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It's been a year since Project 2025 hit national news. Back then, I cited Rick Perlstein, an expert on the history of the conservative movement, who said that the most important thing about the P2025 document wasn't its extreme plans, but rather, it's total incoherence:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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> has been racing over those alligator-backs for so long now, it can sometimes feel like he'll never miss a step. But he's one snap away from losing a leg, and after that, it'll be a bloodbath.
Reminds Pirate Software drama. First he turned away some subscribers with SKG streams and videos where he not just lied, but also used arguments that contradict his point. Then WoW ratting happened, which made his "internet stocks" just low enough to stop criticizing him being a suicide.
Oh man 🤣. Never mind the funny quote, this article gives me hope that Trump and #project2025 are going to implode.
"No one is ever going to deny Peter Thiel a mortgage, no matter how many twinks he bangs. Ted Cruz's daughter will always be able to get an abortion, no matter what Texas or federal law states. Clarence Thomas doesn't have to worry about getting pulled over because he "fits the description."
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It's been a year since Project 2025 hit national news. Back then, I cited Rick Perlstein, an expert on the history of the conservative movement, who said that the most important thing about the P2025 document wasn't its extreme plans, but rather, it's total incoherence:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
You see, Project 2025 isn't just *one* roadmap for turning America into a doomed, corporate/christofascist hellscape: it is *several* such roadmaps, with many policy prescriptions that directly and violently contradict each other.
For Perlstein, this was both revealing and important. Like all successful political campaigns, Trumpism is a coalition. Coalitions form when groups of people set aside their disagreements and join together.
Virtually every important political change is downstream of a coalition.
The easiest kind of coalition to form is an oppositional one, where groups agree on what they *don't* want, without agreeing on what they *do* want. Think, for example, of the Andrea Dworkin wing of the feminist movement making common cause with Jerry Falwell to oppose pornography.
Obviously, these people have a completely irreconcilable goals for what they *want*, but when it comes to porn, it's easy for them to agree on what they *don't* want.
That's fine when you're waging the campaign *against* something, but if you happen to win that campaign, you're in trouble. That's when the fight starts over who will get their way. That's the moment when winning coalitions become bitterly divided:
Now, some of these conflicts matter more than others. The least politically connected, least sophisticated (and most numerous) members of the conservative coalition have long been mollified by performative acts of cruel racism and gender discrimination.
These could be enacted without any real impact on the power-players in the coalition, since they were insulated from discriminatory lending and hiring, immune to police violence, and could skip to another state or country to get abortion care, hire sex workers, etc. No one is ever going to deny Peter Thiel a mortgage, no matter how many twinks he bangs. Ted Cruz's daughter will always be able to get an abortion, no matter what Texas or federal law states.
Clarence Thomas doesn't have to worry about getting pulled over because he "fits the description." As Wilhoit's Law says:
> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Project 2025 is an anthology, edited by the Heritage Foundation, collecting the post-victory aspirations of the most important members of the Trump coalition.
As anthologists, Heritage's job was to choose which submissions to include and which ones to reject. Perlstein's key insight is that wherever Heritage included two or more directly contradictory plans in Project 2025, we can infer the groups that submitted those plans are each too powerful and important to sideline - they are equally matched combatants, and it's impossible to predict which one will get their way and which ones will eat shit in the aftermath of a victory.
There were *so many* contradictions in Project 2025: immigration policy, military policy, trade policy, monetary policy, tax policy, and more. As Perlstein pointed out, Project 2025 was a 900-page roadmap to the future fracture lines in the Trump coalition. These were the places where the opposition could break off parts of Trump's base, in the same way that Steve Bannon has been doing to the progressive movement (also an easily fractured coalition).
Since Trump won the presidency, House and Senate, he has done a remarkable job of keeping this brittle coalition together through a mix of flattery and bullying. But the fact remains that Trump's most important factions *hate* each other and are gunning for one another, and whenever Trump chooses one faction to win and another to lose, the losers are prone to turning on *him*:
Trump's lifelong strategy has been to race across a succession of rivers on the backs of alligators without losing a leg. He is the undisputed all-time historical champion of this bizarre sport, but no one can win that race forever, and your first loss is a career-ender.
