Join DSA! Even (especially?) if you're cynical about electoral work or can never go to a meeting.

It's democrats fault that they lost the white working class & their ability to win the senate. If they wanted to win, they should have appealed to that group more instead of complaining about the system. It's not republicans fault that black people never vote for them. We have to change the system!

I want you to know that I have known that Dan went to beast castle from the day he was invited to beast castle. And I have been malding each day since

*posts chart showing near-linear decline in Dem popularity since Clinton took over* this proves clinton did a really good job!

Twitter is really horrible. My entire algorithm there is just posts that will upset me into engaging with them.

In case any of you live near somerville lol

Nicki Manaj becoming an insane conservative because people made fun of her online for lying about her cousin's balls in order to be antivax is, i think, the purest distillation of conservatism.

It is somewhat darkly funny how Trump has bumbled into destroying fossil fuels as the world's main energy source and empowered China through its renewables manufacturing.

I am not allowed to post what I think about John Roberts.

Just completely tragic for star trek, a show written by a socialist, to become pure apologia for capitalism. The villain of an entire series is now a militant anarchist. What a fucking message.

This is the most beautiful bowl I've ever turned. I honestly can't believe I made this. The picture doesn't really do it justice.

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

In the far future of star trek: academy they've forgotten the rare technology of "self destruct to stop them from stealing your tech." In fairness it was only mentioned in dozens of episodes of 90s trek.

The Lincoln Lawyer is a show about how prosecutors and the criminal justice system are evil but also some prosecutors are cool and you should marry them

The thing about conservatism is it's a very diverse and complicated ideology but you can still pretty much explain it as a scheme to advance sex crimes

My problem with the latest episode of starfleet academy is that i don't think speech and debate is good and think participating in it for so many years made me a worse person

Even if we concede ice should exist (I don't) why the fuck do they need guns anyways?

A profoundly brave woman.

The fact that a real general strike is happening with the cooperation of elected officials to churches to unions should fill you with profound hope.

Starfleet academy bravely asks the question: what if the federation sucks actually? A question bravely asked by almost every star trek show and episode since ds9 ended 20 years ago.

Most important thing to know about this administration is that (1) it is filled with people who do actually want to make America into Nazi Germany (but successful) and (2) it is prevented from doing so by physical limitations like state capacity, popular opposition, and what remains of federalism.

This is basically how we justified the mexican american war btw. Marched a US army into Mexico and declared war when they were shot at. One of Lincoln's first ever speaches was pointing this out in the House.

The United States has created a world order where it's rational for every state to be militaristic, insular, and authoritarian. Any pacifism or weakness and the US might destroy your government without cause. We don't get to cry dictator when the world order reacts to our violence.

I mean surely letting people complain and make conspiracies is a better outcome for trump than giving every liberal a signed letter from epatein calling Trump a pedophile they can wave in front of their conservative family at xmas.

Genuinely shocked to learn the epstein files were actually this damning. Makes you wonder why the fuck trump was playing with fire suggesting this or even signed the bill

Turns out when you remove the 'woke nonsense' from the FBI they get really fucking bad at their jobs

There are two ways to get an A in Oklahoma: (1) work hard to write a good essay that follows the rubric. (2) tell chatgpt to write about the culture war from Trump's side

INBOX: New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was heckled by State Rep. @heathhowardnh.com at the NH Dems dinner last night after she pushed to reopen the government without securing Obamacare protections. Howard, who is running against Shaheen's daughter in the open #NH01 seat, later posted this on X:

Critical to remember metoo was powerful and huge until it became a democratic party nonprofit (MeTooMovement) which, immediately after formation, became a catch and kill operation for Biden's primary campaign.

Air traffic controllers are resigning due to the stress inflicted by the government shutdown, a union president warned

The Farmer's life is objectively worse in most ways -- less free time, hard labor, high stakes, little room for error -- but it's also the opposite of the labor and social alienation most of us feel. To have your labor produce literal fruit, and to have a mutually dependent community.

I would love one theorist of "why the democratic party should go right on immigration" to 1) look at what Clinton and Obama and Biden actually did, and 2) to reckon with the fact that despite those overtures, Stephen Miller now has a goon army doing forcible deportations without due process

I'm definitely becoming a year zero guy for social media. shut it the fuck down. go back to RSS feeds and vbulletin forums. it should be more costly run a social media platform, doing so should involve more legal exposure, and it should be more difficult to access them.

Devastating: my commute audiobook uses dramatic irony at the core plot device.

The problem today isn't people questioning science, but that they don't want the answers. They assume gaps in their knowledge are universal. But scientists aren't idiots, and if you think you've found an obvious flaw in their arguments, it's usually you who have missed something.

Putting 'teacher union during covid' next to 'police unions' as examples of bad unions is bonkers. These people apparently wanted more kids and teachers to die and think opposing that was as evil as police brutality.

I think a pseudo-niche political opinion that I’m developing is judge-maxing. Both the United States and the world generally need far greater number of judges. I think we need legal-abundance: an oversupplied court system able to both clear simple cases quickly and devote more time to complex ones.

Ik it's annoying and banal to point out but at some point you just gotta say that, if a Democrat dog-catcher in Vermont did even one of Trump's daily corruption scandals it would be a month-long national news story. Media likes Trump and wants to help him win.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

This is not true, at least not unless everyone gives up. If such a thing were tried, the richest and wealthiest states in the country would secede. It's easier to imagine America ending than America having a guy with 39% approvals as dictator for life.

Republicans oppose social programs because they make women and children harder to abuse.

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

This would have been the first ever assassins creed game I bought lol, oh well.

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

Deploy the Illinois National Guard Guard.

Brazil built *4.5 million homes* with just their public housing program in just 9 years - Brazil has an economy slightly larger than the size of Northern California's. The entire housing economy, including private home construction, built probably 750k homes in Northern California during this time.

The MBTA. Unless you're from NYC or maybe Chicago you have no right to mock a functioning transit system.