Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.

In eighteen months, support for abolishing ICE has gone from 31 to 78% of Democrats, 19 to 48% of Independents and 7 to 12% of Republicans, according to Civiqs www.economist.com/united-state...

One reason I keep saying that Trump's departure won't end our fascism problem is that every Republican presidential aspirant (even those who 10 years ago were "normal") are talking like twitter nazis now

It took me months, about 495 rides, recovering from a shattered right foot and hacking a folding scooter, but I finally own a Nintendo Switch 2 using points obtained from Citi Bike. Afterwards, it left me questioning the very nature of work. For @aftermath.site. aftermath.site/switch-2-cit...

"Corruption is the biggest kind of theft. It is the largest scale, society-scale theft. And it is all about giving the powerful power to extract rent from the un-powerful." - @hankgreen.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOR4...

sigh

Looking around DC which fell out the national narrative for being occupied but still is. Confirmed.

Truth and reparations. Great piece by @jamellebouie.net. (Gift link.)

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

The thing with US reps sounding like Public Enemy songs all of a sudden is very welcome.

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

New essay by @steffenmurau.bsky.social on Trump admin's misunderstanding of dollar hegemony—and four possible futures for the international monetary system. 1/ www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...

This woman was Ivy League educated and a member of the upper eschelons of society. I'd spent time in domestic violence shelters and mental institutions. You know what you learn from mingling with the bottom rung of society that you don't learn at an Ivy? There's a lot of talent being missed.

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead

AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.

You don’t understand. Cryptocurrency is the future. All it will take is everyone agreeing to this and if that doesn’t happen? Okay hold on

as a journalist, the gutting of wapo makes me anxious; as an american, it makes me terrified

A huge part of the Trump '24 coalition was very low-info voters, who are now having huge amounts of buyer's remorse. This is a good microcosm of that. The collapse of journalism and related proliferation of low-info media/entertainment are closely related, opposite side of the ledger here

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Striking from new Quinnipiac poll: *Voters prefer path to legalization over deportations for most undocs by 59-34. Among independents it's 61-33 *Majority says Trump on immigration is making America less safe Again, there's broad rejection of the whole project, not just ICE tactics (see below)

New York Times is now the only real newspaper as such left in America. Grim for many reasons.

The behavior of our big beautiful billionaires over the past several decades is psychologically what I can only describe as "Crying out for consequences." They can't stop themselves and deep down they need to be stopped. They need it as much as we do

All media should be publicly or worker owned

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

this really is the crux of it all, you know? yeah. jefferson didn't. but i do. and i'm alive. and i can act.

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration

A note from our editors:

Try them for murder

Sorry, y’all, it’s DEI Settlement now

This is a good point re: Portland today This wasn't on federal land It wasn't when agents were claiming to do any enforcement activity It was federal agents shooting gas at children and union families in the streets Im not a lawyer, but I dont see how qualified immunity counts here It's assault

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

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.

“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.” Judges don’t normally write like this. But these aren’t normal times.

It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet. (Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)

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I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system