I don't particularly like Graham Platner or Tom Steyer but I'll vote for them if it means preventing the right from gaining more power. This isn't hypocrisy, it's what centrists are constantly — and correctly! — telling leftists to do.

"They support a Nazi in Maine" — are they supposed to support the Republican?

Fascists don't expect people who don't give up.

lmao, @maxnesterak.bsky.social, amazing work

Absolute fucking morons who upturned my life for no reason. They will see justice.

Every day the same damn casual normalization of unprecedented corruption & lawless authoritarianism 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

you small brained peons may not understand this, but doing the basic perfunctory act of attempting to fight the fascist government with basic popularly supported legislation is actually democratic sloppulism

NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

Anything to detract from DHS intentionally ignoring the burgeoning cells of radicalized, rightwing (and often ex-military) white supremacists who pose the most danger to everyone else.

1. This is huge. Kat Abughazaleh, Andre Martin, Michael Rabbitt, Cat Sharp, Brian Straw, and Jocelyn Walsh fought a fascist prosecution and won 2. This should not be over. We should know everything about what happened and people should lose more than their jobs evanstonnow.com/feds-to-dism...

My public research university literally has a cattle ranch

okay man

When I talk about the NYT being a provincial little rag, this is exactly what I mean. They cannot comprehend agriculture in higher education when it is ubiquitous in ag-heavy regions. Our local college is building a big ag center because it’s so popular

What's going on here? In February, Axios reported that top party officials who worked on the autopsy of 2024 concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden admin's approach to Gaza. But the newly-released autopsy…doesn't even mention Gaza or Israel?

Eye-popping poll by Emerson of the upcoming primary in New York's 10th congressional district, where Brad Lander is crushing Democratic incumbent Dan Goldman 57% to 23%. emersoncollegepolling.com/new-york-cit...

Former Vanderbilt law prof Carol Swain won't agree that Neo-Nazis are white supremacists (calling such a claim "leftist talking points.").

Instead, colleges teach students that “the sense that what we do in our day-to-day lives resonates with people beyond ourselves” is not a specific, measurable, and falsifiable concept, and is a goal so vague that it sets anyone pursuing it for failure

RULE NO 1. never trust an unlabelled unsourced graph. I have tracked this graph's source down: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“Diversity of thought” is an expression invented by conservatives to imply that rejection of their ideas is a form of bigotry

"There is nothing wrong with affordability politics – but it will not save us, or our electoral maps, from a Republican party that would rather decimate representation than persuade voters," writes @jamilsmith.bsky.social.

The "campus free speech crisis" moral panic was all about these creeps and their asserted right to play in our faces without any pushback.

It's remarkable how the far-right can't even fake a positive vision; it's all hate. I was watching an interview with one activist — asked to describe his ideal Europe, he said it'd be one where he didn't have to think so much about migrants and, uh, modernist architecture. Dude, you can stop now!

“We will only tolerate that within our own borders” 🤔

RW propaganda is so relentless, so ubiquitous, that it causes Democrats to believe things about their own party that defy their personal experience; it causes academics to believe things about their own institution that defy their personal experience. Propaganda can *eclipse* personal experience.

The facts: -Bezos paid $0 fed'l income tax in 2007 -He paid $0 in '11 -Btn '14-19, his wealth grew by $99 BILLION and he paid $973 million in taxes. Sounds like a lot but it's 0.98% of his wealth growth (which is his true income). www.propublica.org/article/the-...

Oligarchic slopulism

Everyone should pay civilization fees (taxes) because we all benefit from society, though people who are able to extract the most out of society should pay the highest civilization fees!

Counterpoint: Yes they are, and that is good

these reactionaries are happy to take the taxes that black families pay to maintain these colleges and universities. they just don't want those institutions to have black students.

conservatives are being pretty clear that they see anything more than a token black presence as tantamount to "anti-white discrimination," and even then, they view that as suspect

Yes, AND ALSO antisemitism has been mostly baked into much of what passes for mainstream anti-left commentary in US politics for a while. It is less remarkable and more mainstream than the antisemitism that gets wrapped in populist rhetoric.

Obviously there are a lot of reasons why antisemitism has become such a big force in US politics, but I think the fact that "socialist" ideas are so often transmitted through parasocial, online-mediated agitprop instead of mass organization makes the socialism of fools all but inevitable.

lol. lmao.

This is truly bonkers. "the United States and Israel went into the conflict with a particular and very surprising someone in mind: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president known for his hard-line, anti-Israel and anti-American views." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

Obviously antizionism isn’t antisemitic in itself. But sometimes, when they say “zionist,” they just mean “Jew.” Please, I am begging non-Jews to pay attention to context, because we have Nazi lawmakers serving now, & more Nazis running, & I’m still hearing “What about Israel?” from supposed allies.

I think at a very basic level you can't understand fascism if you assume that people tend to be interested in absolute rather than relative gains. You can get there via Hirsch's positional goods, or via Veblen, or anthropology, or Baudrillard, or Orlando Patterson....

Again, this Trump IRS thing is not a “settlement” or a “deal” or something with any legal basis at all. It’s pure corruption; colluding with his Acting AG to loot the Treasury; pay off his mob; and preemptively immunize himself and his heirs against investigation for fraud.

This is peak mid 20th century CIA-style work www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...

Just imagine the level of criminality that compels a President who was already personally granted full immunity by Supreme Court for anything related to 'official acts' to think that's not enough, he must *also* have his DOJ release all civil claims against him, two of his kids, and his company.

Ask yourself: Why would a settlement over leaked tax filings include a prohibition on examinations of previously filed returns? One answer, which lots of people are missing: For years, Trump has been fighting an IRS audit that could have resulted in a $100M bill. No longer, apparently.

Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old. Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money bc...he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest.

One of the Nazi terrorists who attacked a San Diego mosque obsessed about Muslims, Jews, women, Black people, gay people, trans people, immigrants, and being short.

The US ... is hereby FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing, any and all claims, counterclaims, causes of action [etc]... whether presently known or unknown, that... have been or could have been asserted [by the US against Trump, his family, and his companies] out of.. Lawfare 1/

The AI boom is unsustainable because the entire thing is predicated on cannibalizing the future. Is this a better way to search? Maybe! Will there be anything new for the AI to search if no one gets web traffic from Google Search anymore? There will not.

I genuinely struggle to understand what these people think is going on

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The tricky thing here is that there are some situations where "both sides" present bad ideas and terrible actions. Still, it would be a mistake to treat them as mirror images of each other when they are not.

I’ll go ahead and start a fight today. There are some pretty lines in here but I distinctly remember this piece and in context it was cowardice. Flowery bothsidesism. Remember, he put it out the same day as Raz Segal’s “A Textbook Case of Genocide.”

The political formations I'm invested in: just convenient vehicles for the protection of rights, self-determination and developmentalism The political formations others are invested in: revanchist, discriminatory, a few steps removed from the N*zis, really...