Ron.

Conservatives started cancel culture yet they pretend to be against it. I remember when Karens tried to ban pokemon and Harry Potter for being unchristian.

Secretary of State Rubio instructs diplomats that only the American flag is allowed to be displayed at US facilities (i.e. no pride flags), the sole exception being POW/MIA flags, per memo leaked to me

Fanone: There’s a lot of John Fettermans in the world and unfortunately, that’s why we’re in the predicament that we’re in

Here’s Judge Coughenour’s TRO against the birthright citizenship executive order:

Some fascisms are ok.

'Falsely smeared': Netanyahu rushes to Elon Musk's defense after apparent fascist salute www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Trump’s Mass Deportations Are Coming. Here’s What We Can Do. This moment calls for action.

Mass Deportation Is Coming Under Trump — But Immigration Activists Are Mobilizing to Stop It

Leakers Declare War on Trump Trump’s attack on DEI triggers resistance, including against Elon Musk

Leakers declare war on Trump:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leakers-de...

Is Donald Trump just another hawk?

My first-ever publication in @unherd.bsky.social covers the absurdity of Donald Trump, the alleged "non-interventionist," ranting about annexing Greenland and the Panama Canal and actually using the phrase "manifest destiny" in his inauguration speech:

Trump administration just ordered a blackout on public communications by agencies across government, multiple officials tell me.

Here's a memo from HHS I obtained describing the comms blackout.

For the past year Joe Biden carried out a genocide. Why was he able to sit in church without being scolded by clergy?

Trump’s First Moves: Toward More War, Nothing for Workers Donald Trump’s first executive orders should dispel any fantasy of him as either a noninterventionist or an economic populist.

A rare two-article day, I'm also in @jacobinmag.bsky.social, writing about Trump's big pile of executive orders:

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Free speech absolutists

Lotta people on a cruelty high right now.

Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought New technology is not just making shopping more challenging for workers and consumers—it’s poised to rip off the most vulnerable.

Electronic price labels are prone to malfunction, which forces employees to work harder to make it clear to shoppers what they would be charged at checkout. What is the logic of retailers spending money on glitchy technology that doesn’t improve service?

Your policy sounds nice but would it end all human suffering?

Internal memo Homeland Security employees received today instructing them to send evidence of hidden DEI programs to “DEIAtruth@opm.gov”

T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. He’s on the screen in our hands. We...

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Felon in possession of nuclear weapons.

The world we live in where "have mercy on the weak and vulnerable" is sneered at as hate.

Oops

Trump tears into lefty DC bishop who asked him to ‘have mercy’ during National Prayer Service sermon Trump – who remained stone-faced during the lecture – called the service boring and uninspiring and said she owed the public an apology.

I thought Jesus taught us to feed the hungry and comfort the afflicted.

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Does the FBI now have to give Ulbricht back his $15 billion worth of bitcoin?

But he'll find a way to blame the Left for it :)

She didn’t even criticize him!

She just asked him to be human! Incredible self-ownage from the entire right.

State of Exception – Part Two: Assume Breach In part one of this series, I proposed that Trump’s second term, which, as we’re seeing with the rush of executive orders, has, unlike his first, a coherent agenda (centered on the Heritage Foundat…

In part two of my series on emergency information technology praxis for activists and vulnerable individuals, I discuss the concept of assumed breach. Your communications and data are not secure from state action. Adjust accordingly: monroelab.com/2025/01/22/s...