Louis Römer

Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed | Rebecca Solnit The persecution of brown people and mass deportations will not create the white country of far-right fantasy

“There is no more dramatic sign of the rejection of Trumpism than the thousands upon thousands organizing, showing up, risking bodily safety, arrest and felony charges to defend their neighbors. City after city has risen up to defend its own.”

We find justice with communities resisting fascism.

In the era of slavery, free black people had to carry their "free papers" with them so they could prove to the authorities that they were free, or else they would be thrown in jail and sold.

You don’t need to be a socialist to know the network barons in Silicon Valley must have their wealth seized in the name of the people. They wield economic power as a cudgel against our liberal democratic rights.

I think it’s really funny when people who purport to be experts in the Middle East do not know anything about Lebanon

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PS: And Russians. #UnholyTrinity

Not dissimilar to ‘Russia invading Ukraine makes no sense!’

What ‘makes sense’ depends a great deal on the baseline bellicosity of your population and how they view their neighbors

The problem with questioning birthright citizenship in the US context should not be looked at with its economic peers, but its geographic. There’s a historical reason it exists and it underpins the entire state organization in the Western Hemisphere. There exceptions in the WH also tie into that:

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

Birthright citizenship is probably not integral to liberal democracy, but it is integral to *American* liberal democracy. Our vision of what we are as a country, as a nation beyond an ethnicity, requires it.

A future D Secretary of Defense - should one ever come - will need to suspend the clearance of every last person affiliated with a16z, 8VC, Founders, & Sequoia and pull clearances from every portfolio company pending comprehensive drug testing, financial review, & CI screening.

It’s going to hurt.

Beyond the flagrantly anti-American, anti-human, vile fascist meaning behind it...

... I'm still having trouble pinning exactly what it is about Miller's specific "style" of invective. The shrill, snivelling Jafar-ness of it all is so... weirdly heightened.

He speaks/writes like a Disney villain.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

The “Labour” Party finds itself arguing ordinary workers, carers and others are “takers”.

Fundamental issue here is that university work can't just be about having opinions. We're either assessing on the basis of standards of evidence and argumentation or we're (in this guy's reactionary framing) handing out participation trophies...

‘The professor was right’: Oklahoma Republican college leader criticizes essay controversy The chairman of the Oklahoma Federation of College Republicans is weighing in on controversy surrounding a failed essay submitted by a University of Oklahoma student.

This is in fact the material point:
“The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.

Wonder what role AI hype is playing in the wide scale shift we're seeing in Public Health policy towards accepting preventable deaths. Antivax becoming official policy in the US would be another example.

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

I think of today’s purveyors of a whiny, entitled “masculinity” in light of the scene in The Godfather where Johnny Fontane is crying that he didn’t get a part in a movie, going “what do I do, what do I do?,” and Vito slaps him, saying “you could act like a man!”

My how times have changed.

Trump’s attacks on DEI may hurt men in college admission A government order that colleges disclose details about their applicants suggests that advantages by gender may face the same heightened scrutiny as purported racial preferences. That threatens to acc...

lol everyone finding out white men benefit from preferential treatment in college admissions is sending me.

May the consequences of said actions begin. 🤷🏿‍♀️

hechingerreport.org/an-unexpecte...

perils of structuring your political beliefs according to political winds and issue polls

Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings Silicon Valley radicalization escalates

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

"The democrats need to be open to people who experience hardship and the people who cause it."

Caribbean Boat Strikes and the Use (and Misuse) of Special Forces Our nation’s silent professionals deserve clear chains of command a real chance at strategic success.

“Too often, senior leaders, unable to agree on a strategy to address problems…choose instead to throw our most highly trained and specialized warriors into harm’s way without sufficient support or guidance. That may be what happened this fall in the Caribbean.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/caribbean-...

lol

insideevs.com/news/764318/...

Anat Shenker-Osorio (@anatosaurus) All year long we’ve been conducting research into activation. Through dozens of focus groups and surveys, we’ve looked at who is activated, activatable, opposes regime but unwilling to act. We’ve also...

"Perhaps utterly unsurprising but one of the clear differences between activated and willing but not yet involved is having been personally asked by someone to do a concrete thing."

We need to create a “fell for it again award“ edit for hakeem jeffries

The Putin-Modi Show this week really shows the hope of a 'Global South Committed to Principles of Sovereignty and Anti-Imperialism' was truly one of the more hopelessly naive hopes of the 20th/early 21st century

They know that SCOTUS is very likely to overturn the 14th amendment, which definitionally means that overturning the 14th amendment is a reasonable thing to do, which means they need to start preemptively constructing justifications for it now, to show how reasonable and sensible they are.

They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.

Look, there is no way to avoid TPUSA. You can give trolls a C-, B, B+. It won't matter. They can even get an A overall but if you give the feedback the very constructive OU instructor did, you're on the list. The assignment could be 2% of the grade (it might be in that class!). There is no defense.