In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.

I cannot emphasize enough how much Zohran Mamdani's campaign was very much about a platform focused on accountability, but also about having fun, fostering genuine connections with its citizens, and reminding people why they moved to New York City and should still want to live there

you probably shouldn't let what commentators like Ezra Klein say be the limit of your imagination or determine what you think is politically possible. He doesn't have a clue what is possible.

NYC Mayoral Debate MAMDANI: I want to make NYC a better place to live CUOMO: I want Mandala over here to admit he can't do anything, because I can't do anything SLIWA: I would drink a $27 Moscow mule from Andrew Cuomo's skull

There could be solid ICE counter-recruitment campaigns launched to discourage people from working for them and to encourage those working for them to quit. There are lots of examples of such campaigns from anti-war organizing.

"Only one thing is certain: the irrationality of society has reached a point where only the gloomiest predictions have any plausibility." - Max Horkheimer, 1932

I feel bad for zohran. Like he'a clearly a bright, energetic, talented, and highly motivated person who has to do these humiliation rituals where his ideas are being put on the same level as two gross weirdass tired old white guys w nothing to offer. It's insulting and embarrassing.

We must adopt the belief that we have a duty to maintain that light by commiting ourselves to our offerings to community.

May she rest in power, emphasis on the rest.

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time. There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

Damn yo what if the United States empire was collapsing. Just imploding & losing all its function because its white supremacist history culminated in a dictator. That would be crazy, yo. Nah that would never happen.

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Drake’s federal defamation suit against Universal Music Group has been thrown out of court, TMZ reports

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

(For anyone needing a translation: “Especially all of the Latinos and Latinas in the world, here in the US, who have worked to open doors—it's not just a win for me, it's a win for all of us. Our footprints and our contribution to this country—no one will ever be able to take that or erase it.”)

Bad Bunny responds to his Super Bowl critics in Spanish, and then English: “And, if you didn’t understand know what I just said, you have four months to learn!”

The sunlight of your life has just found you. What a joy to live your way into the warmth of your next decade.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

I had no opinion on that talk show host until seeing his monologue after his return. Yikes. That’s who yall rallied for? Thus your cause celebre? This man crying and boohooing and sending condolences for a man who mocks us, despises us, advocates violence against us? Ridiculous

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

We really can’t understate the psychic toll of knowing that the United States government is trying to kill as many people as possible

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Sums up America in 2025 pretty well I’d say

Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor

This is actually demonic.

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Let’s keep encouraging Gavin Newsom to go after the republicans. Maybe it’ll give the homeless a reprieve from his attention.

"but crime is a real issue, people are worried about crime and you have to take that seriously" No you don't! If people are getting more scared about crime while crime is happening less frequently, it's a made up issue and you should make a point of yelling that all the time

For the cheap seats, there is NO ONE more obsessed with genitals than a transphobe and any accusation of deviance is coming from a person who's made their entire personality being the dick police!

At this point it's a nothing burger because they will be so doctored and unreliable that they may as well keep it at this point. Y'all really think they are gonna release anything that implicates him!?!? WAKE UP

"Aren't you going to defend your position on this?" A: Fuck You, and 2: Pay me.

YOU are not actually the most important person during an ongoing genocide. YOU live in the country that is co-facilitating that genocide. Please fucking BE SERIOUS. Just so fucking self-centered.

Whew. A good reminder cause I feel SALTY

I don't even wanna be fucking nice anymore. Look where niceness has gotten us.

Have you noticed not a SINGLE elected person has offered any HELP to ANY constituents who were FIRED en masse from the federal government? I haven’t seen a SINGLE ad campaign about how essential immigrants are. Not a SINGLE suggestion for how to prepare for loss of health insurance. NO HELP AT ALL.

If the leaders aren’t leading make them do something else. Fire them all.

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

Periodic reminder that America is in the consolidation phase of a totalitarian fascist regime. We only have one another and we must protect one another. the systems of fascist consolidation are far outstripping democratic societies ability to counter them.

We have to get comfortable telling people they’ve been acting like suckers and the things they believe are cultivated for suckers. Radical honesty.

Widespread magical thinking is going to get us all killed

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Not to be heartless but I remember this particular activist shouting about how we survived 4 years of Trump so we shouldn't vote for Kamala. I wonder how he's doing now.

"Brazil’s Supreme Court orders house arrest for ex-President Jair Bolsonaro" What a beautiful day! One mass murderer down, who is next?

Did you know that 100% of the people who confuse causation and correlation eventually end up dead?