I know everyone loves Zohran, but how many more times is he going to be given a pass for doing *absolutely nothing* to rein in the NYPD? bsky.app/profile/prop...

Easy one this. You ended up here by doing exactly what you're doing now. Which is all you know how to do: vexatious anonymous briefings to hacks designed to shitstir & fuck over colleagues & absolutely no positive political project beyond that

This response is understandable, and feels compassionate. I said very similar things about the area that I grew up, which voted heavily for Brexit. But the thing is: these people have been indulged in their ideas — which are racist, and also simply incoherent — for over a decade.

I’m a millennial who works in software. I’ve seen the quiet AI backlash and disdain from younger coworkers. It’s quiet because their leadership is wildly zealous about AI and openly objecting to AI would put those young people’s jobs at risk.

Great to see Gaza: Doctors Under Attack win a Bafta... my piece from last year for @equatormag.bsky.social on what was going on behind the scenes at the BBC after 7 October 2023. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

you will all have to pry this "ABSOLUTELY GO FUCK YOURSELF, MARJORIE, YOU HATEFUL ANTISEMITIC RACIST HOMOPHOBIC DEMON, YOUR CALCULATED ANTI-TRUMP PIVOT TO POSITION YOURSELF FOR A 2028 GOP PRIMARY CHALLENGE DOES NOT FOOL ME BECAUSE I HAVE MORE THAN TWO BRAIN CELLS" sign out of my cold dead hands

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

It’s time.

me in 2013: gerrymandering is one of the most important issues facing the country, we should not improperly represent states. we cannot let what scott walker did to wisconsin become the norm me in 2026: destroy every elected republican

A lot of people used to (and maybe still?) scoff at this but the only long term response available to a constitutional court that is hostile to democratic republican rule is to overhaul the constitutional order itself and cripple the court

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

the game that the republicans are playing is that democrats are institutionally more timid and less likely to wipe local republicans off the map. they are stealing seats now so that they can call for calm later. investigating virginia state sentator lucas is part of the game.

i think the fact that we are STILL in the position that we, the democratic base, have to convince a bunch of recalcitrant senators to do things like ditch the filibuster, admit DC and PR (if they want it) as states, and, most importantly, reform SCOTUS, identifies all my problems with the party

If you read the actual article, what he says is pretty reasonable. As per usual, this k-hiver is misrepresenting it. bsky.app/profile/bowi...

listen man you failed beyond belief, fuck off

Rutgers School of Engineering canceled a commencement speech by Rami Elghandour—an alum and executive producer of an Oscar-nominated film about Hind Rajab, a Palestinian child killed by Israel—because "some" students complained: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... His response (via X):

This is 100% what's happening now. The various "Jewish advocacy" groups that have been working to suppress speech in the name of Jewish "safety" have created a dynamic that thoroughly supports antisemitic belief, even among people who are not otherwise predisposed toward it.

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

"Many people had 20/20 foresight. BUT if they remind you that they had foresight, that is hindsight."

"Hindsight is 20/20" = "The far left was, once again, *prematurely* correct" bsky.app/profile/brad...

Dems lost the house because they ran away from their own accomplishments and Obama abandoned his volunteer army in pursuit of bipartisanship. I’m old enough to remember you misremembering

Farmers vote Republican because they're people with money & property. So they vote like people with money & property. That's it. It's not rocket science.

oh that one's easy, it's bc the people complaining don't ride ebikes but they do drive cars

This "independent judiciary" gave Trump a get out of jail free card lmao. Look I know it sucks when the profession you've dedicated your entire life to ends up being shredded in the name of an aging fascist pedo, but the press is right there with you. It's OK to be mad at it

Multiracial democracy in the American South has briefly existed twice in American history, both times enforced from outside, and both times has lapsed the instant the rest of the country lost interest.

Joplin’s first DSA meeting tonight. We expected like 5-10 people and had at least 40.

Gettheimer providing a service to Dem voters here: a handy list of Democrats who need to be primaried ASAP bsky.app/profile/jewi...

The millennial craft movement vastly improved American gastronomy and I refuse to let zoomers with no cultural memory of the bland garbage we ate and drank 20 years ago meme me into thinking it is cringe.

This chart reflects 3 things that the book describes: (1) the New Deal gave Democrats a healthy majority in the nation’s most rural districts, as a direct result of its policies (2) which the rise of neoliberalism destroyed, (3) but that a determined party-building effort temporarily reversed. 2/x

Politics quiz [Impossible level] Wait which one is Elissa Slotkin and which one Elise Stafanik again? And are either of them Democrats?

we're going to be driving their cars because we will be living in their world, we already are we just haven't caught on to it just yet

The ruling class has systematically degraded reality discernment and overshot the goal of manufacturing consent. now they're manufacturing "damn that's crazy" "who do fuck knows" and "yeah sure why not probably"

The FT says Labour's "saviours" went for "expulsion" on "flimsiest of pretexts" a "macho instinct to break Labour taboos" that "alienated"  Labour's "base", inc picking Mandelson and an "overtly pro-Israel line", "leaking support on the left". Maybe they weren't saviours at all.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

This guy, and the others from his faction, have moved so far to the right of their OWN voters that it isn't even CLOSE to 90-10 anymore. bsky.app/profile/park...

I think part of the reason the Pope thing is hitting so much is that modern life is so devoid of *any* morality, any system of right and wrong that is not completely hollow and fraudulent, which hits as halfway sensible and opposed to Trump and those like him, feels absolutely revolutionary

Someone who used every tool at his disposal to overthrow our democratically elected government is most emphatically not a "good man," and most emphatically does deserve to have his career destroyed.

Here’s is the problem with characterizing J6 as viewpoint discrimination: it is not. It was an attempt to overturn a lawful election. We have been here as scholars and we have a choice for history: we cannot rewrite public memory to excuse violent anti-democratic acts.

Mamdani angers certain journalists and their bosses because he's a well-educated child of privilege like they are, but he's the way he is and they're the way they are and it shames them and they can't deal with it. It's not hard to figure out

Oh no! If only that one singular Democrat hadn’t broken ranks, this all could have been stopped!

Aggie-posting: bsky.app/profile/nich...

Once again if you use tankie in a serious light I immediately discard everything you say.

the fact that christians were more upset about this ai generated trump pic but not when he said he was gonna wipe off an entire civilization shows how bankrupt white evangelicalism is

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy: There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.