political candidates should be tripping over themselves to run on this message (and we know why they aren't)

Qadeyah: Ministry of Education requests that Aya Abu Aoun be enrolled in school, 997 days after Aya was killed during the Israeli aggression. Her name was still listed in the official records because her father had postponed registering her death documents in order to preserve her memory. #Gaza

Lyman stone is a christofascist freak and it is insane that people pay attention to any of the nonsense he says

Nothing, of course, will happen

Professor Elliott Colla was a lifelong New York Times reader but can no longer trust the paper due to its coverage of Gaza. In fact, he's found that there is a strong case for prosecuting many at the paper for their role in the genocide. mondoweiss.net/2026/07/the-... #Palestine #Israel

Not Death of Stalin so much as Kagemusha

JFC this is horrendous

I do understand why it matters, I guess, but the thing is I don’t give more of a fuck if ICE murdered the wrong person than I do if they murdered the right one, and I think relying on the distinction as a messaging strategy is deeply misguided

After watching US university administrations' violent overreactions to anti-genocide protestors (their own students, and faculty and staff) for the past few years, anyone who believes universities are stockpiling weapons "will never use them" could only be the most naive person on the planet

It is truly incredible how some of these male leftists who correctly criticize the police and court system will turn around and say a rape allegation can’t be taken seriously unless it passes through the cops and courts

Directing Graham Platner’s campaign

the biggest positive story on climate is that it doesn’t seem to matter how much of the world is run by reactionary fascists: the rise of solar is unstoppable

Calling all academics who are following me! Is there a book or video or course of study that can teach a student how to properly source and cite an MS? Apparently I made it through two years of an MA without learning the rules. And as a gamer, I'm all about the rules! Thanks!

Timeline cleanse: You're watching Mei & Kira, two sea otters (Enhydra lutris) at the Toba Aquarium in Japan, help clean the pool area after playtime. The reward is an ice treat. Enrichment activities like this promote mental wellness. Let's talk about the SUCCESS of sea otter conservation.

I believe a desire to steer into masculinity as some kind of curative answer for previous political failures delivered us to this moment, and honestly, it could deliver us to much worse.

The media’s language in coverage of sexual violence is so wild compared to any other subject matter. Instead of “it rained” they’re like “Several women allege that they received nonconsentual water upon their persons. We interviewed men they know, who confirmed that the women seemed damp.”

i want white people to hate fascism broadly and Nazism (and it's symbolism) directly more

A total violation of international law. Eswatini is imprisoning people from multiple countries no crime, based on no violation of law in that country, and with the direct knowledge and acquiescence of the United States.

I don't know what to call the specific political tendency represented by Ryan Grim, Ken Klippenstein, Matt Stoller, Michael Tracey, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and Zaid Jilani, mostly because words sort of fail, but it isn't "the Left."

I could not be less surprised that Ryan Grim is pushing this. Let it go, man. Your guy is a rapist. He’s not going to win. And this shit is a disgrace to any good work Drop Site has ever done.

The boosting of Platner: Hasan Grim Kulinski Cenk/Kasparian Jilani Piker Reich Ali Klippenstein Rashid Fiorentini Yglesias Gray N. Klein Hunt Pod Save Bros with endorsements from Bernie Warren Khanna and Stephen King

sure ryan grim, zaid jilani and matt stoller are making excuses for abusers and rapists but you have to weigh that against the huge contributions they've made over the years to left politics like for example uh...........

i know Rebecca won't agree with this but its the absolute truth. The Young Turks, Minority Report, Dropout, Hasan, Bernie. these people don't want freedom. they don't want liberation. all they want is to make themselves richer. they're grifters and dogs.

American Progress Was an Optical Illusion thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/american-pro... #America #Energy #History #Kaleidoscope #Technology via @mitpress.bsky.social

This is a story we are seeing repeated everywhere: whether it’s pro-labor, pro-student, pro-disability mvmts grounded in human association, in providing human scaffolding to make conditions better for people, tech corporations have lobbed AI like a grenade at us to dismantle these gains. 3/n

everybody who stayed on that site has had their brain fully cooked. you see it in a million ways. they use the r-slur. they casually joke around with folks who don't hide their affinity for race science. they don't even flinch at nazis in their timeline, don't bother to block the spammers anymore...

Not sure who needs to hear this but admitting you're wrong doesn't kill you instantly

I once wrote Dante had Beatrice; Orwell had Stalin; for political writers their muses are not the good things. Wrote this in one sitting today.

While teachers and nurses aren’t always women, those roles are woman-coded in many people’s minds, and a lot of these dudes view elevating women as a failed project. After Clinton and Harris both lost to Trump, and misogyny gained more speed, they decided it was time to double down on masculinity.

In case you were wondering, when it happened to me and I came forward, afterward I clocked every single person who gave him opportunities and bylines. Every single one felt like an endorsement of what he had done to me and other women.

stephen king has had some iffy takes for awhile; he also supports cemetery dance press, which is terrible, unprofessional, and borderline scammy, making it harder for writers to voice their concerns

I think the Platner thing hit me so hard bc it was one of the most protracted, widespread acts of misogynist gaslighting from my own side that I've seen. We were presented with an obvious violent scumbag who was constantly lying (badly, might I add) and told we were crazy for not loving him

What a grotesque piece of shit. Both the writer and the subject. Clout-chasing and misogyny are now the brand for these chumps.

"don't be a rapist" doesn't seem like a particularly high bar to clear, dating history-wise, but thanks for telling on yourself for the ten thousandth time

i want to work together to meet our supposedly shared goals of equality and liberation but you're too busy boosting abusers and rapists and it fucking sucks

What we NOT gone do is bring Emmett Till up as a comparison to Nazi rapist Graham Platner! Have white folk lost their complete ever loving minds? Platner is MLK? Oh really? Fuck this shit forever!

this pattern will keep repeating until people stop framing "shooting brown foreigners for money" as "an adventure"

You and all the other leftist influencers who boosted and hyped this despicable POS need to do some serious soul-searching. We were yelling at you all for months! This is a bad look, bro.

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

ilhan omar: (receiving 20359239 deportation/violence threats a day) hi im a midwestern mom and here are my hot dish recipes for fall, also here are my bills i am cosponsoring for working families dipshit mcoyster: The Jews sunk my campaign, and I am the only socialist in existence

new toon: a late night visitor www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."

Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING.

I think the thinking among university leaders is that we can ride Trump out for STEM but strategically use GOP dominance to undermine and possibly end the study of culture by humanists & social scientists unless it conforms to our center-right ideological preferences.

Toni Morrison said, “Art does not cleanse you and make you morally superior... even when it has a very strong political content. The artist himself is not made any better. I still have to try to be the best person I can be.” Art, scholarship, or activism––there’s the work and then there’s the work.

continue to think that planter’s support with the lib/left male pundit class was not *in spite of* his various transgressions, but because of them, a frankly pathetic attempt to reassert dem masculinity through a man whose violent career they believed represented working class authenticity

Just to be clear: the argument Mr. King is making is that rape and violence against women are so pervasive in America that we must lie back and accept it--otherwise in Congress "those chambers would be empty." Oh heaven forfend. Patriarchy knows no party.

It was never "just a tattoo," it was the absolutely guaranteed tattoo comorbidities. The tattoo *means* something. That's why people get them