Yup

@flexghost He did the same with the pandemic. Refusing aid to blue states, stealing the supplies blue states governors got for their constituents, and save all the resources for the red states. He and Jared were ok letting people in blue states die.

Judge Cannon Hands Trump a Major Win on Day Two of His Presidency https://newrepublic.com/post/190484/judge-cannon-trump-win-jack-smith-report "Cannon on Tuesday blocked the Justice Department from sharing special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on Trump’s classified documents case with select members of Congress." This needs to be leaked.

Good Jessica Calarco thread: https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fjessicacalarco.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lg3selz2us2y&viewtype=unroll

interesting
https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fdancassino.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lg4hz5ulyk22&viewtype=unroll

"I think that Last is on to something when he suggests that Trump’s opposition should force him to “own every bad outcome that happens, anywhere in the world.” I’d actually take this a step further. Rather than exert so much energy trying to thrust Trump out of the presidency, liberals would be well served to spend their time thrusting the presidency upon Donald Trump. (...) Start demanding the Trump administration fix everything quickly."

"But Trump has historically faltered when he’s been forced to contend with the actual pressure of the presidency and its myriad responsibilities (see also: the Covid-19 pandemic) because his ideas are bad and he doesn’t have a deep and abiding interest in public service to really make a sustained effort to confront, let alone solve, the biggest problems we face. "

Shove the Presidency Down Trump’s Throat https://newrepublic.com/post/190337/trump-second-term-democrats-respond

A remake of Red Dawn except it's the story of the MAGA movement, and the young people are TikTok influencers, and the invasion works.

@stux A good and perfectly understandable decision. I believe it was the right decision to allow threads initially. It's also the right decision to reverse that now.

Aileen Cannon never disappoints 🙄

This Is What Elon Musk Really Wants From Donald Trump https://newrepublic.com/article/189904/tesla-robotaxis-ai-musk-wants-trump "For once, Wall Street is probably right: Musk will reap untold profits from his relationship with Trump. And those may include, by year’s end, driverless taxis that have been trained by artificial intelligence—something that no American, other than the greedy investors who are inflating the AI bubble, is begging for."

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@GottaLaff @Wileymiller If all the people quitting the corporate media outfits got together and created a new magazine, that would make one hell of a publication.

"Midway through their conversation, Anton says to Yarvin, “You’re essentially advocating for someone to – age-old move – gain power lawfully through an election, and then exercise it unlawfully”, adding: “What do you think the actual chances of that happening are?”

Yarvin responded: “It wouldn’t be unlawful,” adding: “You’d simply declare a state of emergency in your inaugural address.”

He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump

"Elsewhere in the podcast with Anton, Yarvin talked of the need to mobilise the base of the party – its ordinary supporters – in the service of the cause. Yarvin postulated this could be done with an app that supporters would download and take instructions from when opponents were identified." That would be X from which Elon can launch the mobs against any target.

"Yarvin continued: “You’d actually have a mandate to do this. Where would that mandate come from? It would come from basically running on it, saying, ‘Hey, this is what we’re going to do.’”

Gisèle Pelicot: How an ordinary woman shook attitudes to rape in France https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd75v8eqz44o The bravery of that woman.

I have some colleagues like that and it frustrates me to no end. They are also the people who would jump on any bandwagon, be they tech stuff, or the latest "pedagogical" fad coming from McKinsey-lite consultancy. The same people who would tell you that we need to teach critical thinking skills. 🙄 How about practicing what we preach then.