@jedmonds.bsky.social
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I wrote for Scientific American about how the pseudoscience and hatred fueling Trump's mass deportation plans mirror grim concentration camp history from around the world. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
Trump’s Massive Deportation Plan Echoes Concentration Camp History
Trump’s language about immigrants “poisoning” the U.S. repeats past rhetoric that led to civilian detention camps, with horrific, tragic results
www.scientificamerican.com
July 23, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I wrote for Scientific American about how the pseudoscience and hatred fueling Trump's mass deportation plans mirror grim concentration camp history from around the world. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
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When we say the Republicans are destroying education, this is what we mean. This is the result of their draconian funding cuts, anti-teacher hatred (turns out calling innocent professionals "groomers" isn't a good retention strategy), and their visceral hatred of any public good.
Heading for an education crisis
theconversation.com/covid-19-dev...
Do we care enough about education to save it?
theconversation.com/covid-19-dev...
Do we care enough about education to save it?
July 23, 2024 at 5:51 PM
When we say the Republicans are destroying education, this is what we mean. This is the result of their draconian funding cuts, anti-teacher hatred (turns out calling innocent professionals "groomers" isn't a good retention strategy), and their visceral hatred of any public good.
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"NOT GOING BACK!" is the perfect Harris chant. It's about abortion rights, it's about culture-war reactionaries more generally, it's about a second Trump presidency, and it's about generational change within the Democratic Party.
Heard a thunderous “not going back” chant at the Harris rally in Milwaukee just now and honestly I think it’s hard to overstate the potency that could have and so meaningful that it’s a chant Biden absolutely could not have put himself behind
July 23, 2024 at 7:11 PM
"NOT GOING BACK!" is the perfect Harris chant. It's about abortion rights, it's about culture-war reactionaries more generally, it's about a second Trump presidency, and it's about generational change within the Democratic Party.
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Amazing how clearly Vance marks the apotheosis of the Republican party. More than Reagan, GWB, or even Trump, he's a void, an empty vessel helping undertaxed oligarchs consolidate more power while using culture wars to distract. For his patrons, only deference; for the public, grievance and spite.
July 17, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Amazing how clearly Vance marks the apotheosis of the Republican party. More than Reagan, GWB, or even Trump, he's a void, an empty vessel helping undertaxed oligarchs consolidate more power while using culture wars to distract. For his patrons, only deference; for the public, grievance and spite.
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So no joke: the dictatorship in 1970s Argentina once banned Venn diagrams. Because they could be seen as finding common ground between two (apparently) different groups, and if you’re a dictator, unity is a threat. There’s an artist whose work revolves around this!
July 22, 2024 at 10:41 PM
So no joke: the dictatorship in 1970s Argentina once banned Venn diagrams. Because they could be seen as finding common ground between two (apparently) different groups, and if you’re a dictator, unity is a threat. There’s an artist whose work revolves around this!
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I want Biden and all his surrogates out there talking about this. Telling voters "The GOP lied to you about an army of IRS jackboots coming for you because they knew rich people were cheating the government and they wanted to keep it that way."
The IRS reported Wednesday that it has collected $1 billion in taxes and penalties owed by hundreds of wealthy households who accumulated past-due tax debts for years while IRS enforcement dwindled.
IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households’ back taxes
For years, the tax agency simply didn’t try collecting sizable debts owed by 1,600 filers with annual incomes of at least $1 million.
wapo.st
July 11, 2024 at 4:44 PM
I want Biden and all his surrogates out there talking about this. Telling voters "The GOP lied to you about an army of IRS jackboots coming for you because they knew rich people were cheating the government and they wanted to keep it that way."
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Good. Thrilled to see the thrill-seeking pundit nihilists deprived of a spectacle of chaos among our shaky line of defense against the incipient authoritarian threat.
It’s over: A majority of the pledged DNC delegates have now endorsed Kamala Harris, virtually ensuring she clinches the Democratic nomination on the first ballot.
