Nathan Kahler

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If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

Jamelle was cooking.

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“Somehow, the Nazi ghost never seems to die within man. It marches with insane pride… respecting nothing… taking everything and ignoring the pain of others. Cap sighs in resignation. He will have to fight for his shield.” Jack Kirby, Captain America #196 (1976). Be like Cap.

Panels that go hard: “Somehow, the Nazi ghost never seems to die within man. It marches with insane pride… respecting nothing… taking everything and ignoring the pain of others. Cap sighs in resignation. He will have to fight for his shield.” Jack Kirby, Captain America #196 (1976). Be like Cap.

Alternate- “YO’ AUTHOR SO STUPID
SHE THINKS SOMEONE ELSE
BEING TRANS NEGATIVELY
IMPACTS HER IN SOME WAY.”

Saw this just before I spotted this post from the great @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social

As the cousin of a trans person and the acquaintance and coworker of many others, I thank you.

I guess they envision themselves not being re-elected…

Any of the recent Star Treks (Discovery, SNW, Lower Decks) are worth the watch. Alien: Earth if you like corporate dystopia in your horror.

Haha.

Paying the same monthly amount, just for longer

Assemblage 23 Assemblage 23 is the project of Boston;s Tom Shear. Founded in 1988, A23 would go on to become one of the most successful American industrial acts of the time. Known for poetic, emotional lyrics and i...

Happy release day! "Null" has been officially released! I hope you'll give it a listen and let me know what you think! If you like it, I hope you'll also help spread the word on social media and to your friends.

Haven't got your copy yet?

assemblage23.bandcamp.com

assemblage23.bigcartel.com

An image of Joseph Goebbels, with text saying “2 of Traitor Trump’s favorite propaganda tactics from one of his biggest heroes: ‘If you tell an lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it’s true!’ ‘Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty of!’ -Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

The entire Trump strategy since 2015

Seattle mayor race should also be on your watchlist

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

Get the hell out of Evanston.

Hell yeah!!!

A pumpkin carved with a human shaped opening, and then the guy from The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito has been cut out with a text bubble saying “it was made for me!” And attacked to the pumpkin so it recreates the scene from the manga where the guy is climbing into the human shaped hole in a cliff side except now it’s a human shaped hole in a pumpkin.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Vance has no developed core personality. The circumstances shape him. He has changed his name three times. He has completely transformed his beliefs. Next he will jettison his “inconvenient” family. He is a person no one should trust. The epitome of someone with no character. A sell out. A ghost.

Eight Famous Poems Rewritten by Your Asshole Cat “This is Just to Say” I have eaten the eggs that were on the counter which you were probably saving for breakfast. They weren’t moist or savory lik...

I have eaten
the eggs
that were
on the counter

which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast.

They weren’t moist or savory
like the seafood variety of Friskies
but I was bored.
buff.ly/D4lLaCm

Also remember that part of why many love that "AI" conforms to and reproduces their biases but does so in a format they can claim is "objective" is that it lets them offload responsibility and obfuscate their intent:
bsky.app/profile/wolv...

A copy of Christopher Helton’s Adventures in the Unknown Heroic Pulp Role-playing game

Inscribed inside cover of Adventures in the Unknown by Christopher Helton

Thank you, @dorkland.itch.io!

US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say A U.S. Marshal was shot while assisting an immigration enforcement operation, according to several reports.

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA"

* article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

Any white-minded thinker would agree with this vision. Meanwhile, those of us in the real world know there isn’t the interest/skill in their chosen demographic.

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

These are images intentionally made with plagiarism software by the US Department of Labor. No artist was paid to create this propaganda. Does it look familiar? Do you see what’s happening?

I urge you to read this prescient article that came out in February:

newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

YouTube video by Lizzy & the Triggermen When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take)

Irving Berlin 1941. youtu.be/XDkhzVw0yBs?...

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An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below: 1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation … 3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people. 4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners … 5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice … 6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices … 7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: 12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit … 13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people. 20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings