Robert Briggs
@bobbriggs.bsky.social
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
As the old adage goes, "There are no atheists in foxholes."
Wow!
Check out this cool working paper.
"War Causes Religiosity"
The authors scraped web images of hundreds of thousands of gravestones of deceased Americans.
They found that people who were randomly drafted into war are at least 20% more likely to have religious gravestones.
Check out this cool working paper.
"War Causes Religiosity"
The authors scraped web images of hundreds of thousands of gravestones of deceased Americans.
They found that people who were randomly drafted into war are at least 20% more likely to have religious gravestones.
May 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
As the old adage goes, "There are no atheists in foxholes."
So... In other words when given a choice between white supremacy and a multiethnic America, white supremacists stick with their racialized value structure. Which makes sense, because otherwise they would not be white supremacists in the first place. If anything, priming probably creates a backlash
🚨 “We just need to recognize that we’re all citizens of this country.” –– Politicians + citizens often stress a shared national identity when trying to bridge racial, partisan, or other group divides.
@stysyropoulos.bsky.social & I show why such “shared” identities are doomed to fail.
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@stysyropoulos.bsky.social & I show why such “shared” identities are doomed to fail.
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May 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
So... In other words when given a choice between white supremacy and a multiethnic America, white supremacists stick with their racialized value structure. Which makes sense, because otherwise they would not be white supremacists in the first place. If anything, priming probably creates a backlash
We are only in a state of war because Trump has all but declared war on America
Rep. Michael McCaul on Stephen Miller threatening to suspend habeas corpus: "The courts are gonna decide this one as to whether this invasion in fact constitutes what would be a state of war. Some would say it would."
May 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We are only in a state of war because Trump has all but declared war on America
Because the opt in voters knew what Trump was because they paid attention. The opt out voters believed his lies and were caught flat footed.
May 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Because the opt in voters knew what Trump was because they paid attention. The opt out voters believed his lies and were caught flat footed.
Minitrue
The White House should not be acting as a news publication.
The White House Now Has Its Own News Website—And People Are Calling It Out For What It Is
Totally Orwellian.
www.comicsands.com
May 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Minitrue
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A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
![In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreie3gc6fndj7mtotijddm4eg264zgsqxpn4nbekb3xq5ubdmskvr6u@jpeg)
!["You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiensu64iobo4ftuqeaighf2p5k745uzdnmhcecugsi4ec74dnqse4@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
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East Germany (1989)
The Berlin Wall didn’t fall because of bombs
it fell because East Germans protested week after week, peacefully, until the regime cracked.
Real power lies with the people, not the walls they build to control us.
#FallOfTheWall #WeAreTheMajority
#BerlinWall
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East Germany (1989)
The Berlin Wall didn’t fall because of bombs
it fell because East Germans protested week after week, peacefully, until the regime cracked.
Real power lies with the people, not the walls they build to control us.
#FallOfTheWall #WeAreTheMajority
#BerlinWall
.
April 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
.
East Germany (1989)
The Berlin Wall didn’t fall because of bombs
it fell because East Germans protested week after week, peacefully, until the regime cracked.
Real power lies with the people, not the walls they build to control us.
#FallOfTheWall #WeAreTheMajority
#BerlinWall
.
East Germany (1989)
The Berlin Wall didn’t fall because of bombs
it fell because East Germans protested week after week, peacefully, until the regime cracked.
Real power lies with the people, not the walls they build to control us.
#FallOfTheWall #WeAreTheMajority
#BerlinWall
.
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It is very funny that NYT let noted trade columnist Paul Krugman walk like six months ago or whatever because he wanted to produce too much trade content for their taste
April 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It is very funny that NYT let noted trade columnist Paul Krugman walk like six months ago or whatever because he wanted to produce too much trade content for their taste
Before there is no-one left to speak up for me, to paraphrase Bonhoeffer. Look, if they are going to come after you eventually anyhow, stand together to make it harder for them to go after ANYONE.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...
Opinion | ‘They’re Coming After All of Us. So You Might as Well Tell the Truth.’
The longtime activist and writer Sarah Schulman on why now is the time to stand up to people you oppose.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Before there is no-one left to speak up for me, to paraphrase Bonhoeffer. Look, if they are going to come after you eventually anyhow, stand together to make it harder for them to go after ANYONE.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...
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The🌎economy is in a crisis, & yet the dollar is falling. Investors are turning up their noses at US debt, instead snapping up gold & German bunds as "safe assets"
The Trump admin's policies are, to borrow from Bob Gilpin, tarnishing the "prestige" of the US economy & the 💵🧵1/
The Trump admin's policies are, to borrow from Bob Gilpin, tarnishing the "prestige" of the US economy & the 💵🧵1/
April 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The🌎economy is in a crisis, & yet the dollar is falling. Investors are turning up their noses at US debt, instead snapping up gold & German bunds as "safe assets"
The Trump admin's policies are, to borrow from Bob Gilpin, tarnishing the "prestige" of the US economy & the 💵🧵1/
The Trump admin's policies are, to borrow from Bob Gilpin, tarnishing the "prestige" of the US economy & the 💵🧵1/
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So now all the “fiscal conservatives” in Congress who complained for the last 4 years that the Biden/Pelosi budget deficits were “mortgaging our kids’ futures” are on a path to pass a budget that will explode the deficit exponentially to far more than any of the Biden years.
April 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
So now all the “fiscal conservatives” in Congress who complained for the last 4 years that the Biden/Pelosi budget deficits were “mortgaging our kids’ futures” are on a path to pass a budget that will explode the deficit exponentially to far more than any of the Biden years.
And this is why I have been saying that it is futile to count on the courts to stop this fascist administration. They are a delay tactic at best. SCOTUS is in the bag, 6-3 (well 5.5-3.5... Turns out ACB isn't 100% on board with the dictator thing).
