The promotion of pseudoscience about a supposed “cause” or “cure” of autism and the destruction of special education (and all of public education, really) are part of the same project. It is a fascist attempt to expel certain people from the body politic, based in eugenics.

A great part of David's book The Age of Insurrection details all the mass shootings and natural disasters and other tragedies that were baselessly blamed on antifa in 2020. Highly recommend: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720886...

reminds me of beautiful @natashalennard.bsky.social piece: "a historical NIMBYism... in which only in the past... has militancy against white supremacy been a legitimate resistance.... We imprison today’s protesters & canonize yesterday’s insurrectionists" evergreenreview.com/read/anti-fa...

many great parts to this @davidjroth.bsky.social reflection on One Battle — perhaps the quickest I've ever clicked on a link — but was struck by these lines i think because they get to core of liberal/centrist refusal to admit the severity/stakes of what's happening flaminghydra.com/issue-416/

"The man with the most power has expended enormous energy targeting those with the least."

Katelyn on this Zohran quote: "This is the line. It's the line that got me to tear up as I was watching it."

strikes me how this kind of powerful, simple message grows from belief, not focus groups!

land acknowledgement at the Israeli beach resort in Gaza shit

in like 20 yrs the NYT will do series of pieces (like it did 20 yrs after its horrific coverage of AIDS epidemic/gay Americans) abt how it failed trans people & Gaza... w/ little reflection on how those institutional bigotries/blindspots might be impacting coverage of the newest marginalized groups

It's pub day for my book, "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley," which chronicles the rise of the tech right and their role in the 2024 election. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way.
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Yes!!!

Like I’m imagining a PhD thesis in 50 years talking about the symbolism of frogs in Trumpist America

The protest frogs are such a weird bookend/coda to Pepe the frog/groyper shit, like everything is so absurd

“Posting Through It” is back on Monday with another installment in our longform biographical series. This one traces the deep cuts and forgotten moments from Laura Loomer’s rise to MAGA stardom.

Featuring @willsommer.bsky.social, w/ a cameo from Bernard Media.

www.patreon.com/posts/140478...

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Thank you!

Finally remembered to pre-order these books by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social & @letsgomathias.bsky.social!

You can order them here:
linktr.ee/KellyHayes

& here:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

yep, & this distinction is in no way meant to undermine the bravery of people like your grandfather, or their sacrifices, or the importance of that fight. it's just to say that when we talk about antifa it does not refer to an entity like US Army/government, but to a more specific radical tradition

Hi! Think you’ll enjoy the book I wrote about antifa, which you can preorder here. Have a great day www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

just gonna tap this sign occasionally

oh yea totally agree -- tried to make that clear at end of thread. just one tactic amongst a diversity of tactics etc

goes w/o saying but to suggest "No Kings" stuff is antifa is really absurd

antifa bogeyman in nutshell: label whomever opposition is "antifa" — in this case Resistance 2.0 "No Kings" folks — creating pretext to target them w/ state/vigilante violence

also sews division, w/ moderates fretting abt appearing too extreme, making them punch left, undercutting solidarity

this isn't to say these tactics always need to be used at the exclusion of others, but they sure did a good job at undercutting fascists' desire to be feared, ridiculing them instead