We're supposed to take these racist and bigoted people seriously... lololololol

The problem is that they agree with it. The right fully won on immigration. Who out there is not just willing to say that immigrants should be treated fairly, but that immigration is good and rather than having ”secure” borders, they should be more open? Who?

He's not cutting 580 existing cops he's just not hiring 580 more Which is good, actually.

Much like today, in December 2021, neo-Nazi Patriot Front members marched through DC with uniforms and masks. Later that night, they would encounter antifascist sabotage, leaving numerous vehicles damaged or inoperative. Here's some PF members unmasked via police video obtained by Unicorn Riot:

"Our independence, although borne of a written statement, did not come easily." People gotta stop doing this. It's "born." Plain old "born."

So, after trying to use people with disabilities and women generally as shields, AI art fanatics are now claiming that AI art is better for the environment. Their numbers being based on the idea that humans LIVING use resources and have a carbon footprint. The desperation and sheer inhumanity.

Transit content⤵️ "The nonprofit, founded by legendary folk artist & activist Pete Seeger in the 1960s, has a long history of activism. Seeger famously built the organization’s single-mast sailboat...in 1968, believing...if people went out on the river, they would care more about keeping it clean."

this is what happens when we spend a decade or more conceding that maybe the transphobes have a point, maybe the xenophobes have a point. NO. i am so angry right now at what this country has slid into. YET AGAIN.

One of the many ways that NYC is awesome and far more wholesome than rural Americans would ever guess.

Happy Fourth of July, New York City

An ACLU report says Minneapolis police repeatedly shocked a man after he complied with their orders and that a Louisville officer broke a man’s car window during a mental health call while another officer pointed his gun, escalating the encounter.

WTF @mayor.nyc.gov Why was NYPD taking part in this particular fascist exercise?

This boat is the namesake of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, the organization created by Pete and Toshi Seeger to advocate for cleaning up the Hudson. It's one of the reasons why these boats are sailing on relatively clean water today. In a just society, it would sail in a place of honor.

Gat dammit. I knew about this but I didn’t know it was related to this scammy behavior that requires me to buy yellow ink catridges when I’m just printing B&W. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer...

Looks like Mayor Z's pied a terre tax is not collapsing the real estate market or causing the wealthy to flee Manhattan after all. Indeed, the opposite. Who could have possibly imagined this scenario? www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

My simplistic theory for understanding the present is that mass intelligence, the kind brought about by high literacy and education rates for all sorts of people, has proven to be too much of a liability for the ruling class so they have decided to destroy it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

“Just imagine—if the founders had had AI, what might they have used it for?” “What?” “Well, basically nothing. But still! Just imagine!”

Like sorry, your concerns aren’t valid, your ideas are bad, you do not deserve to be indulged, no one should waste their time on you

ALSO worth noting that Douglass literally says “I am *not* arguing about this shit in the marketplace of ideas, I refuse to treat a ‘debate’ over basic human rights with any seriousness at all, we all know what the truth is here, anyone who denies that truth is not available to be reasoned with”’

Kjell Nilsson, The Lord Humungus in "Mad Max 2", went out into the Wastelands yesterday, aged 76.

My mom's OB was smoking in the delivery room when I was born.

Arriving in Washington DC on July 4th and immediately seeing a bunch of Nazis marching with confederate flags feels like something you’d see in the pre credits scene of a an episode of Sliders/Star Trek, so the writers can quickly establish something has gone terribly awry on this timeline.

approximately 80% to 86% of Americans live in urban or metropolitan areas. Again, would you know this based on the discourse of US politics?

At the founding of our nation we failed to grasp the twin nettles of slavery and genocide. The ugly consequences of that failure are threaded through every part of our resulting the nation. We have to deal with them.

I think about this quote every single day and I think about how much potential we, as humans and as a country, have lost because of hate. Our Constitution and institutions would be so much stronger right now if they were also built with Natives, Black people, and women as equals.

I actually don’t care what the founding fathers would say about the present and I don’t think you should either

Your two options in American politics are the "let's raise taxes and give rural America subsidies" party and the "let's cut taxes and give it all to billionaires" party. I think it would be neat if there were a "raise taxes and invest in urban areas" option!

There's an instinct when dealing with one evil empire to assume their foes must automatically be better in some way. This is, of course, nonsense. Empires fight all the time. Often they're just different varieties of hell. Multiple things, as always, can be bad at once.

Like I think we should invest in everyone and everywhere simply because it’s the right thing to do, but yeah, it sure does seem like there’s no point in doing it with the expectation of any political returns

Between the bicentennial and the 250th, we’ve gone from Nazis in Skokie to Nazis in Washington DC. We need to do much, much better in the next 50 years.

The pitch for LLMs are still "do things faster with less of YOU in the work" which is an actual slippery slope into "put as little of yourself in the work to pump out as much as possible." Good for clickbait and Kindle Unlimited spammers. Otherwise?

This is why I feel like LLMs might reinvigorate the idea of art vs. "content"--between creating something for individual expression vs. pumping work out for clicks/likes/money--that the poptimist era tried to kill off.

american political discourse in the 2020s:

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The greatest threat to the Herrenvolk, you see, is…the Communists

Today’s reminder that you were not “hysterical” or overreacting with the Weimar comparisons, either in 2017 or 2021 or at any other point in the last decade, including now.

The thing we all need to read every July 4

And the footage of a massive NYPD force closing off essential activity to New Yorkers to protect a very small number of people for a private event is beyond bad optics. It’s a symptom of the times.

OTD in 1872, Frederick Douglass told the people who asked him to speak for the Fourth of July that their celebration was a sham I wrote about how it's still a sham in 2026, and how we can fulfill Douglass's vision--and the Constitution's--for multiracial democracy www.thenation.com/article/soci...

So just like Jeff Bezos, this billionaire also thinks the whole city is her property and should revolve around her wedding. Gross.

The Left(s) should get onboard with a massive expansion of public libraries across the country over the next 25 years. This is an affirmative project.

I'm at home in Brooklyn with my two very young kids and ConEd has reduced our power because of the heat wave. Our lights don't work and AC is minimal. Also, there's a celebrity wedding in midtown right now and I'm unaware of any reports that they're going without.

" Trump’s 2025 executive order requiring no national parks displays that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”" So why is it disparaging someone who owned slaves to call them a slave owner?

Yes she gave some people million dollar bonuses but that's kind of the problem? Rich people being able to decide who deserves $1m is... bad?

I simply do not believe someone should be able to restrict access to *Penn Station* because they are getting married

This is why I kind of can't with her, rich people gonna rich!

I am a cishet dude with an actual ass degree in genocide studies. Trans people are undergoing the beginning stages of genocide in the US. Every single one of them should do whatever they need to do for safety. Anyone telling them otherwise is neither ally nor friend and will be condemned by history.

Jeff Bezos shut down Venice for his wedding. Taylor Swift is shutting down New York's Midtown for hers. Billionaire shouldn't be able to disrupt entire cities on a whim.

Faculty at USC fought for over a decade to form a union, and now that they voted overwhelmingly to unionize, the university is appealing the decision to Trump's NLRB, trying to undo years of hard work by faculty. capitalandmain.com/usc-faculty-...