The New York Times has consistently displayed themselves as wanting to support not just the GOP, but full blown fascism, since at least 2016, if not much longer. They want republicans to win and rule over us like a king. You and your ilk are serfs.
I dont know if it's because they love republicans and want them to win but holy crap is this an embarrassment. the equivalent of reckless disregard in terms of journalism fuck ups. Just the simplest damn googling.
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Everytime I post about this I have to clarify this point.
No.
They don't like him because he provides clicks, or "easy content" or ratings. They like him because they agree with him. They think he's a good President and like his policies and want to help him take even more power.
low info voters are constantly being convinced that Republicans have more moderate policies (and Democrats more left wing policies) than they actually do and the mainstream media is a huge accomplice in this effort.
2004 was when I read an article about how voters liked Kerry’s policy positions **much** more than GWB’s policy positions, but they thought, incorrectly, that GWB had those positions.
The rise of vocationalization of education is a linchpin of this: education has to have a job preparation function in the progressive liberal spaces too. Its why the only student loan discharge programs are tied to employment or disability.
remember the conservative plan for schools: 1) elite secular academies for the wealthy, 2) religious instruction to brainwash the middle class and 3) a prison-like rump public school system to discipline the lower classes into mindless servitude
Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲
“One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.”
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W.E.B. Du Bois: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel - not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
I tried to contact @marylandgreenparty.bsky.social three months ago to see what they were doing in my area and got nothing but crickets. The junior congressman in my district is a fucking joke. The junior senator for this state is a parody. The Democratic party is like the Whigs of 1850.
People who quote post and don't allow responses are not serious people. I can say you don't know how to wipe your ass because you can't form a good argument and it would have as much effect as this comment.
It would help if every centrist who says they’d love to abolish ICE or end a genocide or protect trans people or get to universal healthcare but “you have to think about elections” would admit they just don’t want to do any of those things and are quietly fine with fascism if it doesn’t touch them.
This is because class, in the historical materialist sense, transcends apparent political differentiation in the majority of people. If you work for a living, and can be fired and have your life taken from you by not being able to work, you are part of the proletariate.
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
If you gain wealth through ownership of assets, you are a capitalist. These terms describe classes, not ideology. Classes are akin to tribes, as bad social scientists describe them (primarily evolutionary psychologists and social psychologists), and code close to an understood infrastructure.
There are aspects of the american situation in 2026 that need more detailed descriptions, but this is perhaps better described as superstructure rather than infrastructure. Not in front of my books rn, but iirc this is levi-strauss structuralism
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
Democratic politicians know that ICE isn’t just murdering people or kidnapping children or terrorizing constituents they’re sworn to protect, they know they’re constructing a system of concentration camps around the country.
And they still cant be bothered to stand up against them.
Trump approvals in Feb. 2025 vs. Jan. 2026, according to @pewresearch.org:
White: +12 to -8
Asian: -4 to -48 (!!)
Latino: -26 to -45
Black: -59 to -71
That’s uhhhh quite the shift, especially with Asian voters.
The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished.
I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy.
Time to melt ICE.
Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles.
It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
After Minneapolis, now the ICE shooting on Christmas Eve in Maryland is getting some scrutiny from local police: “…county police confirmed The Banner’s reporting that the second person injured in the encounter was already in ICE custody, in one of the agency’s vehicles, when he was hurt.”
@edzitron.com@niedermeyer.online listening to your CES coverage and every product sounds like "what if we made a smart hammer that tells you where to swing it?"
ICE was only created in 2003. Contrast that with USAID which was created in 1961 and was just dismantled.
We did fine without ICE and would again. In fact we did fine without DHS which was always a terrible idea, starting with the name.
Get rid of both.
occurs to me that we might be getting the "there's a problem of lonely males with no friends or romantic partners" and "there's a lucrative industry of toxic male influencers who tell young men to act like assholes" causation arrow backwards
Just relistened to the entirety of the revolutions podcast by @mikeduncan.bsky.social and it's even more applicable in 2026 than it was in 2016. Regardless of the disposition of the two party system, there needs to be a broad coalition for social revolution in the United States.
No to all of it, because despite the material backing of these reactionaries, from California to the Gulf stream waters, the "people" so long as they exist as an identifiable bloc, just want to be left alone and not taxed too much. Even better if the government helps them when they're hard up.
In other words, people are concerned with getting the goods, so to speak. But there are so many levels of abstraction in the American system that prevent the will of the people from translating into the will of the people.
Just relistened to the entirety of the revolutions podcast by @mikeduncan.bsky.social and it's even more applicable in 2026 than it was in 2016. Regardless of the disposition of the two party system, there needs to be a broad coalition for social revolution in the United States.
Since at least 1950, integration of all the worlds people in the United States under a system that serves the interest of the people has been the call, and reactionaries have successfully been able to halt the revolution because of juristic mechanisms like the Senate or the courts or fiefdoms
In the form of states or counties, or even congressional districts. In short, the reactionary forces in the US have recreated the Roman Republic from first principles. The question before us, as I see it, is Trump really gonna be a Caesar? Is Vance or any of these other schmendricks Octavian?
Just relistened to the entirety of the revolutions podcast by @mikeduncan.bsky.social and it's even more applicable in 2026 than it was in 2016. Regardless of the disposition of the two party system, there needs to be a broad coalition for social revolution in the United States.
The preponderance of evidence I have available to me is that the American people, i.e. just regular people out and about, are not right wing idealogues, regardless of how they're propagandized. That's why the right wing propaganda machine is so powerful: right wing propaganda is weak
Especially in the Americas, because rallying around a king is a violation of American values, as stated in tomes of doctrinal documents and in conversations had on the street, and also because working people interact with the multicultural nation every day just to survive.
Just relistened to the entirety of the revolutions podcast by @mikeduncan.bsky.social and it's even more applicable in 2026 than it was in 2016. Regardless of the disposition of the two party system, there needs to be a broad coalition for social revolution in the United States.
And each time the forces of reactionaries have carried the day. Part of that is because the foundation of American society is the flim flam man. People will buy anything if it's sold well enough. Part of it is because it's very easy to imagine yourself as self sufficient and beholden to no one here
Nonetheless, regardless of the vehicle, the entire legal structure that allowed the genocides and police state to form must be eradicated root and branch. That means full detrumpification, real economic justice (up to and including nationalization of natural resources), and true popular sovereignty
Just relistened to the entirety of the revolutions podcast by @mikeduncan.bsky.social and it's even more applicable in 2026 than it was in 2016. Regardless of the disposition of the two party system, there needs to be a broad coalition for social revolution in the United States.
Bernie Sanders called it a political revolution in 2016, but what he was selling then was the bare minimum. In 2026, there's going to be a need for the devolution of the power of the few to dominate the many. There have been at least two, and probably more like 4 revolutions in the US.
The thing that pisses me off most about liberals is that they're historically illiterate. And it's inexcusable because it's always college educated liberal arts people, who should know better.
Snap should be direct cash, account for 100% of the average American diet plus 20%, include a cookware stipend, an energy stipend, and be universal. What is the point of anything if you have to struggle to eat.