This! I think the opposite of fascism isn’t “normal,” it’s taking joy in weirdness

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

JEFFRIES TO TRUMP: “The next time you have something to say to me, don’t cop out through a racist and fake AI video — When I’m back in the Oval Office, say it to my face.”

The case YouTube settled with Trump, with a payment of more than $24 million, had already been closed for two years.

From @BulwarkOnline — Republicans are lying about the Dems wanting to fund health care for undocumented people.

Not that @RepTimBurchett has ever cared about the truth.
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FLASHBACK — TRUMP ON A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IN 2013: "Problems start from the top. The President's the leader. he’s got to get everybody in a room and lead.”🤔

WATCH: Rollins calls Trump using tariff revenues (taken from Americans) to bail out the farmers getting crushed by his tariffs an “elegant solution”

She says 🌎 is “realigning around 🇺🇸 products” — but she texted Bessent that actually they’re NOT buying from our farmers 🤔

WATCH: “If Trump & Republicans get what they want, millions will lose health care and the rest of us will see our monthly bills shoot up.”

Sylvia explains why the Dems are fighting. #TrumpShutdown

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

Green Beret who worked for GHF *aid* group: “Nothing I saw in Afghanistan or Iraq compares to what I saw in Gaza. I’ve never seen anything as brutal, destructive, or violent.”

Literally Orwell. ‘1984’ is here.

The only surprising part is that they haven’t done this yet.

NASHVILLE: “Why are we giving a billionaire free land? Please listen when we say WE DON’T WANT THIS.”

15 residents spoke against @GovBillLee & Musk’s private Teslas-only tunnel.

0 spoke in favor of it

4 non-residents voted to gift the world’s richest man the land anyway

Great day for everyone whose 2024 brand move was claiming that Dems were exaggerating how bad Trump would be.

Book cover English version: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE SIRENS' CALL HOW ATTENTION BECAME THE WORLD'S MOST ENDANGERED RESOURCE CHRIS HAYES AUTHOR OF A COLONY IN A NATION

Book cover German version: NEW-YORK-TIMES-BESTSELLER NUMMER 1 THE SIRENS' CALL DAS ENDE DER AUFMERKSAMKEIT UND WIE WIR SIE ZURÜCKERLANGEN KÖNNEN CHRIS HAYES

Just finished reading “The Sirens’ Call” by @chrislhayes.bsky.social . For me it was a page turner!
Waiting for the German translation (supposedly out in September) to give to some friends/family members who prefer reading in German. Friends reading English won’t have to wait 🎁.

a timeline graph for tariffs

Finally updated the tariff calculations to incorporate the 50% copper tariffs, 40% tariff on Brazilian imports, and 5-31% tariff on imports from 94 countries that Trump has signed over the last 24 hours—overall tariff rates rise more than 2%, and are now 16% higher than pre-Trump

Crony capitalism at its most obvious. Fuck Lee.

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Fuck - and I can not emphasize this enough - Donald Trump and every supporter he has.

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Lev Parnas: “The cover-up has begun… the plan is unfolding in real time… they’re doing everything they can to erase the past and shape a new one that keeps Trump clean.”

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“Both of them.”

Me three months ago:

REPORT: Trump/MAGA budget bill could “add $3.5 to $4.2 trillion to the debt.”

National debt for all of us to give billionaires massive handouts. Let’s be clear: The Republican Party is not “the party of fiscal responsibility.” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer www.crfb.org/blogs/senate...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

@jeffsharlet.bsky.social

Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism Most — but not all — political scientists are deeply troubled by the president's attempts to expand executive power, according to a national survey.

WASHINGTON — A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism.
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Critique that fascism is "making it up as it goes" itself goes nowhere, because *no kidding*--that's the ugly fact *&* idiot mythos of fascism, "men of action," dynamism, guided not by technocracy but by a deliberately chaotic commitment to destruction. Hit one thing, see if it breaks. Try another.

Who could have predicted that fascists would be flashy?

MEMPHIS — Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social is holding a rally FRIDAY to push back on Elon Musk’s XAI supercomputer’s pollution of the already “F” quality air (with Greater Memphis Chamber’s blessing)

“The wife of a wrongly deported Salvadoran father living in Maryland was moved to a safe house after Donald Trump’s administration posted a court document that included her address on social media.” #KilmarAbregoGarcia www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...