We brought evictions to historic lows when we had a progressive Board of Supervisors in SF. Now, the current oligarch-aligned board is allowing mass evictions. “In a city of AI riches and skyrocketing rents, housing evictions hit a 10-year high in 2025 — and this year is trending even worse.”

Israel is a terrorist state.

Stay safe and beware of feral settlers

I think you missed that I’m saying that Dems will absolutely not prosecute when they absolutely need to

In just months, Zohran Mamdani has shown what politics looks like when leaders actually try governing for ordinary people instead of donors and cable news panels. Affordable housing, childcare, transit, workers’ dignity and immigrant protection are not “radical” ideas.

Get your own! Also, I need to find a bookstore here in SF to put it on their shelves

this persistent liberal mindset that we have to appeal to some mythological perfect standard instead of engaging in political combat is literally the secret weapon the right has employed for decades now to turn us into fascism. i cannot fucking understand holding on to it after all we have seen.

Ross Barkan's plagiarism mini scandal has barely been discussed on Bluesky. We should be taking note of it. Especially since, now that he has responded on Twitter, his explanations are ridiculous.

Black people do more prison time than this for weed

Wheelchair user Julia Feinberg, who has spinal muscular atrophy, lives independently thanks to the 600 hours of help she gets each month to have someone assist with daily tasks. If Gov. Gavin Newsom gets his way, Feinberg risks losing the care that allows her to live an independent life.

The populist coalition: once about gold, now about coffee

It's interesting to me* that we haven't heard much since January 20, 2025 about "felt inflation" or other such ad hoc explanations about why everyone was so angry about the economy, like we did in late 2024 under Joe Biden: bsky.app/profile/mcop... [*It is not remotely interesting to me]

It'd be awkward when the Giants had to ban their owner.

unfurling a "white replacement" banner should get you permabanned from MLB stadiums

There is no god. And if they keep this shit up, there won't be one nation either.

It's unfair for black people to have representation and of that he's certain

"The American economic and political system is Neo-Jim Crow and Hitlerian" is just a plain observation

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

We are now into the second white reactionary “Redemption.” Let’s make sure we really understand what that means, what the country has lost. The struggle is not over. But the battle for democratic freedom will now have to be waged under far more difficult and unfair conditions.

The Rise and Fall of the Second Reconstruction, 1964/65 – 2025/26 Putting the end of the civil rights era in historical perspective: How it transformed the nation, how it was toppled by a raging reaction, and what comes next. My attempt to capture the significance of this dark moment:

Enterprise AI token spend is entirely out of control, driven by CEOs with AI psychosis. Sources tell me Stripe is spending $2.8m+ a month, and a major real estate platform $300k-$700k a month over 1500 people. It's experimental, unsustainable, and will go away. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

I really can’t get over this. Xavier Becerra’s body count could make most mass murderers blush. That guy was tested already and he failed in a historic manner. And now, he may become governor of California. Is anyone gonna talk about it?!’

I completely agree that Democrats should run on ripping out the diseased roots of corruption.

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

This is one of the things that most worried me when Biden started declaring the pandemic over and telling people to take off their masks while people were still dying. I predicted a lot of this in 2020 and 2021, saying that Biden smelled like Benjamin Harrison. Biden made the pandemic permanent.

cackling like a fucking hyena

I didn't put these two things together until just now

We're gonna have to do something about this eventually and eventually is a lot sooner than anyone thinks.

we gotta start rounding up ceos and putting them in precarious situations

For years, the biggest criticism of renewables was simple: “What happens when the sun isn’t shining?” The answer is increasingly: battery storage. 24/7 solar power is no longer theoretical. In some places, it is becoming economic reality.

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Gavin Newsom will be the tribune of the anti-human tech death-cult www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Honestly think you can summarise an *enormous* part of the current sickness of US democracy in the fact that literally nobody believes this will be a political problem for the president, even though every single political actor understands that it is simply naked corruption.

Article I of the Constitution is Congress’s power of purse. DOGE broke it, and the WH slush funds further break it. Makes it hard to teach civics. Students like “why are we learning about a Constitution that’s not even in effect?”

the fascists are laughing at jared polis, and by extension the people who put him in power, no other way to see it

Every defense of our current "market" system runs smack into the reality of grossly overcapitalized financial markets that get *less* rational as the entity gets bigger. Trillions of dollars poured into greater-fool theory instead of productive economic activity.

Union pension finds need to take the lead on protecting their members

anyway there's basically a Wall Street conspiracy to force all the institutional investors, index funds etc to buy this turd by rigging the index rules. though of course "owning" a share gives you no control whatsoever over the company, Elon keeps that

this Elon Musk plot to steal your 401(k) money is really going underdiscussed

We CANNOT abandon trans people and we CANNOT abandon immigrants. Read @transliberalism.substack.com www.liberalcurrents.com/abandoning-t... Read @quinnae.com www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-... Read @polphilpod.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

Even if it was true it doesn't matter. Leaving a war zone is a smart thing to do if you don't want to be killed in a war

I wrote a post about this recently. It is a central fact about industrial capitalism that real resources are allocated on the basis of hopes and dreams, rather than as a rational response to prices in existing markets. jwmason.org/slackwire/mo...

NEW from me: María de Jesús Estrada Juárez was brought to the US from Mexico when she was 15, and later received protection under DACA. But when she went to interview for her green card in 2025, she was deported anyway. She thought she was doing everything right. www.wired.com/story/a-woma...

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Also, it’s murder on the high seas that violates domestic & international law, & everyone involved should go to jail forever.

Today is Nakba Day. You cannot understand what lies at the heart of conflict in the Middle East unless you understand what happened to 85% of Palestinians in 1948. Here Eugene Rogan explains how hundred of thousands ended up as homeless refugees in Gaza

Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United. The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections. The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.

Trump plans to steal $1.7B from taxpayers to pay off the terrorists he already freed from prison. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...