CALIFORNIA CRIME WAY DOWN in 2024 — murders, robberies, assaults, ALL DOWN. Meanwhile, Crooked Trump sends in troops to “fight crime” in Dem cities (a LIE!) while GOP states have MUCH higher crime rates. He even pardoned the J6 thugs. Total FRAUD!

Analysis of US college syllabi by the Open Syllabus project shows that bell hooks is assigned more than Aristotle, Judith Butler more than Plato, Edward Said more than than Kant, and Foucault more than everybody. (Thanks to Jon Shields for these comparisons.)

What kind of regime is Trump trying to implement? Not Fascism, exactly, since it's not guided by an ideology. I agree with Francis Fukuyama and Now JonRauch on 🦋 that we're seeing a backsliding from a rational-legal mode of political organization, where rights & responsibilities are

Trump acts like he's not concerned about the midterms because he's not. Troops in the streets of US cities isn't security, it's rehearsal. On January 6, he had a mob of amateurs. Next time he'll have the full force of the state--and they'll have practice.

.Gavin Newsom: "Democrats have voted for national independent redistricting. Republicans have not. So spare me the crocodile tears on Fox and everyone else saying, 'Oh, everybody does this. Oh, these guys have been gerrymandering for years and years and years.' Not like these

If you needed more proof that the DC police takeover is theater, here it is: *20 cops* showed up at the sandwich thrower’s home to rearrest him—after he’d already appeared in court. 20 cops. Not sure how anyone who thinks murder is a problem in DC can defend this spectacle.

…with a job offer!

Strange, I don't recall anyone from Fox News asking Putin, "Are you prepared to keep sending Russian troops to their deaths or are you going to call off your unprovoked invasion of Ukraine?" This game of blaming Zelensky & Ukraine for being invaded and murdered is disgusting.

Sorry, why exactly isn’t this seriously concerning anyone?

It's a bit painful for me to share this, but I respect Kelsey Piper (and Eva Vivalt) a lot, and I think they're basically right: the most rigorous recent studies on basic income and cash transfers (in rich countries) have yielded pretty disappointing results.

Over the long term, we shouldn’t have political gerrymandering in America, just a fair fight between Republicans and Democrats based on who’s got better ideas. But since Texas is taking direction from a partisan White House and gerrymandering in the middle of a decade to try and

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Then why was this public corruption squad disbanded under your leadership?

“Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.” — Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as Governor, Jan. 5, 1967 washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

We should really all be retweeting this daily.

John Deere is laying off 238 workers at three factories in Iowa. The company said Tariffs and lower commodity prices are to blame. “Tariff costs in the quarter were approximately $200 million, which brings us to roughly $300 million in tariff expense year to date,” said director

America’s secret economic weapon has never been oil, tech, or cheap capital. It’s the rule-of-law premium: the trust that here, contracts mean something, courts are impartial, and power has guardrails. This administration is cashing it out.

vandalizing property you own (a flag you yourself purchased) is not a crime, vandalizing property you don’t own (somebody else’s flag you ripped down) is a crime. I thought conservatives believed in property rights?

wow

It's important to remember that America's current pivot towards authoritarian state-capitalism is being spearheaded by an elderly idiot.