I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right.
But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals.
Authoritarianism is rising because our democracy was failing before Trump.
When pro-democracy forces take back power, we can’t just restore the status quo. We need to change a political system that gives oligarchs a veto over working people.
We need a new democracy.
US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
as someone who pushes hard against conspiratorial thinking in my professional and political life, it is deeply irritating when, on top of the untold human harms Epstein caused, it turns out he was at the center of at least half a dozen actual conspiracies
This is difficult news to share: 4 well knowm people in our community that some of us consider close friends - aren't real. Sadly, I was recently made aware of a catfishing operation involving these 4 accounts. I'm sharing this publicly due to the number of people affected.
PSA:
After months of investigation, we have determined that @emperorel.bsky.social, @ramen316.bsky.social, @caroocaroline.bsky.social, and @rahbie.bsky.social are all catfish accounts operated by one man.
This is not a joke. We have diligently verified all details beyond any doubt. All catfish.
I don't think people appreciate enough the fact that, at a time where global warming was approaching an inflection point yet renewable energy was finally becoming economically viable, we decided to squander that opportunity because literal death cultists decided we needed Infinite Bullshit Machines.
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
Ken Burns' American Revolution series, arguably his most aesthetically beautiful documentary yet, really underscores how damn hideous this looks.
More than a week before his crucifixion by Roman law enforcement, Jesus of Nazareth infuriated other authorities as he overturned vendor tables at the temple farmers market and cursed at an innocent fig tree causing it to wither, according to newly unearthed videos. Watch here.
I don't need to hear anything about or from the Clintons again
It's been 30 years
They were good for their time and that time is over
FDR- THAT'S a president who's still relative
We're descendants of FDR, not Clinton
Let's operate from that platform
Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
The more I think about this, the angrier I get.
Yes, Jews were the Holocaust's predominant victims. That doesn't make the suffering and murder of socialists, Roma, gay and trans people, POWs, Slavs and Poles, the disabled, Christians, and innumerable others any less horrifying or sacred.
The genocide of European Jews was unique in scope and methodology, yes, but 5-6 million others died in the camps or at the hands of roving execution squads.
It's a human tragedy, not authoritarian mythology. And invoking it for genocide apologia is an insult to 11-12 million murdered souls.
I suspect Timothy Snyder will be remembered as one of the defining thinkers of Our Shitty Moment. And not just politically — in some ways a symptom of deeper-rooted problems.
Give this talk a watch or listen; he diagnoses our social malignancy like few others can.
youtu.be/jstB2DNpwjA?...
Local journalism matters.
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”
I love two-lane highways. They say something about the way things used to be, and about areas that don't have a lot of people. On those two-lanes at night you get the sense of moving into the unknown, and that's as thrilling a sense as human beings can have.
#DavidLynch
Congratulations Gavin Newsom for winning the race to become the last Democrat I would ever fucking vote for in 2028.
(Sorry, Rahm Emanuel, you were in the running, but Gavin's overwhelmingly smarmy disingenuousness won out.)
This was me right after Parts 17 and 18 of #TwinPeaks Season 3 / The Return first aired.
I support this decision, haha.
Oh no, Cao Cao is hot! My defining image of the character is the much older Zhang Fengyi in John Woo's Red Cliff movies.
Rewatching one of my favourite shows that I haven’t revisited for a few years. I know I sound like an old man but there’s been nothing like this since. Deadwood was a masterpiece.
"When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York," writes @mollycrabapple.bsky.social.
Fortunately, Americans rejected McClellan at the ballot box in 1864, and we'll have the opportunity to do the same with our modern do-nothings in 2026 and beyond.
That explains why my contempt for corpo Dems feels so similar to my contempt for McClellan. Pompous, arrogant do-nothings who will absolutely countervail genuine progress if given the reins of power.
