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Darius Aidala

@darius101.bsky.social

Still Caturday? Not even the fast and furious can interrupt box time for Rodney

December 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM

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Seth Cotlar

@sethcotlar.bsky.social

Reading the opening of Leonard Zeskind's 2009 book Blood and Politics in the midst of Trump 2.0 is quite a gut punch. In 2000 he warned of a rising tide of violent white nationalism & Christian nationalism on the American right...few people took those warning seriously. And now here we are.

As the last century ended and the year 2000 began, my hometown newspaper, The Kansas City Star, asked me to write a short guest opinion piece predicting the course of the new century. It was part of a journalistic time capsule, an editor said, and would likely be read a hundred years hence. The same had been done by the newspaper's forebearers on January 1, 1901, when men considered "prominent" in Kansas City wrote short pieces about the future. A bit nervous about prognosticating in general, particularly in fewer than five hundred words, I asked the editor to send, as a guide, copies of the articles written one hundred years prior.
Each had been penned by a religious, civic, political, or economic captain of the city. A great hopefulness pervaded their expectations of scientific and industrial advances. In this regard, these city fathers (and they were all fathers) reflected the optimistic spirit of the age. Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward was then immensely popular, for example, as one of almost fifty utopian novels published during that period. One of the most fascinating aspects of these turn-of-the-century opinion pieces is that several predicted a happy future in explicitly racist terms. Not that they didn't worry about challenges to white supremacy's permanence. The city's "leading lawyer" feared that "the yellow peril threatens the world with untold disaster." One preacher fretted that the Fourteenth Amendment, which constitutionally guaranteed the rights of citizenship to black people, had been a "capital blunder." But a more prominent Baptist minister prophesied a noble century to come, including the end of war and the uplift of the poor, all under "the

growing supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon."2
In this regard also, the city's
sires reflected the spirit of the nation's elites at that time. University deans then taught that humanity could be improved through eugenics, the supposed science of selective "up breeding."3 The Supreme Court had recently ruled that "separate" was equal, and newspapers uncritically published accounts steeped in these and related ideas.
The twentieth century did
not end as it had begun. Science and
technology, as predicted, did reach new heights. They split the atom, took us to the moon, and created a global cyberspace communications system.
They could have also provided food to every hungry soul on the planet— but they didn't. Instead, scientific advances fed an unending series of wars, genocides, and man-made disasters. And the ethic of Aryan supremacy, so prevalent a hundred years earlier, (temporarily) buried itself beneath the mountains of human ash produced by Hitler's crematories. After World War Two, Europeans ceded legal sovereignty over Africa, Asia, and Latin America to their noticeably more darkly hued (former) subjects, even as the strains of four centuries of colonial exploitation were not erased. And in Kansas City, the newspaper-for-the-future included opinions by four women and three persons of color, including the city's first black mayor.

My contribution to that time capsule stemmed directly from the subject under consideration here. I predicted a mid-twenty-first century conflict within the United States as white people became a minority in a nation of minorities and were no longer able to preserve a system of white privilege through majority-rule winner-take-all democracy. As the century wore on, I wrote, white nationalists would push toward instituting new forms of racial apartheid and other antidemocratic measures. The outcome in the year 2100, I argued, would depend on what we learned today about white supremacy and white nationalism. 4 This book does not pretend to predict prospective events, but it is not simply an account of the past either. While it is a history focused on the last decades of the twentieth century and the first years of the twenty-first, it is my intention that it serve as part of a prolegomenon to the future discussion of racial egalitarianism and democracy. My hope is that it will provide the reader a view of the contemporary white nationalist movement that is both comprehensive and instructive. Though it takes into account organizations, individuals, and

events such as the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, and the Oklahoma City bombing-things ascribed more to memory at this point than daily life—the objective is to demonstrate that this movement, driven by a vision well within the mainsprings of American life, is already self-consciously pitching itself toward the future. Perhaps when white nationalism's next iteration emerges, our country will better understand it.

December 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM

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Turducken Carlson

@liberalbubble.bsky.social

Trump has been awarded the Golden Turnip Pegasus Eurovision D'Oro Doritos Prize for bestest president ever

a cat wearing a burger king crown sits on a plane

ALT: a cat wearing a burger king crown sits on a plane

media.tenor.com

December 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM

Darius Aidala

@darius101.bsky.social

Oops

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

how long until Trump bans Chip Somodevilla of Getty from the White House? 😳

December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.

December 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM

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Katie Mack

@astrokatie.com

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

Newsom’s comms team still going hard

December 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM

Darius Aidala

@darius101.bsky.social

Preach

Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 3d

Ilhan Omar: “His obsession with me is creepy, I'm not going anywhere — I'll be here longer than #Trump - He’s an old man losing his mind. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs—”

Rep. Ilhan Omar speaking at a press conference

December 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM

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C-3PeOr

@c3peor.bsky.social

Pelucat.

December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM

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Eric Schmeltzer

@ericschmeltzer.com

I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it.

You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.

December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

Meet two heroes of our times.

A PBS News tweet explains how two laid-off USAID employees created a website to match donors with canceled programs, keeping nearly 80 projects running in 30 countries. Below the text is an image of two people—Caitlin Tulloch and Rob Rosenbaum—appearing in a split-screen video interview, each seated in their respective rooms.

December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM

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Laurence H. Tribe

@tribelaw.bsky.social

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.

What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM

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Elon Musk's Jet Tracking

@elonjet.net

Landed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Apx. flt. time 2 h 2 min.

Reg: N628TS On Ground: True Alt: 0 Last Contact: 0:00:01.501307 Trigger: now on ground

December 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM

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It’s Still Me!

@itsstillme1.bsky.social

This is getting to be like the old movie Weekend At Bernie’s.😂

November 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM

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Mark Jacob

@markjacob.bsky.social

Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.

US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela

Alvin Holsey just took over the US southern command late last year for a position that normally lasts three years

www.theguardian.com

November 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Darius Aidala

@darius101.bsky.social

So food and being thankful. Plus gravy.

November 28, 2025 at 2:21 AM

Darius Aidala

@darius101.bsky.social

Nice exposure

Gofod Gwag (empty space) 📸 @gofodgwag.bsky.social · 9d

Motion! Heading into London Victoria
#photography #transport #photo #timelapse

November 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

🔥POWERFUL AD ABOUT ICE AGENTS: “What will you say when your kids ask you about your day? A mask can’t hide you from your neighbors, your family, God… you can walk away, but the shame will follow you home.”