Let’s do better keeping the nazis out this time.
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the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Bond movies are meant to be campy fun and the franchise would be better off getting back to that
“the government should mind its own business” is perennially popular American message and I don’t know why we’re not talking like that about trans people.
Man if you don’t shut your bitch ass up
since Bluesky is chock full of Newsom-stan-bots insisting that "Dems should compromise on trans issues", I will re-up my November essay about why this is not only immoral & unempirical, but BAD POLITICS. Dems WILL LOSE if they do this, here's why (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ...
finally, after so many years of Trump, there's a bold, inspirational new dream for liberalism: a younger, less demented, and better-looking-in-a-suit president who can also revel in punishing the homeless while cameras roll
Alexis de Tocqueville's best-known work was his classic study "Democracy in America," analyzing our living standards and system of government during his travels here He noted America's cash bail system was aristocratic horseshit way back in *1835* 190 years ago:
Just a regular reminder that extremist centrism / moderatism / bothsidesism is a thing and some powerful people want to force it on everyone in order to not deal with hateful ideologies via a guise of civility.
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
1. Trans women are women. Stop saying that trans women are "Men pretending to be women." 2. Sexual predator men don't pretend to be women to molest girls. That would be way too much work and effort. Sexual predator men pretend to be youth pastors to molest girls. 3. Trans men are not a "gotcha."
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Look I am clearly a heavy social media user but I also don’t need to validate my social media use by imagining that a politician having someone on their team who is good at making memes means that they would be a great president and have good policy ideas Like please be serious
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation
All that warring for us to wind up West England anyway.
Those are the aliens from Independence Day
Need people to understand that literally the only lever here is public opinion
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
Can’t believe the leopards chose his face instead of the burgers
Every republican fascist policy was test driven against faculty and students at universities, often to thunderous applause
What if instead of fighting to get the best shot of this kidnapping we just fought the kidnappers?
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
🎶I'm sorry Nick Jackson (woo) There is no deal We called off the Bayern loan-to-buy Fly home to replace the injured guy🎶
The hats stopped way before Fox News
He really is Patrick Bateman. He spends a lot of time with his hair slicked back, coolly fighting the other side in a fashionable way, and then at night he runs out to furiously throw some homeless person’s last picture of their family into a garbage can.
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
California make our own COVID vaccines and see RFK defend the pharmaceutic companies challenge.
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
this garbage framing really needs to stop. it's not about crime. we know this. asking people how they feel about crime pretends that it is about crime. pretending it's about crime is supporting trump's framing. stop it.
Mark repeatedly says dumb shit (coddling crypto scammers is the future of the Democratic party! Nikki Haley would be a good President!), then when people respond poorly, he blames the website then a lazy media turns it into a three week news cycle lambasting Bluesky for a problem Mark created
There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
yo this guy is cooking
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
little known fact: In 2020, Republicans lost the White House and the Senate.
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
Gotta buy this as a collectors item
Fear not! Party leadership will hand millions to a couple bros who are very friendly with Silicon Valley eugenicists, and they'll again soothe Dem leadership with the advice that they do nothing.
I miss Masters of Orion. Such a great game.
Roll it yourself
They don’t want to quote this part of the “I Have a Dream” speech today.
What's being unsaid is that Trump is running this shit how the majority of companies run their businesses. They fire folks for petty reasons and because they're whistleblowers all the time. Boeing even killed a couple of them.
I said this months ago but I really need a BLUE STATE COMPACT IMMEDIATELY. Bring together all health depts, all education depts, etc... under one umbrella. Collectivize guidance, ensure that disabled students get what they need, etc... An emergency meeting of all Blue State Governors is overdue.
Sorry but TEEN VOGUE, ROLLING STONE and the BEANO shouldn't be our most incisive political commentators
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
I’m glad people are realizing that Project 2025 is for killing people but it would have been great if they listened like, last year, when just about every marginalized person you know was screaming about it. But hey, welcome, big tent, I guess.
no. you literally helped cause it, you fucking bastards.
If we’re being honest a debate about whether or not to support the rights of the Pod Save America guys would be a lot more interesting
Will never not tip but I will stop eating there.
Also wild that he is Ted Cruz’s dad
Seems plausible bsky.app/profile/repo...
"The closest the New York Times newsroom will come to telling readers the truth...is to say that Trump is 'promoting an aura of authoritarian nationalism,' or that certain actions 'increasingly remind scholars of the way authoritarian leaders in other countries' behave." — @froomkin.bsky.social
Kitchen Table Issue: "AI in K-12 schools is just Cliffs Notes to cheat on a test and a friend who will help your child plan a suicide in secret" Real easy message. And you can change 'suicide' to 'abortion' for the MAGA crowd if you want.
I didn’t realize you were in the fashion industry too. That’s awesome.
"Donald Trump is rounding up Democrats and executing them on the East Lawn. But this is just a distraction from egg prices. Don't be fooled." - Hakeem Jeffries, soon
This is the kind of language inversion fascists use before they make opposing them a crime and render their political opposition a domestic enemy that is treated as a terrorist threat You don’t vote yourself out of this. They are setting the stage for a single party state where opposition is treason
shout out to the person who called it astroterf
I agree with what Erin says here, but would add that Newsom's recent comment citing the age of 25 is especially scary, as that's well beyond centrist-sounding "fairness in sports" rhetoric – it is a hardcore anti-trans activist talking point! it's like he is actively consuming 4thwavenow/TERF posts
...may as well re-up yesterday's short 🧵 here too: bsky.app/profile/juli...
