The JK is for Jeffrey's Kindred

Lots of regular degular, never-done-an-activism folks have been activated in recent months and are working alongside a bunch of seasoned, die-hard, been-tired-for-ten-years-or-more organizers, and you don't know all of those stories bc most people are moving with a bit of discretion in these times.

crazy that basically every person complaining about "woke overreach" over the last 12 years is also in the epstein emails being like "thanks for the pussy, jeff ;)"

Incrementalists take it on the chin again. This is why they hate Mamdani. He's giving up the game that people in power HAVE POWER and don't solely exist to beg you for $5 every day. He's ruining the Democratic Party by showing voters that they have the power to do stuff instead of crouching in fear

Subscribing to the print edition of The Onion has literally helped keep me sane

This is the real reason they want Greenland btw. They want to do the libertarian crypto city where ceos are lords and everyone else is a peasant

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

the US's definition of 'communism' it is basically any nation that dares to self-sustain its own economy without dependence on the US

I’ve never been into poker but I’ve started playing Balatro 😎

in retrospect in the wake of the epstein files being released, no wonder ‘me too’ was met with such anger and ultimately those in power it meant to target never face many consequences

Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much

Nazis don't become Nazis the second they commit the ultimate crimes. They were Nazis as soon as they aspired to those crimes. It's really obvious when you understand Naziism academically, rather than falling back on the vague cultural sense that it's a slur (which is what Nazis want you to think)

Just got a targeted add for a bag of potatoes lol

We need to shut down the word "performative" until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Of course adopting symbols of protest and resistance is performative! Performance is a core strategy for mass movements!! That's why the call them demonstrations!!!

“I spoke to a woman who expressed her very real concerns about her marginalized child. I knew it meant she was actually so so horny, it was so obvious how horny she was, she is the weird one in this story”

I'm going to be fully honest but the reason a lot of the Epstein stuff isn't shocking but also not pulling everything together for me is because it isn't one single, linear path for every thing in the last 20 years but also a method of power dynamics that have been described for decades by feminists

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

i feel like i don't have room in my brain inventory for everything i am incandescently angry about

i hope history remembers that everyone could see that this was a ridiculous doomed failure and just sort of did the emperor has no clothes thing about it like, in the media, for the sake of fairness

I'll always take action to protect hardworking New Yorkers who deserve fair pay for honest work. If you think you are a victim of wage theft, please reach out to my office’s hotline: 1-800-771-7755

Can we talk about how Trump is wearing a mascot-costume level of foam under his jacket and it’s getting a little bigger every day

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

we’re right about ai too

bfd. i'm out of my comfort zone every day, every time i have to get up & function in a world where the rules are written by guys who host Shark Tank or The Apprentice

You are already supposed to have a warrant for arrests ffs Our demands need to go further than “follow the current actual laws”

If there's one thing I know about racist white people is that they expect all white people to be racist. So they literally cannot compute why a bunch of white folks would be in the streets when they're not the ones being kidnapped

Race as a construct is so powerful that only now are many people saying ‘they are killing us’. They have been killing us. We have all been us the whole time.

This is my dream tbh

There is a direct correlation between my sweet kitty Mew passing a few years back (and for both emotional and logistical reasons not getting another cat yet) and having to deal with mice for the first time in my entire life. I’ve just always had a cat before

I love when people who are professionally wrong for a living describe it as being really into "nuance"

His shoulder pads are now so big it’s like he’s wearing a foam jacket to make it seem like he’s not slouched over at all times

Don't lecture me about how everything is my fault for having bad opinions while you gracelessly admit that in fact I am right about the world.

THIS. I really wish people understood that the fake-ass apology to get you to shut up is part of the abuse cycle and we don't have to fucking participate in this shit.

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming. no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

"Good tsar, bad boyars" is a longstanding trope in authoritarian regimes. See also "if the Führer knew..."

and additionally, this is why all the warnings about normalizing white supremacy and violent rhetoric were so prescient and it should be a lifelong stain on those who ignored it

Never forget that these people, when the results of their ideological project bear fruit and the public reacts to it negatively, immediately try and ignore they ever supported it

We have so much in common 😌

the "problem" of "illegal" immigration disappears the second you stop thinking like a racist freak

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

I’ve gone from wanting to be a brain in a jar connected to the internet to wanting to be a little rat with acorn furniture I think that’s progress

Part of the reason we messed up the original Reconstruction is because we were uncomfortable with dealing with the realities of the level of harm America had done To the point we chose those who caused that harm over the safety of others and we have SUFFERED that ever since

I’ve got a very sweetie normie lib mom who doesn’t get into the Trump minutiae so its always fun to be the one to get to tell her about the funniest of the shit he does, like the hole/whole milk thing She’s all like :0

the entire timeline has spoken with one voice. and they're saying "Delroy Lindo"

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

Everyone on Bluesky is poised like we're waiting for the DVD logo to hit the corner of the screen