Everyone should be prepared for the fact that whereas with Iraq, anti-war protesters were smeared as traitorous terror lovers, this time we will also be smeared as bigoted anti-semites.

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

World Inequality Lab@wid.world · last yr.

🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds. @thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system. wid.world/news-article...

As Trump’s popularity drops and backlash mounts, he will turn even more authoritarian. The techniques he’s tested on immigrants will be turned on American citizens.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

Centrists have caused a profound shift among the base of the Dem party through their cowardice in the face of Trump’s authoritarianism. In January Gallup found a plurality of Dems wanted the party to be more moderate, a new poll finds that the majority now want the party to be more progressive.

Trump doesn’t give a shit about coal miners. His admin is destroying mine safety and ending black lung protections so that more young miners can slowly suffocate from this horrible disease. youtu.be/7XHir3o1SLY

Trump BETRAYS Coal Miners w/ Chainsaw to Black Lung Health

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There's something weird happening where The Discourse about the tariffs is about how Trump is trying to return us to 1950's and 1960's, the manufacturing heyday of America, but he's not! He' been very very explicit about this. He wants to return us to the 1890's. That's a different project!

Would require a significant investment and money but would be a great idea.

Matthew Stiegler@matthewstiegler.bsky.social · last yr.

When a person is abducted, there's a number to call to report & identify. A habeas petition challenging the abduction is electronically filed in that district, by a lawyer admitted in that district, within 30 minutes of the call. Anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day. Nothing else is good enough.

The Supreme Court has effectively sentenced more innocent people to be disappeared into Bukele's torture dungeon. Disgraceful capitulation to fascism.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.

Tonight the Supreme Court made it possible to have m ore cases like Andry's, by requiring that people challenging Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act file individual habeas corpus lawsuits. Many people in detention don't have any money to hire a lawyer. They won't be able to do this.

It’s hard for me to hold in my head the breadth of the destruction, chaos and outright evil from this administration. Trump is fully backing a genocide and threatening with arrest or deportation those who oppose it.

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social wondering if I could interview you?

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget. Really think about how twisted this all is.

This person sicced a fascist government on a student protester and is now trying to nuance troll his way out of culpability.

MAHA UPDATE: the Trump admin just made a lawyer for Abbott Labs head of food safety. He (unsuccessfully) defended them from charges that premies became catastrophically ill from their formula. Same company caused a formula shortage when they shut down a plant for unsanitary conditions.

Don’t worry everyone! The famously selfless rich and powerful are just looking out for your best interest. Sure they’re crashing the econ, raising prices, gutting Medicaid, funding crypto scams and letting white collar criminals endlessly rob you but trust them, it is all for your own good!

The ideological glue that holds Trump 2.0 together is literally just outright theft. Whether it’s taking Ukraine’s minerals, Elon stealing multi billion $ contracts or Trump forcing taxpayers to backstop crypto billionaires bags.

I think Elon's threats of funding primary challenges against any non-compliant GOP has may have fully ended the era of Tea Party/Freedom Caucus rebellion. Massie the last man standing on being an actually ideologically committed deficit hawk. Everyone else will just do as they're told by Trump/Musk.

When they say “free market” they mean monopolies, union busting, govt handouts for giant corporations and the ability for oligarchs to rob ordinary people with impunity.

GOP comes together to pass a monstrous budget that will pave the way for tax cuts for the rich at the expense of Medicaid and SNAP. Congrats guys. Way to stick it to the working class and serve your billionaire masters.

Keep up the pressure it's working!

Can’t say I’m surprised. Joy, Alex and Ayman (and @mehdirhasan before) were all critical of Israel and now they’ve all been canceled. No dissent from the pro-genocide consensus will be tolerated.

I’ve been warning that the Tech Bros want the S.F. Presidio for a “freedom city”. Now this. 👇 1/

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump issued an executive order to drastically shrink the Presidio Trust, the federal agency overseeing San Francisco’s Presidio, a national park site at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Doctor and medical scientist here. My quality project at the VA, planned for a year, was a virtual telemedicine clinic for *all* vets, but because it included services for specific minorities, it was killed by this regime after they took power. This is literally happening.

Elon just fired workers at the board investigating Tesla for safety issues. Robber baron running the country as his own personal plaything.

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

Washington Generals ass political party

Of course they are. They’re cowards. Plus, they watched conspiracy pilled psychos storm their workplace calling for death to the VP and then the dear leader made a big show of pardoning them. The possibility of violence has already been demonstrated for anyone who might step out of line.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · last yr.

“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress @gabrielsherman.bsky.social: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Declaring that there are only 2 sexes ignores that nature is full of variations that don't fit neatly in either box. It is the literal opposite of "biological truth."

SpaceX engineers brought into the very agency that has been investigating SpaceX. wrd.cm/415YyRd

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.