A. A. Brooks 🌻🍉

Is there anyone who was at Euromaidan who’d be willing to have a zoom interview with an 8th grade student of mine? Doesn’t have to be a long interview - it’s for a project in my history class

SCOOP: ICE tried to raid Chang Chang restaurant in Dupont (Washington, D.C.) but the manager ran then off.

The Vice President of El Salvador has told US Senator Van Hollen that the reason they are still holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia is due to the Trump regime paying them to do so.

Trump needs to be arrested and brought up on human trafficking charges. #3E

it hasn't even been a full three months. imagine an entire year of this. and multiple years after that.

this is not sustainable.

The same people attacking the Hands Off protests for not being radical enough are the same crowd who said to not vote for Harris to punish Democrats over Gaza, and the same crowd that said Russia isn’t responsible for invading Ukraine because of NATO expansion.

They can’t help but enable fascists

BREAKING - Trump tries to claim he'll fight childhood cancer

Says the man who literally just DESTROYED federal funding for fighting childhood cancer

Fascism is unsustainable. It is inherently built to fail, despite what its leaders want you to think.

The bigger question is not whether it will stand. It is: can we hurry its demise? Limit its danger to the vulnerable?

And just as important: what will we build after?

Quite literally every single line of this State of the Union is a lie and/or has a factual error. The other sentences are not just political bluster, they are propaganda.

I haven’t been on here much. It’s been a lot to consume the news, let alone talk about it but I will say:

Fuck Trump, fuck Musk, fuck Putin, fuck Netanyahu, fuck the AfD, fuck Kagame, fuck the RSF, and wow the world is going to shit really fast because of the fragile egos of weak men.

Also didn’t expect to ever appreciate Temu Melania for anything but her taking swipes at Ian Miles Cheong is oddly satisfying

It makes me almost reconsider going back on to see the shitshow up close

Apparently Elon is getting a taste of his own medicine (attacked by white nationalists on X), and I’m all for it

Syrians destroy statue of Hafez al-Assad in the Syrian city of Tartous

X Is a White-Supremacist Site Elon Musk has made one of Twitter’s most glaring problems into a core feature on X.

“X is no longer a social-media site with a white-supremacy problem, but a white-supremacist site with a social-media problem.” — @cwarzel.bsky.social

Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-Constitutional’ vision for second term Russ Vought, the former president’s budget director, is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of presidential powers.

“Post-Constitutional” means the end of America as we know it. Why won’t the corporate media just say that?

Russian troops operated torture chamber for Ukrainians in Belarus in 2022, media reports The chamber was located on Belarusian government-owned property in the town of Naroulia, not far from the border with Ukraine, the Belarusian Investigative Center reported

⚡️Russian troops operated torture chamber for Ukrainians in Belarus in 2022, media reports.

Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

Took a glance at the bad place today.

Whew.

They REALLY hate BlueSky.

It’s like Republicans can’t function without people to troll, and it’s fucking hilarious to watch.

The only good thing that may come out of this is that it will force the liberals and progressives to build their own decentralized media ecosystems, because either way that’s one of the main ways we get out of this.

Thank all that is holy for Bluesky 🦋

They have their own TV channels, personalities, media. They deride fact checking and (well) moderated debate. They buy social media platforms to manipulate algorithms and amplify content that suits their preferred ends and worldview.

What they are threatened by are places of alignment + organizing

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.

Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

Showed my students this picture and asked them to guess what this was

8th grader: “Is that a racist Jack-o’-lantern?”

I appreciate everyone who has left Elon’s playground and found me here

Texas Education Board to Vote on Bible-Infused Lessons in Public Schools A new curriculum would focus on Christianity more than other religions. A kindergarten lesson on the Golden Rule, for example, would teach about Jesus and his Sermon on the Mount.

Texas and Oklahoma love passing unconstitutional laws. Republicans want to create a white Christian nationalist theocracy that worships capitalism and ignores the actual teachings of Jesus.

It's unbelievably cynical to use a photo of the Russian attack on the Sumy region, which killed 12 people last night, to illustrate an article about the alleged ATACMS attack on Bryansk. @asssociatedpress.bsky.social