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Palestinian, black, trans lives matter. White people chose DEI instead of adhering to Civil Rights Act altogether. We’re still dealing w/after effects of Reconstruction & longstanding, feckless liberal class unwilling to confront fascists. MMT. Punch up.
Pinned
Yes of course. 2004 all the way up to and including his confirmation vote in 2025 - the myth of the “reasonable Republican” who we somehow “need”. There’s never been any “there” there
a core feature of the conservative movement and by extension, republicans, is predictably cyclical reboots of the brand every 4 to 8 yrs under some newly renamed variation of “new conservatives,” complete with credulous, breathless think pieces by the likes of NYT assisting with the rebrand
Hold to account, no exceptions. No excuses. Just make it happen. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hold to account, no exceptions. No excuses. Just make it happen. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
a core feature of the conservative movement and by extension, republicans, is predictably cyclical reboots of the brand every 4 to 8 yrs under some newly renamed variation of “new conservatives,” complete with credulous, breathless think pieces by the likes of NYT assisting with the rebrand
Yes of course. 2004 all the way up to and including his confirmation vote in 2025 - the myth of the “reasonable Republican” who we somehow “need”. There’s never been any “there” there
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
a core feature of the conservative movement and by extension, republicans, is predictably cyclical reboots of the brand every 4 to 8 yrs under some newly renamed variation of “new conservatives,” complete with credulous, breathless think pieces by the likes of NYT assisting with the rebrand
Democrats and Labor in UK can’t bring themselves to acknowledge this and say the quiet part out loud, instead seeking to run back neoliberal hits and keep an old system humming along that’s not coming back.
American 'conservatives' lack the cultural, intellectual, and ethical attributes needed to govern a complex, civilized society
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Democrats and Labor in UK can’t bring themselves to acknowledge this and say the quiet part out loud, instead seeking to run back neoliberal hits and keep an old system humming along that’s not coming back.
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American 'conservatives' lack the cultural, intellectual, and ethical attributes needed to govern a complex, civilized society
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
American 'conservatives' lack the cultural, intellectual, and ethical attributes needed to govern a complex, civilized society
Rubio was confirmed 99-0
"Rubio told the diplomats to emphasize the effects of criminal acts by immigrants to encourage greater entry restrictions...Diplomats should 'regularly engage host governments...to raise U.S. concerns about violent crimes associated with people of a migration background'"
Make Europe White Again
Make Europe White Again
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Rubio was confirmed 99-0
Does John Roberts really sleep well at night
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Does John Roberts really sleep well at night
From the git-go the entire butler assassin ruin attempt was and continues to be majorly sus but our reflex by way of MSM and Dem liberals hellbent on supreme objectivity bc, you know, biased liberal press and what not enforces a weird silence around these moments not commensurate to the evidence
November 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
From the git-go the entire butler assassin ruin attempt was and continues to be majorly sus but our reflex by way of MSM and Dem liberals hellbent on supreme objectivity bc, you know, biased liberal press and what not enforces a weird silence around these moments not commensurate to the evidence
Get ready for more Republican right wing lies and freak out about whatever it is that actually happened here, blame the radical left, antifa, “left wing violence” and in and on it will go while all the usual MSM anchors will dutifullly invite them on repeatedly to lie to millions about it
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Get ready for more Republican right wing lies and freak out about whatever it is that actually happened here, blame the radical left, antifa, “left wing violence” and in and on it will go while all the usual MSM anchors will dutifullly invite them on repeatedly to lie to millions about it
💯👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 AND, part of broader context behind them not “dealing w/their shit” is a lack of accountability (over decades at this point) largely driven by Dem Party’s actions & inaction. The primary locus for fascism rests mainly in Repub hands, for sure. But adjacent to that enabling it are feckless Dems!
It’s time for a lot of people to wrestle with the fact that bad actors aren’t doing these things because they’re being blackmailed or bribed but because they are benefitting financially and they haven’t dealt with their own shit so they are perpetually destroying everything.
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
💯👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 AND, part of broader context behind them not “dealing w/their shit” is a lack of accountability (over decades at this point) largely driven by Dem Party’s actions & inaction. The primary locus for fascism rests mainly in Repub hands, for sure. But adjacent to that enabling it are feckless Dems!
Yes AND - even the framing of the headline mitigates the Trump’s age and ostensible incompetence and inability to serve effectively in ways that are WAAY more forgiving than they ever did with Biden. It’s obscene the asymmetries in the coverage
The @nytimes.com doing a big, long piece on Trump's obviously deteriorating condition.
Better late than never, I guess
(Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...)
Better late than never, I guess
(Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...)
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Yes AND - even the framing of the headline mitigates the Trump’s age and ostensible incompetence and inability to serve effectively in ways that are WAAY more forgiving than they ever did with Biden. It’s obscene the asymmetries in the coverage
I believe that this is, er, known as …what’s the phrase, starts with an…F?
Oh, right: FAFO
Cannot. Make. This. Stuff. Up.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Oh, right: FAFO
Cannot. Make. This. Stuff. Up.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
ICE detains relative of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt
Leavitt has not yet publicly commented on her relative’s arrest, while other family members have launched a GoFundMe page
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I believe that this is, er, known as …what’s the phrase, starts with an…F?
