Connor Stedman

A thread worth reading. Protests have meaning. They have a purpose. They are contagious.

if historians do the "Donald Trump was not one person, but actually a composite of many different individuals" bullshit I am going to haunt them so viciously that Sadako will look like Caspar the friendly ghost

Absolutely cooking here.

I think it is about time that Democrats started familiarizing themselves with Lincoln’s response to Dred Scott instead of accepting the tacit premise that whatever a bare majority of the Supreme Court decides, dictates our constitutional fate

True of so, so many texts from the past.

Great write-up of an important study by @tevoelker.bsky.social and @dasalgon.bsky.social. Far-right actors have been very successful in setting the political agenda. Many in politics and media still ignore this. They argue "immigration is important to people, hence we need to talk about immigration"

utterly depressing that Nixon-level scandals are now a normal Friday night news drop, barely remarked upon, just another day in Trump’s America

(And then over time, more and more of a cosplayed one as you say.)

Lots to explore about that movie. As some people have noted, the ambiguous time/period setting is a fascinating element of what you’re saying here.

Like, that stuff did actually exist in the late 60’s to mid 70’s range. But by the Reagan era it was a memory except at the very tiny fringes.

Folks need to understand that the protests are a lot less scary than what happens later if there are not visible protests.

as @ebharrington.bsky.social said, they’re trying to undo the entire establishment of social rights and representation going back to the Magna Carta.

so we don't have a House and we don't have appropriations but we've got a guy in charge ruling by decree and making sure nobody gets paid except the secret police, you say

Yes, this is a major and mostly unspoken dynamic affecting so much in US society - police forces having become their own self-maintaining power centers, largely beyond the reach of what elections can even affect. Like a state within a state, or a “Cosa Nostra”, if you will.

US has seized survivors after strike on suspected drug-carrying vessel in Caribbean, AP sources say The U.S. has seized survivors after a strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, the first since President Donald Trump began launching deadly attacks in the region this summer.

The US Navy is holding living witnesses to Trump and Hegseth’s murders captive in one of its vessels. apnews.com/article/vene...

Incredible book.

Wrecker leftists need to learn how actual resistance operates. You don't beat authoritarians by shooting at them, you beat them by making them look like what they are: morally bankrupt and ridiculous.

Ask Gandhi. Ask Dr. King. Ask Mandela.

The 1920’s Ecuadorian cacao crisis is another banger in this genre. Also the mid 20th century oyster industry collapse in Bivalve, New Jersey (a real place!).

One of my longstanding obnoxious ones is that fictional portrayals of government basically always show corruption in various forms and that this was actually very dangerous

"Missouri is setting the precedent that redistricting must remain in the hands of elected representatives who are accountable to the people."

But the representatives are not accountable to the people if they can pick their voters! That's the problem! It's insulting.

You cannot “own” land in any actual ontological sense. Property “rights” are not inherent and inalienable like we consider other human rights to be - they are conditional on fulfillment of responsibilities.

Yikes.

Cannot make this stuff up.

Judeo-Christian, the phrase that manages to somehow both be antisemitic *and* Islamophobic.

I honestly think this stuff is a net neutral in ME or might even help him slightly. State has kind of distinct politics and demographics from even other D voting northeastern states.

Incredible article by @asherelbein.bsky.social here:

Strikingly, Sinners was made for under $100m.

In the jock/creep alliance, the creeps a) comprehensively won out in-coalition and b) were always the ones we actually needed to be worrying about.

This really illustrates the extent to which the Trump GOP’s public support is based on their supporters simply not believing huge amounts of what they both say and do.

Yeah, makes sense. Bless the 50 move rule.

These Enigmatic ‘Fossils’ Could Rewrite the History of Life on Earth Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once

When did big multicellular organisms evolve — and how many times did it happen? In my first big print feature for @sciam.bsky.social, I wrote about *extremely* controversial 2.1 billion year old specimens from the Francevillain, and the question of how to recognize life on a basically alien planet