White people’s inability to think collectively plays into this misunderstanding.

I am in the “blue no matter who” crowd and we should run every single coward in congress that refused to back Mamdani out of Washington.

In the most fundamental sense, sovereignty belongs to the people. It can only be relinquished through consent or stolen through fear. If we refuse to consent and remain unafraid, we win.

It’s a hell of a grift the Mattys Yglesias and Ezras Klein of the world have; your Davids French, your Conors Friedersdorf. So conveniently confused about the most obvious things yet so certain about the most laughable nonsense. Always interested in seeking answers, yet so allergic to finding any.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

If the Voting Rights Act is deemed unconstitutional, it won't be long until these malicious cartoon villains come for the Civil Rights Act. The biggest trick the Devil ever played was the "both sides are the same" nonsense.

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

Get these thugs out of the NFL

Animal, Surrender! Hits the road next week. Trio style with @curtsydnor.bsky.social on Vox organ. Supporting our new album on @ejrc.bsky.social coming out Sept 26. Come through! Flyer by @dnorsen.bsky.social

White folks try to kill black folks even when Black folks have literally nothing to do with their problems.

Ha ha eat shit Tubby

"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet."

This resignation letter from one of the CDC leaders is important.

"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.

We cannot let them steal our joy. Write damn it! Sing. Make art. Dance. Play that instrument. Loud.

a first step to organizing people to do anything right now is just bringing people together for anything—to vent. to eat together. to make art. to remind people we have each other. to ask what we can do together. to keep the despair at bay.

Imagine all these people getting Bronze Stars for their 2025 Deployment to Georgetown.

Once you unlearn this your entire world’s perspective shifts. We cannot waste our time and effort invested in trying to change the hearts and minds of racists. That effort should go to PROTECTING the marginalized and building a world that’s safe and just - despite (and in spite of) the racists.

Told my guy at the Times it needs to be be on the front page that ICE is literally deliberately recruiting Nazis. We'll see what happens.

10/10, no notes @vinnythomas.bsky.social

I finished this, and it's clear that Mamet has Boomer brain rot - he grew up & prospered in post WW2 America, where higher tax rates and the New Deal enabled his success, and like most of his generation, now wants to pull up the rope ladder after him and deny all that to those who came after him.

rich people after moving to Austin:

People know they should have voted for her. They won't admit it and don't want to accept responsibility. "You didn't win me over as opposed to the mass deportations/lie about immigrants eating pets/convicted felon/rapist/insurrection guy. I am a smart and blameless political critic."

Venezuelan men the U.S. deported to El Salvador are starting to speak out. The Trump administration sent over 230 of them, many with no criminal record, to CECOT, a brutal prison. No charges. No convictions. Just locked away in a place one man said “wasn’t meant for humans.” (1 of 2)

Not clear why @whropublicmedia.bsky.social @virginiamercury.com decided to profile an AI hustle bro’s crackpot idea to crowdfund an arena in Virginia Beach, but “While everybody is sleeping, I’m reading more articles” is an incredible new addition to the copypasta lexicon so I guess it worked out.

We never beat foreign terrorism We absorbed it and let it reshape us The Iran hostage crisis scared us into voting Reagan, who killed the Fairness Doctrine and unleashed right-wing propaganda. 9/11 gave us “Homeland Security,” ICE, warrantless spying, and a surveillance state. And we kept voting

B T'selem now aligns itself with human rights observers around the world. Israel’s war has amounted to “coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip,” the Israeli group said. “In other words: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”

“You, the great white generality, have allowed your cities to perish, your institutions to become tyrannical—because you want to get away from me.” - James Baldwin, prescient as always ✨

i think the last decade is a clear evidence that hypocrisy is preferable to honest displays of cruelty and depravity

President Macron, "What is at stake in Europe is the different democratic models amid foreign interference" "Information manipulation" "Domination of minds by negative emotions and addictions to social media" "Being vulnerable to algorithms designed in the US and China"

Welcome to the USA of 2025, where condemning genocide is deemed antisemitism and can get you deported, but building concentration camps and calling bankers ‘Shylocks’ doesn’t get condemned by the news media at all.

Every shithole dumbfuck from the Incoherent Left that pushed that dangerously ignorant, blatantly false, easily refutable, and insidiously toxic talking point "both parties are the same" should have permanent boils on their ass until their worthless corpse rots.

• Mamdani is not in the country illegally • He does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism • Mamdani hasn’t actually said or done anything antisemitic • He did not call to ‘globalize the intifada’ • He’s not a communist

Really have been thinking a lot about the similarities between the Anglo Powhatan Wars & what’s happening in Palestine rn & was excited to see this new book touching on the history of that awful era. IMO many contemporary scholars still shy away from depicting the full brutality of that era.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York

Had the Confederates been treated like traitors, America would be better off today.

this wonderful piece from @profmsinha.bsky.social gets to what was truly great about lincoln — his open mind and great capacity for moral growth www.theunpopulist.net/p/abraham-li...

Human-generated music is now and perhaps forever will be an island in a sea of slop

Lack of protesting is not how we got here. Lack of voting is how we got here.

Happy Vote Against Levar Stoney Day, everyone! #rva

Hey #RVA, don’t forget TOMORROW June 17th from 6AM-7PM is the Democratic Primary. In Richmond you’ll be able to vote for Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Commonwealth’s Attorney, and Sheriff. I’m voting for Hashmi, Jones, Barbour, and Irving. Feel free to ask me why!

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

oh crazy, it is as if protests have consistently hurt trump since 2017

ICE keeps luring immigrants into fake check-ins and detaining them to disincentivize compliance with routine procedures, which they will then use to justify even further brutality and injustice. The purpose of a system is what it does.

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance." - e. e. cummings

On Dada Drummer Almanach, a conversation with Liz Pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social dadadrummer.substack.com/p/music-is-t...

If you are frustrated with the Trump policy of coddling Russian war criminals, you can give a hand yourself. savelife.in.ua/en/

There remains literally no strategy for establishing yourself as an artist better than “make good stuff, put it where people can find it, then keep doing it.” Art isn’t a meritocracy, but it’s a lot closer to one than most pursuits, and you can do worse than stubbornly pretending it is.

Love this from Rebecca Solnit in The Guardian today on how deep social change is non-linear, and takes faith and creative persistence and eyes to see.