David Fedman

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.’

Hmmm... IIUC, the most recent incarnation of the "flood the zone" strategy was developed by authoritarian regimes who could not, unlike China, block and censor the global internet. Which makes this a particularly interesting line of argument.

It could take decades to recover from where we are.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

The Nerd Reich A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the inter...

The radicalization of Silicon Valley is the subject of my forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War on Democracy."

It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Oh for fuck's sake

The scorched plains of Tokyo's Honjo and Fukugawa wards, captured from the air by the Mainichi newspaper in April 1945 from just above Ryogoku station

America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?

"This is, quite straightforwardly, a program for regime change in Europe, aimed at turning it into an illiberal polity."

www.programmablemutter.com/p/america-ha...

“A Requiem Painted in Pictures: The Tokyo Air Raid,” Muraoka Nobuaki (2019, oil on canvas)

The scorched plains of Tokyo's Honjo and Fukugawa wards, captured from the air by the Mainichi newspaper in April 1945 from just above Ryogoku station

“A Requiem Painted in Pictures: The Tokyo Air Raid,” Muraoka Nobuaki (2019, oil on canvas)

Frank Gehry, who stretched architecture’s boundaries, dies at 96 His unearthly but brilliant designs, from Los Angeles to Bilbao, became global landmarks.

I note with sadness and loss the death of my friend and client Frank Gehry. He was a man of exceptional warmth and depth, a man bent on doing good rather than just talking about it. Something I noted particularly in his talks with clients in the Gulf States where he was adamant about respect

Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud.

In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.

What a confession.

Yikes — This new Orwellian Pentagon propaganda video touting “transparency” as they fill the *press corps* with loyalists like Loomer & Gaetz plays like a horror film.

We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸

The New US National Security Strategy Trump Says Openly That the US Wants to Dominate Europe and Make it MAGA

The New US National Security Strategy is to secure the victory of pro-Kremlin populist parties all across Europe: Reform in the UK, the Pétainist Rassemblement in France, the Nazi AfD in Germany, and so forth. In other words, the US and Russian strategies are identical.

Life during wartime in New Orleans as feds terrorize Latinos who saved a city | Will Bunch The first day of long-feared federal immigration raids across Greater New Orleans exposes the Big Lie of mass deportation.

I came to New Orleans to see the fear and loathing that comes to town when Greg Bovino and his federal masked marauders invade

I chronicled their Big Lie, as their op allegedly targeting "criminals" stormed Home Depot parking lots and roofing jobs. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...

The former boat was in pieces. What, other than letting go of wreckage and visibly drowning, could those men have done that would *not* be read as 'still in the fight'?

This quote by Zinn -- who spent much of WWII in the nose of B-17 over Europe -- from his account of the tour sums up every U.S. bombing war from WWII onward: "We listen with the languor of a people who have never been bombed, who have only been the bombardiers."

Trump Administration sees its chief foreign policy role as the backer of the far right international, all foreign policy bends to that aim.

The antidote cannot be pursuing far-right policy in half-measures like Starmer is or Biden did on Israel & the border. Internationalist solidarity or barbarism

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Here's Hegseth taking to social media to tell an organizer at TurningPoint USA that he has killed four people in response to his request. The absence of gravity surrounding the use of lethal force is revealing.

A young Howard Zinn in Japan, pictured here with Ralph Featherstone, among others, during a June 1966 lecture tour focused on civil disobedience and non-violent direct action for anti-Vietnam War groups across the country

I just want to know why the Health Secretary seems to continually fight on the side of Disease.

a powerful reinterpretation from one of the sharpest out there. pre-order now, people.

"The Most Awful Responsibility" My new book on Truman and the bomb will be released next week

So, hey, my new book on Truman and the Bomb comes out NEXT WEEK! In this post on Doomsday Machines, I give a rundown of WHAT IT IS ABOUT, and other useful information, including the talk I am giving about it on December 16. doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-most-a...

offering some pretty cool views, to boot. hard agree.

Holsey’s last day at SOUTHCOM is a week from Friday. He should be called to testify the following Monday

Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...

a fun thing from a class I'm guest teaching tomorrow: which of these will turn out OK for you, and which will be a disaster? (they're all from a single Chinese city between 2010 and 2022)