It's also murder

the costco CEO is a 40-year-veteran of the company who rose from being a forklift driver to the top, the firm has made a public point of defying Trump's racism, and by god they will make sure that the hot dogs have ketchup. www.cnn.com/2026/02/07/b...

Another timeless gem:

there is a whole ton of low-hanging fruit for prison reform in the United States - like, literally just getting rid of policies that exist for no other reason than cruelty - and we should get those done first.

Epstein’s survivors deserve accountability and justice.

TIL Germany is synonymous with Europe. But seriously this is so silly. It is simply true that there are places where the government prefills your taxes, which is clearly an improvement for like 99% of people.

Every Blueski who logs on to yell at Americans about how our country works is like, “You vote for Democrats?! This pales in comparison to my strategy: having had my grandparents (or ancestors even further back) set up a more ideal system for me, back in the past.”

Leftist policies are usually correct but adoption is severely hampered by the fact that the people advocating them are leftists

Broadly speaking: reality tv is bad for democracy, influencers are bad for democracy, streamers are bad for democracy, YouTubers are bad for democracy. Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists

Happy valentine's day ❤️

“what are you willing to do to win?” typically makes people think of combative elements, but way more of the time this is what you’re gonna be called to do.

This is why the people who show up to protests ready to burn things down aren’t “allies” with “different tactics.” Overwhelmingly they’re there for the thrill of rationalized violence; they will find some way to commit some violence against somebody if they have the thinnest excuse.

The year is 2015. China is getting richer and more powerful every year, but America has three trump cards: universitities, biomedical research, and immigration.

Everyone keeps talking about a “Left Joe Rogan”, well…

pulling off a targeted strike shutdown on one specific government department seems like genuinely impressive minority party politicking has anything like this happened before for comparison?

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

this isn't a binary choice; it is a candidate's responsibility to get votes, and it is the citizen's responsibility to vote for the candidate who will produce the best outcomes (or avoid the worst). you can argue all day about harris' campaign but citizens chose trump, an objectively terrible choice

Some people online are part of a fandom that only superficially overlaps with politics and Natalie was right to call it a philosophical hobby (context: a guy hoping Mamdani loses, but from the left)

you have to treat people like this with the same seriousness as you would a guy screaming at you about the lizard people on the street; they have a similar relationship with reality.

My position is that I do not intend to vote for Gavin Newsom in a Democratic primary, that I would vote for any Democrat against JD Vance in a general election, and that Hasan Piker is both an idiot and a bad person.

Hello yes I am AOC's campaign manager and I am asking all tankies to keep saying this shit Say it where normie Americans can hear you, preferably

it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks

hasan, who is not trans or queer, saying that Dems would shoot every trans person in the head to win elections, is just straight up ratfucking, indefensible

I will admit I'm hot-headed about tech worker issues, so I'l try to be more even-handed in articulating this: Think of the genuine, real grief we feel because of the decimation our good, valued friends in journalism have been enduring over recent years. We know they're victims of heartless tycoons.

having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood

People like this quote bc it's cathartic but I think it implies responsibility too. There are many things beyond our control, but we have to choose what's right with the power we have. Voting to protect our neighbors and democracy is one of those choices and it's the least we can do.

okay but like the burden is literally on us

The burden is always on all of us to preserve a republican form of government, and I think a lot of our current issues are downstream from the fact that so many people have forgotten this.

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

Mutual Assured Democracy.

i think there is a shared, cross generational belief that there is a “They” sitting in the background that will step in and prevent things from getting intolerably bad

Oh wow, who could have foreseen that cynical nihilist conspiracism would have ended up here, what a shocker.

in a democratic republic (and really in all times and places) the slavish hunger to be in the thrall of a strongman or a king is the ultimate moral degeneracy.

Yes. Finland's housing program that all but eliminated homelessness is partially funded by the state owned gambling system.

There is only one working class, the professional managerial class, and there is only one working class party, the Democratic party, and there is only one working class paper, the Financial Times

It's wrong that they won't let me live in a 55+ community simply due to my age. They should let you in if you match the "general vibe"

A statement against doomerism as some kind of intellectually elevated, clued-in reaction to the horrors of our political moment.

Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.

Crazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.

"Here's some stuff I had an LLM produce, I didn't check it for accuracy at all." Thanks man, I really appreciate it, good stuff as always.

If random masked men are setting fires in your community, I think you should feel free to film them. Especially if dozens of other people and several national news crews are filming them. They are not "allies," they're arsonists. Grow up.

BREAKING: 8 more U.S. Attorneys in MN resign from Trump’s DOJ in protest as backlash grows. This isn’t normal; isn’t routine reshuffling. It’s a rebellion. Last month, 6 veteran prosecutors quit in protest. Normal staffing for the MN DOJ’s office is around 50 attorneys. They’re down to just 9.

Anyway the real heroes of Minnesota are the countless volunteers doing boring shifts where nothing happens. The mom of three delivering food to 40 families in her kids’ school. The dad standing at the door of an elementary with a whistle for hours. The drivers endlessly looping, seeing nothing.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

a lot of these Cult of the Operator leftists are essentially what i would describe as Walter Mitty types

or you could attend a protest secure in the knowledge that if they prosecute you for it, they're violating your First Amendment rights&it's better for you to be targeted than an immigrant,and that people will stand behind you up to you, depends on if you want to preserve democracy or just look cool

Strongly disagree, the point of these protests is to show that we are not afraid of them and that there are far too many of us for them to shut down the protests through harassing individual attendees.