All the right people are lining up for and against Tom Steyer. Any reason a labor progressive should not lock in now?

My "NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS" post is raising lots of questions etc

on the one hand under no circumstances do you "have to hand it to" capitalism. on the other hand...

very helpful data point for those of us frustrated and at sea

I’m at ICE HQ

🍿

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

"as maximalist as possible" -- i like that! that's good! there should be a word for that!

LOL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybiu...

ILWU

😢 www.fooddive.com/news/tapatio...

i want one person's take on this and that person is @sanjukta.bsky.social laist.com/news/housing...

This mailer being sent out in #NY17 is WILD. All of the wording about Mike Lawler is technically accurate, but hoo-boy the design choices here are something to behold. Definitely zoom in and read for yourself. Image courtesy of @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on X.

this bit is killing me / grounding me

I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well

You can't live your life based on hate - that way lies madness and bitterness - but allowing yourself to slip into hater mode from time to time is a lovely little treat, like a drunk cigarette or a decadent slice of cake

New awareness campaign

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

American Right: WE HATE TRANS, GAYS, MUSLIMS, BLACKS, PROGRESSIVES, POORS, MEXICANS, DEMOCRATS, WHALES, THE ENVIRONMENT, LAWYERS, UNIVERSITIES, AND EVERYTHING ON TV American Right-Wing Jews: Whooo! Yeah! You tell them! American Right: BUT ESPECIALLY JEWS! American Right-Wing Jews:

Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...

Excellent response from @gelliottmorris.com -- and shows you can clap back at your critics without having such a foul mouth, mr @lioneltrolling.bsky.social (j/k, we love and are proud to subscribe to both!)

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

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

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

April?

very good, on why median-voter is not a helpful way to think about things www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

this is a very good thread. we don't reckon enough with this country's best-armed street gangs.

Yeah...

Morning walk

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

Rarely does this regime give such a compliment to the folks fighting back. Please work to make this courage contagious: nokings.org

amidst everything else www.congress.gov/event/119th-...

organizing the vampire hunters’ union by talking to key stakeholders

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

read about it first, and funnier. subscribe to court watch. www.courtwatch.news/p/141-i-m-so...

wholesome content!

i'm not sure if this is interesting to @ndlon.bsky.social or anyone else, but it looks like Home Depot has a $56 M contract on the agenda for Thursday at the LA Board of Airport Commissioners

!

JUICEBOXES WILL NOT REPLACE US

the big questions for american democracy going forward seem to be (1) can the GOP actually build the federal police state they just funded, (2) in time to finish before democratic checks can be established, and (3) whether dems gaining power would actually try to stop/dismantle it

was expecting this to be a snarky paraphrase, not an actual verbatim quote.

They got guns we got guns All god's chillun got guns www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyeK...

Huh, Dolemite was trans. Who knew.

👇👇

mood www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Kx...

I'm basically committed to the pragmatic stance that nothing good is likely to happen in the near future but we also have to enjoy any glimpses of what might still be (to make it to the medium term without going nuts)

i'm sorry sir you're going to have to be more specific