🧵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/
Constantly gaming like this. I've got like twenty pages left of What Is the Third Estate, by Abbé Sieyès, left over from a couple years ago. Gonna finish that to catch up. And I've skimmed Cugoano before, but planning to get through it now because it's short.
Like most Americans, I support abolishing ICE.
I started a biography of José Martí, which was long, so already taking awhile. Then I paused it to read Karl Marx in America, which was long and took weeks to finish. The plus I'm always reading a few books at a time, so ...
Anyway, good fodder in case we want to relitigate the Marx and liberalism discussion from a couple weeks ago. lol
To be sure, Hartman talks about the bad kinds of Marxism too, and one of the good things about the book is he's pretty clear-eyed about the authoritarian strains of 20th century communism. That's just not as interesting as the lines drawn between Marxism and various groups and movements in America.
It was fascinating to read about the Johnson-Forest Tendency, or the team of Raya Dunayevskaya, CLR James, & Grace Lee (Boggs). I'd read D'kaya's Marxism & Freedom a couple years ago and hadn't realized she was American. Liberals should know about social justice-oriented, anti-Stalinist Marxisms!
Particularly interesting to me was how Marx's ideas were adapted in liberal-adjacent ways, as in the "sewer socialists" of Milwaukee and Eugene Debs's democratic socialism. But there are also just fascinating tidbits. Like, who knew socialism was big in Oklahoma in the early 20th century?
Embarrassing that it's March and I'm only now starting the 2026 book thread. I've read a bunch but finished nothing.
Anyway, I highly recommend @andrewhartman.bsky.social's book. It's worth reading just for the first chapter, on Marx and the Civil War, and the influence of the Forty-Eighters.
2026 Book Thread!
1. Karl Marx in America - Andrew Hartman. Fantastic, sprawling history of Marx's reception in the US. Really valuable for libs and other non-Marxists bc it presents the ideas in easy language. Shows Marx's deep connection to America & the wide diversity of Marx-ish thought.
Spain’s MEP Irene Montero speaking to reporters
Irene Montero: No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression — Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Afghanistan. It will not happen in Iran either
When they want to sell their oil wars, their wars for profit, their imperial wars — they hide behind women’s rights to justify them
RICHMOND — Virginia lawmakers have passed a bill that prohibits schools from teaching that the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was a peaceful demonstration or that there was massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election, the first Democratic state to try to shape how such events are taught.
Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
ELECTIONS Trump asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC PUBLISHED WED, AUG 3 2016 8:05 AM EDT UPDATED WED, AUG 3 2016 3:01 PM EDT Matthew J. Belvedere @MATT_BELVEDERE WATCH LIVE VIDEO 1:20 Trump reportedly asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC
![Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.
"Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/bafkreiber7pzv36je2r6zhrzajzv7qayzukcurjzp3on7t7w5fwcm4kzay@jpeg)
Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee. "Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.
I will just say it out loud:
I am very concerned Trump will use a tactical nuclear weapon in his quest for a quick victory over Iran.
I am reminded of the story from 2016, when Trump reportedly asked three times in a single briefing why nuclear weapons couldn’t be used:
Americans will attack a second country before learning there’s both an Iran and an Iraq.
Death Cultists Are Missing From Halls Of Power. That's A Problem.
Editorial illustration showing a white cane — the kind used by people who are blind or visually impaired — lying broken and partially submerged in a flooded parking lot. The scene is rendered in cold, desaturated blues and grays. A red crack or break is visible where the cane has snapped. In the background, a glowing restaurant sign reads "The Restaurant." The UnPopulist wordmark appears in the bottom left corner.
Border Patrol dropped a nearly blind Burmese refugee at a Tim Hortons without telling his family or lawyer. He's dead. This is what a deportation machine without accountability produces. www.theunpopulist.net/p/blind-refu...
It's going to be crazy if Trump backs down on exploding the global economy (tariffs) only to follow through on exploding the global economy (hydrocarbon shock).
I don't know how to love him!
Jesus would follow sex workers on social media. Like I'm not even stretching here. Very straightforward extrapolation from the New Testament.
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype
Snapshot of profile for @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com, showing 9.9k followers.
Crying out for attention--Sad!
I thought you were, fwiw!
What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?
This amazing man right here, thank you Governor
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you can genuinely watch the news anchor not compute in real time
Day 5 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: philosopher and historian Anna Julia Cooper!
Cooper rethought 19th century ideas of progress to define race and foreground women. To quote bell hooks: “one of the first black activists to urge black women to articulate their own experiences.”
#blackhistory
Now Trump's Iran War has the blessing of Congress. I just love that for us all.
Yeah I'm predicting that if Dems win the Senate, Fetterman switches parties so he can continue being a very special boy.
