Krystal Ball

The new official definitions of anti-semitism which seek to criminalize Israel criticism, this admin’s authoritarian tactics, and AI fueled surveillance via Palantir, will be marshaled to crush dissent in ways that were impossible in 2003.

Everyone should be prepared for the fact that whereas with Iraq, anti-war protesters were smeared as traitorous terror lovers, this time we will also be smeared as bigoted anti-semites.

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
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As Trump’s popularity drops and backlash mounts, he will turn even more authoritarian. The techniques he’s tested on immigrants will be turned on American citizens.

Oh yes that number is overwhelming

Centrists have caused a profound shift among the base of the Dem party through their cowardice in the face of Trump’s authoritarianism. In January Gallup found a plurality of Dems wanted the party to be more moderate, a new poll finds that the majority now want the party to be more progressive.

YouTube video by Breaking Points Trump BETRAYS Coal Miners w/ Chainsaw to Black Lung Health

Trump doesn’t give a shit about coal miners. His admin is destroying mine safety and ending black lung protections so that more young miners can slowly suffocate from this horrible disease. youtu.be/7XHir3o1SLY

There's something weird happening where The Discourse about the tariffs is about how Trump is trying to return us to 1950's and 1960's, the manufacturing heyday of America, but he's not! He' been very very explicit about this. He wants to return us to the 1890's. That's a different project!

I'd be happy to support and help fundraise if someone can get the effort together. How much do you think would need to be raised?

Would require a significant investment and money but would be a great idea.

The Supreme Court has effectively sentenced more innocent people to be disappeared into Bukele's torture dungeon. Disgraceful capitulation to fascism.

You have any sense of which way the decision on the merits is likely to go with SCOTUS?

This is only a partial list and the worst is undoubtedly yet to come. Your health, wealth, and freedom all under assault.

He is using totalitarian tactics to crush universities, law firms, and media outlets. He has just levied the largest tax in history on working Americans and sent the global economy into a tailspin. He bragged about bombing innocents in Yemen and is prepping war with Iran.

He gave the richest man on the planet a green light to plunder, destroy the safety net, and gut things like cancer research. He is disappearing innocents into a foreign gulag with no due process and refusing to obey the courts who try to stop them.

It’s hard for me to hold in my head the breadth of the destruction, chaos and outright evil from this administration. Trump is fully backing a genocide and threatening with arrest or deportation those who oppose it.

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social wondering if I could interview you?

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.

Really think about how twisted this all is.

This person sicced a fascist government on a student protester and is now trying to nuance troll his way out of culpability.

MAHA UPDATE: the Trump admin just made a lawyer for Abbott Labs head of food safety. He (unsuccessfully) defended them from charges that premies became catastrophically ill from their formula. Same company caused a formula shortage when they shut down a plant for unsanitary conditions.

Don’t worry everyone! The famously selfless rich and powerful are just looking out for your best interest. Sure they’re crashing the econ, raising prices, gutting Medicaid, funding crypto scams and letting white collar criminals endlessly rob you but trust them, it is all for your own good!

They are looting to benefit oligarchs while claiming they can’t afford Grandma’s social security check.

The ideological glue that holds Trump 2.0 together is literally just outright theft. Whether it’s taking Ukraine’s minerals, Elon stealing multi billion $ contracts or Trump forcing taxpayers to backstop crypto billionaires bags.

I think Elon's threats of funding primary challenges against any non-compliant GOP has may have fully ended the era of Tea Party/Freedom Caucus rebellion. Massie the last man standing on being an actually ideologically committed deficit hawk. Everyone else will just do as they're told by Trump/Musk.

When they say “free market” they mean monopolies, union busting, govt handouts for giant corporations and the ability for oligarchs to rob ordinary people with impunity.

GOP comes together to pass a monstrous budget that will pave the way for tax cuts for the rich at the expense of Medicaid and SNAP. Congrats guys. Way to stick it to the working class and serve your billionaire masters.

Keep up the pressure it's working!

Can’t say I’m surprised. Joy, Alex and Ayman (and @mehdirhasan before) were all critical of Israel and now they’ve all been canceled. No dissent from the pro-genocide consensus will be tolerated.

I’ve been warning that the Tech Bros want the S.F. Presidio for a “freedom city”. Now this. 👇 1/

Doctor and medical scientist here. My quality project at the VA, planned for a year, was a virtual telemedicine clinic for *all* vets, but because it included services for specific minorities, it was killed by this regime after they took power.

This is literally happening.