Josh Berthume

get their asses, ma'am

“Democrats clearly won young men last night [and] they didn’t do it by pandering to young men. They didn’t do it by begging in broken fratboy speak. They didn’t do it by treating young men like special little boys who need their hands held. They didn’t do it by abandoning women and trans people.”

meredith @dietz_meredith Follow sorry to lib out but for so many of us this is the very first time we cast a vote that wasn't framed to us as "the lesser of two evils," or some other gross excuse for democracy. we actually believed in someone, canvassed for him, and saw him...win??? like??? something...worked??? 9:24 PM • 11/4/25 • 456K Views

Young people experiencing hope from the democratic process is a beautiful thing to see:

I flew twice in the last two weeks and both times they were airing videos at security of Kristi Noem talking about the "Democrat shutdown." Please keep airing these videos through the midterms, they really help your cause, they are doing exactly what you hope don't let anyone tell you otherwise

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

lol

There are more of us than there are of them.

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.

we’ll all subscribe en masse

Long live Guilloteen Vogue

all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.

EXCUSED

is he as dreamy in person as i'm imagining

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

I have met Brighton businesses who have very successfully switched to a four-day week.

Productivity, morale, staff retention are all up.

Exciting research from Sussex University has shown it to be brain-altering! Positively changing anxiety, depression, stress and sleep quality.

I refuse to like the RTO, but I will like this one

COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”

Data Visualizations as Propaganda: Tracing Lineages, Provenance, and Political Framings in Online Anti-Immigrant Discourse | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Along with other visual content, data visualizations are increasingly used within online discourse, including political communication. Though often considered to be ''objective'', data visualizations ...

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people? Does anyone work anymore?"

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

You should actually have to give someone $200 if you do that

ps its 2000 words

Short Fiction: Lone In The Forest I'm writing a novel. I'm done with the first draft and a round of editorial revisions, and it is in the hands of my First Reader – Diana, always Diana, forever Diana – at the moment. I can't share a...

I'm writing a novel. I was on a writing retreat this week, and I had a great time. It made me want to share the first piece of fiction I ever wrote that got accepted and published anywhere. I hope your eyeballs and brains enjoy it.

A lot of grim things in this world but at least the Yankees lost.

Bluesky has too many people with masters degrees posting "kush got me feeling like the Irish Alf"

I mean, don’t get me wrong - it is absolutely not a good time for them to be making a deregulatory argument, considering, you know, everything. But if we weren’t rocketing down the Autocracy Waterslide, I think there’d be some things worth considering in there.