What if... and hear me out here... we voted for politicians that actually answer questions about their policy positions

i know it's fun to dunk on third way on here but how can you be third way and be mad at people who are proposing a third way (grist.org/politics/gre...)

one thing about me is i just tried to find spam the canned meat in the international/asian aisle

if we're going to call neurodivergent people neurospicy, can we start calling neurotypical people neurobland

An opposition party would not be on vacation right now. They would have coordinated message to the public about the fact that a President in cognitive decline is threatening more war crimes. They would be BLASTING the message on all available platforms.

If you think protesting will be ineffective, can you imagine how ineffective NOT protesting would be?

🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today. That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings

Apparently Google has only partially updated its satellite photos of Gaza, so there are currently these weird images where whatever algorithm they use is utterly failing to blend before and after shots

last week a plainclothes policeman violently assaulted children who were staging a walkout to protest ICE and i keep seeing people say "well these kids just wanted to skip class" and as an organizer i wanna remind us that people come to movements from self-interest and that's not a bad thing

"If we continue prioritizing funders over voters, we’ll continue yielding expensive defeats."

OPINION: Let Bucks County Voters Have a True Choice in May’s Elections | Sarah Baik believes it's time to put the small "d" democratic back in the big "D" Democratic primaries.

feels notable because the center-left Dem so often whines about it when they lose to a progressive, I appreciate that Malinowski despite the conditions of the race is throwing support behind Mejia in the same way progressives who lose are without fail expected to fall in line behind a centrist

Could @luciaforcongress.com be the next @analiliafornj.bsky.social, a progressive organizer from New Jersey who appears on the brink of cementing victory against establishment candidate and former Rep. Tom Malinowski? Lucia walks her talk and she knows what she is talking about.

i was lucky enough to participate in this as a volunteer last year and this year i'll be facilitating it! if you believe fundraising can be an invitation into our movements and you want to hang out with the sharpest donor organizers i know, this is where you wanna be 🔥🔥🔥

went and spoke at a philanthropy conference today with a lot of lovely people and somehow i may have been the only panelist to bring up the imminent threat to american democracy ?

man just one or two more posts and I'm gonna fix american leftwing politics i can feel it

genuinely i will defend EAs on a lot of things but it's hard when they love nothing more than digging their own grave and then wondering why everyone thinks they're dead

we are going to win

it'll be interesting to see the tarrant county exit polls but there's something icky about Pundit Class immediately jumping to "texas +30 for dems!!!", as if the electorate is an inanimate mass that sways from one side of the imaginary left-right spectrum to the other

“If (Taylor Rehmet) were to lose by six points, that’d be worth talking about,” one political expert told me ahead of last night's race. “And if Rehmet were to win? You’d say, ‘Holy shit.’” Rehmet won by 14 points.

hate to say it but these guys somehow have a more coherent strategy than the online leftists instagramming about a general strike

This is physically unsustainable for all life on earth. The plans for data centers - if they succeed - guarantee that we burn the world down and blow every climate tipping point. The fierce debate here is not just about "speed" but about who gets to decide and how we plan the entire economy.

If you have friends in tech, ask them to sign onto this letter demanding that CEOs speak out against the Pillsbury Proud Boys rampaging in our streets and that the firms cut ties with ICE iceout.tech

yet another day where i wish the left was as well-organized as fox news claims we are

Indivisible has a tool here with a call script: indivisible.org/actions/ice-...

ok i've been spending more time on tiktok and ig reels for research purposes and sad to say i have missed out on so many good memes by being mostly a bsky user for the past few months. how did no one on here tell me about "you've met me at a very chinese time in my life"

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

ok abolish ICE but if ICE is gonna go somewhere i sure as hell want to see them try philly. i've been in a few local meetings now with suburban grandmas who are pissed as hell. the black panthers are out in the city doing armed security. this is the top comment on the r/pennsylvania post about ICE

yesterday i got an instagram ad titled "coal mining asmr" that was just a bunch of videos from inside a coal mine and i'm not really sure what all this portends

Re: MLK Jr Day I think about this quote often, certainly with respect to racism but also now whats happening in Minneapolis, with climate, with many if not all our society’s ills in trying to build the coalition necessary to fight them

"days since a well meaning white person has asked me if im old enough to vote" counter reset to 0 today

I’m the one in the brown hat. What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs. Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car. #AbolishICE

i don't understand the 2016 meme. you wish to return to 2016? the year we all died and went to hell? the year the fabric of reality tore, revealing the terrible void beneath? the year of our spiral into despair and nothingness? the year of the angry birds movie?

i would love to uplift antiwar / diaspora organizing around venezuela and iran, but don't know of any in my networks -- bsky friends, who's doing internationalist organizing you trust these days?

Insights from @amyaharder.bsky.social on where we're heading right now with power supply for US data centers, based on BloombergNEF forecasts. Big fossil gas power increase on the PJM grid (midAtlantic & midwest), locking in decades of climate-disrupting infrastructure, unless action is taken.

Today marks the 16th anniversary of the disastrous Citizens United decision. To save democracy we must get dark money out of politics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPAV...

Anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis today

If your bar for success is "stopping a superpower led by fascists" then you're only setting yourself up to fail. It's a form of doomerism. Instead set the bar at "how can I get 2 of my friends involved to do 1 positive thing together". We win because there's many of us, each playing a small part.

"it's new year's eve, not new year's steve" - boring, overdone. have you considered: "it's new year's eve, not new year's jeeves" - no asks allowed (we're all old enough on this website to get this) "it's new year's eve, not new year's peeve" - please do not piss me off this early into 2026

some personal news: if anyone else called me to say "hi I'm running for Congress, will you move across the country to help" I'd say "no lol ur delusional" but it was Lucia so I said "yes duh" drop a follow, help bring a climate policy expert + the kindest, most principled human I know to Congress

I highly recommend adding a paid subscription to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for next year. Her posts keep me informed, grounded, and hopeful amid all the chaos and pain.

thread for restoring your faith in humanity this year

“.. The astounding haul hints at a level of transactionalism for which it is difficult to find obvious comparisons in modern American history.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The citywide outage is San Francisco is going to be the straw that broke PG&E's stranglehold on California politics. Here's my state Senator calling for public ownership- not just for San Francisco but all of PG&E statewide. The future is public and that's what @publicgrids.org is for.

i love my team!!

extremely ominous that on my last day in san francisco the power goes out in 30% of the city and i have to finish moving out in total darkness 👍