This is hilarious on its own, but if you listen to the recording you can hear in an un-transcribed aside that the interviewer is confused about both what DSA is and what American political parties are, which sets up his next, even more ignorant and bungled question.

If there's one thing Democrats stand for, it's that you should be able to get a good look at your local ICE stormtroopers before they shove you in an SUV and disappear you

Ok dude but have you told the state police under your command about this?

JB Pritzker continues to posture as the defender of rights against Trumpist authoritarianism, while sending his state police to beat the shit out of protestors on behalf of ICE, I don't see how this remains a tenable combination for very long

Right wing politics is organized around political flopping, more and more people are saying it

In light of the nickname of the 19 year old Elon flunkie who is seemingly to blame for causing millions of deaths and also leaking everyone's social security number, I'm surprised I haven't seen more references to this classic youtu.be/4WwJ6OVSwkM

The most shocking and disturbing thing I learned in this article is that Theo Von is 45 years old. He's two months older than me! How is that fucking possible?!

This is one of the most prominent billionaire funders of Democrats, if you ever wonder why so many of them are Like That

Because of the structure of their respective voter and donor coalitions, Republicans need to blame social problems on powerless scapegoats (migrants, trans people), while mainstream Democrats can't blame anyone and instead need to insist that working people and billionaires have common interests.

I'm at the rise of fascism. I'm at the dismantling and looting of the USSR. I'm at the combination rise of fascism and dismantling and looting the USSR

I stole the term from EP Thompson, who was talking about nuclear war. I swiped it to refer to something more like the Dead Kennedys line: "Efficiency and progress is ours once more/Now that we have the neutron bomb". A mythical bomb that was said to kill people while leaving property intact.

Lately when I watch star trek TNG, I'll get annoyed by characters acting ChatGPT-brained. Barclay can't sleep and is like "computer, play something soothing." Oh, you don't have taste or know yourself? You asked the chatbot to tell you what you think is soothing?

My fantastic four

Good things happening back in my homeland

All these people are ass and should be primaried, but it's significant that the three from New York are scared enough of what Zohran represents that they felt compelled to act out of character like this

I stumbled into watching the 2025 Robert De Niro Netflix series "Zero Day." It's extremely incoherent and stupid, but also maybe a good window into the mental prison that, say, the editors of the New York Times have locked themselves into

I thought my Pixel's battery was starting to go, but I did this and it really seemed to help eev.ee/blog/2025/07...

Very normal things happening over at the New York Times

The US and Israel were very successful at preventing accurate data collection, and discrediting the sources that did exist. So even pro-Palestine forces fell back on lowball numbers that were easier to defend. But I think we all know that the true scale of the horror is something much worse.

Who is Andrew Cuomo in this metaphor

This is, by miles, the most effective and compelling I've ever seen Kathy Hochul come across in any context. She's an evil but also extremely incompetent politician, and it's remarkable that the Trump regime has managed to make her look this good.

An instance where it would be the most reassuring to discover that the article was generated entirely by an LLM with no human supervision

Saw my first anti-Zohran ad because I put on the NBA finals and the first hit is that he's going to "move the homeless into the subways"?? After that it's just some warmed over "defund the police" scaremongering from 2020.

The fact that civilian leadership understands it can’t rein in the police without having their families physically threatened really is a democratic crisis.

Yeah, I think about this "ostensibly" part a lot: www.peterfrase.com/2025/06/blue...

Capital is a supremely adaptable social form, one day it's killing Aaron Swartz for downloading from JSTOR, the next it's scrapping the intellectual property form so more coal can be loaded into the plagiarism furnaces

turning a big dial taht says "COPS" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

Society genius Mark Zuckerberg has determined that what the average American wants is to pay 12 people to be their friend

The author of this article wrote a big puff piece hyping crypto in the New York Times, in March 2022. But don't worry, this time he's totally not wrong about the latest tech bro hype he's credulously repeating.

Berlin #teslatakedown

True. They also do want the Nazi to be "German". The emotional investment in the category of "whiteness" just isn't very deep in comparison

What Musk failed to understand is that while a disturbingly large number of Germans still want to be Nazis, they really don't want to be *explicitly reminded* that they're still Nazis

The weird feelings talk is so repulsive. I don't want a corporate bureaucracy to tell me about its feelings! Do, or do not, there is no "heartbroken."

Gavin Newsom is the kind of brainless, greasy neoliberal pick up artist who really appeals to a segment of the Democratic base, so I'm kind of relieved that he decided to clear things up by starting a Nazi podcast

Chuck Schumer abhors what you say, but he'll defend to the death your right to say it. Or at least to his mild inconvenience. Maybe. Unless his donors tell him not to, or Donald Trump cooks up a vaguely believable pretext for saying you committed a crime.

The major institutions of my society are controlled by delusional egomaniacs who just yell whatever unhinged shit pops into their heads, is that good?

Hakeem Jeffries was replaced with an LLM over two years ago and nobody even noticed. That should tell you everything you need to know about what an incredible technology Hakeem Jeffries is.

You might think this means paying taxes is now optional but don't worry, they'll keep on enough staff for the targeted investigations of political opponents

I think I finally understand what happened: Mark Cuban asked ChatGPT how Kamala could win, and it said she should campaign with Liz Cheney and send Bill Clinton to give an islamophobic speech in Michigan

I interviewed Colin Smalley of the Federal Unionists Network about government worker organizing against the Trump-Musk Coup: jacobin.com/2025/02/fede...

Read this, on the urgent struggle of federal workers against the Trump-Musk wrecking crew (I have an interview with one of these organizers coming out at @jacobinmag.bsky.social this weekend, covering similar ground, this is the more comprehensive picture)

I might be turning into the type of guy who carries these around to leave under people's windshields

I've made other statements in print that I'd now revise or retract, but this remains the funniest/bleakest one

The Trumpty dance is your chance, to mount a credible political opposition

This is true but it also illustrates the way the Internet sucks right now. Coming to Bluesky feels like fleeing your local bar that got bought by a Nazi, for the place down the street where everyone is kind of annoying and pretentious but at least there aren't chuds screaming in your face all night.

In the gentlest way possible, I would like to suggest that there exists a tradition of thought that explains the general sense that everything is driven by making money, while recognizing that each individual fact can't be reduced to immediate profit-taking

Deranged and demented for Andrés to accept this. Biden was directly involved in murdering your own people, just this last year! What the fuck are you doing.

One of the most obvious ways that our era feels late-soviet is the prevalence of oligarchic looting. But another is the low quality of consumer products, even if ours suck in novel and specifically late capitalist ways.

When your biggest city's mayor is a narcissistic corrupt cop, he's going to think police are the protagonists of every situation, while also mostly just talking to rich people these days, so naturally he thinks this is going to be an awesome image that gets everyone cheering on the police