Act

submitted 16 hours ago • 47 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 17 hours ago • 436 comments

One thing this little bleat from Chad “Damp Little Britches” Mizelle demonstrates is the duality of Trumpism: it’s about simultaneously being (1) a tough truth-telling masculine elbow-thrower and (2) as fragile as a porcelain goose. Bullies who can dish, but weep at the slightest pushback. Losers.

submitted 16 hours ago • 37 comments

Remember Project 2025? Well they have already COMPLETED 75% of their goals against LGBTQ+ people. This is all within the first month of Trump's presidency. They won't stop until they have stripped us of our rights and forced us into camps. And they won't stop with us...

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

When people cheer Mangione, watch for tons of pearl-clutching about norms from people who absolutely reject and ignore both norms and actual laws. They seek to impose standards they don’t follow. They’d never apply those norms and standards to Trumpism.

submitted 22 hours ago • 57 comments

The idea that a political leader is the living embodiment of the Constitution/people/volk/spirit of the nation is straight up, classical fascism.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

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Read that again.

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

Welcome to today's episode of Shut The Fuck Up Friday! Check out this video for some tips from a local lawyer for those of you headed out to the streets to protest. You're a target of the state when you take action. NEVER talk to police & always STFU! Full video in thread👇

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

“I just wanna say trans people are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 64 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 20 hours ago • 242 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 22 hours ago • 71 comments

the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

submitted 23 hours ago • 82 comments

Nobody likes an I-told-you-so, gang, but I gotta reiterate: Fascism is not a deviation from capitalism, it is a consequence of capitalism The failure of liberalism to stop fascism is not an unforeseen accident under capitalism, it is a necessary and inevitable feature of capitalism

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Elon's gotten pretty hands on with suppressing posts he doesn't like, first Grimes and now these Genuinely curious if this is a ketamine episode or the beginnings of the new normal

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

What I fear is going to happen is that Trump will be unpopular, we’ll get some sort of weird capital controlled stasis, and what we have lost in the past month plus will never get rebuilt. Just like a new normal of austerity and hollowed state capacity. It’s imperative to deliver a real defeat.

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

which is normally fine, but not when some idiot has handed you the actual levers of power of government.

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welp, i was hoping for more sleep tonight but ah well. going to have some tea before i try to rouse the teens for school. both were complaining of headaches and ick yesterday, so i have a feeeeeeling we are going to be staying in and sleeping and i could fight but fuck it, let’s rest.

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Kicking Steve Bannon down the Exorcist steps and it sounds like an absolutely booted kickball every time he bounces off one.

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The US Postal Service is in the Constitution as a legislative power. Congress has the power “To establish Post Offices and post Roads.” Infrostructure(s), my article on government provided information, has an ode to the Post Office, the idea that every American has a right to receive information.

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like, what are we fucking doing. linda fucking mcmahon is about to be secretary of education. we are in literal wwe territory. and these people are actually in charge and ready to pull some fucking nonsense to make it never end. maybe a comet will get us sooner than the asteroid. team comet.

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murder. and i love it.

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Too bad they couldn't get a direct comment from Chris, because THE NEW YORK TIMES IS COMPLICIT IN THE RISE OF FASCISM and he called them out on it. Hm.

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Real “you aren’t going to like what comes after America” hours

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“he who saves his country does not violate any law”

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I can not tell you how angry I am about so many folks in Congress just rolling over. HE IS STEALING POWER FROM CONGRESS. IT IS A COUP. Day 31.

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