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Overheard at the IKEA café: “I’m glad I’ll be dead by the time AI takes over completely.”

And the weather finally matches the calendar this morning!

US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia

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Despite everything I still have fundamental faith in the American people turning this around and making things better.

[reads any New York Times focus group]

Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]

Charlie Kirk v @charliekirk11 Hillary For Prison 11:04 PM • Dec 21, 2015

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Here's Trump turnout chair, Charlie Kirk, condemning the women who "undermine their husbands" by voting for Harris: "It's just so nauseating where this wife ... who comes in with her sweet husband who probably works his tail off to make sure that she can go and, you know, have a nice life, provides for the family. And then she lies to him, saying, 'Oh yeah I'm going to vote for Trump' and then she votes for Kamala Harris as her little secret in the voting booth." GO -OTE NOW The Megyn Kelly Show SiriusXM

I’m choosing to remember Charlie Kirk’s contribution to American civic life in his own words.

… and then, the university president covered himself in shame by blatantly lying that the precipitating cause of the firings was not a classroom discussion of Republican-abhorred ideas about gender, but rather the professor having failed to stick to the syllabus.

Texas A&M Professor and Administrators Out After Viral Video Video circulated by Texas state representative shows student accusing English professor of teaching material related to gender identity and violating Trump’s executive orders. State officials pressure...

An English professor, the English Dept head, and the Dean of Arts & Sciences at Texas A&M have all been fired for wrongthink — or, as the Trumpist student who instigated the conflict put it, “promot[ing] something that is against our president’s laws.”

(Excellent use of the Führerprinzip!)

Large swaths of Trump's agenda are bad for capital, yet despite strong incentives to collectively mobilize AND significant power to exert their will, we have seen very little resistance from big business interests. Why?

Below, five non-mutually exclusive possibilities that have occurred to me:

This explains the MAGA crowd.

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

Exclusive: The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

Federal agents detain people at a Westlake Home Depot after jumping out of rented Penske moving van The action, which a Border Patrol official called “Operation Trojan Horse,” comes after a federal appeals court upheld a restraining order halting indiscriminate sweeps in Southern California.

“The action comes despite a court order temporarily halting indiscriminate sweeps in the region.”

Openly defying a court order for the purpose of arbitrarily arresting day laborers. While masked and anonymous and hiding in a Penske truck.

Brown University signs deal with Trump administration to restore funding Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Brown University’s deal with the Trump administration ensures students will be judged “solely on their merits, not their race or sex.”

One by one, institutions that claim to have traditions of the highest integrity are cravenly caving to authoritarianism, and eagerly throwing their most vulnerable community members under the bus along the way.

Up next: Harvard, which has offered the Trump administration a $500 million bribe.

Investigation inquiry underway after reports of naked women on Ryan Walters office TV Investigation inquiry underway after reports of naked women on Ryan Walters office TV

All of their accusations are confessions.

The most disheartening thing about America’s descent into fascism has been the abject cowardice of virtually all the people and institutions that could have stood up and refused to comply.

I used to believe in the American dream. Then the police killed my son

Twenty-five-year-old Bijan Ghaisar was unarmed when he was shot in his car by two officers. Charges against the men were dismissed – but seven years on his mother Kelly is still fighting for her boy.

Afghan Interpreter Seized By ICE Federal immigration officials on Wednesday seized an Afghan immigrant -- a father of five who once served as an interpreter for the U.S. military --…

😡

Despicable beyond belief.

Your Travel Credit Card Is About to Get a Lot More Expensive Chase and Amex are about to spike their annual fees. It’ll drive away customers. That’s the point.

A fascinating case study in one of the many ways in which capitalism sucks: we are increasingly being enticed to pay for “luxury “or “VIP“ experiences, which we buy in order to experience, if only for a few moments, the sweet sensation of being in a class above the “genpop” (general population).

Giant bugs, heat and a hospital visit: Inside Alligator Alcatraz’s first days Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ambulance.

Is anyone surprised that the new concentration camp is being run to the standards of… A concentration camp?

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From today's Wall Street Journal:

"Guests scooped caviar, noshed on lamb lollipops and sipped top-shelf Champagne on a recent Friday at the grand opening of Executive Branch, a new club that President Trump’s son and close friends started in Washington that costs up to $500,000 to join."

Feds Snatch Mom Of 2 Outside Courthouse Federal immigration officials seized a 24-year-old Fair Haven woman down the street from the Elm Street courthouse on Monday morning. “This is very…

For the record, that's two ICE kidnappings that have occurred in our city in the past month. Both victims were mothers with school-age children.

The goal is to instill fear in the entire population. We are ALL being attacked by this.

Yale concludes DEI initiative as scheduled, scrubs website University leaders announced Thursday that the five-year “Belonging at Yale” initiative had finished as planned. The program’s website, once filled with diversity-related resources, became largely ina...

Absolute cowardice, cloaked in dishonesty. Yale's DEI efforts never had an official expiration date, and that it's now the University leadership's official policy to pretend otherwise, because they fear the fascists and don't want Yale to be targeted like Harvard, is deeply shameful.

There are only three political positions in America today

1) I like the fascism

2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)

3) I oppose the fascism

The rest is details

And the collapse of civil liberties here in the US? Is that bad enough to oppose via widespread civil disobedience, bringing government work to a halt, etc.? Or will strongly-worded statements suffice? So many issues to be “torn“ about!

… and as for them being “torn” on what to stand for: let’s see, is genocide bad? Or just sort of bad, depending on who it’s happening to?

From the NYT front page … to which I say, Awww, poor “national Democrats”! Being “divided” might distract them from their incredibly successful opposition to Trumpism!

WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…”

A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...

‘I feel betrayed,’ U.S. Marine says of seeing his father punched by federal immigration agent After the man was surrounded by Border Patrol agents and pinned to the ground, one agent could be seen repeatedly hitting him on a video posted to social media.

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