Thank you for this, and for the Anna's Archive link!

Could I ask what you use to read/highlight? Really like the way those screenshots look

This obsession with bipartisanship got us here. There hasn't been a worse time for it since... when, the 1860s? Step aside and let someone who understands the moment we're in lead the opposition we need

Sorry, but an executive order can't amend the Constitution. Pretty important point to lead with.

I would very much appreciate a copy too! Thank you for offering - joseph.g.edmonds@gmail.com

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Shocked and disgusted that they would choose a VP candidate with an approval rating below 100%

Trump’s Massive Deportation Plan Echoes Concentration Camp History Trump’s language about immigrants “poisoning” the U.S. repeats past rhetoric that led to civilian detention camps, with horrific, tragic results

I wrote for Scientific American about how the pseudoscience and hatred fueling Trump's mass deportation plans mirror grim concentration camp history from around the world. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

When we say the Republicans are destroying education, this is what we mean. This is the result of their draconian funding cuts, anti-teacher hatred (turns out calling innocent professionals "groomers" isn't a good retention strategy), and their visceral hatred of any public good.

"NOT GOING BACK!" is the perfect Harris chant. It's about abortion rights, it's about culture-war reactionaries more generally, it's about a second Trump presidency, and it's about generational change within the Democratic Party.

Amazing how clearly Vance marks the apotheosis of the Republican party. More than Reagan, GWB, or even Trump, he's a void, an empty vessel helping undertaxed oligarchs consolidate more power while using culture wars to distract. For his patrons, only deference; for the public, grievance and spite.

So no joke: the dictatorship in 1970s Argentina once banned Venn diagrams. Because they could be seen as finding common ground between two (apparently) different groups, and if you’re a dictator, unity is a threat. There’s an artist whose work revolves around this!

I want Biden and all his surrogates out there talking about this. Telling voters "The GOP lied to you about an army of IRS jackboots coming for you because they knew rich people were cheating the government and they wanted to keep it that way."

Good. Thrilled to see the thrill-seeking pundit nihilists deprived of a spectacle of chaos among our shaky line of defense against the incipient authoritarian threat.

As hilarious as Venn-phobia is, their page 1 strategy is clear: repeat Great Replacement lies and justify voter suppression by linking immigration to voter fraud. Both sides-ing “concerns” about border security is just laundering the Great Replacement. Do not do their work for them.

There’s a basic mismatch between the role of political press in a democracy (inform, voice, form opinions) and the economic models that allow it to work (infotainment). The two at best aligned for some time in the 1980s but largely the tension persists.

This is why we will need way more support and confidence around this candidacy than any other in our history. This will be a team effort, full stop.

hope Harris remembers UFW if she pulls this off

immediate no-brainer: make election day a holiday

I remembered the brutality but had forgotten about the abductions. Whether it's Biden or Harris, even as a leftist, we have to prevent Trump from winning. Or it's Operation Condor here.

Dem project 2025 (destroy gop edition)

*Incentivize car manufacturers to adopt direct sales
*Amend Supplement Labeling Act
*Aggressive IRS audits over $10mm
*Aggressively enforcing FARA
*Aggressive SEC, IRS, FTC, and DOJ investigations against VCs/tech
*Banning MLMs, criminal charges if applicable

I said on Slate Money this week that everyone is going to know who Curtis Yarvin is shortly because Thiel and Andreessen and Vance all buy into a lot of his theory and he’s no longer a fringe character among techno libertarians. Here’s a sampling of what he believes:

Plus a war at home against protestors.

Do not sleep on how a second Trump administration would seek to destroy all the norms of American civil-military relations and try to use the military as tool for repressing Trump's opponents.

Important to remember that this faction of the capitalist class is a war-mongering faction: it wants the US military to confront China, both to protect the faction’s wealth from competition and to increase its wealth through Security-State contracts

Compassionate migration policies are also the right call politically - CIP Politicians responding to these arrivals should resist the temptation to invoke overly restrictive measures, not only because they trample on the human rights of Venezuelans in desperate situations, b...

Compassionate Migration Policy is the only moral and winning counter to far-right parties braying for harsher and harsher border policies. There's no enacting some atrocity and getting them to back off; you've got to do something in the opposite direction. internationalpolicy.org/publications...

not an original observation by far, but: one of the most useful things about project 2025 for the left is it's a way to organize people against Christian nationalism, and beyond this election, because they are not going anywhere

one of the most disturbing things about this moment is watching the people who opposed Trump because supporting him simply wasn’t done in polite society drop the mask

it feels like the atrocities that are coming if he wins again will be openly cheered by the elite and that ends badly for us all

A lot of people still understand Trump as a top-down threat. Project 2025 is about decentralization. When you purge the civil servants and install little tyrants across every agency, the entire society changes. You're not safe from being a target just because Trump doesn't know your name.

that’s right bitch