no remember this administration is very serious about investigating fraud, as long as by 'fraud' we mean 'the existence of black people'

I can’t believe I’m saying this out loud but public sector unions should absolutely be able to negotiate on compensation, are some of you out of your minds

It's kind of ironic that Democrats think they're acting responsibly by tamping down this kind of justified anger instead of channeling it, but it's really the opposite. Leads to disaffection, radicalization

I keep hearing that wholesale financial restitution for harms by the state are impossible and yet here's Trump proving again that nothing is impossible in this country.

We need a Second Pride in November for the Autumnal Queers.

BROKE: It's anti-Semitic not to root for the OKC Thunder WOKE: The OKC Thunder must be returned to their ancestral Zionist homeland, in Seattle

so, I think a couple things are true. 1. there are various things called "AI" that have some reasonable uses. 2. the unrelenting hype around AI is a tool of oligarchs determined to destroy labor and democracy, and it should be mocked.

Shake it, baby! 🐢

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

my most anti American trait is I refuse to call it gas because it's a liquid

Also people are not prepared for how little the Democratic Party in 2027-2031 resembles that Democratic Party under Biden or Obama. Massive generational turnover is happening. The future is AOC & Ossoff & Talarico & Mamdani.

I honestly think that, aside from outright complicity, the media's lack of interest is *because* it's so brazen--there's no shadowy conspiracy to unveil, no hidden deals to uncover.

Violations of the Genocide Convention of 1948 do not require that a single person be killed. Read the Convention

this doesn't surprise me at all, younger people are being told that AI is going to make the entire concept of employment vastly more risky and unstable the younger you are the harder it's going to make your life

When Democrats take control, I want a slush fund to compensate everyone who had to live through a decade of this unhinged nonsense.

we should have strung them up

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

This is so cool, and includes some images I've never seen before

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

spiritually cops, but not actual cops, exactly. DSA is going to stand with the workers over a state government that refuses to raise taxes, as they should. bsky.app/profile/mali...

Astronomers have waited years for Rubin to come online. Now a trickle of data has begun to flow down before the floodgates open, with discoveries already being made. “It almost doesn’t feel real” Story by me in @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/rubin-tracks...

At what point do we collectively decide enough is enough and literally run these guys out of DC on a rail?

As a person of social awkwardness, group chats have been a complete godsend to me. The ideal form of communication.

The only characteristic of Trump that I find personally relatable is his extreme contempt for evangelicals that support Trump

It's absurd how much a court packed with Catholics loves the death penalty.

corruption is a disease. there is a cure. www.liberalcurrents.com/prosecute-th...

Mount Saint Helens erupted on this day 46 years ago. John "Jack" V. Christianson took these photos from Mt. Adams, 54 km to the east, as his friend reacted to the eruption—really, the wholesale collapse of the volcano—at 8:32 am on 18 May 1980. Imagine what this must have been like to witness.

I have not stopped thinking about this since I saw it two hours ago. Like yeah of course I’m always at Best Buy purchasing prewritten software. My giant estates are nearby — why wouldn’t I be at Best Buy purchasing prewritten software?

from GUARDS, GUARDS! by Terry Pratchett, 1989

The thing about AOC is that she has much broader appeal than Khanna, can easily outfundraise him, and is a much more reliable ally for the left. The only possible reason to support Khanna is pure Gender.

I sincerely hope that people in the quotes popping off about the nationals fan base, when these assholes with the sign are almost certainly out of towners to a city that is 95% not this, have called their representatives about ending the federal occupation of a place without representation.

again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

I know “Imagine if Obama did it” is old hat, but fucking imagine if Obama posted a picture of himself with an alien slave for no discernible reason.

Once Frank dies, people are going to insist that you can't say bad things about him, which is why it's more important than ever that you say all the bad things about him right now. Time's running out!

I sometimes wonder why Musk doesn't just retire and live a life of luxury, but then I realised. He IS retired. And we're his model train set. The world is his greenhouse to potter with. The politics he fucks with are his Warhammer model kits.

"Trump's push for border security has proven to be one of his most popular policy stances. But in the crowd at a Washington Mystics game we spoke to 8 black lesbians who aren't so sure."

Written by the health "reporter" at the NYT who is constantly questioning every minute detail of youth gender care, seen here writing with praise about conservatives abusing testosterone.

I would watch the shit out of an action comedy take on the Odyssey with Jason Mantzoukas.

Me: AOC has made some disappointing decisions while in office and is a lesson that we shouldn't lionize any politician Also me: President AOC is going to bring us Reconstruction 2, she said so!

AOC as a fellow socialist and yankees fan what is your plan to expropriate the Steinbrenner family's entire fortune and force them to sell to someone who isn't a talentless failson

The stars are warm but hungry

a wisconsin town banned student musicians from playing a song that was written in tribute to marsha p johnson. "it is a band piece with no lyrics that is very technically challenging. we have worked so hard for months." the objection is to Black trans women being recognized. like as a concept

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Any other #AbSciCon2026 folks hanging around in MKE waiting for the Badger Bus to Madison at 5:30?

Person: "Send aliens instructions for large language models." Me: "You want to send hypothetical aliens technology based around overuse of resources and ruinous environmental impacts?" And then I realized that this is "create the Berserker from the classic scifi novel Don't Create The Berserker".

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

If you really can't say "AOC is better than Tucker Carlson," you are on the right-wing. You see a basket of extreme right-wing views from one of Trump's friends and find it compelling. Nothing else you say about your political orientation makes the slightest difference, you're just a right-winger.

People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

*Superintendent Chalmers voice* you know, this Christian nationalism is quite similar to a return to church-backed feudalism