Jim Throgmorton
@flashhawk.bsky.social
Picture oneself in this man’s situation. It’s a « I am Spartacus » moment.
50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person.
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
December 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Picture oneself in this man’s situation. It’s a « I am Spartacus » moment.
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The Trump Admin has repeatedly demonstrated to allies around the globe that US security guarantees mean nothing as long as Trump is president. He won’t even agree to abide by the NATO charter, so how can he be trusted to honor any Ukraine deal.
December 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The Trump Admin has repeatedly demonstrated to allies around the globe that US security guarantees mean nothing as long as Trump is president. He won’t even agree to abide by the NATO charter, so how can he be trusted to honor any Ukraine deal.
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that's a lot of gender affirming care Nick is looking for, there.
Decades of the white nationalist movement evolving to adapt to current political trends has brought them to this moment.
December 30, 2025 at 5:49 AM
that's a lot of gender affirming care Nick is looking for, there.
I’ll never step foot in the building so long the center has his name on it.
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I’ll never step foot in the building so long the center has his name on it.
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“The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and the court has given us the worst of all worlds: an ultrapowerful presidency without an actual president at the helm.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and the court has given us the worst of all worlds: an ultrapowerful presidency without an actual president at the helm.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
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“Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.”
[Thomas Paine, 1776]
[Thomas Paine, 1776]
December 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
“Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.”
[Thomas Paine, 1776]
[Thomas Paine, 1776]
It’s trending now because it covers an interesting and important, but generally overlooked, topic. What alternatives to these reactionary futures can be imagined?
I'm not sure why, but my LARB essay on reactionary futurism is trending again.
Reactionary Futurism 2025 | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jordan S. Carroll reviews recent scholarship on the alt-right.
lareviewofbooks.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It’s trending now because it covers an interesting and important, but generally overlooked, topic. What alternatives to these reactionary futures can be imagined?
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I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
Spot on
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Spot on
By using AI without constraints, we would be feeding the growth of a system that will speed climate warming, make most humans uneccessary, and widen the gap between billionaire tecnocrats/oligarchs and the vast majority of everyone else.
This is an imprtant topic I would want candidates for U.S. Senate and House seats to take seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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How to build AI for democracy
Good governance of artificial intelligence requires providing for trustworthy AI.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
By using AI without constraints, we would be feeding the growth of a system that will speed climate warming, make most humans uneccessary, and widen the gap between billionaire tecnocrats/oligarchs and the vast majority of everyone else.
This is an imprtant topic I would want candidates for U.S. Senate and House seats to take seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
How to build AI for democracy
Good governance of artificial intelligence requires providing for trustworthy AI.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is an imprtant topic I would want candidates for U.S. Senate and House seats to take seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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We Crapped In Our Nest - Ice Cube Press
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November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Ice Cube Press has been doing great work for years. Art Cullen’s terrific new book is yet another example.
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If accepted, this deal would be a disaster for Ukraine and a threat to NATO members in Europe. What modifications would make it worthy of being accepted? Europeans must be involved in the negotiations. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If accepted, this deal would be a disaster for Ukraine and a threat to NATO members in Europe. What modifications would make it worthy of being accepted? Europeans must be involved in the negotiations. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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“You are our president. Please start acting like it. Show some class. Show some real leadership. Show that you actually care about the people other than yourself. I voted for you, but your behavior on this issue has been a national embarrassment.”
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“You are our president. Please start acting like it. Show some class. Show some real leadership. Show that you actually care about the people other than yourself. I voted for you, but your behavior on this issue has been a national embarrassment.”
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Which is why they must be stopped, especially in 2026.
The whole Third Term Project isn’t actually about Trump. The people behind it know he will likely be dead or enfeebled by 2029. It is about them, the vastly unpopular group around Trump, wanting to grift us forever without elections.
October 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Which is why they must be stopped, especially in 2026.
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Seems to me the Republican leadership is just demonstrating their awareness that, in this authoritarian regime, Congress is irrelevant.
It's official - the House will be out AGAIN next week, for a sixth consecutive week. That means the House will have worked 20 days over 17 weeks. The last House vote was on Sept. 19.
October 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Seems to me the Republican leadership is just demonstrating their awareness that, in this authoritarian regime, Congress is irrelevant.
Spot on, Bill.
“It is important to demonstrate that authoritarian gains are not permanent. That liberal society has the will to undo their grotesqueries.
Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
We Will Tear Down the Trump Palace Ballroom and Casino
Thinking like a dissident movement.
www.thebulwark.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Spot on, Bill.
To have this simply be demolished is heartbreaking. Surely there many thousands of Republicans who would also feel aghast and heartbroken. If you are one, please speak out, loudly.
October 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
To have this simply be demolished is heartbreaking. Surely there many thousands of Republicans who would also feel aghast and heartbroken. If you are one, please speak out, loudly.
This ballroom is just such a terrible idea. And demolishing part of the East Wing wing to make it happen only worsens the idea. Yuck!
The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC
October 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This ballroom is just such a terrible idea. And demolishing part of the East Wing wing to make it happen only worsens the idea. Yuck!
When the dust settles, this president will be the most reviled person in the history of our country.
American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.
October 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
When the dust settles, this president will be the most reviled person in the history of our country.
What a creep! This is America’s house, not his.
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
What a creep! This is America’s house, not his.