@sciencemom17.bsky.social
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Fascists truly cannot distinguish fiction from reality
This has ELEVEN THOUSAND likes on the hellsite
This has ELEVEN THOUSAND likes on the hellsite
December 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Fascists truly cannot distinguish fiction from reality
This has ELEVEN THOUSAND likes on the hellsite
This has ELEVEN THOUSAND likes on the hellsite
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A fair point, but I think what they voted for is a complicated question. FWIW, here's my effort to untangle this question, relying partly on @gelliottmorris.com's work:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
December 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A fair point, but I think what they voted for is a complicated question. FWIW, here's my effort to untangle this question, relying partly on @gelliottmorris.com's work:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
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"The Kennedy Center is threatening to sue Chuck Redd to enforce the tyrannical precept that we are all, always, everywhere, the king’s performing monkeys. Are our voices our own? Or do they belong to Trump and Trump alone?" — @nberlat.bsky.social
The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
But freedom of speech includes freedom to not praise the king.
www.publicnotice.co
December 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"The Kennedy Center is threatening to sue Chuck Redd to enforce the tyrannical precept that we are all, always, everywhere, the king’s performing monkeys. Are our voices our own? Or do they belong to Trump and Trump alone?" — @nberlat.bsky.social
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I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.
August 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.
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No my man, the answer absolutely involves taxing those gains.
December 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
No my man, the answer absolutely involves taxing those gains.
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You’d have been called worse than overwrought. But you were right all along about exactly where we were heading.
We are, as @radleybalko.bsky.social reports here, “in the throes of an administration that believes it can kill on demand, regardless of domestic or international law, and feels no obligation to justify its decision to do so to Congress, the courts, or the public.” newrepublic.com/article/2042...
December 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM
You’d have been called worse than overwrought. But you were right all along about exactly where we were heading.
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You can almost see how desperate Trump and Jared Kushner are to take over Gaza and build those beachfront condominiums
Netanyahu would of course be completely on board with that plan
Netanyahu would of course be completely on board with that plan
the US delegation for Trump's meeting with Netanyahu includes Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Stephen Miller
December 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
You can almost see how desperate Trump and Jared Kushner are to take over Gaza and build those beachfront condominiums
Netanyahu would of course be completely on board with that plan
Netanyahu would of course be completely on board with that plan
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Can't retweet this enough
One of my more controversial opinions is that the US needs to significantly raise taxes to the tune of a couple % of GDP right now, even before any expansive social democratic reforms, and that means you—yes you, dear highly educated professional—will need to pay up, not just nebulous billionaires.
December 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Can't retweet this enough
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Something can be both sad and funny, right?
Because the defacement of the Kennedy Center and the financial hit that performers are suffering are both very sad.
But Richard Grennell’s temper tantrums are very, very funny.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Because the defacement of the Kennedy Center and the financial hit that performers are suffering are both very sad.
But Richard Grennell’s temper tantrums are very, very funny.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
December 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Something can be both sad and funny, right?
Because the defacement of the Kennedy Center and the financial hit that performers are suffering are both very sad.
But Richard Grennell’s temper tantrums are very, very funny.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Because the defacement of the Kennedy Center and the financial hit that performers are suffering are both very sad.
But Richard Grennell’s temper tantrums are very, very funny.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted
December 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted
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Watching my daughter grow up without evangelical religious trauma is breathtaking.
She’s not scared of a hell, or a god who would condemn her to everlasting torture, and she’s never heard of a rapture. Growing up without that fear really does something good to a young person.
She’s not scared of a hell, or a god who would condemn her to everlasting torture, and she’s never heard of a rapture. Growing up without that fear really does something good to a young person.
December 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Watching my daughter grow up without evangelical religious trauma is breathtaking.
She’s not scared of a hell, or a god who would condemn her to everlasting torture, and she’s never heard of a rapture. Growing up without that fear really does something good to a young person.
She’s not scared of a hell, or a god who would condemn her to everlasting torture, and she’s never heard of a rapture. Growing up without that fear really does something good to a young person.
