Jim Carroll
@jtccarroll.bsky.social
Editor, The Hot Screen; contributor at Flux
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Too many Democrats don't grasp that the war on immigrants is also a war on non-white American citizens, and in favor of white supremacist rule over all. Opposing both should be non-negotiable. Via @jtccarroll.bsky.social
Failing to challenge Trump on immigration, Democrats have given MAGA free rein to redefine American identity
Too many Democrats don't grasp that the war on immigrants is also a war on non-white American citizens, and in favor of white supremacist rule over all. Opposing both should be non-negotiable.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Too many Democrats don't grasp that the war on immigrants is also a war on non-white American citizens, and in favor of white supremacist rule over all. Opposing both should be non-negotiable. Via @jtccarroll.bsky.social
"Flanked by renderings of the 'Trump class' battleships at sea, Trump said he would take an active role in their design."
And so the president continues his descent into vainglorious madness, this time via the prospect of gold-plated naval vessels.
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And so the president continues his descent into vainglorious madness, this time via the prospect of gold-plated naval vessels.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/p...
President unveils new ‘Trump class’ fleet of battleships | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump announced a new “Trump class” of Navy battleships Monday, describing them as a superior war fighting vessel to replace an “old and tired and obsolete” US fleet.
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December 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Flanked by renderings of the 'Trump class' battleships at sea, Trump said he would take an active role in their design."
And so the president continues his descent into vainglorious madness, this time via the prospect of gold-plated naval vessels.
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And so the president continues his descent into vainglorious madness, this time via the prospect of gold-plated naval vessels.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/p...
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December 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Definitely support @theunpopulist.net, which is doing great work explaining our slide into authoritarianism on a deep theoretical level while explaining what a future liberal alternative could look like:
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Democrats are hiding their 2024 postmortem, luckily, I was invited by the great @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social to talk about what Democrats have been doing wrong and where they can improve: plus.flux.community/p/democrats-...
Democrats won’t release their 2024 election autopsy, here is ours
Discussing ‘What Republicans Know’ on the Liberal Currents podcast Half the Answer
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December 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Democrats are hiding their 2024 postmortem, luckily, I was invited by the great @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social to talk about what Democrats have been doing wrong and where they can improve: plus.flux.community/p/democrats-...
"The White House announced today that the United States will be renamed "Trump United States.""
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Kennedy Center to be renamed 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House says
The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts will be renamed the "Trump-Kennedy Center," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"The White House announced today that the United States will be renamed "Trump United States.""
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i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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December 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
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ICYMI
Now that Trump has banned migration from 20 more countries, most in Africa, worth recalling this quote from Stephen Miller that we dredged up: "If you import the Third World, you become the Third World."
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December 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
ICYMI
My latest @flux.community: The president's recent rant against Somalis spotlights a white nationalist vision to remake the U.S., and needs to be called out for the unforgivable hate speech that it is. 1/
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When Donald Trump attacks Somali immigrants, he attacks America
The president's recent rant against Somalis spotlights a white nationalist vision to remake the U.S., and needs to be called out for the unforgivable hate speech that it is.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
My latest @flux.community: The president's recent rant against Somalis spotlights a white nationalist vision to remake the U.S., and needs to be called out for the unforgivable hate speech that it is. 1/
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My latest at @flux.community : Democrats must insist that not just Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth but the Republicans who voted to confirm him are complicit with murder and possible war crimes off the coast of South America. 1/
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GOP pirates of the Caribbean
Democrats must insist that not just Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth but the Republicans who voted to confirm him are complicit with murder and possible war crimes off the coast of South America
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December 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
My latest at @flux.community : Democrats must insist that not just Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth but the Republicans who voted to confirm him are complicit with murder and possible war crimes off the coast of South America. 1/
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New from me, covering for @brianbeutler.bsky.social at Off Message
"Maybe it was blind luck that led this group of national security-oriented lawmakers to bait Trump into a debate over war crimes just as the Post was working up a story about potential war crimes"
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"Maybe it was blind luck that led this group of national security-oriented lawmakers to bait Trump into a debate over war crimes just as the Post was working up a story about potential war crimes"
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Mark Kelly's Double Tap
National security Democrats launched a preemptive strike on Trump's misuse of the military. Weeks later it's paying off in ways even they didn't predict. Or maybe they did.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Neon Liberalism #54: Join Samantha and guest Kori Schake, author of "The State and the Soldier," as they discuss the history of civil-military relations in America—and how that relationship is being pushed to the breaking point. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
Neon Liberalism #54: An Army Is a Dangerous Thing to Play With
Join Samantha and guest Kori Schake, author of The State and the Soldier, as they discuss the history of civil-military relations in America—and how that relationship is being pushed to the breaking p...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Neon Liberalism #54: Join Samantha and guest Kori Schake, author of "The State and the Soldier," as they discuss the history of civil-military relations in America—and how that relationship is being pushed to the breaking point. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
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The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
My latest at @flux.community: As President Trump acts in increasingly erratic and dangerous ways - including calls to execute Democratic politicians - opponents should highlight his crazed rhetoric and the fundamental weakness driving it. 1/
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Threatening to execute Democratic officials, Donald Trump tacitly acknowledges he can't beat them politically
As the president acts in increasingly erratic and dangerous ways, opponents should highlight his crazed rhetoric and the fundamental weakness driving it
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November 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
My latest at @flux.community: As President Trump acts in increasingly erratic and dangerous ways - including calls to execute Democratic politicians - opponents should highlight his crazed rhetoric and the fundamental weakness driving it. 1/
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My latest @flux.community: Following a blue-wave off-year election, a key challenge for Democrats in the coming year will be to sharpen public defiance into a force powerful enough to foil Trump's authoritarian responses to his growing unpopularity. 1/
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Democratic performance in off-year elections demonstrates Trump and MAGA's weakness
A key challenge for Democrats in the coming year will be to sharpen public defiance into a force powerful enough to foil Trump's authoritarian responses to his growing unpopularity
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November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
My latest @flux.community: Following a blue-wave off-year election, a key challenge for Democrats in the coming year will be to sharpen public defiance into a force powerful enough to foil Trump's authoritarian responses to his growing unpopularity. 1/
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
My latest at @flux.community: With so many rich and powerful Americans leaning into self-preservation or even the benefits of authoritarian rule, the U.S. will need a cultural and economic reset as well as a political one. 1/
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As elite complicity with Trumpism grows, a revival of democracy will require a social reckoning
With so many rich and powerful Americans leaning into self-preservation or even the benefits of authoritarian rule, the U.S. will need a cultural and economic reset as well as a political one
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November 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My latest at @flux.community: With so many rich and powerful Americans leaning into self-preservation or even the benefits of authoritarian rule, the U.S. will need a cultural and economic reset as well as a political one. 1/
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Many non-Trumpist elites have been willing to accede to his power grabs because ultimately they are anti-democratic as well.
