Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court
15.02.2026 05:53 β π 3182 π 756 π¬ 57 π 33Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court
15.02.2026 05:53 β π 3182 π 756 π¬ 57 π 33Started season 2 and it looks like the same plot
16.02.2026 01:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Even Seattle gets sunshine sometimes
16.02.2026 01:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0In the @prospect.org, David Dayen reports on Trumpβs DOJ throwing in the towel against Ticketmaster. So much for ye olde right-wing populism.
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"Slopulism," a type of viral content that @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social has called "participatory propaganda," has been a dynamic that's been "building for years," Starbird recently told @nytimes.com in an interview. [1/2]
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
1. Over the last six months, Iβve been studying MAGA, and trying to understand why it has been so successful β and what the Democrats ought to learn from that success. The results were published in the New Yorker magazine this week. Hereβs what I learned: (a π§΅)
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Identity politics and litmus/purity tests have been shrinking the Democratic coalition for decades. Paired with the loss of meaningful social connection, all we have left is 12 text messages every day asking for $5 and no real party.
15.02.2026 16:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story Iβve been working on for the last few months where I tried to single-handedly take on every government function myself is now online! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Loved this. I wish more people understood what government is for.
Itβs not supposed to be run like a business, itβs supposed to be run like a public good.
Your yacht will never find out anything damning about your business.
06.02.2026 14:18 β π 279 π 54 π¬ 5 π 6Can Kendrick do a version of They Not Like Us for the Epstein files?
05.02.2026 03:12 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Donβt repeat the oppositionβs message. Youβre only reinforcing it.
03.02.2026 21:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The two largest online sports gambling companies, DraftKings and FanDuel, have already spent millions of dollars on the 2026 midterm elections, according to FEC disclosures filed Friday.
This is a sea change for the industry, which has traditionally focused its political spending on state politics.
"ICE is violence-prone because its main purpose has become theatrical. Under present leadership, ICE is less a law-enforcement agency than it is a content creator.
from David Frum:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
You know in The Matrix how the humans are just batteries for the machines?
Thatβs what we are for AI.
It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
04.01.2026 05:04 β π 37063 π 5988 π¬ 927 π 291
Getting truer every day (originally from 1998). @theonion.com
theonion.com/just-six-cor...
Please tell me youβre posting this on X too
26.12.2025 23:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They never move. Theyβre just used to getting their way.
26.12.2025 23:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance.
Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable.
(Published Aug. 2024)
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
These psychos care immensely about online chatter about them, even though they pretend they donβt care. Musk sued Media Matters, Thiel sued Gawker. They care desperately and we on the left donβt invest enough time, energy and money in pushing out good, accurate, embarrassing intel.
26.12.2025 22:52 β π 381 π 113 π¬ 4 π 2I would happily pay the @democrats.org and @actblueorg.bsky.social to STOP TEXTING ME
26.12.2025 21:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The arc of the moral universe is rocking back and forth in the bathtub.
The arc of the moral universe is out of ideas.
The arc of the moral universe wants you to please wait. Your call is important to it.
Billionaires ruin everything
01.12.2025 01:42 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
29.11.2025 20:03 β π 1969 π 628 π¬ 25 π 7
Iβll play. What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Btw 1991 was iconic and yes I know Nirvana Nevermind was that year too, but also:
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA adminβtheyβre still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appeaseβbut FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
15.11.2025 00:01 β π 3922 π 1078 π¬ 22 π 21
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Too few people are talking about the fact that for eight years (2011-2019), while Jeffrey Epstein was raping young girls and trafficking them to hundreds of other rapists from his home base in Palm Beach, Florida, the Florida district attorney was Pam Bondi. Connect the dots.
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