Capitalists have always used 'facial analysis' of one kind or another to decide who gets which jobs.

Always liked sphinxes since seeing Neverending Story as a kid. Can't think why.

It's important that everyone understand that Ross Douthat has never done anything *except* write slimy op-eds trying to smuggle far-right ideas into the mainstream. From college on. He's never had a real job. He has no skills, no expertise, nothing that would justify his position at the NYT.

X verstärkt rechtsradikale Inhalte. Neue Recherchen aus UK belegen das mal wieder. Ich kann nicht mehr nachvollziehen, warum die EU-Kommission nicht konsequent mit dem DSA gegen Elon Musk vorgeht. Und warum noch demokratische Akteure auf X aktiv sind. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

Personally, I wouldn't buy a house in which no murders had ever happened.

Islamophobes deny Islamophobia exists while simultaneously taking it for granted that Muslim = antisemitic.

A hundred years ago, you say? Hm, like around 1920 when women got the vote? When Tucker’s great grandma was wearing flapper dresses, dancing the Charleston to that degenerate Jazz music, and scandalously smoking cigarettes in public? What pathetic little whiny weirdos these manly men are.

It's not that I think Graham Platner shouldn't be allowed to run for Senate. It's that I think anyone with an SS tattoo should be in prison.

The content of Democratic Party policy is not determined by the membership but by big donors. Grow up.

“reactionary centrism, refers to centrists who often validate perceived concerns of the right and far right while blaming the left for the failures of centrist politics.” ~ Elia Ayoub in other words, quislings

Within elections which swung blue, 'moderate' Dems underperformed. People say this should be a "wake up call". This assumes the Dem establishment just hasn't realised centrism is unpopular. But the Dem establishment is ideologically wedded to centrism. It would rather lose Right than win Left.

This is so reminiscent of when people said the 60s anti-war movement was just about young people being angry at their parents.

If only Democrats were as competent as Republicans imagine them to be when they hallucinate them into communist fanatics.

I truly wish Mamdani was as cool as right-wing media thought he was

Wow. When you're out-classyed by the deranged racist wannabe vigilante...

Worth pointing out the biggest supporters of trans people (which is who bigots mean by “gender ideology”) are bisexual & lesbian women. All the public “concerns” about trans people (phase, indoctrination, regret, etc) are recycled forms of homophobia. This is why LGB solidarity with the T is strong.

Stop calling it a ballroom. It's not going to be a ballroom. That's the line, not the plan. The plan is for a royal palace. The plan is for a Reich Chancellery. Probably with a Fuhrerbunker.

Still waiting to hear Zohran's policy towards the dangerous vigilante freak menace known as "the Spider-Man".

Andrew Cuomo’s pronouns are also/ran

Tough night for Republicans, who will now be forced to change gender in New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City

If one wants to read Marx’s personal experience w coats and the lack of them, this essay about Marx at the pawnshop is essential reading www.academia.edu/61316752/Mar...

Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor is not the story. The story is that the people voted him in.

I have to say, in the long history of “Marx failed to consider” takes by internet reply-guys, “Marx failed to consider the use-value of warm coats” should win its own category of award

YouTube edition of our new episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=agNN...

In the latest IDSGpod episode they mentioned @acollierastro.bsky.social video about Faust. It is such a good video especially the relations to the current fascist shit going on worldwide & esp. in the US. (And as a German I realised I was brainwashed about Gründgens). www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnsD...

Stochastic terrorism. I mean... it's what Charlie would've wanted.

New at @thenation.com I trace Nick Fuentes' half-decade campaign to push the MAGA envelope, dragging the conservative movement kicking and streaming closer towards outright neo-fascism www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Voting for Cuomo due to his experience handling the pandemic is like voting for George W Bush due to his handling of Hurricane Katrina

Listening back to this. I am pleased with my own words here.

If you react differently to the death of Dick Cheney to how you contemplate the death of, say, Joachim von Ribbentrop, there is only one possible reason: you're a white supremacist.

Was hoping for this coverage—and I have to say that in significant part because I don’t live in Maine and haven’t done like extensive vetting on the guy, I did not know about so much of the Platner shit discussed here, and hooooooly moly this dude is such a Fetterman

New awareness campaign

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

Unfortunately, there's really only so much time and I think the point was made. I'm really just so frustrated with this whole story. We've been trying to talk about this for ten years, and apparently we failed utterly.

We hear a lot about freedom of speech. What about freedom of hearing? Speech is gatekept by capital & capital can say what it pleases, de facto silencing that which it does not want said. What about the right to hear? That is a right of the people. It is the right to hear all that they need to hear.

This Samhainn, I have been celebrating by rereading some J. Sheridan Le Fanu - a favourite of mine, an opinion shated by M.R. James, whom he much influenced. Much lauded until relatively recently, JSLF is today severely and unjustly undervalued.

As if anyone needed any more motivation...

We are being ruled and violated by history's most pathetic little babies, given guns and immunity and a victim complex a mile wide and several fathoms deep by an endless succession of evil people with their hands on the American Empire.

ICYMI

"It's possible he secretly harbored awful prejudices all along." No it's not.

Topical repost.

The only issue Dick or Liz Cheney ever had with Trump was that he was supposedly 'isolationist' rather than a neoconservative. Their opposition was a factional power squabble. As it turns out, & as some of us knew, Trump is far more aligned with their ideology and legacy than they would ever admit.

I'm betting this guy's ethnicity will somehow NOT lead to loads of sweeping conclusions about immigration.

Mass murdering war criminal.

The Great Gatsby literally ends with a little party causing the deaths of two people. The phrase 'a little party never killed nobody' comes from a song recorded for the movie. Its deliberately ironic. Not very subtle. But then clearly neither is reality.

NEW IDSG News Roundup: Graham Platner, Kenneth Leland Morgan, Chris Booth, etc. @danielharper.bsky.social and I take a look at some recent events amidst the maelstrom and try to both shed a little light and cast a little shade on them. idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/news-roundup...

I'm listening to @timescarcass.bsky.social and @danielharper.bsky.social on the latest episode of IDSG (and you should, too). They're talking about Platner talking about which wars he wished he could have joined. I'm surprised they didn't talk about Haiti and Venezuela during the Banana Wars.