Rudy Leal McCormack, PhD

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

Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.

Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.

Today, we remember the prophetic anti-fascist psychoanalyst and critical theorist, Erich Fromm, who turns 125 years old today. His analysis of why the working class is seduced by fascism is still needed. #fascism #psychology #MAGA #USA #psychoanalysis #philsky #philosophy www.dustinjbyrd.org

“Terrifying”: Trump’s Rage at Judge Unnerves GOPers as Crisis Worsens As Trump begins defying a judge blocking deportations and Republicans balk at his demands for the judge’s impeachment, a legal expert explains why this is headed for a major crisis.

The whole point of deporting someone with a soccer tattoo that's relabeled a "gang" tattoo is for Trump to assert the power to simply say someone is a gang member or terrorist *without* presenting evidence of it.

On the pod, @lizdye.bsky.social is terrific on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1930...

Five very simple, clear demands.

Israel now bombing “everywhere, literally everywhere”

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.

Tomorrow is the cloture vote.

KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️

Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.

Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

I don’t give a damn if you’re a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or Green Party, any elected official not fighting for the people needs to go.

For decades, self-proclaimed centrists and moderates have been in control of the Democratic Party.

Now we’re having discussions on how to “save” or “rebuild” the party.

Why would that task be left to those who architected the first popular vote loss in 20 years?!

I’m still not over the fact that Tim Walz went viral for calling Republicans ‘weird,’ put Trump and Vance on the defensive, then got picked as Harris’s running mate because of it, and then… he was immediately silenced, disappeared, and Dems stopped calling the GOP ‘weird.’

Like everything about the Biden presidency, it’s all too little too late… 40k+ Palestinians dead.

At this point there should be no doubt that Republicans have been completely taken over by dangerous theocratic tendencies.

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'President-elect Musk': Elon's influence on display in government spending fight Musk began posting on X against a stopgap government spending bill on Wednesday well before Trump weighed in against the legislation.

Excellent headline from USA Today

If we did a fraction of the research into our candidates for elected office as we did for our fantasy football teams, we would have the government we desperately need.

Academics finishing the semester: FINALLY I can start working on my work!

YouTube video by The Fromm Connection Dr. Dustin J. Byrd: Contemporary Life and The Role of Religion

If anyone is interested in the ideas of Erich Fromm there is a podcast for you. It features @drdjbyrd.bsky.social!

Here it is: youtu.be/-muPjkOMKdo

“Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we’re going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.” – Fred Hampton

55 years ago today, Chairman Fred Hampton was assassinated.

This!

Matt Gaetz just admitted that he’s guilty of sexual abuse of children by recusing himself! Rest assured, he would have been confirmed by the Republican senate. He just knew info would get out that would ruin him.

The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.

They have been charged with “crimes against humanity and war crimes.”

Reminder that you can actually report people on this platform for abject hate speech. Do it!

See if we read what humans experienced in the past we would not have to replay the same movie over and over. Don’t get me wrong Arendt should be less inaccessible but that’s why you got people like us, to help digest the obtuse elitist language.

The upside down world! Lines are being created as we type.

Sounds about right.