the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

@cplusc.bsky.social’s brilliant @pmbigger.bsky.social takes the wheel on our front page today. War industries — especially across the US & Europe — are quietly (or not so quietly) fanning the flames of the #climate crisis. As temps climb & political will melts, #COP30 begins in Belém on Nov 10.

This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media. Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

jesus the parody Dick Cheney tributes do not need to be this on the nose

While we do not agree on all issues, I want to publicly thank UNC-CH Chancellor Lee Roberts for clearly stating today in Faculty Council that UNC cannot and will not sign Trump's Compact, because it raises irresolvable issues of academic freedom. That was important for faculty & students to hear.

still one of the finest essays on this particularly grim episode of corporate social murder

lol

yes hahaha yes

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

OK now we're going to need to have a talk with Gov-elect Spanberger about ending right to work in Virginia.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

my grandfather liked to say the Staten Island Ferry was the only thing that went down in price in his lifetime, because when he lived there it cost a nickel

the @nytimes.com is best understood as loyal footsoldiers for the center-right. they would take a 1000-year Trump reich over one democratic socialist and they don't even care to hide it at this point...

this is key. there’s an argument that tariffs can grow infant industries by encouraging inward investment, but afaik they have never been used to *recover mature industries* and I don’t think Americans could accept the radical wage reductions that making them competitive again here would require…

AI is a semantic entropy factory but I think some critiques overlook the extent that the institutions pushing it want entropy. they want to themselves be slop. how else could you explain this?

My congratulations to all Baseball Perverts. It was their "super bowl" last night and it seems they all had a very bad time (in their culture that's how you have a good time)

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

perfect example of ideology as an imaginary relationship to real material conditions. billionaires truly believe that they are their money, but they are not. we eliminate billionaires by taxing top incomes highly enough that it disincentivizes pulling capital out of the productive economy.

“The U.S. has now murdered 57 civilians in attacks on 14 civilian boats,” said the UN Special Rapporteur for the protection of human rights. “A systematic attack on civilians is a crime against humanity under international law. When will other governments speak out?” Read more: bit.ly/3L8OTFr

the @nytimes.com is so housebroken that it does paid posts for free

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

This is the news I've dreaded all my life, and it's here: Humanity has failed to avoid dangerous climate change. We have now entered the overshoot era. Our new goal is to prevent as many irreversible tipping points from taking hold as we can. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

This is Jim Crow shit.

we are on pace to hear a hard R from him on live TV possibly before the midterms, especially given the obvious dementia

feels very much like the tech industry who threw in with him and are now worried about burning the last of their social license to operate

caving to the exact same people who murdered Heather Heyer only about a mile from campus

And, unlike actual adolescents, a brief to wield power in order to personally enrich themselves and their friends first and foremost.

normally I think the feigned ignorance is just an exercise in power but sometimes they really are just irretrievably stupid

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

these people are incapable of anything other than disbursing other people's money and as a result they believe that "ideas" matter more than abilities. it's almost as if they've dedicated their very lives to proving Marx correct...

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

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We recognize exurban sprawl as the built environment of alienation—anti-social infrastructure that invites paranoid, rightwing extremism. AI and social media are becoming the exurbs in our pockets—they fracture us, alienate us, and disconnect us: the distributed infrastructure of fascism.

you have trained for this moment, Philadelphia, do us proud

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

Andrew Cuomo has lost the Italian Jewish vote

I love living in a time ruled by the least imaginative people in world history

Remember the Year of the MOOC from a decade ago? The one where tech bros predicted the end of all but 3-4 universities because who needs campuses when everyone can just take MOOCs and learn everything? Hits a little different now after pandemic pedagogy, huh? The tech hype cycle is a helluva drug.

AAG 2026 Call for Papers/Panelists: "Urban Politics from Bidenomics to MAGA Urbanism" organized by myself and @alanwiig.bsky.social. Please send abstracts and/or expressions of panel interest to us by October 24, and share widely!

"A myopic emphasis on individual privacy also obscures how companies like Argyle impact collective action." Stellar piece from Eliza McCullough (elizamccullough.com) in Lux that shows what data indebtedness actually means for individuals and organizers. lux-magazine.com/lux-for-life...

“please clap”

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

these people are monarchists not because they believe kings are virtuous but because a monarch is typically an easily manipulated figurehead that provides cover for all manner of private violence and enrichment

“The president is being fed a steady diet of AI generated propaganda videos from his team so they can direct his energies and signatures towards their own goals” is a real and true statement about America in 2025

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

not surprising that the @nytimes.com didn’t include a comment section on this putrid garbage, and surely it’s just a coincidence that the author is the CEO of a private equity firm trying to take the University of Phoenix public and would financially benefit from destroying higher education

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries