AJ
@planetabsurdia.bsky.social
The planet will be fine; it’s the people that are f*cked.
⚖️ 🐶mama 🌉 🏔️ go blue 💙💛
⚖️ 🐶mama 🌉 🏔️ go blue 💙💛
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AJ
@planetabsurdia.bsky.social
· Apr 5
What’s worse than what is being done to the economy is the erasure of black folks, women and the lgbtq community.
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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
May 9, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Thorough takedown of "trollish, ill-informed pseudo-intellectual" Curtis Yarvin (who wrote for a while as "Mencius Moldbug") by @cathyyoung63.bsky.social.
The Blogger Who Hates America
Curtis Yarvin’s popularity keeps growing. His intellectual rigor, not so much.
www.persuasion.community
May 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Thorough takedown of "trollish, ill-informed pseudo-intellectual" Curtis Yarvin (who wrote for a while as "Mencius Moldbug") by @cathyyoung63.bsky.social.
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I know it's not the most important thing here but this story also corroborates one of my biggest theories about these tech guys: they do zero hours of work in a day. They do no work no matter how much they claim to work 14 hours a day. They're just on their phones.
Ben Smith lifts up a corner of the plush comforter under which our would-be overlords have been huffing each other's farts for the past few years as they collectively dream their way back to the cutting-edge ideas of the late 19th century www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
www.semafor.com
April 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I know it's not the most important thing here but this story also corroborates one of my biggest theories about these tech guys: they do zero hours of work in a day. They do no work no matter how much they claim to work 14 hours a day. They're just on their phones.
This opinion on an Alien Enemies Act case on Petition for Habeas is 🔥🔥🔥 and also contains the background of Venezuelan immigration status and actions under previous Trump Admin. Interesting read:
April 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This opinion on an Alien Enemies Act case on Petition for Habeas is 🔥🔥🔥 and also contains the background of Venezuelan immigration status and actions under previous Trump Admin. Interesting read:
1 Wish I had a larger following because everyone should listen to this podcast. A great explainer of the historical background of neoliberalism and its intersection w/libertarianism that has led to far right global movements. Local bookstore was out of his new book, but recommend Crack-Up Capitalism
[This Is Hell!] Neoliberalism Turning To Nature To Defend Inequality / Quinn Slobodian
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Listen to This Is Hell! - Neoliberalism Turning To Nature To Defend Inequality / Quinn SlobodianT011_20250415slobodian by This Is Hell! on Podcast Addict. Author Quinn Slobodian returns to “This Is Hell!” to talk about his new book, “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right”, published by Zone Books. Check out Quinn’s book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781890951917?srsltid=AfmBOopa361sL5mow9Y4zSXDsHQXyvTQBZ0YZASHJvW-UyhbliOMShxt Keep TiH! free and completely listener supp
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April 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
1 Wish I had a larger following because everyone should listen to this podcast. A great explainer of the historical background of neoliberalism and its intersection w/libertarianism that has led to far right global movements. Local bookstore was out of his new book, but recommend Crack-Up Capitalism
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These guys are willing to be fired by making this statement. A lot of brave people out there — and a lot who aren’t (and are revealing themselves).
April 23, 2025 at 3:44 AM
These guys are willing to be fired by making this statement. A lot of brave people out there — and a lot who aren’t (and are revealing themselves).
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Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
Harvard professor offers a grim assessment of American democracy under Trump
Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime."
www.npr.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
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A relief to finally see this spelled out like this. It ought to be an orthodoxy. @quinnslobodian.com great new book, Hayek’s Bastards, also helps to clarify the alliances and possible shared interests between capital and ethnonationalism www.theguardian.com/business/202...
