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If you want to support the organizations that provide the resources to respond to the current moment, these are the publications, research collectives, and nonprofit organizations that monitor, research, and provide analysis on the far right and extremist movements.
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November 11, 2024 at 9:16 PM
If you want to support the organizations that provide the resources to respond to the current moment, these are the publications, research collectives, and nonprofit organizations that monitor, research, and provide analysis on the far right and extremist movements.
go.bsky.app/Cyy1oTg
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Despite the right's ridiculous DEI conspiracy theories, the Baltimore bridge disaster reminded us that immigrants are what makes America great.
A ship crashed into a Baltimore bridge and demolished the lies about immigration | Will Bunch
Despite the right's ridiculous DEI conspiracy theories, the Baltimore bridge disaster reminded us that immigrants are what makes America great.
www.inquirer.com
March 28, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Despite the right's ridiculous DEI conspiracy theories, the Baltimore bridge disaster reminded us that immigrants are what makes America great.
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In "White Rural Rage" Paul Waldman and and Thomas Schaller finally wrote the book that stops treating rural white voters like children, instead of adults responsible for their choices.
As someone who grew up in rural Texas, I'm thrilled. My interview with them.
www.salon.com/2024/03/05/-...
As someone who grew up in rural Texas, I'm thrilled. My interview with them.
www.salon.com/2024/03/05/-...
"They frankly laugh behind the backs of their own voters": How Republicans bamboozle rural whites
In "White Rural Rage," Paul Waldman and Thomas Schaller reject the narrative that treats Trump voters like children
www.salon.com
March 5, 2024 at 11:27 AM
In "White Rural Rage" Paul Waldman and and Thomas Schaller finally wrote the book that stops treating rural white voters like children, instead of adults responsible for their choices.
As someone who grew up in rural Texas, I'm thrilled. My interview with them.
www.salon.com/2024/03/05/-...
As someone who grew up in rural Texas, I'm thrilled. My interview with them.
www.salon.com/2024/03/05/-...
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Studies of white supremacy in the U.S. consistently show the same thing: we cannot have a functional multiracial democracy if we cannot hold those actively trying to sabotage it accountable.
March 4, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Studies of white supremacy in the U.S. consistently show the same thing: we cannot have a functional multiracial democracy if we cannot hold those actively trying to sabotage it accountable.
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if you think of originalism as a kind of idolatry then it makes total sense that conservative originalists simply do not recognize the reconstruction amendments as having the same force as the rest of the constitution.
March 5, 2024 at 12:07 AM
if you think of originalism as a kind of idolatry then it makes total sense that conservative originalists simply do not recognize the reconstruction amendments as having the same force as the rest of the constitution.
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This is maddening: New polling conducted by Dems finds that an alarmingly small percentage of voters surveyed are familiar with Trump's most blatant authoritarian threats, such as his "dictator" quote.
This is bad. But it's also an opportunity. 1/
Link:
newrepublic.com/article/1795...
This is bad. But it's also an opportunity. 1/
Link:
newrepublic.com/article/1795...
Maddening New Poll: Voters Are Unaware of Trump “Dictator” Threats
A small percentage of voters surveyed are familiar with Trump’s most overt authoritarian outbursts. That’s frightening. But it’s also an opportunity.
newrepublic.com
March 5, 2024 at 12:30 PM
This is maddening: New polling conducted by Dems finds that an alarmingly small percentage of voters surveyed are familiar with Trump's most blatant authoritarian threats, such as his "dictator" quote.
This is bad. But it's also an opportunity. 1/
Link:
newrepublic.com/article/1795...
This is bad. But it's also an opportunity. 1/
Link:
newrepublic.com/article/1795...
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"the choice to obsess about Biden’s age... is equally a choice to participate in an information operation designed to dehumanize the President and drown out any discussion of his accomplishments," writes Marcy Wheeler www.emptywheel.net/2024/03/04/w...
March 5, 2024 at 4:14 PM
"the choice to obsess about Biden’s age... is equally a choice to participate in an information operation designed to dehumanize the President and drown out any discussion of his accomplishments," writes Marcy Wheeler www.emptywheel.net/2024/03/04/w...
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the journalistic failures surrounding Iraq were so vast and numerous that it felt hard to diagnose, but after Gaza it feels simpler. the institution is distinctly racist towards Arabs and Muslims - not in some abstract structural way but in the sense that NYT leadership views them as inferior
I didn’t think the Times could look any worse in a war than it did after Iraq, but they may have outdone themselves with Gaza
"union leaders said that Times managers had questioned employees about their involvement in an affinity group for employees of Middle Eastern and North African heritage and...demanded copies of private text-message conversations between colleagues"
grim
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
March 2, 2024 at 2:17 AM
the journalistic failures surrounding Iraq were so vast and numerous that it felt hard to diagnose, but after Gaza it feels simpler. the institution is distinctly racist towards Arabs and Muslims - not in some abstract structural way but in the sense that NYT leadership views them as inferior
Why do MAGA adore a spoiled elitist billionaire who mocks the working class and veterans, and who hates individual freedom?
