Jeffery Zavadil
@jefzav.bsky.social
Political theorist, democratic socialist, and author of the Mallworld, Incorporated, dystopian trilogy. No DMs. Website: http://coexalt.com. Facebook: http://bit.ly/2tJG7Gb
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Jeffery Zavadil
@jefzav.bsky.social
· Aug 28
New, from me:
America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism.
This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism.
This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
The authoritarian checklist
It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy
donmoynihan.substack.com
“Accepting that America is not longer a functioning democracy should change how we think about the future. Does America face a decades long shift away from democracy, as in Franco’s Spain, or a quicker rebound?“
“We’re not against immigration per se, as long as they follow the rules. We’re against ILLEGAL immigration.”
BULLSHIT.
BULLSHIT.
December 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
“We’re not against immigration per se, as long as they follow the rules. We’re against ILLEGAL immigration.”
BULLSHIT.
BULLSHIT.
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Hero.
Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Hero.
Ruling that the appointment is invalid does remove her from the job. Thats what “invalid appointment” means.
The Trump regime is utterly lawless.
The Trump regime is utterly lawless.
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Ruling that the appointment is invalid does remove her from the job. Thats what “invalid appointment” means.
The Trump regime is utterly lawless.
The Trump regime is utterly lawless.
I’ll support all of that.
Add “Turn all corporations into worker‘s cooperatives” and you’ll make me a fan for life.
Add “Turn all corporations into worker‘s cooperatives” and you’ll make me a fan for life.
-Bust up monopolies
-Boost unions
-$20/hr fed minimum wage
-Ban Wall Street from buying homes
-Pass M4A
-Universal childcare
-Get rid of Trump’s tariffs
-Enact UBI
-Tax the rich
These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.
-Boost unions
-$20/hr fed minimum wage
-Ban Wall Street from buying homes
-Pass M4A
-Universal childcare
-Get rid of Trump’s tariffs
-Enact UBI
-Tax the rich
These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I’ll support all of that.
Add “Turn all corporations into worker‘s cooperatives” and you’ll make me a fan for life.
Add “Turn all corporations into worker‘s cooperatives” and you’ll make me a fan for life.
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If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.
The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Supreme Court to Hear Trump's Bid To Eliminate Birthright Citizenship
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.
The governing party of the leading world power consists of angry, gullible, reality-denying cranks, quacks, and paranoid conspiracy theorists.
What is often overlooked: they are all being manipulated and exploited by capital’s ideological machine to preempt true democracy and make the rich richer.
What is often overlooked: they are all being manipulated and exploited by capital’s ideological machine to preempt true democracy and make the rich richer.
*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
December 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The governing party of the leading world power consists of angry, gullible, reality-denying cranks, quacks, and paranoid conspiracy theorists.
What is often overlooked: they are all being manipulated and exploited by capital’s ideological machine to preempt true democracy and make the rich richer.
What is often overlooked: they are all being manipulated and exploited by capital’s ideological machine to preempt true democracy and make the rich richer.
At this point, the Supreme Court is just a partisan arm of the Republican Party, not a body that makes judgments based on the law.
It is thus not a legitimate governing institution.
It may reach the point where states and local jurisdictions just have to ignore its rulings until that changes.
It is thus not a legitimate governing institution.
It may reach the point where states and local jurisdictions just have to ignore its rulings until that changes.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
At this point, the Supreme Court is just a partisan arm of the Republican Party, not a body that makes judgments based on the law.
It is thus not a legitimate governing institution.
It may reach the point where states and local jurisdictions just have to ignore its rulings until that changes.
It is thus not a legitimate governing institution.
It may reach the point where states and local jurisdictions just have to ignore its rulings until that changes.
The FIFA Peace Participation Award is absurd from top layer to bottom, but the icing on the cake is that he reached out, grabbed it, and put it on himself before it could be properly bestowed upon him.
Just a 79 year old toddler in charge of the nuclear codes
Just a 79 year old toddler in charge of the nuclear codes
Couldn’t get the real peace prize but got the soccer one
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The FIFA Peace Participation Award is absurd from top layer to bottom, but the icing on the cake is that he reached out, grabbed it, and put it on himself before it could be properly bestowed upon him.
Just a 79 year old toddler in charge of the nuclear codes
Just a 79 year old toddler in charge of the nuclear codes
Trump and MAGA do not believe in freedom.
If you believe in freedom, you *have to* support diversity, because diversity is the result of people’s free choices.