I think a lot of people - including Trump allies - understand this, at least at a gut level. That's why the Epstein stuff is so huge now.
These beliefs are a stand-in for an overall rage against elite impunity, the two-tiered system of justice that lets the powerful get away with anything. The sexual abuse of children is such a viscerally offensive crime, so the idea that rich and powerful people are getting away with it carries a lethal charge.
Many Trump voters were under the naive impression that his administration would release information about Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators in his child trafficking operation. So it came as a shock wh
Conspiracy fantasies have their roots in traumatic reality. Without a long list of US military cover-ups, there'd be no room for UFO conspiracies. The credibility of antivax ("pharma companies want to kill you and regulators want to help them") is rooted FDA's failure to prevent the opioid crisis, and the million Americans who died as a result:
Conspiratorialism is a cognitive failure that occurs when you blame systemic problems on individuals. That's why they call antisemitism "the socialism of fools" - it's what you get when you blame Jewish bankers, rather than the finance sector's class warfare, for your problems:
Conspiratorialists have the right feeling, but the wrong facts. If you hate elite impunity, you should be furious about the Supreme Court ruling that presidents have "absolute immunity" from prosecution for the crimes they commit in office. But bad actors can exploit the failures of the conspiratorial mindset to make people who are legitimately enraged by elite impunity to direct that rage at imaginary "cultural Marxists" at universities.
As Naomi Klein writes in *Doppelganger*, the right lives in a "mirror world" where child abuse is confined to largely imaginary children in nonexistent pizza parlor basements, while actual kids in Florida concentration camps, or border detention cages, or meat-packing plant night shifts, or living in hunger and without a home, are ignored:
It's not hard to understand why Trump wants to suppress the Epstein files. He had a long friendship with Epstein, and spoke glowingly of Epstein's taste in "beautiful women...on the younger side." Trump sent Epstein lewd drawings and imaginary dialogues about Epstein's "wonderful secret":
Not only that, it's likely that many of Trump's most important supporters were directly complicit in Epstein's crimes (participating in the rape of young women and girls) and indirectly complicit (covering up these crimes and helping to launder Epstein's money).
Can Trump convince the conspiratorial wing of his coalition that Epstein is a "nothingburger" and a fabrication of Biden, Obama, the Clintons, Emmanuel Goldstein and Snowball?
It's not impossible. As *The American Prospect*'s Ryan Cooper points out, conspiratorialists possess an incredible ability to "believe just about anything, even if it literally kills them—witness, for instance, the unvaccinated Texas GOP official who was posting anti-vaccine memes on Facebook right up until he died of COVID":
As ever, *The Onion* captures the spirit of the moment with a single, brilliant headline, "Elderly Woman Keeps Mind Active Justifying Trump’s Actions":
But so far, the signs are not looking good for Trump. Writing for *Wired*, Jake Lahut speaks to many high-ranking Trump advisors, past and present, anonymous and named, who are concerned about the mounting fury from Trump's conspiratorial base:
LEXINGTON, KY—Stressing the importance of regularly performing mental gymnastics to prevent cognitive decline, local 80-year-old Edna Connolly confirmed Thursday that she keeps her mind active by justifying President Donald Trump’s actions.
As Lahut writes, Trump is flubbing this badly, but there may be *no way* for him to resolve the Epstein affair to the satisfaction of his base. They were already primed to be suspicious of whatever story they were presented with, and this latest incident all but guarantees that they will not accept whatever material Trump is eventually arm-twisted into releasing.
And that's not even the biggest disappointment Trump's conspiratorialists will confront. Trump has no intention of changing the system to make life better for this Christmas-voting turkeys. Arresting 11 million immigrants and any number of US citizens who fit the description will not help these people with their very real, material problem.
Nor will banning abortion, giving tax breaks to the ultra-rich, or defunding the police at the CFPB who were in charge of shutting down rip-off artists at payday lenders, big banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, etc. So these people can only ever get angrier.
But the conspiratorial base isn't the only Trumpland faction that is being forced to eat shit after Trump's victory.
