Somebody should write a song about how they expect you to be excited every time they reinvent rent-seeking.

Trump is an infirm, sundowning grifter owned by a collection of notorious criminals and it's not even a secret. If this were a functioning country we would have already ended this.

mass selfishness is not a natural condition; it's the result of a multi-generational social engineering project

Republicans are domestic terrorists

Capitalism? Yeah, how about we don't? You know, so that the species can live another few generations

If weekends didn’t already exist Republicans would claim they were a communist conspiracy to undermine America

The Supreme Court Has 0 credibility When a person like myself Can predict in advance What their decisions will be By imagining what a political and ideological extremist Would choose

If you think this is bad wait until it's all worse and like 12 more countries have nuclear weapons

Republicans don't have beliefs Republicans don't have beliefs Republicans don't have beliefs You cannot be a hypocrite if you hold no sincere beliefs It does nothing to point out the hypocrisy of people who hold no sincere beliefs

Authoritarian regimes fall when people stop cooperating: civil servants refuse illegal orders, workers walk out, communities boycott the enablers, institutions resist, millions fill the streets, whistleblowers defect from the regime. Nonviolent noncooperation makes illegitimate rule unworkable.🇺🇸

Big Tech enshittified the Internet and then went on to enshittify careers, human relationships, politics, the economy, people’s brains, and all of civilization.

If many of us are quiet about politics online nowadays, it isn't that we don't care and we're not mobilized offline. We talked about this for years. We warned them. So many who are upset now did not listen! They thought they knew better than we did. So much of this suffering was preventable.

appreciate Kagan saying 'when I was a young lawyer and the unitary executive theory was getting its start--' it gets absolutely lost that all of this 'this is how things are done, have been done, must be done' yadda yadda bullshit is *brand new bullshit* none of this shit is set in stone

I hear people on all sides of the issue say “ #Healthcare in America is “broken” It’s not “broken” if has never worked. Better terms might be: Flawed disfunctional predatory corrupt cruel

The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed. Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it. When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.

You should be able to get rich being silly online instead of being evil online, that would solve a lot of problems

Did you know that the first thing we ever put out was a Christmas song?

i don't think people should rely solely on either theory or their individual lived experiences to shape their politics and view of the world theory and lived experiences necessarily inform each other, and i don't understand people who like to act like this is not the case

Trump figured out murdering people would get the Epstein files out of the news cycle.

When people talk about a “blue wave” I think about how we’ve had a bunch of those in the past decade and yet here we are sitting in authoritarianism.

I'm not an economist but I don't see how this doesn't end in economic collapse. 1. Deporting the labor force that maintains our basic necessities 2. Slashing funding for education, government, and healthcare 3. Massive layoffs across the private sector 4. Destroying relationships with allies.

I don’t make a habit of reading Forbes, but I do appreciate how easy they make it to find out who the ten worst people on the planet are at any given time.

If you vote for populist right-wing politicians, I won't be there to save you afterwards. They'll have already taken me when they come after you.

I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

My songwriting friend and I have this saying… “Sometimes the song gets there before you do.” What we mean is that often times the writer doesn’t know what a song is really about until long after it is finished. Sometimes only in hindsight do we know what we were trying to say.

maybe given the current political situation, finding things about which to say “the president has a point” is not only not a good look but actively bad and fucked up? Maybe maybe resist the impulse to say “well I agree with this chump” and find something else to talk about instead?

Worth noting that that little blue square they had to carve up into 5 jigsaw pieces has about 1/6th of the whole state’s population. Democracy at work!

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

Every revolution was impossible until it wasn’t. Get organized. Study liberation theory. Set up networks of mutual aid. We have a world to win.

Just thinking about how fucked up mega-rich people must be, because they can't even enjoy their money properly, because the most enjoyable thing to do with money is to use it to fix people's problems.

Huh. That doesn’t seem good.

Trump Peace Plan is Working Perfectly 👇

“To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough.” — Andrew Collier, Marx: A Beginner’s Guide.

We’re a band that cares an inordinate amount about the words we use. Those words just happen to most often be “fuck.”

Oh! Look at that! It’s bandcamp Friday! And wouldn’t you know it we have a wide array of perfect gifts for all the angry radicals on your holiday shopping list! So What are you waiting for? Tis the season for great deals!

It’s almost trite to say this but if any other country was doing what we’re doing right now there would be no hesitation in calling it a terrorist state*

I know everything's bad and all that but I can't stop laughing at "I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America"

How to become a smart person: Step one: recognize how stupid everyone else is. Step two: recognize how stupid you are. Step three, and this is the real clincher: actually read some fucking books once in a while.

You know, I think if I owned the rights to a century's worth of the most acclaimed films ever like The Wizard of Oz and 2001, plus all the most popular characters in cartoon history, plus Superman and Batman, plus tons of other stuff, I could probably make enough money I wouldn't need to sell it.

*From Venezuela to Iran, the United States can always find ambitious would-be leaders willing to advocate regime change. But they don’t have their countries’ best interests in mind* by Andrew Ancheta International www.currentaffairs.org/news/washing...

Protecting people is gonna make you mean right now . GOOD Someone whose asking you to be “nice” is asking for control You don’t have to give it to them . People need kindness and measured responses .. and they don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt People should SAY what they love

All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.

"At first glance it sounds impossible—but a strategic look back at the coordinated strikes and militancy of the past two decades shows we might be much closer than we think. We’ve laid the groundwork." by @alexhan.bsky.social for @labornotes.bsky.social labornotes.org/2025/12/mayb...

Of course he is! It’s in the job description!