Alex Lockwood

SCOOP: several days ago Zohran Mamdani was overheard saying he "needs" to eat dinner. An inside source confirmed he had eaten breakfast and lunch that day, giving him an estimated 2+ weeks without additional calories before he might have died from starvation

I mean, why do anything!?

This is what I keep thinking. I don't believe that any prominent Democrats have expressed the will or even suggested enough resistance to the current administration to indicate that they would pursue justice for those whose rights are being trampled. We can't punish them for following orders~~

it's entirely possible to imagine a scenario where Ds win control of govt in 2028 but refuse to hold ice agents accountable and even try to ramp up deportations.

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie;
But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

"Political violence is the norm for the Black experience in this country. It just is." - Ta-Nehisi Coates

If you think political violence starts and ends with rich, powerful white people, you have NOT been paying attention in the slightest. #blacksky

one of the strangest dynamics these days is the insistence that everyone pretend they were born yesterday when evaluating the seriousness or sincerity of a public figure. i think that by his own past actions and rhetoric i can safely assume that peter thiel is not on the level!

We completely pulled out of Okinawa and Germany, I guess

Is Activist Vocabulary Hurting the Democrats? Third Way's latest memo has weak advice and a hidden agenda

I wrote about the idea that Democrats need to excise "activist" language from their vocabulary, and what it says about the corporate interests looking to divide and conquer the party.

It’s so infuriating to see so many liberal friends and family capitulate on this. It’s just pandering to bigotry and rank sexism.

If we want to fix our democracy, we NEED ranked choice voting.

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i do not believe that the implementation of an unconstitutional executive order is “hard to stop,” there’s simply no institutional will to stop it

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.

If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

Large sections of the media have been trained to assume bias is when Trump & Republicans look worse than Democrats in any comparison, even if you're directly reporting the truth.

idk man, I have some bad takes, but "Democrats are flat-footed messengers right now" seems uncontroversial.

This came up all week - progressive Dems were still putting their shoes on when the Laken Riley Act got enough support to break a filibuster.

As I approach another semester in the classroom I believe I’ll try and embrace the tangents my lectures sometimes take. Making clear and personal connections between the subject and the students is ultimately the point of many of our classes.

Reminder that for the US welfare state, the point is not to relieve poverty but to best manage the specter of destitution as a means of disciplining the bottom rung of labor. Countless academics point out it's cheaper to simply house people but for the super rich, in the long run, it absolutely isnt

Victories For Trans People In 2024 2024 was a historically difficult year for transgender people, but there were some major victories. I list the biggest ones here.

2024 was a historically difficult year for transgender people, but it was not without its victories. I list over 60 victories for transgender people this year.

There is a case for hope, and the fight for transgender rights is not without wins.

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New York Times starting the year off like

Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

With almost the entire Western system of suppression against Palestinian stories working against him, Rasheed has still managed to bring Dreams on a Pillow to 75% of the campaign goal with two weeks left. Please don't let this dream fail in the last stretch.

www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Whoa-oh thar she blows
Watch out boats she'll chew you up
Whoa-oh thar she blows
She's Ahab eater