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And there's Elon Musk, who is (correctly) furious that Trump wiped his ass with his promise of a balanced budget so he could hand trillions to the richest people in the history of the human race:
This is as Rich Perlstein prophesied a year ago: these groups hate each other and the only way for some of them to get what they want is for others to be totally betrayed.
Trump has been racing over those alligator-backs for so long now, it can sometimes feel like he'll never miss a step. But he's one snap away from losing a leg, and after that, it'll be a bloodbath.
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I genuinely tried my hand at identifying factions early on but I think some shifting has occurred.
I also seem to have undercounted the degree to which Heritage itself was a coalition and how much power Trump would have in forcing the Tarrifs. zirk.us/@MidniteMikeWrites/113…
@bls@mas.to My completely uninformed speculation is that there are probably ~4 factions at play here: Heritage (P2025), America First (another think tank offering EOs for Trump to sign), Musk (has his own agenda??), and true MAGA and/or "true" conser…
Victoria shared a sweet anecdote about the couple's daughter Thu, 17 Jul 2025 David Mitchell’s daughter is just like his wife, Victoria Coren, according to a sweet new interview.
Victoria shared a sweet anecdote about the couple's daughter Thu, 17 Jul 2025 David Mitchell’s daughter is just like his wife, Victoria Coren, according to a sweet new interview.
Puma has announced it is ending its sponsorship of the Israel Football Association (IFA), after a years-long boycott campaign. Puma denies the boycott impacted its decision, but activists say otherwise. #BDS #Puma
Slovenia today (July 17) announced an unprecedented move within the European Union, declaring that the entry of Bezalel Smotrich (Minister of Finance) and Itamar Ben-Gvir (Minister of Security) of the Israeli regime is prohibited.
one handed operation; you should try to make sure that you can operate the keyboard with one hand so your other hand can stay on your mouse
proximity follows frequency; if you use it a lot it should be close to hand
same purpose, same place; across programs similar functions should share the same key
birds of a feather flock together; similar and related functionality kept in proximate clusters
typing trounces topography; if you have to use both hands for typing you have to take your hand off the mouse anyway so then it doesn’t really matter where on the keyboard the shortcut key is
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For mouse and pointing intensive applications, one hand keyboard and macros can improve speed a magnitude for me. For CAD programs, I have always found the keyboard to be far faster than a mouse
Grünenpolitikerin will nationalen Gedenktag für „menschliche Opfer“ des Klimawandels apollo-news.net/gruenenpolitik… Anlässlich des dritten Jahrestags der Flutkatastrophe im Ahrtal forderte die Grünen-Umweltpolitikerin Lisa Badum die Einrichtung eines nationalen Gedenktags für die ... The post Grünenpolitikerin will nationalen Gedenktag für „menschliche Opfer“ des Klimawandels appeared first on Apollo News. #news
Die Grünen-Politikerin Lisa Badum fordert die Einrichtung eines nationalen Gedenktags für die Opfer der Klimakrise. Laut ihr gehe es nicht nur um Umweltschutz, sondern um „den Schutz von Menschenleben“.
see the problem with democrats is that they're psychopaths, so that instead of thinking "let's take this opportunity to push for justice for victims of child sex trafficking" they think "how can we exploit this for political gain, and make some shit up and lie about trump"
republicans who are protecting pedos basically either shut up about it, or make up some feeble excuses and try to cover it up. democrats are like *hand rubbing* yeah there's a list and here's a big fake story we just concocted to frame our enemy
in fairness, trump is also doing this to an extent, calling it a "democrat hoax" although a less specific frame-up than the fake letter from trump to epstein that dems just tried to pass off. funny how trump calls it a democrat hoax, then the democrats release an obvious hoax.... really makes you think that maybe the uniparty is working together to cover this up
The Japanese police have released a Phobos and 8-Base ransomware decryptor that lets victims recover their files for free, with BleepingComputer confirming that it successfully decrypts files.
The UN's Albanese has long opposed Israel’s genocide of Palestinians—but what broke US warmongers was her naming corporations profiting from that genocide.
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Next Friday (July 25th) is The International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners!
