Wow. From an article in The Guardian.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Let's say there had been an attempt to do this. A progressive, perhaps from NYC or Los Angeles, touring conservative communities in a suit and tie to tell people their views on abortion, or trans rights, or racial justice were immoral. How would outlets like the NYT or the Atlantic have covered it?

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

noting grimly that with the boating drone strikes we have definitively arrived at "how bad is extrajudicial killing, really?" but I continue to find it really strange that they did "children having cancer and communicable diseases is fine actually" first

A good day to launch a Democratic Party-aligned think tank devoted to attacking the ACLU.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

What a relief that we've spent the past decade wringing our hands about censorious leftist college students

the problem with media corporations negotiating with fascists is that the negotiation is never over.

The gag is, I don’t think Harry Reid would support this. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

bruh John Yoo drafted the memos to give the Bush administration legal cover for torturing people John Yoo said the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to "terrorists" and even he is like 'yikes Trump is crossing a line'

all in all I obviously wouldn't say things are peachy right now but as you make your way through the shittiest discourses known to man on this website don't doomscroll your way into a feeling of inevitability and defeatedness that the current geopolitical situation doesn't actually warrant

It is ridiculous that we don’t have a national arts and culture policy! The government should be subsidizing and encouraging healthy creative and cultural outlets for people. To the extent that a country is one big community, we need the stuff that makes communities!

One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.

as someone who has read far too many manifestos and investigation reports I would simply beg everyone to avoid social media forensics at the cost of focusing on the obvious fact, namely that Americans enjoy a broad franchise and imaginative prerogative to mass murder, for clear historical reasons

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Protestors chant FREE DC FREE PALESTINE TRUMP IS THE HITLER OF OUR TIME To Trump, Vance, and Hegseth

(raising my platoon for a charge) for tax crediiiiiiiiiiits

There is simply no value to Democrats in helping with passing budgets or CRs when the administration claims limitless arbitrary impoundment and rescission powers.

swiggity swirty, today i turned 30

Yep. (*sighs*) As I’ve often joked without actually laughing, there are few greater sins inside the Beltway than getting it right too soon.

Immigration Policy Compromise Theory has been tested. GOP moderates tried after Romney lost, then got primaried by nativists. Dems tried it last year, with a bill that gave GOP most of what it wanted. They blocked it, then won the election. Reasonable concerns about border security this is not.

oh, computers aren't people, huh? well just imagine you said that about people. pretty messed up, buddy

Echoes of Enrique Peñalosa's “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation."

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.

Recent polling found that only 17% of Americans believe that AI will help the country in the next 20 years. Democrats should align themselves with this popular view. From @dylangyauchl.bsky.social‬ and @maxmoranhi.bsky.social with @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social‬:

Rich people were asked to stay home for a few months while they saw their employees getting slightly better job offers in a tight labor market, and they lost their goddamn minds

Always good to partner with @dylangyauchl.bsky.social. This is a piece from us about why the consumer AI industry is absolutely moronic nonsense that any decent person, much less any ambitious politican, ought to oppose. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

My latest w/ @maxmoranhi.bsky.social is out in @prospect.org today! It's about why Democrats need to vigorously oppose the AI industry. Hope folks find it interesting! prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Democrats must oppose the AI industry. Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social and @maxmoranhi.bsky.social lay out the case this morning in a piece for @prospect.org 1/4 prospect.org/power/2025-0...

This is the quality of journalism to which the Supreme Court is accustomed and expects, that couple of months when people started asking how they finance their lifestyles and why they have so many political-donor friends left them VERY angry

this is fucking embarrassing as shit, corporate icebreakers are less insulting to the average participant’s intelligence than this, make her do a fucking ropes course

i was specifically promised this would not happen

You can't have this happen and then go back to "normal," that's no longer an option

Something I wonder about for real is what comes after this, whenever that is. Because it can't be this again, right? Like if this is what the presidency is now then we can't ever have another president

Everyone has a second full time job being mad at the government now

oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop

"English, Scotch-Irish, and continental Europeans" is really saying something.

Taps the sign. www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...

What's remarkable is that this is still being debated. If we work our way out of these ruins, it'll be imperative to align climate action + working people -- not capitulate, especially now, to fossil fuel and technology financial interests.

crypto: it's not for laundering money! (it's mostly for laundering money) ai: it's not for disciplining labor! (it's mostly for disciplining labor)