I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

Wait... "Anti-bedtime leftism" was real all along??

It's fine -- if they're not sure what Skype refers to they can just ask Jeeves

Most folks don't realize how central events like J6 were to the Jim Crow state. Dozens of unprosecuted coups & massacres—actively encouraged by those in power—revived the fundamental logic of the pre-emancipation state: that Black Americans had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

If you love displaying Confederate flags, want to name military bases after Confederate generals, and oppose teaching kids about slavery, the civil war, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement because it might make white kids uncomfortable, you don't get to call your party "The Party of Lincoln."

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You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

If you see an abduction keep your wits about you and focus on: -recording it -getting a name The first one I saw I went into a red rage and started screaming “GO HOME.” The second I was better but I didn’t get to the key question fast enough (I had less than 20 seconds). Next time I’ll do better

I think a lot of Americans have (understandably) assumed that this kind of brutal randomized street-level "papers please" enforcement has been how ICE has always done business. It very much was not, until the past year.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

The theory of power that says conservatives as a whole, and young right-wing men in particular, are victims repressed by the left-wing forces dominating society is, in a word, insane. It cannot possibly be addressed, because it's not true. It's just rationalization for hatred and hurting others.

Sure but this is also a post-scarcity society where artists don't have to worry about income. And how do you know the holodeck databank isn't based only on properly-licensed works used with permission? I think Picard would have a problem with plagiarism so why not a plagiarism machine?

It's long past time for state and federal authorities alike to put an end to Stephen Miller's jerkoff fantasy of masked thugs kidnapping people of color off the street with impunity. Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?

Love this ad. The terrible voice acting somehow makes it more entertaining. youtu.be/weIk2GOKezs?...

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.

Is this the "death threats against the devs" we've been hearing so much about? If so this is extremely weak, and barely calls for any moderation action at all much less a permanent ban. I can only conclude the CEO here has Muskian influence over moderation decisions which is extremely concerning

ICE arrested press tonight. They threw a tear gas canister into the press last week. This was not an accident. Release Steve Held.

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

again, you are *posting on a public forum.* spreading panic and paranoia is antithetical to the solidarity and organization needed at this stage of resistance. And, bluntly, the opinion of *any* American is less useful than talking to South Koreans or Ukrainians and others at this point.

Tapping the sign again

At this point I can only assume people still arguing about "opsec" when going to one of these huge mainstream "nokings" style protests -- wear a mask! Use a burner phone! Don't use your real name! Etc -- haven't actually bothered going to any.

Somehow I've been mixing up Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro

Why the fuck is this so much more salient to everybody than when a literal democratic state lawmaker was assassinated 3 months ago?

📽️ Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs. Agents broke the window and slammed Daniel Flores-Martinez to the ground while his wife and children sobbed: https://propub.li/3IbPftA

I'm canceling my monthly donation to @cayimby.bsky.social until they come out with a statement denouncing this travesty of a conference and permanently cutting ties with the "abundance" movement

Saw a raven just out and about!

Bluesky should have a feed that shows you the news before showing you people's reactions to the news so you know what the heck everyone's taking about

A message to people whose cynicism has gotten the best of them: Data from KFF Health News illustrating how successful lawsuits have spared the blue states from a great deal of the blow to public health infrastructure funding. Red states sat back and are now royally screwed.

Does anyone else hum the king of the hill theme when they take out the trash

Exactly which American is he referring to here, the Human Genome Project was pretty famously an international collaboration

Well that was fast

Two things can be true: 1) this administration is causing & will cause incalculable damage & death to vulnerable people, and eventually to everyone except maybe the oligarchs. It is a horror show beyond many of our wildest previous imaginings 2) they are bungling fools and they have already failed

I’m back! I saw your messages on here & elsewhere—thank you all <3. I’m deeply disappointed in @bsky.app moderation; equating pushback against people like JKR with the harm they cause to trans ppl only enables more violence. I’ll talk more soon but even a day away from social media has been healthy.

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

This should be obvious, but I’m going to say it anyway because the internet has a way of making obvious things less obvious: You cannot substantively care about every worthy cause out there. If your response is “Maybe YOU can’t, but I can!” you are confusing feeling with actually caring.

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

My big thing of recent has been perscribing Play. Being playful, doing playful acts is what helps. It encourages self-expression. It desensitizes you of failure and allows you mulligans. Unfortunately, we've forgotten how to play. We're all work. Little love. But mostly, we've been work-centric.

No one is safe from their violence. Her story is absolutely horrific. No one should be traveling to the US.

There is no city, state or federal district where it is legal to terrorize and detain people for being brown and working in agriculture. These raids must stop immediately. 8/

We really need to make this point over & over again. When they say, "we're going to try to be more fair & represent the right's perspective," it *sounds* (especially to them) like trying to do better journalism, but in practice, it is the opposite, because the right is built on lies.

Replying after you've locked comments, classy

This is what we need a lot more of to bring these agencies to account. What they're doing is illegal, full stop. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

Taken: LA immigration raids Masked men pull up quickly and approach Latino men. When someone runs, they’re taken. When they don’t answer a question, they’re taken. When they can’t produce papers, they’re taken.  calmatters.org/investigatio... @wendyfry.bsky.social @addonohue.bsky.social

Today @lapressclub.bsky.social @statuscoupnews.bsky.social sued LAPD for use of force against reporters. "With today’s lawsuit, [LAPC] is fighting for the rights of all of its nearly 1,000 members to report the news without risking their health and safety,” said @adamrose.bsky.social