This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
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This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
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My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
here in Pennsylvania one Republican senator has blocked Dem attempts to bail out SEPTA, completely fucking over greater Philly, even if the state wanted to jack up taxes by what like 50%? to replace Medicaid cuts he would block that too
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
This crime at Social Security might amount to the biggest data theft in human history. Committed by a government against its own citizens. I don’t think anyone has begun to grasp the sheer scale of corruption and institutional destruction that has occurred in the last few months. Era-defining.
The first Nazi book burnings were the biggest archive of trans research that existed at the time.
I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.” This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
It's so frustrating to watch. Instead of bowing to the dumbass tariffs, countries should be coordinating a stoppage on the most valuable (in terms of use-value) exports to the US and crippling them.
Gerald Williams would NEVER!
Deeply deeeply upsettinggg
There was a mass shooting yesterday by an individual who appears to have fallen deep down a far-right internet conspiracy rabbit hole. The shooter's apparent connections to right-wing extremism is being completely glossed over in almost all major news coverage. This silence is dangerous.
I read this as “Maoist”
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Also as detailed in the new fort hood book, the US Army has taken over a huge swath of covert ops of empire building from the CIA specifically because of stated congressional oversight.
I don't want to repost the awful stuff in that Chat GPT suicide case. But I will say that Chat GPT should be destroyed, financially and legally. The data centers should be disassembled and recycled. Sam Altman should go to prison.
Also it’s my understanding that this isn’t even the first time this has happened, just the most explicit.
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
Once again, there is a class of Democratic officials in DC who are fundamentally unsuited for the current political moment. They can't see that the fascism is the signal, not the noise. And they are unable or unwilling to change their pre-authoritarian approach to politics. It is deeply revealing.
Millennial dem voter here to tell you that if I see any of you on the street I’ll spit in your faces for trying to shovel any of this fucking gruel my way you absolute cowardssssss
This is the machine that, a few short years after it's increasingly obviously irresponsible release, a big section of our elites wants run our institutions. Complete madness.
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
The Plot to Enslave America
Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.
This flew by my radar this week, but massively important: the 5th circuit court of appeals ruled that the NLRB’s structure unconstitutional. It is a huge blow to “American workers who hope to organize their workplaces without fear of retaliation. It represents a partial negation of the New Deal…”
D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.
ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
Go off king!
Extremely I Saw The TV Glow vibes right here
so uh did they write about this at the time, or www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...?
China's July 2025 solar production was ~50% higher than its July 2024 solar output! China's solar generated 839 TWh in 2024 and will likely exceed 1,200 TWh in 2025. China's solar will generate in 2025 an amount of electricity equal to about 27% of USA's electricity demand. #energysky
the first anniversary of henry kissinger’s death is a good time to revisit this interview i did with @attackerman.bsky.social about his righteous obituary for the heinous war criminal: www.thehandbasket.co/p/writing-an...
Has anyone told Trump about nighttime
This is an extremely underrated chip right here. Overshadowed by the Voodoo flavor's superior packaging.
The Democratic establishment's aggressive shunning of Mamdani is the latest illustration of party leaders' bad judgement. Jeffries in particular is showing himself not as coalition leader but a champion of the center-left wing and can't be trusted going forward. newrepublic.com/article/1992...
This meme expresses the hopelessness that government workers feel. We are enemies of the people, according to our own bosses. Violence against us is tacitly (or explicitly) sanctioned. Black-majority places, and public health workers, in particular.
ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are it’s a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Here’s how to expose the lie.
A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
Watch DC residents chase federal agents out of the Columbia Heights neighborhood. Meanwhile, we spotted FBI and Homeland Security agents appear to respond to… an alleged *fare evader.* @zeteo.com
A new low even for the free press defector.com/the-free-pre...
The Google search history on DOJ computers right now is like what kinda guns do Black people use white people guns vs Black people guns shotguns whites only
At (another) Hampton’s fundraiser with Republican donors on Saturday, Andrew Cuomo said it plainly: he’s expecting Trump’s help to defeat us in November. “I feel good about that,” Cuomo said. New Yorkers won’t.
Wow I haven’t thought about double dagger in a minute
Protestors occupied Joe Picozzi's office today to ask him to represent his own constituents instead of rural Republicans: www.inquirer.com/transportati... Picozzi's transit funding plan would destroy SEPTA and he has yet to acknowledge that it's an unworkable plan.
Cuomo vs Zohran scandals
I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.
Personal networks are coming up short: reconnected w/ a woman who escaped harrowing domestic abuse situation, like not just MAGA but like Ruby Ridge kind of bad, and she doesn’t know where to go or what to do, just hiding out in a friend’s house. Guy seized her money and credit cards. In LA. Ideas?
Again, if you actually pay attention to the kind of material that Vance and Miller and their neo-Nazi toadies interact with online it is extremely obvious why they’re invading DC. But our press has consistently decided the implications are too alarming and so they must pretend not to see it
the degree to which these guys are just literal, straight up Nazis is both shocking and massively undercovered by the media
Under Joe Biden, we figured out how to avoid Lost Decades & drastically reduce child poverty, hunger, & crime, & then we just gave up, bc of our supposedly “moderate” & cowardly GOP Senators who get free passes, & because we lost our collective sh*t over inflation: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
Terry Cole, head of the DEA and named by Attorney General Pam Bondi as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” is a member of a right-wing MAGA group on LinkedIn — the group's 17,000+ members regularly post conspiracy theories and call for the arrest of Donald Trump's political opponents.
