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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 9d

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Strap In: What I Told Danish Students About America’s Collapse

On institutional failure, generational fights, and building from the ruins

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29d

Almost immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot on Wednesday, right-wing social media accounts began speculating that his killer was transgender. Politicians and news outlets fueled the rumors.

The problem? There is no evidence to back up the claim.

It's never too soon for the right to blame trans people

A timeline of false "gender ideology" claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 29d

This is an honest takeaway:

If Klein believes, as he stated, that he and Kirk were part of the same "project", then we need think deeply about what that project really is.

It's a tremendously revealing piece about where the establishment left thinks it is in modern American political culture.

Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 29d

Our performative approach to democracy is actually and actively killing it.

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The Absolutist Trap: How "Free Speech" Became Anti-Democratic

Charlie Kirk's assassination reveals how we've abandoned democratic thinking about discourse—and why that might be as dangerous as the violence itself

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · 29d

Our performative approach to democracy is actually and actively killing it.

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The Absolutist Trap: How "Free Speech" Became Anti-Democratic

Charlie Kirk's assassination reveals how we've abandoned democratic thinking about discourse—and why that might be as dangerous as the violence itself

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 8

just watched the first episode of Girls and got so viscerally angry at the 2012 innocence of it all, I had to turn the TV off. like they have no idea who Pete Hegseth is.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · Sep 8

The salt trucks and snow plows aren’t coming, folks. But that doesn’t mean the viral video doesn’t matter. Just not in the way that you might think.

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The Snow Plows Aren't Coming

How fake resistance videos might reveal sophisticated counter-resistance in action

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · Sep 5

We’re not just seeing the end of history, but the end of history’s ends.

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The End of History’s Ends

When “Defense” is stripped for “War,” democracy loses its shield.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · Sep 4

So many of you have been asking about A RESISTANCE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES that Barnes & Noble put it up months early.

Preorder now through tomorrow for 25% off (paperback, audiobook, or e-book) with code PREORDER25.

#BNPreorder #resistancehistory

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Sep 2

Donald Trump’s “takeover” of Washington, DC, is authoritarian thuggery. It’s a projection of power, driven by retrograde racism.

Breaking down the White House's lies and distortions about crime in DC

How to manufacture a crisis.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · Sep 2

Resistance History is Substack’s #1 Rising in History.

There is a sign of the times.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · Aug 31

Brandon Johnson vs Donald Trump: It’s the best American resistance tradition.

“Resistance is never about winning the war in a day. It’s about making the exercise of abusive power difficult, expensive, and a logistical nightmare.”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's Resistance and the American Tradition of Saying No

From the Fugitive Slave Act to sanctuary laws today, resistance begins with denying abusive authority. The Personal Liberty Laws show us how.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · Aug 29

We should be glad that “Heaven was silent” when his 1784 proposal to ban slavery in the Northwest Territory was defeated.

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Stripping (More) Myths off Thomas Jefferson

He never proposed to end slavery — he lied about it, and the lie stuck.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · Jul 13

So hoist a pint to Aaron Burr. 😀

Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · Jul 13

Today was Hamilton Death Day.

Just felt the need to register that before I fall asleep.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · Jul 2

Victory.

Katie Wutsername @wutsername.bsky.social · Jul 2

When we say, "Democrats won't save us", this is what we mean. #termlimits #corporatedemocratsarecomplicit
#Demleadershipispathetic

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Natasha @nastynatasha--1.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jun 27

Miami just canceled its November election & pushed it to 2026. No public vote, just canceled.

Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year.

This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jun 28

The Trump Admin has shown it will exploit any opening given it by this SCOTUS. Lifting the nationwide injunction on enforcing the birthright citizenship EO will be no exception. That’s why SCOTUS majority’s failure to address the unconstitutional EO is so cowardly. @andersoncooper360.bsky.social

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · Jun 28

Black Dandy Exhibit at the Met. Second photo is of Frederick Douglass’s clothing. Wow. Was surprised at how affecting it was to just see them and know he wore these things. Du Bois’s photo powerful, but in a different way.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · Jun 28

The reaction to Mamdani shows how broken America’s political culture is.

In any sane democracy, child care, public transit, and housing are center-left policy.

For most of his policies, Mamdani is not far left. But because both parties are on the right, he gets framed that way. It’s insane.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · Jun 24

If you want to know why every single person who went to public school is ready to run riot, this is the “surrender of the judiciary” shit topping over the DISAPPEARANCE OF FUCKING CONGRESS DICTATOR CAKE

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Jun 23

Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards.

Me, via “One First”:

161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case

The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · Jun 22

Exactly it. I’m baffled by this insistence on fictionalizing those guys.

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · Jun 22

This is a legit and unfortunate point. He did it. It can’t be taken back. There will be no consequences for it. Bombs will drop. People will die. This regime continues to plow through.

So what does it mean if something *is* unconstitutional and that doesn’t matter?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 22

appears that the line is going to be that the war powers act lets trump do this. hearing it from a lot of people on tiktok who i am certain have never thought about that law prior to this evening

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Tad Stoermer @tadstoermer.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · Jun 22

Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · Jun 22

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · Jun 19

"'It’s not knowledge we lack,' Peck concludes at end of 'Exterminate All the Brutes.' Rather, it's the moral courage to match emotion with action, lest we rationalize away what's left of our shared humanity & submit to a darkness we may fail, in our lifetimes, to escape." @sorayanadiamcdonald.com

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · Jun 19

Within the context of Juneteenth and Black Writers Week at @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I wanted to speak to a long tradition of knowing that none of us are free til we're all free:

On the Renewed and Continuing Necessity of "Exterminate All the Brutes" | Features | Roger Ebert

"Exterminate All the Brutes" is a documentary unafraid to meet emotion with emotion, because emotion ranks among fascism’s most powerful and effective tools.

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