Alexandre Blanchet

The election of Trump—both of them—will reduce the scope of every American’s future, as well as reducing the scope of who can be and will want to be an American

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there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

Ma fille de 3 ans et des poussières aussi.

CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

Zelenskyy's holding cards now.

😲 j’en veux un!!!!!

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1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.

My god, les amateurs.

A long time ago, I used to know a lot about foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) and study them.

I guess that makes me qualified to write a thread about them, especially in wake of Trump bombing Iran.

So here goes nothing. 🧵

J’étais pas loin quand même!

Taylor 410?

1935

LONDON DAILY MAIL ENDORSES FASCISTS Viscount Rothmere Urges 2 Million Readers to Join Black Shirts London - Viscount Rothermere, proprietor of the Daily Mail, today urged his nearly 2,000,000 readers to join the British Fascists. --Dunkirk Evening Observer, 16 Jan 1934

1934

Ceci dit, je partage le diagnostic.

En même temps ici, je serais curieux d’avoir la perspective de Claire Durand sur le formulation de la question. Notamment l’impact probable de la formulation des choix de réponses.

The Ezra Klein Show Balado Culture et société · Chaque semaine · Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation on something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic ...

Épisode très important du podcast d’Ezra Klein.

« Perhaps the biggest surprise for me is about the distribution or the paucity of bravery. »

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The backlash against Trump is showing up in hard data, not just polls New data on protest activity shows organized anti-Trump actions are 4x the size they were in the president's first term. Your weekly political data roundup for February 15, 2026.

New hard data show the same pattern of intense anti-Trump backlash that polls do. Protests against Trump are happening at 4x the rate as 2017-18, and special election swings offer more data on the same point

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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Oh! Ça a dû être un beau moment!

Alors j’imagine que l’alliance des démocraties raisonnables pourront quant à elles financier librement des think tank alignés sur la raison aux USA?

I understand folks are scared but I want you to think about the mechanics of this.

There are more polling places (>100k) than ICE and CBP agents combined, so they can only pick a few districts to try to intimidate.

Now what happens when cell phone footage of that goes online in the early morning?

“In my profession, I have seen many people break down in grief, but that image of Elizabeth’s father will stay with me forever,” she said. “I watched him sit in his car, bury his head in his hands, and cry uncontrollably. Those are images you do not forget.”