StrayDemon
@daemonsquire.bsky.social
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So important to understand 👇👇👇
Trump and Stephen Miller are actually failing in crucial ways. Deportations are lagging behind their goals, courts are mostly functioning, and their fascist, ethnonationalist cruelties have unleashed a countermobilization of unexpected scope and power.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
January 1, 2026 at 3:28 PM
So important to understand 👇👇👇
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Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
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Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)
Exclusive | As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance
In an interview, President Trump—the oldest man to assume the office—said he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging.
www.wsj.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)
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Much of the antisemitic, Hitler-loving shit we’re seeing metastasize on the MAGA right was promoted at some point by non-white or non-Christian grifters who (perhaps wrongly) assumed this would never boomerang back to harm them. bsky.app/profile/seth...
It’s too fitting that someone who Laura Loomer helped promote in 2020 is now leading a Mein Kampf reading group. bsky.app/profile/brow...
"Growing up in NYC watching Ann sell books, argue on news shows & make Coulter a household name was empowering to witness for a young girl who was hesitant to accept the liberalism that consumed her city. “I was often bullied into not admiring Ann growing up,” says Kim."
loomered.com/2020/01/07/a...
loomered.com/2020/01/07/a...
January 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Much of the antisemitic, Hitler-loving shit we’re seeing metastasize on the MAGA right was promoted at some point by non-white or non-Christian grifters who (perhaps wrongly) assumed this would never boomerang back to harm them. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.”
See this article from 2017:
www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
See this article from 2017:
www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
December 31, 2025 at 3:10 AM
One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.”
See this article from 2017:
www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
See this article from 2017:
www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
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Trump's attempting to transform the US from a country that welcomes immigrants into a radically xenophobic nation that demonizes immigrants of color, and even their US born children. But Trump didn't campaign on this destructive/reactionary remaking of America and most Americans don't support it. 1/
December 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump's attempting to transform the US from a country that welcomes immigrants into a radically xenophobic nation that demonizes immigrants of color, and even their US born children. But Trump didn't campaign on this destructive/reactionary remaking of America and most Americans don't support it. 1/
My folks never got cable while I was growing up, or let me stay up late, so a friend taping Friday Night Videos, and sharing it with me Sunday afternoon was my video conduit, then, and YouTube mashup fuckery is my jam now.
youtu.be/fsgWUq0fdKk
youtu.be/fsgWUq0fdKk
December 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My folks never got cable while I was growing up, or let me stay up late, so a friend taping Friday Night Videos, and sharing it with me Sunday afternoon was my video conduit, then, and YouTube mashup fuckery is my jam now.
youtu.be/fsgWUq0fdKk
youtu.be/fsgWUq0fdKk
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Let the record reflect...
It's the Kennedy Center.
The graffiti will come down.
#KennedyCenter
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
It's the Kennedy Center.
The graffiti will come down.
#KennedyCenter
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
December 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Let the record reflect...
It's the Kennedy Center.
The graffiti will come down.
#KennedyCenter
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
It's the Kennedy Center.
The graffiti will come down.
#KennedyCenter
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Buh-bye, '25!
Don't let the door
grievously fracture
the back of your skull
on the way out!
But if that
just happens,
oh well...
Don't let the door
grievously fracture
the back of your skull
on the way out!
But if that
just happens,
oh well...
December 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Buh-bye, '25!
Don't let the door
grievously fracture
the back of your skull
on the way out!
But if that
just happens,
oh well...
Don't let the door
grievously fracture
the back of your skull
on the way out!
But if that
just happens,
oh well...
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"Trump will live forever, but only as a cautionary tale, one we tell successive generations to demonstrate that sustaining a democracy against the corrupt and the malevolent requires vigilance and determination." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Why every vestige of Trump must be torn down
He's trying to create a physical legacy. The moment he's out of power, it has to be smashed to bits.
www.publicnotice.co
December 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Trump will live forever, but only as a cautionary tale, one we tell successive generations to demonstrate that sustaining a democracy against the corrupt and the malevolent requires vigilance and determination." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
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dems serious about winning really have no choice but to seriously embrace antitrust reform and challenge corporate power, because their failure to do so earnestly opened the door to phony ass authoritarian pseudo-populism
Pretending to challenge corporate power has been one of the motivating points of the Trump platform. If someone did it for real, that would really be something.
