But it wouldn't distract from those things, it would add one more thing to the growing list of Trump’s actions that are peeling away his supporters.
Trying to divide and distract his opposition is uniting and growing his opposition.
"Where corruption and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception..." Classic propaganda "accusation in a mirror..."
"Holy shit, did WE ever make the right decision" - The US Women's Hockey Team
Walked out of the State of the Union because I couldn’t sit through hours of Trump’s lies.
Americans know the truth: he’s spiking prices and wrecking our economy.
We’re a better country than this.
Damn this seems exactly correct.
TO be quite blunt, I think we'd even be better off with "the purpose of a university education is to acquire upper-middle-class signifiers" rather than the current "it is entirely about a premium in expected lifetime earnings" even though both are inferior to, y'know, learning as a telos.
It seems to me that the foundational 'wrong turn' in education was the increasing rhetoric from universities themselves and their supporters that the primary value of a university education was increased earning power.
That leads pretty directly to this place we're in now.
Rome’s Palazzo Braschi, 1934.
"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence."
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
I can’t stop thinking ab how few ppl want confront how sick & overworked we all truly are. Esp how our institutional overlords under academic capitalism, incl the push to individualize classes for students, are sucking everything out of us.
We must slow down producing, I stg
There is an American tradition of egalitarian pluralism that puts the Right’s vicious, exclusionary domination fantasies to shame. We should invoke it as a reminder to the Trumpists that their claim to be the sole representatives of “authentic” Americanism has no historical basis.
What is “Un-American”?
We must acknowledge America’s history of state authoritarianism and racial violence – but also dare to claim its aspirational tradition of egalitarian democracy.
Let’s Make MAGA un-American, finally.
My new piece (free to read):
MSP airport. Clergy risking risking arrest and a huge gathering of protesters. The song is, “Down to the River to Pray.”
Fascists only need to win one election to destroy democracy, whereas democrats have to win every election to preserve it. That’s why fascists cannot be allowed into politics, why a tolerant society must never tolerate fascism or it will lose its tolerance. It’s the Popper Paradox and we’re living it
The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.
⚡️Russia will take over Greenland if US doesn't get there first, Trump claims.
"We are going to do something with Greenland, whether they like it or not. Because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor."
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
European reaction to the new American national strategy document
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
this shit is just beyond parody, man
The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
If anyone in Europe was still clinging to the idea that the Trump administration isn't immovably pro-Russian and hostile to Western institutions and values, they need to read the 2025 National Security Strategy and think again.
Thread on the huge shift in US policy towards Russia visible in the new National Security Strategy - the biggest change since the collapse of the USSR. 🧵
Considerable understatement from the Telegraph here: "an administration that has at times leaned toward Moscow’s view on the origins of the war in Ukraine" - Trump has repeatedly blamed Ukraine starting the war. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Timothy Snyder lecture on the centrality of Ukraine in world history. Absolutely fascinating and delightful, highly recommended. youtu.be/DQAHJSteETM?...
