Joe McCarthy, for all of his many, *many* flaws, did not whip up paramilitary violence in the United States.
Read the full article here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Quoted in @theatlantic.com this morning in a story by @alibreland.bsky.social on the new McCarthyism, which even moreso than the old McCarthyism I think is just straight-up fascism.
Stumbled today on one of the most bizarre scenes ever broadcast on network television: the episode of ROOTS where Alex Haley, played by James Earl Jones, interviews George Lincoln Rockwell, played by... Marlon Brando??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Ce...
Can someone give me the tl;dr about what happened with Jamelle? All I know is that he got dogpiled on here and the right-wingers on Twitter are having some kind of circle jerk about it.
I have to say, I'd be very disappointed if Anton's review was NOT absolutely fucking deranged.
I worry that when Trump realizes how weak he looks he’ll drop a nuke.
Ejecting that ATLANTIC reporter was pretty unhinged!
In the newly restored version of Pudd’nhead Wilson, based on Twain’s original “unbissected” manuscript, a pair of conjoined twins run against one another for elected office. And I feel like reading this might be the cure for thinking the problem of two-party system is division & solution is centrism
Didn’t he vote for her? Hell, I fucking hated her and I still (reluctantly) did.
Considering that the Democratic Party is reportedly refusing to release the autopsy of the 2024 election because it shows Harris lost because of Gaza, I don’t think this is quite the slam-dunk case against TAH his critics seem to think it is.
That could of course change if Iran is capable of retaliating on American soil against American civilians. But I doubt they are.
One very minor silver lining: this war is incredibly unpopular across the political spectrum and it is extremely unlikely that we will see the kind of civil society mobilizations on par with the post-9/11 hysteria.
Well, I guess the paleocons got immigration policy and that's about it out of Trump 2.0
The "we're ruled by a pro-war bipartisan imperial blob" analysis wins yet again.
I mean, not for nothing but the senior Democrats in the House and Senate pretty obviously support the war.
Crazy fucker actually did it.
Probably because she seems to be genuinely unhinged and game recognizes game.
I found an earlier edition of the textbook used by the introductory business class here at UVA -- BUSINESS ESSENTIALS -- and one of their first group activity prompts is to make the ethical case for price gouging.
Great! Thanks so much.
Also, the Paramount/Warner Bros. deal is the biggest asterisk to the "MAGA failed to consolidate its power after Charlie Kirk's assassination by trying unsuccessfully to get Kimmel off the air" argument, because you don't need the FCC to get involved with a consolidated MAGA media.
The problem, though, is that we have the right-wing state in the background locked in until at least 2028.
Is there a good book or article about the history of business schools and business majors?
What's wrong with David Klion?
Also, the backlash on this website accusing Klion of being an antisemite whose brain has rotted because he's stayed on Twitter is absolutely fucking deranged and an illustration of why I really hate Bluesky.
To put it another way: why is a guy whose Jewishness is so important to him friends with Steve Bannon and Elon Musk?
One thing I'd still like to see, though, is a piece that explores Epstein's Jewishness and the ways it was important to him and his network *and* his political investment in radical/reactionary right-wing politics.
Truly, truly outstanding piece by David Klion here.
It's been said before but between the failed attempt to turn Charlie Kirk into a Horst Wessel figure and the political failure of the ICE occupation of Minneapolis, MAGA has shown it cannot actually translate its authoritarian impulses into effective authoritarian consolidation.
Didn't watch the SOTU but read through the transcript. Pretty banal stuff. MAGA seems to be foundering.
