@michstew.bsky.social
Lies and rage baiting for $$. This should be a career-ending admission, but, instead, it's the modus operandi of influencers and admin 'officials'. It's deeply destructive 'business as usual'. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Dan Bongino Admits to Lying During His Pundit Days
Before he joined the FBI, Bongino spread bogus claims about the January 6 pipe bomber—and now says he did it because he was getting paid.
www.theatlantic.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Lies and rage baiting for $$. This should be a career-ending admission, but, instead, it's the modus operandi of influencers and admin 'officials'. It's deeply destructive 'business as usual'. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Article has summary of #climate campaigning groups responses to #COP30's dismal outcomes.
“COP30 offered a spark of hope but far more heartbreak, as the ambition of global leaders continues to fall short of what is needed for a livable planet" -@vivianasantiago.bsky.social
#ClimateSky 🔌💡
“COP30 offered a spark of hope but far more heartbreak, as the ambition of global leaders continues to fall short of what is needed for a livable planet" -@vivianasantiago.bsky.social
#ClimateSky 🔌💡
Climate Talks End With 'Empty Deal' That Fails on Forests, Finance, and Fossil Fuels | Common Dreams
"COP30 provides a stark reminder that the answers to the climate crisis do not lie inside the climate talks—they lie with the people and movements leading the way toward a just, equitable, fossil-fre...
www.commondreams.org
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Article has summary of #climate campaigning groups responses to #COP30's dismal outcomes.
“COP30 offered a spark of hope but far more heartbreak, as the ambition of global leaders continues to fall short of what is needed for a livable planet" -@vivianasantiago.bsky.social
#ClimateSky 🔌💡
“COP30 offered a spark of hope but far more heartbreak, as the ambition of global leaders continues to fall short of what is needed for a livable planet" -@vivianasantiago.bsky.social
#ClimateSky 🔌💡
In addition to bots writing Community Notes... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals
Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platform’s transparency feature
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In addition to bots writing Community Notes... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
3/3 Piker: "as long as you center working-class struggles and affordability at the heart of your campaign, you will definitely win.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
3/3 Piker: "as long as you center working-class struggles and affordability at the heart of your campaign, you will definitely win.”
2/3 Piker: “Zohran’s message is universal. It is applicable, and I think as long as you localize it to address the ailments that people feel, the issues that people feel in whatever locality, in whatever state that you are running for,...
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
2/3 Piker: “Zohran’s message is universal. It is applicable, and I think as long as you localize it to address the ailments that people feel, the issues that people feel in whatever locality, in whatever state that you are running for,...
Hasan Piker: “This is probably the 700th time saying this, and not just about Zoran in general, not even just last night. This is the message of my entire political advocacy. This is the message of my entire political career as a commentator, as someone who works with organizers and activists. 1/2
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Hasan Piker: “This is probably the 700th time saying this, and not just about Zoran in general, not even just last night. This is the message of my entire political advocacy. This is the message of my entire political career as a commentator, as someone who works with organizers and activists. 1/2
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Come on everybody. We showed Disney that collaboration has a price tag, let's give Spotfiy some of the same anti-fascist medicine. #CancelSpotify #NoKings
Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
indivisible.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Come on everybody. We showed Disney that collaboration has a price tag, let's give Spotfiy some of the same anti-fascist medicine. #CancelSpotify #NoKings
“If you are not frightened,” Hannah Fried, the executive director of the voter-access group All Voting Is Local, told me, “you are not paying attention.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way
Our election system is reaching a breaking point.
www.theatlantic.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“If you are not frightened,” Hannah Fried, the executive director of the voter-access group All Voting Is Local, told me, “you are not paying attention.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
4" ‘fascism’s guns are at the ready,’ when it’s our man down?”
I mean this: I despise the man who shot Charlie Kirk as much as I despise Kirk. My disdain for those whose goal isn’t democracy but other people’s pain is universal." Jeff Sharlet, Scenes from a Slow Civil War (9/10/2025)
I mean this: I despise the man who shot Charlie Kirk as much as I despise Kirk. My disdain for those whose goal isn’t democracy but other people’s pain is universal." Jeff Sharlet, Scenes from a Slow Civil War (9/10/2025)
September 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
4" ‘fascism’s guns are at the ready,’ when it’s our man down?”
I mean this: I despise the man who shot Charlie Kirk as much as I despise Kirk. My disdain for those whose goal isn’t democracy but other people’s pain is universal." Jeff Sharlet, Scenes from a Slow Civil War (9/10/2025)
I mean this: I despise the man who shot Charlie Kirk as much as I despise Kirk. My disdain for those whose goal isn’t democracy but other people’s pain is universal." Jeff Sharlet, Scenes from a Slow Civil War (9/10/2025)
3 "Think before you spout off. Winning the struggle against fascism is what matters, not indulging conspiracism or owning the fascists or showing off your quick wit.
To rightwingers who may read this: I can imagine you saying, “What are you talking about,
To rightwingers who may read this: I can imagine you saying, “What are you talking about,
September 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
3 "Think before you spout off. Winning the struggle against fascism is what matters, not indulging conspiracism or owning the fascists or showing off your quick wit.
