The city of Long Beach blocked the local Pride festival from taking place, saying organizers didn’t meet safety criteria and put on a free event instead. Pride events are losing corporate sponsors and face increasing police cost burdens — something protests don’t normally deal with.

18 months of cash reserves is completely unrealistic. It’s a reminder that we must create a real unemployment insurance system that pays people their lost wages for at least two to three years.

Trump proposes annexing Venezuela, making it the 51st state. Since Maduro armed 4-5 million communists there before he was kidnapped, maybe this would produce positive change to America.

James Clyburn was instrumental in getting Joe Biden the 2020 Democratic nomination. Now, that fateful decision helped spark a series of events that may horrifically culminate in Clyburn’s district — along with nearly all Black representation in the South — being destroyed while U.S. democracy dies.

The entire premise of this guy's piece, like so many "Dems need to stop talking about [issue]" pieces, is built on a version of the Democratic Party that doesn't exist. They're already doing the thing you're telling them they need to do. They're already largely ignoring this issue in campaigns.

Radiant Mobile says it will filter “harmful” material, including LGBTQ+ content, from phones on its service plans.

Everyone loves to talk endlessly about Pluto but they never discuss Eris. Eris is the more massive body, it is just as worthy of discussion. It would be amazing if we could ever send a prob to it.

Many wish to forget about Joe Biden. Yet, we mustn’t. Compromise for compromise sake. Camaraderie with segregationists. Getting into bed with big business. Whitewashing genocide. Biden’s claim GOP would have an epiphany is another reminder that his kind of politics helped get us here.

Miami Beach elected officials are out of control. From sending police to rival’s homes over Facebook posts, trying to close down theaters, to personally paying for billboards targeting individual members of the Jewish community — this is war on free speech. These guys must be removed from office.

Oh no, students are finding ways to game a rigged system. Grades outside pass/fail are inherently problematic. More students getting As reduces the myth of top students vs everybody else. Perhaps employers should stop treating each job opening as an executive search and start hiring via lottery.

Rhode Island district judge Mary Mcelroy has quashed the subpoena from the DOJ seeking to access the medical records of trans youth. She enjoined DOJ as well. She calls DOJ "untrustworthy" and DOJ misrepresented and withheld information from the court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Alligator Auschwitz slated to close, possible because DeSantis knows Congress is on the verge of switching parties and he needs time to destroy the evidence. It won’t be enough to stop what’s heading their way. These crimes carry the heaviest of penalties.

This could have been a meeting between two great nations, but in just a year and a half, Trump’s actions have turned this into a meeting of a declining empire traveling to have talks with a rising power.

The company Opexus finds out twin brothers they hired had a criminal past, and so for that alone fired them. The twins appeared to then wipe 96 government databases the company was running. An important lesson that real power is in the hands of workers.

Not all of us are looking to stop at raising their taxes.

The billionaires should get on their knees and thank us that all we’re asking for is higher taxes and not guillotines

The next time someone tells you, only one party has insane corrupt politicians, remember Democrats still have Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick. This is insane. Besides Elijah Manley is the best candidate in that race.

Abdul El-Sayed went to medical school, did a residency, and has served as a professor of epidemiology. Stories like this are absurd. It makes no sense for him to maintain a medical license as he doesn’t directly treat patients anymore. Meanwhile RFK JR can do whatever he wants to medicine 🤦‍♂️

Graham Platner wanted to shift the gas tax from drivers to oil companies and was lampooned on here. Well, are people gonna go after Florida Dems who advocate a gas tax suspension with no new revenue from oil companies? Suspending the gas tax by itself is a reckless idea. Will liberals call it out?

AI layoffs are not generating the returns investors thought they’d get. Well the good news is it is certainly waking office workers up to the reality that they are just replaceable cogs who better unionize asap.

So Trump wants to suspend the gas tax completely while Graham Platner wants to move from a gas tax to a oil profit tax. These are not the same thing. Also, only one of these two men started a war with Iran. (Hint: It wasn’t Platner.)

Moving the tax burden from a per gallon gas/diesel tax to a per barrel 50% of the profit tax is an interesting concept. Will Graham Platner’s plan work? Well I don’t know. I get his goal is to lower the burden on workers and place it on big business.

"We don’t need reasonable and nonpartisan now. We need unreasonable partisan demands rammed through however we can."

Cry babies and criminals

Not shocked.

