Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

I get why it rankles and we do own it on some level but the most straightforward path to defeat Nightmare America from within is a vision of America the Beautiful

I think the key divide here a vision of the service economy as "I do services for you and you do services for me" vs. "service workers are low-class servants I can boss around." For the latter, the expanding service economy represents a gendered threat as the jobs are often female-coded.

Fundamentally, the story here is that humans are wired for hierarchy - status competition is an instinct we have. But we can and should mock and despise the people who cannot or will not rise above that instinct, the same as we would an adult who refused to ever be potty-trained.

as someone from a country with multiple annual heat waves if you're mad at Mamdani for that super boilerplate statement on energy saving, you better get cracking on fixing climate change pronto, because you're really not going to enjoy the way advisories are phrased in hot places

xena warrior princess is so good??? this shit like a bayonetta cutscene and nobody told me??????

Franz Joseph I, after his nephew was assassinated:

Wow -- one of the climbers atop the Empire State Building appears to have gotten down on one knee and proposed to the other

The thing you have to understand about Rhis Cufo and all his ilk is that they are incredibly fucking stupid and are not employable without massive right-wing subsidies and affirmative action from friendly media oligarchs. They're embarrassments badly recycling barely remembered memes from the 80s.

“touch grass, and volunteer on campaigns!” wise parting words from minneapolis city council president elliott payne

you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

Nonsense. We'd have a very different Supreme Court if the left had sucked it up and voted for Hillary over Trump. I had Sanders backers telling me it was "bullying" to talk about the court -- and that was when there was an actual open seat that HRC could have filled to swing the Court. Then RBG's.

one thing i find funny is that the founding generation would likely have been very enthusiastic about, say, muslim immigrants and intensely skeptical of all the catholics

i have had better attendance on a talk i gave on compliance obligations under european law, at 8:30 AM, delivered in a secure facility, where i botched the meeting invite

America’s real state fair starts August 27th. Plan accordingly and thank you for your attention to this matter.

folks I am going to say this as nicely as possible preemptively dooming about how the dems will refuse to even try to use the powers the supreme court is granting to trump to reverse the damage in response to every post saying "they should do that" is somewhat less than helpful

Some people would rather post doomerism than go outside

Having thought about it for a while, i still think using 20th Century political movements to explain the current politics was a bad idea. I think what were are seeing is 21st century populism with 20th century far-right/far-left aesthetic flavoring.

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

Messi and Ronaldo both aging like old wine except Messi is a bottle of 1868 Pinot and Ronaldo is a bottle of rose thats been left open since 2022

Israelis decided it would be better to put all their chips on enablers who want to see them vaporized on judgement day than deal with criticisms of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians from other jews. Little too late to start giving a shit what the diaspora thinks now www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/w...

This is what happens when anti-Doordash sentiment goes to far. ... This might accidentally be a tweet about Palestine.

they’re living in the dang future out there in the mid west

(There's also a thing where the only thing Magneto actually wants is for the treadmill of suffering to stop but he is, himself, addicted to the feelings of status his power holds over others, and he hates himself for this weakness and takes it out on others)

I respect the image choice here so deeply

the fundamental double standard in American politics is that any given Democrat is supposed to have an opinion on Darializa Chevalier but no Republican will ever be pressed on Randy Fine, Brandon Gill, or Andy Ogles

America is gonna win the 21st century by default because, despite actively trying to kill ourselves, China is trying to Maoism & debt it’s way out of demographics and Europe is like “air conditioning is evil yankee devil magic”

And the most credulous people alive will just be like "I bet he's doing this for the reasons I am mad at the GOP" like when leftists started approvingly RTing Stew Peters bsky.app/profile/ndre...

Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

Enjoying my racially homogeneous society, until I'm killed in a chevauchee by foreign mercenaries (they're from a slightly different part of France than me).

The cool thing about the Internet is that if you’re fan of klezmer music or gothic literature in rural Iowa, you can find your people. The uncool thing is that this has also evidently worked for nutbag fascists.

If you're getting your knowledge of history from TikTok and Instagram and not from books (or at least long-form content made by real historians), then you are learning history in exactly the same way Elon Musk is, just on a different site than Xitter and w/ guillotines instead of Roman statue heads.

The thing is, if it’s for someone you like then by definition it is not cringe, it is based, and rather than being a dumb and empty cringe thing like the libs do it’s actually part of a fine organizing tradition tied to unions and possibly an ethnic minority group of choice

Cliff Stoll (kooky scientist, Cold War era hacker, klein bottles) published a 1995 essay and then a book claiming the web was overhyped and apparently it became known for being so wrong. But overall I think he really nailed it!!!!!

You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.

the idea that there is a latent far-left socialist majority that refuses to vote is legitimately just the political equivalent of a cargo cult

personally, what i always loved about bicycles was their vast array of non-standardized, non-adjustable parts that are unique to a model and manufacturer. when i buy a bicycle what i always look for first is the inability to repair it or even indeed to modify it to make it a better fit for my body.

the iran deal went so well for iran that trump came out of it a muslim. 'the five pillars, i looked at five, i said five's weak, we're doing six. the sixth pillar is tariffs. and allah, tremendous, we have unbelievable chemistry, the best chemistry'

Everyone love Thrawn, the Grad Student Admiral and his wacky subplots that aren't him staring at art and saying something racist about the species that created it

Oh, so they have NOTHING nothing

ICE observers in Minneapolis have begun receiving visits from FBI agents sent to intimidate them. A close friend-combat vet, mother, no criminal record-who was a volunteer observer during the ICE crisis, had a visit and was threatened for taking photos and videoed, claiming that filming was illegal.

I wore this outside today and about 50 people asked me if I was a Knicks fan. "Knick who? Oh right. Sure. Yay sports. Um, did you actually read the shirt...?"

broke: swedish girl discovers ranch dressing in chicago woke: german guy discovers waffle house in alabama bespoke: scottish guy discovers tacos and chicharron in cdmx

The true volk of america, the inner city dweller, are all that is best about this country

YOU CAN’T GENERATE ENOUGH POWER YOU CAN’T GET RID OF HEAT YOU CAN’T FIX ANYTHING THAT BREAKS YOU ARE CONSTANTLY BOMBARDED WITH RADIATION SO YOU HAVE TO MAKE ALL THE CHIPS MUCH BIGGER YOU CAN’T UPGRADE ANYTHING AND IT COSTS 1000X AS MUCH IT’S IDIOTIC AND YOU ARE RUNNING A GRIFT ON THE PUBLIC

so the bar trivia I go to is mostly nerdy feds but there are also consistent tribes of 20something trans kids, leathery Maryland early retirees, and an Ethiopian uncle cluster. America is already great

My favorite content on tiktok right now is "European soccer teams learn that the US is hot in summer " The French National team crashing out and saying they're sick of the sun when they are in MASSACHUSETTS IN JUNE NOT IN A HEATWAVE is my Roman Empire.

Right - media talks their way around it but THERE IS NO STRATEGY. It’s Trump waking up every day and applying his little pea brain to a problem he is incapable of understanding, much less solving. He always arrives at one of three solutions his pea brain likes. He rotates between them randomly.