Putting all the controls in my car on the right side of the steering wheel means less time holding hands with @lynnmnichols.bsky.social and I don't appreciate that kind of engineering

STALINISM

Just because I oppose the Democratic Party's plan to collectivize agriculture

I am very pissed that my bougie SUV moved most of the controls to the *right* side of the steering wheel, which defeats eating and driving

We had our lunch (burgers at the beach just taste better - fight me), but it's actually pretty windy down there today. We got just outside the beach area and the temp went from 81 to 90. Tomorrow should be even better, and twin lobster rolls are still only 29.99 That's your Beach report for today

Jeez, I get one Totenkopf tattoo, and I gotta hear this crap wait that wasn't me

Joe Biden was, in fact, a good president.

Correctamundo

It’s a really well done series

@helenlewis.bsky.social is my favorite writer on almost anything, but here she absolutely nails the trans athlete Sprme Ct decision, which so many people misunderstand. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Because I got locked out of Vault 101 IYKYK

Here at the beach, it’s all anybody wants to talk about

Whatevs

You bet I do

Hitler was the Facebook guy tho

Your arguments are invalid

It’s too nice a day at the beach to argue with silly people. If you think Gaza is a genocide, and you want to seize the means of production, just unfollow me, it’s that easy! I’ve argued with real communists in Moscow, I don’t need to coddle short-pants Bukharinists over here 🤣

The last paragraph of @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu piece on what patriotism means ahead of our 250th Independence Day. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It is indeed in dispute and deeply politicized, but fortunately, I already spent 18 summers teaching a lot of kids to know the difference

Ohhhh yes it is

Stalin was actually a piss-poor Marxist. His comrades underestimated him because they thought he was stupid, which he was, but he was also ruthless and cunning.

And certainly none against Putin

It’s always nice to meet people who’ve been following me here for decades

I did! 1983

Just like being on x

I’m aware. I have some thoughts about the abuse and cherry picking of expertise in “UN independent commissions”

I had to chuckle because this is true. But my point remains: don’t force voters into choosing between extremes because they will gravitate toward the right.

The Democratic Socialists of America was formed in opposition to the very thing it has become, Jonathan Chait argues:

Well, technically, you're allowed to have an opinion.

Stalinists are people who don't understand how comments work on Bluesky

The politicization of expertise is a problem, especially with a "genocide scholars" organization that's open to anyone who pays to join it and issues resolutions that are voted on by that membership. We covered this last semester, kids.

omg

Imagine my grief

If this is truly the Gaza generation, then American democracy is doomed

MAGA 4evah

I just don’t have the heart

I dismiss it with the utmost seriousness

Bluesky at some point will get a block button, but until then this poor woman will just have to suffer

By the way, “Spider-Noir” was really quite good

Time for some vintage TV :)

Pretty sure we all know the answer to why

I already spent days here arguing about why Gaza wasn't a genocide, not doing that again. But if the war in Gaza is your primary issue, you're not really all that concerned about democracy in America, you're just another single-issue voter demanding that the world acknowledge you.

I have a couple of notions, might write them down at some point if I can find a job where I can put those ideas on a platform

this only works if other Democrats say "we are not that"

What works for them will not work for you. They have a cult, you need a coalition.

I remember this, and I remember thinking that Harris was facing almost impossible odds (for many reasons), and yet this is why she gets heckled. I assume that a lot of the folks who didn't vote for her figured they were sharpening the contradictions.

I'm not running for anything.