Paul Waldman and Tom Schaller provide the answers in their new book 'White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcsx...
Paul Waldman and Tom Schaller provide the answers in their new book 'White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcsx...
'White Rural Rage' looks at the most likely group to abandon democratic norms
Paul Waldman and Tom Schaller join Morning Joe to discuss their new book 'White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy'.» Subscribe to MSNBC: https://w...
www.youtube.com
March 1, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Why do MAGA adore a spoiled elitist billionaire who mocks the working class and veterans, and who hates individual freedom?
Paul Waldman and Tom Schaller provide the answers in their new book 'White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcsx...
Paul Waldman and Tom Schaller provide the answers in their new book 'White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcsx...
HYPOCRISY: The patriotic MAGA base demanded vengeful and self-destructive wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen, even as they protected Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
General Mark Milley: ‘Americans have kind of had it with wars’
The ex-US military chief who spanned the Trump and Biden administrations on deterring China, the ‘stalemate’ in Ukraine — and staying out of politics
www.ft.com
March 1, 2024 at 7:12 PM
HYPOCRISY: The patriotic MAGA base demanded vengeful and self-destructive wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen, even as they protected Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
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The correlation between support for Trump and support for Christian nationalism among Whites.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
March 1, 2024 at 4:01 AM
The correlation between support for Trump and support for Christian nationalism among Whites.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Owasso, OK police have declared - *before* the initial autopsy results - that Nex Benedict did not die from from trauma caused by being assaulted in an Owasso high school bathroom.
This is the sort of PD misdirection we often see in "police related" shootings.
This is the sort of PD misdirection we often see in "police related" shootings.
February 23, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Owasso, OK police have declared - *before* the initial autopsy results - that Nex Benedict did not die from from trauma caused by being assaulted in an Owasso high school bathroom.
This is the sort of PD misdirection we often see in "police related" shootings.
This is the sort of PD misdirection we often see in "police related" shootings.
Two history-making Black TV news anchors reflect on Washington, D.C.'s evolution as a diverse community with a diverse history.
DC News legends Maureen Bunyan and Derek McGinty join us live to look back at 75 years of serving th
Celebrating 75 years of WUSA9.
www.youtube.com
February 20, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Two history-making Black TV news anchors reflect on Washington, D.C.'s evolution as a diverse community with a diverse history.
Reminder from 2021 audit:
White Episcopal leaders are stubbornly unaware of how race has shaped their lives and their church, and how they have harmed their non-white fellow clergy and congregants.
White Episcopal leaders are stubbornly unaware of how race has shaped their lives and their church, and how they have harmed their non-white fellow clergy and congregants.
Episcopal Church releases racial audit of leadership, citing nine patterns of racism in church culture
[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church publicly released a report on April 19 that assesses the racial makeup and perceptions of a broad sampling of the church’s leadership and summarizes ho…
www.episcopalnewsservice.org
February 20, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Reminder from 2021 audit:
White Episcopal leaders are stubbornly unaware of how race has shaped their lives and their church, and how they have harmed their non-white fellow clergy and congregants.
White Episcopal leaders are stubbornly unaware of how race has shaped their lives and their church, and how they have harmed their non-white fellow clergy and congregants.
GOP border-bill opponents are forcing the release of thousands of undocumented immigrants
After border bill failure, ICE considers mass releases to close budget gap
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to slash the number of immigrants in detention because it is running a $700 million budget deficit.
wapo.st
February 14, 2024 at 6:52 PM
GOP border-bill opponents are forcing the release of thousands of undocumented immigrants
Immigrants since 2022 are more likely to work than their native-born counterparts, largely because immigrants skew younger. This infusion of working-age immigrants will more than offset the expected retirement of the aging, native-born population.
This will in turn lead to better economic growth.
This will in turn lead to better economic growth.
Opinion | The surge in immigration is a $7 trillion gift to the economy
Maybe all the hysteria about border security is based on a faulty premise.
wapo.st
February 14, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Immigrants since 2022 are more likely to work than their native-born counterparts, largely because immigrants skew younger. This infusion of working-age immigrants will more than offset the expected retirement of the aging, native-born population.
This will in turn lead to better economic growth.
This will in turn lead to better economic growth.
Today’s social “conservatives” hate society, calling us satanic. As sociopaths, they will never invest in our common future, only in themselves.
