“So those two sections, those key sections — da da da da da – da da da, and then de de de de, de de, where the strings come in, that’s exactly like that, in the same key that I sang it (into the answering machine)." www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...

In political organizing, there is often a time-lag between peaceful mass protests and the impact of the community building that takes place during and after them. And you often won’t be aware of the linkage between the latter and the former unless you’re part of the organizing process.

Super Mario 64 (1996)

organizing and being in community is what will win elections. not flashy bullshit. Mamdani's success is as a great communicator *and organizer*. Fateh's success is because he is a GREAT organizer and who builds relationships. Talking to your neighbors is where politics happens.

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

anyway this is correct. various Blue Dog shitheads took some bites out of it but it was Dems who passed it and subsequently Republicans who have tried to destroy it through repeal or one trillion lawsuits bsky.app/profile/gree...

speaking of the ACA, I'm so old I can remember when Joe Lieberman killed the public option, and Ezra Klein accused him of being "willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score," and the entire DC media fainted simultaneously

The @nytimes.com decided last year what the story was; Trump II was the righteous punishment visited upon their interns and junior staffers and grandchildren for being so annoying about MeToo and BLM, and once they understood that and repented, they could have democracy back.

Twitter used to be the place where reporter talked to experts in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, law, medicine, etc., but the experts all left but reporters did not. Now reporters only talk to guys who do computers (but haven't coded in at least a decade). It shows.

Já acho normal que Glenn Greenwald continue mais preocupado com favorecimentos de ex-presidentes democratas do que com esforços de Trump para impor uma ditadura, mas eu pensava que ele era um pouco mais instruído. "Mesmo imperadores romanos ficavam satisfeitos com um busto de mármore"? Sério?

To be fair, Matt hinted they were racist: “Taibbi: I interview these people. They’re not basing their positions on the facts — they’re completely uninterested in the facts. They’re voting completely on what they see and hear on Fox News and afternoon talk radio, and that’s enough for them.”

stoller, greenwald, and taibbi were the canaries in the posting-to-brainrot-pipeline mine

With thanks to @s.ly and @chocchip.bsky.social here's what I was remembering. It was in fact Taibbi, but his characterization was "crazy" rather than "racist." I also remember listening to it, but this is a written transcript. Memory is a funny thing! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I would note that this disdain points in one direction. These legacy media outlets have been quick to cover and hype tea party protests, anti-mask/anti-vax protests, and countless other examples of what they call “real Americans” engaging in protest.

Just read the article and saw the photos and all I have to say is that there has to be a reckoning for this.

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered. levernews.com/book

hell yeaj

Peep the byline

Lorin Stein, the sexually abusive former editor of The Paris Review, helms pro-genocide Zionist magazine Tablet: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.

I think the final confirmation that “New Atheism” was in reality an Islamophobic movement piggybacking off War on Terror hysteria is that Bill Maher is now quoting the Bible to support his Zionist beliefs

Our friend Mark Cuban blames social media for younger people being disillusioned with capitalism, as Bill Maher went after Zohran — we’d offer that’s because it exposes what their generation’s unbridled greed has done to inequality in 🇺🇸 (and their futures)

While I obviously find the large urban protests impressive, it's the smaller ones in towns with small populations that make me tear up. That takes a lot of courage and it's a good reminder that people object to this everywhere & geography doesn't define someone's humanity.

Today's remarkable split screen: Democrats: 'No Kings' protestors expect thousands of 'boisterous, joyful' rallies nationwide Republicans: Fallout from 'I love Hitler' group chat

Trump: I'm not a King Also Trump:

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

CLEAR EYES, FULL HEARTS, NO KINGS

the declaration of independence is cringe. so is the gettysburg address. FDR’s four freedoms: also cringe. ditto king’s “dream” speech. ditto LBJ declaring, as president, “we shall overcome” cringe, for lack of a better word, is good. irony is a luxury. it’s a reflection of decadence.

Zohran Mamdani: I want to make housing and transportation affordable for the common person Andrew Cuomo: if you elect Zohran we will have 10 9/11s a day Curtis Sliwa: The events of Godzilla 1998 actually happened and I lead the team of French mercenaries that killed her babies in MSG

Same energy

Excellent statement from AOC.

Fun detail I found while researching my latest article on how Republicans destroyed ACORN - and how Democrats let it happen. The more things change, the more they stay the same... www.peoplesline.org/p/acorn-is-t...

As I've said before, just about everyone on the liberal-left have gotten this issue wrong. Half of it was just in complete denial about the Azov problem while the other half conflated Azov with ordinary Ukrainians.

Striking statement from @rokhanna.bsky.social on Graham Platner and his social media posts. Can't recall seeing a sitting House rep level this sort of allegation against his own party -- let alone this stridently. (Unclear to us who leaked Platner's posts.) #MEpolitics

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Whew. These guys are so brave. What a miracle that no one was killed or injured.

I gotta give Argentina some credit here for scamming Trump so badly

Maybe the Salesforce Tower jumbotron should just permanently display that Eye of Sauron they put up on Halloween

i think raw terror for their own physical safety is going to be the single predominant motive during the rest of this administration, which maybe suggests some not-great things about where we might be headed

we are not having a lot of luck with institutional pushback - everyone who does is fired and replaced we are definitely not having any luck with “norms” what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”

News on Trump boat bombings --> Now that SouthCom Commander Alvin Holsey has resigned, likely over the bombings, ranking Armed Services Dem Adam Smith tells me committee Ds will demand Holsey's sworn testimony and press Rs to join them. Smith spoke to us on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Graham Platner understands the struggles of everyday Mainers because he is one. Leaders We Deserve is proud to endorse him.

we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too! time.com/collections/...

This is bad. Dumberer and dumberer

40 years ago tonight, on Oct. 15, 1985, ABC aired an episode of MOONLIGHTING that became an instant classic— “The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice.” It was a love letter to old Hollywood and the noir films of the era.

So much for the progressive image Benioff has tried to maintain. Mask totally off now.

So it's not just that Benioff wants the National Guard to invade San Francisco, he and his company are also trying to engage in a little ethnic cleansing profiteering. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

I think it is about time that Democrats started familiarizing themselves with Lincoln’s response to Dred Scott instead of accepting the tacit premise that whatever a bare majority of the Supreme Court decides, dictates our constitutional fate

Nobody should accept the Supreme Court as legitimate until there have been serious reforms to prevent what @brianbeutler.bsky.social predicts here. The job of the justices can’t just be to turn the Constitution and separation of powers on and off like a lightswitch based on which party is in power.