We are in this moment of immense crisis in part because the loudest liberals and Democrats and centrists, came together to call those with academic expertise and research experience in countering the far right and fascism doomers at every turn instead of accepting the new reality

Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type.
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I want stats on how many Germans witnessed the rise of Hitler and shrugged and said, “oh this will blow over.”

Yesterday, I was speaking at USC and one of the students brought up that they had witnessed Charlie Kirk raising his arm in a Nazi salute as a "sarcastic" response to a student berating him for standing by Musk.

This stuff will keep spreading. As always, it will be framed as a joke. Until it isn't.

"The account once featured a pinned post that used a quote by Adolf Hitler from Mein Kampf to praise President Donald Trump..."

With immigrants and labor under attack, I created this starter pack of labor & immigration reporters.

Give them all a follow

go.bsky.app/4JJcYdi

Trump just inadvertently admitted that Elon Musk is directing DOGE employees to access private US citizen data outside of government interests.

In other words, Musk is abusing US governmental power to serve his own private needs.

Brazen oligarch illegality & corruption at the heart of the US govt.

"Social security numbers, home addresses, bank accounts. Why does DOGE need all of that?"

Trump: "Well it doesn't, but they get it very easily."

If democrats are wondering why voters view them as an out of touch party that doesn't believe in anything, this is a good example of why. These @adamsmith.house.gov posts were minutes apart. He deleted the first one, but how can you believe both of these things simultaneously?