Thinking of calling this the Tinkerbell theory of politics. If Tinkerbell dies it’s because the audience was spending too much time believing the wrong thing.

Part of Woke 2.0 has to be changing the national anthem to "This Land Is Your Land" and we're keeping the verse where Woody Guthrie hops the private property fence and on the other side, the sign didn't say nothing.

Yeah I’m going to keep banging the drum that rather than appearing to solely focus on calling out performativity or lack of immediate effectiveness of normie political action, people should be using it as a platform to help the newly aware & frustrated find entryways into deeper levels of engagement

As an angeleno it really kills me that boston has such a kick-ass mayor

I too would like viewpoint diversity, and when I am president, universities will employ people whose views run the gamut from georgist crank to marxist crank to communitarian crank

It’s not about purity, it’s about actually fighting fascism. Conservatives and neoliberals made this mess, and if they get their way we’ll be back here in a generation or two. Beating fascism means beating it once and for all, and that requires an actual commitment to building an egalitarian society

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

“There was an elite conspiracy to abuse children” is so horrific a reality that I think the media has had a hard time grasping it.

It will be important for the next Democratic administration to remember with which other countries the United States has extradition treaties. Colombia is one of them.

Why are the Rams not running the ball every down

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

Pedocon is a theory like gravity is a theory (in that it is widely accepted as an obvious truth)

Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I made the NYPD woke 35 minutes ago.

Michelle Wu has the sauce, I don’t get why people don’t talk about her as a national figure more

Through a united front tactic, specifically! We must never compromise being vocal and independent in our socialist messaging. 🌹✊ www.marxists.org/archive/trot...

The majority of DSA steering are communists fyi. The "left" of DSA wants you out in the streets at No Kings Day so quityerbitchin

DSA supports the mass mobilizations against Donald Trump. As socialists we must be clear: defeating Trump and his administration means defeating the whole capitalist, imperialist system. Join DSA to help build the movement for a better world.

We already have a New Colossus, it is the greatest monument in Western history, and one day we will realize the unfulfilled promise inscribed at its base

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Nope, never gonna read it correctly as “Curtis Sliwa”. It’s Silwa this time and every time

Is there a reason why Sora users are generating a ton of Marilyn Monroe stuff?

It seems that there’s something broken at the intersection of literature and (modern) psychology. These people are self-consciously aligning with the bad guys—there’s a through line between Trump saying he’s not going to heaven, AI images of RFK as a sith lord, Thiel naming his company Palantir

Jfc we’re arguing who had the bigger crowd, No Kings or the Civil Rights Movement. Embarrassing, embarrassing, embarrassing. Debord vindicated a thousand times over, please make it stop

Revelation was apparently not metaphorical.

"pissed-off rural left-libertarian man" is one of the types of guy most underrepresented in politics compared to its commonality in the real world

Maybe we should just run her in 2028. It’s a little bit of a Hail Mary but we’re kinda at a Hail Mary point in American public life. If we don’t shift the whole direction and structure and mindset of the electorate—if we don’t provoke a realignment—we’ll collapse into authoritarianism soon.

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go, …but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

Andrew Cuomo, who resigned the Governorship in turmoil over sex pest shit and who tried to cover up Covid deaths in retirement homes, decided to run for Mayor and after a major loss to the progressive candidate he decided he should continue running as an independent

This time around there is mainstream coverage of this protest and it comes from the GOP fretting about it on TV. Love to see it.

The quotes on this, and the general dismissal of hardcore activists, is a real bummer considering that no serious anti fascism stands a chance without the committed vanguard folks and also the mass of average joes and janes building (usually without realizing it) on the work of hardcore protesters

the awkward needle to thread with this old pelosi quote is that yes, having a robust center right party is probably useful as a bulwark against fascism, but i want the leaders of the center left party to operate in ruthless opposition against the conservatives, not cheer them from the sidelines

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14 years ago, Obama killed an American citizen with no due process via drone strike because he was al-Queda. No one with actual power or influence gave a shit. It's been a long road to get here, but a real bipartisan success

If I had to explain it in two sentences, there's the obligatory "vulgar Marxism explains 90% of everything" one, and "Republicans and Democrats both overestimate how right-wing their constituents are" is the other.

Trump, like many old men, is facing his mortality and worried about “what dreams may come,” yet his heart, like Pharaoh’s, is hardened. True repentance would mean him admitting all his crimes and submitting to punishment, but he loves his sins too much. We’re seeing a man choose damnation publicly.

Popular books by famous academics fall into two categories: 1) a fascinating journey through someone's life work where it's obvious they've been thinking about it for decades; and 2) a shoddy thesis built atop research done by grad assistants while the writer is praised for their erudition

whiteness is quite literally dangled as a reward for obedient minority groups by white supremacy. acknowledging that is important and pretending that the current racial hierarchy has always been the same is wildly ahistorical and handful to an understanding of race as a construct of white supremacy

jokes aside, racism and other forms of bigotry are actually further mystified by pretending that these forms of discrimination did/do not exist. you start making anti-Black racism sound more natural and primordial as opposed to the outcome of political processes

fuck it ima go play safety

fuck it ima go block for josh allen

lmao baker

I recognize this is a warped nostalgia for a past I didn’t live through, but damn does it seem that the opponents of liberation were more sophisticated in the past.The fact that our fascists are so solipsistic, so juvenile, so intellectually incurious, and yet are winning…..

Jared Leto must have incredible dirt on many people

This story is NUTS

Economic power is always political power, and wealth inequality will always be political inequality. Taxing concentrated wealth out of existence is means to achieve our democracy, infinitely more so than it is a means to fund a robust welfare state welfare state

Not sure what it is but I just reflexively hate Dart. Like there’s something so unearned and tin can about his swagger it hurts

sciatica?? damn lebron :(

help i’m being negatively polarized into liking hasan piker