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“You, me and everyone we know have all been subjected to a 40-year blitz of anti-solidaristic propaganda, aimed at convincing us that we are only allowed to fight the system as individuals. Don’t like your health care? Shop around! Don’t like your boss? Quit your job! Under no circumstances should you advocate for either a union or socialized health-care. You’re an individual, there is no such thing as society.”

You can’t fight enshittification—but we can! Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/

Timothy Snyder:

“We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.”

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-coup-attempt

#USpol

“Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.”
~Lewis Mumford

#traffic #autos #highways #transportation

Expect more of this in coming months and years.

“Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited | CNN”

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition

#USpol #Justice #Injustice #AI

“‘I didn’t think these things existed,’ she said of the immigration facilities she was held in. ‘I thought that when we arrested them, we would treat them properly. It really shocked me.’”

Saith the 85-year-old French citizen and Trump supporter arrested in her nightclothes after her American G.I. husband died.
#USpol #USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/us/french-ross-mahe-ice-detention.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eFA.pb2U.MNIt1tY_tYzm&smid=nytcore-ios-share

“The same [Supreme] Court that blocked relief for Black Alabamians because the primary was four months away, and stayed a Texas order because it might disrupt an ongoing primary campaign, had no such concerns when the beneficiaries were Republican politicians rather than minority voters.”

#USpol

https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/-177798662021the-supreme-court-has-taken-off-its-mask?ecid=ACsprvvdHmIvwXW3BK8SrpWJVcjrXmio3j9YeAa3hJOIkOVWK4dVADsqjQL3nx8pfzVeRbhhHsq-&utm_campaign=12114861-Premium%20Membership%20Promo&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--76Argpmu03pq2oEMBGxEc8MIubwJ06oOnIpaJq45FsmH5SU-R50mQs5MbgB04bXrgnqZ4_bfA0NfHU1hrZCUHOt3kJ8qAFOv9b6CHshwveE7p044&_hsmi=417273839&utm_content=417273838&utm_source=hs_email

“At the essence of the MAGA's culture war is the premise that some are chosen and that others are undeserving. Ironically, most of them have no real idea into which camp they themselves fall. They pander to the rich and powerful so that they can better parrot that privilege and they denigrate the poor and powerless so that they can feel a brief moment of superiority. They allow the disreputable to escape accountability, because they themselves crave unaccountability.” (1/2)

“[Soneone speaking for the US DHS] added that ‘ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens’ and is ‘regularly audited and inspected by external agencies.’” ~NYT

Imagine what the conditions in U.S. prisons are like.

#USpol

A credo of rugged individualism does not a unified nation make.

Benjamin Franklin: “We must hang together, or we will surely hang separately.”

Join or die, as the currently misappropriated flag declared.

#USpol

The reason why workers don't want to go back to the office: they hate commuting and love the time they get back for their lives.

Not exactly hard to believe, is it?

#WarOnCars #ReturnToOffice #RemoteWork #GreatIfYouCanDoIt https://www.businessinsider.com/one-big-reason-why-workers-not-back-to-office-commuting-2023-5

Brilliant.

#USpol

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8pPjxve/

“Amanda Frost, a professor at University of Virginia Law School who has researched denaturalization, said the cases indicated that the Trump administration viewed denaturalization differently than past administrations. She warned that for Trump officials, it is part of immigration enforcement and thus naturalized citizens can ‘never rest easy.’”

#USpol

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/us/politics/trump-immigrants-citizenship.html (1/2)

RE: @aaron.rupar@www.threads.com

Gotta train the proles.

Karoline Leavitt:

“And President Trump has proven before: He does not bluff,” she said. “When he makes a promise, he follows through on it, and I’m not sure why, after 10 years of covering this president, the American media still cannot understand when President Trump says he’s going to do something, he’s going to do it.”

She’s a prodigy of untruth. She’s so good at it that it’s almost admirable.

#USpol #POTUS