The Democratic party would win elections repeatedly if they competently challenged corporate power.
December 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
dems serious about winning really have no choice but to seriously embrace antitrust reform and challenge corporate power, because their failure to do so earnestly opened the door to phony ass authoritarian pseudo-populism
I'm looking forward to listening to this. I really enjoyed Griffith's talk for Long Now, a decade ago (youtu.be/gsHnrBVr-2k -- and apparently he gave an even more popular one several years prior to that), so I know he communicates good ideas well.
December 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I'm looking forward to listening to this. I really enjoyed Griffith's talk for Long Now, a decade ago (youtu.be/gsHnrBVr-2k -- and apparently he gave an even more popular one several years prior to that), so I know he communicates good ideas well.
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We're ruled by people in all three branches of government and across the tech/corporate landscape who think it's bad that this happened and wish the mob had prevailed, plain and simple. It's clarifying.
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We're ruled by people in all three branches of government and across the tech/corporate landscape who think it's bad that this happened and wish the mob had prevailed, plain and simple. It's clarifying.
I have to assume (because I won't check the record) that some of the Clown-King's several hundred Xmas Day bleats took care to note that his bombing of Nigeria was part of a concerted Nobel Peace Prize Hail Mary effort, no?
In 2025, the US launched strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, al-Shabab in Somalia, ISIS in Syria, alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, plus Iran’s nuclear program. Now some into Nigeria.
All killed people and damaged things, but none appear to have achieved anything lasting.
All killed people and damaged things, but none appear to have achieved anything lasting.
Opinion | The logic isn't apparent in Trump's strikes in Nigeria
Nicholas Grossman: Add Nigeria to the list of countries Trump has bombed this year
www.ms.now
December 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I have to assume (because I won't check the record) that some of the Clown-King's several hundred Xmas Day bleats took care to note that his bombing of Nigeria was part of a concerted Nobel Peace Prize Hail Mary effort, no?
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Great points in this thread: We don't usually think of 1965 immigration act as on par w/New Deal and Civil Rights, but it was a major liberal achievement and Miller's real project is to undo it. As @larryglickman.bsky.social says this connects w/goal of undoing other great 20th century achievements:
Finally had a chance to read this Incredible piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social that documents Miller’s attempt to undo and reverse the 1965 immigration settlement and reveals how central this effort is to the administration’s reactionary aim to take down the New Deal and civil rights orders.
December 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Great points in this thread: We don't usually think of 1965 immigration act as on par w/New Deal and Civil Rights, but it was a major liberal achievement and Miller's real project is to undo it. As @larryglickman.bsky.social says this connects w/goal of undoing other great 20th century achievements:
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Seventy years later, and the US remains reliant on brave youngsters to withstand the denigrations of our ignorant, hate-fueled powers-that-be.
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Seventy years later, and the US remains reliant on brave youngsters to withstand the denigrations of our ignorant, hate-fueled powers-that-be.
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Certainly makes sense to me..............
December 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Certainly makes sense to me..............
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The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.
December 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
One doesn't expect much of the courteous and complimentary in social media (maybe the Bouie/Chatterton dynamic is closer to par?), so it's been nice watching this li'l interchange btwn Jamelle and Moira develop, while I've waited in line for crabs outside Sun Fat, for the past hour.
it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
One doesn't expect much of the courteous and complimentary in social media (maybe the Bouie/Chatterton dynamic is closer to par?), so it's been nice watching this li'l interchange btwn Jamelle and Moira develop, while I've waited in line for crabs outside Sun Fat, for the past hour.
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Full story about what's going on at CBS News: www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...
CBS shelves ‘60 Minutes’ story on Trump deportees at the last minute: ‘People are threatening to quit,’ staffers say | CNN Business
“60 Minutes” just suffered a severe blow to its credibility. Now one of its own correspondents fears the program is being “dismantled,” and some employees are threatening to quit.
www.cnn.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Full story about what's going on at CBS News: www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...