This looks so sick, i’m gonna be backing it

like, set the policy goal: "every American should have enough food to eat." then let us figure out how to do it. it's politicians, not bureaucrats, who put all sorts of bizarre and Byzantine restrictions on SNAP benefits. we're just the ones forced to execute them.

I've seen forms of this vibe on travel Insta & a lot of it basically boils down to "anywhere you can travel to easily is already ruined & thus no longer has an authentic culture" & its hard to overemphasize how easily that shit slots into the larger reactionary movement we're struggling against rn

“…before we ask whether AI can perform adequately in a job, we should at least consider the possibility that the company that sells that AI tool will be bankrupt in a year or two.” @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/06/06/a...

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

The internet died and we didn't even notice www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Will it mean anything practical? No. But putting the President in a position where he has to veto a War Powers resolution from Congress so he can continue to prosecute a conflict is a genuinely remarkable political collapse.

"RFK Jr. is a bad-faith, anti-science gremlin but I want him to aggressively regulate the food supply" please listen to yourselves.

Public health is such an awesome field, charlatans cut your programs and ruin a bunch of good people’s lives and then rediscover one crisis at a time why those programs were important. WHOOPS!

Public health researchers and advocates are making a huge mistake by partnering with MAHA on this

I will fucking die mad that we let the stupidest people in society with medieval peasant brain ruin recognizing what should have been a moon landing level triumph

"This country will now have to rediscover the energies that animated Freedom Summer and the March on Washington. If we don’t, the Jim Crow Southernization of America will continue apace." (from April) www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

You know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism

it is in absolutely everybody’s best interests to develop some hobbies aside from Phone

We chained up the demons of Tartarus but then just decided one day to let them go free

Known variously as Esteban de Dorantes, Esteban the Moor or – most commonly – Estevanico, this enigmatic individual was one of the first documented Africans, Arabic speakers and Muslims to step foot in what is now the United States, arriving nearly 40 years before the first European settlement.

We do not help men when we emotionally stunt them

Got to the fourth or fifth page of a book and was iffy on the writing. Then I hit a sentence that was “the sea distant” and promptly closed the book put it in the ‘back to the library pile.’

Every time I hear “Kai Havertz” I think “KAI HAVERTZ! And let slip the DOGS of WAR”

This is an existential threat to science

Writing fantasy is so cool, you decide to add a bit of depth for a character and look up a month & 25000 words later

I'm hearing reports that the NY State Assembly just passed the plug-in solar vote by a wide margin, joining the State Senate. Assuming the governor signs it, that will be the 8th state making it legal (and the biggest). A groundswell across the country, and so many thanks to great organizers!

Here’s one little-h hypothesis: even for folks doing reasonably well in this strange economy, they can see the worst people in the world just raking in money in the ugliest of ways; they know they’ll never be able to compete with that & that whatever they have will be worth less & less over time.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

the parallels to the fugitive slave crisis continue to intensify

"Researchers found undisturbed primary forests store 83% more carbon per acre than the managed forests that are replacing them." This study is "shocking" - as in "we've been lied to by the forest industry" and... it's not in our climate models. sustainability.stanford.edu/news/shockin...

If we had a dollar for every time scientists say "Protecting undisturbed areas could do more to mitigate climate change than previously thought," we could fund a lot of Science.

If your answer is a blue state, your answer is wrong. There are levels of loathing that you cannot fathom. I think Utah and Salt Lake would be my answer.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

“Dad what does Liberal Currents do?” “We publish things people write” “What kind of things” “Normal stuff; immigration policy, institutional reform, foreign policy, the interracial cuck porn theory of everything, zoning, pro-tax arguments, pedocon theory,”

I sincerely and genuinely would support Stephen Colbert if he ran for President (I have said it before and will say it again).

Impeach!

I can't believe we turned "Laptop Worker" into a term of derision. We now have the tech and business models to allow millions of people to make a living in ways unthered to a farm plot, assembly line,, or cubicle. That's very cool! Do not project your weird yearning for the mines on to me.

go cavs @nycwater.bsky.social

The odds are better than normal that whoever's on the ballot as the Democrat in your district this November will win. So it's important this primary season to make sure that whoever that person is, they're committed to an aggressive agenda of reform and accountability once they take office.

Kinda sucks that bike theft is a major problem and deterrent to biking in a way that car theft just is not. I could drive downtown and know pretty much for sure that the car will be there when I’m done. Not so much with a bike.

Habibti is going to keep the elevators bumping

“God made me left handed so I can’t always be right?????” Oh man this one is not gonna be better than the other ones is it? #drake #habibti

So uhhhh I wouldn’t say “stick out your tongue and I’m gonna” on an album with my mom’s face on the cover but maybe I’m not built like a freak #drake #maidofhonor

Drake makes music for people who really think the stripper is in to them

So my dog woke me up by puking and I put the album on because I figured it would be a good match for the vibe and all I can say based on the 4 or 5 tracks I listened to is:

The thing about staying up to listen 3 straight albums of Drake is that you can actually go to sleep and they’ll still be bad in the morning

my kingdom for a 24/7 distributed on-message lib-left propaganda apparatus that could make "the streamer who goes around calling people the n-word in the hopes they hit him so he can shoot them" the face of the republican party

total failure of lib billionaires that there isn't a cable news channel talking constantly about this guy and semi-spuriously connecting him to jd vance

Name 10 bands you've obsessed over at some point: 1. Clipse 2. Nightwish 3. Linkin Park 4. Killswitch engage 5. Cimafunk 6. P.O.D. 7. Rise Against 8. Nach 9. Calle 13 10. Volbeat

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

Crime is legal now

The US House is scheduled to vote today on a bill to allow year-round sales of E15 (15% ethanol blend in gasoline). Our US program director writes below about why E15 would be bad for American food & fuel consumers, and bad for our environment & climate - and not even very good for working farmers.

Love this! www.notus.org/perspectives... (The suggestions from the 15 other WaPo veterans fall well short of the moment.)