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American fascism is hilarious; it’s politics as aesthetics, but the aesthetics are ass.
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
American fascism is hilarious; it’s politics as aesthetics, but the aesthetics are ass.
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Thread.👇
"I wasn't able to let them know that I was going to get deported. I didn't even know I would be deported until I was on the plane."
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Thread.👇
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Nixon administration consumer advisor Virginia Knauer in 1973
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Nixon administration consumer advisor Virginia Knauer in 1973
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i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
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it took gratuitous cruelty and disregard for international law to turn this into a scandal, but well, at least this administration is always good for those
There are now bipartisan investigations in both the House and Senate into the administration targeting and killing people in the Caribbean without due process.
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
it took gratuitous cruelty and disregard for international law to turn this into a scandal, but well, at least this administration is always good for those
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My reach on socials doesn't = Ryan's, but I feel need to continue drumbeat. THESE WERE ALREADY ILLEGAL strikes. The doubletap makes it MORE OBVIOUS, not MORE ILLEGAL. (ok. it's a bit more illegal; since it opens a whole new category of illegal).
(we tried people at Nuremburg for crimes like this).
(we tried people at Nuremburg for crimes like this).
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
My reach on socials doesn't = Ryan's, but I feel need to continue drumbeat. THESE WERE ALREADY ILLEGAL strikes. The doubletap makes it MORE OBVIOUS, not MORE ILLEGAL. (ok. it's a bit more illegal; since it opens a whole new category of illegal).
(we tried people at Nuremburg for crimes like this).
(we tried people at Nuremburg for crimes like this).
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I understand the reasons some non-Americans have for using this, but this post is correct — you’ll be immediately ignored here if you use it.
If I wrote a post referring to “UKians” all the people living there would ignore me too, and rightly so.
If I wrote a post referring to “UKians” all the people living there would ignore me too, and rightly so.
If your argument involves referring to Americans as “USians” it doesn’t matter how cogent the rest of your point may be tbh
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I understand the reasons some non-Americans have for using this, but this post is correct — you’ll be immediately ignored here if you use it.
If I wrote a post referring to “UKians” all the people living there would ignore me too, and rightly so.
If I wrote a post referring to “UKians” all the people living there would ignore me too, and rightly so.
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Another bad indicator for local media (and, frankly, local party communication channels): I live less than two miles from the Florida district referenced here and had no idea there was an election happening.
More elections are already around the corner, mere days.
And Democrats have opportunities to build on their November gains by flipping more offices: in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Florida.
And that's just the tip of a busy election month.
My new guide, just out:
And Democrats have opportunities to build on their November gains by flipping more offices: in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Florida.
And that's just the tip of a busy election month.
My new guide, just out:
The 25 Elections to Watch This December - Bolts
On the heels of their sweeping wins in November, Democrats have opportunities to gain further ground in December runoffs and special elections. They’re hoping for upsets in conservative territory, fro...
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Another bad indicator for local media (and, frankly, local party communication channels): I live less than two miles from the Florida district referenced here and had no idea there was an election happening.
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We need to normalize it being normal to be rude when someone who you barely know is asking when you’re getting married after you establish you’ve been dating for a couple years. Like no I actually don’t feel like talking about my life priorities with you.
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
We need to normalize it being normal to be rude when someone who you barely know is asking when you’re getting married after you establish you’ve been dating for a couple years. Like no I actually don’t feel like talking about my life priorities with you.
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The location ID on twitter revealing that 99% of the horrible shit on that website is just posted by people in India honestly soothed me a lot. Its literally all just fake.
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The location ID on twitter revealing that 99% of the horrible shit on that website is just posted by people in India honestly soothed me a lot. Its literally all just fake.
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Genuinely, how do you as a leftist rationalize advocating for Zohran Mamdani, an ethnically South Asian man, while also posting an image of a racial caricature that’s meant to demean people from his background.
