...Also had this piece centering around Jim Croce’s poignant “Time In A Bottle”. While much is often said of the emotional depth Dave Goelz could bring to a song, Jim Henson could also bring an affecting aching quality to his vocals that penetrates deeply.

This, too, is Gender. If you’re a man who makes six figures but gets dirty while doing it you’re Authentically Working Class, but if you’re a woman who’s a teacher’s aide making below median wage you’re somehow An Elite.

One of my black pill moments was that Biden actually focused on lifting the lowest quartiles up at the expense of the rich and the online left screamed at him about student loan forgiveness.

BREAKING: @barackobama.bsky.social clarifies his position on aliens after his answer during the speed round of our interview went viral.

one thing I don't think leftist AI critics get is that it doesn't make you stronger at fighting capitalism if you think all bosses are idiots straight out of the noted leftist work, Dilbert

The first and biggest step to not being a rube for bigots with working class aesthetics is understanding that poverty and worker/boss dynamics do not really have an influence on people’s racist ideology or hate for women—or absence there of.

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Incredible how many people are just looking for the right boot to lick

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis. It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake. The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0 www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

Walz: "The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here. There's going to be accountability on things that happened, but one of them is the incredible and immense cost borne by the people of this state. The federal government needs to be responsible."

Bluesky "leftist": "Frederick Douglass wasn't literate enough to read and understand the Constitution. I am very smart and woke." Doing great folks, just great.

A *huge* undercurrent of a lot of content on sites like Insta & TikTok is a bunch of variances on the theme of "life sucks, ppl other than you have it better, you should be angry about it" & its split btwn ppl trying to sell ppl something or doing performative miserableness for clout. Horrible shit.

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

what is with these people and dogs?

lol

i hear you, but have you considered:

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Yall—

How did we get the NFL in the national divorce?

going great already lmfaoo

Social media addiction doesn't affect everyone the same, but for sure it has cooked some people's judgement to the point you should question their ability to manage any position of responsibility.

Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.

It'll really blow this guy's mind when he learns about this.

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥

I thing the point of confusion is that you people clearly are not going to do anything else, so the neoliberal here is quite reasonably reading this as a statement without actual content Notably there isn’t actually any additional or alternative strategy mentioned

The person trying to argue 50% of Americans are below the poverty line doing so while also failing to accurately perform basic math is basically bluesky.txt

krugman is spiking the football and doing an end zone dance

“.. Our BTC price target is 0.0. That’s not just for shock factor. It’s where the math takes us,” the strategist said, noting that Bitcoin has failed to function as a dollar hedge and instead operates as “a speculative instrument correlated to the Nasdaq.” #Bitcoin seekingalpha.com/news/4547997...

I do not think the National Weather Service or the Fish & Wildlife Service are beyond saving It’s weird how much this sort of crypto-Reaganism pervades ostensibly leftist rhetoric on here

Is there any bigger tell than a guy claiming some freakish behavior is something all men do?

The point is often the wrongness: you have to believe the obviously stupid thing in order to prove your commitment

I get that Occupy Wall Street was a formational experience for some people but it was a total and comprehensive failure, we’re now at peak oligarchy! “Your plan of winning voters to your side pales in comparison to my strategy of living in a tent and complaining about liberals”

I'm sorry some of you were deprived of the ability to die valiantly as a foreign volunteer for the Spanish communists by temporal circumstances but you don't have to make it everyone else's problem you know

to be kind of blunt, if the hardcore veteran activist organizer expertise that you bring results in "light a dumpster on fire, get mad that this is filmed" it's not really expertise anyone should respect, sorry. don't care how many little activism merit badges you have.

claiming your experience over the last 20 years of organizing maks you an authoritative source on what works is like wrapping a 20 year DoD career focused on counterinsurgency in 2026 and leveraging that experience as why anyone should listen to you

the jerk stop called

Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.

every epstein commentary is these immensely rich/powerful/influential people raving about what a genius epstein was, and every one of his emails is just “helo, my name jomfrie”

I keep reading Epstein's emails and my main takeaway is how many of the world's socioeconomic elites, especially Epstein, really were middling semiliterates

Ma'am you are spending 1/3 of your post-tax income on doordash

Theeere it is

my increasingly curmudgeonly take is that we all, in fact, have responsibilities. politics isn't an arena for self-actualization. it's an arena for public service. this is as true of voters as it is of politicians.

“-All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us”

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

Woke 2.0 is meme accounts saying Stephen Miller deserves “some sort of town square type punishment” Woke 1 is scolding that meme account because they forgot we are on stolen land, actually