Seldon Crisis Log
@seldoncrisislog.bsky.social
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” —Voltaire
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” —FDR
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” —FDR
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy with Eliot Higgins
YouTube video by The Atlantic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
More Military personnel are calling legal military non-profit agencies seeking advice for orders they received.
The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Military personnel seek legal advice on whether Trump-ordered missions are lawful
Military service personnel have been seeking outside legal advice about some of the missions the Trump administration has assigned them. The strikes against alleged drug traffickers and deployments to...
www.pbs.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
More Military personnel are calling legal military non-profit agencies seeking advice for orders they received.
The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Violent Trump supporter arrested at No Kings rally for brandishing a gun on protesters without provocation.
Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄
October 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Violent Trump supporter arrested at No Kings rally for brandishing a gun on protesters without provocation.
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup.
It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.
It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.
October 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup.
It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.
It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
We must pay billions to farmers
Because we cut off their customers with tariffs
And pay billions to Argentina
Whose farmers are selling to the customers we forfeited
Because that is America First
Because we cut off their customers with tariffs
And pay billions to Argentina
Whose farmers are selling to the customers we forfeited
Because that is America First
October 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
We must pay billions to farmers
Because we cut off their customers with tariffs
And pay billions to Argentina
Whose farmers are selling to the customers we forfeited
Because that is America First
Because we cut off their customers with tariffs
And pay billions to Argentina
Whose farmers are selling to the customers we forfeited
Because that is America First
Trump’s war on America continues apace. Masked Thugs, men with guns, wounded civilians.
This is not the country I know and love.
This is not the country I know and love.
Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.
Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.
Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.
September 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Trump’s war on America continues apace. Masked Thugs, men with guns, wounded civilians.
This is not the country I know and love.
This is not the country I know and love.
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
The president of the United States has declared war on America's biggest cities, putting tens of millions of Americans in the US military's sights.
What, am I supposed to rework his public statement to military leaders and use pleasant euphemisms to describe it to make it seem better than it is?
What, am I supposed to rework his public statement to military leaders and use pleasant euphemisms to describe it to make it seem better than it is?
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
September 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The president of the United States has declared war on America's biggest cities, putting tens of millions of Americans in the US military's sights.
What, am I supposed to rework his public statement to military leaders and use pleasant euphemisms to describe it to make it seem better than it is?
What, am I supposed to rework his public statement to military leaders and use pleasant euphemisms to describe it to make it seem better than it is?
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
September 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
No worries, our bulwark is the NRA guys who say they need their guns to defend against tyranny. They will undoubtedly oppose Trump’s domestic deployment of the military with orders to use “full force.”
Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland
September 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No worries, our bulwark is the NRA guys who say they need their guns to defend against tyranny. They will undoubtedly oppose Trump’s domestic deployment of the military with orders to use “full force.”
Hard to see a way out of this. The TikTok generation will now be as brainwashed as Fox News viewers, just by tuning algorithms.
We are so humiliatingly deep into tinpot dictatorship territory. The government has just brokered the coerced sale of a major media platform to an ally of the president, who is openly boasting about converting it into (even more of) a partisan propaganda outlet.
September 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hard to see a way out of this. The TikTok generation will now be as brainwashed as Fox News viewers, just by tuning algorithms.
Since Trump shut down FBI counterintelligence how will we know this wasn’t a hostile foreign intel operation?
“The hidden electronic maze was so powerful, it could have sent an encrypted and anonymous text to every human being in the United States within 12 minutes, McCool said. It could have overwhelmed cell towers, toppling New York City’s cell service...”
www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/u...
Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell system | CNN
A Secret Service unit set out to unmask the layers of burner phones, changing phone numbers and SIM cards that were swatting American officials. It ended with the largest seizure of SIM servers and ca...
www.cnn.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Since Trump shut down FBI counterintelligence how will we know this wasn’t a hostile foreign intel operation?
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
“Concern over conditions in detention also comes after DHS cut jobs in the oversight divisions focused on civil rights. This included widespread cuts within the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, which conducts oversight of ICE and Customs and Border Protection detention.”
Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
www.npr.org
September 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“Concern over conditions in detention also comes after DHS cut jobs in the oversight divisions focused on civil rights. This included widespread cuts within the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, which conducts oversight of ICE and Customs and Border Protection detention.”
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
What I find so fascinating is that Tylenol isn't being reclassified, it's not being banned, it's not prescription-only now.
They've done nothing. It's toothless. OB/GYNs are still going to recommend it to pregnant women if they follow science.
All they've done is declare autism women's fault.
They've done nothing. It's toothless. OB/GYNs are still going to recommend it to pregnant women if they follow science.
All they've done is declare autism women's fault.
September 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
What I find so fascinating is that Tylenol isn't being reclassified, it's not being banned, it's not prescription-only now.
They've done nothing. It's toothless. OB/GYNs are still going to recommend it to pregnant women if they follow science.
All they've done is declare autism women's fault.
They've done nothing. It's toothless. OB/GYNs are still going to recommend it to pregnant women if they follow science.
All they've done is declare autism women's fault.
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
“if he can order the Navy to operate as a presidential hit squad on the high seas, any number of grim hypotheticals could become reality sooner than Americans might expect,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
A Rogue Nation on the High Seas
Trump is treating the military like his personal mercenaries.
bit.ly
September 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“if he can order the Navy to operate as a presidential hit squad on the high seas, any number of grim hypotheticals could become reality sooner than Americans might expect,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
The truth that shall not be spoken.
