Alex Williams

Another feel good story.

Finally.

Text of ruling.

Trump’s judges give the green light for sending troops to Portland.

Fucking hell. They can’t stop us.

Card night!

Janelle Bouie quote from the New York Times

@jamellebouie.net sums it up. The Dems put the focus on an issue. Instead, they could have said that the Republicans and the president refuse to respect the rule of law and we are not going to let them do that. Make the shutdown about their cowardness and lies.

UAW President Shaw again in @jacobinmag.bsky.social:

The crisis at the border is a humanitarian crisis. It’s caused by corporate greed and finger pointing politicians. it’s caused by corporate greed.

My view; Its also the moderates, who want pragmatism in the face of authoritarians.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @aoc.bsky.social — now there’s a combo for our future

A landslide is coming in 2026. A full repudiation of the Trump administration will happen. Just believe it. Trump is running up a muddy hill. The rains are coming. The people around will lose any future they might have had. Many will lose their personal freedom. Which side are you on?

Headline from Jacobin magazine: “Money for Nothing.”

How financial assets have given the rich more and everyone else far less. The promise was a lie. The wealthy have not innovated but instead collected rents on the 90 percent of the public who can’t play the game the top 10% enjoy. Via @jacobinmag.bsky.social

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social provides some light to a dark political landscape. I just wish moderate Dems would stop fearing their shadows and support Mamdani, the Democrat’s choice for mayor of New York.

I love how Mamdani has frightened both Democrats and Republicans to the point that they are working together. Mamdani will win. And his influence will spread. There is no stopping this movement.

Donald Trump receives new challenge from Zohran Mamdani

The Democratic mayoral candidate from New York City calls for a debate with the president.

Jodie Foster in The Mauritanian.

Jodie Foster in The Mauritanian. #filmsky

Mohammad Salama, pictured here reporting from Gaza, worked for Al Jazeera.Credit...via Reuters

Mohammad Salama, pictured here reporting from Gaza, worked for Al Jazeera. Credit...via Reuters. He is the tenth Al Jazeera journalist to have been killed since the start of the war in Gaza.

David Bowie in leather coat.

David Bowie introduced DEVO to Brian Eno. Bowie worked with Eno to produce DEVO’s first album: Are We Not Men? Check out the Devo documentary on Netflix. #filmsky

Woman in white sweater holding a phone.

Cashing in the chips.

Devo

The DEVO documentary is awesome. #film #filmsky

The guard is coming out for Big Balls.

lol

So basically, you don’t get paid in any timely way and your subscribers are not your own. So what do you really get? A lot of hard work to get your thoughts down and association with the Fascists that Substack promotes.

I mean, read the comments.

Picking up mail in ballots.

Trump will lose this one. Protect our right vote.

It is elegant and so true. a poet telling the story of consequence. "you danced, now you pay."

"I believe these negotiations will lead nowhere," Artem Fysun, a soldier with the Peaky Blinders drone unit, told the Kyiv Independent.

"It's unlikely that Putin, Trump, and even Zelensky will be able to agree on stopping the war because I see that on the front line, Putin is not stopping.”

Image of Ukrainian soldiers

@kyivindependent.com

The Unlikely Rise of Zohran Mamdani Time: "Before 2025, basically no one knew who Mamdani was. Over the course of eight months, the democratic socialist and backbench state assemblyman went from local long shot to likely mayor of Americ...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social holds a light for progressives to follow:

“To many progressives, his style of politics—principled, pocketbook-focused, and online—was an electrifying answer for a moribund party.”

politicalwire.com/2025/08/14/t...

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Join TNS's own @fredericl.bsky.social & @alexwilliams.bsky.social this Wednesday, Aug 13, as they talk with @leaddev.com's EIC, Scott Carey, about the latest in Generative AI.

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From the NYT of all places:

Since the inauguration, the left has racked up conspicuous electoral and intercoalitional victories.

Zohran Mamdani’s triumph in the New York City mayoral primary is the most visible example, generating enormous nat’l attention and indeed considerable party pushback.