dude mangione

people lowkey get so mad when you believe in the project of human freedom. “Here’s all the reasons we’ll never be truly free” as if these aren’t just limits on your imagination

The amazing thing is that literally doesn’t matter if wages went up a little bit and you think it’s insane people are complaining about prices. All surplus should go back into society and the people and not capitalists hands. All of it.

Masked ICE agents had elementary school kids running for their lives in South Jersey. Now they're afraid to go outside or go to school.

Listen to these kids and tell me with a straight face that we can "reform" ICE. You can't reform that.

This is the absolute best rebuttal I've heard to one of my biggest pet peeves in class discourse, thank you

It's such a preposterous way of defining class, used even by supposed socialists sometimes. Among other absurdities, it would imply that the "working class" has been shrinking every generation as college graduation rates rise.

I think anyone in office should be constantly barraged by the question—what is your plan to get everyone out of the camps?

The thing that has shocked me most after getting a job w/ privileged liberals has been exactly this. They know nothing, they don't care, they disdain anyone who does, *and simultaneously* they see anything intellectual as elite-coded and can't believe a working class person would ever know anything

in no way am i trying to compare these two things in terms of magnitude, but if your heart and mind are open because you can understand _why_ filling this rent need is vital, then you can also understand why we have to close the $23 billion utility bill gap that has been building since 2020

Does owning property make you more fascist? Or does not owning property? I wrote a short piece for @kpolanyisociety.bsky.social trying to figure it out. Read on for the absolutely correct answer!

www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/02/13/f...

This is what it is in LA. We still have between 1-2 dozen kidnapping attempts a day across the county, every single day. It's just a resonant low-din hum of cruelty. The content factory is gone but the underlying fear remains.

you can just not fund this shit under any circumstances

you don’t have to pretend they need better training, or are doing an important job incorrectly

they’re just racist thugs doing ethnic cleansing and the whole gang should be in jail

What this man is describing would seem to constitute crimes against humanity under international law. Other governments could and should contest the abuses he’s describing the U.S. government committing against migrants.

this is why he was so desperate to figure out how to go back in time

this is kind of grimly ironic bc Marx makes the point very clearly on the last page of the Manifesto that communists should make use of whatever opportunity is immediately available even if they have a more radical long term strategy (also a major theme in Hammer and Hoe!)

Honestly I think anyone who wasn't online that day for any reason probably still has no idea it happened

Brand New Bitch, Cobrah

"I need another fucking job."

Tracy Rosenthal's Two Evils voters' guides for Los Angeles/CA are another great example that's irreverent and also very useful for leftists (I read them just to make sense of the news around props, etc, and I don't even live in CA)

The Baileys are dead. We have killed them, you and I

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

I don't really understand the people who try to do the "It's not about WEALTH it's about POWER" maneuver like that is some sort of gotcha. The two are obviously inextricably related (or even two different names for the same thing). What is this argument trying to preserve??

it's remarkable how he looks like the dry version of someone who just had a bucket of water dumped on them

There are people that want to abolish economic class and there are people who dont. The people who do are what I consider to be the “left” regardless of the various ways they want to go about it. Everyone else defends the system of owners and workers and they are right wing reactionary freaks

Developments! Very cool

I once worked with a consultant who would have been very active in the Asheville non profit scene that year and this sounds just eerily familiar. same talking points, same language

You know what I realized it reminds me of -- those clickbaity apartment therapy style headlines. (I can't stop eating these!) (I use this every day!)

OK this is the first time I buy the theory that they are using chat gpt to write or partially write his posts now (the atrophied parenthetical is extremely off, voice wise)

BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another.

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what a week to start meds that are supposed to help with anxiety but also significantly reduce the amount I can safely drink

lmfao any single dem could have been doing this for the last 12 months but only lindsey graham has the stones to do it because he wants them to write into law “lindsey graham can have five hundred thousand dollars”