We are in the midst of an entirely self-inflicted Oil Crisis. The full consequences of which are mere weeks to months away.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

SPD — outlawed Zentrum — folded DNVP — absorbed Trade unions — dissolved State governments — seized Enabling Act — passed Incredible few weeks for Chancellor Hitler’s political operation.

You don’t hate the media enough

I've been saying: Democrats sticking to their principles rather than swaying with political winds is not only more morally admirable, *it is more politically savvy*. Nothing was more predictable than this thermostatic backlash against Trumpian fascist immigration policy.

All of you who breathlessly warn people that once It Happens fascism will take it’s terrifying final form under the brilliant and blisteringly competent JD Vance, take a look and listen to the actual JD Vance just once, ever, please.

Put more poetically, there is no dream without the dreamer, and, OK, your favorite rep no one has heard of passed a bill they cosponsored with a Republican marginally advancing your pet cause, but that bill doesn’t exist before the AOCs of the party make the argument that better things are possible

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

Genuinely what the fuck is the Georgia Democratic party doing. A huge number of voters clearly voting on how democratic a candidates name sounds is like, genuinely, the worst campaign I have ever heard of in my life

Republican voters are Bad, but Republican *primary* voters are Literal Demons From Actual Hell.

it's literally because they know him from TV news isn't it

I'll leave this here. This quote from Thomas Massie explains perfectly why the GOP is the way it is today.

I would rather have a Progressive who wins by 6 than a Centrist who wins by 15.

Republicans voted out a far-right conservative because he is insufficiently supportive of child rape.

It's so annoying that we lost a nonpartisan seat but likely won another one.

The difference a competent state party makes.

not even FDR could do this

at this point it looks to me like Rankin will win and Jordan will lose, but what is this LMAO

Dennis Hastert was a Republican Speaker of the House, the longest-running Republican to ever hold the position, and he was sentenced to prison for paying off children he sexually abused. Nobody associates this with the Republican Party because they’re the “law and order” party, because they’re white

this is the kinda shit i was expecting and so very disappointing. if Spanberger was willing to just be Gov. Generic Democrat, I'd genuinely entertain voting for her in the 2028 primary but... nah

Yeah, I know we're mad about the broader social and economic consequences but if you'll permit me to be a grumpy old hag for a second, I also simply do not want the computer to be my friend. Computer time is alone time. Do not ruin the vibes.

and now, your moment of zen. 🎥 (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYhEwUvv67q/)

Ted Cruz and James Talarico would be the weirdest by far.

i think this is just how it always is. the french revolution wouldn't have happened without spiraling bread prices. the protests that toppled caeusescu were in part because of shortages of cooking oil.

This is going like Dems would have scripted it: A late Trump endorsement after Cornyn/Senate Republicans incinerated ~$100M trying to nuke Ken Paxton as an impeached adulterer who violated ethics left and right.

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

American politics just reduces down to the idea that every problem can be fixed if you give a man from TV the power to kill enough people.

I have been burned by Florida so many times that I am gonna need to see $7 National Average Gas to really think it's possible. And even then I will only believe it when I see it.

Happy day for those of us who have spent long decades hearing that smug nasty mendacious Reagan quote treated as some kind of witticism.

May 18, 1980 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. Weakened critically, the north face bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a pyroclastic density surge bursts through the disintegrating slope. The clock strikes zero.

Anything past D+15 or so and I think Democrats are outright favored to win the Senate. ME, MI GA and NC would be Safe D. And then we get to OH, IA, TX, KS, NE, MT, SC, maybe FL. What happens when we hit operational minimum of Gas?

Don't think folks are prepared for the range of potential outcomes this fall.

For context, the Teapot Dome scandal, which brought down numerous people during the Harding Administration, was over about 10 million dollars in today's money.

there's a lot of agita around the fact that some unions have defected without wrestling with the question of what makes union support worth it to Democrats in the first place

National TRANSPORT Workers Union endorsing Republicans the year when Trump closes off the Strait of Hormuz and thereby causing a severe economic shock via oil prices (the operational minimum hasn't even been reached yet). Sometimes it seems like... nobody fucking cares about anything.

Rs are not gonna become more pro-labor union anytime soon, but Dems can certainly get less pro *your* union if you keep spitting in their faces, esp when the "newer" unions like hospitality, teaching, & nursing are way more representative of the actual core of the party now than these other unions

Theres been a clear trend over the last several years w the, ahem, more 'traditional' labor unions—full of older white men—beginning to act like they can double dip w Rs on cultural stuff & Ds on economic stuff & I gotta say it seems to me like thatll just wind up w them marginalized w both parties.

Trump has made the world an exponentially worse place in a little over a year

Sad as it is, this is entirely inevitable. If you are a progressive in American politics today, you simply have to price in the relentless opposition of the oligarch media.

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

Doesn't Seattle hate Starbucks anyway?

Really is crazy that The Odyssey — one of the most popular written works in history — was authored by someone who may or may not have existed lmao

The optics of this when we are in the midst of an economically ruinous war.

Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...

Never in my life have I seen such a perfect depiction of this moment in our history

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

Yeah I'm gonna say that fair or not AI will be like GMO or Nuclear in Europe politically. Incredible bag fumble by SV

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Congrats Cassidy I hope your dignity and professional integrity was worth losing in an utterly humiliating fashion.

This is what you're missing out on by not being on X. Well, this and thousands of bots sending you threats. On the isolated island of Bluesky, you can merely have informed conversations and organize political resistance. Obviously you should go back to X, where you can't do anything but read this.