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In a NYT piece about 60,000 migrants arriving in Spain, not a single word about what will happen to them, why they were there, who they are. An entire section on “why this matters” just about European politics. Very sad that this is the role of the last huge source of journalism in this country

My team uncovered that foreign enemies are targeting U.S. servicemembers in war zones by buying their location data. The threat to national security posed by data brokers has never been more clear. We need to dismantle the surveillance advertising industry.

A lot of people epically failed to accept the basic reality that the 2024 election was an election with huge moral stakes and a clear right and wrong answer (for a wide range of reasons). They now are twisting themselves into knots to protect themselves from accepting that moral failing.

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

I’ve now watched this clip like 10 times and it’s instant first ballot hall of fame. One of the most comically out of touch things I’ve ever heard heard from a public official.

In the past 24 hours, the Trump regime has: - Threatened to shutdown the Social Security Administration unless they give DOGE's everyone's social security information - Threatened to arrest American citizens for protesting Musk and Tesla and deport them to a foreign country without due process

Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador

You can read Cohen's full statement here: www.linkedin.com/posts/rachel...

This is actual evidence:

The path to authoritarianism starts with "they're all corrupt," "they all lie to you," and "everything is a scam." It lets you pass off feeble-mindedness as sophistication and substitute objectivity for subjectivity. Liberal democracy requires that certain things be true and certain things be moral.

The big lesson of the last 50 years is that cynicism benefits authoritarians. As such, if liberals are ever able to regain power, we should prioritize restoring trust in institutions. The best way to do this is to mete out extremely harsh punishments against powerful people who abused this trust.

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They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

More broadly, liberals keep getting told that they have to sell their ideas without saying their ideas are correct or other ideas are wrong since that is “scolding” and I do not know how to do that.

like Marshall McLuhan said, the medium is the message, and the message of social media sites is that nothing is real: a) Twitter-like sites tell you that nothing is real and that you should be cynical and conspiratorial about that b) Instagram-like sites tell you nothing is real so be entertained

this corrosive social media-derived expectation that "lol nothing matters lmao why are you being like this" is destroying society if you can't take anything seriously you can't take it seriously when fascist lunatics try to take over the government

really seems that to much of the legal academy, the worst thing you can be is rude. twisting history and the law to deprive millions of people of citizenship? well, as long as you’re polite about it!

trump was literally president for four years during which he wildly escalated drone warfare, tried to provoke a war with Iran and got into dangerous saber-rattling with north korea. now, he is threatening to take greenland and the panama canal by force. what is this horseshit?

They didn't take him literally OR Seriously From today's Odd Lots newsletter www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Peaceful protest is protected under our First Amendment: freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of the press. Trump threatening to pull federal funding from schools over Americans protesting is unconstitutional on several levels. It’s authoritarian overreach & must be repudiated.

I legitimately think a nontrivial reason why the world went to shit is that at some point, we decided there are mess makers and mess cleaners and if the mess makers make a mess too big for the mess cleaners, it just shows the mess cleaners suck.

Im getting March 2020 vibes like crazy right now

This feels like it might be one of those weeks where the market crashes and everyone realizes what we are about to enter into

The Atlantic showing, once again, that their mission is to normalize fascism, including by explaining away fascist incompetence, no matter how ridiculous it makes them look.

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

At some point, the answer to “you absolute fool, you fucking imbecile, they aren’t Russian assets, they simply behave identically to people who are Russian assets in every conceivable way” is “who fukkin cares if there’s no functional difference?”

EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

If you can't make it tonight, or if you want a preview of what we'll be talking about, here's a thread on our 2025 legislative package.

certain respectable, centrist pundits have said or implied that i'm basically hysterical about the idea that the trump administration is segregationist but then we get stories like this one. huh, wonder what ideological perspective might explain this decision.

Emphasizing again that anyone who responds to "that's illegal" with some variant of "lol all law is meaningless you're a sucker for thinking that matters" is actively doing PR for Trump and helping him. Nihilism about the law is the best way to make sure that the rule of law dies a quicker death.

Am I having a stroke?

“I’m angry and want change but can't tell who’s lying or what to do” is not the kind of thing that deserves respect. That's just panic and rage, which is how we got here.

FYI Dems: every air disaster is because of Trump, Musk, and the GOP. This isn't misinformation or exaggeration. It's a fair and necessary analysis of ripping the guts out of complex, proven safety systems. You're not being prudent waiting for NTSB reports, you're helping cover up the root cause.

Don’t make me tap the sign (cc RFK Jr)

NOW: Union Station LA: About 30 people are here protesting US Transpo Sec Duffy’s announcement regarding the high speed rail build. Chanting “no kings, just trains.” The announcement from Duffy denounced federal spending on the project, and announced an investigation into federal $ spent.

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

this does not actually describe the obama or biden presidencies at all. why are we dignifying this idiocy