People's obsession with the historical accuracy of a contemporaneous take on a myth is a great fable about the idiocies of our times.

Eid Mubarak! My heart is especially with the people of Iran and Lebanon on this Eid, and all suffering peoples.

“What makes an economic crisis effective for these authoritarians is if they can connect people's economic pain to their racist... ideas.” Racism scholar @ibramxk.bsky.social explains how people like Trump leverage financial crises to create further divide, showing how immigrants are ‘taking jobs’

"Palestinians will be left to languish in heavily surveilled concentration camps, serving as captured labor for the international corporations seeking to profit." @simonerzim.bsky.social discusses Trump’s 'Board of Peace' and its dystopian vision for Gaza. Watch: zeteo.com/p/zionism-wi...

Every accusation is a confession. Trump calling NATO a paper tiger is quite funny bc the reputational damage to the idea of the military dominance of the US will be long-lasting. The empire is crumbling.

The KIDS Act (mass censorship and surveillance law that would eliminate anonymous internet use) is moving forward in the House, and the only opposition is from Democrats who claim it doesn't censor and surveil ENOUGH. When is the left going to wake tf up???

Twitter: from marketplace of ideas to echo chamber of conspiracies in one musk.

@mspopok.bsky.social Here's my question: what laws are there both federally and on the state level to keep the Trump administration from installing actual work camps for people they want to deport where the deportees would have to pay off the cost of their deportation?