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In no possible way could Musk’s Twitter be described as a rational/critical public sphere or an ideal speech situation. Rather, it’s just a Habermosh pit at a Nazi punk show.

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Anyway, let’s hear it for those principled “originalists” in the GOP who have empowered a President who doesn’t give a fig about that whole “power of the purse” idea articulated in Article I of that futzy old Constitution of ours.

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He’s just Big Daddy reaching into the bags of cash in the Treasury and sprinkling some of it down on us.

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This is such a crystalline expression of Trump’s worldview. The only motivation that matters is money. If you’ve got money, you keep people loyal by giving them “gifts.” If you don’t have much money, you may say you hold certain values, but really, it’s just a matter of finding each person’s price.

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This makes check promise number three in just the past few weeks. We’ve got the $5000 check promise (but only if the Republicans win the midterms), the $500 checks already sent out to people who got shafted by the GOP cutting Obamacare subsidies, and now $90 checks supposedly going to seniors.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7h

It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?”

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That tweet by Helmut Strauf has now been deleted, unclear why.

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Der Vorstand der AfD-Jugend, Luca Maurice Strauf, mit völkischem Revisionismus zum Tag der deutschen Einheit. Der 3. Oktober für ihn nur ein "Etappen-Sieg" vor der "großdeutschen Lösung". Mittlerweile wieder gelöscht, aber das lässt tief blicken.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

Can confirm. This, for example, was at the top of my “for you” feed when I logged in to find an old post the other day.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

I know that tweet is just far right propaganda, not a serious policy proposal for now. But still. Here’s a piece I wrote up about what it’s like to be teaching a class on the history of democracy and the far right here, and at this moment. rightlandia.ghost.io/a-semester-o...

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A Semester of Living Inside History--literally and figuratively, and for better and worse

This fall I'm leading Willamette's study abroad program in Strasbourg, France. The students and I are housed at a grand, historic chateau (pictured above) located in a 60 acre wooded park on the outsk...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

This term I’m teaching in Strasbourg and staying at a Chateau in which Nazis housed officers during the occupation. When the AfD won in Saxony-Anhalt I thought “that’s bad, but they’re not going to invade Strasbourg any time soon.” Now this.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 23h

watch til the end and think about what this joke on this show at this time says about what social norms used to be when someone openly said nazi shit.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026

Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.

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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Conservative Cuban Americans have long made S. Florida GOP-friendly. But Trump has deported a record number of Cubans. Older Cubans who lived in the US for decades were deported to Mexico, where they've struggled to get by. Some have been deported to Africa..." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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How Trump’s Deportation Policies Have Rocked a South Florida House Race

Representative María Elvira Salazar, a Republican, ran an ad criticizing the Trump administration. It may have jolted other Republicans — and drawn attention to her Democratic opponent.

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macshibby the anxious @macshibby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I had a student hug me goodbye "just in case" because he and his family have an immigration appointment on Monday and they could be deported back to their home country, where he's convinced he'll end up murdered on the street. So anyway, fuck this.

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I think TR may have done it once in a White House communique.

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I love that in Donald Trump’s mind, twice a year across the nation workman in dingy overalls clamber up rickety ladders like in a Richard Scarry book to change the clocks back or forwards an hour.

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“I never thought a poop emoji could taste so delicious!!!” I mean, the copy just writes itself. Pshaw

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My friend makes a delicious dessert: chocolate flavored rice cake surrounding vanilla ice cream in the shape of a large Hershey’s kiss. For some reason she rejected my idea to market them as “Poopy Mochi.”

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Department of Education refuses to be outdone in the totally non-partisan battle against socialism and communism.

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Today, Secretary Linda McMahon called on schools across the nation to strengthen instruction on the history and human toll of communism and socialism.
It is imperative that the next generation understands the principles of liberty that underpin America's constitutional system.
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/bIGL50ZTeaU
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U.S. Department of Education Calls on Schools to Strengthen Education on the History and Dangers of Communism and Socialism
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Department of Energy pursuing its congressionally dictated mission by…fighting against the imaginary specter socialism, of course.

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The real cost of socialism to your family: THE GREEN NEW SCAM.
Electricity bills rise at least 16.3% - about $340 a year - for heating alone in gas-heated homes.
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THE REAL COST OF SOCIALISM AN AERICA
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Workers at Trump’s Department of Labor unite. You have nothing to lose but your shame.

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Also, having the Department of LABOR do this is a real chef’s kiss of historical understanding.

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It’s wild how every (putatively independent) federal agency has focused their social media messaging around the GOP’s midterm strategy of “stopping communism.” Also, how many American voters do you think could identify this “loser” who died 102 years ago and never set foot in the US?

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Dr. Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This article seems to start from the old fashioned assumption that there is a difference between a) the public interest and b) the pecuniary interests of Trump’s family and friends.

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I've been a teacher for almost 40 years. One rule I've followed since the beginning: Never insult students. It's a betrayal of the educational relationship. It's a bad look. And that shit gets back to them. If your students are frustrating you, it's your job to deal with it.

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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Well, if TC wins then Memorial Day and Veterans Day are gonna be pretty awkward for a lot of families when they have to explain to the kids why great-grandpa’s service in WWII was all for naught.

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And God saw the boys that he had made, and behold, they were back in town

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Look man, Tucker is just asking the hard questions that (((they))) don’t want you to ask. s/

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It takes a lot to make Jacob Rees-Mogg the voice of (relative) sanity (and not by a small margin in this case). But by gawd Tucker Carlson is up to the task. Dude's gonna be crazier than Ye ever was soon, and without the excuse of literal manic psychosis.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k.

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US accepts only white refugees for sixth consecutive month

Meanwhile, the only refugees the US is accepting these days are white people from South Africa, just in case the white nationalist logic behind this administration’s actions regarding immigration wasn’t already self-evident. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The Trump administration is spending more than $100 million to fight the "emergency" of "white genocide" in South Africa.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...

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Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.

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Bovino thinks America belongs to people whose ancestors fought at Gettysburg, which is funny because Bovino’s first American ancestor arrived here in 1909. bsky.app/profile/seth...

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The former commander of the US Border Control under Trump is a big fan of Remigration. bsky.app/profile/seth...

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The phrase “ethnic cleansing” appears in the first sentence of the Wikipedia definition.

Remigration is a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing'"! via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry. [21[3) Originating in Europe, the concept has since spread to the United States and Canada, where it has gained increasing prominence, and is especially popular within the Identitarian movement. 41[5] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture. 6]
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The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.

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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
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