I avoid using the word cunt as an epithet except for when I don’t…

I don’t know how a generation raised on this ended up so fucking nasty and disengaged

We have to accept there’s still going to be a lot of damage and have to start building momentum for the enormous amount of political energy that will be required to dismantle what will likely become a status quo that too many Americans will find tolerable despite it’s unfathomable cruelty

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You can't call every step of creeping fascism a distraction from kitchen-table issues and then punt whenever you have a chance to address the kitchen-table issues.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

It’s galling to see Dem party leaders to brag about how to do deportation the right way rather than take responsibility for how this kind of rhetoric helps to pave the road to the dehumanization that ICE thrives on.

“See there’s good Jews and there’s bad Jews…” is an antisemitic framework that lots of Jews subscribe to the detriment of all Jews. (Also that doesn’t make them bad Jews; it makes them Jews with an unfortunate gatekeeping instinct).

This isn’t the reason I would feel ok skipping an election. But we can’t forget how hard most Dems fought to avoid taking a side against Cuomo and that passionate rejection of Mamdani is downstream of the same moral rot in the party that allows them to be so equivocal on trans rights, Palestine, etc

Leveraging the NIMBY in all of us for good over evil

The experience of witnessing the 8th inning of this game was probably akin to how Moses felt when God let him catch a glimpse

it's backwards. obama and biden conceded the republican framework of border obsession, sliding right and setting off a near-inevitable push to where we are today. once again the democrats triangulated themselves into becoming republicans, allowing republicans to publicly embrace explicit fascism.

The best parenting decision I made was to send my kids to NYCPS and declining to do so on the advice of some dude who writes airport nonfiction is very sad. And these kids have to spend all day with their bad judgment parents!

She changed her name so I claim victory!

We turned our neighborhoods into surveillance panopticons to help Amazon get a foothold in thousands of law enforcement agencies, chiefly because it wanted to cut its annual shrinkage from package theft by a few percentage points.

If you think antisemitism doesn’t count when it is targeted at Zionists, you are wrong. Even antisemitism at Netanyahu is bad. It has nothing to do with the target. Breaking news: as members of humanity some Jews suck - you don’t get to blame their Jewishness for their suck.

The replies to this post prove its point so much it hurts Hey not-Jewish leftists: arguing with the Jews who want to talk about the antisemitism in the left does nothing to make the case there isn’t a problem with antisemitism in the left

Wouldn’t their location in Gaza be proof that it isn’t spam?

Everyone in Trump’s orbit has never been held responsible for their actions so it makes sense they still assume they won’t. There’s nothing we can do now except promise not to platform or vote for anyone who preaches about unity over accountability when these dicks are finally out of power

I know that there is just so much going on in every direction, but it does really feel like we've reached a point of class divide where the people making Big Money Decisions are an alien species who can't imagine what the rest of us are thinking at any point.

I suppose the same way they didn’t know the Libertarian op-ed writer actually didn’t warn us about Trump

Because I learned, over time, how society marginalized many people and how it threw them into crisis. Pundits don’t care about that though.

Netscape ftw!

Sometimes you can learn a lot about a person by who writes a mean essay about them, and I have to say aside from fathering my children nothing has made me more of Jonathan Howard than a nasty essay about him by one of the most deplorable Americans alive.

The NYT’s coverage all makes sense when you accept that the humans who run it think multiple MAGA terms in office is preferable to a Dem party with AOC and Mamdani at the helm

Jews rule and Nazis drool

Yes, Democrats don't have much actual political or policymaking power. But that shouldn't stop them from constantly talking about what they *can* do if they did. That Schumer is offering up lukewarm ineffective "reforms" instead of systemic changes tells you all you need to know about his goals.

8. I would be remiss if I did not mention that the Epstein files shows the extent to which old political alliances are compromised. It’s depraved. It is also unfortunately capitalism. Tech elite has the money to shape public opinion and intervene in state law because of that cabal of exploitation.

We’ve come along way from RCT or STFU.

We have just had Holocaust Memorial Day which emphasises the moral obligation to speak up against injustice, fight oppression, and uphold human dignity.

When cis women try to warn me about being careful around men, it's usually with good intentions but there's an undercurrent of "you aren't used to this yet" And i always tell them "i have had to listen to the things that men way when they don't think there's a woman around. I KNOW about men."

Prioritizing growth over safety is the definition of capitalism

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

@joho.bsky.social returns to the podcast to talk about MAGA’s enablers in the MAHA movement. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...

This is the Epstein coverage I’ve been waiting for

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lol Gen X sucks and Gen Z rules

A new metric for assessing social scientists - the E-index, it's just the number of times you appear in the Epstein files

I want a list of every phd who emailed with Epstein starting with the economists

a border is a god that demands blood sacrifice

HOPE

every person who is adopted is a person who has undergone and experienced family separation. the fact that Western culture valorizes #adoption as a system for family creation cannot alter this fact, though it does create a taboo against acknowledging it and against hearing dissenting voices.

This one hurts

The white house used a chains emoji to (jim) crow about Lemon's arrest. A chained Black man is not a subtle dog whistle, it's a very clear nod to this countries slave owning beginnings, which ideologically this administration either seeks to deny or rewrite to say "slaves were happy."

phenomenally strong ⬇️

All the Blue partisans who get exercised about attacks on Dems from the left don’t seem to understand that leadership’s refusal to acknowledge their past policy and strategy mistakes continues to damage their credibility regardless of what their stated values are.

Giving money directly to people who are struggling without making them prove they deserve it???!!! Shouldn’t be so radical but it is…

Dispatches from Maud Maron driving around real America in a camper on Sundays at 8am