Mainstream parties have to know this is the normal now. It’s not going away. U can’t mollify these people & then they calm down. They aren’t good faith. They need to be stopped & prosecuted. The boundaries of civilised behaviour must be clear, beyond which you will face life changing consequences

Elon Musk is unambiguously calling for a violent race war. This is far from unprecedented. The Rwandan Genocide was stoked and enabled by Felicien Kabuga, the wealthy owner of the RTLM radio station that helped coordinate the genocide and used euphemisms like "go to work" to signal attacks.

Forcing immigrant detainees to work for their captors isn’t just exploitative It’s unconstitutional Trump's policies are dramatically expanding both the immigration detention population and the nation’s Thirteenth Amendment crisis ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

hell yeah we got the existence of blues, pinks, and purples in the national divorce let's goooooooooooo

Astronaut: Sky's trans. Scientist: what Astronaut: *picking up diy hrt kit and climbing back in capsule* Sky's trans

when you point out that native-born white working class men are a small minority of a majority female, disproportionately BIPOC, and disproportionately immigrant working class... even if Platner were working class, he still wouldn't be representative of the working class and its interests

Poor and working men are meant to have women of their class to abuse and dominate as compensation for the exploitations and humiliations of capital. When you point out that allowing this is a violation of class solidarity working class women, you’re accused of siding with management’s interests.

A bunch of people on this site are being stupidly literal about the "HR lady" thing. It's not just about HR depts! It's about this idea -- absolutely ubiquitous over on X & in tech company boardrooms -- that bold, risk-taking "masculine energy" is being restrained by niggling nanny-state rules.

Give me the most 80s song you can think of I’ll go again: Exposé - Let Me Be the One youtu.be/BR4cR9CeLi0?...

We’re going to hear these guys dropping references to the Longhouse soon at this rate

Part of the problem with the narrative is it obscures other possibilities: its faith, not works. It’s a binary instead of the long spectrum of *being,* day by day, a better person. It presents goodness as inert: a static condition. Yr found? That’s nice. Show us. Then do so again tomorrow.

Oh excellent, American children these days are far too coddled and cosseted, some traumatization will do well to prepare them for the coming century.

The most 80s song you can think of: The saxiest sax that ever saxed (paired with a fretless bass): Icehouse - Don’t Believe Anymore

The downside to having a MAGA themed Tomodachi Life island is I’m hyper aware of all of their birthdays. (The news anchor here is Trump and Melania’s in-game daughter)

For Pride I ask you to look at what I think is one of the most powerful pieces of queer art. Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers) By John Boskovich

Awww people who voted for twump thwee times are just lil guys, they got twicked

it is insanely jokerfying being confronted with what these people think of my own mother, a professional-class working mom from the moment of my birth

Platner winning would be the "natural order" reasserting itself and these guys keep entrenching as the allegations get *more* gendered because patriarchy is the most important part of the "natural order" reasserting itself

Hr looms so large in the imagination of these guys that don't even have real jobs.

turns out having a functional theory of how fascists operate to attack and scapegoat vulnerable minorities is kind of a superpower these aren't people driven by "backlash" or "reasonable concerns," they are aggressors looking for a target

Part of what is going on is, I think, an overindexing on the act of software production itself as the source of economic power of the last two decades and not all of the associated scaffolding of capital and law.

He *went to war to kill people for fun* multiple times in the colonial wars he stans. That’s more than Horst Wessel ever managed. There are non-zero odds he committed war crimes like Eddie Gallagher & the other Blackwater guys.

I miss when every election didn’t seem like the trolley problem.

After Swalwell and Platner, I think the thing to do is find anyone Ruben Gallego has vehemently endorsed and see if their wives and partners are OK.

I feel like the frequency with which the super pro-Platner people say "look, we know he's a big dummy..." should really count for something.

get in folks we're taking our family annihilation rates - to the moon

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

The “ai wearable” at work and the luxury surveillance pendant, glasses, ring, and necklace are the two prongs of an all-out assault on the idea that people should ever have any freedom from ubiquitous tracking and recording.

Trump's pick of Bill Pulte as DNI is worse than you think. It hands the "vast powers" of our "national security apparatus" to the guy who's working to jail Trump's enemies, says @leahlitman.bsky.social, and that's "terrifying." On the pod, Litman pulls no punches: newrepublic.com/article/2112...

Taps The Sign: The expansion of the right to vote to women and the eighteen year old depends on the “appropriate legislation” of 13th,14th and 15th Amendments.

you already know Alito & Roberts hate the VRA but it wasn't enough for them to kill the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement Callais hollows out the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment in order to ensure that no other civil rights law gets the chance to live ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

“Go to sleep, we won’t know anything tonight”-these are statements from people who want you to not know. They’re going to stay up and know before you.

Some fun context about the Palo Alto police department: Just last week the city finally won a lawsuit where 6 Palo Alto police officers said they had been injured by having to see a Black Lives Matter mural - one even had to go to the emergency room. padailypost.com/2026/05/29/a...

We’re dealing with deliberate disinformation being disseminated by a media person with a (unearned!) trust factor, to an audience that rarely questions narratives from media figures they trust.

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

This will not end w/ voting rights. The fundamental premises of these SCOTUS opinions are: 1) Anti-discrimination is actually unconstitutional discrimination; 2) Intentional discrimination isn't actionable if any alternative rationale is presented. It's the beginning of the end of civil rights law.

Today's moment of gender...

This sounds like AI could be effective in reifying social caste and in making it much more difficult to use education to successfully challenge and/or move up said castes as critical thinking becomes privileged This shit is education Sunny D. How American. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

Your officers kettled them. Which you know & either ordered, or condone. It is not remotely unreasonable to wear helmets to protests. Not when officers deliberately and with malice aforethought aim for eyes and heads. It is not unreasonable to protect against chemical weapons outlawed by Geneva.

Joe Rogan and Dr. Oz join the island #TomodachiLife

patriarchy, like white supremacy, is not "natural," as much as its practitioners insist it is. and of course, most of the time "natural" = "biblical." it is a system of power. it's a choice. it just becomes wallpaper because it's so endemic, but it's weird! we can make other choices! Égalité!

Because MAGA is a war of men against women--against anything linked to despised and stigmatized femininity. The GOP is a phallocracy and they have a million ways to signal that, from the panic about "mutilizing your children" to Trump appointing penis experts to key federal posts (literally).

I would be remiss not to point out that "Tricking Milli Vanilli into performing a concert for a dictator" is LITERALLY a storyline from the 1990s 'Super Mario Bros 3' cartoon 🙃

don’t talk to me until ive had my

"An HHS spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. Prasad did not immediately respond to a request for comment. " Just unbefuckinglievable. Prasad should never be able to eat in public or get paid work again.

destroy social space both offline and online, the kind that is conducive to organizational politics in both neighbourhoods and workplaces, and funnel everyone into the global system of text-image discourse, surveillance, & data harvesting. even resistance is funnelled through it

we will probably remember social media as the most effective left/liberal-defanging technology in human history. every time i see the trump admin just doing stuff so confidently knowing that they won't face meaningful opposition i remember how much social media platform tech capital backs them

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