As a child of the nineties and a “close reader” of song lyrics, I’ve been waiting for the day that Zach Bryan got a little more honest about his politics. The working class anti-authoritarian class consciousness has been hovering there the whole time, albeit with a distinctly libertarian flavor.

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

The idea that there is a "Left" in American politics is an absurd right wing fantasy, which of course is politically useful to them, but unfortunately it's also useful to centrist media figures who need it to be true for their somber above-it-all commentary to make sense

the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production

I have two cents to share about the Epstein files, and it’s that we wouldn’t need the files released if this were a society that valued women and their accounts. If you’re willing to entertain victim’s statements as credible, you don’t need some epistemological authority to release a list of names.

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

You're all being ridiculous but by all means do not stop. If the posts get to a high enough pitch, they'll drag him out for a public appearance where they have to hide all the tubes sticking out of him

Trump does a thing, democrats call it a distraction. No they are all the thing. We’re under attack. Fight all the things.

I think the Us may need to shut itself down, wait, and then start up again. A reboot. It can’t hurt.

The despair hath taken me

If they think Superman is woke, wait until they learn about Jesus.

No where near enough people voraciously read historical fiction as adolescents, and the consequences are like cholera in the watering hole.

Think the available tools for fighting injustice are inadequate? Wait until you don’t have any tools at all.

If you're not writing your long book what are you even doing. It's the summer of writing your long book, not the summer of experiencing happiness

Editorial | The Times has concluded that the Epstein client list does not meet our standards of newsworthy journalism, and thus we will not be covering it. Unless it turns out that Zohran Mamdani is on that list.

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

Apparently Mamdani voters are the most privileged class in history AND are bitter about having no money and living in an apartment with 3 roommates into their 30s. Pick a damn lane.

You may be thinking "How can an entire political party be organized around the policy of taking from everyone and giving to the rich? No one would vote for them." Well that's where Lying comes in

it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act

Parentheses! Em dashes! Comma splices! Semicolons! Welcome to ADHD Grammar (since every thought comes with exciting bonus content), friends!

The Black Death wiped out 40% of the population of Europe, but it also led to significantly higher wages within a generation. Could Trump's megabill have the same effect here in America?

This bill is going to harm millions of Americans right now but we won’t know the true toll for years. It’s time for Democratic leaders, donors, and organizations to use their dollars to fill the gaps Trump is creating: fund clinics, stock food banks, protect communities.

2 Woke 2 Furious

only kind of kidding when I say thank you for the bisexual erasure Andrew Sullivan, outstanding to be excluded from this narrative

Andrew Cuomo gets publicly humiliated. Bill Clinton learns his endorsement is worth less than dogshit. What a great time to be a hater. A golden age.

god it is so, so, so nice that for once - for once! - a sex pest has to suffer some consequences for his behaviour, for all the talk of MeToo having gone too far this is one of the first shameless attempted comebacks to just.....not work, and what a joy!

You love to see this happen to a guy who is absolutely parked in a bike lane right now

I simply don’t want to be a member of a party which thinks sexual assault is only a fireable offense when the other team does it

To prove my non-partisan bona fides, I spent World War II criticizing FDR just as much as I criticized Hitler.

Your tax dollars pay for just about everything a police department does, which includes generating tons of reports, dispatch logs, and video recordings. Any citizen is entitled to see those public records to understand how the government works. By @andrewfordnews.bsky.social (Published June 2020)

"it's not peaceful for people to be on the highway" -LA Mayor Karen Bass right now. This is what I mean when I say the word "peaceful" as applied to protesters is about prescribing placidity, not nonviolence. Calmly marching on a freeway is pretty inarguably nonviolent. " Peaceful" you can debate

Periodic reminder that there is nothing you can give the far right that will satisfy them. Remove a right, they’ll go after another. Attack a minority, they’ll want worse attacks and find new groups to attack. There’s no end to the authoritarianism. Just more, and worse, until everyone’s crushed.

Regular liberal people must come to understand that there is no way you can appease Nazis and especially that there is no way that you can shrink yourself so they won't hurt you. Their main goal is to hurt you.

Don't listen to the people bleating on social media that "no one is doing anything." What they are actually saying is that THEY aren't doing anything. The reality is that folks are working in every corner of the world, doing so much to keep themselves and others alive, while building the future.

One of the reasons I think “defund the police” is a great slogan is that you get to repeatedly tell people that studies show that police don’t actually solve murders, and in fact one-third of stranger-murders are committed by police.

the literal mascot of the whole country is the statue who greets immigrants

I know that many don't want to hear this but we've been moving towards this current state of affairs over the past 65 years. And it's really been a bipartisan project. The expansion of the carceral state is the fuel for fascism. Folks have been trying to make this case for a long time.

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

These questions are so helpful. I have a related practice around speaking in meetings (also applies to posting): Is the thing I’m about to say useful? Am I the right person to say it? Is this the right time? What are my honest to goodness intentions? What are the likely consequences?

Something I started doing early in the pandemic, when info was spotty and ppl were panicked, was to ask myself these questions about my beliefs and actions: Where is the evidence I’m right? Where’s the evidence that I’m wrong? If I’m wrong, who gets hurt by my mistake?

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 guys I think we might have an actual fix for the fucking Gemini pop-ups the setting to control it is buried in your Gmail, not your Google Drive THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE’S HERO

Joe Biden relitigation is catnip for the press because it gives them a chance to avoid saying difficult things about the present situation we are all in while also getting to talk about themselves

Opinion | Sorry, liberals, but the Founding Fathers believed United States should be a fascist Christian ethnostate.

surprising news for many of you: Abortion is not a sin. It’s not even talked about in the Bible (except for how to do it)