Brad Simpson

My family on my mom‘s side is descended from Oliver Comwell and came to the colonies right after the English Civil War, ashamed of association with him. The apocryphal story is that they dropped the W in the ocean on the way and took the name Crowell.

more like a 1930s hydroelectric project booster:

“I am a river You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you.”

I think Trump respects people with genuine principles and recognizes that Mamdani can’t be totally rolled like the majority of democratic leaders, who are so cowardly and reactionary that Trump knows he can always intimidate them into submission.

Though he is an awful, horrible, person, Trump recognizes genuine political talent, and can be differential when it’s clear he won’t be able to bully or strong arm people. Mamdani won’t be intimidated by Trump, and I think he knows that and i think doesn’t want to be even more hated in New York.

The correct response here is for Hakeem Jeffries to grow a pair and get every single Democratic representative and Senator to endorse this video and go on the record saying that Trump should be impeached and arrested for calling for the murder of elected representatives. Triple down.

Hakeem Jeffries is one of the dumbest most incompetent Democratic house leaders in modern history. Some of the worst political instincts of any Democratic leader in my lifetime and a rank moral coward.

Jfc these people haven’t learned anything since the 1950s, or maybe the 1920s. The most intellectually and morally vacuous and bankrupt people you can imagine.

Perhaps this is less important in an era when local human rights groups can use social media to broadcast their news. But Trump has signaled to every repressive govt in the world that its open season on human rights, LGBTQ activists,etc and that the US will be supportive of those attacks.

The US was the first country to require its diplomats to report on the human rights situation in other countries (however imperfectly), and after 2008 LGBTQ rights, mandating that embassy officials reach out to, talk to local human rights activists, which provided them some protection.

A complete abandonment of the system of human rights reporting set ip in the 1970s as a Congressional response to US support for rights abusing regimes. Its important, however, to understand the implications outside the US. “Under Trump, U.S. human rights reports will flag abortion, gender care.”

Trump: We should kill my opponents!

Tapper: that is rather unusual behavior!

A big problem here is that there are many hundreds of thousands of dumb, unqualified, sadistic racist in this country who would gladly work for ice.

Reporters: “you haven’t? well here is a video. I am playing it right now in front of your eyes.”

Mike Johnson: I have not read this.

There needs to be a children’s march to Broadview and other ICE facilities, Birmingham 1963 style, to show what fascist thugs ICE, CBP and others are. There are plenty of young people who understand the stakes here and are willing to take such action. Make these cowards run.

Just fucking say it. Make them arrest you. He’s going to call for you to be arrested or put on trial for treason or executed anyways. Get out in front of the story.

Trump: Democrats ‘traitors’ for telling military not to follow unlawful orders The president said lawmakers who appeared in a video committed “seditious behavior” and should be arrested and put on trial for treason.

Every single political reporter in Washington needs to be asking Republicans “do you support the president’s call for executing your Democratic colleagues for saying that soldiers should not follow illegal orders?” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

People need to temper their expectations. Path breakers are not necessarily going to be revolutionaries.

So clearly, every elected Democrat needs to repeat the same call for troops to refuse to carry out illegal orders. Trump can’t exactly call for the execution of half of the US Congress.

Trump: Democrats ‘traitors’ for telling military not to follow unlawful orders

Swastikas and other symbols of the Nazis and the Klan are now only “potentially divisive,” according to Pete Hegseth (who clearly it does not find them to be divisive).

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

Writing history in a time of genocide Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?

What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?

Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.

Greg Grandin‘s empire of necessity and Amy Stanley’s stranger in a Shogun city. Just beautifully written, almost novelistic books, but also historiographically very sophisticated and innovative.

Why am I surprised, or rather not surprised, that Michael Tracey is defending Jeffrey Epstein.

My grandparents once traveled to Las Vegas to watch an above ground nuclear test from a mountain Lodge within view of the Nevada test site and they told me they felt the warm push of air from the blast a few minutes afterwards.

“I suppose someone will say that in making these comments about shady globalist Jewish bankers controlling the world financial system and being the puppet masters of American politics, I am expressing a political view. To the contrary.”

Basically every social scientist writing about US domestic and foreign policy after Trump: we need new theories

Also the Winds of War

The New School: we are eliminating all of our humanities majors

Jill Lepore: some students were mean to me 15 years ago

The Chronicle: let’s check in on why some students were mean to Jill Lepore 15 years ago

Ok, this makes sense and like a thing you would learn in a first semester trial law course.

I’m a non lawyer - please translate