Kelsey Atherton

The Coming Avocado Politics Embracing a catastrophic view of climate risk is unlikely to provoke “progressive” responses on the Right, but rather quite the opposite.

Considering Greenland & ICE raids, here's what I said 6yrs ago would be the key features of right wing politics in a warming world:
- "Virulently anti-immigrant"
- “Focused on controlling scarce global natural resources”
- “Justified with neo-eugenicist rhetoric”
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Thanks for the layup, Tim. Read @cipolicy.bsky.social

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An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

ICE agents in Maine fire projectiles at filming onlookers One observer said ICE agents approached an older woman driving a Volkswagen, spoke with her, and then fired projectiles at her.

exercise your free speech in Maine and ICE will shoot shit at you

It’s like if Teapot Dome, Watergate, Kent State, Credit Mobilier, and Iran Contra had all happened in the same week.

It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.

thrilled to find out how demanding action that meets the crisis is in fact bad politics and hyperbolic overreach

Chuck Schumer is a verb and a subject

Headline 1: 'I don't let bullies win,' says US congresswoman Omar after substance thrown at her. By Ana Faguy and Helen Sullivan. Headline 2: Rep. Maxwell Frost punched by man who allegedly said Trump will deport him. The man allegedly said, "We are going to deport you and your kind," to the Democratic lawmaker. By Sharon Zhang.

Just days apart, Reps. Ilhan Omar and Maxwell Frost were attacked.

The MAGA regime is feeding fear and fanning the flames of violence - in our streets, in town halls, and anywhere anyone dares to speak out.

But we’re refusing to back down.

Again, new work requirements for Medicaid highlight the profits to be made from adding complexity to the safety net. Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people. As the other 55 states and territories are now forced to join Georgia and implement new work requirements, millions will lose their healthcare and Deloitte will cash in.

Read the highlighted sentence a few times, jfc

From @lukeferrell.bsky.social's "THE MEANS-TESTING INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX"

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F.B.I. Agents Search Election Center in Fulton County Over 2020 Vote

This is one of the clearest shots across the bow yet. The administration has no intention of permitting free and fair elections going forward; that fact does not mean that they will be successful or are particularly competent, but acknowledging that is a prerequisite to counteracting it

The virgin incremental changes to DHS and ICE policies and procedures: Spend the next 10 months litigating whether and how they've been implemented in the press and in the courts

The chad one big demand: It's one issue, it's all we talk about between now and November, it's obvious if it's been done

There's been literally one "good" ex-presidency since 1945

‘CBS Evening News’: Tony Dokoupil Under Fire for Interviewing His Own Mom Viewers accuse CBS News of 'dumbing down.'

i think this is a real big card you get the right to play maybe once in your entire career, if you are a beloved nationally renowned anchor, and it is literally mother's day, and you're doing it as a bit www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Tony Doukopil but in the Dukakis Tank photo

Checking in on Bari Weiss' CBS

U.S. Policy Toward Lebanon: Obstacles to Dismantling Hezbollah’s Grip on Power

A Congressional hearing on Lebanon with three witnesses / panelists

One of them works for the Washington Institute Of Near East Policy

Another works for the Washington Institute Of Near East Policy

And, finally, the last one works for the Washington Institute Of Near East Policy

Fellas, if the woke feminist mind virus can turn women against a top alpha like Tears of The Left's own Rob Schneider, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Per that last possibility, migrants, activists and immigration attorneys say ICE is using domestic shuffle flights to make their court cases harder. A lot of the time they have to file docs all over again when they are moved.

Welcome to Trump’s Remake of Argentina’s Dirty War The administration is speedrunning the worst abuses of the Latin American nation’s checkered history on the streets of American cities.

I've been calling what's happening with ICE and the wider state violence the American remake of the Dirty War. Here's what I mean. New from me @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2057...

Still, there’s some utility in using ressentiment to explain the particular brand of retribution that Trump’s movement peddles. What the ressentiment-driven populist right seeks, at least for Brown, is “revenge against the wound of nothingness by destroying the imagined agent of that wound.” This “imagined agent” could be enemies on the left, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, or just about anything other than the fragmentation and injustices that unbridled capitalism has inflicted on this country. Its fluidity makes for an ideal buttress to the authoritarianism embedded within NSPM-7. It doesn’t matter that the American left spends more time chasing off ICE agents by banging on pots or with flash mobs—not to mention fighting with itself. With enough conspiratorial flair, just about anyone can be a fire-breathing radical. Ressentiment, argued Scheler, “can only arise if these emotions are particularly powerful and yet must be suppressed because they are coupled with the feeling that one is unable to act them out—either because of weakness, physical or mental, or because of fear.” To the extent that the administration’s attacks on the left, loosely defined, through NSPM-7 could be considered “suppressed,” it’s in the sense that, unlike the president’s Truth Social account, the document doesn’t accuse the left of “seditious behavior, punishable by death.”

Last month, I wrote about Trump's war on the left (or, really, anyone his supporters perceive to be "leftwing") and using ressentiment as a framework to analyze it. Now, it's clear that for the online right, killing two people still wasn't enough. thebaffler.com/latest/phant...

Weezer and The Killers both have nonsense lyrics but The Killers get away with it because their lyrics are like “cigarette lady of my dreams, inhale the addiction of a queen” while Weezer is like “Japanese teenage summer, Godzilla atom bummer”

Might as well give a total immigration amnesty to everyone in the USA right now.

Any sort of visa, removal, and deportation process even if objectively and obviously justified (these cases do exist) is so totally compromised on so many levels that it has lost legitimacy

this is simply not a problem body cameras solve

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by federal agents was my childhood best friend.

"The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I’m sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see."

I wept reading this. I'm glad it was written.

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Suddenly the public is not reacting to a 'single tragedy' (in their view), but rather the horrifying question of 'is ICE going to execute a citizen in public on video every two weeks for the next year? three years?'

With the repeat - and such a *quick* repeat - the event becomes a pattern.

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller

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The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' annual warning proves two enduring truths: nukes remain a live threat to human existence, and if you stumble upon a perfect graphic design you can get away with tweaking it forever

Jason Molina

Write the poem on the good stationary. Use the forever stamp. Drop it in the big blue mailbox, the one by the kid's old daycare. Years ago you learned a letter can be read when the phone is too much, even if you'd say the same in a text. Years from now, she'll say how much it meant.

What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank hiding from ICE Is it ok to invoke Anne Frank in discussing kids hiding from ICE? Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum disagree.

For @forward.com, I wrote about Anne Frank, ICE, and what we risk in making - and in refusing to ever make - comparisons
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