ok unironically though...do people using Instagram for their business today understand that *Instagram has cut off almost all access if you don't have an account there* stop making walled gardens your base!!

I am the most special person. I have all the nice opinions and none of the bad ones. My life is very hard because of this. I suffer constantly for how empathetic and tuned in I am to the suffering of the people whose suffering matters the most. I also hate all the people that it’s good to hate

Right. The argument isn't, "be leftist on everything and you'll win." It's, "yes, let's be mindful about taking unpopular positions and not get bullied by litmus tests, but moderation as an end in itself is being oversold as a panacea and can very easily lead to unnecessary moral compromises."

Hey, so as a Jew I would consider it a personal favor if the "world's oldest Jewish newspaper" could avoid writing articles implying one can quantify Jewishness... ... let alone those that seem to imply the formula for quantification hinges on vocal support for the Israeli government's policies.

Wreck healthcare here Wreck healthcare there This regime wrecks and kills everywhere

"the farming conglomerate missed a regulator-imposed deadline to take action. At some point Taylor Farms directly spoke to the White House, and later the FDA and [CDC] were asked to defend their evidence. The back-and-forth ultimately kept the public in the dark an additional 60 hours"

i mean, it sucks and should be opposed by every member of congress to be clear, but "existential threat" is some uh...over-the-top language imo

it basically coordinates tech research and weapons development, with an emphasis on stuff like drones, as far as i can tell. creates an office at the pentagon and I think a similar one within the idf where this shared projects are managed.

Genuinely concerned about the potential leakage of the various forms of "bigotry is okay if you think they deserve it" from trans acceptance being conditional on leftist politics to antisemitism being okay if prefixed with "israel" to blatant misogyny being acceptable if prefixed with "white".

Ceterizine recall y'all "The recalled medication is distributed by Rising Pharma Holdings Inc. and comes in 100-tablet HDPE bottles with NDC number 16571-401-10. The affected lot numbers are GY825029, GY825030, GY825031, and GY825032, all with expiration dates of October 2028." #NEISvoid #MCAS

That said: liberal democracy is fucking hard and it has to be fought for pretty much every day. Ready to give up on that? I’m not

i think people look at homelessness as a relatively new phenomenon and reason backwards to think that in the Before Times, poor people must've all been able to afford houses/their own apartments etc. Most of the housing types the poor used were actually just outlawed (boarding houses, SROs etc)

you can dislike WS you can argue that Jews get a pass to make posts riffing on antisemitic stereotypes you can argue it isn’t up to non-Jews to decide whether edgy posts by Jews that invoke antisemitic stereotypes cross a line but a ton of people are instead picking “Watto was never antisemitic”

<health care lawyer> This is incredibly important: if you're in California or Minnesota and rely on Medicaid for health care, YOU ARE STILL COVERED. You should not delay care because of Oz's bullshit. </>

"Lived experience" is just a completely separate thing, though! Our lived experience (of crime, immigration, diversity) is not determined by objective data, nor is objective data derivable from it. That's literally why we gather objective data! I know you know this but I feel like I'm going crazy.

At first I thought responses to @whstancil.bsky.social sharing mainstream economic data were a kind of schtick, or performance. But the more I follow the deranged reactions he gets on here the more I'm coming to suspect that people genuinely do not understand the difference between data & anecdote.

People need to internalize that Farming is Not Gardening

“the two big things biden got right - afghanistan and stimulus - are the two things that buried him” remains one of the most blackpilling things ever for me

You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.

Getting into a time machine and offing whoever it was that decided “ethical porn” was about the content of the fantasy and not the treatment of the performers

"You were a giant idiot to ever trust us, the US Government" is a message that makes basically everything worse in some way or another.

I have to emphasize (this is something Aaron does a consistently good job noting and explaining, follow him!) that the Trump II immigration strategy has been to target people who have some sort of temporary-but-unambiguous legal status and try to transform them into undocumented folks via chicanery

The defining feature of American political discourse is that when liberals are out of step with public opinion it is understood as a failure of liberalism; when conservatives diverge from public opinion it is interpreted as an indictment of society.

