The Hormuz crisis is unintentional accelerationism

There are multiple problems with proposing incomplete measures to deal with serious issues: 1. You can wind up legitimizing the problem 2. You can succeed, then wind up with a very bad solution that's hard to dislodge, which ensures the problem continues indefinitely 3. You lose the moral argument

What @robertgarcia.house.gov @raskin.house.gov @joeneguse.bsky.social are planning here is fine, but unless you couple this with an armed enforcement unit that is *under your control* and does not depend on the DoJ or the executive at all, you'll just wind up looking weak www.ms.now/news/democra...

It's incredible how much further down the wrong side of history this regime and its security services continue to go www.wired.com/story/us-law...

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

That all housing should be public housing is a given. It's also a given that housing should be free to the occupants with maintenance funded out of taxation or we have rents, but they're capped at 3-8% (as was often seen in Communist countries) or at a percentage of AMI (as some propose.)

Wardruna, you must find a way to destroy this

Eco said that, in order to under Fascism, one must first understand that it "was a fuzzy totalitarianism, a collage of different philosophical and political ideas, a beehive of contradictions,” [run by men where] “few of them had the intellectual equipment to control it."

As with "the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak," Leftists and Liberals cast as Fascists (by actual Fascists), because as we all know, Fascism is bad except that anti-Fascism is also bad (because anti-Fascists are Actually Fascists)

'Project 2025 contributor Roger Severino warned that the country risked “losing American culture in two generations” if birth rates did not recover.' Two? That's it? I had no idea we were so close to succeeding here. Good job everyone

Activists in Memphis are facing retaliation for trying to document an ongoing occupation by federal agents:

The purges of our halls of governance, of our agencies, of our institutions generally must be exhaustive. The Right cannot be allowed near power again

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Considering how weak unions have become and continue to be in the US, 1.5B provides an absolutely incredible return on investment

www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article... Brussels see the rise of a pan-European project of hate and exclusion. What if instead of nation-based xenophobia, racism, anti-LGBTQ, we just do it continent-wide? If this were to be successful, it would be even worse than the nationalist version IMO

Music albums with my favorite production. Some of these are my favorite albums regardless, but their production really stands out: - Skinny Puppy: Too Dark Park - Machinehead: Burn My Eyes - Haujobb: Polarity - Haujobb: Solutions for a Small Planet - Die Sektor: To Be Fed Upon

Verizon was supposed to wire NYC for FIOS by 2014. They got sued in 2017. They agreed to another settlement with the city in 2020. It's 2026 and they still have not completed this work with lame excuses about landlords and access. @mayor.nyc.gov, are we ever gonna fix this?

Sometimes I try to imagine what this country would look like if Liberals defended their system and ideology from attacks from the right the way they fight even mild pressure or calls from reform from the left

Are there any major political figures that even attempt to highlight all the reasons we don't even attempt serious carceral reform? I know Sanders/AOC/Cori Bush/Cory Booker have said some things, but have any actually done so comprehensively?

One of the greatest barriers to a better society is the failure of most self-identified progressives to take repression seriously. It leads to catastrophic strategic and moral failures. equalityalec.substack.com/p/the-libera...

Gormless. Devoid of gorm. Not even a little gorm. Gorm-free. Totally de-gormed. Gorm-deficient. Without a hint of gorm. No Gorm at all

Perhaps transphobes should spend less time hating trans people and more time thinking about how to feed themselves to large land and/or sea-based animals

[Someone talking about Sweden] Was the grönt there

cohen.house.gov/media-center... We'll take a real attempt, eh

Purge, prosecute, ban

Congress should absolutely get a raise. Just not this Congress

I guess we now know exactly how bad things need to get in order for the NYT to admit it www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

Despite a vague sense in some quarters and certainty in others that the major indicators we use for economic health are suspect at best and totally misleading at worst, we're forced to behave as if they're mostly correct.

Lander possibly ousting Goldman is good news. A notable thing here is just how far to the left this race forced Goldman himself, illustrating the continued growth of left influence and just how much it matters

If this is accurate, it is very, very sad

It really is incredible just how farcical our current reality is. Every single day deeper down into the depths of madness

With Netanyahu going down, we're going to get to witness Less Scandals, but Still Somehow Worse

Clowns are once again having a moment

The correct amount of taxes for the wealthy is the amount required to stop them from strongly influencing or outright controlling the political system, and enough to make it so that they aren't simply deferred to just because of the amount they possess. That amount is confiscatory and must be

I do not want cryptocurrency regulated. I want it banned

John Fetterman's true constituency is the ghost of Phineas Gage

Something that we are going to have to come to grips with is that total disengagement from LLM usage is going to be impossible simply because of how they are getting integrated into everything. Before you might have been able to say "I just use search." Not anymore blog.google/products-and...

Something that provides a comfort, if somewhat cold, is that many of the gerontocratic monsters that rule us are nearly at the end of their long, miserable, hate-filled lives

www.nyc.gov/content/clim... We're planting trees in NYC (30% tree cover by 2040)

If a system cannot punish the powerful, the ones committing the most egregious crimes right out in the open, then there is no point to having that system anymore

It actually amazes me that there are still genuine Israel/Palestine two-state solutionists left anywhere. It must be amazing living in some kind of underground capsule

In this political moment where, across the western world, housing has reached a new crisis point. It was bad before, but now it is reaching an unbearable state.

This is beautiful stuff www.youtube.com/shorts/cMIzA...

So many actions that we see by Capitalists today is undergirded by the expansion of security states everywhere: - militarized police - expanded policing powers - more policing agencies / agents - expansion of less-lethal weaponry - mass surveillance - policy that is more supportive of use-of-force

That'd be because it's true. If you're a liberal, just own it. It's a center-to-center-right ideology. There is no part of leftism that is Capitalist, and more people should accept that as definitional

Crimes of the X Y axis

The agency-by-agency fights are going to be much less effective than I think many hope; too much thinking is still stuck in previous eras where recalcitrant, but ultimately compliant agency members continued to do minimally competent work when forced to.

Biden: at least 3 genders Trump: 6 genders Next president: 9 genders? More?

Tom Suozzi disappear from politics forever challenge

I don't think it's a stretch to say that car drivers are seen / see themselves as higher up in the social hierarchy in very car-oriented societies. There's an inherent culturally right-wing bias to it IMO

China's CR450 (currently in pre-service trials) goes 249mph. If we had that running from Penn station, trips to Boston (currently 1h32m on Acela, nearly 3h on the regional) would be a hair over an hour. Trips to Philly (currently 37 on the Acela 150, 1h + 11m on the regional) would be *25 minutes*