If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media

This. It wasn't a failure in its true purpose.

This is embarrassing. Toronto looks like an amateur team compared to the crispness and speed of Montreal.

Money has always flowed in loops. It's just more noticeable now that three people have all of it.

The shell game of capitalism becomes easier to see the closer we get to the end game, when there are only 3 companies left.

Seeking asylum because you hate asylum seekers

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

The old guard has to go.

Hi, Jean. My friend is a Nigerian prince who needs to urgently retrieve $1,000,000 from an abandoned trust from his father. If you can wire $5,000 today, you will be entitled to 35% of the trust. Please reply at your earliest convenience.

AOC needs to primary Schumer.

The sheer failure to understand the stakes...

So fucking let the Republicans own it!

'at this point' was 40+ years ago.

I called them both! New Yorkers, so should you (To reach your state's senators, you can always go through the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121)

Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Yes really — the “we asked this guy. He doesn’t actually know jack shit but he’s rich” model of reportage really needs to go

How can you not be radicalized.

Digital calipers

Zuckerberg taps out. Admits he doesn't have the mind, creativity, or patience to do the hard, messy things that truly matter. Never let the private sector claim to own complexity and innovation. They can't handle what we do. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...

if we elect a muslim socialist as mayor of new york city on the same day dick cheney died i’ll never take another note from a development exec telling me a plot point was “too on the nose”

So... Somehow Marner /was/ the Leafs?

Complete insanity. Right in front of her daughter. This thug has no ID or anything. What are we doing?

Hey guess what, forcing engineers to use tools they hate hurts their morale, and job satisfaction is a key component of productivity.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Dalio: Looks at the greatest concentration of wealth ever from the biggest theft ever. Concludes the resulting instability is because the 'bottom' 60% are a drag on the 'top' 5%. Forest-for-the-trees, galaxy-brained thinking there. Capitalist blinders working overtime. share.google/5P2GQBwOsZKc...

I have high hopes for New York re: resisting ICE. First, we've seen what they've done to LA and Chicago, so we're ready. Second, doesn't matter who you are, you don't fuck with New York.

So... How are we doing to repurpose this space when we win? Free clinic? Union Hall? Teach ins? Graffiti installations?

No Kings won't accomplish anything on its own. The point is to start training people to take the streets. To build comfort and skill for what's to come.

As big an Andor fan as the next person. But the fundraiser solidarity parts of me got *really* angry when Cassian welcomed Mon Mothma to the revolution. She's been in it the whole time! Paying your fucking salary! Spending every day surrounded by the enemy, doing the work. "Welcome." Fuck off.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

No, this is how Nazis talk in their own spaces. I don’t know abut this dude, but I never talked about gassing people and raping women when I was hanging out with my pals.

The owner of Twitter just reinstated the accounts of several Nazi who had been suspending for violating Twitter's rules about doxxing other users. Now here's another piece on Bluesky's intellectual diversity problem.

these really are unremarkable, opportunistic little shits who are broadly misrepresenting their energy-hoovering, money-losing algorithmic parrots to fleece investors, and take zero moral or ethical responsibility for ANY of their reckless decisions to rush undercooked product into mass adoption

‘This is not about me or the others from the flotilla. There are thousands of Palestinians, hundreds of whom are children, held without trial right now. The story is about international solidarity, people coming together to do the work governments are not doing.’ www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Republicans: Shooting Christian pastors is OK, Due process is overrated, & bombing Venezuelan boats is good! Young Republicans: We love H*tler, we should gas everyone who doesn't support us Democrats: No Kings, No H*tler Republicans: See that?? Democrats keep escalating the political rhetoric.

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began

Both arguments are still grounded in collective action and labor. One withholds. The other redirects.

Traditional follow the money arguments aren't sufficient for this moment. The corruption and enrichment is opportunistic, not central. Trump's driving force is power, revenge, and narcissism. Miller and Vought are genuinely evil. The folks making money off this are almost cutely passe.

This could be a powerful dissuasive unified message: doesn’t matter if you’re a low-level agent; if you participated in crackdowns on speech and unlawful arrests, we’ll fire you, investigate, bring charges. There’ll be commissions, special prosecutors. As long as it takes, we’ll pursue every person

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

The Far Right’s Obsession with Modern Architecture - failedarchitecture.com/the-far-righ... I know this isn't genocide, brownshirts, or civil war. But jeezus fuck is this a 30 story dogwhistle.

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party