The endorsement of California’s delegation just now put her hundreds of delegates over the threshold needed.
The endorsement of California’s delegation just now put her hundreds of delegates over the threshold needed.
July 23, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Good. Thrilled to see the thrill-seeking pundit nihilists deprived of a spectacle of chaos among our shaky line of defense against the incipient authoritarian threat.
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As hilarious as Venn-phobia is, their page 1 strategy is clear: repeat Great Replacement lies and justify voter suppression by linking immigration to voter fraud. Both sides-ing “concerns” about border security is just laundering the Great Replacement. Do not do their work for them.
July 22, 2024 at 9:39 PM
As hilarious as Venn-phobia is, their page 1 strategy is clear: repeat Great Replacement lies and justify voter suppression by linking immigration to voter fraud. Both sides-ing “concerns” about border security is just laundering the Great Replacement. Do not do their work for them.
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There’s a basic mismatch between the role of political press in a democracy (inform, voice, form opinions) and the economic models that allow it to work (infotainment). The two at best aligned for some time in the 1980s but largely the tension persists.
Recap:
1 The Post pushed for Biden to exit
2 As soon as he did the editorial Baird called for a free-for-all convention
3 They set up a counter for the number of Dems who agreed w them, which topped out at 1
4 They changed the category
1 The Post pushed for Biden to exit
2 As soon as he did the editorial Baird called for a free-for-all convention
3 They set up a counter for the number of Dems who agreed w them, which topped out at 1
4 They changed the category
WaPo has changed the framing on this count to Endorsed vs Have Not Endorsed.
Gotta get ‘em to hit refresh!
Gotta get ‘em to hit refresh!
July 22, 2024 at 12:06 PM
There’s a basic mismatch between the role of political press in a democracy (inform, voice, form opinions) and the economic models that allow it to work (infotainment). The two at best aligned for some time in the 1980s but largely the tension persists.
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This is why we will need way more support and confidence around this candidacy than any other in our history. This will be a team effort, full stop.
"The glass cliff (similar to its cousin, the glass ceiling), wherein women, specifically those from underrepresented communities, are promoted into leadership positions during times of crisis and given a sometimes impossible task of fixing a broken culture."
fortune.com/2022/11/06/b...
fortune.com/2022/11/06/b...
Black women describe the 'glass cliff' nightmare at work
Double standards and high expectations create a recipe for failure.
fortune.com
July 22, 2024 at 1:58 AM
This is why we will need way more support and confidence around this candidacy than any other in our history. This will be a team effort, full stop.
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hope Harris remembers UFW if she pulls this off
The United Farm Workers is proud to endorse VP Kamala Harris for President. Dime con quien andas, y te digo quien eres.
Kamala Harris stood with farm workers as CA’s Attorney General, as US Senator, and as Vice President. There is work to be done, and we’re ready. Sí, se puede!
Kamala Harris stood with farm workers as CA’s Attorney General, as US Senator, and as Vice President. There is work to be done, and we’re ready. Sí, se puede!
July 22, 2024 at 12:04 AM
hope Harris remembers UFW if she pulls this off
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immediate no-brainer: make election day a holiday
honestly an incredibly intriguing set of possibilities opens up now that Biden has the power of the presidency but is no longer on the ticket. Feels like there's a lot of potential for power moves right now without a real risk.
July 21, 2024 at 7:53 PM
immediate no-brainer: make election day a holiday
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I remembered the brutality but had forgotten about the abductions. Whether it's Biden or Harris, even as a leftist, we have to prevent Trump from winning. Or it's Operation Condor here.
Amid BLM protests in Portland, Trump's Department of Homeland Security begins snatching protesters off the street into unmarked vans filled with officers in camo. The Oregon AG sues DHS for violating the civil rights of its citizens but a federal judge throws out the case.
A warning for the future?
A warning for the future?