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JUST IN: Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole argues he should not be detained pending trial, that his confession doesn't negate presumption of innocence and pretrial detention requires more than just strong evidence.
Says he is on the spetrum and OCD.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Says he is on the spetrum and OCD.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
JUST IN: Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole argues he should not be detained pending trial, that his confession doesn't negate presumption of innocence and pretrial detention requires more than just strong evidence.
Says he is on the spetrum and OCD.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Says he is on the spetrum and OCD.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Peskov: Russia's not going to provide any evidence of an attack ok Putin's residence that we made up.
December 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Peskov: Russia's not going to provide any evidence of an attack ok Putin's residence that we made up.
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❗️The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiha stated that Russia has still not provided any evidence for the alleged attack on Putin's residence.
"Almost a day has passed, and Russia still has not provided any plausible evidence for its accusations.
"Almost a day has passed, and Russia still has not provided any plausible evidence for its accusations.
December 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
❗️The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiha stated that Russia has still not provided any evidence for the alleged attack on Putin's residence.
"Almost a day has passed, and Russia still has not provided any plausible evidence for its accusations.
"Almost a day has passed, and Russia still has not provided any plausible evidence for its accusations.
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And eventually they’ll come for the dissenters, too. They’ll call us seditionists and throw us in the camps that we stood by and allowed.
People are invested in saying these aren’t concentration camps because they do not want to believe we could be so ugly.
But we can. And we have.
But we can. And we have.
December 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
And eventually they’ll come for the dissenters, too. They’ll call us seditionists and throw us in the camps that we stood by and allowed.
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People don’t hate Karoline Leavitt because she’s beautiful. They hate her because she’s a MAGA propagandist who spews lies so egregious they might make Goebbels blush.
December 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
People don’t hate Karoline Leavitt because she’s beautiful. They hate her because she’s a MAGA propagandist who spews lies so egregious they might make Goebbels blush.
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(this accident of spelling is obviously incoherent and largely meaningless but I remain fascinated and appalled by the transphobia to fascism pipeline and the mind destroying powers of biological determinism)
December 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
(this accident of spelling is obviously incoherent and largely meaningless but I remain fascinated and appalled by the transphobia to fascism pipeline and the mind destroying powers of biological determinism)
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The EU must respond with "the utmost severity" to the Trump administration’s decision to sanction him and four other European nationals for their work on online content moderation, former European Commissioner Thierry Breton has urged.
Breton says US sanctions against him put EU on an ‘extraordinarily dangerous path’
The EU “cannot show any sign of weakness” in response to the Trump administration’s actions, the ex-commissioner warned.
www.politico.eu
December 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The EU must respond with "the utmost severity" to the Trump administration’s decision to sanction him and four other European nationals for their work on online content moderation, former European Commissioner Thierry Breton has urged.
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New in PN: The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
But freedom of speech includes freedom to not praise the king.
www.publicnotice.co
December 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New in PN: The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
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There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...
NEW: Jan Crawford's attack on SCOTUS "corruption" narrative was its own substance-free narrative.
On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Jan Crawford's attack on SCOTUS "corruption" narrative was its own substance-free narrative
On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.
www.lawdork.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...
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This is just comically racist:. There is something a bit “off” about Mamdani. Sorta like Obama.
This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books.
Why are these people such freaks?
Why are these people such freaks?
December 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is just comically racist:. There is something a bit “off” about Mamdani. Sorta like Obama.
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As a grim year comes to an end, sharing the best of Can We Still Govern? These are the five nost read stories from the last year, ungated. Take a gander and read one! 🧵https://open.substack.com/pub/donmoynihan/p/best-of-can-we-still-govern-2025?r=slfke&utm_medium=ios
Best of Can We Still Govern 2025: Readers Picks
The most-read stories of the year
open.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
As a grim year comes to an end, sharing the best of Can We Still Govern? These are the five nost read stories from the last year, ungated. Take a gander and read one! 🧵https://open.substack.com/pub/donmoynihan/p/best-of-can-we-still-govern-2025?r=slfke&utm_medium=ios