🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/
Here’s a piece I wrote in 2007 about how an over-reliance on militarized drug war tactics has basically thinned out the herd and ensured only the most efficient and adaptive operations survived. We’ve been selectively breeding highly evolved supertraffickers for decades. Sit this one out, Stephen.
Quick point: In regard to his remarkrs from last night, DOD's attempt to strong arm Anthropic, funding for ICE & CBP, lots of folks keep referring to Trump as the leader of a failed coup. This is not correct. He is the leader of a successful coup. 1/
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
I’m not the first to observe this, but: Mike Johnson functions as a staffer to Donald Trump, not as a speaker of the House. He has made this august, important role teeny-tiny. He is smaller than Stephen Miller and the like. It would be pitiable if it weren’t so consequential.
🧵: As the week ends there are 3 different things going on to keep in mind. 1) No matter what happens in the Senate today/this weekend, it will not stop the ICE/CBP actions. This is because the ridiculous 9 figures of ops & detention funds are locked in from last years One Beautiful Bill. 1/
Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/
We often think, “I’m just one person—what difference could I make?”
This story shows that, when we use our voice, the answer is: a lot.
So if one person can catalyze so much harm, imagine the good each of us can choose to support and advocate for.
Read more by @fieseler.bsky.social here:
“To watch these changes unfold without naming them for what they are is to participate in a collective amnesia about how knowledge infrastructures shape power relations…. What then, is the responsible course of action?”
Powerhouse *must* read fr @alondra.bsky.social time.com/7285045/resi...
I grew up in a small town that had a Carnegie library. Best library ever.
Vaccine thread
I’m about halfway through the audiobook. I am liking it.
JD Vance attempts to justify spreading lies about Haitians eating pets in Springfield, Ohio:
“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people then that's what I'm going to do”
Since the New York Times actually described Trump's comments as "racially and sexually charged insults," I'm once again reposting my @bostonreview.bsky.social piece on the history and dangers of such euphemisms.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/law...
Trump is publicly sexually harassing his political opponent. That is the language for it.
It is not “charged discourse,” it is behavior that has been illegal in the workplace since shortly after the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings.
More than one headstone is visible in the pic. I doubt the other families gave their permission to have their loved ones included in the picture.
so the thing about this is that i think the arlington story would have been a one day thing if left to the devices of the political press but vance may have elevated it into an Official Storyline of the campaign with this comment
"The Trump phenomenon and the surge of right-wing extremism in America was never about economic anxiety, as too many political reporters claimed during the 2016 presidential campaign. It was, and still is, about race and racism."
If England had blown up Derry in response to IRA terrorist attacks would there be any question as to it being criminal?
Screenshot of document described in post. Follow link in post for full text.
NEW: The Texas Supreme Court VACATES the temporary restraining order that would have allowed Kate Cox to get an abortion in Texas, stating that her situation, as articulated, falls outside the medical-necessity exception www.txcourts.gov/media/145764...
"Safe legal rare" was coined by Bill Clinton in the 90s. Never was the Republican position.
We found our first 'abortion trafficking' arrest in Idaho: An Idaho teen & his mom were arrested & charged for bringing his 16-year-old girlfriend to Oregon for an abortion.
The county brought 'kidnapping' charges against them while a lawsuit challenging the 'abortion-trafficking' law is in court.
"SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES": An ingot made from the melted-down head and sword of Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue — via @socialistdogmom.bsky.social
Early Italian immigrants (late 1800- early 1900s) were not considered "white" by the folks descended from Northern Europeans.
Quick google search found this article: andscape.com/features/whi...
Italians won't be "white" ... again
So a lot of people who are in unstable, abusive, and/or periodically violent living situations keep cell phones hidden for emergencies.
If you know anyone in such a situation, make sure they know about FEMA's testing of its Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system next Wednesday.
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At this hour in 1852 (171 years ago), 36 enslaved human beings owned by an estate were being sold—along with livestock—at “low prices ... for cash only” in Savannah, Georgia, following two days of inspection by “prospective buyers.” They included a 1-year-old “strong” infant boy priced at $400.
