Taliesan
@taliesan.bsky.social
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taliesan.bsky.social
This is what's going to happen:

Federal workers will slow things down till they're fired. The court cases will launch, take time, and ultimately be ignored by the admin. They will then overplay their hand, because they've never had to run things that actually matter before. Things will break.
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misoshnik.bsky.social
Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?
A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”
taliesan.bsky.social
Both arguments are still grounded in collective action and labor. One withholds. The other redirects.
sarahkendzior.bsky.social
On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...
Quotes from here: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions
taliesan.bsky.social
In a weird way, the parts of the Left that can't see past the money are guilty of not having the imagination to see beyond the incentives of capitalism, just like the mainstream Right and Centrists.
taliesan.bsky.social
Traditional follow the money arguments aren't sufficient for this moment. The corruption and enrichment is opportunistic, not central. Trump's driving force is power, revenge, and narcissism. Miller and Vought are genuinely evil. The folks making money off this are almost cutely passe.
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felipedlh.bsky.social
This could be a powerful dissuasive unified message: doesn’t matter if you’re a low-level agent; if you participated in crackdowns on speech and unlawful arrests, we’ll fire you, investigate, bring charges. There’ll be commissions, special prosecutors. As long as it takes, we’ll pursue every person
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joshuaeakle.com
In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.
taliesan.bsky.social
The Far Right’s Obsession with Modern Architecture - failedarchitecture.com/the-far-righ...

I know this isn't genocide, brownshirts, or civil war. But jeezus fuck is this a 30 story dogwhistle.
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darthbluesky.bsky.social
the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party
atrupar.com
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
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esqueer.net
ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.
taliesan.bsky.social
Just bought my costume. #WarRavagedNYC dance party, anyone?
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taliesan.bsky.social
Had the thought that AI might lead to post capitalism. Not because of UBI or benevolence. But because it's the ultimate end state of capital concentration that proves we need another organizing paradigm for resource allocation.
taliesan.bsky.social
Yip. Whole thing was a heist. A huge theft from the American public.
earlymodjustice.bsky.social
“DOGE was efficient in at least one way: individuals associated with DOGE created databases that ‘contain highly sensitive personally identifiable information on every American’ and that ‘can be manipulated with little to no oversight.’”
Arguably that was DOGE’s real purpose.
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cargie.baby
"Once we genocide all the brown people, we'll go back to the world you knew when you were 12. Remember ferris bueller? pepsi commercials? It'll all be like that. sure, maybe a black guy here and there playing sports or performing for you. but thats it. it'll be white paradise, just like it was."
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jeremylittau.com
And among other reasons, a deal is never a deal with these people. Look at how he has treated trade partners. There will always be new asks. The time to say no is now, and in solidarity, before you rewire your institution to something unrecognizable such that saying yes to new demands is a given.
donmoyn.bsky.social
Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.
Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.
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frankitheb.bsky.social
A cornerstone of conservative ideology is "never let the government provide what a corporation can charge for." You can prove the government ineffective, provide a captive user base for corporations, AND fuck over poor folks in one fell swoop.
karlbode.com
Trump's FCC yesterday voted to kill a program that provided free Wi-Fi to rural school kids at no cost to taxpayers, falsely claiming the program was "illegal" and was being used to "censor Conservative ideology."
FCC moves to end discounts for Wi-Fi hotspot lending and school bus connectivity
The Federal Communications Commission voted to end discounts for library and school Wi-Fi hotspot lending programs on Tuesday, drawing criticism from lawmakers and librarians who say the move will mak...
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This is the sort of thing where Dems on higher education committees should be saying things like they view this as illegal, and expect they will withdraw funds from schools who go along with Trump when they regain power.
taliesan.bsky.social
I find refreshing while in reader mode often works.
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benjaminchambers.bsky.social
what were seeing is "mom said its my turn at the xbox" raised to the level of government policy

the dweebiest losers have seized state power and demand we affirm how cool and awesome and punk rock they are or else well be sent to a salvadoran gulag
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bencollins.bsky.social
I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.
acyn.bsky.social
Ingraham: A Democrat congressional candidate was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent. Good work