Earl Dax

Serious Leni Riefenstahl vibes.

YouTube video by The White House First Lady Melania Trump: Presidential AI Challenge

Is this AI Melania pitching a “Presidential AI Challenge?” Creepy as f**k!

I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts don't know what to think.

A Republican and Trump ally now owns Dominion Voting Systems. That should help ensure that we continue to have free and fair elections in the US. 😩

Trump Praises North Carolina GOP for New Gerrymander That Further Erodes Fair Representation Read more here.

NEW: President Trump has endorsed the North Carolina GOP's latest gerrymander proposal— a map that would lock in Republican control of at least 11 House seats by further weakening the power of Black and Democratic voters.

YouTube video by Breaking Points DEM DISASTER: SCOTUS Set to Hand Republicans MASSIVE Gains

Important conversation on pending SCOTUS voting rights decision with @davidsirota.com, @krystalball.bsky.social and Sagaar on Breaking Points.

The govt shutdown is because it is much easier to strip a stolen car that is not running

Trump can simply give $40 billion in US tax money to his pals in Argentina, openly admit it is for the intended purpose of keeping the MAGA allied right wing government in power, and pocket billions for himself. The US has no laws anymore and that's your money they are stealing.

Spare us the patronizing 'bless her heart' comments. It took Speaker Johnson less than 24 hours to swear in his Republican colleagues.

He’s stalling because he’s scared of his puppet master Donald Trump.

This delay isn’t about process. It’s about obstruction. #ReleaseTheFiles

Incredibly patronizing. 😡

"Expanding his authority"?

Jesus H. Christ.

There are people at the NYT who know better than this. Lots of them.

Some of them should check the headlines, sub-heds, and "social sells."

Inside America's Academic Gulags (w/ Rashid Khalidi) | The Chris Hedges Report Podcast Episode · The Chris Hedges Report · 10/09/2025 · 40m

Preeminent scholar Rashid Khalidi on the absolutely shameful and dangerous capitulation of Columbia University and other academic institutions to the Trump administration’s weaponization of antisemitism to curb free speech on campus. Draws comparisons to Pinochet’s Chile.

Whatever you think about CFPB, it was created by Congress (as part of the Dodd-Frank Act) and can only be abolished by Congress, not by the President acting as a dictator.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is holding his bag of AIPAC cash and sweating profusely as he considers a long-overdue endorsement of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He should also be looking at Craigslist Jobs b/c there's an opponent out who's going to send him packing in the next election.

She's the vote that will make it possible to release the Epstein files. If Trump follows the example of his pal Bibi, we'll be waging war before she's sworn in. All eyes on Venezuela.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Can we stop with both sides-ism and calling Nazi comparisons overblown? The next generation of Republican leadership is talking about sending their opponent "to the gas chamber" and "creating some of the greatest psychological torture methods known to man!"

@kamalaharris.com did not lose because she was too far too the left. Do not believe the neoliberal centrist Dem talking points! I'm not supporting any Democrat in 2028 whose platform doesn't include an authentically progressive agenda comprised of issues like those enumerated here. Full Stop.

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Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump Podcast Episode · The New Yorker Radio Hour · 10/10/2025 · 48m

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social giving 3 great restaurant recommendations and handling hard ball questions like a major league all-star! With Adams out of the race, we need all hands on deck to get Zohran past the finish line. NYC, let’s do this! ✊ www.zohranfornyc.com/volunteer/ev...

WTF! Under Trump even the Forest Service is propagandizing for Republicans!?!? Talk about "weaponizing the government."

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Nobel Peace Prize: A Political Tool to Reward Pro-Western Ideology | Countercurrents For more than a century, the Nobel Peace Prize has been portrayed as the world’s most prestigious recognition of those who champion peace, democracy, and human rights. Yet beneath its celebrated…

"The case of María Corina Machado is a stark reminder: when [the Nobel Peace Prize] is used to validate regime change politics and neoliberal orthodoxy, it ceases to be a symbol of peace. It becomes, instead, a weapon wielded not for humanity, but for hegemony."

People worldwide, are vowing to join the next flotilla. Organizers say hundreds of boats could sail next time, a rising tide of resistance against Israel's impunity is growing and will eventually drown away tyranny & injustice. #GlobalSumudFlotilla #3E

Inspired by the bravery of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla, & Mikeno’s historic breach of Israel’s siege of Gaza, people worldwide took to the streets in solidarity with Gaza’s survivors & those who risked everything to deliver aid where governments refuse to uphold international law.

Israel committed piracy by illegally intercepting the #GlobalSumudFlotilla in international waters.

Human rights defenders, from 46 countries, including Greta Thunberg, were abducted as nearly 40 vessels carrying aid, for genocide & starvation stricken Gaza, were stopped. #3E

@bsky.app WTF with your algorithm? There is literally NOTHING in my profile or activity that suggests my interests would include professional sports. I don’t even know if these recommendations are football or baseball teams! (Or basketball?) X recommends fascists, and Bluesky, major league sports?

As The Far Right Rises, Don’t Be Ezra Klein Podcast Episode · Current Affairs · 09/24/2025 · 16m

Agreed. Don't be @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. Democrats moribund party doesn't need more comity and centrism. They need leaders who will fight for an genuinely progressive agenda that responds to the desires of their constituents: #medicareforall #greennewdeal #affordability etx

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social knows a thing or two about political hacks. Endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social already! BTW - I'm a New Yorker and I do know who @vanhollen.senate.gov is. He's right, I'm tired of "spineless politics," and you "need to get behind him and get behind him now."

I'm in Beijing at the moment, and there are a lot of great things about China. The downsides (i.e. surveillance state, limits on freedom of expression) are things that are coming to the US at warp speed without any of the social cohesion, high speed rail infrastrucutre or emphasis on green energy.