Every home we don't build in California is another American family condemned to live in a Third World theocracy.

There are actual adults who believe in socialism or even communism on here, and then there is a group of people who are children, either temporally or emotionally, who are K-pop type fandom of something they call that.

remember when the chud press was obsessed with Islamic 'taqiyya', which they believed was a special scary kind of lying, back in the 2000s and fewer of you will remember, but back in the late 16th century the chud English press was obsessed with Jesuit 'casuistry,' a special scary kind of lying ...

the entire discourse is poisoned by presuming that jewish parochial nationalist bullshit is any different than azerbaijan screaming about nagorno-karabakh or the endless droning russian nationalist bullshit about kiev

Eid Mubarak. Here is my daughter fending off a Beirut cat who belongs to the cafe but wanders in and out depending on the menu. If you celebrate, may your meal be as tempting as the makdous bi labneh was to this kitty.

It turns out that sometimes when you post a thread criticizing someone for letting their legitimate horror and anger lead to them drifting into the sea of algorithmically-promoted conspiratorial hateful slop, they read or & absorb it & engage productively & realize where they went wrong.

Try to guess what this is in response to.

not saying don’t mention AIPAC, but like. this whole Hormuz business has some incredibly obvious climate implications, it is a golden opportunity to message about how fossil fuels are bad

Thread. tl;dr: this group (1) gives an “AIPAC Democrat”/“AIPAC Republican” label to pols who haven’t taken a cent from AIPAC if *employees of J Street* (which hates AIPAC and Netanyahu) have donated… (2) …but only if the politicians are Jewish. Vile.

Trump is occasionally "funny" in the way that a small child or a pet is funny: that he is absolutely not trying to be or understands that he is. To be funny *on purpose* requires self awareness & the ability to be a bit self-deprecating. He is capable of neither.

maybe today, the day that an idolized leader of a labour rights movement got exposed as a rapist, we could remember that predatory behaviour is not limited to people we disagree with politically & characterizing sexual predation as unique or inherent to foreign conservative countries is stupid

*shouts "end pedophilia* at a gay pride parade* *people get mad* "so what you're pro-pedophilia?"

Thanks to Hell Gate for reaching out to me for a response! Here’s my Q&A with them. hellgatenyc.com/abundance-ag...

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

I think a key and under discussed reason for the relative ascendancy of conspiracism is the simple fact that neither the US nor Israel are actually acting all that rationally and a lot of people have internalized a framework of mind where a state acting against its own interests isn't possible.

It feels deeply bad to see people who participated in and came to regret post-9/11 Islamophobia doing the same thing but for Jews

Hope, you might have to sit down when I tell you this,

it's time to tap the sign again -- understanding the origins + history of classical antisemitism tropes means that you can be clear on what legitimate critiques of a state you might want to critique might be & what might be promulgating 2000 year-old scapegoating conspiracy theories

My take on IL-9 is that IL-SEN is way more important, but it’s been virtually ignored on this website.

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

If you want better things, elect Democrats, keep electing Democrats, elect better Democrats, & reward them when they come through.

Not really the point, but I appreciate that Frank's Zoom background makes it feel like he's appeared to you during an ayahuasca vision to deliver this message.

You can DECLINE to stop giving people e.coli?

Yes. And any trans person who doesn't think we're on the desert menu if we let red-brownism continue to spread is deluded.

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when you’re referring to the Jewish President of Ukraine who had no ties to Epstein and his circles as a “member of the Epstein Class” and suggest that he is sex trafficking Ukrainian children you aren’t being particularly subtle.

A thing thats become increasingly clear to me over the last several years is that the original sin of a lot of the online left—the space where a lot of their political myopia & wrecker desires come from—is that, born out of their own general privilege, they refuse to believe things could get worse

It’s sad because most people think this is just bad design and not *mandated* bad design.

Beautiful statement from Ayman Odeh, Palestinian MK and head of Hadash-Taal. For those who do not read Hebrew, I will translate:

Mamdani is doing everything possible to maintain a principled critique of Israel that is not antisemitic. He will keep doing it, because he believes it. But the Jewish organizations like the ADL that have decided to go to war with him are making a mistake that will endanger US Jews for a generation.

Everyone always says “Don’t California my X” but eliminating broad based taxation and relying completely on high earners and capital gains is how you get insane revenue swings California experiences every budget cycle. Not ideal imo! Would not recommend.

“Slopulism” is a redundant phrase in the same way that “chai tea“ is but it’s a very evocative one which neatly captures how populism is bad even when it’s not racist

THIS. Charging for water isn't anti-agriculture. It's a basic guardrail that keeps lowest-common denominator bulk goods, that can be grown just about anywhere, from crowding out more financially rewarding types of farming. That brings MORE MONEY to farms & rural areas.

Someone at the NYT asked me a couple years ago for an opinion piece on "how to solve the Colorado River water crisis." So I made a nice little writeup on the most obvious answer: charging for water. Once the editorial board saw it, they freaked out & cancelled the piece.

What's especially aggravating is that you actually can make tax policy part of a general We're Gonna Fight the Bastards message. "Elon Musk pays a lower tax rate than you do because he makes all his money from stocks and we're gonna close that loophole" would be a popular message!

"antisemitism is class politics for idiots" strikes again

A fun fact about the belief the “Old Testament God” is cruel and egocentric and the “New Testament God” is loving, is that when British missionaries edited the Bible for enslaved people to remove references to freedom and liberation, they deleted 90% of the Old Testament and only half of the New.

Peak bluesky. No notes.

Every time I see people describe Janet Mills as a centrist I realize there is an imaginary Janet Mills that exists in people's brains that they've invented out of whole cloth in order to justify supporting Platner, and then when Platner was exposed as a Nazi they just refused to update their priors.

recalling today how Biden's One Big Oil Trade was an example for how all kinds of markets could be stabilized prospect.org/2026/03/11/i...

Into the garbage bin they go, right next to Target. We don’t need your shitty brands! You’re expendable but trans people are not.

“Every farm that is subsidized, every Romantic idyll that is coddled, every aesthetic sustained by the state signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

Karl Marx on the American Civil War:

- They say the next ones will be sent by a non-hegemonic American administration that depleted all of his country's soft power - Really makes you feel like you're part of history!

this is basically how gen-x ended up the way we have [derogatory]

‘There is no difference between the parties’ is frankly one of the more blinkering articles of faith a lot of people hold. If you believed it, you couldn’t really believe Trump was gonna do what he was obviously gonna do

the death of secret societies has increased antisemitism by redirecting ambient social distrust towards Jews