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Trumpism lost big last week, but the fascist right thinks that's a great thing for its efforts to take over the Republican Party:
As Democrats hail massive Republican defeats, fascist right sees post-Trump opportunity
Nick Fuentes and his groypers think they can dislodge MAGA now that Trump has failed electorally
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Democrats won big this week, but the fight against fascism has only just begun. Now is when it gets really interesting, @matthew.flux.community writes:
We have not yet begun to fight
The radical right has been dealt a massive blow, but the struggle for democracy is only just beginning
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Pollsters predicted sweeping Democratic wins, and they were right Republicans insist that polling underestimates them, but 2026 saw the exact opposite Patreon link below, Substack here: plus.flux.community/p/pollsters-...
Pollsters predicted sweeping Democratic wins, and they were right | Flux
Republicans insist that polling underestimates them, but 2026 saw the exact opposite By W. Joseph Campbell The crucial test for preelection
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As electorate appears set to render dour midterms judgment against Republicans, MAGA reverts to familiar peddling of hate, @jtccarroll.flux.community writes:
As electorate appears set to render dour midterms judgment against Republicans, MAGA reverts to familiar peddling of hate
While Democrats attack Trump and the GOP for mismanagement of the economy, corruption, and the misbegotten war on Iran, Republican candidates respond by attacking. . . America
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Standing up for trans people isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s smart politics @matthew.flux.community on why Democrats don't need to run away as Republicans double down on transphobia, and why left parties endanger themselves by giving in to the radical right
Standing up for trans people isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s smart politics | Flux
As Republicans double down on transphobia, Democrats don’t need to run away By Matthew Sheffield Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was sometimes c
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🧵 The upcoming elections are looking very promising for Democrats but many transgender people have nonetheless found them dismaying because Democrats, like the UK Labour Party, are beginning to waffle on trans rights. This is a moral failure, but it is also a data analysis failure:
Standing up for trans people isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s smart politics
As Republicans double down on transphobia, Democrats don’t need to run away
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Lula and his supporters embraced social media and it was the key to his comeback presidential victory. They reached people who were indifferent and helped them see the dangers of a Bolsonaro presidency.
How Lula turned the tables with his comeback presidential victory | Flux
Supporters of Brazilian president didn’t let his far-right rival Flávio Bolsonaro dominate social media By Anthony W. Pereira, The Conversat
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New from me at @flux.community: It’s time for Dems to attack authoritarian maneuvers like the targeting of Rep. Ilhan Omar both as dangers to the republic AND as exposing the deep vulnerabilities of MAGA’s bleakly racist vision for America. 1/x plus.flux.community/p/in-despera...
In desperate attempt to head off midterms rout, Trump tries to criminalize Representative Ilhan Omar for crime of being an immigrant
It’s time for Dems to attack such authoritarian maneuvers both as dangers to the republic and as exposing the deep vulnerabilities of MAGA’s bleakly racist vision for America
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A desperate Donald Trump is using Rep. Ilhan Omar as a test case to see how much Democrats will let him criminalize the opposition, @jtccarroll.flux.community writes:
In desperate attempt to head off midterms rout, Trump tries to criminalize Representative Ilhan Omar for crime of being an immigrant
It’s time for Dems to attack such authoritarian maneuvers both as dangers to the republic and as exposing the deep vulnerabilities of MAGA’s bleakly racist vision for America
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Within 5 minutes of James Talarico unofficially capturing the Democratic nomination for the Texas U.S. Senate seat, right-wing operatives launched a massive anti-trans media campaign against him. Hope Pisoni has traced the timeline as an example of the right's speed and message discipline:
Tracking how right-wing media unleashed a torrent of anti-trans attacks on James Talarico | Flux
Reactionaries launched coordinated attacks within minutes of Texas Democrat unofficially capturing his party’s Senate nomination By Hope Pis
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Despite Trump's failures and extremism, Democrats have not focused on deligitimizing the entire Republican brand within the public eye, @jtccarroll.flux.community writes. Next month's election must be more than just a repudiation of Trump's specific failures.
To move the U.S. beyond MAGA, Democrats must delegitimize a radicalized GOP in the eyes of voters
This strategy needs to start with any Dem successes in the midterms, which the party should frame as a repudiation of Trumpism and its enablers, not just as a referendum on a struggling economy
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As Republicans' electoral fortunes fade significantly, many of its politicians are trying to distance themselves from Trump, but it's only verbal misdirection. He owns the Republican party, and Democrats must remind voters of that, @jtccarroll.flux.community argues:
Flimsy GOP attempts to show ‘distance’ from Donald Trump should fool no one
As Republicans face a likely midterms wipeout, Democrats must be unsparing in reminding voters that there is little daylight between a radicalized GOP and the aspiring despot in the White House
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As Trump ramps up his attacks on America's founding principles and seeks to destroy our most treasured institutions, the conservative Democrat group Third Way thinks that not-even socialists are the bigger threat. This is a dangerous error, @jtccarroll.flux.community writes:
Third Way “war” on democratic socialism betrays a basic misreading of U.S. politics
An increasingly fascistic Republican Party, not ideas that lie within the continuum of pro-democracy policies, is the true threat to America
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I have a new episode of my podcast Theory of Change out today with two former NIH scientists to discuss what scientists are doing to fight back against Trump's attempts to dismantle American science. Patreon: www.patreon.com/discoverflux... Substack: plus.flux.community/p/how-scient...