Cash bail doesn't do anything people think it does. It doesn't protect public safety, bc if someone is a risk to public safety they shouldn't be released on bail anyway. It doesn't secure appearance bc people don't usually intentionally miss court anyway. It just keeps poor people in jail.
the person most responsible for the transformation of the United States into a personalist autocracy is Donald Trump the person second most responsible is John Roberts
Snoop Dogg literally made a porno with lesbians in it
ZERO return. ZERO.
If you're almost but not all the way homeless in California, Gavin Newsom and his cops have a solution for you and it is to make you all the way homeless
I spent a quarter century being lectured by libertarians and republicans about how minimal government oversight of large companies was radical socialism and if you mentioned nationalizing stuff like telecom for the public good they'd have a six week embolism
Imagine being Hakeem Jeffries and all you can see here is a “distraction.”
Another read is not that SCOTUS is shy about confronting Trump but that they're basically on board with his project but would be embarrassed about the legal arguments they'd have to make if they upheld his actions on the merits, so they find procedural means to let him get his way.
This is why I haven't stepped foot in a church other than weddings and funerals in 30 years.
"So clear the tracks or wreck them. Brake the trolley or break it. Don't accept the premises and constraints of those who would tie others to tracks. Pursue options that a sensible and empathic person would pursue, and let others pursue other ones, so that we can pursue them all."
Black and brown people being harassed, terrorized and brutalized in dem states and cities is not a distraction from poll numbers, it's real shit happening to real people, not because of bad polls, but because the president is a white supremacist
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant. Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed. This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
any halfway decent journalist should ask Newsom "why is 19 too young to receive lifesaving medical treatment but not too young to date you"
Ammon Bundy on why he left the militia movement
This has to AI generated. There is just no way someone actually posted this. On LinkedIn.
this is a made-up problem that exists only to promote the false idea in ppl's heads that Democrats are out of touch or whatever when most of these words aren't used by Democrats anyway & the exceptions are irreplaceable terms that mean specific things (food insecurity, involuntary confinement)
all Intel shareholders just got diluted by ~10%. happen to remember what the headline number was on Warren's proposed wealth tax
Trump's splotchy hand and swollen ankles raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.
rich people cheat the tax code by borrowing against those same unrealized gains, with assets marked to market for collateral, because the loans aren't taxable as income.
There is not one marginalized, racialized, or oppressed group whose oppression or destruction is an acceptable cost for saving "democracy." Not one. If saving democracy requires leaving marginalized people behind, that's not a democracy worth saving. Either we all get saved or none of us do.
Newsom is trading trans rights for the imaginary approval of bigots who will vote R in an election anyway. That's not a leader. That's garbage.
if you are in the business of making carve-outs for basic human rights, tell me how you're different than the trump regime. You're even worse, in ract, because at least they're honest about their hate while you try to cloak yours in "resistance to tyranny" bullshit like a goddamn coward.
if you and your resistance froggies come into my mentions and say the right to live authentically as the human being you are--without fear and with the same rights as everyone else--is somehow dangerous, then fuck you. You're no better than trump and his fascists.
Newsome will never be president. He is a dangerous bigot and an authoritarian if we have free and fair elections in 2028, which is highly in doubt and he is the nominee he will lose. Centrists are dangerous, and must be removed from the party if this country ever wants to rebuild democracy.
I let ChatGPT live my social life so I can spend more time doing what I really love: creating B2B SaaS solutions
Also important to note that the reason Kimberly Guilfoyle has been in relationships with both Newsom and Donald Trump Jr. is that they are the same person
Also if you go into an activist space where folks use words to be more inclusive, be normal and don't fucking shame them. Christ Almightly, you sound like a loser when you do that. Be normal and treat people with respect. Jeez Louise.
Tell "centrists" to fucking endorse Mamdani already. Be normal, you losers.
Also tell "centrists" to fuck off if they don't defend the most vulnerable among us. Tell them to read Matthew 25, the Sheep and the Goats. Be normal; be like Jesus. Stand up for the least among us, you cowards.
Yeah let's use stronger words. Do say "Abolish ICE" Do say "Stop Republican Panty-Sniffers from Inspecting Kids' Genitals" Do say "No Weapons for Genocide" Do say "Big Bullshit Bill" Do say "Fuck A.i." Do say "Protect Trans Kids" Do say "Hands off our Immigrant Neighbors You Fascist Assholes"
i think people need a refresher on what constitutes a Distraction. the cracker barrel logo thing (zero stakes, obviously invented controversy) is a Distraction. the ongoing military occupation of washington dc (ample footage of random delivery drivers being violently detained by feds) is not
It’s easier to think about Democrats saying things like “holding space” than it is to consider that the FBI raided a critic’s home or that the National Guard will be armed patrolling the streets of DC. The former doesn’t require you to admit what is happening here.
idk man, if I was a women's football club or league, I would simply not engage with barstool sample