Declaring an emergency to takeover control of the capital city is classic authoritarian shit. The “emergency” coming when crime is at a 30 year low just goes to show how lazy and stupid these guys are: they’re not even bothering to pretend they have a good reason to end democracy.
Again, we have to recognize when we’re being threatened with violence.
Can’t tell if joke.
NEW: A comprehensive CNN review of Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein—backed by records, photos, videos, interviews & messages—shows a long, close relationship until at least the mid-2000s. Several associates called them best friends. Our report from last night: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR2H...
Another oped about "crime rates" that never mentions "racism" or "poverty" and somehow manages to blame "defund the police" despite no defunding. We are witnessing a return of Jim Crow, yet it's still the left's fault.
The thing about charging him with assault for throwing a sandwich is that it exposes the historic lie of “assaulting an officer.”
Josh MacPhee makes a lot of terrific things but this beautifully designed, very well illustrated, and thoroughly researched book about workers' revolt records, with Kennedy Block, is a political vinyl fanatic's dream. We have copies for sale at Half Letter Press. halfletterpress.com/strike-while...
When Hasan Piker bought a $2.7 million house in LA for him and his family to live in, critics said he wasn’t a real socialist because it’s too expensive. When Zohran Mamdani rents a $2,300 a month apartment in NYC, critics say it’s too cheap for him and he’s not a real socialist. It’s all bad faith
if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything
Slightly diminish a band... Walk-DMC
Yet again conservatives are melting down about the foreseeable consequences of conservative policies. We’re in a death spiral now where they tank the economy and cut welfare, then fearmonger about the resulting increase in visible poverty and addiction.
Democrats and centrist media keep laundering this panic into ‘reasonable concerns’ but the anti-trans movement is overwhelmingly comprised of bigoted loser freaks. We’re missing a huge opportunity to make this a winning issue by pointing that out.
Imagine if NYTimes journalists were being routinely massacred by a foreign state and competing media outlets responded by explaining that the Times is a mouthpiece for imperialism and propaganda arm of the US and Israeli governments such that murdering its workers was defensible.
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One way to understand what’s happening right now: the American people are ready, willing and able to resist authoritarianism. But, very few of the institutions meant to represent us—from the political system, to the Democratic Party, to civil society organizations—are able to mount a resistance.
Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his “American Carnage” inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.
A new statement from the chair of the Philly Dem Party (note: the party did not endorse in the primary) blasts Pat Dugan: "He lied to me. He lied to you. He lied to our committee people. ... Any voter should take a pause before casting a vote for any person so blatantly dishonest."
But I think the larger point - that Democratic leadership have never made DC statehood a priority - is still an important point and a huge dem failure. Hopefully this moment can be a catalyst to change that.
can anyone formally ask them to do stuff or just people who fucking suck
DC statehood shows Dem weakness goes back a while. Occasional lip service, but barely even that, and effectively took the stance that hundreds of thousands of US citizens should be disenfranchised because it’s unfair that they’d elect Dem Senators, which would make the Senate less disproportionate.
I feel like this is my main problem with Lena Dunham.
I am following thanks to an NBA instant follow pack but I am unfollowing you now. You don’t like Mamdani because he wants to make life affordable for working people and you are against that. I hope you like the fascism you helped facilitate you dumbass.
Begging this motherfucker to shut the actual fuck up
Imagine using the phase “incent [me] to help those who need it the most” and thinking you are in a portion to criticize absolutely anyone
I think they were talking about late stage capitalism.
Democrats should use this as a catalyst to jumpstart a relentless push for DC statehood. This is long overdue and anything else at this point is rolling over and playing dead.
Not to mention, sprawl creates fascists. Who’s more likely to be aggrieved and vengeful? The guy who walks to the store and has a drink at the bar and chats with people, or the guy who sits in traffic all day and views other people as obstacles in his way?
We have to defeat fascism! W e can’t be wasting time with unpopular bigots who purposefully alienate their base. It’s not good politics and has no shot of winning. These jokers are trash whether or not you want to cry about it.
"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.
never forget and not in the corny 9/11 sense. Literally never forget what they're doing to your neighbors in your communities
Cuomo and majority of establishment dems have more in common with Trump than they do with their constituents and it absolutely shows…
This is all I can think about reading most of these names:
The highest levels of the Trump administration are collaborating with the FBI and DOJ to cover-up evidence the President committed sexual crimes against children. Unspeakably corrupt, and not a single Republican in Congress can be expected to speak out against it.
(seeing the president wandering around on the roof while the economy adds 3 jobs per month amid weekly pedophilia revelations) time to sign a billion dollar settlement with this man
What if you just try 1 flavor very quickly?
Maybe, but speeding up and then slowing down seems preferable to just speeding… and never slowing down.
I disagree, cars are a deadly scourge and even getting people to slow down where cameras are located is an obvious win.
Fuck it. Also Jamal Crawford put up all star numbers but not once was voted an all star which is fucking crazy. It had at least 6 almost 7 seasons where he had all star stats. J Crossover deserved at least 3 season of playing on Sunday during All Star weekend. Imjustsaying!!!!
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
I don't think enough good things can be said about the people who worked hard to build the political pressure for his and everyone else's release, including senator van hollen. otoh there is no bottom to my contempt for the people who were urging the opposite course of action
The end of history starts Now. No, I mean… NOW. No, actually, the end is now! This is the real end starting… now!
