It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

“The world's richest man is also one of the world's most vociferous and vocal bigots," says Chris Hayes.

Musk to pour millions into GOP races as his extremist posts draw new scrutiny

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i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 6d ago

enough of this shit

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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A pretty clean illustration of how SCOTUSblog's editorial coverage has shifted since its merger with a conservative media outlet: At its big-ticket Supreme Court term preview conference in the fall, the marquee event is...a panel featuring the GCs of Boeing, TD Bank, and ExxonMobil

Doing a Classic Rock ride on Peloton and The Rising was one of the songs. That song is from the early 2000s! It's classic rock!?

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

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I'm reading The Iliad and my key takeaway from the first four books: Agamemnon suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

Okay, I'm here for Muppets. Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem playing Seven Nation Army? Sure

I guess I just don’t understand how stupid you have to be not to see the world’s richest man embracing boilerplate white nationalism because it allows him to present himself as a victim bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Happening right in front of us. The world's richest man.

Schrödinger's Diaspora Jew: Simultaneously existentially threatened as a Jewish minority always on the verge of extermination without a Jewish state to keep us safe, and yet also too pampered in our comfortable homes in New York to lecture Israeli Jews facing constant danger on how to keep safe.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 4w ago

If the argument here is "Brad Lander is too safe as a Jew in diaspora to tell Israeli Jews how to keep safe," that sits uncomfortably with the argument that a Jewish state is necessary to keep Jews safe.

I see Tadej Pogacar is, once again, doing Tadej Pogacar things.

This is an example of what I would call "structurally antisemitic" rhetoric. He isn't necessarily literally talking about Jews, or even using a possible dog whistle like "AIPAC" or "the Epstein class." But this framing of "we" versus "they," where "they" is undefined, bears a lot of cultural weight.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4w ago

"We engaged in electoral politics. We motivated people. We banded together. We did it the way that we were told we are supposed to make change, and we won, and now they are not going to let us have it," Platner says.

emmanuel is so ruthlessly cynical that this is basically telling you where the typical democratic voter is on american aid to israel

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

AdotSad@adotsad.bsky.social · 4w ago

Oh its OVER OVER

This is a prime example of why right-wing populism slides so easily into antisemitism. You need a populist framing of "the people" versus "the elites," but you can't frame the elites in strictly economic terms, or else you end up with leftism. Hence you need another way to define "elites."

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last mo.

Miriam Adelson is horrible, but she's horrible because she's a billionaire buying elections. Thomas Massie can't make a principled critique of all billionaires, because that would lead him to leftism, so he has to single out the "Tel Aviv born" ones. He knows exactly what he's doing here.

Phil Liggett is washed and I'm tired of NBC/Peacock trotting him out. We deserve so much better cycling coverage in the US

And now, I will get to go another year without people playing Born in the USA while not listening to the lyrics.

The entire city is on edge right now. It’s 96 degrees, we’re interrupted every 5 min by the sound of low-flying fighter jets, and the president has managed to ruin July 4th. Quietly muttering to myself: “just wait until IT happens. Everyone will be so happy when IT happens. It’ll be incredible…”

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · last mo.

Despite Trump’s best efforts to bully them, the Supreme Court just reaffirmed that if you are born in America, you belong in America.

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last mo.

That's right.

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

Israelis decided it would be better to put all their chips on enablers who want to see them vaporized on judgement day than deal with criticisms of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians from other jews. Little too late to start giving a shit what the diaspora thinks now www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/w...

The use of the First Amendment as a weapon against professional licensing schemes is not good.

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · last mo.

Interesting: A federal judge has struck down a D.C. law that prohibited therapists from outside the city from doing online consultations with D.C. clients, saying it's a violation of the First Amendment. ij.org/press-releas...

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

Waking up to see @patrickwyman.bsky.social talking to @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social on his podcast was a nice surprise. Does it help the sting of missing out on Dragonsteel Nexus badges? Not entirely, no

Like I said: admitting to liking Elon Musk must become socially equivalent to admitting you pleasure yourself to a picture of Pol Pot on a nightly basis. This creature is not redeemable, and anyone who defends his genocidal insanity is complicit.

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · last mo.

In the last three hours, Musk has posted that USAID “was central to the creation of COVID-19,” “funded coronavirus research in China that killed millions of people,” “was used for terrorism,” and “killed millions.”

liberal democracies will never be safe with musk this powerful—they must unite to break him my latest with @newrepublic.com c/a @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2119...

Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response

The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.

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