July 21, 2024 at 5:03 AM
I remembered the brutality but had forgotten about the abductions. Whether it's Biden or Harris, even as a leftist, we have to prevent Trump from winning. Or it's Operation Condor here.
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Dem project 2025 (destroy gop edition)
*Incentivize car manufacturers to adopt direct sales
*Amend Supplement Labeling Act
*Aggressive IRS audits over $10mm
*Aggressively enforcing FARA
*Aggressive SEC, IRS, FTC, and DOJ investigations against VCs/tech
*Banning MLMs, criminal charges if applicable
*Incentivize car manufacturers to adopt direct sales
*Amend Supplement Labeling Act
*Aggressive IRS audits over $10mm
*Aggressively enforcing FARA
*Aggressive SEC, IRS, FTC, and DOJ investigations against VCs/tech
*Banning MLMs, criminal charges if applicable
July 19, 2024 at 5:26 AM
Dem project 2025 (destroy gop edition)
*Incentivize car manufacturers to adopt direct sales
*Amend Supplement Labeling Act
*Aggressive IRS audits over $10mm
*Aggressively enforcing FARA
*Aggressive SEC, IRS, FTC, and DOJ investigations against VCs/tech
*Banning MLMs, criminal charges if applicable
*Incentivize car manufacturers to adopt direct sales
*Amend Supplement Labeling Act
*Aggressive IRS audits over $10mm
*Aggressively enforcing FARA
*Aggressive SEC, IRS, FTC, and DOJ investigations against VCs/tech
*Banning MLMs, criminal charges if applicable
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I said on Slate Money this week that everyone is going to know who Curtis Yarvin is shortly because Thiel and Andreessen and Vance all buy into a lot of his theory and he’s no longer a fringe character among techno libertarians. Here’s a sampling of what he believes:
July 20, 2024 at 5:52 PM
I said on Slate Money this week that everyone is going to know who Curtis Yarvin is shortly because Thiel and Andreessen and Vance all buy into a lot of his theory and he’s no longer a fringe character among techno libertarians. Here’s a sampling of what he believes:
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Plus a war at home against protestors.
Do not sleep on how a second Trump administration would seek to destroy all the norms of American civil-military relations and try to use the military as tool for repressing Trump's opponents.
Do not sleep on how a second Trump administration would seek to destroy all the norms of American civil-military relations and try to use the military as tool for repressing Trump's opponents.
More seriously, you know you shouldn’t buy into the “no wars, party of peace” BS, but if you listened closely, Trump and the GOP want at least two wars: a proxy war with Iran, and an active war with Mexico/strikes on “cartels”
July 19, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Plus a war at home against protestors.
Do not sleep on how a second Trump administration would seek to destroy all the norms of American civil-military relations and try to use the military as tool for repressing Trump's opponents.
Do not sleep on how a second Trump administration would seek to destroy all the norms of American civil-military relations and try to use the military as tool for repressing Trump's opponents.
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Important to remember that this faction of the capitalist class is a war-mongering faction: it wants the US military to confront China, both to protect the faction’s wealth from competition and to increase its wealth through Security-State contracts
Silicon Valley is done with regulators and critics. Billionaires like Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen are lining up behind Donald Trump and his Thiel-funded running mate J.D. Vance.
They want to ensure tech is integral to making American great again.
They want to ensure tech is integral to making American great again.
Silicon Valley’s dangerous plan for a second Trump term
The Little Tech Agenda was crafted to defend the power of tech billionaires
disconnect.blog
July 19, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Important to remember that this faction of the capitalist class is a war-mongering faction: it wants the US military to confront China, both to protect the faction’s wealth from competition and to increase its wealth through Security-State contracts
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Compassionate Migration Policy is the only moral and winning counter to far-right parties braying for harsher and harsher border policies. There's no enacting some atrocity and getting them to back off; you've got to do something in the opposite direction. internationalpolicy.org/publications...