Meta denies claims it unfairly targets LGBTQ+ users as critics point to suspended queer and sexual wellness accounts.

Great piece uplifting Hasan Piker’s great work supporting Cori Bush. We need more people like Cori Bush, Graham Platner, and Zohran Mamdani in office and it looks like that’s exactly what’s happening this election.

DeSantis signs bill that will allegedly prevent the public from bearing the electricity and water costs of new data centers. It’s unclear if it will really do that, but what we can see for sure is Ron DeSantis is about to run — again — for president.

Florida — and the U.S. — is fast approaching $5 a gallon gas. Really happy I drive an electric.

Eat the rich. “Facing the prospect of paying a bit more in taxes, billionaires are responding calmly and rationally: by calling themselves a marginalized, oppressed minority group being traumatized.”

Blue MAGA: Litmus tests are UNACCEPTABLE! Also Blue MAGA: Let me tell you all the reasons Graham Platner is bad.

Democrats don’t really need to do redistricting to win. Though the GOP’s naked effort to gerrymander to stop the tidal wave that’s coming is something that could end democracy. This is how civil wars start!

Great to see Vox dispel misinformation around hantavirus. Too many people try to push pandemic hysteria without scientific evidence. If you felt we should listen to health experts about vaccines and masking, then maybe you should listen to them now. 🤷‍♂️

Graham Platner proposes electricity rate freeze as part of broader clean energy reforms.

No joke Roger Stone just was wondering around in front of my car. Why he has a full suit on in Fort Lauderdale at 9:30 in the morning is beyond me.

Even if private universities do not pay property taxes, we can adopt a model to fairly tax their endowment and better fund our public schools. Our Providence Public Schools deserve greater investments and our private universities can help!

Jobs report is: 110,000 new jobs. The big concern is the number of short term unemployed increased 358,000 while long term unemployed is unchanged. These datapoints are concerning as they could conflict or that new job seekers are finding work while current workers are losing employment.

Ok econ nerds, economists predict 55,000 jobs this morning in the next jobs report. I could see that but wouldn’t be surprised if immigration “enforcement” (harassment) and increased migration out of the U.S. by US citizens shows minor contraction.

Social media’s possible demise it not a good thing. It once offered commentators, reporters, and activists a path to getting their thoughts out without gatekeepers. Allowing new movements to flourish. It’s sad to see that era appears to be over.

They are not the only ones. I just don’t use social media like I once did. Where once it was this cool place I would get all interested in, now it’s primarily a journal of my thoughts on articles I’ll never reread and forget about in a week.

Even if I liked Shapiro I would still say what I’m about to say: Democrats have been over performing by roughly 20 points in special elections. The Dem will over perform in this race not because of Shapiro but because of that one simple fact. These kinds of articles just feel like vanity projects.

Blue MAGA really is having a meltdown over Graham Platner on here. The hostility toward a veteran who clearly had to process the trauma of war and the crimes our nation inflicts on the globe is appalling. Instead of directing resentment at them, look at the criminals who started these wars

So @thomaszimmer.bsky.social blocked me because even though I kept saying I didn’t have a problem or indictment against him, I question if the U.S. is a democracy. I tire of cry baby liberals. I am increasingly finding Bluesky to be so out of touch. Somehow I like TikTok more.

Yeah, Karl Polanyi just wanted to huge it out with the satanic mills he wrote about. While Marx and Lenin only saw the good within the hearts of the bourgeoisie.

Could you imagine liberals having to deal with the reality that leftists would always have at least a couple seats at the table? They would lose their minds. Which might be why they always try to pretend this option doesn’t exist.

District representation is undemocratic and will always over represent the interests of the landed gentry and the business class. You can’t gerrymander a proportional representation legislature. A party gets X seats based on the number of votes they get. It encourages coalitions not duopolies.

Graham Platner is campaigning on a billionaire minimum tax. A tax that billionaires must pay at least X amount no matter what. Fetterman never campaigned on anything like that. 💅

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

Youth take overs — when hundreds even thousands of teenagers occupy a public space — must drive boomers and politicians mad. So naturally, I love the chaos of all this. Teens have no other option than to take over space in our capitalist hellscape. These minor acts of revolution give me hope. 🌹

Piece of work Ken Griffin “doubles down” … aka had already decided to do something regardless of who the mayor of NYC is and just using Mamdani as an excuse for clickbait. Can’t wait to launch a campaign to raise his taxes in Miami.