Former ACLU comms director, current fascist fighter #ImpeachTrump #NoFascistUSA
One of the most telling quotes out of the Trump admin. ‘Uh, I don’t think AI billionaires want to destroy the world since that would destroy their companies.’ Concern not for destroying the only habitable planet we know of—just the sad sad loss of their investment. #StopAI
Aaron RuparBARTIROMO: It feels like we're moving into a Terminator-type world HASSETT: I hope not and I think not. AI companies definitely have an incentive not to destroy the world. That would destroy their companies too.
“Due to war, tariffs, the shredding of intl alliances…& the…mass deportation agenda, Trump has squandered a trifecta of traditional GOP advantages on the economy, immigration, and natl security…it’s heartening to see the American people…reject the trappings & degradations of personalist rule.”
Greg SargentThe failure of Trumpism as a "personalist" project doesn't mean the broader MAGA ideological project will fail. But I think it's good that personalist dicator rule is getting so widely rejected. It may be a sign of democratic resilience. Some thoughts on that here: newrepublic.com/article/2137...
“I think a lot of reporters hear [Trump threaten war crimes] and say, he won’t do it, that’s a lot of bluster. But I don’t think that’s the right way to react. We should be saying, it’s unfathomably sociopathic that he’s even considering it, and an American president shouldn’t be talking this way.”
Greg SargentMedia needs to stop treating Trump's threats of war crimes against Iran as bluster. The mere fact that he's *threatening* to inflict such sociopathic horrors on tens of millions of people is itself a scandal. On the pod, @emilyhorne.bsky.social and I on this idea: newrepublic.com/article/2136...
The death squads that Trump and Miller are emulating here with their ICE gestapo were created and perfected in South and Central America. The fear is rational and much too common. #ImpeachTrump #FireMiller #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS
Matt OrtegaStephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Great once-removed internet conversation between two of the smartest people posting, Asha and @gregsargent.bsky.social.
Asha Rangappa🧵 This piece is really important, because it gets to something that is a prerequisite for and recurring feature of atrocities worldwide: selective empathy. Most people assume that when atrocities happen, it’s bc everyone involved is a sociopath. Some are. But not all. 1/