"Fascist regimes are doomed to lose their wars, because they are constitutionally incapable of making an objective assessment of the enemy’s strength." .–Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism, pub. in Five Moral Pieces.

Shameful.

RT @curious_founder: This chart has been making the rounds on social media. It suggests that renewables increase electricity prices. But….

RT @ryankatzrosene: 🧵A thread with some real whales from this new Climate Skeptic Report commissioned by the Trump Administration. /1.

RT @whstancil: The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

2: Which Side 2025.

1: Freedom Forever 2025.

Two protest songs, new lyrics by Lauren, arrangement and production by me. Many thanks to the members of the Chorus and Orchestra of the Anti-Fascist League of North America. Links below.

Soviet joke: Each day a man eyes Pravda's front page as he passes a newsstand. One day the proprietor asks him what he's looking for. "An obituary," says the man. "Comrade, the obituaries are inside the paper," says the proprietor. The man replies: "Not the one I'm looking for.".

RT @Tatarigami_UA: Instead of replying to each question, I decided to put together a thread that better explains the context of the recent….

RT @swagmastarpaul: July 20th- I am getting closer and closer to breaking the barrier between our worlds to free Oven Paul. In the meantime….

This is so mean sophomoric that I can’t believe I’m reposting it.

RT @emptywheel: A tremendous metaphor for the Trump administration: @marcorubio's State Department blowing $130,000 to destroy $800,000 in….

We are so accustomed to two- and four-year election cycles that we’re unprepared for historically normal political inflection points, which last months or weeks or days.

The submissive will submit.

Perhaps the administration massively misjudged the effect the Epstein announcement would have, but what I think it signifies is the administration's belief that they no longer need the extreme conspiracy wing of their coalition, and that the rest will fall in line.

Money's value is simply confidence that it can be exchanged. But while gold is pretty and can be made into things, and government-backed currency has the government's credibility behind it, crypto has no value aside from people's belief. Therefore crypto people MUST proselytize.

RT @rahmstorf: We see here a self-styled "honest broker" with decades of experience in downplaying climate change presenting an age-old cl….

RT @Kasparov63: It was useful in Russia to see how many of Umberto Eco's "features of fascism" were happening under Putin. I never thought….

RT @pjaicomo: "This prison has merch . provided to us by the State of Florida.". Imagine saying that and laughing instead of pausing to….

In "The Story Paradox," Jonathan Gottschall makes the point that, given the choice between an exciting story and a dull reality, many people will choose the exciting story. The instance below is silly; but this tendency is at the base of many of our current problems.