This, and “all politicians are equally bad,” which is the excuse I hear most often from Trumpers I talk with.

It feels like humanity has died in Sudan Millions of people have fled slaughter and rape. In camps dominated by women and girls in Chad, their nightmare continues

www.thetimes.com/world/africa...

are nuts. Can ppl in our reality eventually have these conversations and find some sane common ground? I dunno, but discouraging as it is, we have to keep trying.

Somewhere, in some alternate America where ppl can have rational conversations, it mt be possible to concede that Biden didn’t control the border well and that there are some reasonable criticisms over how pediatric gender medicine’s been handled in the US, but also that the kind of claims you cite…

Agree, but also, altho a boycott mt ding Trump’s vanity a bit, most of his voters won’t care much. The Olympics isn’t a big deal to them, they’re not vy internat’ly oriented anyway, and hurting the economy of a big blue city like L.A. is just jam to them.

Hope that this is hurting red voting districts directly as much as possible. I certainly wdn’t come here at all if I were Canadian. But hope to see the biggest impact on Trump-voting areas, bc direct economic loss to them is the only thing they care about.

The unwavering support of white Evangelical Christians for Trump is completely shameful.

Inside Sudan's hidden genocide: Eyewitness accounts from the world's worst humanitarian crisis After three months of pressing Sudan's army-controlled government, Scripps News became the first American media outlet allowed into the country since the massacre in Darfur.

As many as 400,000 people killed. Thirteen million displaced. The UAE, which funds and arms the killing militias, donates millions to American universities. There are no protests. A massive genocide unfolding. The silence is deafening.

www.scrippsnews.com/shows/in-the...

imagine today’s oligarchs helping w anything from national defense to building newspapers, universities, museums, hospitals. Just pure nihilistic destruction, zero sense of ethical obligation or loyalty to anything but their own oceans of $$$$.

Looking at Bezos, Tim Cook, Musk, Zuck is making me almost nostalgic for the robber barons of yore. And not to be naive abt those guys - they were ruthless, often corrupt, treated labor brutally. But there was at least some contravening sense of patriotism and noblesse oblige. Impossible to…

The economic consequences of this will pile up. Problem is, like tariffs in the 1920s, it will take years for the full effects to be felt, and most Trump voters won’t connect the dots.

Same, for historical casting I think accuracy’s impt. But for mythology, sheesh. If somebody makes a movie or whatever based on Igbo or Yoruba mythology, no reason the casting can’t be white, or Asian, or any ethnicity.

think Bezos, Tim Cook, etc.. really care abt a one day strike.

Not at all against a general strike, but the most effective wd be a prolonged strike against the oligarchs that have supported Trump. Don’t buy from Amazon at all if you can help it, including streaming. For your next phone, don’t buy an iphone. These things are harder to do, but tbh I don’t…

Agree completely, but wonder how we’re going to do it. They’ll all end the Trump years with even more staggering amts of $$ than they started, which buys them a ton of self-protective power and many ways to shield it overseas. Wd like to see some long-form pieces on how we fight that.

“People of every color
Marching side to side
Marching ‘cross these fields
Where a million fascists dies
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose!”

youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ?...

Hungary’s elections aren’t really free and fair. Orban’s corrupt control of most of the country’s media and courts renders it so.

But the elections are still somewhat competitive, and the most plausible mechanism to get him out of power.

It’s hard, but backsliding can be stopped, even reversed.

And it’s not just the payment. It’s giving a foreign, at least partially hostile government, a brutal dictatorship, an interest in the US President’s finances. And it is selling out US security interests via the chip technology.

Well said, Mr. Chovanec.

Maybe when the economy turns bad for them personally.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

The Chinese communist party also controls dissent through the use of facial recognition tools and other surveillance technology
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

Purge the Public Servants The destruction of the civil service can destroy democracy, too.

The destruction of the civil service can destroy democracy, too

the next episode of the AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA podcast has dropped:

www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Gonna take this in a different direction from Tom Nichols for a moment…. I just wonder when/if voters who support Trump, and particularly white evangelicals, who are Trump’s core support, will recognize this as fascism. Is there any pt where they will break from authoritarianism?

There are only two explanations for why the Director of National Intelligence would show up at a federal raid tied to Donald Trump’s obsession with losing the 2020 election.

even a bit persuadable. It’s very dark rn. None of us knows how this is going to come out. But this is the best candle I can think of: don’t be alone. Join others in real life like people in Minneapolis have. Stay working together.

to leave their homes. Look for churches like that. Join local chapters of the Dems, or Indivisible, or others. Keep doing it, in the real world, even if it means attending boring meetings after work when we’re tired. And keep talking to any Trumpers in yr life who mt be…

I think the only, and the best thing to do is: join people. Join orgs with other people in the real world. As Anne Applebaum says, the dictators want us to be alone, fragmented. I belong to a liberal church which is quietly bringing groceries & other supplies to immigrants who are afraid…

As much, yes. It’s *always* a group effort to get legislation thru Congress. Esp a big society-changing piece of legislation like ACA. But that tks nothing away from Obama, who was a good bit of the leadership, brains, and jawboning behind it.

of its impact, it compares to some of the Great Society or even New Deal legislation. Obama deserves a lot of credit for that.

Yes. I hv my criticisms of Obama - the “red line” that wasn’t on Syria; perhaps he expended too much capital too early on ACA. But getting legislation like that thru Congress is *hard.* It did more for bringing health care to all Americans than anything else in our history. In the breadth…