Christian Foust
@christianfoust.bsky.social
Anti-fascist music and culture nerd - interested in political theory and praxis - historiography
“If there are ten people sitting at a table with one Nazi, you have eleven Nazis."
“If there are ten people sitting at a table with one Nazi, you have eleven Nazis."
Reposted by Christian Foust
Police in the U.S. have killed more than 670 people so far in 2025. mappingpoliceviolence.us
Mapping Police Violence
Official home of America's most comprehensive database of police violence. Get the facts about police brutality and how to address it.
mappingpoliceviolence.us
July 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Police in the U.S. have killed more than 670 people so far in 2025. mappingpoliceviolence.us
Reposted by Christian Foust
She was right and she should say so
Cudahy councilwoman apologizes for 'satirical' video that called on street gangs to organize against ICE
Cudahy councilwoman apologizes for 'satirical' video that called on street gangs to organize against ICE
Cynthia Gonzalez said the "short satirical video on TikTok" was meant to call on Angelenos to peacefully demonstrate against federal immigration sweeps.
www.latimes.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
She was right and she should say so
Reposted by Christian Foust
I miss the days when The Onion couldn’t be mistaken for real headlines
I'm trying to think about how I would have reacted if shown this headline five years ago
July 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I miss the days when The Onion couldn’t be mistaken for real headlines
Reposted by Christian Foust
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
Reposted by Christian Foust
This is why Trump is neither the beginning nor the end of what ails America.
July 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is why Trump is neither the beginning nor the end of what ails America.
Reposted by Christian Foust
If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
July 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
Reposted by Christian Foust
This is how every article on "the latest bipartisan/centrist lawmaker working group" reads to me
They Have a Losing Record—and Everyone in Baseball Is Trying to Copy Them www.wsj.com/sports/baseb...
They Have a Losing Record—and Everyone in Baseball Is Trying to Copy Them
The Braves have been a disappointment on the field, but their Battery Atlanta home has made them the envy of the rest of the sport.
www.wsj.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This is how every article on "the latest bipartisan/centrist lawmaker working group" reads to me
Reposted by Christian Foust
Birtherism was the canary.
Trump threatens to arrest Mamdani and then adds, "a lot of people are saying he's here illegally"
July 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Birtherism was the canary.
Reposted by Christian Foust
The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'
July 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'
Reposted by Christian Foust
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
July 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
Reposted by Christian Foust
Agree on the electoral analysis, but Mamdani is a genuine innovator in style, content, and approach and highly talented. As with AOC, people reducing this to left vs. moderate factional disputes are missing a lot.
I don't agree with all the analysis here -- in particular winning Democratic primary voters in Republican districts doesn't really signal much about winning these districts in a general election -- but it's a fantastic video that tells a clear story and I agree with most of it
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Agree on the electoral analysis, but Mamdani is a genuine innovator in style, content, and approach and highly talented. As with AOC, people reducing this to left vs. moderate factional disputes are missing a lot.
Reposted by Christian Foust
Precisely what @lioneltrolling.bsky.social was describing
"We'll have to take a look" -- Trump doesn't close the door on the idea of deporting Elon Musk for committing the infraction of criticizing him
July 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Precisely what @lioneltrolling.bsky.social was describing
Reposted by Christian Foust
Trump: "Ron, I'd like to thank you personally. You are my friend and you'll always be my friend. We may have some skirmishes even in the future. I doubt it. But we'll always come back, because we just seem to have blood that seems to match pretty well."
July 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Trump: "Ron, I'd like to thank you personally. You are my friend and you'll always be my friend. We may have some skirmishes even in the future. I doubt it. But we'll always come back, because we just seem to have blood that seems to match pretty well."
Reposted by Christian Foust
“Good” white people, I promise you don’t have to post a screenshot of every single racist tweet about Zohran Mamdami.
I think you believe you’re doing a service to the rest of the us. But the rest of us have been and continue to endure racism 24/7/365. Trust me, WE KNOW what they’re saying.
I think you believe you’re doing a service to the rest of the us. But the rest of us have been and continue to endure racism 24/7/365. Trust me, WE KNOW what they’re saying.
July 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“Good” white people, I promise you don’t have to post a screenshot of every single racist tweet about Zohran Mamdami.
I think you believe you’re doing a service to the rest of the us. But the rest of us have been and continue to endure racism 24/7/365. Trust me, WE KNOW what they’re saying.
