If Dems and other officials do not hold the perperators of past admin crimes accountable *and* tackle the structural issues that made the US vulnerable to mafia state rule, all the Biden admin will be is a brief interlude between aspiring autocracy and entrenched autocracy.

We must not delude ourselves in this moment. Multiracial democracy in the United States is less than 60 years old. It has always been contested, often violently so. It has always been fragile. Since this nation's inception large swaths of white Americans -- including white women

American living in Cambodia and I'm getting cautious inquiries from friends like there's been a death in the family

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I understand that. I was just at the prison watching women do the same. What I am saying is that there are nowhere near enough PRISONS BUILT nor people IN THEM to replace the impending loss of immigrant labor. They’d have to jail MILLIONS more. Where are you putting them?

Let me get this straight. The Democratic Party spent years claiming Trump will end democracy and devised no contingency plan for what to do if he won again?

The "Americans are simply bigots" crowd needs to reckon with the fact that an objectively far more racist & sexist US society produced the political antidote to fascism (FDR), and it's a vastly more enlightened culture* that's seen Trump's rise. There is more going on here.

“We've Been Here Before”: Bearing Witness to Palestine's Genocide as a Cambodian Genocide Survivor palestine-studies.org/en/node/1655968

"Think tanks of the libertarian and post-neoliberal right will jockey for proximity to the president while the man himself remains focused on the one thing he has always excelled at: going bankrupt and still coming out on top." archive.is/BRv2a#selectio…

Hey, FYI you can use the Sky Follower Bridge extension to find the people you follow on Twitter over on bluesky. It found almost half of the people I follow & added them. Took about 10 minutes. Added advantage of knowing they're not bots. sky-follower-bridge.dev

Mueller She Wrote getting the block blockity block on Bsky

Covid's still out there, still walloping people. I'm impressed with Violet Blue's weekly roundups (free on Patreon) that's she has been doing for years now. Articles, statistics, the works. Check it out. patreon.com/posts/pandemic…

I haven't seen anyone else report it but thinking a lot this afternoon about Thai media musing a couple weeks back that Hun Sen would be tapped for Anwar's Asean advisory team bangkokpost.com/thailand/gener…

How'd that work out champ

Nazis are bad; can't justify being on this platform

So it turns out I still report from protests #NoKings