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Back in THE FIRST OBAMA ELECTION, Andrew Sullivan was still trying to go back and forth with Ta-Nehisi Coates about the goddamned Bell Curve.
The Atlantic has a great history and has in these last 20 years hosted great work sometimes, but it’s got a storied history of lingering Race IQ horseshit.
I'm a broken record on this but yet another thing dems need to be upfront about is every single American who in any way had something to do with this can expect to face charges
White Nationalist Account Followed by US Vice President Identified as Canadian Man
A new report by @stevanzetti.bsky.social & Kyle Phalen exposes Geoff Martin as “Captive Dreamer,” a man who credits himself with starting a panic about immigrants eating pets in Ohio.
www.antihate.ca/canadian_ide...
Fun fact: all of the resistance to nationalized healthcare in America is grounded in this kind of sentiment. Additionally, all of the resistance to other public welfare programs is also grounded in this sentiment.
If it would provide a measurable benefit to Black people, white people will sink it.
People should be calling this what it is, which is a crypto bailout. They're cutting cancer research so they can bailout rich, degenerate gamblers bsky.app/profile/ronf...
First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year.
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
Musk just gave the game away in his interview with Joe Rogan.
He said that it's because of Social Security that "people are living longer than expected"—which coupled with a lower U.S. birth rate creates a situation he finds intolerable.
He _is_ a Yarvinist—and he's coming for our Social Security.
Their definition of respect is groveling.
What Democrats Did In February —Every House Democrat voted against Trump’s budget that slashes Medicaid —House Democrats introduced the Taxpayer Data Protection Act to permanently protect the American people’s data from Elon Musk and Trump —Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit to stop Elon Musk from accessing Americans’ data —Arizona Democrats passed legislation to provide funding for free school lunches in the state —Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer unveiled her $3 billion road funding plan to improve the state’s roads, bridges, and transit —Democrat Ken Jenkins won a special election for Westchester County Executive, soundly defeating his Trump-backed opponent —Every single Senate Democrat voted against confirming Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence —The DNC filed a brief with the Ninth Circuit to counter Republican attempts to outlaw most mail and early voting in Nevada —Senator Jon Ossoff successfully pushed the White House to restore HBCU scholarships —Governor Josh Shapiro successfully took legal action to restore Pennsylvania’s funding after the Trump administration freeze —Democrat Sean Faircloth won the special election for Maine’s House District 24, strengthening the Democratic legislative majority in Maine —Senator Mark Warner and Senate Democrats forced the Trump administration to back down on the hiring freeze for some federal employees —Every single Senate Democrat voted against confirming Kash Patel as FBI director —Democratic attorneys general sued the Trump administration for defunding medical and public health research —Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed Karina's Law to protect survivors of domestic violence and ensure their abusers won’t have easy access to firearms —The DNC won a massive case in Wisconsin, which will allow the state to continue to provide mobile voting sites to voters —Democrats Ray Seigfried and Dan Cruce won both Delaware State Senate special elections The list continues.
Here’s what Democrats did in February:
‘An exhilarated hatred now parades as freedom, while the freedoms for which many of us have struggled for decades are distorted and trammeled as morally repressive “wokeism”.’ —Judith Butler in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Circumventing the character limit here, but the upshot is that there’s truly nothing to celebrate in Trump’s foreign policy. We’re talking about global primacy in the most horrific sense. Even sycophantic allies are not free from the regime of exploitation
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HEARING: Today is the preliminary injunction hearing in Talbott v. Trump, the case challenging Trump's anti-transgender military executive order.
Judge Reyes began by trying to go through the points on which everyone agrees. DOJ will not agree the EO is to ban all trans people from the military.
DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital
krebsonsecurity.com Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com' February 7, 2025 Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today's story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of 'The Com,' an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.
cyberscoop.com CYBERSCOOP he child sextortion group 764 and " the global collective of loosely associated groups known as "The Com" are using tools and techniques normally used for financially motivated cybercrime tactics - such as SIM swapping, IP grabbing and social engineering — to commit violent crimes, according to exclusive law enforcement and intelligence reports reviewed by CyberScoop. The reports offer insight into the underbelly of the global network, showing how they are using traditional cybercriminal tools to identify, target, groom, extort, and cause physical and psychological harm to victims as young as 10. They were shared with police nationwide and in some cases, with foreign-allied governments.
🚨 Coristine was involved with “The Com” (likely where he came to law enforcement attention, as reported by Bloomberg upthread):
krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen...
“The Com” is a CYBERCRIME network with connections to child sexual exploitation:
cyberscoop.com/the-com-764-...
h/t @dell.bsky.social
JoeyCrafter was a member of Telegram groups called "Kiwi Farms Christmas Chat" and "Kiwi Farms 100% Real No Fake No Virus," both referencing an online forum known for harassment campaigns. Typically, the site has been used to share the personal information of a target, encouraging others to harass them online, in-person, over the phone or by falsely alerting police to a violent crime or active shooter incident at their home.
Coristine often went by the pseudonyms “Rivage” and “JoeyCrafter.”
He was part of a couple of Telegram groups associated with Kiwi Farms, an online forum where suicide trolling campaigns (intense harassment campaigns meant to drive the target to suicide) and deadly swatting efforts are organized.
Jesus fucking Christ.
For those just tuning in, CVLT / the com is not a satanic panic conspiracy theory / Pizzagate fever dream situation. they are an actual organized extremist group of largely underage criminals, currently under attack by Europol: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/europol...
Senator Fetterman is the greatest argument against having a "leftist version of Trump" because it turns out he is just as much of a snake oil salesman as the right wing version and about as much of a heartless ghoul.
Given the choice between EITHER catharsis/inspiration OR effectiveness, most elected Dems will choose the effectiveness (the reverse is true of Republicans, btw). It's just how our brains work, for better or for worse. Relatedly, a lot of people on here are really mad at us right now.
The venn diagram of actions that are both inspiring and effective is tiny, effective options make people mad, and inspiring options reduce effectiveness. Most members who do restist-y posts and press and even across-the-board votes get drowned out by those who don't, then ratioed for their efforts
Effective-
- Create space for R's to oppose nominees
- Build pressure on R's to oppose Trump policies or flip on bills
- Strengthen Dems' '25 and '26 electoral response
- Buttress legal challenges to Trump actions
These actually help but rarely solve, and let's be real- you're already mad at me
Catharsis-
- You go to OPM and yell at the top of your lungs, it's on TV
- You do a podcast, a video, a TV hit, a viral post
- You call for impeachment, investigations, lawsuits, etc
Do these actions make people happy? Some people.
Do they directly help solve a problem like an FBI purge? No.
It is easy to write "do something" on the internet. It is much harder for electeds who are out of power and have low influence or ability to affect change to do stuff that will make people happy (catharsis) and help solve the problem (effective). Consider those 2 terms as separate forms of response-
CW: racism
I grew up with a vociferously racist, & vocally so, father (currently estranged, my choice).
Imaging how “affirmative action” or “equal opportunity” (code for Black people usually) hires were at fault was & prob remains his default response to bad or annoying things.
The time to "do something" was on November 5th.
Stop asking WHATS THE DEMOCRATS PLAN?!??!
You mufuckas never follow it anyway.
Or you complain about every fucking detail of it.
So just stop asking.
The January 6 pardons are turning out great.
this is gonna be the way things work over the next few years- the admin getting like 1% of what it wants and losing almost every negotiation while the lapdog press spins every loss as a huge historic win, it's literally the modi model
because they have trained themselves to think of politics as a social game in which they are participants, and not as something that determines whether people live or die