I really wish we could take some of the negative valence off of “performative” because performance is tremendously important right now especially

It’s a problem on the left, right, and center! The social relationships and incentives that they find on the internet feel just as real to them as anything they’re actually experiencing in real life, but vastly greater in number and intensity

The Trump Administration is obsessed with protecting pedophiles. After failing to comply with the subpoena and withholding over 50% of the Epstein files, the Trump DOJ just removed parts of the Epstein files that include mention of Donald Trump. (1/2)

There are going to be *so* many nondisclosure agreements disclosed

If you're surprised Kamala is perceived as just as far left as NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani, then you're spending too much time on bluesky.

I’m so glad you went. I had many people ask me - “is it safe? Should I leave my phone and ID at home? Do I need an exit strategy?” We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!

the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

my primary worry for leftist slopulism is that if it wins, it will simultaneously fight a hell of a lot less for progress on social issues than Abolish Revolution (which won't happen) AND negatively polarize everyone against marginalized communities by only uplifting the most radical of them

You know, leftists insisting that they did their bit in trying to elect Harris and it wasn't them would be more persuasive if a lot of the folks involved hadn't loudly gloated about their electoral power in the heady aftermath of her defeat, before they realized it would make everyone hate them.

my increasingly curmudgeonly take is that we all, in fact, have responsibilities. politics isn't an arena for self-actualization. it's an arena for public service. this is as true of voters as it is of politicians.

This is why abolish is a dead end politically. People are demanding ICE and Trump be constrained. Delivering that is a political winner. Using this moment to try to enact your political wishlist from the minority is delusional.

Why is Tulsi Gabbard at an FBI raid on an elections office in Fulton County?

“Everyone is secretly progressive, you just haven’t earned their vote!” is a pernicious fiction in certain online bubbles. It’s also *laughable* now that we’ve twice elected a cartoonishly bigoted, sexist rich white criminal

“nooooo unlike all the wreckers *I* have perfectly reasonable expectations of a secret majority of Americans who are just waiting to support Dems if only they do what i want” why would anyone believe this

Just realized I have a longer version of this video. At the start, you can clearly see the feds piling out of the cars to attack Pretti and then spray pepper balls, antagonizing the crowd.

Yep! Data consistently show voters still trust Republicans on immigration. Voters only approve of Trump's border security policy and literally nothing else.

Real talk: there are a lot of people on here whom I know are recovering addicts, most of whom are spiraling out pretty bad right now. If this is you, or you think this might be you, please use whatever device you're reading this skeet on to get in touch with someone or find a meeting instead.

Just gut wrenching - this community has already been through so much and now they’re preparing for the federal government to conduct ethnic cleansing of a quarter of their population, pleading for these goons to follow the most minimal rules, knowing they will be ignored

A three-to-six-month shutdown would bankrupt 1.5 million working families serving with Defense, HHS, Treasury, HUD, Labor, Education, Transportation, and State. If you think that's acceptable collateral damage, OK. But you need to wrestle with the reality of what you're demanding, not the abstract.

I’m still seeing people say “don’t trust these liberals fighting ICE, we’ll see if they’re really radical after all this is done” and guys I think you might be indexing on the wrong thing???

Ilhan Fucking Omar!

Absolutely insane shit, of which Fox News has jumped on and we really, really need to speak up about. This is only going to get worse.

I genuinely cannot fathom posing this kind of cowardice as courage or righteousness. We are creating our own self-monsters in this hysteric attempt to defend against theirs.

man. we're actually going to eat ourselves alive.

Lambasting the absurd (and liberal, apparently?) idea of information bubbles being counterproductive by decrying you as part of an out-of-touch outgroup who should merely accept it's us vs them, not think about it

The mere idea of studying rightwing though is being attacked as not pure enough. Bluesky is a fucking joke.

Donald Trump must fire Kristi Noem immediately. Or Democrats will initiate impeachment proceedings against her in the House. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.

Seeing people get mad about this and what are we even doing here. 1) "Basically DHS is the problem and needs to be stripped out,” <-- this line from Schumer correctly assumes that carving out DHS from the rest of the minibus would be a MASSIVE win for Democrats.

Right? Love the energy of "let's have a general strike" when we couldn't even master the concept of "let's have a general showing up for elections day"

man.

Thousands have already been killed. This is disgraceful.

Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?

Democrats are both riding anti-Trump vibes without real substance AND focusing on economic solutions and counters when they should be focusing on Trump's fascistic excesses It truly seems there is no, under any circumstance, winning these people over

Have we ID'd *any* of the monsters responsible for murdering Alex Pretti?

Italian journalists of RAI (the Italian major TV and public station) stopped and threatened by ICE. This should not be the narrative the US government wants to send abroad.

pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

This is the contradiction at the heart of every post on here. Posting aggressively toward Dems is a “strategy discussion” that can meaningfully shift their policy positions. But it can have no unforeseen impact on anyone else or any other political contour. Both cannot be true simultaneously.

one thing that really really sucks about our governing dynamic is that if democrats successfully force ICE to de-escalate that just gets covered in the press as Mister Trump's Savvy Pivot

This shutdown is imho unlosable. The best thing the GOP can do for themselves politically is accede to all of these demands, which is obviously a win. Though I suspect they'll do the worst thing for themselves politically and fight to the death to avoid all of this stuff.

The left is, at this incredibly important moment of rising fascism and impending terror, blaming Obama.

Obama told y'all to not to let that man follow him. He told y'all don't boo, vote. He told y'all to support Harris after Biden was harassed out of the race. Trump is revoking Secret service details while his followers kill elected officials from Minnesota. So, now you want to hear from Obama?

recently learned about “dek bass”, a sound system culture in rural West Bengal, using cassette decks and homemade systems, and it’s remarkable because 1) the music and equipment are sick and 2) the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue

signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

there’s this contingent of leftists on here who continue to argue that I’m not trustworthy because I’m not willing to burn my own city in a campaign of expressive violence against fascism, but I can’t notice that you’re not lighting your own house on fire

I finally saw One Battle After Another and I'm having an impossible time not thinking of Sean Penn's hypocritical white supremacist piece of shit border fascist as a fictionalized Greg Bovino.

The weather is fucking miserable today, legit impressed by the turnout

If you haven’t yet called your senators and told them to oppose DHS funding, stop what you’re doing and do so right now. They won’t get it till tomorrow, but it will still make a difference!