New books 📚

Rearranged my bookshelf, crazy backlog 😭

Ugh I’m tired

i mean, i think both israel and the US wanted to invade iran but the US wants a stable US proxy in power while Israel wants Iran to collapse into an orgy of violence that can be perpetually kept as a failed state with bombing

The real vote blue no matter who test is actually going to be when Abdul El Sayed wins because the freak out will actually be way worse For Reasons

The Maine senate race makes everyone insane because the fate of our supposed democracy is determined by who can control a blatantly undemocratic chamber. A key seat of which is determined by a rural elderly region of just a million people who are idiosyncratic as hell.

Sunrise has made the correct calculation of what has to be tackled to address climate change and its concentrated economic and political power that undermines any kind of d of true democracy in this supposed Republic

The pile on to CA DSA is just completely unwarranted and while I’m always pessimistic about California politics there’s many signs many DSA chapters and even some progressives made serious inroads. It takes weeks to do these elections everyone should chill, post a little less.

Everyone has a different work flow but definitely funny this is for storyboards which in all honesty are a specific tool for specific directors and not at all a inherently nessesary part to someone’s creative process for filmmaking

The left and YIMBYs honestly both gotta take hard looks at the puritanical nature of their movements the past decade and embrace some kinda pragmatism Ironic for YIMBYs the DSA left is engaging in a much more rational and mature strategy towards growth and power than whatever the Yimby movement is.

yimbys will be like “yeah i want a sensible yimby progressive to win an election” but not support any actual sensible yimby progressives

wow i cant believe a dsa supporter would back the more progressive candidate over a collection of rentier interest groups in a trench coat

POTUS mad at PM of Israel, does nothing. 1999. POTUS mad at PM of Israel, does nothing. 2005. POTUS mad at PM of Israel, does nothing. 2010. POTUS mad at PM of Israel, does nothing. 2015. POTUS mad at PM of Israel, does nothing. 2024. POTUS mad at PM of Israel, does nothing. 2026.

Late night with the OG Randolph Scott NW

Star Wars is a delicate balance of humans, humanoid aliens, creatures and weird little Guys, Filoni has disrupted that balance

The vibes are bad because the economy is bad Unless you’re a email job brat posting endlessly on here that every worker struggling under you is just ungrateful or too stupid to understand how awesome it is that only top earners are seeing conditions improve

Idk what’s so hard for a bunch of middle to upper income email job wonks to understand. No it’s not the worst economy ever but there are elements that are really really bad that people really really don’t like.

Whose idea was it to put a decaying gay ex Congressman on Jake Tapper during his last days on Earth to have him complain about trans people and "the left"

these people desperately need acceptance in liberal / left wing spaces because liberal / left wing spaces are socially, economically, and culturally valuable. nobody on the left is complaining about being unwelcome in the shitty dallas exurbs because these places fucking suck.

i mean, yes. but left of center people do not need right wing spaces in the same way right wing people need left / liberal spaces because right wing americans are antisocial freaks who build nothing of value for society.

Friends asking if I’ve seen Hail Mary or Mando and Grogu or finished the Boys and I’m too afraid to say “no I’m watching Anthony Mann westerns with Jimmy Stewart.”

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

A bright blue sky for big dreams, feels good to see the sun in Minnesota☀️😎

Whenever I feel hopeless I just tune into California politics and I feel better

Man fuck you, take this shit down

I’m obsessed with the Nixon Foundation insta page

Lazy Email job worker: “Everything is slop today why isn’t their more original art?” “All 18 year olds who pursue creative liberal arts degrees deserve eternal poverty.”

It’s not too late act.dsausa.org/s/4536.Xd0xHm

There is no democracy here lol

I hate markets, specifically the job market

last week, i called Richard Kelly while he was killing time at the airport to talk about how Southland Tales predicted the future

'Farmers' support ICE because they want a vulnerable underclass to do all the work at vastly reduced wages and fear asking for more. there, I solved it.

this is actually a great example of why materialist analysis is vital for any kind of coherent leftism. 'Farmers' here refers to farm owners and operators, who are definitionally not working class as they own the means of production!

and again, all of this is happening in the name of “equal protection”

to the extent that this is a thing, its mainly a problem of centrist staffers inventing policies that take a paragraph to explain who they’re helping. lefty/progressive candidates are pretty good at clear messaging consistency

This transit concentrated wealth and evil farmers yeah

homelessness? downstream of housing costs. home not insurable? not my problem, dont live in a fire zone. jobs/companies are leaving the state? wrong, no theyre not. many voters are worried about crime? those voters are dumb, sorry. crime is down.

DSA voter guide in action

Incredible mayday weekend in Minneapolis!

Happy mayday from the Twin Cities

“Is this the DSA happy hour?” Jason asked a table of guys hanging out at Arbeiter (he really had it in his head that there’s a standing Friday DSA happy hour here) “I mean…we’re DSA,” replied the guys after a long, confused pause, “but this isn’t a DSA thing. We’re talking about Linux.”

DNC Chair Ken Martin's BRAZEN lies about the 2024 election autopsy

Bracing for extreme levels of cope from some folks on here today about mounting a write-in campaign to win the primary. (A write-in candidate will not win. This one's over.)

Happy Janet Mills campaign death day 🎉🥳

It’s insane our system is literally just “ok this guy is a unaccountable king for 4 years with the strongest military on earth”

People shouldn't think about US military aid to Israel in terms of what it makes up as a % of Israel's overall military spending but what, specifically, the US supplies Israel with that Israel does not or literally can not make.

Bruh