Richard Hardy

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

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is a sandwich a speech act

We see something similar in the UK.

Most benefits go to people IN WORK.

Because there are not enough properly paid jobs.

Rather than insisting employers pay decent wages, governments use taxpayers’ money to subsidise employers who don’t.

Welfare was not meant to support employers.

This is wrong

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

It did happen here, redux Following up on this, Andrew Sullivan’s diagnosis is candid and accurate; an excerpt: Trump is…a wild boar — psychologically incapable of understanding anything but dominance and reveng…

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The White House and DHS seem to be claiming any undocumented Latin American guy arrested by ICE in DC has "suspected gang ties" without any evidence for the accusation. That's not new for them, but it's strikingly racist, slanderous shit from the US government. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Kamala Harris warned you and they called her a liar.

Trump’s gutting of USAID will kill 15m of the poorest people in the world. He has turned the military on his own people, thrown innocent people into foreign gulags, fan boys Putin and supports Bibi’s inhumane assault on Gaza. Few recent world leaders have deserved the Nobel Peace Prize less.

[extremely on-mushrooms voice] hear me out. what if we destroy capitalism by feminizing having money

This is some insane Soviet bullshit. The idea that any American news organization would agree to something like this is unconscionable. I don't know how any self-respecting journalist could work for an outlet that's doing this.

The Politics of Humiliation The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.

"Abu Ghraib . . . was a leak, and people were shocked. Now similar degradation in 'deportations' is being intentionally broadcast for the entertainment of half the country"

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/

Sunday Hopium - Six Months In The Country Is Not Buying What Trump Is Selling New CBS News poll closes out a terrible week of polling for Trump

Six months in the country is not buying what Trump is selling and he is in clear political and physical decline. New post and analysis: 6/

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About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/

according to Yaakov Roth's email, Emil Bove advised DHS that it could go forward with rendition flights that Judge Boasberg had expressly ordered the government to turn around.

this is what Bove was greenlighting.

mass disappearances that could have happened during Argentina's dirty war.

It’s rich hearing this crude racism about the intelligence of two brilliant women of color from a guy who famously can barely read.

President continues to use the legal system to threaten his political critics

WASH POST: “Trump has declared millions of undocumented immigrants no longer eligible for a bond hearing…”

Enriching their private prison company friends who make money the longer they keep them locked up, often with no criminal record. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Beautiful piece!

Update: NY Times did not want to be scooped by Chris Rufo, chose to cut out the middle man.
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I wrote a short personal reflection elsewhere on social media and I thought I would share here.

the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.

This is utterly vile. Loomer is calling for ethnic cleansing and we need to say so, every single day, and stand in the way of this.

The accused assassin allegedly used data brokers to track down the Democratic lawmakers he murdered. Congress doesn't need any more proof that selling data to anyone with a credit card is deadly. Every American's safety is at risk until Congress cracks down on data brokers.

Republicans Just Made It Legal to Take Homes from Legal Immigrants in Texas New law empowers Texas Governor to seize property from legal immigrants.

New law empowers Texas Governor to seize property from legal immigrants.

Horrible economic news today, so lets assemble the courtiers to tell the King fairytales about how amazing he is.
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From denouncing Trump as “America's Hitler" to a servile bootlicker performing his obeisance for the cameras

The math here is simple. Republicans have passed a budget framework where very large cuts to Medicaid will have to occur. Now, they are preemptively shifting the blame for those cuts to Governors, who cannot engage in deficit spending.
All of this is for a regressive tax cut.

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony: