Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Leftists really have to prioritize public libraries in budget fights.

"Beneath its humdrum requests, every email said more or less the same thing: Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite?" lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Imagine going to court demanding for the right to starve both your people and their children for no other reason beyond malice.

yes. by design.

You usually have to pay to see something this embarrassing.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Dangerous confession: I don't like INTERSTELLAR

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

There are no words for how evil this is

FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

Eldest pet Honey Badger is near the end of her life. She made it even longer than we hoped when we adopted her. Fifteen years old and we had her for ten. Give your Honey an ear scratch for her.

They thought the right was the path to having a good time with the fellas and found nothing but weird nerds backstabbing each other. Hard not to notice the socialists laughing and high fiving in their peripheral vision

FRANK BOOTH: straight from my heart, fucker! You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker! CHATGPT: Wow! 🤯 that was a really passionate statement! You clearly have thought deeply about what love means!

One of the greatest films of all time IMO

Happy #Noirvember to all who celebrate!

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

to doom is to die. the right feeds on this. live defiantly in their faces. stand on your beliefs. carry your struggle without shame and people will see themselves. stay true to your beliefs and show people a better world

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

It’s too bad we don’t have a political party that could make something out of “the president is defying a federal court ruling so that he can starve poor people”

This man gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to speak to rooms full of CEOs

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.

I was thinking how to sum up #DwellerinDarkness for those who haven't read the first #DeadlightsDuology book or my work in general and "LOTR but Frodo and Gollum are the same person" kind of nails it.

This is a large part of what #DwellerinDarkness is about - humanity's insistent need to manufacture an Other can be so fundamental that, when challenged, many simply choose to divorce from reality.

The reason it was considered an 'ideological referendum' after the fact was because the media had decided beforehand that enough was enough, if he won this time he's won everything forever - not just because they support them, although much/most of them do, but because they wanted to End The Debate

I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition www.vox.com/politics/466...

I’ve said this before but white guilt is useless. I don’t want people to feel guilty for things they had no part in, and guilt easily curdles into resentment. But everyone regardless should feel an obligation to correct injustice, especially if you somehow benefit. bsky.app/profile/mich...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Immortality is a child's answer to death anxiety, not a real thing with which humanity will ever have to contend. No king's alchemist ever granted him eternal life, and it isn't going to start happening now just because of Computer.

These indictments are disgusting. I was there when these alleged crimes *did not* occur. The only violence that occurred was committed by ICE, as usual.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this

The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl. The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.

This is expressly suicide ideation masked in technology. The idea being that if you kill your humanity, your pain will go away.

Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...

One term I've started using to describe the current moment is "performative psychopathy." There's real incentives created by the oligarchs of late stage capitalism to embrace the self-destructive nihilism of a right-wing edgelord for money. You can see it in business, comedy, journalism, and beyond

Hard to look at what's happened at NYT, WaPo and corporate media more broadly and not see an internalization of utter self-abasement.

"Personally, I believe the way forward looks like collectives and worker-owned publications. To survive in late capitalism will take being anti-capitalist in practice in form and not just as a critical stance." Thank you @anamariecox.bsky.social

a big problem right now among our political, cultural and media elites is how few of them have any self-respect