They differ from Trump only in their legalism, @jtccarroll.bsky.social writes at @flux.community plus.flux.community/p/as-elite-c...
They differ from Trump only in their legalism, @jtccarroll.bsky.social writes at @flux.community plus.flux.community/p/as-elite-c...
As elite complicity with Trumpism grows, a revival of democracy will require a social reckoning
With so many rich and powerful Americans leaning into self-preservation or even the benefits of authoritarian rule, the U.S. will need a cultural and economic reset as well as a political one
plus.flux.community
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Many non-Trumpist elites have been willing to accede to his power grabs because ultimately they are anti-democratic as well.
They differ from Trump only in their legalism, @jtccarroll.bsky.social writes at @flux.community plus.flux.community/p/as-elite-c...
They differ from Trump only in their legalism, @jtccarroll.bsky.social writes at @flux.community plus.flux.community/p/as-elite-c...
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A nuanced assessment of the limited but important impact of No Kings protests and of what it means that "a staunchly authoritarian movement is in power but [hasn't] been able to install a consolidated autocracy yet."
Worth reading by @thomaszimmer.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/42mxk7j4
Worth reading by @thomaszimmer.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/42mxk7j4
America As No-Longer-Democracy and Not-Yet-Dictatorship
Where does the country stand after the largest day of protest in U.S. history? Putting “No Kings” in perspective
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October 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A nuanced assessment of the limited but important impact of No Kings protests and of what it means that "a staunchly authoritarian movement is in power but [hasn't] been able to install a consolidated autocracy yet."
Worth reading by @thomaszimmer.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/42mxk7j4
Worth reading by @thomaszimmer.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/42mxk7j4
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A Constant Torrent of Authoritarian Arrogance, Corruption, and Complicity
American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.
New piece:
American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.
New piece:
A Constant Torrent of Authoritarian Arrogance, Corruption, Complicity
American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.
democracyamericana.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A Constant Torrent of Authoritarian Arrogance, Corruption, and Complicity
American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.
New piece:
American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.
New piece:
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Sunday Reading: A Constant Torrent of Authoritarian Arrogance, Corruption, and Complicity
American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
A Constant Torrent of Authoritarian Arrogance, Corruption, Complicity
American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.
democracyamericana.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sunday Reading: A Constant Torrent of Authoritarian Arrogance, Corruption, and Complicity
American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
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This is several days old. But amidst so much else id missed it. That’s a stunning number. No wonder they about-faced. Reminder of the power of consumers in oligarch era, not subject to the same kind of targeting.
October 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is several days old. But amidst so much else id missed it. That’s a stunning number. No wonder they about-faced. Reminder of the power of consumers in oligarch era, not subject to the same kind of targeting.
My latest @flux.community: The No Kings protests show that many millions understand that the aim must be to delegitimize MAGA authoritarianism, not just beat it - even as the GOP moves in countervailing fashion to delegitimize democracy itself. 1/
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No Kings Protests Highlight Crucial Fight to Delegitimize MAGA Authoritarianism
As the president and his allies dismiss a pro-democracy majority as extremist, they highlight the GOP's outlandish dream of a one-party nation
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October 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My latest @flux.community: The No Kings protests show that many millions understand that the aim must be to delegitimize MAGA authoritarianism, not just beat it - even as the GOP moves in countervailing fashion to delegitimize democracy itself. 1/
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So whether or not your city gets invaded by federal troops hinges on whether it contains a billionaire friend of the president who can call off the dogs. Totally absolutely not authoritarian or corrupt at all.
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Trump Calls Off Federal Operation in San Francisco
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October 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
So whether or not your city gets invaded by federal troops hinges on whether it contains a billionaire friend of the president who can call off the dogs. Totally absolutely not authoritarian or corrupt at all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
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My latest @flux.community: Not only has the Trump regime severely curtailed refugee admissions to the U.S., it's constructing new rules that assert only whites can be real citizens. 1/
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Privileging refugee status for Afrikaners and Neo-Nazis, Trump administration flaunts its white supremacist core
Not only has this regime severely curtailed refugee admissions to the U.S., it's constructing new rules that assert only whites can be real citizens
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October 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
My latest @flux.community: Not only has the Trump regime severely curtailed refugee admissions to the U.S., it's constructing new rules that assert only whites can be real citizens. 1/
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