We’re calling on all antifascists to take some action that day in solidarity with our imprisoned comrades.
I'm primarily an American princess, with colonial heritage. But my corrupt government has chosen to finance the jew war on the Levant, so that activates the divine lineage I have from Maria Komnene. It makes no sense religiously or politically for Americans to turn over that land to jews. If we're going to pay for it, we should rule it. I'm not the only American with descent from Maria Komnene, just one who has established it genealogically, and the first to claim that divine right. So I should be queen.
European Christians established a divine right of royal families to rule, and Maria had that right in spades over Jerusalem.
My lineage back to her is through The White Queen, Elizabeth of York. As an English queen. It's fitting that her descendant should rule Jerusalem, because it was the English who took the land back from the Ottomans in WWI. Her mother was a descendant of Maria.
Maria was a Byzantine princess, her right of rule over Jerusalem established by the Romans in 70 AD, as a Byzantine.
She was also a descendant of Armenian kings, who descended from the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, Philip of Macedon, Cyrus the Great of Persia, and the Chaldean dynasty of Babylon. That means she was a descendant of every non-jewish (and non-Muslim) royal family that had ruled Jerusalem since the first destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 587 BC.
Also, Muslims claim (with a very questionable genealogy) that the English royal family has lineage back to Mohamed. I have that lineage as well. I don't claim it, but if Muslims believe it, who am I to argue?
According to their own prophets, jews angered God so much that he condemned them. Malachi said God's favor turned from the jews to Gentiles. That means the people chosen by God to rule Jerusalem were and are Gentiles, even according to jewish books.
Yes there are several lines of Kings and Queens. A bloody time and struggle . I see in the battles that both sides were my kin. There was no inbreeding. I haven't seen that. The Hapsburg Coburn and Queen Victoria seems to be the line of inbreeding and rumor of a rabbi entering that line. The Russian Tzar also refused a marriage with his daughter to a member in the English royal family because it was a first cousin. Maybe that's why England stood by and allowed the Massacre and downfall of Russia.
There is some speculation that the two princes in the tower may have been rescued and raised by a Clerke . However two skeletons were found under a floor . Now It has been discovered that the two princes did survive . Who and what happened in between however still needs more documentation. This video I find revealing and factual. youtube.com/watch?v=S7ND6bDZjU…
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🍉🍉🍉 Depuis qu’un gérant a viré des israéliens de son restaurant en #Espagne, il a triplé sa clientèle La semaine dernière, le propriétaire du restaurant Mimassa à #Vigo, en Espagne, a expulsé des Israéliens de son établissement. Depuis, son entreprise connaît une forte affluence. Il explique que sa clientèle a triplé, depuis que la vidéo a circulé, à travers le monde.
Psyop-ocracy: A system of governance or societal structure in which power, control, or rule is exercised primarily through psychological operations—tactics involving manipulation, propaganda, deception, or influence over perceptions and behaviors to maintain authority.
Merci encore à Elaonore pour l’avènement de ce raz de marée démocratique et tous ceux qui y participe. Mais j'ai entendu par ces cher médias que cela n'aller pas faire grand chose, 1 truc balançait par Ifop et autre affidés avec questions orienté sur 2/3000 personnes et balancées sur les ondes, à l'écoeurement est 1 raison pour faire bouger leur idées, mais ici non! Va vraiment falloir qu'ils fassent attention, il n'y a pas que les pécores fn de la FNsea qui peuvent bloqué 1pays!
General Christopher Donahue, Commander of the U.S. Army in Europe and Africa and the head of NATO’s ground forces, told Defense News on July 16 that NATO has put in place the Eastern Flank Deterrence Plan. NATO forces, he said, together with the U.S.