The beginning of Eicha (Lamentations) which is read on Tisha B'Av which starts in 2026 on the evening of 22nd July. "How lonely sits the city that was full of people." BL Add MS 15283, 'Duke of Sussex's Portuguese Pentateuch', 1475 CE-1499 CE; Portugal (Lisbon); f.255r @blmedieval.bsky.social

A thing people also need to internalize is that the statements “the median home price has gone up significantly” and “the median household is much wealthier than it used to be” are identical statements, not oppositional statements

Stack. This is a bathroom. I need to wash my hands. Not everything cat-shaped is for cat.

"Why are you complaining, you guys own all the banks and Hollywood" is the main reason, built into the culture, even subconsciously, that antisemitism isn't really taken seriously. Christian politicians (liberal ones too) used "we love Israel" to deflect from this bigotry that never went away.

You know a story that starts this way is going to be good.

emma goldman famously said "if voting changed anything it would be illegal" and i think that the lengths to which republicans will now go to ensure that you cannot vote suggests that perhaps american anarchists should reevaluate their relationships to the ballot box

I think basically what made this work is that it was special, rather than the default. Once they were all episodes of a grander whole, it was just sprawling instead of a culmination.

hi yes "visually identified sex at birth" is just asking about what a baby's genitals look like and i think that's incredibly fucked up for anyone to ask

I’m not a formal thinker on the subject (interested to see where @hurricanexyz.bsky.social gets on it) but I feel like any new or substantially revised constitution has to rest on an executive impeachment and removal mechanism that is actually possible.

Just like this. Refuse to comply. Our organizations are made of us. If we don't participate when they choose hate? They adjust or they are replaced.

The daily fail has doctored an image from a queer positive book to do transphobic and homophobic fear-mongering: Daily Fail. Vs Original

Note that for lots of tests, designers have a choice between more false positives and more false negatives, and the designers will *choose* false positives because they lead to fewer problems than the alternative.

false positive | noun | a person or test result that is incorrectly classified as positive (as for the presence of a health condition) because of imperfect testing methods or procedures

They seem to have got stuck on “girls and women still face inequality and violence” (which is true) without either realising that while it manifests in a particular way it’s not unique and other groups face it too, or to have an understanding of being a woman that’s not based on being oppressed.

this is exactly it. "Trans women say they want to be women, therefore trans women cannot really be women, bc women know there is no happiness in our lives of pain and relentless martyrdom!" like just...tell your husband to do the washing up for once and leave people alone, ffs

You know a story that starts this way is going to be good.

One month later, here (where we live is our country) it is! www.liberalcurrents.com/here-where-w... @liberalcurrents.com @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com

"Okay look, yes, if you looked at my phone you would see some calls from some Sirens. But babe, I swear, I listened with my hands tied to the mast so I wouldn't fap or nothin', so it doesn't count"

HELOGUY2.BMF

matthew always brings the receipts

This week's review covers APRIL FOOL (1925), a dramedy set in a Jewish New York neighborhood concerning the life and love of an umbrella merchant. moviessilently.com/2026/07/20/a...

Fun fact: While Jews made up less than 1% of the population of Argentina, they comprised up to 12% of those disappeared during the Dirty War, due to the antisemitism of the right-wing junta and the association of Jews with leftism. More Jews were killed in the Argentine Dirty War than on 10/7/2023.

Like, thematically, Nolan is using the Odyssey to almost speak *as* 'western civilization' and then what he says is, "you men (very much *men*), with your violent inhospitality, your greed and appetites are what has destroyed civilization by breaking the bonds between people."

Another thank you from a state legislative campaign running in a deep red rural district! secure.actblue.com/donate/mo26h...

The opposite of Fascism is Democracy, not a specific policy set! And he’s clearly pursuing ‘dismantle the levers’ over any specific policy goal he might have had.

Incredible work