How scientists are fighting back against the Trump administration’s attempts to science them | Flux
Sylvia Chou and Alexa Romberg on how scientists are realizing that being apolitical is a luxury belief By Matthew Sheffield Sylvia Chou and
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Trump’s Reflecting Pool vendetta became too ridiculous for Jeanine Pirro Despite the dismissal of the charges, this was still an outrageous abuse of power, @jtccarroll.flux.community writes:
Trump’s Reflecting Pool vendetta became too ridiculous for Jeanine Pirro
The Justice Department's dismissal of laughable charges against a former Olympic athlete shouldn't obscure the basic fact of the president's abuse of power against an innocent man
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Corporations have overrun the federal judiciary. In the latest Theory of Change, @profciara.bsky.social joined @matthew.flux.community to talk about political extremism in business communities and how "corporatocracy" works:
How corporations took over the federal courts
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy on how ‘corporatocracy’ works and why
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More ICE killings are the inevitable result of mass deportations rooted in incendiary claims of immigrant invasion @jtccarroll.flux.community on why Democrats mustn't shy away from letting the public know about Trump's dehumanization of immigrants
Renewed ICE killings are inevitable result of mass deportations rooted in incendiary claims of immigrant invasion
Democrats must pair opposition to ICE lawlessness with unsparing attacks on the GOP's dehumanizing anti-immigrant hatred and propaganda
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Trump’s insane elections speech was really about excusing future authoritarianism Bizarre primetime address presented nothing new, but did lay groundwork for censorship and infringing on states’ rights to administer elections
Trump’s insane elections speech was really about excusing future authoritarianism
Bizarre primetime address presented no evidence, but did lay groundwork for censorship and infringing on states’ rights to administer elections
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Do bees have inner lives? New study suggests it’s a possibility Research shows that bees seem to manifest internal states of pleasure and disgust
Do bees have inner lives? New study suggests it’s a possibility | Flux
Research shows that bees seem to manifest internal states of pleasure and disgust By Andrew Barron It’s easy for us to tell if someone is en
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My latest at @flux.community: The president's plan to spruce up a tourist attraction has mutated into self-serving claims of anti-American vandalism in the heart of D.C. and over-the-top charges against a sacrificial citizen. 1/x plus.flux.community/p/trumps-ine...
Trump's inept attempts to ‘fix’ Reflecting Pool only highlight his authoritarian fixations
The president's plan to spruce up a tourist attraction has mutated into self-serving claims of anti-American vandalism in the heart of D.C. and over-the-top charges against a sacrificial citizen
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On the latest Theory of Change, @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com joined @matthew.flux.community for a discussion about the need for a positive liberal vision for America--and how to reform our broken institutions:
Liberals want Trump gone, but what do they want instead?
Adam Gurri, founder and publisher of Liberal Currents joins to discuss ‘The Reconstruction Papers’
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Trump's plan to spruce up a tourist attraction has mutated into self-serving claims of anti-American vandalism in the heart of D.C. and over-the-top charges against a sacrificial citizen. Via @jtccarroll.flux.community:
Trump's inept attempts to ‘fix’ Reflecting Pool only highlight his authoritarian fixations
The president's plan to spruce up a tourist attraction has mutated into self-serving claims of anti-American vandalism in the heart of D.C. and over-the-top charges against a sacrificial citizen
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Beliefs in mind uploading and mechanical immortality are very common within the American tech bro scene. But these are absurd delusions that are not at all supported by biology. We just published a comprehensive rebuttal of this fantasy by biologist and philosopher Johannes Jaeger:
The myth of mind uploading
Minds are what bodies do
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This Independence Day, let's remember that separation of church and state is an all-American idea Freedom of conscience works for everyone—religious as well as non-religious
Separation of church and state is an all-American idea
Freedom of conscience works for everyone—religious as well as non-religious
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Welcome swag for white South African ‘refugees’ reveals blatant racism of Trump’s asylum policy Via @jtccarroll.flux.community:
Welcome swag for white South African ‘refugees’ shines light on blatant racism of Trump’s asylum policy
The Trump administration plans to provide bespoke gift bags to Afrikaners, including materials that encourage an embrace of white supremacy as the ideal way to assimilate into American society
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A politics of powerful love is the only one that can defeat fascism w/o violence. The real divide now is between those who will fight for democracy, and those who will twiddle their thumbs. Voters do not choose based on obscure policy debates, so we must shelve them until the fascists are crushed.
My latest: Thousands of people think their favorite chatbot has a soul, but why does no one ever say the same about Midjourney? Finally finished my essay debunking false beliefs in chatbot consciousness. Please share if you could: plus.flux.community/p/large-lang...
Large language models and the textual nude Thousands of people think their favorite chatbot has a soul, but why does no one ever say the same about Midjourney? New via @matthew.flux.community:
Large language models and the textual nude
Thousands of people think their favorite chatbot has a soul, but why does no one ever say the same about Midjourney?
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Juneteenth and the failure of Reconstruction are stories we must never forget. Learning about past American injustice is an inspiration to do better. Students everywhere deserve to know the stories of people like Joshua Houston and Samuel Walker Houston.
Juneteenth and the failure of Reconstruction are stories we must never forget
The lives of people like Joshua Houston and Samuel Walker Houston reveal that justice must be a perpetual struggle
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“'Pluralism is the idea that mutual worldviews and life systems can exists side by side,' Simmons writes, calling it 'the root of an unrighteous society.'” The title flags the project. Again, Americans aren't so much divided as they are *being* divided. plus.flux.community/p/the-radica...
The radical Christian nationalist plan to colonize rural America and establish sharia-style governance
Pastor Raymond Simmons’s calls on Christians to eliminate religious freedom and establish adultery and abortion as capital crimes
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