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These two things are of a piece, even if the motivations and details differ.

Trump’s justification for his authoritarian crackdown is an America that doesn’t exist.

@lizzieohreally.bsky.social

As always, the best way to support Israel is to make every other heavily Jewish place on earth obviously unsafe for Jews and led by people indifferent to Jewish lives

Ultimately, while there are always going to be some points of continuity between events, people who try to link Trump to Bush and Reagan, arguing he’s an obvious continuation or progression of bad conservative presidents, are engaged in another, slightly more sophisticated form of normalizing Trump

The real answer is that later Japanese people are describing their own heritage in an idealized and simplified way, like what Victorians thought about the middle ages

You're always going to have 30-40% of the country saying "boy I think we spend too much on public schooling and I think that things were better when I was 20" and yeah they're generally wrong about things but it's better to divert their voting power into a Nelson Rockefeller than more Crazy Hitlers

“I want my politicians to be sincere” is one of my bigger gripes these days because I absolutely don’t give a shit if they do what I want

Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude Research reveals that those diagnosed with autism early show distinct genetic and developmental profiles from those diagnosed later.

Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude www.wired.com/story/autism...

You usually don’t ponder whether an insurrection is happening as a Plan B.

Oh FASCINATING

The man is obsessed with ratings, we will know how much actual news he is getting exposed to based on if he has a meltdown over Kimmel’s ratings or not.

Manosphere Influencers Who Boosted Trump Are Now Cooling on Him Prominent influencers including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz are starting to distance themselves from Donald Trump and his policies.

This tracks. Stefan-Boltzmann says a manosphere should theoretically cool a lot faster than say a manocube or some other manopolyhedron.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future. We drink their milkshake.

"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian. Unless an institution is explicitly designed to counter authoritarianism, it will end up aiding the authoritarians."

a huge sign of overconfidence is letting Miller talk on camera. a uniquely revolting presence in an administration of sentient red flags.

I feel like if you call James Palmer mommy that says more about you than you could ever say about us

Weren't those the same people who brought Liz Bruenig on

The Bluesky anti-semitism problem is a little bit more serious than the “getting into fights with the CEO” problem.

Whole lot of rancid replies here, unsurprisingly.

Ich kann Deutsch

I just don’t want to be canceled because people read my fanfic and try to figure out which characters are Israeli and which ones are Palestinian

I love how his second post is basically an admission that he agrees with mass deportations

tfw you hate even the *appearance* of professionalism in politics so much (reminds you of your cringe parents) that you bend over backwards to hand it to genuine gutter trash

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

As an actual conservative, I believe that it should be entirely up to local communities how they want to paint their crosswalks.

Small one

I reject any attempt to make people’s lives better under protectionism and instead call for its complete overthrow.

They would never read "kitsch and death" because Saul friedländer wrote it

Vatican City does have an absolute monarch, but it does absolutely also have a judicial system that is so complicated and so confusing I'm not even going to pretend I understand it.

But above all, what I want to stress is it is absolutely a country. It is not a fake country, it is not a territory, it is not some special legal status analogous to a country but different somehow. It is a country, and it's a very, very weird one.

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes.

Why do authoritarian states charge political opponents with non-political crimes? In our @thejop.bsky.social paper with Jennifer Pan & @yiqingxu.bsky.social, we examine how *Disguised Repression* undermines opponents’ moral authority and mobilization capacity. doi.org/10.1086/7342...