That includes choices of gender, orientation, and language.
Hatred of difference is hatred of freedom.
Trump and MAGA are un-American.
If you believe in freedom, you *have to* support diversity, because diversity is the result of people’s free choices.
That includes choices of gender, orientation, and language.
Hatred of difference is hatred of freedom.
Trump and MAGA are un-American.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Trump and MAGA do not believe in freedom.
If you believe in freedom, you *have to* support diversity, because diversity is the result of people’s free choices.
That includes choices of gender, orientation, and language.
Hatred of difference is hatred of freedom.
Trump and MAGA are un-American.
If you believe in freedom, you *have to* support diversity, because diversity is the result of people’s free choices.
That includes choices of gender, orientation, and language.
Hatred of difference is hatred of freedom.
Trump and MAGA are un-American.
Martin Luther King Jr. had more character in his pinky fingernail than Trump has in his entire body.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Martin Luther King Jr. had more character in his pinky fingernail than Trump has in his entire body.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
It’s good to call murder what it is, and prosecutions must ensue. But if we can call these murders “war crimes” only if both sides are organized militarily, there‘s a huge hole in international law.
That allows any army to victimize civilians and yet only commit murder, not atrocity. Unacceptable.
That allows any army to victimize civilians and yet only commit murder, not atrocity. Unacceptable.
"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
www.publicnotice.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It’s good to call murder what it is, and prosecutions must ensue. But if we can call these murders “war crimes” only if both sides are organized militarily, there‘s a huge hole in international law.
That allows any army to victimize civilians and yet only commit murder, not atrocity. Unacceptable.
That allows any army to victimize civilians and yet only commit murder, not atrocity. Unacceptable.
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The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.
The 14th Amendment says in plain English: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
If the Court rules otherwise, it‘s no Court at all, just a wing of the Republican Party.
If the Court rules otherwise, it‘s no Court at all, just a wing of the Republican Party.
US supreme court to decide on legality of Trump birthright citizenship order
Justices to take up case amid legal fight over order to heavily restrict right to birthright citizenship in US
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The 14th Amendment says in plain English: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
If the Court rules otherwise, it‘s no Court at all, just a wing of the Republican Party.
If the Court rules otherwise, it‘s no Court at all, just a wing of the Republican Party.
Oh, no. On some days the world diminishes a little bit.
Frank Gehry, legendary Canadian-American architect, dies aged 96
The architect, whose work included the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, died after a brief illness
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Oh, no. On some days the world diminishes a little bit.
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So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
A Navy warship mistook US fighter jets for enemy missiles and opened fire. The targeted pilot saw his life flash before his eyes.
New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year.
www.businessinsider.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
Seniors? What about we who are merely middle-aged?
Another huge issue, and I don't think people even know this is a thing, is that just about everything is done with smart phones now. And many (most?) seniors literally cannot work their phones. Signing things, texting, dealing with spam and fraud or even using the basic functions? They're often lost
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Seniors? What about we who are merely middle-aged?
You will not find a better description of Pete Hegseth’s psychology that this.
Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.
December 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
You will not find a better description of Pete Hegseth’s psychology that this.
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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They just don't seem to do numbers or facts very well...
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
They just don't seem to do numbers or facts very well...
It should always be pointed out - red states have more crime than blue, and crime was falling in blue cities before Trump came to power.
Monica Crowley claims Trump is "talking to FIFA" about potentially moving the World Cup out of "blue cities," but no decisions have been made
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It should always be pointed out - red states have more crime than blue, and crime was falling in blue cities before Trump came to power.
Just like the mad a Roman emperor Nero, Trump is building a golden palace for himself in the middle of the capital.
And just like the Roman people, we’re gonna tear it down when he’s gone.
And just like the Roman people, we’re gonna tear it down when he’s gone.
Trump taps new ballroom architect, replacing the one he hand-picked (and clashed with, as Trump micro-managed project and pushed to increase its size).
with @jonathanreports.bsky.social
with @jonathanreports.bsky.social
Trump hires new White House ballroom architect
Although the president and the original architect had clashed over the size of the project, the decisive factor was the small firm’s limited capacity to handle such an enormous project.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Just like the mad a Roman emperor Nero, Trump is building a golden palace for himself in the middle of the capital.
And just like the Roman people, we’re gonna tear it down when he’s gone.
And just like the Roman people, we’re gonna tear it down when he’s gone.