I think you believe you’re doing a service to the rest of the us. But the rest of us have been and continue to endure racism 24/7/365. Trust me, WE KNOW what they’re saying.
Reposted by Christian Foust
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
Trump on CNN: "They may be prosecuted also for having given false reports on the attack in Iran."
July 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
Reposted by Christian Foust
Wow! The wrap around amendment kills the ban on gender-affirming care for trans people via @cnn.com
- Medicaid funding penalty for states that use their own money to cover undocumented immigrants is OUT
- Gender-affirming care ban for Medicaid IS OUT!!!!
- Gender-affirming care ban for Medicaid IS OUT!!!!
July 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Wow! The wrap around amendment kills the ban on gender-affirming care for trans people via @cnn.com
Reposted by Christian Foust
Oh nothing nothing just the Vice President of the United States saying aloud the truth.
In the MAGA system, cutting people’s healthcare is mere minutiae as long as you can keep up with your mass deportations and fund your concentration camps.
In the MAGA system, cutting people’s healthcare is mere minutiae as long as you can keep up with your mass deportations and fund your concentration camps.
July 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Oh nothing nothing just the Vice President of the United States saying aloud the truth.
In the MAGA system, cutting people’s healthcare is mere minutiae as long as you can keep up with your mass deportations and fund your concentration camps.
In the MAGA system, cutting people’s healthcare is mere minutiae as long as you can keep up with your mass deportations and fund your concentration camps.
Reposted by Christian Foust
ICE uses an averaging technique that, in this current moment, leads to an undercount of detainee population at many ICE facilities.
For a better approximation of the current number held in custody at your local ICE center, I recommend reading this.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/interval-a...
For a better approximation of the current number held in custody at your local ICE center, I recommend reading this.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/interval-a...
Interval ADP Update: Data Shows Recent Population Numbers Inside ICE Detention Centers
Get the data and 164 graphs to see the recent detained population at every ICE detention facility in the country.
austinkocher.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
ICE uses an averaging technique that, in this current moment, leads to an undercount of detainee population at many ICE facilities.
For a better approximation of the current number held in custody at your local ICE center, I recommend reading this.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/interval-a...
For a better approximation of the current number held in custody at your local ICE center, I recommend reading this.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/interval-a...
Reposted by Christian Foust
Harrison Ford Glares With Exhaustion As Disney Pitches Resurrecting Han Solo With Cybernetic Torso
July 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Harrison Ford Glares With Exhaustion As Disney Pitches Resurrecting Han Solo With Cybernetic Torso
Reposted by Christian Foust
Trump is now taking questions in front of the literal cages that will house migrants in DeSantis's new camp
July 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Trump is now taking questions in front of the literal cages that will house migrants in DeSantis's new camp
Reposted by Christian Foust
The combination of penal populism and anti-migration populism will be televised, and it's here
Trump is now taking questions in front of the literal cages that will house migrants in DeSantis's new camp
July 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The combination of penal populism and anti-migration populism will be televised, and it's here
Reposted by Christian Foust
Trying to imagine Hitler and Goebbels preening for photos at a concentration camp, wearing stupid little hats like these.
Trump in front of the migrant cages at DeSantis's camp: "Biden wanted me in here, that son of a bitch."
July 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Trying to imagine Hitler and Goebbels preening for photos at a concentration camp, wearing stupid little hats like these.
Reposted by Christian Foust
Among all the terrible stuff in this bill, some good news: we successfully got Republicans to back off their provision to strip gender-affirming care in their budget bill. It's not included in the final text, and will not be voted on.
July 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Among all the terrible stuff in this bill, some good news: we successfully got Republicans to back off their provision to strip gender-affirming care in their budget bill. It's not included in the final text, and will not be voted on.
Reposted by Christian Foust
Do note, by the way, that this is a set-up and delivery aimed at announcing prosecution of CNN.
Noem actually misses the set-up, but Trump brings the subject around to making up a crime to accuse CNN of.
Noem actually misses the set-up, but Trump brings the subject around to making up a crime to accuse CNN of.
Trump on CNN: "They may be prosecuted also for having given false reports on the attack in Iran."
July 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Do note, by the way, that this is a set-up and delivery aimed at announcing prosecution of CNN.
Noem actually misses the set-up, but Trump brings the subject around to making up a crime to accuse CNN of.
Noem actually misses the set-up, but Trump brings the subject around to making up a crime to accuse CNN of.