The Trump administration is comfortable disappearing people to foreign gulags partially because the Trumpis Justices on the Roberts Court have enabled him at every turn, rewriting the Constitution when necessary to accommodate Trump's lawlessness www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
April 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
And this is why I have been saying that it is futile to count on the courts to stop this fascist administration. They are a delay tactic at best. SCOTUS is in the bag, 6-3 (well 5.5-3.5... Turns out ACB isn't 100% on board with the dictator thing).
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a handful of billionaires, given control of the government to "fix the economy," are ending tax collection for rich people and putting an additional 10-54% regressive sales tax on everything regular americans buy
NEW: Having Gutted the IRS, DOGE is Now Preparing to Shutter the Tax Division at the Department of Justice. For the Super-Rich Paying Taxes Will Probably Be All But Voluntary Going Forward. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...
DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division
I didn’t know this until this morning. And I’m surprised it hasn’t...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
a handful of billionaires, given control of the government to "fix the economy," are ending tax collection for rich people and putting an additional 10-54% regressive sales tax on everything regular americans buy
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Producerism is not an economic position. It is, in fact, a gender ideology.
Making Things = Manly, Authentic, Rooted
Service = Feminine, Inauthentic, Cosmopolitan
This is disguised by pretending to punch up at elites who “don’t make anything” and “just move numbers around.” That’s why it confuses
Making Things = Manly, Authentic, Rooted
Service = Feminine, Inauthentic, Cosmopolitan
This is disguised by pretending to punch up at elites who “don’t make anything” and “just move numbers around.” That’s why it confuses
“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.
April 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Producerism is not an economic position. It is, in fact, a gender ideology.
Making Things = Manly, Authentic, Rooted
Service = Feminine, Inauthentic, Cosmopolitan
This is disguised by pretending to punch up at elites who “don’t make anything” and “just move numbers around.” That’s why it confuses
Making Things = Manly, Authentic, Rooted
Service = Feminine, Inauthentic, Cosmopolitan
This is disguised by pretending to punch up at elites who “don’t make anything” and “just move numbers around.” That’s why it confuses
It’s the good ol fashioned patriarchy. If you don’t believe women should leave the house or vote, then why would you make work easier for them? Any accommodations to women working just encourages what is, from a Christian Nationalist viewpoint, aberrant behavior.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...
Opinion | Mike Johnson Inexplicably Doesn’t Want to Help Out New Parents in Congress
What on earth are Republican leaders thinking in trying to stop a Republican proposal to make it easier for new parents to vote in Congress?
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It’s the good ol fashioned patriarchy. If you don’t believe women should leave the house or vote, then why would you make work easier for them? Any accommodations to women working just encourages what is, from a Christian Nationalist viewpoint, aberrant behavior.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...
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NEW 🧵
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
April 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
NEW 🧵
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
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The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
April 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
Disgusting
Are all government accounts on X just troll accounts now?
This is from the official House Foreign Affairs Committee—the same committee responsible for foreign aid, global HIV/AIDS policy, security assistance, and national security. This is how they choose to represent themselves.
This is from the official House Foreign Affairs Committee—the same committee responsible for foreign aid, global HIV/AIDS policy, security assistance, and national security. This is how they choose to represent themselves.
March 31, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Disgusting
We tore them down once. We'll tear them down again.
Confederate monuments were *quite literally* an effort to “perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history” by promoting the Lost Cause work of white supremacists who wanted to rewrite the history of the Civil War and, yes, Reconstruction.
I _think_ this portion of the “restoring history” EO is meant to compel restoration of Confederate monuments. Aside from this being mere guidance, though, I see a snag: how does it “perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history” to remove shrines to people who rebelled against us?
March 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We tore them down once. We'll tear them down again.
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A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
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So the official position of the white supremacist government is, unsurprisingly, that “race is a biological reality.”
Apparently, not believing this is “insane.”
Important to note that for fascists, ALL the identity categories (race, sex, etc.) have to be “real” and frozen so they can manage them
Apparently, not believing this is “insane.”
Important to note that for fascists, ALL the identity categories (race, sex, etc.) have to be “real” and frozen so they can manage them
March 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
So the official position of the white supremacist government is, unsurprisingly, that “race is a biological reality.”
Apparently, not believing this is “insane.”
Important to note that for fascists, ALL the identity categories (race, sex, etc.) have to be “real” and frozen so they can manage them
Apparently, not believing this is “insane.”
Important to note that for fascists, ALL the identity categories (race, sex, etc.) have to be “real” and frozen so they can manage them
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WARNER: “Were you in the group chat?”
GABBARD: “I won’t get into specifics.”
WARNER: “Is that because it’s classified?” 🎯 🔥
Warner rightly dragging them for an unbelievable situation. 🎪
GABBARD: “I won’t get into specifics.”
WARNER: “Is that because it’s classified?” 🎯 🔥
Warner rightly dragging them for an unbelievable situation. 🎪
March 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
WARNER: “Were you in the group chat?”
GABBARD: “I won’t get into specifics.”
WARNER: “Is that because it’s classified?” 🎯 🔥
Warner rightly dragging them for an unbelievable situation. 🎪
GABBARD: “I won’t get into specifics.”
WARNER: “Is that because it’s classified?” 🎯 🔥
Warner rightly dragging them for an unbelievable situation. 🎪
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odysseus: wait
agamemnon: ???
odysseus: why does jeff goldberg know about the horse
agamemnon: ???
odysseus: why does jeff goldberg know about the horse
March 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
odysseus: wait
agamemnon: ???
odysseus: why does jeff goldberg know about the horse
agamemnon: ???
odysseus: why does jeff goldberg know about the horse