“The idea that ‘fascism = strength’ is just a piece of propaganda unwittingly reproduced by critics of the fascism thesis.”

inoreader (my preferred RSS reader) now integrates BlueSky feeds. www.inoreader.com/blog/2025/02...

they are preboarding any guests with disabilities. isn’t that DEIA? doesn’t federal law prohibit that now? people should get the boarding priorities they paid for!

austerity is not the same thing as efficiency. in fact, often the correlation is inverse.

shh. the switch is in the basement of Comet Pizza.

mistake or malevolence? we are left to ask, rinse, repeat.

the irony is it’s the guy who (co)planted the deep roots of the identity politics turn in Democratic strategy he so decries.

without comment.

once a coup has proceeded to a certain degree, it becomes difficult to distinguish putting down the coup from a coup on behalf of different interests. once control of the state is up for grabs, what faction can claim to be above factions? all, of course, will try.

look. without NOAA, we won't have hurricanes. they'll just be rainy days if nobody is measuring wind speed.

“A power-mad president possessed of radical theories of executive authority and convinced of his own royal prerogative has given de facto control of most of the federal govt to one of the richest men on the planet…whose…interests are tangled up in those of rival govts and foreign autocracies”

what was your double-0 number?

i think that might be a step too far.

by Saturday. relocate out of the country you've lived in and expected to live in for some time, by Saturday. or else "the military would step in"?

“So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once”

grand things. they wrote them on parchments.

like most of our systems, we didn't intentionally create them, they emerged inchoately from incidents and pressures and the degree of vetocracy and status quo bias in our politics has prevented us from reforming into anything sensible.

yes. i like the piece's characterization of them, "best viewed not as civil society organizations but as features of the US electoral system".

really there is little time for anything else.