Jeff Ward-Bailey

things I would do if I had as much money as Jeff Bezos:
—keep a number of obscure comics in print
—give a $1m to every public library in the country
—endow newsrooms in every city with more than 1m people
—buy the Walgreens Boots Alliance and convert it to a network of free clinics

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

Next time some helpless centrist whines about “but but but the Republicans control everything” point them to this.

ESPECIALLY this part

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is

- more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week)

- more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages)

- more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness… The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live…is…victory.” Howard Zinn

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness… The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live…is…victory.” Howard Zinn

Thank You Louisville!!!

Indivisible was honored to take part in the Louisville Labor Day parade!!! It was a big event and we about 200 of us showed up to march.

Unions and the workers within them are more powerful than any oligarch. Nothing can tear us down.

we do not publicly shame cybertruck owners enough

The narrative that anti-vaxxers or QAnon weirdos will come back from the brink if we're nice enough to them isn't tenable morally and doesn't hold up empirically. Ostracizing people whose beliefs harm others is a critical aspect of a functioning marketplace of ideas.

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

I’ve never looked at how much time was left in a movie and thought, oh good, lots

They should have a separate Internet that you have to pass a sort of civil service certification exam to post on. Everybody else can look at youtube for kids with comments disabled.

She marched against Trump in 2017. Now, she says, ‘just let it all burn.’ Democrats are struggling to match the massive “resistance” movement that sprang up in Trump’s first term — and battling cynicism among their own voters.

if you were looking for signs that Jeff Bezos's obeisance to Trump has bled over into newsroom coverage it would probably look something like this article getting top billing over the story of 3-5 million people marching yesterday www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

I think what is making everyone so angry isn’t just the cowardice of Senate Democrats, it’s their cowardice in comparison to the random normal person who runs for school board to oust a Moms for Liberty freak

"they're gonna make us look bad"

go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.

No. Christians feel persecuted because there is a vast media apparatus telling them that they are persecuted. There is no evidence whatsoever of large-scale discrimination against Christians in this country.

utterly fucking astounding that any Dem would look at what’s happening and think that giving this administration sweeping new authority to prosecute speech on the internet is a good idea

I think 99% of Musk’s ideology and actions can be explained by him having one simple maxim: “Nobody should be allowed to be mad at me.” This warmed-over “dark enlightenment” posture is animated by a desire to abolish other people’s subjectivity so he doesn’t experience the injunction to care.

Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).

This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

So we’re seeing people protesting this disassembling of the federal government, here is an opportunity for democratic leadership to explain voters who are obviously very nervous about how they are going to TRY and protect them from these cuts

An advert for a company called Magibook. The headline reads "Turn HARD books into EASY books with Magibook! Maximize your reading potential and avoid difficult language today." Underneath is two covers of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Above the first cover is the original version of the opening sentence (captioned "Turn Hard Books"), which reads "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since." Above the second cover (captioned "into Easy Books") is a simplified version, which reads "When I was young, my dad told me something that I still think about."

THE BELL JAR

HARD ❌

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York

EASY ✅

That summer was sizzling, and so were the Rosenbergs

I truly believe that car dependency and sprawl help create the sort of superfluous, alienated public that Arendt wrote about in Origins of Totalitarianism

Every Lego set now seems to be either a branded property where you build Fortnite shit or a 120,000 piece recreation of the RMS Lusitania that costs 80,000 dollars so I’m really glad that they are still making “castle guys”

a small kei truck beside a cybertruck

i believe this is an important image in our postmodern age