There was a whole discourse the other day about whether or not it was good to cheer for the US team and whether Americans and foreigners could feel good about them winning

Baudrillard spinning in his grave so fast he torpedoes out of the hillside and remains airborne, lasers shooting out of his eyes with such force earth is cleanly cut in two

After the second american revolution the anthem will be changed to This Land Is Your Land, specifically the woody guthrie version with the swipe against private property

Happy July 4th!

It really cannot be overstated how radical an opinion this is by the WAPO editorial board

#OtD 4 Jul 1913 Black Spanish Civil War fighter, concentration camp survivor and electrician, Carlos Greykey, was born in Equatorial Guinea. He moved to Barcelona, fought against fascism, then fought the Nazis in France, then survived Mauthausen. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1043...

Sewer socialism is the cheese, destroying capitalism is the pill.

SOCIALISM POSTING: It's getting hard to read posts about Mamdani, or really any posi posts about DSA by nonmembers, because they're full of libs saying "democratic socialism isn't about replacing capitalism, this is just what we good Dems believe" Sorry bro we're still coming for capitalism

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

one thing i find funny is that the founding generation would likely have been very enthusiastic about, say, muslim immigrants and intensely skeptical of all the catholics

Less NYPD is a win for us all - especially with the lowest crimes rates in history, and continued work to launch (a version of) the Department of Community Safety.

One of the bleakest things about American politics is that we're reflexively anti expert on issues that truly have right and wrong answers, but are slavishly obsequious to experts in "the law and the constitution" despite that field being completely made up and fake.

Bluesky is amusing because people will post as though their gloves (and rose-colored glasses) are totally off, and yet still act surprised when conservatives abandon fair play and rule following to pursue their desired outcomes

Some very smart observations from the very smart Michael Kinnucan in this week’s New York City primaries. (thread, all quotes from him)

they're doing "it's ephebophila" but for the mass murder of children

These people are so fucking boring.

In LA, street light repair involves asking property owners if they would like to pay more taxes and then giving rich people who own more expensive property a vote that counts for more because of a 1996 CA initiative that mandates that horrendously dumb process. We don't have to live like this!

Let’s fucking gooooooooo

he is MARRIED TO A REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST. THAT WAS PART OF THEIR WHOLE BRANDING. HE IS MORE COMFORTABLE WITH REPUBLICANS THAN WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORMS OF HIS YOUTH

Amazing that when mainstream Democrats lose to Republicans - who peddle lies, sow fear & weaponize social media - lesson is Dems must change their policy priorities & messages but when mainstream Dems lose to socialists lesson is waaahhhhh no fair.

It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday The unholy thing shambles in He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me His white teeth make a musical din Sing us a song, you’re the piano man Your skin is a wooden facade You’ve brass pedals for hands And your hair’s copper strands Give unbearable insult to god

Really the only people still reading the NYT in 2026 are the ones fretting about all the symptoms of decades of neoliberalism but uninterested in addressing the causes

Honestly and seriously? Gillibrand should resign.

The whole last decade has been building to this exact op-ed by this exact person.

Begging Democrats to resist the urge to bash Trump from the hawkish right, which only reinforces the very stupid discourse that enabled this very stupid war in the first place.

This is because the DC Board of Elections is waiting to release results until everyone has voted, and there were lines of late-arriving voters at some election sites when polls closed. Josh could have easily learned about this (entirely reasonable) policy because the board publicly announced it.

'They couldn't make that today' but it's just Reading Rainbow.

Mike Brown allowing a single “Josh Hart as lead ballhandler” possession in the finals is sickening

Somehow, swing->swing->ugly contested three isn’t working for the Knicks offense

No accident this is happening in Mamdani's NYC. Amazing to have a mayor who understands what makes the city great & is so imaginative in meeting its needs. Casts a harsh light on previous leaders. Those fuckers hate streets, spontaneity, joy. A Cipriani gala w/strict security—that's their New York

Mainstream media is 24/7 saturation of poor people committing petty crimes. Shoplifting out of control! Venezuelan thugs are stealing your apartment! Meanwhile billionaires are genocidal serial killers and treated like the pillars of our society

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

This is absolutely correct and Elrod's description of Dilettantism sums up why as a foreign observer the whole Platner thing seemed a little doomed from the start.

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

Elon Musk out here turning Twitter into Radio Rwanda

It is crazy that Israel is openly a revanchist fascist state in the act of occupying the territory (if you include IDF forward operating camps) multiple states and somehow this gets backwards translated into the west as “these Iranian terrorists will not settle for peace”

The right's vision of masculinity is a domination contest in which participants have to perform greater and greater acts of cruelty and vulgarity and deny themselves more and more pleasure and comfort in order to meet ever more outlandish demands for strength.

the appliances in my apartment are from like 15 years ago, stove, fridge, dishwasher, etc, low tech. repair guy came in to fix a faulty wire with the stove and i asked him if i should think about getting a new one. he immediately was like "no man hold onto this thing for as long as possible" lol

It was basically a Steyer vs Porter race until Becerra entered as the “I’m the super corrupt establishment stooge that is supposed to become the governor that everybody hates within 2 months” candidate and 3 out of 10 Californian, given a full field of candidates, are like yep that’s my guy

I don’t think this is exceptional for the same reason white voters destroy our democracy. Immigrants come to the USA expecting the Disney World of American society and, when the marketing fails, demand that the same system to annihilate the problem. Almost as if it is part of the same machinery.

To paraphrase @diplomatofnight.com on another issue, they reason they act like they have total impunity is that they have always been given total impunity. It is an entirely rational decision to treat their opponents with contempt, because their opponents have contempt for themselves.

sometimes I think about the fact that in 2010 - two years into Obama's first term - 30 Rock had an episode about a character running for election who alters his name to make voters associate him with the WWE and support a campaign based on Americans' desire to "return to past glory"

a small part of the problem with AI is that even if you see good use cases for the technology, focusing on them is a little like saying radiotherapy is going to be great for treating cancer while stores still have radium toothpaste on the shelves www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

The Rams are supporting pride month by getting Myles Garrett so he can fuck up Jaxson Dart and Patrick Mahomes. It’s beautiful