Hell yeah, Bernie.

whenever i walk past a church or a temple that has to have armed security (which is a lot of them) it breaks my heart

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

until there's a Republican congress and a Democratic president, in which case it will suddenly be very important. the country cannot function as a real democracy with corrupt, partisan serial liars controlling the Supreme Court; it has to be the first priority of a new administration.

Been thinking about this lately. Historical contingency is something else.

Vought’s threat all but calls forth Lincoln’s searing argument at Cooper Union: “Plainly stated … you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”

exactly. we shouldn't make maga's mistake of thinking people sort into neat ideological camps. a lot of these young white guys are absolutely allergic to earnestness and think *political involvement* is cringe. they still hold reflexive beliefs about power and who has rights to it.

"Children don't remember what you try to teach them," Jim once said. "They remember what you *are*." Look a child in the eye when you speak with them. Don't talk down to them. Love and support them. And remember: they're smarter than you think. Oh, and make them laugh. ALWAYS make them laugh. /7

@officialjackwhite.bsky.social has the opportunity to make the funniest f’ing video clip.

I have cystic fibrosis, and I don't know many others here on Bluesky, but I'd like to make cf friends. If you have the cfs, then comment and say hi.

Our problem is not the depravity, corruption, and narcissism of the president and his second rate minions, it’s the cowardly compliance of a great many wealthy and powerful people who could stop him and aren’t.

Concur.

Fellow parents of kids with cognitive disabilities: now is the time to be loud and proud about how awesome our kids are, and to emphasize neurodiversity. And to support adult disability activists.

Politics is increasingly divided between those who are comfortable with the complex systems of modernity and those who would rather burn the world down than accept that things are complicated now.

Watching two counterpunchers fight.

This issue has been on my mind this week because of some l training we did at work (at The Mark Twain House). It’s really made me think about how this framing is used by Americans to talk about historical figures in the US past in a way they’d never use it to talk about other countries’ figures.

What is Yoshinobu Yamamoto doing behind closed doors to so royally piss off Dodgers hitters? He must be a different person than in public to deserve this kind of scorn.

it's an interesting analogy that highlights the importance of not rushing to judgment. smartly, nobody on the left celebrated the piazza fontana bombing as a "blast against capitalism" or anything like that. everybody recognized the somberness of the moment.

Not to interrupt production at the takes factory but they should probably identify and catch the actual killer before we decide what it all means.

This is really, really bad news. I don’t care if you don’t like Kirk. No one deserves to be shot. This is dreadful news for people speaking publicly, who increasingly must fear for their safety, and also for the inevitable crackdown that will follow.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

“I can tell you from (unfortunate) experience that men don't like being held accountable.” I’ve never slapped the figurative concur button so quickly. This piece is well worth your time and gets at a lot of what is, imo, eroding American society at an increasing pace.

Everybody who fell for the Harper's Letter or all the hand-wringing about "uncivil" students on the left, congratulations. You built this. You own this. And fuck you for being the useful idiots these fascists needed to launder their dismantling of academic freedom.

Aw Christ now I gotta take down all the Bill Clinton flags on my boat 😔

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

You are thinking of the space race, not the Manhattan project. The Manhattan project was set up out of concern that Nazi Germany would make a Nuclear weapon first. You should have middle school textbook level historical knowledge.

To the extent that we have a civic religion, this is actual blasphemy, and we need a Jesus fucking up the moneylenders plying their wares in our temples of democracy.

Eric Schmitt's speech was cribbed from Samuel T. Francis.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-schmit...

chuckles missed his true calling as an nhl general manager doing a coaching search

Senator Eric Schmidt would prefer that you did not read this book. Also, I can guarantee that Eric Schmidt has never read this book.

IYKYK

trump 👏 dying 👏 is 👏 a 👏 distraction

Subway has to be so happy "sandwich guy" means something else now

It’s almost over.

When it comes to crime, I think a gunmen murdering two children in a Minneapolis church is more concerning than a nanny taking kids to a playground in Los Angeles or a homeless person laying on a bench in DC. Sorry to get so partisan, but that's how I feel.

Imagine not learning this until you were in your fifties and then, after learning it in your fifties, sharing with everyone you knew that you learned it in your fifties.

This is how the US got dragged into the Vietnam War

A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!

Pretty wild coincidence that the best music ever made just so happens to be all of the stuff I listened to from the ages of 15 to 25

ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified