sidenote: funniest block I ever caught was from Noah Berlatsky, who called this line from Aliens “pro genocide” and didn’t appreciate my saying he had the dumbest read of that movie I’d ever seen in my fucking life

hes right and he should say this about klippstein

The UK generally has a far more censorious approach to speech than I think is good or healthy. I don’t think Cenk or Hasan should be barred. But Piker’s response here is conspiratorial and antisemitic, and it’s a good example of why I think he’s a malign actor in our discourse.

O word??

Inclusivity is great actually

last year's, for context

Woke 2: We’re No Longer Asking

BEND THAT KNEE

the beige menace has been defeated

Twitter is conflicted

I don't know if joining the Stones was a net positive for Ronnie Wood, a guitarist with more instinct than art except when he sat down across from Rod Stewart. I'm missing SOME GIRLS on this list and didn't bother with HACKNEY DIAMONDS, but here is a ranking. wp.me/pzXeC-9f3

I called the cops in Seattle when some guy was throwing rocks at our windows and they expressed the same sentiment except the city attorney was Ann Davison, a Republican who campaigned on law and order!

Godspeed

finally she's putting out an album of The Promise Ring covers

Which is sort of like, *even if* you think it wasn't Boudin's fault if you believe the police are cynically on strike unless they get another DA and that's the only way to get the cops back to work...

Buddy in SF during Chesa had a homeless drunk break into the lobby of his small apartment building and piss all over everyone’s mailboxes. Still there when the cops came, they said they could hold him overnight but ‘sorry, no point in pressing charges, because of Chesa’. My friend voted to recall.

There was a guy walking around screaming waving a machete near a playground in NW Portland 2021-2022ish, someone called a cop and he said "I can't do anything about that because of [reformist Multnomah County DA] Mike Schmidt"

SFPD pretty effectively sandbagged Chesa Boudin by creating the perception of lawlessness under him, not through a violent coup. I personally know of people who experienced (extremely effective) ‘canvassing’ by on the job cops when they were victims of crime (‘sorry, can’t do anything, the DA’)

The tricky thing is that many police departments are not under full effective civilian control, but one of the ways in which they exercise that undue autonomy is through selective shirking to punish pols they dislike, which is something that the ACAB/prison abolition people have no real answer for

I hope it’s an album wide cover of promise ring’s nothing feels good

Happy first day of pride, we are so back

I know the people involved here. You can trust Brad DeLong.

People will dismiss individual clips like this as if Piker doesn’t have a long history of saying ignorant, hateful, and conspiratorial things

what a fresh reminder of how completely insane this guy is.

Well now hellgate is gonna yell at her now

Someone tell Graham Platner that AIPAC does not equal Israel and that it’s verging on anti-Semitism to appeal to these tropes.

Very sad news from Delegate Leslie Mehta about her husband’s passing Sending my thoughts during this difficult time

Hell yes

Eating pussy

Hey, @ddayen.bsky.social what do you think Matt means by Lizard People here? Is that a neutral, non-bigoted term that people should use freely? Is it in @prospect.org's internal style guide?

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My friend's phone was stolen at a 2007 Obama rally and when she reported it to the cops, the cops spent the whole time pontificating on "Obama attracting criminals because he's weak on crime" Cops just lie about stuff

Glad to see people coming around to what’s been obvious for years. That slimy ratfucker isn’t right.

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

I'm very tired of Batman Is Very Interesting, Actually movies and very much look forward to James Gunn giving us a Batman movie that is insane and dumb (complimentary)

I would like someone to make a Batman movie that doesn't pretend that the Joker is an interesting character

like, say what you will about Fetterman, but at least he was fucking lieutenant Governor before he ran for senate! Platner was literally a nobody! and if you’re gonna pick a nobody, that’s fine, but there are thousands of nobodies in Maine who are progressive and *aren’t* freaks like he is

the thing that I don’t get about Graham platner is like… why this guy??? he had zero elected experience, zero particularly compelling life story, and an insane amount of baggage. it just pains me that would couldn’t find anyone better than this weirdo

seriously though, this is a straight write-up of what he said, and a fair summary in the headline. he should see that and think “oh, that’s nice, the Guardian Australia wrote up what I said, they didn’t have to do that”. or ideally he should be less online and not see it at all

250 delegates representing Your Party branches and former ones in Britain met in an online conference on 31st May to launch the 'Socialist Federation' They've "comprehensively lost patience with Corbyn & his close-knit entourage who failed to build on the promise of the mass signups to a new party"

This has to be a performance art project

The Fire Brigades Union has made a statement on the proposed EHRC Code of Practice on Services. Our message is clear. Equality matters, solidarity is essential, and we will continue to fight for both.

Good thread d

just so weird that people think that if you need to borrow a lot of money, the lender somehow doesn't set the terms

Once again, which 'trans groups' were arguing this? Name them! Seems ludicrous to insinuate that trans people have had agency in all this, given the last time trans rights advanced was 2004, and the SC judgement arose from a judicial review launched in *2022* by FWS Ltd. bsky.app/profile/dani...

Who on the trans-inclusive side ever made the argument about whether 'biological sex' was a protected characteristic? AFAIK basically everyone who was trying to frame it in those terms was on the anti-trans side, and LGBT orgs were desperately trying to avoid that framing. bsky.app/profile/dani...

But soon the argument here starts to run into difficulties. How on earth could ordinary public toilet facilities pay 'due regard' to gender assigned at birth without that meaning banning trans people? And who are the unnamed 'trans campaigners' here? bsky.app/profile/dani...

First, I don't really disagree with this. The EA is written so that trans people may be excluded from single-sex services in circumstances when it may be proportionate, e.g. women's refuges and prisons. IMO Harman's initial reaction was that the SC had just reiterated that. bsky.app/profile/dani...