I’ve seen skeets you people wouldn’t believe.

Hard to conceive of people with less self-respect than the Republicans who say they couldn’t take Trump in a fight. Unless those people are all in iron lungs, boy, I dunno…

At a 2006 rally for Deval Patrick (lol) starring Bill Clinton, a buddy of mine shook Bill’s hand and said he liked his tie. Clinton stopped for 30 seconds to say thanks and tell the story of the tie and it had the full fugue stage effect.

“There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots.” Is that plain enough? Seems pretty straightforward to me.

Not great that our oligarchs are willingly caught up in a Norman Vincent Peale doom loop

My predominantly working class public university students are quite capable of understanding Rawls

In the contest between a poli sci professor and a blogger with takes as useful as a marzipan dildo I’ll take the poli sci professor

GOAT

Inside each person ...

IT WAS CALLED THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR AND THEY BROUGHT THE BOOKS TO THE SCHOOL AND SET IT UP LIKE A BOOKSTORE AND YOU COULD GET GOOSEBUMPS AND FEAR STREET BOOKS BUT ALSO MICHAEL JORDAN POSTERS AND NICKELODEON BOOKMARKS AND PENCILS THAT SMELLED LIKE CUPCAKES

Keeping a few domesticated kings around as a treat, periodically making them do tricks in front of an elected legislature.

Greatest game of all time, total unrelated to my highly particular nostalgia for it.

This is, by the standards of the genre, entirely coherent

This is being described by the Right as an unhinged rant when it falls well within the boundaries of what by Boomer Democrat relatives discuss whenever Trump comes up.

You’re hearing it more and more

By all means let the Trump admin open up this particular can of worms. Get folks used to it so that the sentences handed down by the tribunals in 2029 will seem less shocking.

Working on something here The Forties: 1941-1952 The Fifties: 1952 - 1963 The Sixties: 1963 - 1972 The Seventies: 1972 - 1979 The Eighties: 1980 - 1989 The Nineties: 1989 - 2001 The Oughts: 2001 - 2008 The Teens: 2008 - 2021

“Time is a flat circle” turns out to be a metaphysical loadbearing proposition for conservatism

Pure unadulterated wrecker shit, these people should be embarrassed. And yet!

Joke's on you, luddites. Claude tells me what to eat, it tells me the food on my fork is an airplace that needs to land safely in my mouth, it burps me, it changes me, it tells me a bedtime story.

Listen up, Libs! *dies of pneumonia*

Hard to see this as anything but a (doomed) attempt to rescue the elite consensus of the American-Israeli relationship from American voters. Pretty dumb idea imo but then again this is coming from Cory Booker.

A lot of people liked it, no “kind of” necessary. I did, which has been a big part of my own personal sense of Covid derangement.

I am absolutely a better citizen than the modal MAGA voter

Chris Pontius taught us all a lot of non-toxic masculinity is a belief I’ve held for 25 years.

Hank saw Trump’s Jesus post

Jon McNaughton needs a wellness check

Imagining the left getting Irish Americans in the national divorce and levitating slightly

There’s an anecdote from Gettysburg about a Union regiment forming up to resist Longstreet’s July 2nd onslaught and the colonel calls the roll so that each man is named and affirms himself as “present” as they’re staring down death. That’s the kind of series that could be made.

One of my first tasks at my very first job, at an independent bookstore, was tearing off the covers of unsold mass market romances so they could be shipped back to the publisher and pulped.

I just don’t think it’s possible to meaningfully recover from this unless we really, REALLY punish the architects of the regime. We need something like Benjamin’s “divine violence” as a purgative. Which sucks.

here goes the hair there goes the hair where is harry truman? he's dead in the ground he's dead in the ground

Direct hit, jokerfied

The only way we’re going to begin to rebuild a tiny fraction of the trust we need to function in the world is by harshly punishing all of these people.

Male Fantasies, Vols. I & II, by Klaus Theweleit

One of these days I need to get serious about posting and make the argument for Karl Polanyi Thought as a unifying heuristic for liberals and leftists. Frankly, Polanyi should be the patron saint of Bluesky.

Democratic equality cannot be achieved or sustained without force of arms and a willingness to use them in defense of a decent society.

I didn't actually go to the protest this time but I am still helping

No one hates a premature antifascist more than a shamefully belated antifascist.

An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (The Caretaker, 2011)

I’m as nostalgic a 90s kid as you’ll find and historical honesty means acknowledging that the food was vastly inferior to today. Sushi didn’t reach my wealthy town forty minutes north of San Francisco until 1999.

“Lenin: Life and Legacy” by Dmitri Volkogonov when I was in the sixth dang grade

Instant Proust’s madeleine moment. I’m thinking of interviews with Urkel. I’m thinking about Chip n’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers. The 21st century hasn’t happened yet.

Dune, Where’s My Sandworm?

“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed…And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.” Luke 2:1-3

Catch 22’s 2006 album Permanent Revolution, a ska-punk concept album on the life of Trotsky, is all the Marxism I need in my pop art thank you very much.