Alan Ferkinhoff

It's really hard to understand.

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

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Ben Gvir leads 1,300 Israelis in Al-Aqsa Mosque incursion Hundreds storm Jerusalem site as they mark the Jewish holiday of Sukkot

Ben Gvir leads 1,300 Israelis in Al-Aqsa Mosque incursion - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-ben-gvir-leads-settler-incursion-al-aqsa-mosque

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
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We Need a Reality Check on Crime, Safety and Transit Despite common assumptions, traveling by bus, subway or train is far safer than driving. How can transit agencies correct misinformation about the real risks?

"...automobile travel has about ten times the death rate as public transit, and transit vehicles also impose less risk on non-occupants like cyclists, pedestrians and other road users. Cars should come with warnings: 'Driving causes painful injuries, disabilities and death.'"

@wtyppod.bsky.social are you guys still alive? It's been over a month since your last episode. @donoteat.bsky.social

The Right-Wing Infosphere: You're Soaking In It Their machine is so effective that even liberals don't realize it's warping their views.

I wish I could find the post, but someone on here recently pointed out that the elite pundit addiction to Twitter is distorting their worldview even further.

They really think America is far more right-wing than it is, which requires ignoring actual data.

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MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem

That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America.

On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.

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CORDER LIST: 606 U.S.) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2025 25A312 ORDER IN PENDING CASE TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S., ET AL. V. COOK, LISA D. The application for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is deferred pending oral argument in January 2026. The Clerk is directed to establish a briefing schedule for amici curiae and any supplemental briefs responding to amici.

BREAKING: Supreme Court will allow Lisa Cook to remain on federal reserve board for now, ruling that the government’s application for a stay is deferred pending oral argument in January 2026

[Trump's Terms] Trump says U.S. military should be used to fight the 'enemy within' #trumpsTerms
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@theskepticsguide.bsky.social your newest episode shows that it's 14 hours long.

They want you mad at trans people and immigrants so you don’t think about them shifting wealth from the bottom to the top with every move they make.

And Trump’s trillions transfer is accelerating the process.

Give it six months, and these guys will be riding around on crosses like e-bikes.

www.rawstory.com 'MAGA is a cult': Observers slam Charlie Kirk memorial as 'weird and embarrassing'

'MAGA is a cult': Observers slam Charlie Kirk memorial as 'weird and embarrassing'

The timeline:

1) Trump tweets out his DM but excludes Lindsey Halligan's last name, making it look like he was talking Graham
2) He deletes that and reposts w/her last name
3) He bridges from that to NOMINATING Halligan
4) He asserts he has APPOINTED Halligan

Name the one political party led by those who call for violence Hint: It is not the Democrats.

Hint: It is not the Democrats.

Erika Kirk: "My husband Charlie he wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life...On the cross, our savior said, 'Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.' That young man. I forgive him."

Meanwhile every right winger is using it as an excuse to declare war on LGBTQ+ people and leftists when insiders to the investigation told NBC news they've found absolutely no links to leftist organizing

I've been meaning to write something on this for some. time but this is better than I would have written so read this, twice.

Trump Troop Deployment in U.S. Climbs to 35,000 Boots on the Ground A federal judge found the deployment to LA violated bedrock constitutional law, but Trump’s domestic military campaign continues.

While the costs associated with these troops are being kept secret, they are expected to skyrocket.

Mike Johnson wants us to stop framing the existential threats to our democracy as existential threats to our democracy. He wants us to think a weaponized DOJ, masked ICE kidnappers, the military occupation of cities and the extortion of universities and the media are "simple policy disagreements."

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Some guy named Donald Trump, October 2024.

YouTube video by Rationality Rules Exactly How Charlie Kirk got SCHOOLED by a Cambridge Student

@rationalityrules.bsky.social has some great videos analysing Charlie's debate tactics, and if you've watched enough debates, you'll see how he wasn't able to disguise his debate tactics and fallacies as well as other debaters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7y...

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

One thing that I think some not-youngs forget (and is different from 20 years ago) is that Kirk used his ‘debates’ to generate video that could go viral and, to use an old phrase, catapult the propaganda. His debates weren’t in any way, shape, or form educational.

When Charlie Kirk, who put together lists of professors he didn't like so people could target & harass them, used the phrase "free speech", he used it in the same way creationists use "teach the controversy." For Kirk, it was just another way to bludgeon the left and also to promote his propaganda.

Damn. This. “Crowd work.”

A picture of the Joker in a nurse's uniform from the Dark Knight saying, "There’s hundreds of mass shootings every year and nobody bats an eye, but shoot one right wing commentator and everybody loses their mind."

I guess Trump really did think of Kirk like a member of his family.

If corporate media and law enforcement and the US actually treated white supremacy and right-wing extremism as a major issue then they'd be able to understand this moment.

But we barely talk about it, even though its the number one domestic terror threat in America.