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Genuinely, how do you as a leftist rationalize advocating for Zohran Mamdani, an ethnically South Asian man, while also posting an image of a racial caricature that’s meant to demean people from his background.
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I maybe be just a small-town political scientist but I reckon that the Trump administration's right hand has no fucking idea what its far-right hand is doing.
"US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan." Welcome to the Topsy Turvy administration in which six or seven people are pursuing their own private foreign policy, and much of it is scripted by a hostile foreign power.
US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with U.S.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I maybe be just a small-town political scientist but I reckon that the Trump administration's right hand has no fucking idea what its far-right hand is doing.
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Your periodic reminder that @radiofreetom.bsky.social who many of you like to follow, and who writes for the Atlantic, was pushing the great replacement theory before Trump and has never apologized for it. He's part of what got us here.
October 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Your periodic reminder that @radiofreetom.bsky.social who many of you like to follow, and who writes for the Atlantic, was pushing the great replacement theory before Trump and has never apologized for it. He's part of what got us here.
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Court politics are inherently incoherent.
So, to recap, Ukraine and Europe understand that America has effectively endorsed a 28-point plan to force Kyiv to capitulate, set a Thursday deadline to accept it, and threatened to cut off all aid.
Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Court politics are inherently incoherent.
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"When I’m trying to make arguments in favor for Israel, I realize I’m talking through a wall of dead children”
Rather than banning cell phones to avoid this wouldn't a better solution be to stop making walls of dead children?
Rather than banning cell phones to avoid this wouldn't a better solution be to stop making walls of dead children?
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"When I’m trying to make arguments in favor for Israel, I realize I’m talking through a wall of dead children”
Rather than banning cell phones to avoid this wouldn't a better solution be to stop making walls of dead children?
Rather than banning cell phones to avoid this wouldn't a better solution be to stop making walls of dead children?
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"dont you feel like we're spending a little TOO much time discussing the secretive cabal of elite pedophiles who continue to control the country and force insane, wasteful grifts down our throats" get in the fucking sea
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"dont you feel like we're spending a little TOO much time discussing the secretive cabal of elite pedophiles who continue to control the country and force insane, wasteful grifts down our throats" get in the fucking sea
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This morning, the President of the United States publicly called for the execution of six Members of Congress.
Donald Trump must be removed from office. Today.
He is a clear & present danger to this country. Right now. Invoke the 25th Amendment, or impeach & convict him. Now.
Donald Trump must be removed from office. Today.
He is a clear & present danger to this country. Right now. Invoke the 25th Amendment, or impeach & convict him. Now.
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
This morning, the President of the United States publicly called for the execution of six Members of Congress.
Donald Trump must be removed from office. Today.
He is a clear & present danger to this country. Right now. Invoke the 25th Amendment, or impeach & convict him. Now.
Donald Trump must be removed from office. Today.
He is a clear & present danger to this country. Right now. Invoke the 25th Amendment, or impeach & convict him. Now.
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begging defense analysts to stop writing stuff that assumes that operating a MQ-9 Reaper and operating a $400 FPV drone is pretty much the same thing and works about the same way
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
begging defense analysts to stop writing stuff that assumes that operating a MQ-9 Reaper and operating a $400 FPV drone is pretty much the same thing and works about the same way
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Autocracy 101.
Totally normal for the father of an executive, putatively unconnected with their company, to hold talks with a presidential administration about which journalists they'd fire if that company successfully takes over a third company. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks
Exclusive: Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance acquiring Warner Bros Discovery
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Autocracy 101.
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NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
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sometimes people's later work is different just because they were in a different place. when he started out, ta-nehisi coates was constrained to saying the most interesting things you were allowed to say at the atlantic, which was great to read because that's like being really excellent at sonnets.
November 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM
sometimes people's later work is different just because they were in a different place. when he started out, ta-nehisi coates was constrained to saying the most interesting things you were allowed to say at the atlantic, which was great to read because that's like being really excellent at sonnets.