James A. Robichaux

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Homes flooded in Kipnuk

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

White genocide: The conspiracy theory behind the Tree of Life shooting Documento OIET 9/2021     On October 27th, 2018, a white supremacist terrorist attack took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The event, known as the Tree of […]

This very old racist & antisemitic conspiracy theory--that "the Jews" are conspiring to turn white Christians into 2nd class citizens in their own country--has inspired more than one mass murder in the US. It's unfortnately become a basic GOP talking point. observatorioterrorismo.com/terrorismo-d...

Read this whole thread--a good primer on how the "globalists are behind all the radical protests" narrative is racist, antisemitic, and fascist, and has been for decades. We all need to understand this clearly.

So the idea that this guy has never tried to punish people who don’t conform to his religious ideas of what’s acceptable is contradicted by his history. And a campaign of harassment against a person who wrote something on their private social media page that he found rude is not a both sides story

As good an explanation as any for our current political climate

In my experience people like this guy create persecution narratives for themselves where white Christian people are being endangered by liberals (and this woman isn’t even liberal) and are dying for the opportunity to harm those people

Ah, that's actually a super-helpful answer!

Thanks!

Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Yeah, it increasingly looks like they are jockeying to position themselves advantageously in a post-Trump world.

This seems to be true even for Republican members of Congress.

Three More GOP Reps Split From Mike Johnson Over Shutdown — The New Republic The House speaker is losing control of his party.

“The House speaker is losing control of his party”

Three More GOP Reps Split From Mike Johnson Over Shutdown - The New Republic

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Important to understand that MTG kickstarted this rebellion.

For important (and super fun) context, check out my half-hour video on this.

It helps you reconcile two competing emotions: Yes, MTG did a good thing. No, she is not a good person.

Watch for more!

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It’s now routine for pundits to ask Mamdani, Pritzker etc. if they are afraid Trump will arrest them, kill them, etc.

And somehow it doesn’t disrupt the horse race bit—they ask it like it’s a government shutdown or poll numbers.

If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important.

The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.

What is the difference between being nihilistic and being extremely jaded?

This seems plausible.

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"using it to pay ICE"????

Unless healthcare and health insurance CEOs are in the US on work visas, it's not immigrants who are denying you access to healthcare

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

Our own federal government attacked a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night, indiscriminately pulling people from their beds, including US citizens. Some people were dragged naked into the street. This is political violence. These are Nazi tactics.

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If I could get all the egghead Democrat politico pundit advisory class to understand one thing, it would be this thing.

Yep, and I think that it's best to treat them as if they already do understand it but are, for whatever reason, feigning ignorance.

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Yes, it's so, so, SO damn infuriating watching the Democratic Party, year after year after year, allow Republicans to set the terms of the debate, almost never bothering to try to persuade people of something else.

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No, it's not a glaring comparison of priorities.

"Priorities" framing works only when all of the things being compared are either good or bad.

It's not that Republicans want X thing more than they want Y thing. It's that they are *against* Y thing, and the "priorities" framing occludes that.

Listen, please.

We will make zero progress on emancipatory social-welfare movements and, thus, against fascism until a critical mass of already-progressive people come to realize how disgusting and alienating the notion that public goods and services would be net funded by rich people is.

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Wait… Mike Johnson and the GOP Want a Shutdown to Raise Our Insurance?? Part of my ongoing Letters to Louisiana series — personal notes and stories written to my fellow Louisianans about the challenges we face and the future we can build together.

This is a great essay by Dustin Granger!

Thanks for writing this.

Everyone else, please share this important information about what is at stake in this shutdown fight.

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No wonder they've been trying to keep Anne Frank out of schools recently

We‘ve gotten to the Anne Frank stage of the presidency.