I went on Substack to suggest to Simon Rosenberg that there might be some valid reasons for Minneapolis activists to be suspicious of Dem party fundraising. Ooof.

extremely cool info environment to tweet something and a half hour later once it’s riled everyone up to be like “no haha jk it’s the opposite actually”

minotaur walks into a bar. bartender says, "you lost, friend". minotaur kills him in a single punch. "now there's no one to pour the beers", says another patron. minotaur tears the man in half. blood everywhere. no one seems to mind. she has found this room before. the labyrinth is playing games now

The President telling a prime time network news host effectively "I got you this job" is not something you see every day.

If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+

Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here

This is why you have to respect mr. Stancil even if he annoys you. He’s an elemental force, like the weather. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. I do like his burning hatred for fascism. You can tolerate the rest!

The constraint is only unbridgeable because the New York Times insists on treating the Republican Party as a legitimate actor, when it’s actually a band of illiterate vandals. They do this because many of their elite journalists are themselves Republicans. Easy!

liberals are impossible to satirize

oh things are about to get catastrophically bad

The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose

I think the reason reactionary centrists love debating Republicans is they can find common ground on their shared vapidity and antipathy to political sincerity

French General Nicolas Richoux: “If the United States attacks Greenland, we should fight the Americans and turn them into the villains of history.”

I think it’s time to consider the possibility that bill kristol may be our Lenin in 2027-8

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Please be aware that contrary to their fundraising ads, @forwardblue.bsky.social has no relationship with the No Kings mobilizations, no record of doing anything in support, no inside information, and is ignoring requests to cease advertising that suggests they are involved.

This guy thinks he’s on the side of decency while he tut tuts and admonishes people mourning the brutal killing of Renee Good. “The Atlantic” mind virus is undefeated

Lieutenant Governors are a sleeper contender for most deranged politicians on average in America, and the competition is stiff

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u... I’ll see yall at Nuremberg in January 2029. You bring popcorn, i’ll bring booze.

the old world is dying. the new world is also dying. we fucked up so bad, you guys. like so bad

You do not defeat reactionaries that are ready to kill whoever they please and unseat a despot by playing fair. You can prove they lied infinite times and expose their corruption as much as you like, but they'll keep at it with the *power* they hold through *force*.

Every day is like the parable about the man on the deserted island refusing to be saved by boat, helicopter etc because he's waiting for God's help, but it's about any Democrat with a backbone and an iota of charisma being offered the chance to become the next president by simply describing reality.

don't you see they're killing us as a distraction

This Jacob Frey speech is incredible. "To ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis."

This place is morally superior to Twitter for reasons that don't need to be explained on here. But I think the sense that being here is a moral act in and of itself (it's not) gives a lot of people permission to lecture strangers about things that are dumb and also frankly none of their business

Yeah again, not telling you how to post but the number of people I see both enthusiastically celebrating “running off” someone and decrying people still being on X is not zero. You gotta choose guys!

Delta force kidnapping the Greenlandian president would be awesome because I've chosen to believe it's just a big fat seal with a monocle

Man, Karl got suspended already, 2026 is gonna be a great year

in all seriousness people are aggro’ing over increasingly stupid and bad things because they feel useless in the current moment which, to be serious, means you should log off and do more things instead of just screaming at someone

The Venezuela attack is about getting oil the same way that rape is about getting laid

I mean this belongs in a museum but also it shows how much the average person was/is paying attention to Ukraine, like, actually following events rather than just absorbing opinions

this is the problem with a ton of establishment commentary on Venezuela. Machado is literally just 2003-era Ahmed Chalabi with arguably worse politics. Even nominal opponents of Trump end up justifying his crimes.

Dem messaging bingo: - accepts framing - [thing] is a distraction - "those liars lied to us and we demand that they come and lie to us again" - words not used: impeach, illegal, unconstitutional - tone-deaf to anyone left of the farthest right

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

Tonight on FOX News: Oracle of Delphi predicts that in 2026 if Donald Trump “Pursues his war in Venezuela, [he] will destroy a great Empire.” Tune in at 8 for the big win!

I think about this a lot

seditious horus lupercal let our Great Navy go to hell. sword class frigates named after xenos thats all we have now but no more! we are bringing back the apocalypse class battle cruiser. prow-mounted fusion lance. archeotech broadside macro cannon. saturnine auspex arrays. we're going to win again

almost nobody knows how to prosecute anything these days. literally 95 percent of cases end up with plea bargains, all most prosecutors know how to do is stack charges and assume the defendant gives up

A podcast asked me to record a voice note about my prediction for 2026 and here it is.

Appears the allegations were true

I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

The RSF just attacked a kindergarten, killing at least 33 children in Sudan. Meanwhile, the Trump Admin. continues to sell arms to the UAE, who are aiding these atrocities. Imagine if Trump spent as much time trying to stop the killing, as he did getting the UAE to invest in his crypto coin.

testing the strength of our marriage by wearing socks with birkenstocks

I’ll put it this way: I have significantly more optimism that we can beat this particular set of fascists than I do that Dems will do what is necessary not to hand the country right back over to the next batch four year later

There is nothing the Romans loved doing than sending a guy to negotiate and then when he got back to either not approve the deal or act like he didn’t have authority to negotiate