Trump is not invincible. He can be defeated. When people show spine and stand up to him, when civil society bands together rather than capitulating, he often backs down. Our real problem is the appeasers. @monacharen.bsky.social is good on this. Our exchange: newrepublic.com/article/2009...

A lot of the commentators who deride Bluesky as a smaller or less active platform than X are totally clueless about how power on the internet works, which is also how they lost it to the alt-right. Internet culture fractured a while back. Niche spaces are actually the way to grow

Another world is often possible. 1939.

No clerks. No building. No budget. No shadow docket. Ride the circuit. 25 justices, with 9 chosen by lottery. We will treat you like petulant children until you stop ignoring the law, Constitution, precedent, Article I, voters, & the plain meaning of words. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

It just occurred to me that when Mamdani is sworn in, it will be the first time in 74 years that New York has had a mayor who is legally prohibited from having presidential ambitions. Could be a more significant vibe shift than the whole democratic socialist thing.

There is no grand strategy. It's the NJ Dem machine. Essentially, dumber than the average untested-machine-pol

Our political demand has to be not "media reform," but "Break Up The Media Monopoly!"

The only way forward is to inflict as much financial AND publicity damage on Disney as possible as swiftly as possible. Cancel streaming subscriptions, boycott products, picket, encourage politicians and entertainment figures to shout about this from the housetops. Demonstrate the cost of cowardice.

Narratively, I thought the last episode of "Hacks" felt tacked on. The show would have been better off having Deborah walk offstage over network interference (a la Jack Paar), and just left it as a cliffhanger. Would have been good TV then; would be an amazing writers room now.

Jimmy Fallon better get himself canceled real fast if he doesn’t want to live in infamy as the man in the hot dog suit trying to find the guys that caused this.

it's a small thing right now but if the worst people in the country are upset by a failure to mourn properly they will collapse where they stand when the day comes and there's actual spontaneous celebrations

"the house is on fire! we need to put it out!" "let's not focus on blame. there's a lot of flammables in here that encouraged & fed this situation." "sure, whatever, but put the fire out!" "that kind of extremism only increases polarization. we need to work -with- the fire to protect the house."

This isn't just a case of them thinking too small. The fix they're proposing will shield their Republican colleagues from facing any blowback in the midterms over the health care cuts they voted for. They've got one card to play and they're using it to bail out the GOP. Unfuckingbelievable.

We found the one person who gets mad at the zombies when watching a zombie movie.

everyone in the media who doesn’t work for 404, Wired or similar needs to log off their own accounts and go check their sons’ browsing history bc the abysmal level of gamer understanding happening here is giving “wouldn’t spot a mass shooting being planned in their own home”

Rarely does this regime give such a compliment to the folks fighting back. Please work to make this courage contagious: nokings.org

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

What?! I guess before corporations began making endless variations of the same product line, they tried to convince customers to use their one famous product for all kinds of additional purposes?

Congress reps who refuse to vote for the MAGA budget continuing resolution will be engaging in non-compliance, a time honored effective response to authoritarianism. This is an important test: No CR is an important step in stopping Trump’s all out assault on America. Will Dems step up?

"And why would you approve of or donate to the Democratic Party right now? If you are frightened or appalled by what is happening, what are Democrats offering you?" Must read in which @ezraklein.bsky.social absolutely shreds the fecklessness of Dem leadership. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

most of the bad discourse about bsky come from arrested grief that an era of social media is over and never coming back. bsky will never be what twitter was. x will never be what twitter was. it’s over. the wheel turned.

AUTHORS: Your way of being fairly compensated - and bankrupting OpenAI.

This would make an excellent apartment building. "Welcome to my hell in a handbasket."

This is like watching a Victorian time traveler befuddled at trying to work an iPhone. Just completely lost and confused by all the intervening context of the different era he's now in.

why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"

"What do you do for a living?" "Me? Oh, I'm a stock room."

Almost certainly apocryphal, but these concerns that labor leaders don’t demand enough of the Democratic leadership are older than 70 years!

A Trump voter imprisons your neighbor it’s law and order. Kicks their gay kid out its religious conviction. Shoots you dead it’s self defense. Kidnaps you, it’s border security. Invades your town, it’s fighting crime. Tell them you don’t like them anymore, it was all just “political views.”

For your labor Day listening, Rising Up With Sonali interviewed me about the new book, "We Always Had a Union." @laborradionet.bsky.social risingupwithsonali.com/how-hotel-wo...

over the summer I embroidered this giant tapestry about mill towns and textile strikes. now I’m working on another one about streetcar drivers and their militant labor struggle in the early 20th century!

Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”

Except that the Supreme Court was going to overturn the Labor Act under a Harris administration, too.

The two-party system is pretty well-entrenched, but damn if these Democrats aren't doing their best Whig impression.

Enjoyed talking with @feministkelly.bsky.social about "Threat of Dissent," the Alien & Sedition Acts of 1798, Emma Goldman, & the history of ideological exclusion/deportation on her UNSUNG HISTORY Podcast. 🗃️ Listen here ⬇️ www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/IdeologicalE... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApPS...

No. They didn't. Taxes didn't get that high until near the end of WWII. The point stands. Progress never moves as quickly as reaction.

It's a chickadee dabbing to impress the Lady of the Lake to win Excalibur. Duh.

Hey, are you a freelance writer with a fairly comprehensive knowledge of #SouthPark (including the more recent seasons)? I'm searching for someone atm, so if that describes you, please email me at lizmiller at consequence dot net with three links to samples and a little info about yourself. Thanks!

Here's the thing about ex- or current governors who run for president. You can pretty effectively judge them by their vetoes. There's no one else to blame for a veto. It's the clearest statement of the progress you think goes too far.

Do you remember when some unions demanded co-determination? Yeah, it was before my time too.

Fantastic resource for historians: a spreadsheet of NARA's digitized microfilm, with links to the files in the Archives catalog. May it help you as much as it has helped me. www.archives.gov/files/colleg...

I've long expected the NLRB to be overturned. Unions have no plans at all and they won't have plans either.

“When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.”

And this is how I find out that Mick Jagger's guided tour of his temperature-controlled hat room from the David Letterman produced failed sitcom "Let's Rob Mick Jagger" does not live on Youtube.

It's about the safest prediction I've ever made, back in Oct. 2024: The Supreme Court will overturn the National Labor Relations Act in 2026. inthesetimes.com/article/supr...

one last thing, hopefully not for you, but nevertheless: keep doing the work, humanists. keep writing the stuff that pisses all the right people off, keep teaching your students to imagine better futures, keep learning all kinds of nerdy stuff. we’ll need that knowledge. and that heart. 💜

Ms. Magazine is merging with the National Organization for Women? I'm still waiting for Commentary to merge with Dissent.

Zohran Mamdani brings anti-Trump tour to Trump-friendly Staten Island (gift link) www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/13/z...

Sure, it's a minor complaint, but it feels like part of the broader "look at the miracles of AI, you don't even have to write your own texts!" push, and 1) I can write my own fucking texts, 2) I'm a better writer than it is, and 3) sometimes it inserts a "not" into something that shouldn't have one.