Erik
@erikwarren.bsky.social
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When the slightest bit of research shows he was consistently racist and a daddy issues Confederate fanboy.
People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
December 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
When the slightest bit of research shows he was consistently racist and a daddy issues Confederate fanboy.
People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
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Historian here it’s not just the Supreme Court, it’s time for a Third Reconstruction of American democracy now that we have seen how easy it is for bad actors to play the system for nefarious goals.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Historian here it’s not just the Supreme Court, it’s time for a Third Reconstruction of American democracy now that we have seen how easy it is for bad actors to play the system for nefarious goals.
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The American people do not want another endless war. Demand that your senators vote YES on the War Powers Resolutions to stop Trump’s march to war with Venezuela: act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-co...
December 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The American people do not want another endless war. Demand that your senators vote YES on the War Powers Resolutions to stop Trump’s march to war with Venezuela: act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-co...
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It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.
It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.
It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.
December 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.
It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.
It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.
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Trump kept his campaign promise. Republicans wanted this.
December 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Trump kept his campaign promise. Republicans wanted this.
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If you slept on DJT’s monologue to the nation yesterday, here’s the short version.
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
If you slept on DJT’s monologue to the nation yesterday, here’s the short version.
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Speaker Mike Johnson says his entire worldview comes from the Bible.
But he’s about to kick 2 million Texans off their healthcare right before Christmas.
If you aren’t loving your neighbor, then keep Jesus’ name out of your mouth.
But he’s about to kick 2 million Texans off their healthcare right before Christmas.
If you aren’t loving your neighbor, then keep Jesus’ name out of your mouth.
December 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Speaker Mike Johnson says his entire worldview comes from the Bible.
But he’s about to kick 2 million Texans off their healthcare right before Christmas.
If you aren’t loving your neighbor, then keep Jesus’ name out of your mouth.
But he’s about to kick 2 million Texans off their healthcare right before Christmas.
If you aren’t loving your neighbor, then keep Jesus’ name out of your mouth.
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Um…actually their response was to spend more on personal security, which likely meant bumping up premiums a bit more to pay for it.
It's not about whether someone murders, it's about *who* they murder. Luigi Mangione absolutely saved at least a few lives by taking out that CEO, because it put the fear of God into the industry and they got just that tiny bit less eager to kill people in the name of profit margins.
December 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Um…actually their response was to spend more on personal security, which likely meant bumping up premiums a bit more to pay for it.
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All someone needs to tell him is that releasing the Epstein files will get some phenomenal ratings.
December 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
All someone needs to tell him is that releasing the Epstein files will get some phenomenal ratings.
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Going live on Substack with @klasfeldreports.com at 10:45 PM ET – ie 5 minutes – to talk all about the verdict in the Judge Duggan case. Join us.
December 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Going live on Substack with @klasfeldreports.com at 10:45 PM ET – ie 5 minutes – to talk all about the verdict in the Judge Duggan case. Join us.
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Pretty odd verdict in the Duggan case. She was convicted of obstructing federal agents, yet acquitted of concealing a person from arrest. So she didn't conceal the deportee whom ICE was there for but she did obstruct the agents. Not impossible but 2 counts--both unanimous--seem in tension.
December 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Pretty odd verdict in the Duggan case. She was convicted of obstructing federal agents, yet acquitted of concealing a person from arrest. So she didn't conceal the deportee whom ICE was there for but she did obstruct the agents. Not impossible but 2 counts--both unanimous--seem in tension.
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[MAGA]We want to lynch minorities
[Everyone else]We want healthcare
[John Burn-Murdoch]These two are just the same!
[Everyone else]We want healthcare
[John Burn-Murdoch]These two are just the same!
December 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
[MAGA]We want to lynch minorities
[Everyone else]We want healthcare
[John Burn-Murdoch]These two are just the same!
[Everyone else]We want healthcare
[John Burn-Murdoch]These two are just the same!
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A truly poisonous, Both Sides framing that paints calls for a more equitable, inclusive politics as being every bit as divisive and extreme as white supremacist fascism.
This by the excellent @jburnmurdoch.ft.com confirms my view that political trends are being driven by the halting of the upward economic conveyor belt - striking charts: www.ft.com/content/30a4... Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics
Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics
A stalled economic conveyor belt is behind the rise of anti-system, anti-growth parties on both the right and left
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A truly poisonous, Both Sides framing that paints calls for a more equitable, inclusive politics as being every bit as divisive and extreme as white supremacist fascism.
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Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!”
The Economist, one year ago:
The Economist, one year ago:
December 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!”
The Economist, one year ago:
The Economist, one year ago:
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
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The November CPI may understate inflation due to the shutdown deanbaker22.substack.com/p/quick-note...
Quick Note on The November CPI Report
The inflation story might have been affected by the shutdown
deanbaker22.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The November CPI may understate inflation due to the shutdown deanbaker22.substack.com/p/quick-note...
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Thanks to all who have gone to our bandcamp to purchase our cover of “Them Bones”… it goes live on all streaming platforms tonight at Midnight… thanks for the continued support click here for all links linktr.ee/fishboneband
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Thanks to all who have gone to our bandcamp to purchase our cover of “Them Bones”… it goes live on all streaming platforms tonight at Midnight… thanks for the continued support click here for all links linktr.ee/fishboneband
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you know who you are
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
you know who you are
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They’ll try to outlaw ALL trans care next.
December 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
They’ll try to outlaw ALL trans care next.
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In March of 2024 I wrote up this thread criticizing the fascism-minimizers on the left. Corey Robin got all mad about it on Twitter when he saw one, out of context screenshot from it. Now he thinks Trump is a fascist. bsky.app/profile/seth...
There's one aspect of this "fascism debate" that I think is important but which doesn't get talked about much because it's hard to do without it sounding like an ad hominem attack. That is, many "fascism minimizers" are products of east coast, privileged bubbles. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
Trump and the F-Word
In a new book, “Did It Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.
www.newyorker.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
In March of 2024 I wrote up this thread criticizing the fascism-minimizers on the left. Corey Robin got all mad about it on Twitter when he saw one, out of context screenshot from it. Now he thinks Trump is a fascist. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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I appreciate this critique of the anti-Cassandra position. In my experience, the Cassandras weren’t “liberal east coast elites,” they were people like me who grew up in and/or currently lived in reddish or purple places, among people who were warming (or just acquiescing) to fascism.
December 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I appreciate this critique of the anti-Cassandra position. In my experience, the Cassandras weren’t “liberal east coast elites,” they were people like me who grew up in and/or currently lived in reddish or purple places, among people who were warming (or just acquiescing) to fascism.
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fuck this fucking fuck
December 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
fuck this fucking fuck
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the Robert Moses of US govt demolition
The person that the President's Chief of Staff described as "a right-wing absolute zealot" is our de facto President for domestic affairs. From @jamellebouie.net
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
December 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
the Robert Moses of US govt demolition
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Damn it
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Gil Gerard Dies: Star Of ‘Buck Rogers In The 25th Century’ Was 82
Gil Gerard, the handsome hero of early-Eighties TV hit Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, died early this morning after a battle with cancer.
deadline.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Damn it
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