This mode of white male identity politics often gets conflated with class politics. It happens because signifiers of working-class identity are inherently ambiguous, and underspecified populist discursive categories like "the people" and the "establishment" strategically enable this conflation.

"This keeps happening" can quickly become "this always happens" and then "it's always been this way," until you're locked into a sense of permanence and inevitability that have been manufactured by the oppressor.

umm actually the concept of fun was invented by the elites to distract you from the fact that your life is miserable and meaningless

I don’t think BlueSky is dying but I do think it‘s stagnant because there are only so many unpleasant terminally online politically hyper-engaged left of center aging millennials with personality disorders and a history of underachievement to draw from. We’re pretty much all here already.

you know how that song goes: fuck trump, fuck ice-

hey re: world historic events, just let me know if somethin changes. i'm not interested in stuff that almost happened or whatever. im busy

if you want leftist votes, then you have to give concessions to leftist voters. it's really that simple.

this is so bizarro, our country is so broken

From this article: When party loyalty becomes the primary argument for a candidate, rather than what that candidate will actually do in office, we end up with more of the same. We cannot expect different results from the same people making the same compromises. buckscountybeacon.com/2026/05/buck...

going "AI is a brainrot lie machine" at people is all well and good for bsky academics but increasingly out of touch with how regular people use LLM tools, flawed or not, to make their lives easier

another example: it is possible to talk about climate in a way that resonates with what ordinary people care about. instead the democratic party is endorsing the guy who wants amazon to raise your utility bills

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

while we're complaining about things democrats talk about too much, one thing i've been thinking about recently is how unions represent one tenth of workers but are still fetishized by democrats as if they represent "working people"

I wonder what the world would look like if we had gotten a green new deal instead of an "inflation reduction act" designed to have no enemies and make no allies

if i had a nickel for every time a voter told me "ahhhh wow i so totally personally support X but X can't win an election" i would have enough nickels to win an election

There's no competent opposition party in the US that can narrate what's happening coherently for a general public.

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

Please spread among Google workers far and wide: www.googlers-against-ice.com

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

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