To rightwingers who may read this: I can imagine you saying, “What are you talking about,
To rightwingers who may read this: I can imagine you saying, “What are you talking about,
2 "We don’t know enough yet about what happened in Utah to say much that’s definitive, though perhaps by the time you read this we will. But already I can tell you this, from my years of reporting: Fascism’s guns are at the ready.
September 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
2 "We don’t know enough yet about what happened in Utah to say much that’s definitive, though perhaps by the time you read this we will. But already I can tell you this, from my years of reporting: Fascism’s guns are at the ready.
1/1 Great blog post and wise words from Jeff Sharlet that some up my great un-ease after reading the responses of right-wing leaders to the shooting in Utah. The Struggle is Long
On Charlie Kirk and resisting the momentum of civil war
Jeff Sharlet
Sep 10
On Charlie Kirk and resisting the momentum of civil war
Jeff Sharlet
Sep 10
September 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
1/1 Great blog post and wise words from Jeff Sharlet that some up my great un-ease after reading the responses of right-wing leaders to the shooting in Utah. The Struggle is Long
On Charlie Kirk and resisting the momentum of civil war
Jeff Sharlet
Sep 10
On Charlie Kirk and resisting the momentum of civil war
Jeff Sharlet
Sep 10
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Sharing this well-argued piece that includes great links:
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Sharing this well-argued piece that includes great links:
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
A shareable and provocative flowchart for navigating our climate predicament from the Andrew Boyd of "I Want A Better Catastrophe" flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com
I Want a Better Catastrophe · Flowchart
A flowchart for navigating our climate predicament
flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A shareable and provocative flowchart for navigating our climate predicament from the Andrew Boyd of "I Want A Better Catastrophe" flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com
(7) He is the personification of a mode of irrationality… It is superabstract.”[4]
June 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
(7) He is the personification of a mode of irrationality… It is superabstract.”[4]
(6) But to accumulate more than anyone could ever spend? And then keep on accumulating greater and greater sums, with no other interest or aim in life? That is beyond good and evil. The neoconservative capitalist is defined less by what he possesses than by what possesses him.
June 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
(6) But to accumulate more than anyone could ever spend? And then keep on accumulating greater and greater sums, with no other interest or aim in life? That is beyond good and evil. The neoconservative capitalist is defined less by what he possesses than by what possesses him.
(4) An abstract desire, a mania for accumulating numerical quantities. Possessing things is understandable from the moral-molar point of view, as is wanting to accumulate capital for what it can buy in the way of time, things, and activities.
June 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
(4) An abstract desire, a mania for accumulating numerical quantities. Possessing things is understandable from the moral-molar point of view, as is wanting to accumulate capital for what it can buy in the way of time, things, and activities.
(3) It can dispense with belief in and good sense, because it is now stronger than molarity, and stronger than the ideologies that help to reproduce it. The men who personify it—the Donald Trumps and Michael Milkens of the world—do not so much represent an ideological cause as embody a desire.
June 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
(3) It can dispense with belief in and good sense, because it is now stronger than molarity, and stronger than the ideologies that help to reproduce it. The men who personify it—the Donald Trumps and Michael Milkens of the world—do not so much represent an ideological cause as embody a desire.
(2) It is the coming out of capital, a new golden age of greed that dares to say its name. Without a wince, Capitalism no longer has to justify itself. It no longer has to hide behind fascist-paranoid quasi-causes and argue that it serves the common good.
June 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
(2) It is the coming out of capital, a new golden age of greed that dares to say its name. Without a wince, Capitalism no longer has to justify itself. It no longer has to hide behind fascist-paranoid quasi-causes and argue that it serves the common good.
Brian Massumi writing in 1993 (1): “Capitalism is an unmediated desire, or abstract machine. A society actualizing that desire can be conceptualized as a particular mix between fascism-paranoia and anarchy-schizophrenia (tending strongly toward the latter)…
June 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Brian Massumi writing in 1993 (1): “Capitalism is an unmediated desire, or abstract machine. A society actualizing that desire can be conceptualized as a particular mix between fascism-paranoia and anarchy-schizophrenia (tending strongly toward the latter)…
"In a statement to the press, Hitler said that the imposition of central authority should be seen not as the “raping” of state sovereignty but rather as the “alignment” of state policies with the central government’s." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator
Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria.
www.theatlantic.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"In a statement to the press, Hitler said that the imposition of central authority should be seen not as the “raping” of state sovereignty but rather as the “alignment” of state policies with the central government’s." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
"Kick 'em in the dongle and move fast and break kings": Micah Lowinger interviews Cory Doctorow. A great discussion. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Ensh*ttification, Live! Micah and Cory Doctorow in Conversation | On the Media | WNYC Studios
This past weekend, OTM co-host Micah Loewinger went to Seattle to sit down with an all-time favourite guest of the show: tech activist and writer Cory Doctorow.
www.wnycstudios.org
June 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Kick 'em in the dongle and move fast and break kings": Micah Lowinger interviews Cory Doctorow. A great discussion. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...