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We don’t have healthcare or education or housing or food or anything really because our money is used to fund a military that will go in and steal oil and resources for corporations that we’re also subsidizing with our money.

It’s fun and not at all disturbing that the fascists and tech oligarchs who control this country are all absolutely marinated and cooked in brain rotting conspiracy theories and pseudo-ideological drivel.

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

*elite capture intensifies*

Reading this alongside news about the military being requested for Memphis is something else.

Zohran mamdani you have 48 hours to release how fast you ran the mile in 7th grade or the New York Times will publish without comment

It is SO unusual for the Supreme Court to issue an order this late at night and honestly incredible only Thomas and Alito noted their dissents.

Also fascinating that SCOTUS rushed out the order before Alito could finish writing his dissent. That basically never happens! Again—majority seems pissed.

The ACLU has warned trans and nonbinary Americans that if they submit a new application to change the gender marker on their passport, they risk losing access to their passport and supporting documents.

oh yay @taylorlorenz.bsky.social 👏

Trump’s “America First” Is Not Realism Don’t mistake bluster and cynicism for toughness and wisdom.

foreign affairs is trying to figure that out with their latest issue

www.foreignaffairs.com/issues/2025/...

and a few featured articles like this one

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

A Repulsive Regime: Thoughts From a Disgusting Inaugural I watched every minute of this debacle. It was worse than I even expected.

The inauguration was a carefully constructed fascist pageant meant to seize control of power and reality, foster an authoritarian environment on behalf of the oligarchs, and pummel us into early submission.

It’s time to prepare for the fight.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-repulsiv...

Man, this whole TikTok situation has really, really bad vibes and for people watching this and everything else going on and still thinking things are just going to be fine, I hope reality sets in and they can prepare accordingly.

I have been thinking a lot about how becoming more informed and aware over the next four years in a way that’s really useful might mean more books about history and less getting sucked into the daily firehose of bad news which is the present

Trump didn’t just come up with the Greenland stuff. The tech oligarchs he serves want it for resources.

There’s a difference between ignoring his madness and looking past the very real agendas and designs harbored by the people who control him. And we’d better learn that difference quickly.

Make America Healthy Again - The Gaetz version. Ivermectin for all. They also sell emergency kits with several antibiotics, compounded semaglutide & viagra. Is this their new model of healthcare - cut the coverage, make it impossible for ppl to see doctors, & push them to buy some drugs online?

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

What They Always Wanted: Zuckerberg, Trump, and the New Normal They're not "obeying in advance." They're relieved. They're all-in.

Zuckerberg and the other tech oligarchs aren’t bending the knee to Trump and Musk.

All these “moderation programs” and “statements of principles” were just PR campaigns meant to hide their antidemocratic actions. They’re not scared, they’re overjoyed.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/what-they-...

A Deadly Apathy | David Shulman A blank indifference to cruelty and atrocity as a normative mode of waging war has infected Israel's collective conscience.

Powerful words from my Hebrew University colleague David Shulman: "What we are experiencing now in Israel is a profound failure of our shared humanity, a deadly apathy of the soul. Worse still is the taste for killing and inflicting pain that has infected so many":
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Speaking of shut the fuck up Friday, I’ve been seeing some people say that the FBI has contacted them for questioning after seeing social media posts, and my extremely urgent advice is that you should under NO CIRCUMSTANCES talk to the Feds without a lawyer.

What the Hell is Going On: An Explainer in these Strange Times A jumping off point for those looking to understand how we got here, where we're going, and what we can do

These are incredibly complicated and confusing times. Getting up to speed can be hard, especially after a lifetime being lied to about politics, so I put together an explainer for those looking to understand or get friends and family on the same page.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/what-the-h...

Again. This time around, Trump will be normalized in places and in ways you never could have imagined.

Recognize what is happening and also that a lot of liberals have moved to the Right, that they were never your allies or friends, and, like it or not, you’re in and have been in a class war.

This headline is remarkably irresponsible, framing RFK as the brave crusader trying to make everyone healthy when the reality is quite different.