Mark Barnes SF 🌈
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Mark Barnes SF 🌈
@mwbsf.bsky.social
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Progressive | LGBTQI Witness to the violent last gasp of Christo-fascism and white supremacy
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"Trump’s model for governance predates all that; it goes back to the prerevolutionary days of the Bourbon kings, when the monarch was the state, when l’état c’est moi, when there was no government as such, but rather, and only, the monarch’s court."
More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - The American Prospect
Last year, financier Scott Bessent excoriated the Biden administration for its revival of industrial policy. Now as Trump’s Treasury secretary, he the government would be expanding investments in comp...
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“‘American Dynamism’ cloaks itself as a moral crusade, but it’s an idolatry of wealth, nationalism and weaponry”
The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly
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"But the infiltration we feared is here. The Trump regime has slithered into Bluesky, just as it infected every other platform. Leaving isn’t a strategy—it’s surrender."
Note from Grandma's Wake
So we held a wake for Grandma—and the jackals showed up wearing bibs and cutlery.
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"Our clients followed the rules, appearing in court as the government ordered, only to be ambushed and then subjected to conditions that no human being should ever endure”
Civil Rights Groups Seek Federal Court Orders to Halt Trump Administration’s Immigration Courthouse Arrests and Inhumane Detention Conditions | ACLU of Northern CA
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"And I think what we’re doing is processing unpleasant information in such a way that we don’t have to look at it too directly."
The History of American Fear | American Experience | PBS
An Interview with Horror Historian David J. Skal
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