Theory and praxis

In Woke 2, the state will require all of us to worship Lupita Nyong'o. DSA Down Bad caucus already sent draft legislation to congress (I may have hand delivered it).

All the gray must go. I hope I live to see it.

When recruiters try to get me to relocate to a suburban hellscape in a red state

Graham Platner is a rapist with a Nazi tattoo who has no real political experience. Abdul El-Sayed is a left-wing Muslim who ran the health department of one of the country’s most populous counties. To “Jewish Insider,” these are apparently the same.

It was over. The Dracula Brigades had driven their enemies back, even with the infamous garlic artillery. But it came at a high cost: they had lost their best soldiers, the elite Nosferatu Column. Only time would tell, but it truly seemed like a vampyrrhic victory.

It was over. The Dracula Brigades had driven their enemies back, even with the infamous garlic artillery. But it came at a high cost: they had lost their best soldiers, the elite Nosferatu Column. Only time would tell, but it truly seemed like a vampyrrhic victory.

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | La Asamblea Nacional de Francia aprueba la legalización de la eutanasia y el suicidio asistido. ✍️Susana Samhan rtve.es/noticias/2026…

Liberals in the climate space don't be elitist assholes challenge level: impossible.

Walking through the wildfire smoke and seeing everything glitch periodically like when one of your pokemon is poisoned

Our national program, Workers Deserve More is officially live. 🌹 visit the link below and see what members of DSA are building. program.dsausa.org

The Global Wind Energy Council released their 2026 offshore wind report. 9.3GW installed globally with China leading.

BOOK REVIEW A grizzled Trotskyist turned mercenary leads us into cyberpunk London with his trusty AI-enhanced AK-47 in tow. Can he overthrow the oppressive government with a little help from his friends?

The 1985 Penn State football team was something else. Idk what they were putting in the water down in Happy Valley, but these guys look like 45-yr-old steel workers.

NEW | Solar generated a QUARTER of EU electricity in June - the largest single source of power last month In June 2021, ☀️ generated just 10% of EU power. Since then, installations have boomed annually, making solar 🇪🇺’s fastest-growing power source. ember-energy.org/lat...

Picked up both these books for $5 to support Oregon Educators for Palestine! (Mochi is very excited.)

I did a Google search in Spanish, specifically because I wanted certain results. One of the first is a reddit post on the topic I searched for in Spanish. I click on the link and...it's in English. Google is automatically translating English webpages into Spanish in search results. (1/2)

The same way that modern punditry normalizes (hides?) capitalism it depoliticizes politics itself. Everything is polls and surveys responding to static preferences of the electorate. If you treat human-made, historically contingent situations as fixed, it kills any discussion of changing them.

In honor of Sam Neill, if y'all haven't seen Event Horizon you should absolutely watch it. We need more sci-fi horror.

There are still a lot of influential liberals who don't understand that an increasingly large proportion of the democratic base wants blood and these "my colleague, the fascist, was very nice when we played pinochle together" press statements are not a good idea.

The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.

I've reached the age when American Girl is making a doll whose backstory is from a "historical" period after I was born and it is sending me.

To my urbanist friends: is the Canadian pattern of transit oriented development that results in a sort of "skyscrapers in the suburbs" vibe considered good policy? ie does it result in higher mode share for transit and are people happy living in these neighborhoods? Genuinely curious.

Michael Owen won the PL Golden Boot twice before his 20th birthday. Madness.

Between Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Uruguay, and France it does seem like Catholics are better at soccer.

Shout out to the person in Forks, WA selling "Twilight firewood." I respect the hustle.

This is a good episode. Really spells out how bad-faith and incoherent the right wing argument against birthright citizenship is.

Let's get some changes to this map, shall we?

Some really interesting stuff in the 2025 Statistical Review of World Energy from the Energy Institute.

Where's Germany in these charts? Nowhere, for two reasons. The nuclear phase-out, obviously, but the country also failed to build renewables at scale, as we keep highlighting. Germany's status in people's (incl. many Germans') minds as renewables champion is a decade out of date.

Which countries are actually succeeding in building clean energy? China leads in absolute volumes, no surprises there, but relative to the size of the energy system, five other countries achieved larger increases in the past six years.

The previous longest stretch without a host nation winning the world cup was 32 years between '34 and '66. And two of those were skipped because of WWII. The last host to win it was France in '98. Unless one of the hosts wins in 2030 we will surpass that. Spain, Portugal, & Morocco are joint hosts.

The Flyer. 1/4

This is excellent and the byotod tool referenced below is so cool.

BOOK REVIEW: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans brings together two scholars, one a professor and one a psychotherapist. They interpret the case histories of Asian American patients in relation to racial identity, assimilation, and more.

Today the Oregonian editorial board said the city should charge market rent, take naming rights, and that Dundon is bringing nothing. A former Blazers executive agrees. This was never the fringe position. It was always the reasonable one. They just caught up. www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2026...

When people ask me who I'm supporting in the World Cup:

Debs knew the meme back in 1901: "If there were a million [socialists], I would be one of the million. If they should be reduced to a thousand, I would be one of a thousand; if reduced to a hundred, I would be one of the hundred; if a single one survive, I would be that one against the world."

Get in DRC lfgggg

Obviously not the main takeaway here, but this illustrates how competition in capitalist society becomes a vector for prejudice. If every kid went to college for free this "justification" of transphobia disappears.

I am once again asking you to consider how AVs affect sprawl, congestion and emissions. This study of Boston found that AVs would increase total driving ~40% & reduce transit use by ~10%. (Many people would switch to AVs from transit and/or move away from the CBD.) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Melat Kiros is a refugee from Ethiopia who become a lawyer in the USA. Her law firm fired her because she condemned Israel’s genocide of Palestinians Tonight she won the Democratic nomination in deep blue CO-1 against a 15-term AIPAC entrenched corporate Democrat This is how we make America great❤️

We should be building so many more of these.

The history of nuclear power in Slovakia has been very start-stop. But with their 6th reactor coming online soon, nuclear will provide ~78% of their total electricity, surpassing France for the highest proportion of any country.

Commentator saying it's not a foul as Saliba absolutely manhandles Gyökeres lol

The US Supreme Court should not have taken up the Trump administration’s case on whether the 14th Amendment actually ensures birthright citizenship, something that has been long settled. Doing so was racist overreach.

Any interpretation of the 14th amendment that doesn't support birthright citizenship is plainly, factually, wrong. Anyone claiming otherwise should not be platformed by mainstream media unless it's exposing them as fraudulent, racist propagandists.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.