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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

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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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

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

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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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

"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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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

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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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

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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Subversive Mathematics: The Outlawing of Venn Diagrams in 1970’s Argentina

Adelaide Blair invites you to a performance of Subversive Mathematics: The Outlawing of Venn Diagrams in 1970’s Argentina. It is about the Argentinian Dirty War, the subsequent outlawing of Venn di…

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

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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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/07/2024

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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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

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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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

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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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 22/07/2024

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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

hope Harris remembers UFW if she pulls this off

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atticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

immediate no-brainer: make election day a holiday

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

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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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

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

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 20/07/2024

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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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

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.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

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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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

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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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...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16/07/2024

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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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/07/2024

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

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

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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5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

that’s right bitch

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

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

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 17/07/2024

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"

Teamsters account retweeting:

Miss Aja:
Did anyone ask Sean O'Brien if he read the part in Project 2025 about Republicans wanting to end overtime pay? Do his union members know about this?

The Nation:
Despite Sean O'brien's support for Trump at the RNC, let's be clear: A second Trump term would not be a win for the labor movement.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

The problem with "where have you been" responses to people's rising political concerns is that we should be encouraging people to become politically active rather than scolding them upon their arrival.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

This should horrify every decent American. Remember they mean deporting millions of Dreamers, farmworkers, long-settled immigrants who have contributed to our nation for decades. Businesses will suffer and families would be separated from coast to coast. Our neighbors, our coworkers, our loved ones.

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

Expect to see essentially zero factchecking on this in any national or local news outlet. American news media is constitutionally incapable of recognizing decreases in violent crime; it is functionally a right-wing culture industry regardless of the political ideology of its actual employees.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

This should terrify people in terms of what it means not only for teachers and librarians, but for parents. Once exposure to queer content gets classified as child abuse, that will be the excuse they use to remove kids from queer homes, or even just homes that teach acceptance.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

if you’re trying to engage with politically disconnected people about project 2025, identify a specific part that you think will resonate with them. i just told my friend who’s a public school teacher about the plan to abolish the department of education and that got her hooked.

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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

school vouchers are designed to starve public schools and they’re working in that regard

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

JD Vance has talked about emulating authoritarian Orban's gutting of academic freedom in Hungary open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

American politicians are explicit about using Orban-like strategies to take control of higher education. Senator JD Vance recently said:

You know, the closest that conservatives have ever gotten to successfully dealing with left-wing domination of universities is Viktor Orbán’s approach in Hungary. I think his way has to be the model for us: not to eliminate universities, but to give the a choice between survival or taking a much less biased approach to teaching…And whether it’s the incentives that you put into place, funding decisions that are made, and the curricula that are developed, you really can use politics to influence culture. And we should be doing more of that on the American Right.

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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

Yes, 💯 An intellectual pipeline to illiberal constitutionalism (authoritarianism disguised as a modern western state) from Eastern Europe and Russia.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 16/07/2024

Anti-abortion groups understood the RNC platform a lot better than mainstream and legacy journalists did ... which is exactly what the RNC was betting on

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RNC official: Nothing in our platform says we won't ban abortion nationwide

“Don’t let anybody tell you there’s not protections for pro-life,” top Republican Ed Martin said on his radio show last week.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

There is no VP pick on earth who could serve as a better motivation for Democrats to unite and to vote than J.D. Vance. He is Trump's Republican Party incarnate--hypocritical, dishonest, incapable of shame, composed of nothing but ambition, greed, and unearned grievance. (And I'm being nice.)

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

In all seriousness: the very idea that someone can take highly classified documents, store them in a public place, defy any number of requests, subpoenas, etc., and then face NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL is genuinely shocking, and should terrify anyone who cares about national security.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

The right is preparing for an all-out battle despite having an awful candidate and a wildly unpopular agenda. Anyone on the broad left who’s “resigned” to Trump winning this thing post-Roe, as a convicted felon, should be run out of town on a rail.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

A heatwave in Eastern Europe is generating temperatures of 42-44°C (107-111°F). Anthropogenic climate change - how to slow it, mitigate it, adapt to and survive it, how to care for one another as we succumb to it - is the most critical issue of ours or of any lifetime.

A heat map of Europe showing Eastern Europe red and black in intensity of heat between July 12 and July 19.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 14/07/2024

On Saturday a wholesome afternoon of fantasizing about concentration camps and plotting to overturn the coming election was disrupted by violence

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

The message is super simple: “Trump and the Republican Party have encouraged and mainstreamed political violence, something that can quickly spiral out of control and be used against the very people encouraging it. They are playing with fire and need to stop.”

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

Arendt: "The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world--but the most probable change is to a more violent world."

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

I’ll say one other thing; I don’t care how many hours have passed since the assassination attempt, there are just some people I’m not willing to take lessons on violent or irresponsible rhetoric from, or hear them out in good faith ever on this issue. Get fucked, fuck off, next.

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