Yeah, one thing about abundance is that it was pretty obviously crafted as an approach for *a party in power*. But then Harris lost and the printing presses ran anyway. So it was retconned from *policy* proposals into *campaign* proposals, which, as you can see, are weak.

Meanwhile the Pete Hegseth sideplot

I continue to find it fascinating how people continue to ascribe a political coherence on the West Wing that the show absolutely does not have!

i now believe in the Chinese century

the middlebrow is lost; the highbrow and lowbrow contain our only hope.

harry reid straight up said "mitt romney cheats on his taxes and i can prove it," and he didn't cheat, and he couldn't prove it, and it was a story for almost a month, and the democrats somehow did not learn that they can just say "donald trump is a pedophile"

“How can you fix the media environment“ most tech or media companies are in California, Washington, or New York and are led by obvious criminals.

this guy sold me $15 worth of a nug that looked like rock candy

we're like the Amish preserving the cultural peak of society

Soft as shit PMC dudes insisting that the future of Dem politics is not PMC and PMC adjacent feminine coded jobs but rather white men in hard hats is a non-zero portion of why we continue to be in this mess

to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

doug ford vs trump is a great little exhibit on what will happen when Nationalist International actually take power

clippy was AI! it was a bayesian modeling approach. magnus919.com/2025/05/the-...

Doctors, lawyers, and engineers on culturally conservative white working class: these guys are so rugged and masculine… do I have a crush? Culturally conservative white working class on doctors, lawyers, and engineers: look, these guys are all Jews

we're so screwed

is zen browser better than edge yet

I wonder why the directors chose this. super shitty choice. Like why am i supposed to care about this its amerikkka’s WHITE house. smh normies dont care

The SS totenkopf is probably the ugliest and least pleasant skull and crossbones to boot

One more thing and then I’ll stop - Being a Marine veteran and then an oyster farm owner/operator are both life choices that frankly could be seen as every bit as affected and resume padding for politics as going to law school and working at McKinsey

If you substitute harvard law for any college education this description just describes your average democratic voter. Not hard to find at all!

A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission) Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.

Sharing sincere recommendations of things to read/listen to/watch is a good use of social media! Every rec is a blow against the slop machine, which wants you to zone out and watch CGI dogs rescue babies or whatever.

Fun Star Wars knock off The Humanoid (1979) directed by Aldo Lado and starring Richard Kiel, Corinne Cléry, Leonard Mann, Barbara Bach. Music by Ennio Morricone.

I don't think a protest can serve as a heat sink when things are this bad. Nobody went home and reset. People are angrier than they've ever been, and now they've seen with their own eyes that there are millions more who feel the same.

Twitter used to be the place where reporter talked to experts in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, law, medicine, etc., but the experts all left but reporters did not. Now reporters only talk to guys who do computers (but haven't coded in at least a decade). It shows.

The Holocaust was the result of a thousand years of European antisemitism, built up over a decade by a fascist regime that made genocide its first priority. We are going to kill 14 million people because one Nazi-following weirdo with an overpriced car company was briefly popular with Donald Trump.

it's really great that the sneering editorial tone of the ideology comes in left, right, and centrist flavors, all of which reflect the nepotistic preferences of its ownership

it should probably be noted those are actual specific americans marching for their rights in the diarrhea video, not just randomly generated ai people

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

100% man it is a bit alarming to me how easy this "getting energized" stuff is when you can see if all around you as plain as day. When you're elbow to elbow with people just as scared and angry and stubborn as you. You feel like you could do it all by yourself, which is stupid, but also feels true

to this i would add a good amount of self-loathing stemming from a belief that liberal political views are somehow “inauthentic” or an affectation of “elites”

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

Guys who crawled up into fame by running small businesses and mastering SEO and cloutchasing being more right wing than people who mastered a collaborative art form seems pretty intuitive to me

the US govt has mounted a repeal of the right to culture. There is simply no other way to understand dismantling Dept of Ed, PBS, NPR, NEH, NEA + IMLS, defunding universities, censorship of artists, attack on equal access to institutions,+ erosion of free speech. hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

the media melted down over hillary having an incredibly humanitarian charitable foundation

My ★★★★★ review of Prince of Darkness on Letterboxd boxd.it/bnTwQD

Cartman colored hat in The Fly

we do all this abstract talking about edpol etc to discuss how the parties changed but mostly that just means that republicans who said "why don't we just nuke iraq" are now in charge

Republicans lose cities by massive margins and their response is to defund the cities Democrats lose rural areas by massive margins and their response is to increase rural funding

Why are people coming to blue sky again? They realized nazis are bad?

the thing is, i think pete is fundamentally right: after the chaos of trump II, there will be an opportunity to rebuild things which have been broken for a long time. but doing that *well* will require a deeper analysis of what's gone wrong in our country. www.liberalcurrents.com/reforging-am...

it comes for us all, alas

I've said this before, but one of the more striking things about the current generation of righties is that they really show no sign of understanding that there's a world *beyond* their screens, beyond owning & being owned on social media. A real world, with real people & real problems.

Idly wondering what a public health campaign on this would look like, and why stuff we tried for, eg, drink driving, isn't being used.