Angela Mitropoulos

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I also want to point out that Vance's whole "professors are the enemy" schtick came after he profited enormously from universities. Nowhere was "Hillbilly Elegy" pushed more than on college campuses. He cashed in with six figure speaking fees to talk about Appalachian poverty.

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

I don't think the shooting makes Trump's election inevitable. At all

He's describing the monarchical justification of "charisma" — "divinely gifted" authority. Kind of amazing how explicit and fast the Right have decided to oppose democracy. Douthat's prose is breathless

This truly embarrassing garbage is why I unsubscribed from the NYT.

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time to dust this one off. amen.

Vance is, you guessed it, an adult Catholic convert

Compact magazine, attuned to the fascist re-imagination of the moment

This is going to be the definitive position of the Right on the shooting. That calling fascists what they are is a form of victimisation. And make no mistake, everything will be justified in the name of protecting these poor put upon fascists

Well things have taken a turn

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If Biden really believed Trump was a threat to American democracy, he would have pushed to have insurrectionists expelled from Congress and ordered his AG to arrest Trump. Instead, his apparent plan was to hope Trump would slink away in shame, because taking action would be hard and controversial.

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Project 2025 includes the call to “outlaw” porn. If you want to understand what they mean by that? Look to what these groups are already fighting “porn,” and their connections to anti-gender movements outside the US. I start that analysis here:

The Real Targets of Project 2025’s War on Pornnewrepublic.com It’s not people watching porn online. It’s drag queens, trans people, LGBTQ library books, and more.

In conclusion, clearly we should listen to a Catholic extremist on why the “liberal hysteria” about Project 2025 is silly. Heckuva job, New York Times! bsky.app/profile/www....

Talmon Joseph Smith RTed Catholic fascist Sohrab Ahmari saying “nothing to see here” about Project 2025. To call that wildly irresponsible for a reporter doesn’t begin to capture it. Ahmari isn’t remotely subtle about his theocratic views. Smith either knows or didn’t bother to Google Ahmari

Fairly good summary of the elections in France www.identitiesjournal.com/blog-collect...

The hard work begins here: France's legislative elections and what comes nextwww.identitiesjournal.com Anxieties were running high on Sunday as French voters went to the polls in the second round of this year's legislative elections.

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“… at least one million farm workers, more than 205,000 food production workers and 1.6 million workers in the construction industry and an estimated 142,000 undocumented immigrants who work as childcare workers, personal care, and home health workers. All targets for the GOP’s mass deportation.”

Mass deportation is a kitchen table issue, and Trump and the GOP need to be hounded about it. "Kids will come from school to homes without their parents. Businesses would lose workers, some would just shutter. Crops would rot in the fields.” zacharymueller.substack.com/p/mass-depor...

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It's important for you to know that a chunk of conservative dark money has recently been lobbed at academic research on "polarization," and it bears reflecting on why a framing of the US's contemporary crisis that automatically suggests there's blame on all sides would be favored by them

Yet another essay from Edsall framing main political problem as “polarization”. I will boldly state we should not want to meet in the middle on the questions like whether black peoples votes should count. Its in fact bad to not feel “polarized” toward the party that answers “no” to that question

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Breaking: In a French election upset, left-wing parties (Nouveau Front Populaire) are projected to win the most Assemblée Nationale seats. The far-right Rassemblement National came in third. Without a clear majority coalition negotiations are expected. (Source: Le Monde)

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Trump: I don't know anything about Project 2025 Here is a list of all the Trump officials who authored the Project 2025 blueprint, Mandate for Leadership. 25 of 36 were part of the Trump administration. project2025istheocracy.substack.com/p/project-20...

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As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

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no part of this is not absolutely hilarious

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"Their rhetoric can sound expansive to the point of opacity. 'As the great men of the West bequeathed their deeds to us, so must we leave a legacy for our children,' the group’s website proclaims." Yeah, um... ...that's only opaque if you don't know what the Fourteen Words are

In the UK, people didn't vote for Labour or Starmer. They voted against the Tories, in power for more than a decade.

In a nutshell, the core Q@non fantasy of counter-revolutionary terror

Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.

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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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The chat logs are insane! Like "we both have mein kampf by our bedside and anti-racism is a psyop to district people from faeries" insane. And you gotta figure they aren't outliers in their class.

Nina Power, the senior editor at the Sohrab Ahmari magazine, Compact, sued someone for calling her a fascist, lost, had to pay legal fees, declared bankruptcy, & -- with the trial evidence public -- is proven to be an occult fascist.

Biden's failure to stop Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court will always stand out for me as indicative

This. Fwiw: I've argued for some time that fascism is the reconstruction of public law according to the tenets of private law (or, politics by economics = oikonomia).

Recent years have certainly produced stupefying lurches toward dictatorship in our government, but I have to say: a system predicated on the dictatorship of the boss at work, the dictatorship of the landlord at home, and the dictatorship of the creditor in court contains the seeds from the outset.

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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

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Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”

Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.

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Roberts rules for Trump. Absolute immunity for “official acts.” Vacated and remanded. Party line case. Both Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. Fuck this. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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My first read: If a president commits crimes unrelated to him being the most powerful person in the world, he can be prosecuted. But if explicitly uses his powers to commit crimes, he is at least presumptively, and probably absolutely immune from prosecution. I mean, holy shit.

Illustrates the convergence of the broader Right around fascism. A clear violation of the liberal core of the First Amendment. Aiming to use govt power to facilitate and protect fascist speech. Speech that is always an incitement to eliminationist violence.

The Supreme Court is about to rule on Texas and Florida laws that restrict online content moderation. The states say tech giants squelch users' speech when they moderate misinfo, hate etc. Tech firms say content moderation is their own First Amendment right, and the laws violate the Constitution.