January 21, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Today’s social “conservatives” hate society, calling us satanic. As sociopaths, they will never invest in our common future, only in themselves.
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Any time you argue in favor of giving the state more power to inflict more punishment, know that it inevitably is going to be used to inflict that punishment disproportionately on those who lack the status, resources, or capacity to fight it. Even when they did not commit the crime in question.
"An Oklahoma man who in 1975 was convicted of murder in a liquor store robbery was exonerated in court on Tuesday after he had spent more than 48 years in prison, the authorities said." www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/u...
Man Cleared of Murder After More Than 48 Years in Prison
Glynn Simmons, 70, of Oklahoma, was exonerated after a 1975 conviction for a murder he did not commit, prosecutors said. He served the longest wrongful sentence in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2023 at 5:21 AM
Any time you argue in favor of giving the state more power to inflict more punishment, know that it inevitably is going to be used to inflict that punishment disproportionately on those who lack the status, resources, or capacity to fight it. Even when they did not commit the crime in question.
MAGA is turning the U.S. border into a shooting gallery against migrant families.
As border extremism goes mainstream, vigilante groups take a starring role
Arizona Border Recon and other groups that patrol the border for migrants and drug smugglers are gaining followers and prominence, fueling far-right rhetoric and misinformation in national politics.
www.latimes.com
December 18, 2023 at 8:24 PM
MAGA is turning the U.S. border into a shooting gallery against migrant families.
Trump's routine lies are important, because they form the core of the GOP and MAGA perspective of the world.
MAGA believers are violently delusional.
Free article:
MAGA believers are violently delusional.
Free article:
Analysis | Trump on Hannity’s show: 24 false or misleading claims in 5 minutes
The former president falsely claimed he could save Social Security with oil and gas revenue, among many bogus claims — an average of one every 12 seconds.
wapo.st
December 12, 2023 at 9:44 PM
Trump's routine lies are important, because they form the core of the GOP and MAGA perspective of the world.
MAGA believers are violently delusional.
Free article:
MAGA believers are violently delusional.
Free article:
For Democrats, the purpose of government is usually the public good.
For Republicans, that purpose is harsh social regulation, with little apparent regard for the lives of those who have to endure these policies. Free link:
For Republicans, that purpose is harsh social regulation, with little apparent regard for the lives of those who have to endure these policies. Free link:
Opinion | Red States and Blue States Are Becoming Different Countries
If you want a sense of what the future could bring if either party wins full control of the federal government, all you have to do is look at the states.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2023 at 9:43 PM
For Democrats, the purpose of government is usually the public good.
For Republicans, that purpose is harsh social regulation, with little apparent regard for the lives of those who have to endure these policies. Free link:
For Republicans, that purpose is harsh social regulation, with little apparent regard for the lives of those who have to endure these policies. Free link:
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In my latest for @opendemocracy.bsky.social, I warn that the GOP’s moral panic may well escalate to the state-level overturning of no fault divorce laws. And perhaps even to an eventual federal ban. They clearly aren’t stopping with abortion
www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/no-f...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/no-f...
OPINION: Divorce laws at risk if Republicans win in 2024
Bans on no-fault divorces would be unpopular, but the Republicans may be too caught up in a moral panic to care
www.opendemocracy.net
December 7, 2023 at 5:13 PM
In my latest for @opendemocracy.bsky.social, I warn that the GOP’s moral panic may well escalate to the state-level overturning of no fault divorce laws. And perhaps even to an eventual federal ban. They clearly aren’t stopping with abortion
www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/no-f...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/no-f...
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Don’t give in to the GOP’s extreme immigration demands, @americasvoice.bsky.social's Vanessa Cárdenas urges.
“None of what Republicans are pushing for equates to ‘border security’ or would promote an orderly and safe border ..."
bitly.ws/34Qq4
“None of what Republicans are pushing for equates to ‘border security’ or would promote an orderly and safe border ..."
bitly.ws/34Qq4
Democrats Shouldn't Give in to Republicans’ Extreme Demands - America's Voice
Washington, DC — There’s renewed attention to the Senate supplemental funding negotiations following a failed procedural vote yesterday and given the stakes and urgency of aid to Ukraine and other...
bitly.ws
December 7, 2023 at 5:23 PM
Don’t give in to the GOP’s extreme immigration demands, @americasvoice.bsky.social's Vanessa Cárdenas urges.
“None of what Republicans are pushing for equates to ‘border security’ or would promote an orderly and safe border ..."
bitly.ws/34Qq4
“None of what Republicans are pushing for equates to ‘border security’ or would promote an orderly and safe border ..."
bitly.ws/34Qq4