Oh, right: FAFO
Cannot. Make. This. Stuff. Up.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Oh, right: FAFO
Cannot. Make. This. Stuff. Up.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
If you’re in the minority party & one of the levers of power still afforded to you as the minority party is to still be able to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump—then that is EXACTLY what you should do. There’s no excuse not to. None. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social
Which begs question about newly announced fight club in senate:why not immediately call for house colleagues to introduce articles of impeachment? And why haven’t any members ever publicly, vociferously used unanimous consent to stall any & all votes? Why did Rubio pass 99-0 @senategabe.bsky.social
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
If you’re in the minority party & one of the levers of power still afforded to you as the minority party is to still be able to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump—then that is EXACTLY what you should do. There’s no excuse not to. None. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social
Republicans are just cartoonishly evil and simultaneously incompetent at this point, literally picking hills to die on that make no fucking sense while also endangering millions of people. For no fucking apparent reason at all other than either racism or “big bad govt bad”
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Republicans are just cartoonishly evil and simultaneously incompetent at this point, literally picking hills to die on that make no fucking sense while also endangering millions of people. For no fucking apparent reason at all other than either racism or “big bad govt bad”
But it’s not racism, it’s just the righteous anger of whites in swing states economic dislocation
The National Park Service says it is going to start charging international tourists an extra $100 to enter popular parks. They will be left out of fee-free days, reserved for American residents. n.pr/48CbbII
National Parks to raise fees by $100 for international tourists to popular U.S. parks
The National Park Service says it is going to start charging international tourists an extra $100 to enter popular parks. They will be left out of fee-free days, reserved for American residents.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
But it’s not racism, it’s just the righteous anger of whites in swing states economic dislocation
In all seriousness, people w/lifetimes & boatloads of service, talent, imagination & kindness have capriciously been unalived in all manner of Random but ultimately often mundane ways—& we can’t get a little something something from a sickle wielding hooded dude for morbidly obese Orangeman?
Another fucking day with no good news in the obituaries.
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In all seriousness, people w/lifetimes & boatloads of service, talent, imagination & kindness have capriciously been unalived in all manner of Random but ultimately often mundane ways—& we can’t get a little something something from a sickle wielding hooded dude for morbidly obese Orangeman?
Another fucking day with no good news in the obituaries.
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In all seriousness, people w/lifetimes & boatloads of service, talent, imagination & kindness have capriciously been unalived in all manner of Random but ultimately often mundane ways—& we can’t get a little something something from a sickle wielding hooded dude for morbidly obese Orangeman?
Related to an earlier post I made about responding to right wing argumentation - what one finds over time is this dynamic whereby bad faith right wing claims grounded in pseudoscience, lies, obfuscations or sophistry about science, will always inevitably be countered by reality, ie empirical evidenc
A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Changes in Suicidality among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study
To examine changes in suicidality following hormone therapy (HT) among transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults.A retrospective cha…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Related to an earlier post I made about responding to right wing argumentation - what one finds over time is this dynamic whereby bad faith right wing claims grounded in pseudoscience, lies, obfuscations or sophistry about science, will always inevitably be countered by reality, ie empirical evidenc
Which begs question about newly announced fight club in senate:why not immediately call for house colleagues to introduce articles of impeachment? And why haven’t any members ever publicly, vociferously used unanimous consent to stall any & all votes? Why did Rubio pass 99-0 @senategabe.bsky.social
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Which begs question about newly announced fight club in senate:why not immediately call for house colleagues to introduce articles of impeachment? And why haven’t any members ever publicly, vociferously used unanimous consent to stall any & all votes? Why did Rubio pass 99-0 @senategabe.bsky.social
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I wrote a book about US media’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. It's available for pre-order. It’s a data-driven and, I hope, thorough account of how center-left media sold the American public on mass death in Gaza.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
How to Sell a Genocide - Pluto Press
A gripping exposé of how the corporate media fuelled genocide in Gaza
www.plutobooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I wrote a book about US media’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. It's available for pre-order. It’s a data-driven and, I hope, thorough account of how center-left media sold the American public on mass death in Gaza.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.
Cognitive dissonances abound in the land of conservative fantasy land
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Cognitive dissonances abound in the land of conservative fantasy land
Only way for people like carville to permanently go away is to Larry summers them, aka something truly seismic as the Epstein files is the extremely high bar in our society reserved for neoliberal reactionary centrists like carville and others. Sad statement but largely true
I see that NYT has published another inane op-ed from James Carville raging against "woke"
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Only way for people like carville to permanently go away is to Larry summers them, aka something truly seismic as the Epstein files is the extremely high bar in our society reserved for neoliberal reactionary centrists like carville and others. Sad statement but largely true
Surprise surprise The liberal members of the court respect stare decisis even when they disagree but the conservatives don’t - yet the liberals are the “activist” side. Messaging and framing matters. The courts ARE political entities but are treated by Dems and MSM as if they’re not
Sotomayor says she won't overturn Feres because of stare decisis, but urges Congress to repeal it by statute. Gorsuch would take up this case but doesn't write. Interesting split. Unfortunate result for service members. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Surprise surprise The liberal members of the court respect stare decisis even when they disagree but the conservatives don’t - yet the liberals are the “activist” side. Messaging and framing matters. The courts ARE political entities but are treated by Dems and MSM as if they’re not
People with the emotional maturity and empathy of mean middle school bullies are in charge of most of the shit around us and that we rely on. You can’t respond to this with normal persuasive discourse and debates about “ideas” you have to foreground their bad faith, their stupidity about most things
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
People with the emotional maturity and empathy of mean middle school bullies are in charge of most of the shit around us and that we rely on. You can’t respond to this with normal persuasive discourse and debates about “ideas” you have to foreground their bad faith, their stupidity about most things