Alexandre Blanchet

This is an essential. "Democrats need to beat the Trumpists in elections that we ensure are free" is the best strategy for the next 2-4 years. But it is not a long-term strategy! The only possible long-term strategy is that someone else needs to defeat the Trumpists for control of the Repub Party.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Les informations d’enfants et de parents compromises Des centaines d’écoles et de garderies du Québec utilisent une application, HopHop, qui met à risque les informations de milliers d’enfants et de parents.

L’ironie est que, pendant ce temps, les enseignants communiquent avec les parents via des groupes Facebook « privés » parce qu’on est toujours incapables d’avoir une alternative qui ferait le boulot.

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This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

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The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Imagine a politician giving a speech down the street from an ICE processing center, telling protesters to "fight like hell," and those protesters then breaking into the center and smashing stuff.

Clearly that wouldn't be his fault.

David Letterman réagissant à la répression gouvernementale à l'égard des talkshow de fin de soirée, son emploi pendant des décennies :

🧵 Who's the most informed about American politics? Very lefty seculars.

My new FREE study @sfjournal.bsky.social finds atheists/agnostics, especially if they are politically sorted, score higher on knowledge of basic civics & current politics than other groups. 1/ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

DJT: I am using the state to punish criticism and extort people
WH: this business decision was driven by
DJT: No I am using the state to punish criticism and extort people
WH: Unitary executive theory implies that
DJT: I SAID I AM USING THE STATE TO PUNISH CRITICISM AND EXTORT PEOPLE FOR MONEY

Tout est devenu tellement con.

“They studied 51 populist presidents and prime ministers who were in power between 1900 and 2020 and found that after 15 years, GDP per capita was 10% lower when compared with a plausible nonpopulist counterfactual.”

This essentially means the end of the US as an international hub for virtually everything that has driven economic growth over the past 70 years.

By next spring, they'll be bragging about the passenger airliner they shot out of the sky because it was filled with "antifa commandos"

This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.

Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

It seems increasingly clear that the US corporate ladder has not been selecting for courage, integrity, or moral standing. So what has it been selecting for?

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incredibly dangerous speech here from the vice president. likely it will make violence worse, not better. (also happens to be a complete lie) www.gelliottmorris.com/p/americas-r...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Quand la réalité bouscule le récit MAGA Ils ont tourné la tête si vite.

Quand le récit MAGA s’écroule devant la réalité

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

How Did Republican Fashion Go From Blazers to Belligerence? Trump and his cronies’ style reflects a platform where grievance is currency and performance is power.

I wrote something for The Nation about how Republican style has changed over the last fifty years.

But first, let me tell you a short story. 🧵

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This Has to Stop Charlie Kirk dead at 31

Thanks to @kmezdoesit.bsky.social for this. open.substack.com/pub/professo...

The Asch Conformity Line Experiment, MAGA edition.

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