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Derek Thompson • @DKTho….•13h •.. I don't think the word fascism should be thrown around or depreciated through overuse, but if your top advisers are going around calling for an autocratic executive to suspend the judiciary and declare martial law, the whole "don't call me a fascist" thing loses its punch.

total Ganz vindication

i think that's true, but leftists don't

i don't think he is, but but the threats are directed at leftists

to be fair, it's the leftists whom trump is threatening to straight-up kill right now

Project 2025 is the work of people who see the administrative state and assume they can instantly turn it into an infinitely effective repression apparatus with some regulatory changes, as opposed to having to win a multi-year power struggle with their subordinates, plus all their existing enemies.

did you just pick the name of the guy who came closest to saying outright 'yeah, man, fucking prosecute him' before January 6th out of a hat

Buttigieg says if he's president 'so be it' if Trump prosecuted after leaving office "Everybody ought to be held accountable," the presidential candidate told NBC's Chuck Todd.

yeah man absolutely
www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Yes on measure 50 ballot

Hey Californian- don’t forget to vote YES ON 50

(and to call @governor.ca.gov to bully into into signing SB79)

It is interesting that the fascist regime currently in place did not arise from the traditional factors that lead to such regimes (such as national humiliation and economic disaster), but that it is actively producing those factors, which will lead to the rise of the next administration.

i think that the next administration should be the one which curtis yarvin describes

Okay. Well, if Trump is going to attempt legal end-arounds like federalizing the NG of GOP states to send them to Dem states over the objections of governors and courts, I think the Democrats should just keep the federal government shut down indefinitely.

Date Filed Oct 5, 2025 Description * CSV SCHEDULING ORDER: This Court, having received Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and request for Expedited Hearing, ECF 59, sets a hearing by Telephonic Conference at 7:00 p.m. tonight, October 5, 2025, before Judge Karin J. Immergut. Access information for "LISTEN ONLY" phone number for the Hearing. Telephone Number: 1-571-353-2301 (toll-free 1-833- 990-9400); Guest Meeting ID: 812-980- 324#. Note: If dropped from the conference, please rejoin the conference. For complete conference connection instructions and etiquette guidelines, refer to ord.uscourts.gov/cms. Ordered on 10/5/25 by Judge Karin J. Immergut. (jy) (Entered: 10/05/2025)

COMING UP: Judge Immergut has set a hearing for 10 pm ET tonight (!) on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment by calling up the federalized California national guard.

What’s lost in this conversation is that language must always escape containment, so your playful little “clanker” slur is now being directed at people with bionic limbs.

Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/

i think comorragh canonically has a population similar to that of the empire.

There is a Mishima quote I like using -- "the special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail." It seems to be the only way of really conveying the psychic damage of perceiving the administration and the forces behind it

the mere mental image of a sundowning man, with control over a nuclear arsenal, being kept in this AI-generated reverie is immensely disturbing to me on a visceral level

ngl the role of AI in the second Trump presidency is just one of the most thoroughly bizarre and fucked parts of it

The Louvre of Bluesky is Libs of TikTok for leftists and it's embarrassing that anything they say has a large footprint here

Whether or not you agree with the decision it is pretty clear that the intent of these deployments of CPD/ISP officers is to protect protesters/bystanders from violence by ICE

He is regrettably the sort of guy who cannot have a debate, or let people agree to disagree - only a fight, with a winner, which he will only allow to be himself. And no off-switch, either - if he's not in a fight, he'll damn well find one somewhere.

Jacobin tries to meet Liberal Currents halfway?

it is unfortunate that, there being only two options for some numinous reason, the other option is "it is great that technology is progressing so we can return to the feudal system"

I don't think he really has a distinction between belief and claim so he's also not super solid on the difference between lie and delusion.

this is literally delusional

like, this is absolutely insane behavior!

I hate thinking about politics this way, but it's really hard to escape the hypothesis that a lot of well-connected people being vastly more racist than they'd publicly admit is why we are where we are.

I think you have to be able to criticise Elon Musk for making MechaHitler.

The two behaviors you are describing end up with "it's fine because making mechahitler is impossible" or "it's fine because it is totally ethical to do anything to a machine."

"this thing is a person, but exclusively for the purpose of treating it like a thing" admits to the category "persons whom you need not regard as persons."

i do not think that destroying an object is wrong. i think that treating a thing like a person exclusively for the purpose of dehumanizing it is insane behavior.