Chris McIntosh

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

More good work by Greg Sargent

My chapter with @abarrinha.bsky.social on "Cyber Diplomacy in International Relations" is now out in The Palgrave Handbook on Cyber Diplomacy.

Chapter: lnkd.in/g3Kz5x88

Book: lnkd.in/gQnJKiVK

Opinion | Charlie Kirk was a divisive far-right podcaster. Why is he being rebranded as a national hero? - The Guardian

Which needs your help more?

I KNOW

They kind of predicted everything, sadly

I felt similarly and did it via YouTube and this is a screenshot from their official video😳😳😳

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”

In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

This is utterly crucial.

The key to Trump's arrogation of power these past few months has been his capturing of the future.

He's trying to create an impression that his rule is forever. Every capitulation helps him do that.

Reopening the future is an essential precondition for fighting Trumpism.

Protesters repaint crosswalk near Pulse while FDOT paints over more roadways State and city officials are disputing which roadways violate FDOT rules.

WESH-TV - Protesters in Orlando have repainted the Pulse Memorial crosswalk after Florida state-directed crews removed the rainbow stripes that honor the 49 lives lost during the 2016 massacre.

The Situation: Confronting the Corrupt State Contemplating strategies of non-cooperation.

"There may be no single mass act of non-cooperation that everyone can participate in, that is more than momentary, and that paralyzes The Situation. It may be that diversity of non-cooperation is itself an essential part of the mood," writes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org in The Situation.

What the DOJ Is Doing Behind the Scenes Read more here.

Under the spectacle of the Epstein Files and the horror of migrants being disappeared to foreign gulags, the bureaucratic assault on democracy is all too easy to miss. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

If you read one review of SUPERMAN, make it this one. Not kidding, not fucking around. This is it. Made me cry, @mangiotto.bsky.social.

Pathetic

Juneteenth is a celebration of Black resiliency and joy. It’s also a day to think about systemic inequalities Black Americans face in criminal justice.

Juneteenth is a celebration of Black resiliency and joy.

It’s also a day to think about systemic inequalities Black Americans face in criminal justice.

Read the latest from @brownphdgirl.bsky.social & @christines.bsky.social:

goodauthority.org/news/junetee...

This is Extremely Bad.

Like, the ability to destroy institutions & render higher education unavailable to even more people on an (ideologically saturated) whim Bad.

Moreover, we must destroy ICE.

some people might find horse racing abhorrent but those people never felt the thrill of gambling at the window as a child

The end of protest For direct action against Empire

"We in the imperial core have many privileges. We do not, at this historical moment, have the privilege of cowardice." Latest from @xandrewleex.bsky.social instruggle.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

Over 100 US university presidents sign letter decrying Trump administration — Guardian US Statement signed by Harvard, Princeton and Brown leaders denounces White House’s ‘undue government intrusion’

Odd. Small liberal arts colleges, local SUNY schools, but one notable name missing who was recently praised in the NYT for calling for *exactly* this 🤔

More than 100 university presidents sign letter decrying Trump administration - The Guardian apple.news/AUNLBXunBQtu...

The Next Terrorist Attack And What Comes After

"Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."

Um, y’all? Is it all clicking yet? This is an explicit justification for invasion and war on top of the cartel/fentanyl/war on terrorism actions

There’s a longer justification here, but war with Mexico is looking less like a ossibility and more like an inevitability. It won’t be called that, but that’s nothing new

Mexico warns against potential U.S. drone strikes on cartels - Los Angeles Times

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The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story ...

NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.

It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.

Opinion | They’re coming for immigrants first And the Trump administration is signaling that no one else might be safe, either.

Remember last time Trump was president and unmarked vans swept up people off the street and he tried to get the military to use force against protesters? If you think the administration's vindictive defiance will stop with immigrants, you're naive.
Gift link: wapo.st/43Ssl2Q

Elon Musk’s Vision Is Coming Into Focus—and It Looks a Lot Like Neo-Apartheid Apartheid was, first and foremost, a business plan—one that the South African–born Musk seems to be reworking for the modern age.

Elie Mystal has some similar thoughts worth reading as well. I wish someone in Congress would use this language. The fire alarm needs to be pulled like yesteryear. Thank you.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Other people are still at "is it a constitutional crisis yet?" and I'm at "the crisis was several exits ago, the car has crashed, we're now just seeing how many cars end up in the pileup and how high the casualty count is" or "the house is actively burning down, the question is what's left after."