"The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true." John Steinbeck, born on this day in 1902

I spent over a month outside the US last year. Greece, Portugal, Mexico. All of them were great and welcome changes from day-to-day. But living in a place that’s growing like a weed, full of friendly & polite people, and lots of opportunities to touch grass makes this kind of post hard to relate to

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

no man that's That Guy in particular and that's why the bouncers of all the bars around here have been given a picture and physical description of him. be fucking for real

AI but it publishes your search history every time you say some shit like this

Is it a bad sign how long it took me to find this word

no one is sure exactly why

it's not too late to stop this act.dsausa.org/s/4536.Xd0xHm

Wow

You know that thing everyone loves, defined an era, and forever changed the paradigm. Well actually here's why it sucks 🧵

News hit is up www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...

I'm so proud of my fellow organizers in Richmond's DSA chapter who are launching their Block Flock campaign in Richmond today. It was a really sharp, well organized event that clearly shook Council. I'll share more later as the local press that were in attendance publish their stories.

The Mamdani Imperium begins with a (freshly shoveled) Golden Path

What the FLOCK! There's a few dozen gathered outside of Richmond City Hall against FLOCK cameras and Automatic License Plate Readers. (ALPRs)

See you Monday outside city hall for the Block Flock rally! Wear red 💃

HEY RVA THIS IS TODAY AT 5:15PM CITY COUNCIL MEETING AT 6PM!

Each presidential term has its defining effect on the political zeitgeist and it's clear this far into Trump 2 that this time it's Hyper Radicalization of Median Voters

I'm sorry but I can't help myself: the best fruit discourse is poisoned by conflating "average one you get at the grocery store" with "best you've ever had.". The classic example is peach, the average grocery store peach is dogshit and the best you've ever had is a transcendent experience

Folks the post-mortem finally leaked and spoiler alert: it was Gaza

I tried Takis for the first time this month and I didn't realize how advanced foreign chip technology has gotten. The US is truly lost.

Easily one of the best gifts I got this year, shout out to @milesklee.bsky.social

Can you imagine being one of the best players on the best hockey team in the world from the nation who invented hockey and your team dominated your opponents the entire 60 minutes of regular time only to lose a few seconds in OT and then you're handed a deformed yeti toy as a consolation prize.

I'm glad they did that, Johnny Gaudreau paved the way for an entire generation of smaller hockey players

Connor Hullebuyeleeccck is our nation's greatest treasure

Trying to imagine the CEO of Nintendo doing an interview about the systemic risk of children not playing Pokemon.

Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”

FWIW in the months leading up to October 1929 the country was at a fever pitch over STOCKS, everyone was buying STOCKS and endless articles and advertisements were churned out about how much you were going to miss out if you didn't buy some STOCKS.

Former AG William Barr described by FBI as participating in abuse of minors alongside Leon Black. EFTA01660622

I'm calling it now. Texas will flip blue by double digits.

one of those things you need to watch if for no other reason than the trump administration doesn't want you to:

I realized I’ve been a bit of a downer lately but everyone I know is miserable and my local grocery store closed down and everywhere around me all I can see are the physical signs of a decaying society so the fact I’m as chipper as I am kind of feels like a win

HEY RVA THIS IS YOUR DAY OF REMINDER FOR THIS SHOW! I’ll be there and hope to see you too among the folks enjoying this awesome lineup to energize the BLOCK FLOCK campaign leading up to the rally at city hall next Monday 3/23 at 5:15!

"Mayor Levar Stoney’s chief of staff and other senior officials also protested to Burks, she said. [...] '"You need to get rid of her,"' Burks said she was told by former deputy CAO Sabrina Joy-Hogg."

I'm just a dipshit MBA who moved Left but other firms need hard drives and ram. This is going to expedite firms raising questions in public about the legitimacy of the hype behind their competitors sucking up all these resources.

Are the same people insisting on the tactical discipline to commit for Newsom this far out also on board with Platner for similar transparently obvious tactical reasons? I'm gonna guess no.

We should get all the witches from this particular witch hunt and burn them at a pyre.

While the internet and social has been amazing in a lot of ways, it also allowed those most easily influenced, those most detached from reality, and those willing to grift anything to all find each other. It's been catastrophic

genuinely lol x.com/clashreport/...

I cannot believe we're having another round of "I'd vote for Hitler if he was running against Trump" discourse.

I cannot believe we're having another round of "I'd vote for Hitler if he was running against Trump" discourse.

Walking past all the $15/lb beef to grab a tofu brick for $2

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

Tuesday at 7, out DSA chapter is hosting a benefit concern to raise money for our Block Flock campaign. Come learn more about ICE's favorite mass surveillance tool and how we can fight together to protect our community.

Join us on Feb 17th for this benefit show raising funds for the Block Flock RVA campaign! Richmond is better without mass surveillance. ALPRs track everyone without making anyone safer. RVA’s contract ends in 2026. Join our campaign to Block Flock! Learn more at linktr.ee/RDSA_Migrant....

over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes

Richmond Free Press ceases publication after 34 years by Keyris Manzanares www.vpm.org/news/2026-02...

A real opposition party would make something out of this, even if it was to proclaim that they will never issue contracts to a firm that bows and scrapes to this authoritarian regime.

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