It’s not poverty that’s breeding the new populism. It’s wealth | Phillip Inman
Analysts trace a link between financial security and a troubling, increasingly devil-may-care, attitude to political risk
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A relief to finally see this spelled out like this. It ought to be an orthodoxy. @quinnslobodian.com great new book, Hayek’s Bastards, also helps to clarify the alliances and possible shared interests between capital and ethnonationalism www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Watch the full interview with @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov here and subscribe for more:
GLOVES OFF: Governor Newsom drops SURPRISE bad news on Trump
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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April 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Watch the full interview with @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov here and subscribe for more:
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The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
April 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.
1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
A must-read. Ties tech bros, Musk-Mars endeavor, 2025, Bannon, possible Opus Dei together in these current gov’t machinations.
The rise of end times fascism. An essay by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A must-read. Ties tech bros, Musk-Mars endeavor, 2025, Bannon, possible Opus Dei together in these current gov’t machinations.
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April 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Proud to be among the amici supporting Perkins Coie (along w/@umichlaw.bsky.social colleagues @leahlitman.bsky.social, Len Niehoff, & Rebecca Scott).
The Trump Administration is trying to subvert the rule of law by denying lawyers to its opponents. It's that simple.
law.stanford.edu/publications...
The Trump Administration is trying to subvert the rule of law by denying lawyers to its opponents. It's that simple.
law.stanford.edu/publications...
BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE 363 LAW PROFESSORS IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND FOR DECLARATORY AND PERMANENT INJUNCTIVE RELIEF | Stanford Law School
Amici 363 law professors submit this brief in support of Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment and for Declaratory and Permanent Injunctive Relief
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April 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Proud to be among the amici supporting Perkins Coie (along w/@umichlaw.bsky.social colleagues @leahlitman.bsky.social, Len Niehoff, & Rebecca Scott).
The Trump Administration is trying to subvert the rule of law by denying lawyers to its opponents. It's that simple.
law.stanford.edu/publications...
The Trump Administration is trying to subvert the rule of law by denying lawyers to its opponents. It's that simple.
law.stanford.edu/publications...
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Glad the magazine brought this up. Perfect entree/time to watch The Penguin Lessons out in theaters now, which portrays academic life under fascism in 1970s Argentina. And the secret police only had handguns.
April 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Glad the magazine brought this up. Perfect entree/time to watch The Penguin Lessons out in theaters now, which portrays academic life under fascism in 1970s Argentina. And the secret police only had handguns.
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Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.
April 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.
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The next ante by the admin won’t be withholding even more gov’t funding, it will be hand over your endowment. It’s in Proj. 2025.
April 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The next ante by the admin won’t be withholding even more gov’t funding, it will be hand over your endowment. It’s in Proj. 2025.
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This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
March 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
Must-read for strategies to thwart/reverse autocratisation and authoritarianism!
#democracy #savedemocracy
#democracy #savedemocracy
🚨 Autocratisation is not inevitable! ✋
Our Special Issue with @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social & @keremoxford.bsky.social explores its limits through the actors & institutions of democratic resistance & opposition from an interregional, interdisciplinary perspective: 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/4...
Our Special Issue with @bilgeyabanci.bsky.social & @keremoxford.bsky.social explores its limits through the actors & institutions of democratic resistance & opposition from an interregional, interdisciplinary perspective: 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/4...
Third World Quarterly
Limits of autocratisation: actors and institutions of democratic resistance and opposition. Volume 46, Issue 2 of Third World Quarterly
www.tandfonline.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Must-read for strategies to thwart/reverse autocratisation and authoritarianism!
#democracy #savedemocracy
#democracy #savedemocracy
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Thank you for bringing this up because I see a parallel between the unbreakable Maga cult and the unbreakable Scientology cult. Amazing that the DOJ successfully broke up gangs, mafias, but could never break up the criminal enterprise cult. Also, Dark Enlightenment guys reminiscent of L Ron H.
March 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Thank you for bringing this up because I see a parallel between the unbreakable Maga cult and the unbreakable Scientology cult. Amazing that the DOJ successfully broke up gangs, mafias, but could never break up the criminal enterprise cult. Also, Dark Enlightenment guys reminiscent of L Ron H.