I’m such an elitist for desiring 100% human connections.

It's just so much more fun to read stuff before looking at the author. Hide the name and it could be (should be) written today.

I keep thinking about how literally the only bit of levity in A House Of Dynamite is that general being amazed by Lindor in the all-star game the previous night.

Three sentences divided by one million pixels yields an image that has an average intentionality that's so low that it's practically homeopathic. 12/

I've always been on the "Platner seems to have bad instincts" side, so when I caught the second half of an NPR report this morning alluding to a "controversy" over the weekend, I assumed it was real. But this is nonsense.

When We Win: Dispatches from Revolutionary Futures (Haymarket, 2027) will include stories by @jordyrosenberg.bsky.social, Mimi Lok, Anand Gopal, @reproutopia.bsky.social, @vickyacab.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, myself, @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social and @amajosephine.bsky.social

Holy shit the book announcement is here, I can tell you all that I have a short story in the follow up collection to Everything for Everyone, ZOMG

I cannot say this loudly enough: we need everyone to know what is happening at Delaney Hall. 300 detainees inside are on Day 7 of a hunger and labor strike as of today. ICE is beating, gassing, tasing and assaulting protestors outside every night, and it is getting worse.

A new type of politics that's not beholden to corporate power and actually serves the people? That's what we're running on 💙

The ideal local party-building activity is just...feeding people and entertaining their kids. I think parties *sort of* understand this, but think it's tacky, or they try it and it fails miserably because they can't help running up to the attendees after 20 minutes and giving them the Hard Sell.

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

The idea of looking to philosophy for keys to build "intelligence" is so absolutely batshit stupid. If any of those high paid philosophy grads thinks this is a good idea, they should be thrown in a lake.

“I don't think either side really thinks about the other’s perspective" strikes us as a very odd thing to say in a country where nearly every person who rides a bike, especially for recreation, probably also owns a car while it is probably not true that most car owners also ride bikes regularly.

Whomever wins, we lose.

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

Maybe people here have just realized how silly most "conversations" on any of these sites are. If you want real conversation, there are plenty of places that are built for that. A few discord communities is infinitely more interesting to me than rando good and rando nazi toots.

Most folks don't realize how central events like J6 were to the Jim Crow state. Dozens of unprosecuted coups & massacres—actively encouraged by those in power—revived the fundamental logic of the pre-emancipation state: that Black Americans had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

Is Fukuyama trying to top the ignorance of his end of history take? What magical blinders he must have. How can you take that L and then see Trump as a cause rather than a symptomatic outcome of a long running process??

🚨 MAJOR WIN: A Wisconsin court denied the DOJ’s request for private voter rolls. The DOJ is now 0-8 in these data cases! Common Cause stopped this overreach to protect your data privacy and right to vote. Elections belong to Wisconsinites. 🗳️💪

By this metric, an author or musician also can't be a socialist in good standing. WTF are we doing? Funny how just as we're coming to terms with the disaster of identity politics' division of the working class, we see all these new divisions popping up.

It's not "free-association". What are you talking about? Every thing I don't like, such as pointing to two major party-lines that Massie refused to tow, is "zog conspiracy"? www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

The first trans-atlantic wire brought news to the US of the Paris Commune and we've been in the "socialism of fools" ever since, from the perspective of opponents of egalitarianism. Did that create antisemitism too? The more I think of this proposed connection, the less it makes sense.

Bro, it's the relationship to capital that makes the definition. I'm all for organizing in durable organizations and agree it's a key missing ingredient, but this no true scotsman nonsense is far from helpful.

Adult Lad and Teen Man constantly arguing over who's the sidekick

The "left" is so cooked that it can't distinguish between austerity and regressive taxation 🙄 As those same people if they think taxes on the rich should be doubled and you'll see those numbers flip.

Yeah, that's how I felt too

Even though the fund is clearly unconstitutional, just as Trump even being in office is, the courts will dismiss this for lack of standing. We're in a world of standing for me, not for thee.

You're not supposed to hear about @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social's Dreams on a Pillow according to some very influential forces - so how about we make sure that game happens. You can crowdfund the full development of the game here. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

Just hit me that Trump's new J6 slush fund significantly exceeds $1 million per J6 defendant.

Bezos wondering if his buy & kill was even needed.

“and in many instances you have a volcano open up and perhaps molten lava as a barrier and its going to be so beautiful with our mechanical spider, you wouldnt believe. and the dirigible docking station is something we’re looking at very closely but i can tell you but we’re under budget”

man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude

In a historic moment, I was interviewed by fellow Black woman particle physicist Dr. Katrina Miller. Few people can understand my journey the way she does. We talked about my new book, why poetry matters, and yes, how the *fact* of non-trinary neutrinos challenges anti-trans rhetoric. #GiftLink

The president is suing taxpayers for $10 billion over tax returns he once said he’d release himself, returns that showed he paid just $750 in federal taxes that year. That’s 25,000 times his annual salary, and the Speaker of the House has nothing to say about it. Let that sink in.

Good thing we got rid of those humanities requirements for CS grads 🙄

We must say to you bourgeois individualists that your talk about absolute freedom is sheer hypocrisy. There can be no real and effective “freedom” in a society based on the power of money, in a society in which the masses of working people live in poverty and the handful of rich live like parasites.

I didn't think an increase in the public's awareness of the em dash would be a bad thing. Everything I like either doesn't matter or is somehow bad now.

Walking down the block earlier and everyone kept stopping me and shaking my hand calling me Mr. Normal. Thank you Mr. Normal, sir etc. I never called myself that but sometimes a nickname just sticks.

The hidden caption of the image on the right translates to: "Forward, to demolish the German invaders and expel them from our Motherland!" Wonder why they hid it.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Exciting news! We officially have a campaign HQ in Madison, and you're invited to join Team Hong on Monday for the grand opening. We're ready to kickstart our sprint to August with supporters, set up our office, and build community. RSVP: www.mobilize.us/francescahon...

Now do it with roads

HUGE NEWS: The Hawaii legislature, on overwhelming and bipartisan votes, just now became the first state to clear a bill that rids the state’s politics of all dark and corporate money — effectively undoing Citizens United. Next stop: Gov. Josh Green‘s desk for his signature.

The alternative to a "loyal opposition" is a "treasonous opposition". If they're not the former, they're the latter and we should be taking their heads off. The entire point of the concept of loyal opposition is to allow power to change hands with heads intact. If they don't want that, so be it.

Such a bizarre response to a single decision "eras[ing] what Virginia voters made clear at the ballot box." One of Democrats' worst qualities is their inability to even admit defeat. Especially when it's their bread and butter.

we’re gonna be confronting this issue for the rest of our lives, imo, so no reason to get mega-hot about one example, but: this is about tech trying to get a foot in with the Great Lakes water supply, not much different from FoxConn

This is true -- and right now, there's little-to-nothing effectively regulating large data centers in Wisconsin. That's clearly unacceptable now. It's why we proposed Pause to Protect back in February, alongside our 2% of income cap on utility bills. shepherdexpress.com/news/feature... (1/2)

Fuck this. We need to invoke the Great Lakes water compact to keep the tech bros out.