Elections like yesterday reinforce my belief that researching the political and economic conditions under which democratic mobilization is unleashed (in the world of energy and climate, and beyond) are crucial to the current moment, and do not need to be only depressing
MAGA is a cult... Evidence #2591
I find amazing the deafening silence from US universities on Trump's explicit threats to commit war crimes. It is astounding how he has managed to silence them/us. Is this what we agreed to when we bought into institutional neutrality?
There's no way I'm reading this 💩
9 months in and RDM Weekly has hit 700 subscribers! 🎉
I would love to hit 1,000 by July for the 1 year anniversary.
rdmweekly.substack.com
I call it convergence to mediocrity 😔
Heartbreaking
After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
Rein?
Pathetic
At this point I can't understand why regular citizens cannot massively join such a protest. Does everything need to be endorsed with months in advance? This is so depressing.
My disdain for the people who have the power to stop the lunatic-in-charge but don’t knows no bounds. *They* don’t have the excuse of being dementia-ridden whack jobs with one foot in the grave.
I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.
Do you know how EXTREMELY FUCKED UP SHIT HAS TO BE for me to be reposting Tucker Carlson positively???
NYT website describes it merely as an "expletive laden" post as if it is normal. Leaves out all of the swear words and crazy parts. In other words...NYT is lying to readers and covering up for the madman.
If Biden posted such a thing, NYT would be demanding he step down immediately
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
CBS headline reads: "Supreme Court to weigh Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship in test of second-term agenda."
This movement has never been about violent criminal aliens, undocumented immigrants writ large, or even immigration in general, but about the country’s changing ethnic and religious makeup. It has always been about white Christian nationalism.
I mean I just can't even find words. The US defense secretary helping plan a massive, destabilizing surprise war - a war the US has immediately LOST - and then using his insider knowledge to make stock bets so he can personally get rich? Hard to think of worse corruption, anywhere, ever.
In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies:
a) Ever;
b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East
FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e...
In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.
The call is coming from inside the house.
Phang: This is so typical of what has happened in this administration.
Michael Flynn sued and is now going to be given $1.5 million in a settlement.
Ashli Babbitt’s family is receiving $5 million.
The Trumps are suing for $10 billion.
Just a snapshot of the type of bullshit that is happening
The Department of This Operation.
She was driving her suitcase straight toward me. My life passed before my eyes.
NEW: This new report, from BBC, is the best takedown of the insanity of Trump you will see anywhere.
Calm, coherent and repeating only Trump’s own words. Devastating.
Brilliant work once again from Roz Atkins.
(🎥 BBC News)
The last frontier will be teaching Econometrics while walking around campus. Go full Socratic!
"Trump will eventually throw you under the bus" should be considered by now a Law of Nature 😆
The NYT piece on Chavez was a very tough pill to swallow. The reaction of some commenters from the left was truly disheartening.
So much callousness.
Nothing worse than the three stooges on his back cracking at his "jokes" to spare him from having to answer any question
Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump Iran has long been known as a Master of Media Manipulation and Public Relations. They are Militarily ineffective and weak, but are really good at "feeding" the very appreciative Fake News Media false information. Now, A.I. has become another Disinformation weapon that Iran uses, quite well, considering they are being annihilated by the day. They showed phony "Kamikaze Boats," shooting at various Ships at Sea, which looks wonderful, powerful, and vicious, but these Boats don't exist — It's all false information to show how "tough" their already defeated Military is! The five U.S. Refueling Planes that were supposedly struck down and badly damaged, according to The Wall Street Journal's false reporting, and others, are all in service, with the exception of one, which will soon be flying the skies. Buildings and Ships that are shown to be on fire are not — It's FAKE NEWS, generated by A.I. For instance, Iran, working in close coordination with the Fake News Media, shows our great USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier, one of the largest and most prestigious Ships in the World, burning uncontrollably in the Ocean. Not only was it not burning, it was not even shot at — Iran knows better than to do that! The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information! The fact is, Iran is being decimated, and the only battles they "win" are those that they create through Al, and are distributed by Corrupt Media Outlets. The Radical Leftwing Press knows this full well, but continues to go forward with false stories and LIES. That's why their Approval Rating is so low, and I can win a Presidential Election, IN A LANDSLIDE, getting only 5% positive Press — They have no credibility! I am so thrilled to see Brendan Carr, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), looking at the licenses of some of t…
Late-stage malignant narcissism is very, very dangerous, especially when combined with the disinhibiting effects of dementia.
Trump will only become more out of control and lash out both more often and more severely as time passes.
This is just going to continue escalating and getting worse.
Trump's reaction to being cornered by events he cannot dismiss or control or make someone else's problem is to lash out with increasing violence.
Remember, his reax to COVID was first to attempt to kill protesters, then the US Congress.
