McBride has politics that repel many people on her, for pretty good reason, but I had better not see anyone refuse her 100% solidarity on this at least.

“My momma said my daddy’s name is Thomas Jefferson.” “Mine too.” “Uh, hush up little girl. A lot of cats have that name.”

worth noting that empirical work by economists has resulted in something of positive reconsideration of rent control when combined with policies that make it easier to build housing www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

I keep saying that the median normie opinion on trans folk is somewhere between "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and "Safe, Legal and Rare"

I've characterised his take on slavery, like Washington's, as a shame-faced: "... but I can explain! It's very profitable!"

Absolutely Frank Zappa would have been annoyed with me once I refused to put out

This has very obviously been the case all along, but there's a real taboo in liberal circles against seeing Trump himself as a symptom of institutional rot and elite cowardice. They've constructed a very stupid politics built entirely around reflexive anti-populism and shitting on the electorate.

I don't want to hear about how if you're protesting ICE you need to hide your identity and keep no ID because otherwise you'll be rounded up and sent to the gulag, or whatever. they can't even land a conviction when you throw a footlong at them

The left-populist answer to this is that this can happen if we eliminate the rentier class

Hmmm. Well, I *am* doing Yiddish and Hebrew on Duolingo

Tankies, once again, in shambles. (Apart from Caleb Maupin etc., of course)

"Feeling unsafe over transparent nonsense" is the common basis of all reactionary politics, *including* reactionary politics which disguises itself as "progressive" politics. The latter "weaponisation of identity" is a face of Woke 1.0 which shouldn't be allowed to come back.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

This was literally the plot of one of the later, weirder episodes of [i]Happy Days[/i]. Some ghost trying to get the Fonz to off himself so it could be 1955 forever

Some of you might appreciate this diagram from r/linguisticshumor

I mean, this is what I get from participating on Facebook, but can anyone explain this?

Let's face it, this is why people got really into Rick & Morty, and the SAME REASON why they got really into Bart Simpson in the 90s

In a world where fossil fuels didn't exist, they'd be invented in fantasy as a fictional trope oh yeah, of course the dominion of the evil sorceress powers their machines with black sludge that is literally made from death and decay, what else would they use?

There is an ongoing war within the Democratic Party* between the people who are actually "Democrats (pejorative)" as accepted in popular discourse, and a growing Market Socialist Transgender Muslim Horde * not actually a political party

Decent analytical thread. The Mamdani election is the *beginning* of a big social struggle, rather than the end of one. We are in a position where the "great middle classes" really do have to decide between fascism and social democracy (not even socialism, which isn't on the agenda yet)

Someone literally told me this on Facebook, though the precise wording was "YIMBYism is Dengism without a state-owned construction company"

This is an amazing chart. Does the same thing happen in the US?

The basic rule of united front politics is you have to want to beat the enemy more than you want to control the coalition. You can’t trust liberals who hate leftists more than they hate conservatives. You can’t trust leftists who hate liberals more than they hate conservatives.

It has started.

The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity group on Facebook has gone absolutely bonkers with this stuff. These are group founders posting this

Every Pacific nation just felt a great disturbance in the Force

Every leftist has been ranting about the necessity of turning the Mamdani campaign into an ongoing social movement, win or lose 👍

"Night Watch" Not Pratchett, but @straczynski.bsky.social

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

But GenX were ALWAYS conservative or nihilistic. "The children of Reagan and Thatcher". Boomer and Millennial socialists often remark on that "missing generation". Even saying the word "capitalism" in the 90s would get you mocked as Kim Il Sung. Seattle 1999 shocked everyone.

If you want more democracy, you need fewer cars.

The YIMBY coalition remains undefeated

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Ha ha, wow. The Buttigieg avi. One of the most annoying Twitter trolls. How I have NOT missed seeing that guy.

Lots of people self-describing as libbing out tonight, and I'm here to get you to *think* a little about that term, why it sounds like a shameful pleasure, like sitting on bathtaps or something

Max Schachtman, thou art avenged

i am saying that instead of viewing zohran as the vector of change you should view him as a byproduct of change which has already begun to occur

Keir Starmer does a Bud Dwyer at his resignation speech but it later turns out he was attempting to shoot a trans person and he just fucked it up really badly.

A lot of people say that Trump acts as egregiously as he does because "the fix is in" and he's dictator for life. But the NZ government acts egregiously too even though they'll face fair elections next year. The point is that they're doing this to "own the libs", and they think that's popular.

People are very right that there is no contemporary equivalent in the US of the Sturmabteilung or the Blackshirts - in physical terms, anyway. There is, however, an *information-space* paramilitary force upon which the Trump regime increasingly relies. Techno-fascism.

I INTENDED TO CHALLENGE ALL THEOLOGICAL NOTIONS—FROM A HUMANIST POV!!!!

Tankies in absolute shambles

Tbf, this would not be the first time Schumer and Jeffries had a deal and Schumer welched on it (March shutdown)

Immanentize the escargot

Not going to call this person out because they're good value, but this statement is brainrot. If you pushed them they'd probably try to hem and haw about whether Zohran Mamdani is, like 1% evil or something, but as it stands it's a meme which leads to demobilization and despair.

Mayor Richard Wilkins III has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

I regret to inform @areidross.bsky.social that some BlueAnon on Facebook is citing him as an authority that Mamdani is a Red-Brown puppet of Qatar