Vladimir #Poutine, dans une conversation avec le journaliste Pavel #Zarubin, a déclaré que dès le début des années 2000, il était clair que les pays occidentaux n'étaient pas des partenaires pour Moscou: «C’est devenu évident dès le début des années 2000. Pourtant, nous nourrissions des illusions – j'en nourrissais aussi – fondées sur les éléments suivants. À l'époque, moi et beaucoup d'autres, j'en suis sûr, croyions que les problèmes dans les relations entre l'Union soviétique et le soi-disant #Occident étaient avant tout idéologiques. D'un côté, il y avait le régime communiste, que beaucoup considéraient comme une tyrannie, et de l'autre, le monde démocratique dirigé par les États-Unis. Et beaucoup pensaient — moi y compris, curieusement, même si j’avais travaillé dans les services de renseignements soviétiques pendant près de 20 ans — que la principale contradiction était de nature idéologique. Mais lorsque l'Union soviétique a disparu et qu'il n'y a plus eu de régime communiste, le mépris de l'Occident envers les intérêts stratégiques de la Russie a perduré, l'attitude désinvolte envers les intérêts de l'État russe est restée… Tout cela était lié à un désir évident d'atteindre certains avantages géopolitiques. De plus, même lorsque je suis devenu président, je n'ai pas tout compris immédiatement. J'ai essayé de m’en expliquer avec mes collègues occidentaux : «Écoutez, vous dites une chose, mais vous en faites une autre. Et voici la preuve.» Ils acquiesçaient et répondaient : «Oui, oui, oui, tout va bien, nous allons régler ça maintenant». Et rien ! C’est même exactement le contraire qui est arrivé». ll m'est apparu clairement que l'idéologie jouait probablement un rôle, mais qu'à la base de toutes ces contradictions se trouvent des intérêts géopolitiques. Pour le bien de la #Russie, j’espère que ces illusions disparaîtront une fois pour toutes».
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MAGA crackup: Not just Epstein (but also Epstein).
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Hey look at this
* Fascism For First Time Founders techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascis…
* Could AI slow science? aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-slow…
* How One 1990s Browser Decision Created Big Tech’s Data Monopolies (And How We Might Finally Fix It) techdirt.com/2025/07/16/how-on…
* Connecticut House Passes Landmark eBook Bill ebookstudygroup.org/connecticu… (h/t Dan Gillmor)
* The INCOMM Scientology Keyboard / Cherry G80-1165HAU reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboar… (h/t Boing Boing)
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#15yrsago Winds howl over the deserted moonscape behind Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper paywalls web.archive.org/web/2010071621…
#15yrsago Vatican: ordaining women is as bad as raping children from the pulpit nytimes.com/2010/07/16/world/e…
#10yrsago Disney World after humanity’s demise deviantart.com/eledoremassis02…
#10yrsago UK schools’ “anti-radicalisation” software lets hackers spy on kids web.archive.org/web/2015071414…
#5yrsago What's in Blueleaks pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/tex…
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#5yrsago Librarians' virtual escape rooms pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/tex…
#5yrsago EU court kills data-sharing deal with USA pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/tex…
#1yrago Bowen McCurdy and Jordan Morris's "Youth Group" pluralistic.net/2024/07/16/sat…
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Wednesday's threads: Ellen Ullman's "Close to the Machine."; and more!
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Upcoming appearances:
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Cory, just a completely unrelated question:
I believe to remember, on Twitter you had an eternal thread with lots of fabulous artwork.
I absolutely adored it.
You don't do that anymore, or do you?
(Or maybe, I imagine something that never happened - or it was someone else)
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •> has been racing over those alligator-backs for so long now, it can sometimes feel like he'll never miss a step. But he's one snap away from losing a leg, and after that, it'll be a bloodbath.
Reminds Pirate Software drama. First he turned away some subscribers with SKG streams and videos where he not just lied, but also used arguments that contradict his point. Then WoW ratting happened, which made his "internet stocks" just low enough to stop criticizing him being a suicide.
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Oh man 🤣. Never mind the funny quote, this article gives me hope that Trump and #project2025 are going to implode.
"No one is ever going to deny Peter Thiel a mortgage, no matter how many twinks he bangs. Ted Cruz's daughter will always be able to get an abortion, no matter what Texas or federal law states. Clarence Thomas doesn't have to worry about getting pulled over because he "fits the description."
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Stefan Edward Jones
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Current sustaining fantasy!
"Don't shoot! Don't shoot! They told me this was a lizard person! I was just trying to pull its mask off! Oh god, put his face back on!"