How I feel when people say a liberal politician is pro-trans only because they want my donations and vote:

THE ACKROOMS

it's cool how american politics is torn between people who assume parties have powers they legally cannot and party apparatuses that refuse to use any form of power

this is like the 'most americans can't afford a $400 expense' figures always coming from payday loan company push-polling

U.S. v. Pierre Menard

Yep! People think misogyny happens bc Some Guys are just Too Caveman To Cope With Women. But nope! A lot of guys who hate women are soft as shit! That's why they need ALL OF SOCIETY to be on board with hating women. If they had to do the work themselves to get women to serve them, they'd fail!

Regardless of whether you’re STEM or humanities, thinking the other group is temperamentally incapable of correct thinking is fulfilling the least charitable stereotypes of your own group

This is a prime example of why right-wing populism slides so easily into antisemitism. You need a populist framing of "the people" versus "the elites," but you can't frame the elites in strictly economic terms, or else you end up with leftism. Hence you need another way to define "elites."

It occurs to me that America might actually be doing a better job of wrestling with its past than it gets credit for, we just don’t notice because the truly bonkers shit in other countries is in languages we can’t read

People are harassing Chris for telling the truth and it has got to stop. The trans community, such as it is, gains absolutely nothing from bullying and driving staunch allies like him from this site and it’d be great if the meth-addled mean girls would fucking quit it.

Right, the thing about this speech is that he says BOTH that the Fourth of July is a sham, the day that reveals hypocrisy and injustice, AND that the principles of the Declaration are saving principles You can't understand either side of the speech without the other, imo

When I was 15 I read Robert Anton Wilson which probably explains a lot about me

celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle

also if we built many more big cities, the big cities we have would not be expensive anymore because it turns out that dense housing linked by mass transit is actually far cheaper and more efficient than suburban sprawl. it's just expensive now because there's a shortage of it

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

Requiring for-profit developers to rent a percentage of new homes to poor people at a loss is bad, kludgy neoliberal policy that attempts to outsource a key state function to private market actors. Instead of this de facto tax on new housing, the state should tax property to fund housing subsidies.

What people think SEPA is: Erin Brockovich codified into state law What SEPA actually is: is this new hospital spoiling the view from a different neighborhood

Unquestionably part of the work that “Zionist” as a term does is make it easier for people with righteous objections to Israeli genocidal policy to be in coalition with the most vicious bigoted antisemites on the planet, as long as those antisemites remember to say the right word instead of “Jewish”

part of the reason i am a lefty-YIMBY is because density is both good for the environment compared to the suburbs, better for growth, and makes the issue of "how many immigrants can come based on infra" a non-issue

Two things we need to internalize, quickly: 1. People are getting an ENORMOUS number of their ideas about the world from short-form video 2. These apps aggressively promote some of the worst ideas in the world because they’re reliable emotional triggers, the only criterion that matters for the app

Take the pledge: NEVER take the bait when Axios runs a bunch of anonymous quotes from random Democratic backbenchers dumping on D primary voters

Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.

fixing the court is table stakes for any Dem running for national office, you are not a serious candidate if you can’t get on board with this and refusing to do so is disqualifying in a primary because it doesn’t matter what your policy positions are if SCOTUS will just overrule them

you see the difference between Iran and America is that in one country ultimate power lies with a cabal of robed theocrats that pays only lip service to democracy, whereas the other is in the Middle East.

People are dunking on this (deservedly so) but I looked into the group doing it and it's apparently some 501c3 with almost no web presence and a Substack written by a guy who used to work for Cory Booker. I don't think it's fair to say that the Democratic Party is all in on this specifically.

my message for this Pride to young queers is this: your identity and relationships are not radical, they do not threaten the system of capital. they do not undermine all authority. you are not dangerous and "the system" doesn't benefit from keeping you down. you are going to LIVE and SURVIVE.

just saw someone characterize me correcting Will Stancil on a point where he was wrong (and Will listening to me) as "me deferring to Will" and Will expecting me to act submissively to him some of you people are fucking deranged

The guy who harassed Scott Weiner at the Trans March is a chaser who thinks this gives him the right to determine who is and is not welcome at a trans event. We cannot, /cannot/ let this stand.

yes. you cannot win calvinball by taking advantage of the new rules. you have to fire the refs

Your reminder that a non trivial portion of anti data center discourse is being driven by big ag looking to scapegoat someone else for their practices

Not really a fan of the fact blue city residents discovered their love for blood and soil nativism in the form of calling outsiders transplants coinciding with an underreported mass migration wave of transgender people from red states.

A lot of people dislike physical neighborhood change, real estate developers, and yuppies more than high rents and homelessness.

here’s the reason gentrification discourse is so cursed: housing development is good, and displacement is bad the problem is that many people think development causes displacement, when in reality development prevents displacement. and the word “gentrification” conflates all of the above

Who is "The White Moderate" in MLK's letter? It is not the resistlib or the diehard democrat, it is the person who insists that redlining protects communities

We can build homes in less than a year. We can build trains in less than five. There is no reason why the projects that better our lives must take decades.

i fucking hate this niche radical bluesky trans woman thing they do where any criticism of them in particular is treated as being transphobic i don't think it matters in the real world but yeesh there are real transphobes out there and we need to know who our actual enemies are and who are annoying

This "you refuse to listen to trans women" argument is extra stupid when a lot of trans women are pretty vocally on Stancil's side in this whole "is Will Stancil transphobic" brouhaha brewed up by the most toxic assholes this side of a MAGA rally. bsky.app/profile/tran...

let's goooo!

A new RAND study of impact fees finds that a 25% reduction in such fees would increase the number of feasible housing developments by 20%, and pay for itself via increased taxed revenue. www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

“Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice … in the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York.” —Félix Guattari, 1989

so much housing discourse seems to assume housing works like video game spawners. homeless shelters spawn homeless people and gentrified luxury housing spawn rich people. so if you dont build them their spawns simply won't materialise from the aether!

again, if this is the heavy-handed manipulation they are doing to Grok, what do you think they are doing to the algorithm which chooses which posts to show you (and which of your posts are shown to others) over there?

There's a whole lot of "one of the Good Ones/one of the Bad Ones" going on re: this subject, and people, if you find yourself doing that, stop immediately, because that road NEVER leads to a good destination.

The LC Discord cooked up some thoughts on the scandal naming convention

And one more thing: all the cranks demanding third parties should take a look at what Mamdani has done. He won his Democratic primary and then threw his support behind other primary challengers and won those. He's the King of New York, and he did it as a Democrat and with Democrats.

what’s happening tonight in NY is how we win the infrastructure is there, you don’t have to build it from scratch, it’s called the Democratic Party you just need to go and wrest the controls from the people who aren’t serious about doing what needs to be done, and as tonight shows, that’s doable