Onson Sweemey

The Dems breaking through right now are all treating Trump's consolidation of dictatorial power and his subjugation of Blue America as absolutely central facts about our moment.

Zohran highlights that regularly. Trump's threat to nix funding is a case in point.

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It is not a coincidence or a historical contingency that the US right is fundamentally based on lies. This is true for all reactionary politics at all times & places. It is intrinsic to reactionary politics.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

ICE just reactivated its contract with an Israeli firm that makes phone-hacking spyware. Here's what you should know.
#ICE #NewsUS #Hacking #spyware

Matt Yglesias, too.

Cuyahoga, though Pilgrimage comes close.

Gonna tell my kids this is Obrack Ofuane.

A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

Heard from a colleague spending a few months in the Netherlands.

"Went on a 35-mile bike ride today, entirely on bike paths, through all kinds of landscapes. Turns out I love biking, I'm just scared of biking with cars."

😢

Okay, but what was so hard about voting to defund Iron Dome? It’s likely one of the best pieces of leverage the US could hold over Israel to force them to change course away from g*n*cide and get back to the negotiating table. Omar and Tlaib voted for it. And AOC hems and haws about proceduralism.

Why did Tlaib and Omar vote the opposite then? Until funding for the Iron Dome is cut, what incentive does the Israeli state have to change course? Funding their defense is funding their genocide of Palestinians.

Yep. Love watching them gracefully swish like giant pinwheels.

Look, it’s not an earth-shattering revelation, but pretty much any problem in this country can be traced to a single ur-cause: Private capital has too much power.

Establishment Democrats are probably secretly rooting for Team Trump on this one. Anyone seen "Vote Blue No Matter Who" lately?

Trump and Stephen Miller want a vast secret police apparatus and they are building it right out in the open.

The latest version of the Senate's BBB is a death sentence for US energy leadership and a giant gift to China.

It eliminates tax cuts for solar that have been around since 2005, adds a new tax on solar after 2027, and creates a new direct subsidy for coal.

Tax them on the way out.

So now the Vote-Blue-Crowd-No-Matter-Who crowd gets to show us how seriously they take that principle.

“Wait, we didn’t mean *that* shade of blue.”

- a nonzero number of Democratic voters in NYC right now, unfortunately #ZohranMamdani

Lots of folks are emphasizing that Tr**p ordered strikes on Iran without Congressional approval. I don’t care if Congress were to approve war with Iran. It would just mean that Congress is full of psychopaths, too. And this also goes for every Democratic lawmaker not vigorously opposing this lunacy.

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.

Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

Skyrocketing mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone raises fears of wider spread Boom in infections in the West African nation is driven by the same viral strain that caused a global outbreak in 2022.

Good thing we have very competent people in the US protecting us from things like this.

Moderna withdraws application for COVID-flu combination vaccine Moderna said on Wednesday it has withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and COVID combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

This is absolutely terrible news.

With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.

h/t @merz.bsky.social

It’s wild to see how many liberals over on Threads think the centrist, GOP Lite approach that lost *twice* to Trump is the way forward. Wild to see them once again stupidly punching left with abandon. Haven’t seen it as much here.

@tracyalloway.bsky.social on the bird site:

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:

Thousands are seen spread out for hundreds of metres towards buildings in the distance. The mountains are seen on the horizon.

A quick 🧵of the incredible sights in cities across the USA right now.

Millions are on the street speaking out against Trump & Musk trampling the Constitution.

Let’s start here with Salt Lake City 😳👏

#HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #FiftyFiftyOne

(📸Nate Blouin)

Wild to see the economy crater and people’s retirement evaporate while a bunch of folks in red hats applaud it because they’re convinced Dear Leader is some sort of 5D Chess Master and not a tinpot dictator whose brains have turned to oatmeal.