a future D administration should make an easy pathway to citizenship specifically for foreign students

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6d ago

One weird trick to literally destroy America www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

We still have the cultural image that actual Nazis were defeated in the 1940's, and the remaining Nazis are either unemployed basement-dwellers or fringe militias in Idaho. There is still a reluctance by media and business leaders to say openly that the world's wealthiest person is a Nazi.

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · last wk.

The ongoing Musk nazi tweets just have me wondering if corporate boards are even a thing anymore

Musk is Timothy McVeigh with a trillion dollars.

Avel Guénin--Carlut@fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · last wk.

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

the answer is bexause the author of this article is party to many crimes of an international nature

It got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash.

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

all the money that’s going to have to be spent to undo all the damage to the White House alone is just so stupid

Kavanaugh, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito should be impeached www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

this + if any Supreme Court justice *doesn't* reject Trump's attack on the constitutional order in the birthright citizenship case, Congress would have good cause to pursue impeachment it's that flagrant 9-0 or they've got to go

the vision for positive masculinity is feminism.

Extremely funny to watch the right coalesce around “I’m in a bubble of morons, so this is impossible!” as an explanation for the LA mayoral results.

Okay look obviously the sentiment being expressed here is reprehensible and a betrayal of our history as, y'know, the guys who invaded Europe on D-Day But also my god the rhetorical quality is abysmal??

Dan Lamothe@danlamothe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hegseth at Normandy: "Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies. Beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria. Boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not."

Great thread

Swan River Press@swanriverpress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you like Backrooms, you might appreciate David Lindsay's 1922 metaphysical fantasy, THE HAUNTED WOMAN. Fitz-James O'Brien also worked this trope with "The Lost Room" (1858) Plunk any other examples in the thread below. Zero points for House of Leaves.

the major asymmetry in our politics is that the median conservative believes liberals are the spawn of satan and the median liberal doesn't. Carl Schmitt was not totally wrong. we should view Trumpism the way our abolitionist intellectual forefathers viewed slavery.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'my party because the other is hostis humanis generis' guilty as charged

impartial scientific research is the enemy of despotism and so naturally vought wants to destroy it

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Chris Morran@themorrancave.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A US-born woman born was confronted by sheriff deputies in Louisiana who were convinced her ID and social security card were fakes. They turned her over to ICE, who shackled her & took her an hour away. Even after a lawyer convinced ICE of the woman's citizenship the sheriff says they did no wrong

Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran

polis ought to go to fucking jail

this Elon Musk plot to steal your 401(k) money is really going underdiscussed

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 3mo ago

As @bentarnoff.com and I have been saying, he is also making use of the quasi-coercive qualities of the index fund for SpaceX shares. Once he is fast-tracked into NASDAQ 100... "It will be impossible not to own them."

her name was juniper blessing, and a blessing is what she was.

this is somehow *even more corrupt* than him suing for the money, even though it’s a smaller amount, this is a taxpayer-funded bribes fund over which he wants sole control and no oversight

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We all have occassion to say this a lot in this era, but seriously this is the craziest goddamn thing I've read in a very very long time abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · 3mo ago

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

Not if we put him through the military justice system and exact the punishment publicly

Mike Johnson, like Sam Alito wants you to believe that the Reconstruction Amendments and the Voting Rights Act were designed to protect white men from discrimination. It’s obnoxious, racist and wrong.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Mike Johnson on the Supreme Court striking down the Voting Rights Act: "They reaffirmed a very important principle: Nobody, no American citizen should be discriminated against based on the color of their skin."

Credibility collapsed because people fabricated things in bad faith, like every point in this video.

Make It Make Sense@themimsshow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Why public health credibility collapsed during covid-19 era

Watching this hog who works at what is left of the Washington Post shove a burger in his face and say "thank goodness for our first amendment" is almost Pink Flamingos-level grotesque

Make It Make Sense@themimsshow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Amsterdam bans hamburger ads

In his 2nd Inaugural, Abraham Lincoln delivered what might be the most devastating rebuttal to the Both Sides lie in history. "Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."

They're going to lose & they know it & this is going to finally lead to major institutional reform. It's going to be very ugly before we get there. But we're going to get there this time.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.