For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

the right isn’t really that afraid of zohran mamdani, the thing they’re most afraid of is that his agenda and being unashamed of being an open democratic socialist will work too well

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

1954. Crazy. Nancy walked so She-Hulk and Deadpool could run.

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

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the fundamental central operating premise of this entire dominant ecosystem of what passes for the institutional "left" in this country is that you must carefully calibrate what you believe in light of what you perceive certain demographics to believe. but what wins elections is believing in shit

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Fine, stand with us. Unite on our side. If unity to fight the enemy is so important to you, come stand at our side to fight them. Set aside your reservations, stop attacking us, stay quiet about the things you disagree about with us, and let's fight together. You're willing to compromise, right?

The thing about people showing you who they are through harm is, they do not get to claim publicly to be anyone different until they do the work of public repentance and repair. So if your dirtbag faves are "better" now, well. No they're not, not until they do that work

The fact that I have to write an email to all my students -some of whom rely on SNAP benefits to survive and take care of their children- to make sure that they have food and know where to find the campus food bank is nightmare fuel. I’m terrified for this country.

First of all, if a majority wants to win over a small number of votes from a minority, the usual approach in congressional politics is to, uh, offer them something. No one expects them to jump to your side just to help you out of your jam. The GOP would die laughing if the roles were reversed.

people voted for a guy who in the last couple of days posted a video fantasy of himself shitting on americans, torn down the fucking east wing, and declared that the treasury has to pay him $230 million for reasons. And Lemon, it's Tuesday.

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

you are on bluesky because elon musk's daughter cut him off after she came out and he thought she caught the trans from twitter, so he bought twitter hoping to prevent trans people from existing. it's why you're here, it's why the site was here when you got here.

Wrote a thing www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...

furthermore, they expressly do not believe in democracy. not an exaggeration, their funders are fully in the technofeudalist/monarchist ideological swamp. their figurehead literally does not understand how our or any democracy works. they dont want to be in any kind of government with you at all

Because liberals tend not to directly insult conservatives on account of their humane and inclusive worldview so right wingers have to look back further for insults to GOP voters. Meanwhile this weekend every major Republican congressman said I hate America.

Early Christian literature, the New Testament specifically, is famously known as the most untrustworthy, altered, manipulated, selectively edited, nigh irreparably compromised literary corpus in ancient history. Finding authentic tradition in it is a problem so thorny that there's no good method.

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

i miss living in a country that wasnt murdering itself so openly

also a reminder that one's own career would have been much more successful if one was just willing to ghoulishly tell rich people that they should have the right to no taxes. and to murder palestinians I guess, that being Weiss' other main ethical commitment.

Governor Pritzker is right but he should not stop there. He should call on Members of Congress to abide by their oath and invoke the Impeachment Clause to impeach and remove this lawless president. @fsfp.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov www.impeachtrumpagain.org

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

Did anyone else catch that the senate was about to pass a bill that would give anti-doxxing protections to every American and that was blocked so instead they passed a bill to give only themselves anti-doxxing protections???

I am exhausted. Politically, in my work life, in my life as a parent, I am so incredibly tired. The only thing I have left keeping me going is my wife. I know this is probably too earnest for social media, but I love my wife. Several sources of stress, all outside my control, and my wife keeps me ok

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

one of the weirder parts of this wave of total surrender of core civil liberties is there is no fucking reason for it. no world war 2, not even a 9/11. we're just bored and mad

There’s also, as Perry points out, the “we” problem. I’m a journalist, not a politician. I plan to continue pointing out that the entire conservative movement is obsessed with phantom problems and conspiracy theories. I think this is an extremely salient fact that voters should know.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/xx #smbc

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

A classic from @smbccomics.bsky.social today. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-ra...

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

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How do you deal with a political party that worries about doing what their voters ask of them, for fear that they will alienate people who don't vote for them?

I recall an anonymous quote from an elected Democrat asking with exasperation: do people expect us to put our bodies on the line? @katmabu.bsky.social did it. She gets it. All the respect.

One thing I've hesitated to say clearly is that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies anyone who provides aid or comfort to insurrectionists, not just insurrectionists themselves. The Democrats are without question fulfilling this requirement.

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least