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In front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a person is wearing a Donald Trump mask, a crown, a knee-length red tie and a "naked" costume, and carrying a sceptre.

Emperor has no clothes: #nokings

Crowd of protesters on Pariser Platz in Berlin: in the foreground, signs reading "Ask Berlin what fascism costs" and "No felons in the White House" and the back of a person's head in an "abolish ICE" baseball cap: in the background, the Brandenburg Gate

Protest crowd on Pariser Platz in Berlin, in the foreground a sign reading "Is it 1933 again?"

"Ask Berlin what fascism costs": No Kings rally outside the U.S. embassy #nokings #october18

The Friendly Nazis Next Door Everyone says that this new crop of American Nazis is really mean, but I, a white journalist, went out to talk to them for this profile, and they w...

Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Since ppl love campus anecdotes so much, here's one: I have colleagues who give students they know to be MAGA an A (in one case I'm aware of overlooking clear AI use), because the colleague is on a Green Card or H1B, and they know: one complaint like at Texas A&M, and they're on a flight home. (1/3)

ETSC: Mutual recognition deal with U.S. will cost lives on Europe’s roads By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the United States, the European Union has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice…

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U.

“By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.”

This will kill people.

I just can't help but note how incredibly intellectually disqualifying it is for anyone to have been in that room while Yarvin said that thing and not immediately either call him a wicked fool or walk out.

Because the only kind of rights these people can imagine are property rights, and to them white men are property owners and everyone else is property.

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

The current crisis of the German constitutional court nominations process is based on the far right successfully selling the nomination of a very mainstream female law professor as an attack on the Basic Law and German society so that they can effective choose an alternative.

Many Europeans (my experience is w Germans) have sort of medieval beliefs about all moving air & things people do to cool off being unhealthy. They don't just hate A/C, they also hate fans & are judgey about iced drinks. They've had the luxury of these views bc til recently their summers weren't hot

Somewhat similarly, the birth rate in Poland has plummeted since the near-total abortion ban (also touted as "pro-family"), in part because even people who want kids aren't willing to risk having to raise a severely disabled kid in a country with inadequate support for the disabled.

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The politics of authoritarianism are binary in a way that is foreign to so many American institutions. You either fight back or they destroy you, and the search for some third way that exchanges compromises for security is folly.

Huh and in this brilliant plan who'll be able to afford the US-manufactured iPhones when the former professional classes are working in factories for minimum wage?

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

There used to be a general consensus around “sticking it to the man” and now an entire side of the political spectrum loves the man and will do anything for the man and gets their feelings very hurt if the man has to pay taxes.

This, like most definitions of millennial that're based on actual cultural/political phenomena and not an arbitrary cut-off date, includes Xennials: lead was taken out of regular gas in 1975 & lead paint was banned in 1978. We're way less lead-poisoned than other GenXers & we vote like millennials.

Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs

It's totally at the intersection of misogyny and weird American notions about children -- that children are the property of their parents, solely an extension of their parents & not human beings with rights -- which seem to spring from a worldview where the only rights are property rights.

Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute “Exceptional” fossil collections housed by the Paleontological Research Institute risk being orphaned

What makes the current crop of rich people in this country so intolerable is that they could easily bail this institute out–and who doesn't like dinosaurs–and gain some popularity. But they are so greedy, they just won't help anyone but themselves.
www.science.org/content/arti...

I lost my job. USDA Forest Service. My probation was up next week. I did everything right. I took a GS-7 role with a master’s degree just to get my foot in the door. I spent years doing seasonal fieldwork for low pay, working in remote places, gaining experience, and building skills, just for a chance at a permanent position. I was about to be a GS-9. I wrote NEPA reports. I conducted field surveys. I worked fire support. I dedicated myself to this work because I believed in it. Public lands don’t manage themselves. The wildlife, watersheds, and forests we protect don’t just stay protected without people on the ground making it happen. My coworkers and I took on that responsibility, often in places most people never think about but that matter more than they know. And now? Just like that, I’m out. Edit: I’ve consistently supported progressive policies and have voted Democrat in every national and local election since I was 18. I do appreciate folks asking, I have some coworker having a serious 'leopards ate my face' moment right now.

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

fascism is the kicking in of a rotted door, and the dem party has been committed for the last 15 years to insisting that the door we can all see is rotten and falling off the hinges is actually fine and good and maybe the best door in the world

chris rufo: is harvard doing an antisemitism?

new york times: WE WILL TALK ABOUT NOTHING OTHER THAN THIS FOR A WEEK STRAIGHT

elon musk: sieg heil! also, all my tween nazis run your government agencies now

new york times: boring tussles about bureaucracy are underway

i've come to think that "musk tries to take away medicare" is going to be the iron test for who is in charge here. i guess we may get to find out

Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.

Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report Alleged talks between billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications

Putin maybe?

“As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces” President Trump has promised a "colorblind and merit-based" society, while also equating diversity with incompetence .

Dante described a special place in hell for NYT headline writers, where they experience burning pain but there are no devils, no agents of torment, just weird ‘undercurrents’ like bad smells. Who is torturing them? No one in particular

“At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV, now do.”

Send him to the fucking Hague

In his takeover of the U.S. government, Elon Musk has prioritized going after programs most despised by Putin. (He has also taken down the USAID website so that you cannot read its reports.)