“well at least now they’re being honest about it” no! this stuff is shameful and people should have to hide it! honest bigotry is bad!

Again, absolutely no one else in politics is given this level of credulousness from news media and they are increasingly clowning themselves by doing so

Most of you hate Nader the most for costing Gore Florida. I hate him more for killing New Deal Liberalism with a million paper cuts via Heckler’s Veto and red tape to permitting. We are not the same.

The really unsexy truth about climate change is that we're doing Pretty GoodAll Things Considered and dooming about it is just sorta the Midwit Position now 4C was where we were heading prior to Paris. Worst case scenario on current policies is 2.7C. An unfathomable amount of harm has been averted

Social media is bad! Hundreds of thousands of people will say things like "the earth is dying" and none of them will go to ClimateTracker and see that, actually, we got a real good shot at beating 2C

i have told people i know point blank that musk has hundreds of thousands of deaths on his hands and provided links to reputable sources. i did the same with the CSAM stuff. it deeply frustrates me that they just act like its not real

If you want Medicare for All (and I do!), you (yes, you!) are going to have to pay more taxes for it. That is simple math. No, you can't just tax billionaires. No, you aren't taxed enough already, and why are you adopting the slogan of reactionaries who want to dismantle social welfare programs?

one thing that went wrong in our political media culture is that journalists so deeply internalized a backwards version of 'the cover-up is the crime' they assume that anything that's being done out in the open is just 'a thing that happened' that needs to be subjected to the 'objectivity' standard

this might just be the most blatantly corrupt act ever committed by any president in U.S. history

No one wants to admit this but the main thing that sunk Biden was the end of the Afghanistan War and how relentlessly negative the coverage was. People don’t like to admit this because: 1) we want to believe ending wars is popular 2) people really want to downplay media influence on voters

If this tweet just said "landlords" instead of "developers" it would make perfect sense, but for some reason a whole lot of leftists see productive capitalists rather than rentier parasites as the leading villain of the housing crisis for some reason.

Solar plus storage: $54 Coal: $70-85 Gas (methane): $100 The math gets pretty simple.

Everyone thinks they’re too good to be a party hack and it’s unironically both a real problem and a byproduct of democrats being generally smarter and more principled. No one wants to be the party-line slop merchant.

Imagine trying to implement other social programs like this! Like replacing taxpayer-funded food stamps with an unfunded mandate that grocery stores sell 30% of their food at a loss.

something sort of insane is that we have non-trivial evidence that posting is the top of all possible hierarchies of needs. some of the richest men in the world who could be on their mega-yachts choose to not only post, but orient their lives around posting related things

I don’t think a lot of progs understand that the non-vibesession explanation is the worse option for them. It means Americans are much more sensitive to inflation than mass unemployment and wage stagnation, which is kind of a death knell for a real, sustainable workers politics in this country.

There’s a certain kind of “progressive” whose view of politics is that republicans are just karmic retribution for democrats’ failures, and Republican voters are just socialists who have lost their way. No, guys. Republicans are bad, and people vote for them because they’re nasty little bigots.

I cannot tell you how many policy conversations I’ve been privy to where the central dilemma is “we need to incentivize private actors to do something, but for unclear reasons they cannot be permitted to earn any sort of profit by doing it.“

This is a post about why Elizabeth Warren seems so strangely ill-equipped for this moment in American politics, but it's really about the limitations of left-populism as an answer to right-populism. publiccomment.blog/p/what-s-goi...

4/ Do you get whats coming? #SolarHockeyStickOfHope bsky.app/profile/70sb...

America is missing out on the greatest technological revolution in 200 years because we’re a country of car dealerships

Here's a spicier take. If you're on the left, an idea that it's gonna be really important to understand going forward is that, if you create a tighter labor market and higher wages for low-skill workers, it will cause prices of low-skill labor-intensive goods and services to rise (and that's ok)

This is correct. I think the underlying issue this piece kinda of elides tho is that a bunch of Americans online are convinced that they are communists, when they are actually just libertarians who use leftist rhetoric to rationalize their libertarianism.

I increasingly suspect that basically everything immigration related is basically that one "raise your hands if" meme. for both restrictionists and liberalizers. people like the idea of a lot of things. they like seeing it happen a lot less.

a thing i will never get over is how little interest any of these wannabe tech oligarchs have in anything resembling class or grace or leadership or respectability; they’re all content to behave like pigs wallowing in shit in public, without even giving it a second thought

New piece for The Nation on the ubiquity of "performative" and "virtue signalling" as terms of derision. "Citizenship ... is inherently performative and that abandoning the performance of democratic life means courting democratic collapse." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

just plainly evil.

I think it’s quite bad progressive politicians instinct is to be anti tax. Taxes are not a significant financial burden on lower to middle income people! This is a conservative talking point! Knock that shit off!

We are awash in “guy who in an earlier (and yes better) time did not give af about politics” and he and we are all worse off for it. Too many variations of this guy. We need less of this guy.

I think about this chart sometimes.

So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

"the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

"500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives"

the brain is a weird poorly understood organ that requires a very narrow balance of hormones and pH to function correctly, and the slightest change can radically alter your behavior in ways that can make you an entirely different person. and it’s wild how few people recognize this.

I have no patience for takes like, "BlueSky is so hostile to journalists that people have no choice but to spend time on the Nazi site."

American leftism will never achieve power if the response to getting peed on while taking public transit is “toughen up” public spaces should be safe and pleasant, and that shouldn’t be a hot take

the solar+battery revolution is here, Trump can only slow it down landartgenerator.org/blagi/archiv...

It simply cannot be an accident that the entire media holds Democrats and Republicans to completely different standards across the board and in brazen ways. And they hold their most heightened scrutiny for people well left of center.

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

This the skeleton key that explains the entire left-of-center political and informational environment. There is no social reward for ever saying anything nice about a mainline Democrat, so no one does. As a result, baseless antipathy towards the party completely pervades the environment.

i really want to impress on people that fares, crime, cleanliness etc are like way down the priority list. what matters with transit chiefly is “does it get you to where you’re going in a reasonable amount of time” and “does it get you there reliably”

They are teasing starving children. They are beyond help. They need to be in prison.

There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

A friend of ours was able to be a test subject for an mRNA vaccine for an aggressive form of breast cancer. Completely worked. It is one of the greatest miracles of science and like 40% of the country turned it into The Jab because they are mushheaded simpletons.