The naïveté of elite liberal pundits is really something to behold

The worse things get for them, the more they'll lean into targeting Black people, immigrants, and trans people. These are the areas they've found the most success. But it has and will continue to expand. Back to Muslims & Palestinians is already happening. Or Jews, from the other wing of the movmt.

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4d ago

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

Trump's racism is not new, but I do want to talk about something interesting. And that is the way American fascists have been using social media to try to splinter the black vote and dissuade Black Americans from coming to the defense of Haitian and Somali people.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

This is suuuuch a perfect distillation of the right's rhetoric. Testament to how much they can get away with that he can just say this so baldly.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

What did I do to deserve seeing this in my feed

Until there is a stronger reaction to the authoritarian and toxic wings of the left, they will keep succeeding at eating their own. Keep succeeding at winning by losing. The way they disrupted the peace rally Mamdani attended yesterday says it all. They will burn it all down just to make a point.

Thoughts on the inevitable hot takes of the day.

A Life Is a Life: Thoughts on the Anniversary of October 7th

Today has become marked by debates over whose life matters more rather than mourning the loss of innocents. And that itself is a tragedy.

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CT House candidate William Gifford asks if it's antisemitic to "not like someone because they are Jewish" given "what the Jewish religion says against white Christian men." This is hiding a dangerous canard behind "just asking questions." CT GOP and Rep. Tim Ackert, who endorsed him, must condemn.

One of the best ways to know if a group is under threat in America is how quickly they will be thrown under the bus by their supposed allies

THREAD 🧵 This week, Elon Musk's America PAC launched hundreds of anti-trans ads, part of a $100 million midterm spend. In 2024, a Musk-funded PAC ran antisemitic ads reminding Muslim voters that Doug Emhoff is Jewish. That's not a coincidence.

I cannot describe the brokenness I felt reading this from the Haaretz piece. The hostages were betrayed by everyone; Israeli leaders, the diaspora leaders & their orgs, the entire pro-Israel industrial complex, and by far and away the millions of people who cried "hostages" to support a genocide.

Here is a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast saying that algebra is a conspiracy by the Jews to turn people into “good little goy slaves.” I wish I was joking.

Here is a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast saying that algebra is a conspiracy by the Jews to turn people into “good little goy slaves.” I wish I was joking.

The main difference between Elizabeth Holmes and the other big name tech founders is that she is facing consequences

Lmao. This isn’t even satire, it’s more of a reenactment

One of social media's worst dynamics is the way it incentivizes people to take on the most extreme position. There is always someone who can claim to be more pure. The result is that people can constantly shame others by "proving" their bonafides through piling on those seen as too moderate.

These people are ridiculous. The Hebrew they are referring to is a quote from the Torah, "צֶ֥דֶק צֶ֖דֶק תִּרְדֹּ֑ף" ("Justice, justice, shall you pursue"). Some people want actual justice, others just want Jews to erase every part of our peoplehood, including our Torah. In the name of progressivism. So gross.

This is what you get when you build a force to terrorize immigrant communities and recruit for it with Great Replacement fear mongering and slogans borrowed from white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

Pod Save America guys make fun of Vance for not knowing what blood libel is, then proceed to say an even wronger definition. Like, this feels like a comedy. A horrible, horrible, painful, cringe comedy.

This reminds me of this section from Philip Slater’s “The Pursuit of Loneliness” The passage is about individualism but imo the same logic applies to our relationship to technology. We have created our issues through over-reliance on tech, and we then think the answer is more tech.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Interventions like this are only going to grow more common. You can't alter the weather one place without impacting other parts of the world. There will be international incidents, conflict and even war over shit like this. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Only reason a Dem could be against this guy is Islamophobia, there I said it

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

WATTERS: “Some of this stuff is just straight-up wacky.” 🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “You know what’s wacky? We have a president who cares more about the drapes in a ballroom than the affordability crisis or the war he got us into.”

Not solely. People voted for him. Other people thought he was no worse than Harris. Others in power, who could have stopped him running again didn’t. A weak opposition party failed to fight back. Don’t put it all on him. He’s only doing this because people let him.

Andrew Weinstein@andrewjweinstein.com · 2mo ago

The United States and Canada have been friends, partners, and allies for more than 150 years across 32 presidential administrations. And now, solely because of the arrogance, incompetence, and ego of the current occupant of the White House, that relationship is being driven straight toward a cliff.

One day students will look at the reaction to DSA as part of America’s long history of using terror of imagined communism to entrench right wing politics. And they’ll also be able to compare it to the way multiple nations fell to fascism. We’re just one more, & today is no different than the past.

Really a shame that Hunter Biden is still being promoted as some sort of oracle for the left after he spent months palling up to Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson.

Mike Nellis@mikenellis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hunter Biden on Natalie Harp’s access to Trump: “It’s not just weird. Who is this person who’s a meter away from the nuclear football, has this level of access to the most powerful man in the world, went a year without a security clearance, and is basically around Donald Trump 24/7?"

‼️ The Trump administration has appointed a large number of election deniers to prominent government jobs. But there are other anti-voting activists in Trumpworld operating outside of the White House — and directly influencing efforts to undermine your elections. Allow us to introduce you:

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Rittenhouse attempted to distance himself from Fuentes after that initial report came out, but he also attended the Kenosha protest with someone that was deep into white nationalist politics and clearly is close to the Groyper stream - as are most rank-n-file young Republicans.

The dismissal of "woke 1" should be called what it really is, the abandonment of Black people. Fine, of course, to talk about the excesses of the punitive left etc. I and many others have been subject to it. But throwing that era away so casually, esp things like "defund" etc, is just retreat.

My latest piece. On joining and leaving a Hasidic cult, and what it taught me about the things people need. And how America, and progressive movements, deeply lack those things. And how we can build an alternative, and thus fight for a better world.

What The Far Right, Cults, and Conspiracy Theorists Get Right

How joining a cult taught me why the far right is winning.

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my own kinda confessional essay in 2020 about growing up in evangelicalism and conspiracy theories touched on similar ideas of the thrilling nature of alternate worldviews wisetendersnob.medium.com/this-secret-...