1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
September 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The truth that shall not be spoken.
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
"You say you value free speech and oppose social penalties for bad speech, but your actions show that you don’t. You value free speech for you and people who agree with you and oppose social penalties for expressing things you agree with."
I wrote that over 5 years ago. Had these figures clocked.
I wrote that over 5 years ago. Had these figures clocked.
Free Speech Defenders Don’t Understand the Critique Against Them
On cancel culture, the Harper’s letter, the counter letter, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Bari Weiss, hypocrisy, and more
medium.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"You say you value free speech and oppose social penalties for bad speech, but your actions show that you don’t. You value free speech for you and people who agree with you and oppose social penalties for expressing things you agree with."
I wrote that over 5 years ago. Had these figures clocked.
I wrote that over 5 years ago. Had these figures clocked.
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
The 47 regime has made the Clean Air Act virtually moot. It’s now on states to hold polluters accountable to any emission standards.
If New Jersey doesn’t want to go back to the bad old days, voters must turnout for @mikiesherrill.bsky.social by Nov 4th.
www.commondreams.org/news/greenho...
If New Jersey doesn’t want to go back to the bad old days, voters must turnout for @mikiesherrill.bsky.social by Nov 4th.
www.commondreams.org/news/greenho...
In 'Latest Pro-Polluter Move,' Trump EPA to End Emissions Data Collection | Common Dreams
Citing US President Donald Trump's anti-climate executive actions, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin unveiled a proposal to end a program that requires power plants, refineries,...
www.commondreams.org
September 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The 47 regime has made the Clean Air Act virtually moot. It’s now on states to hold polluters accountable to any emission standards.
If New Jersey doesn’t want to go back to the bad old days, voters must turnout for @mikiesherrill.bsky.social by Nov 4th.
www.commondreams.org/news/greenho...
If New Jersey doesn’t want to go back to the bad old days, voters must turnout for @mikiesherrill.bsky.social by Nov 4th.
www.commondreams.org/news/greenho...
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
A little over a month ago, the Trump regime laid the groundwork to target the unhoused and mentally ill populations.
These executive orders, combined with targeted propaganda, are very similar to what the Nazis did in the early days of Nazi Germany.
These executive orders, combined with targeted propaganda, are very similar to what the Nazis did in the early days of Nazi Germany.
This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.
This is horrifying beyond words.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
This is horrifying beyond words.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A little over a month ago, the Trump regime laid the groundwork to target the unhoused and mentally ill populations.
These executive orders, combined with targeted propaganda, are very similar to what the Nazis did in the early days of Nazi Germany.
These executive orders, combined with targeted propaganda, are very similar to what the Nazis did in the early days of Nazi Germany.
Like psychopathic Nazi thugs, Fox personalities casually suggest putting homeless people to death.
When discussing how to handle the unhoused and mentally ill populations, Brian Kilmeade of Fox & Friends recommended to “just kill them” using “involuntary lethal injection.”
This is how the Trump regime and its propagandists can normalize and bring about the mass murder of vulnerable populations.
This is how the Trump regime and its propagandists can normalize and bring about the mass murder of vulnerable populations.
September 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Like psychopathic Nazi thugs, Fox personalities casually suggest putting homeless people to death.
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
Every outlet covering any of this stuff needs to have somebody who actually knows conservative American religion and somebody who actually knows weird conservative internet shit. See in here how they not just overlap, but also collide
last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"
anyways, great news! (1/X)
anyways, great news! (1/X)
September 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Every outlet covering any of this stuff needs to have somebody who actually knows conservative American religion and somebody who actually knows weird conservative internet shit. See in here how they not just overlap, but also collide
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
way too many outlets reporting "Hey fascist! Catch!" without the "Up arrow, right arrow, 3 down arrows" part
that was all the same inscription because its a very specific video game reference to Helldivers 2
all we know about Tyler Robinson right now is he is terminally online
that was all the same inscription because its a very specific video game reference to Helldivers 2
all we know about Tyler Robinson right now is he is terminally online
September 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
way too many outlets reporting "Hey fascist! Catch!" without the "Up arrow, right arrow, 3 down arrows" part
that was all the same inscription because its a very specific video game reference to Helldivers 2
all we know about Tyler Robinson right now is he is terminally online
that was all the same inscription because its a very specific video game reference to Helldivers 2
all we know about Tyler Robinson right now is he is terminally online
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
As information comes to light suggesting Trump may not be able to exploit the Charlie Kirk shooting to hurt unrelated people he hates, he no longer thinks it’s worth focusing on.
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
September 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
As information comes to light suggesting Trump may not be able to exploit the Charlie Kirk shooting to hurt unrelated people he hates, he no longer thinks it’s worth focusing on.
Reposted by Seldon Crisis Log
Actual shocker: per @adamscochran.bsky.social the actual evidence points to the murderer of Charlie Kirk being a registered Republican/ UltraRight/ Homophobe/ Gun Nut/ Groyper
THREAD: bsky.app/profile/adam...
THREAD: bsky.app/profile/adam...
September 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Actual shocker: per @adamscochran.bsky.social the actual evidence points to the murderer of Charlie Kirk being a registered Republican/ UltraRight/ Homophobe/ Gun Nut/ Groyper
THREAD: bsky.app/profile/adam...
THREAD: bsky.app/profile/adam...