The main lesson the ruling class seems to have taken from Gaza is that they don't even need to bother manufacturing consent anymore.

So many people in this administration need to go to prison for life.

Remember when we used to enforce anti-trust laws in this country? (Neither do I, I’m only in my 40s.)

this is legitimately an insane thing to think when looking at your child

This has got to be the funniest, stupidest, and most deranged collapse of an empire in the history of the world by a wide, wide margin.

And they say the Democratic Party isn’t responsive to its base.

There have been many false-start "This is it" moments but bear with me. There is literally no constituency for this Greenland shit (polls at 30% *among GOP*). There are mechanisms in place to stop this and people with power to use them. If those people and mechanisms fail now, they will never work.

The most disastrous VP choice in US history is Lincoln swapping Andrew Johnson for Hannibal Hamlin. The second most is probably FDR swapping Truman for Henry Wallace. The most instinctually revolting one is JD Vance. (I mean Cheney is way up there, too.)

Americans love telling ourselves this mythology that the United States was founded in revolution to oppose tyranny and yet turn into the most pathetic, bootlicking swine any time there’s a protest movement.

Dune is mainly the juvenile ravings of a libertarian crank, but the Butlerian Jihad against the thinking machines probably does need to happen.

The worst people in the world are so mad about Mamdani’s inaugural speech, and that’s beautiful.

Senate Democrats are led by a man who, by his own account, bases major political decisions on what an imaginary elderly Long Island Republican couple who live entirely in his mind tell him. Just a shockingly pathetic political “opposition.”

Listening to university administrators talk about the "crisis" in higher education, you really do see the hard boundaries of the bourgeois liberal imaginary. Material conditions are mysterious forces of nature to be pathetically reacted to, not things that can be changed via political pressure.

It was a catastrophic mistake letting the fucking MBAs run a public good like higher ed.

Whenever I start a class with Gulliver rather than Robinson Crusoe, I feel like students won't understand my benevolence in not inflicting Crusoe on them unless they've already read Crusoe.

The obstacle the Democratic Party faces is not "wokeism" or the "groups" or this right-wing fantasy that suddenly a supermajority of the country are fascists. It's that party leadership is far more committed to the interests of capital than workers. That's it. That's all.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

I'm sorry, yes, all sports team owners suck ass. But if you root for a team owned by *Jerry Jones*, I cannot take you seriously as a person.

They have taken untold millions That they never toiled to earn, But without our brain and muscle Not a single wheel can turn. We can break their haughty power -- Gain our freedom when we learn -- That the union makes us strong! Happy (US) Labor Day, comrades.

Based as hell.

RFK Jr is such a great argument for setting the inheritance tax at 100 percent.

It should of course go without saying, but absolutely no one should be scabbing for Columbia.

You could read all these university presidents lining up to do Trump’s bidding just as all the severe weaknesses of his power base are exposed as stupidity and cowardice. Or you could correctly read it as they’re all fully on board with the reactionary project.

In retrospect, it was a huge mistake to turn over the public good of higher education to MBA dipshits. Who could have ever foreseen???

University administrators would love nothing more than to have no students and no faculty and simply run the real estate investment firms of their dreams.

Twenty years later, David Harvey’s A Brief History of Neoliberalism continues to explain [gestures wildly] all of this shit better than 99 percent of texts out there.

It’s very annoying Larry Summers is considered a genius when it takes him years to figure out stuff that is instantly obvious to the median lefty shitposter

There is a direct line from Gaza to the brutal suppression of student dissent to the dismantling of US higher ed — which boards of trustees/regents and university presidents are enthusiastic participants in. If you don’t see this is all part of a huge ruling-class power grab, you don’t get it.

The Times, like all of the bourgeois press, is committed to you believing that nothing will ever change and nothing better is possible.

Absolutely incredible www.idf.il/%D7%90%D7%AA...

The capitalists' plan for the future is to use police to protect themselves from the justified rebellion of the working class as climate disaster kills and displaces us all while they consolidate their lives and property behind militarized walls and borders. Everyone is disapearable to them.

Two decades of comics and he just tweeted it out

NYT reporter meeting in a parking garage with an anonymous source dressed head to toe in Nazi regalia

An opinion writer is not allowed to criticize the paper on social media for using a Nazi source but the reporter who worked with the Nazi source was free to leave a long social media trail being buddy-buddy with the Nazi in public

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

laundering an anonymous Twitter Nazi’s dirty work into print would get you fired from approximately 100% of the world’s high-school newspapers

The New York Times remains an absolute fucking disgrace.

You know, when I heard that all of our personal data had been hacked, I didn't expect the first major use of it to be the NYT trying to fuck over Zohran but maybe I'm naive www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

It would actually help a lot in combatting reactionary "work requirements" bullshit if liberals abandoned their "means testing" fixation and joined socialists and socdems in insisting social programs are there for all. But that of course would be politically useful, so nah.

I’m so glad that at this moment when Republicans are destroying the last vestiges of a livable world for workers Dem leaders are laser focused on what matters — losing their minds about any criticism of their favorite genocidal rogue state.

Hot take: the underperformance of progressives in Biden-era primaries was due primarily to the demobilization of the activist portion of the base after the party fucked over Bernie plus widespread disgust at prominent progressives (like Bernie) running cover for Biden.

Zohran should immediately expropriate Columbia University. Brand new CUNY campus.

Imaging how mad Cuomo is until I start levitating.

That’s right. Zohran fuckin’ Mamdani Lfg.

So what I’m given to understand is Zohran Mamdani.

If you need a clear symbol of the current state of the Democratic Party, it's serial sexual harasser Bill Clinton emerging from his crypt to try to push serial sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo over the finish line, all to defeat a young, popular progressive candidate. End this party.

The only thing Trump had keeping him from being a worse president than George W Bush was that he hadn’t as yet started a cataclysmic war. Guess he couldn’t have that!

The fact that ruling-class actions in this country no longer even make a pretense of caring about popular will is catastrophically bad in ways we're not even close to fully reckoning with.

One of the worst things the Democratic Party has done in the last 100 years is not drum every single scumbag who voted for the Iraq War out of it. This is something that absolutely should be done with any D politician who supports war with Iran. (It won't be, because the party is awful.)