Tell you what, my mood is wrecked

I need to know why @bsky.app has suspended Sarah Kendzior. I would like anyone, @aaron.bsky.team or @pfrazee.com or anyone at @support.bsky.team or @moderation.bsky.app can answer this question but I need to know. If it’s a non-answer I’m going to draw conclusions. We all know her work. Explain.

I used to like it here.

First sentence of a story I’m finishing today: “She appeared like a mirage in the coffee line, a sunny blonde echo from the past.”

Hello @support.bsky.team I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended. Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable. cc: @jay.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team

<joyce carol oates voice> en garde--i'll let you try my wu tang style

Comrades, it’s time for another thread about lessons I learned as a union organizer writing/working campaigns for public employees across multiple states from 2008-2024. Here’s a big one: leaders of progressive organizations are often FAR more conservative and risk-averse than their base 🧵 1/x

Just watched one dog eat an entire paper towel while the other dog refused to get off my lap so I could go and prevent it — they’re acting in concert now

I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery

Got a short story deadline tomorrow so naturally I’ve chosen today to go through every stitch of clothing in the house and sort into repair-donate-replace-store-discard piles

I like it when they go WE WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING FOR YOU in the exact moment that they are stopping fighting for me

Update: this did nothing for our constitutional troubles but, on the other hand, did wonders for my mood and general sense of well-being

I think I’ll clean my house obsessively for a few hours and see if that fixes any of the problems

LESS. THAN. A. WEEK. Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop. I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.

I'm legitimately confused about the play here. No person who now is going to go without coverage in the ACA is going to just blame the GOP. They will rightly blame the Democrats too. Dems won't get "points" for "fighting" if they cave. It makes little sense.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Genuinely, what is the use of a group of people who will not even work to ensure THEIR OWN survival, much less that of constituents or targeted communities? It's beneath contempt.

What I'll never understand abt "moderate" Dem enthusiasm for risking it all to do a deal w Republicans is that the regime has ALREADY SHOWN that they will act in defiance of existing civil rights & appropriations laws. Why on earth would you expect them to comply with the stipulations of any deal?

I want to be clear I am not speaking from opinion or principle, because we don't do that. It is not our business. Our business is politics, and this is malpractice on the scale of turning left from home plate. The public's standard is low: swing and get knocked down. But you have to keep swinging.

“Everybody will get to see us standing up for them and losing badly” will surely be a winning 2026 message

Wow, to know it was only four brief days ago when I felt exultant

What I wouldn’t give for a parliamentary republic with proportional representation right about now

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Do they apply his spray tan in a wind tunnel?

We need many more trains.

This morning, I spoke at the SOMOS Labor Breakfast. "We are not looking to remake New York City in my image. We are looking to remake it in the image of struggling workers across the five boroughs."

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

Was just checking to see where I am and noticed that “gulf of America” bullshit. Man, he really needs to get the f*ck out of office. His dirty fingerprints are on too many things.

I’m glad Elon Musk is a sad lonely bitch. Love that for him

Boys who think girls want to watch a Tarantino movie at 1am are running our government

Andrew Cuomo warned that if “the socialist wing wins, the Democratic Party dies.” After Zohran Mamdani’s landslide in NYC, @milesklassin.bsky.social argues it might finally be time to build something new. inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files. Change my mind.

No one will believe us when we tell this story in 20 years

Better for who, Economist? BETTER FOR WHO

one of my spicy takes, for example, is that limits on strikes are unconstitutional under the 13th Amendment, because if we have a right to be free from forced labor, we must necessarily have a right to stop working and negotiate the conditions of our labor

My take today is this: everyone who dismissed and belittled No Kings as “performative” and “not going to move the needle” etc etc needs to take a seat and start listening to political organizers who know what they’re doing. There’s a direct link between No Kings and white rural areas shifting left

OK, I have a day long convening today so gotta bounce. If you live in NYC, don't stop organizing. This is a beginning and each of us needs to work with others to bring about a better city that actually works for all of us. I'm looking forward to continuing to focus on our libraries & more.

Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani are all going to out-live Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Theil, Bill Ackman, and most of the other oligarchs who have looted our political system for their gain. And so are most of us. Plan big. Organize even bigger.

there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics

BLUESKY ELDER ELECTED NYC MAYOR

Been hearing about how we need a "Democratic Joe Rogan" but have you considered we need a Democratic Zohran Mamdani?

I swooned, have not recovered, I’ve sent for the smelling salts

Look at it. It’s so pretty

Zohran dropping a EUGENE DEBS QUOTE right out the gate?!?! 😳😱

CLEAN SWEEP

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

[Exit Clown.]

True justice would be if Klein, Yglesias, the Pod Bros, and all of the white dude pundits would take a 4 year sabbatical from commenting on politics.