Compassionate migration policies are also the right call politically - CIP
Politicians responding to these arrivals should resist the temptation to invoke overly restrictive measures, not only because they trample on the human rights of Venezuelans in desperate situations, b...
internationalpolicy.org
July 17, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Compassionate Migration Policy is the only moral and winning counter to far-right parties braying for harsher and harsher border policies. There's no enacting some atrocity and getting them to back off; you've got to do something in the opposite direction. internationalpolicy.org/publications...
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not an original observation by far, but: one of the most useful things about project 2025 for the left is it's a way to organize people against Christian nationalism, and beyond this election, because they are not going anywhere
July 16, 2024 at 5:13 PM
not an original observation by far, but: one of the most useful things about project 2025 for the left is it's a way to organize people against Christian nationalism, and beyond this election, because they are not going anywhere
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one of the most disturbing things about this moment is watching the people who opposed Trump because supporting him simply wasn’t done in polite society drop the mask
it feels like the atrocities that are coming if he wins again will be openly cheered by the elite and that ends badly for us all
it feels like the atrocities that are coming if he wins again will be openly cheered by the elite and that ends badly for us all
July 18, 2024 at 1:38 AM
one of the most disturbing things about this moment is watching the people who opposed Trump because supporting him simply wasn’t done in polite society drop the mask
it feels like the atrocities that are coming if he wins again will be openly cheered by the elite and that ends badly for us all
it feels like the atrocities that are coming if he wins again will be openly cheered by the elite and that ends badly for us all
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A lot of people still understand Trump as a top-down threat. Project 2025 is about decentralization. When you purge the civil servants and install little tyrants across every agency, the entire society changes. You're not safe from being a target just because Trump doesn't know your name.
July 17, 2024 at 8:07 PM
A lot of people still understand Trump as a top-down threat. Project 2025 is about decentralization. When you purge the civil servants and install little tyrants across every agency, the entire society changes. You're not safe from being a target just because Trump doesn't know your name.
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that’s right bitch
Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.
Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changes
The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 16, 2024 at 9:25 PM
that’s right bitch
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And if you need some context here: California is the 5th largest economy in the world. Its electrical grid seems to be on a very short path to being 100% renewable. If they can do it—adding grid stability also!—others can too.
If you're a climate doomer, let this brighten your sky today, just a bit
If you're a climate doomer, let this brighten your sky today, just a bit
This news is incredible. 100 days this year CA's used 100% renewables to power the entire grid, & through a heat wave, there's been no significant disruption (cough *Texas*). Energy analysts are seeing a "phase-change" of the grid with the addition of 5 nuclear plants worth of battery storage, wow
"No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler is more clean energy, especially solar, and above all, battery storage..."
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July 16, 2024 at 4:15 PM
And if you need some context here: California is the 5th largest economy in the world. Its electrical grid seems to be on a very short path to being 100% renewable. If they can do it—adding grid stability also!—others can too.
If you're a climate doomer, let this brighten your sky today, just a bit
If you're a climate doomer, let this brighten your sky today, just a bit
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Solidarity with the Teamsters social media manager, who clearly is a person who stands for the working class
![@teamsters tweet:
"The c-suite [is]...using the profits to push diversity, equity & inculsion and the religion of the trans flag"
Unions gain nothing from endorsing the racist, misogynistic, and anti-trans policies of the far right, no matter how much people like Sen Hawley attempt to tether such bigotry to cynical pro-labor message. The message this sends to Teamsters of color, Teamster women, and LGBTQ Teamsters is that they are not welcome in the union unless they surrender their identiy to a new kind of anti-woke unionism. You don't unite a diverse working class by scoffing at its diversity.
Screenshot of Sean O'brien tweet:
"@Hawleymo is 100% on point"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tjrczgbda3estmbansluhwut/bafkreiga5nhjkfo2y3dc3yyo377mtw2wixfodxrrw3ytgf72euzbk6rrvi@jpeg)
July 17, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Solidarity with the Teamsters social media manager, who clearly is a person who stands for the working class