We need to stay aware that Ukraine attacks Russian logistics while Russia attacks Ukrainian life. Terrorist scum.

It really is remarkable that Woody Guthrie wrote these lines ~80 years ago, they sat hidden in notebooks, and then they surfaced 25 years ago and have become ubiquitous among resisters.

So my longtime theory abt why Pgh is SUPER into fireworks* is that for a century it was a landscape of fire, and only fireworks could scratch that itch. *less than it used to be, but still a lot

"We seized your assets and gave all the stolen wages back to the workers, found your REAL books and all the emails confessing to discrimination, and the rest went to the IRS, and we're live-streaming this for the sickos" is the path to American joy.

Basically enforce white collar crime laws like they're all low-level drug dealers (people objectively causing less suffering in the world) and you'd end the GOP in six months.

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This would be an excellent t-shirt slogan for so, so many clubs.

lie down with nerds, wake up with minutiae

This mini thread captures really well why a well-regarded essayist who apparently discovered the world exists beyond our shores about 5 minutes ago is impressing me a lot less than he is the people whose long-held (but also not very informed) positions he's agreeing with.

Perhaps Tony Plush's greatest moment?

*coffee shops used to be, like diners, incredibly cheap, egalitarian places you could spend hours relaxing in. Then they became pricey, edpol places you could spend hours relaxing in. Now they’re mostly like hanging out in the open office bullpen of a company you don’t work for.

Two comments on the third place discourse: More museums used to be free/cheap. A lot of ppl are in denial that coffee shops* once functioned this way, but now function as offices for ppl who find RTO a human rights violation.

Until 6p today, were making a musical road trip back and forth across the USA on WYEP's American Travelogue! www.wyep.org/wyep-program...

For either 5th or 8th grade US history, I made a newspaper celebrating the twin victories of Vicksburg and Gettysburg. I think the paper was supposed to be located closer to Vicksburg, so the news from back East would be a day behind.

I would love to read an effort to look back at the men in roughly this milieu 25 years ago and figure out if it was in any way predictable which would be shitheads and which would be this. I suspect it’s personal quirks + contingency, but maybe there was something apparent.

FWIW this was basically the exact story of my switch from conservative to liberal: a friend making clear to me that “pro life” policies didn’t do what they claimed to. Just snapped everything into a new shape.

Two comments on the third place discourse: More museums used to be free/cheap. A lot of ppl are in denial that coffee shops* once functioned this way, but now function as offices for ppl who find RTO a human rights violation.

The first 32 of these flyovers are spaced over about seven hours. So on average one every 13 minutes for seven hours.

If they attack during the Great American State Fair the lives of dozens are at stake

I’ve seen neither of them in 36 years, but I have faintly warm feelings towards the twin brother classmates of mine who were on the HS team in the “soccer f*gs” era of American sport.

Today, July 1st 2026, has officially been designated as "Anthrocon Day" by the Mayor of Pittsburgh! We are honored and grateful for our partnership with the City of Pittsburgh, the Allegheny County, and the numerous partners that helped make this happen for 20 years in Pittsburgh 💛🖤💛

"It's a bigoted thing to believe but it's also a false thing to believe". This is important to remember: bigotry isn't just wrong because it's morally wrong, but because bigots are almost invariably completely full of shit

Behold the MAGA Baseball Player Instagram Starter Pack

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.

Anyway, "sedevacantist" just sounds like the laziest fake-Latin coming from some writer in a hurry: "oh yeah, it's Latin for 'seat vacant'."

a fun fact about SSPX is that the main founder was a Vichy regime sympathizer and one of his founding bishops was an outright Holocaust denier. both excommunicated in the 80s I’m no JPII stan, but you KNOW that was one thing former Polish Resistance member Karol Wojtyla was NOT going to stand for

I STAND FOR THE FLAG!!!!🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

Found Pete Townsend’s secret account.

Looking forward to 6 months of people pretending that Mitch McConnell held open Scalia's seat from the minority.

I think that anti-bribery laws & action are an under-the-radar necessity. No more of this white collar, slap-on-the-wrist shit. Taking a bribe is a violation of your oath of office. It's not treason, but it's closer to that than to taking a box of office pens home.

That image of a golden eagle on the exterior of the White House is AI-generated. There is no such decoration on the Truman Balcony—at least not at this time.

I also saw two white squirrels hanging out! Big day for #sqrlpix

The author of this post fought to block an apartment on his block of single family homes in a very walkable and transit-oriented neighborhood, which is the only actual way to reduce fossil fuel profits. So, I guess he put fossil fuel profits above saving the planet.

This is why good ppl change their politics for the better. I was a devout Catholic raised Republican, but also strongly believing in fairness, racial equality, gender equality, and the dignity of everybody*. As I became an adult, I saw that only one party gaf about any of these.

The relevant phrase here is “second place, daylight.”

Ok, I’m really confused by the idiom “ran like a train” predating trains. Like, I know the word came first, but what is the metaphor if you’re not imagining a speeding locomotive?

Most of the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, that humans put there by burning stuff, will stay there basically forever. Knowing how to remove it improves our climate futures. Also need to get to zero emissions. It’s not and either or, it’s both. We’re doing neither right now btw.

Really important nuances about CCS in Bob’s thread. Here’s the top line and uncomfortable truth: CCS didn’t delay alternatives to industrial decarbonization— the work and spending on CCS was fairly minimal in context. Society delayed alternatives to industrial decarbonization, because nobody cared.

This fuckin guy. looking forward to the Downeast version. www.wesanews.org/politics-gov...

"Not imperative to the story" I'm sorry, but these people have no idea how boring the story would be if the plumber just fixed her sink.

the founders did not foresee every problem the nation would face, because they lived hundreds of years ago and also because many of them were awful slaveholders but they knew men like Donald Trump and they were extremely clear that such men should never be President

"Throwing away your vote on a message no one will hear, and which will change no outcome, is sometimes presented as ‘voting your conscience’, but that’s got it exactly backwards; your conscience is what keeps you from doing things that feel good to you but hurt other people."

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What if we engaged in a system of radical mutual aid whereby we all gave a portion of our income to a central organization to redistribute it to public works, education, social services, etc, but we elected the people who oversaw this system so they represented the interests of all people

Have I ever talked about how populism is explained by people thinking politics works like a movie script?

Anyway quite relieved that my household bought 2 Macs and an iPad in May/June, not June/July.

I was trying to find Dore Schary’s Hanukkah essays so I searched “we love a hot dog Hanukkah” because one of the lines is “we love a hotdog” (it makes sense in context and was the only line I could remember) Google AI turned the festival of light into the festival of tube meat

Radicals love to say this bc it absolves them of trying too appeal to anybody outside their circle, but it's not actually true. Yes, Rs will say whatever they want, but what matters is *whether voters buy it*. And if voters think you're nuts bc you say nuts things, that's not great!

Another thing I find fascinating: Montgomery County is home to probably the most or 2nd most people directly affected by Trump's firings of Feds and they didn't go after/blame incumbent Dems, *except for the ones who backed ICE*. There's your story.

I don’t say this to say Dems shouldn’t support increased immigration or trans rights, I think they should. I just think people just make it seem like politicians that don’t support these policies are ignoring Dem voters beliefs and that’s not really true