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The Trump campaign aims to use today's shooting as a sort of Reichstag fire to incite his supporters to step up street violence while calling for more state repression targeting his enemies of choice. A thread. 🧵⬇️

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Sure, lots of U.S. stations set all-time extreme heat records in the 1930s. But the globe was nowhere near record-hot. Bob Henson provides great context on the records, which were due to a combination of natural variability and poor farming practices. yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/07/why-...

Why were the 1930s so hot in North America? » Yale Climate Connectionsyaleclimateconnections.org Climate skeptics sometimes point to heat records from that decade to dismiss the reality of global warming. They're leaving out crucial context.

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A great passage from Gabriel Winant, historian at University of Chicago, on JD Vance in n+1. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/pol...

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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...

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Read this. Hell of a kicker

This whole excerpt tells you multitudes about our current political moment.

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oh man I missed this fucking gem just casually platforms (unchallenged in headline and synopsis) the authoritarian lie that the people opposing authoritarianism are the ones responsible for violence

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

Explainer: There's exactly one standard in America. If Dems call out Trump for his fascism, it's incitement. If Republicans demand violence, it's free speech.

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history has taught me to be very chill about a major political figure proclaiming a wide swath of the population to be "unhumans" bsky.app/profile/seth...

Update: Donald Trump, Jr. has endorsed Jack Posobiec's new book on the "Christ-hating Communists" who Posobiec thinks a future Trump administration should use the power of the state to destroy.

Interesting thread and quoted posts about journalists. Unroll @skyview.social

I actually disagree. The professionalization of journalism USED to be a bulwark against random assholes showing up, doing interviews, and styling their "content" as "journalism," when it is largely opinion and bias. This bulwark was weakened with the rise of the blogosphere which enabled the above.

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As someone who went to journalism school, and was trained specifically in running a newsroom, US media conglomerates have enabled the erosion of our civil rights, the circulation of intolerance, and the normalization of oppressive ideologies. We have a moral responsibility to point this out.

As a semi-former journalist who went to journalism school and is friends with lots of journalists and defended US journalism for a very long time: US big-media political journalism absolutely HAS gone down a shameful, disgusting road, and saying that isn’t an illiberal act.

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This you, Senator? 👀

Biden Campaign Uses JD Vance's Own Words Against Him After He Tried To Disavow Project 2025bit.ly The Biden-Harris 2024 campaign used JD Vance's own words about Project 2025 to point out his lies.

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How Fascism Works ( Reproducing here on Bluesky because there is so much worth considering & commenting on EVEN within New Zealand Aotearoa #nzpol - Link to the Substack source at end of thread ) 🧵 The 10 Elements of Fascism, from “How Fascism Works”:

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them a book by Jason Stanleybookshop.org "No single book is as relevant to the present moment."--Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen "One of the defining books of the decade."--Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on...

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Keir Starmer became Britain’s new Prime Minister. His first decision: he must hand write orders on whether to use nuclear weapons if London is obliterated in a surprise attack. They’re the Letters of Last Resort. He’s likely writing them now. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Now Keir Starmer Has to Decide if He’d Use Nukeswww.theatlantic.com Becoming the British prime minister means giving top-secret orders—immediately—that could determine the fate of the world.

@randymiller.bsky.social I'll give you a music rec if you give me one.

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13 years ago, Ry Cooder wrote an ASTONISHINGLY prescient song. "And then the day dawned bright and hard When I stole away the court of nine The Judas men served the cause And the sacred church of law is mine Justice has been cast down I want my crown, I want my crown" youtu.be/9pQtYznW9qc?...

I Want My Crownyoutu.be Provided to YouTube by NonesuchI Want My Crown · Ry CooderPull Up Some Dust and Sit Down℗ 2011 Nonesuch Records Inc.Composer: Ry CooderAuto-generated by YouT...

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Joe's not perfect, but stopping #Christofascism is more important to me. #VoteBlue #KeepTrumpOut #SupportDemocracy #StopMAGA #GenX

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I'm coconut-pilled. I'm harris-maxxing. I'm in my existing within the context era

See what I mean!

Taraji P. Henson did a huge public service calling out Project 2025. Earlier today, Kevin Roberts, chair of Project 2025, threatened violence: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be." It's Christofascism. Make no mistake.

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

Jesus. Rampant anti-free press. Courts putting people above the law. Christofascists gaining huge footholds in government. Gahhhhh! Vote!!! #VoteBlue #BlueWave2024

Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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Remember: at age 12 you’re old enough to have a child but not old enough to read books about how babies are made

This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

Is that a typo I see?

This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

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In The New Republic, historian Holly Brewer compares the Court's decision to Godden v. Hales, a 1686 case affirming that James II was above the law – which was only repudiated when James II was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution. newrepublic.com/article/1833...

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Yes, it seems to be a non-issue that 78-year-old Donald Trump was incapable of staying awake during his own criminal trial. He's a spring chicken, you see, the very picture of youthful vigor.

didn't read the NYT piece yet but did any NYT reporters see Biden repeatedly falling asleep in public or was that only Trump

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didn't read the NYT piece yet but did any NYT reporters see Biden repeatedly falling asleep in public or was that only Trump

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I trust Brits thinking 'it's a foregone conclusion so why bother to vote' are watching events in France and the US. It is *never* a foregone conclusion and you *always* have to vote against the bad people because they will sure as shit vote against you.