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Cynthia Holt • @Ghostofcynthia • 4h X I'm on BlueSky right now, watching it happen. The libs are going nuts! SS S Every single government agencies all joined at once tonight. Including the White House! 611 LT 1.9K 18K ıhl 424K 贝 企 Garrett Rungo • @GarrettRungo • 4h What are they losing it over?!!! 12 172 107 X 贝 企 Cynthia Holt • @Ghostofcynthia • 4h Every single government agency joined BlueSky all at once tonight. Including the White House. They're all posting the truth. It's amazing! 9 • 33 せ75 O 1.4K 贝 X Paul트 @pypolk X.com I'm shadowbanned on bluesky. As soon as you say anything remotely conservative, you get shadowbanned and no one can see your posts there. I can't even make fun of these folks there. 7:39 PM • 10/17/25 • 1.5K Views

MAGA folks don’t understand that the culture of Bluesky involves everyone just blocking people they don’t like without any engagement.

They think they’re “shadowbanned” by some unseen force from above.

I just don’t get what work the conspiracy theory is doing for its adherents. When transphobes breathlessly tell me about it, I just think, “so what, even if it is true?”

Tweet calling for a counter protest of the PDX No Kings rally

There is a tentative plan for a MAGA counter-protest of the No Kings rally at the PDX waterfront Saturday.

A quick look at this intrigues me — I have always found transphobes’ enthusiasm for this crackpot nonsense baffling

Yeah, I don’t think it works that way, but under the circumstances I sure hope I am wrong

YouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol Timothy Snyder on the Trump Administration at Home, and What’s at Stake in Ukraine

I gotta find time to listen to this

Voters blame Republicans for the shutdown by a 53-37% margin lmao

What, if not liberal democracy? Personal blog of Jonathan Korman

If I could persuade my comrades of just one thing, it is that lib, liberal, and capitalist are not simply the same thing

Literally all I’m saying is that if you admit we are in a cesspool of disinformation/misinformation and propaganda, then you should be willing to admit that there are people who are being impacted by it and maybe the problems we have go beyond “personal responsibility” for info consumption

a hand is holding a sign that says " no hate zone " ALT: a hand is holding a sign that says " no hate zone "

Not everyone has the time or ability to join the main #NoKings march downtown. That's OK! We do what we can, when we can.

Sat 6/18 @ 4pm a bunch of neighbors will be gathered at the intersection of Holgate & Foster, if you'd like to lend your voice to our tiny choir. #EverydayAntifascists

Not exactly disagreeing but I think it's worth understanding this kind of rhetoric as part of a sales pitch. It's basically a con job; he's flattering his marks by suggesting there's something special hidden w/in them ("an idea") that will bring them a bright new future once they buy his products.

What we have now is overt fascism in power, so yeah I sure do think that what we had before was better.

Not that restoration is either possible or desirable. The only way forward is to better.

Interesting that they know!

I had assumed that like Garland constructing ‘Annihilation’ they wanted it to feel ALMOST comprehensible without being know-able by not settling on an answer.

at the beginning of October 2009, the generic ballot for 2010 was D+11

Social media platforms were once all about having an original, authentic voice. A generation of YouTubers, activists, podcasters, influencers, and writers—voices that defined the cultural mood—initially made their following by being authentic. They reset the terms of play through social uprisings, from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. They leaned on opinion, comedy, and sports analysis, often sharing mundane observations or hot takes, because self-presentation was the paramount form of expression. Sora removes the need for that style of authenticity entirely. It suggests that there is no value in the original source code of social media: your voice. Sora is only interested in entertainment or deception.

Interesting commentary on Sora from Wired today.

www.wired.com/story/the-bl...

the current GOP is hoovering up all of the cranks in America due to the Great Crank Realignment.

I had a funny experience that I had seen a trailer for ‘Resolution’ but not the film, but then when Those Guys turned up in ‘The Endless’ I recognized them!

One of the virtues of liberalism is it admitting that its project is necessarily perpetually imperfect but worth pursuing nonetheless.

Allow me to draft behind your fame to try to get Hollywood to do the right thing

YouTube video by National Lawyers Guild, Detroit & MI NLG Know Your Rights reminder: Shut the f*** up!

EVERY day is STFU Friday!

Go ahead and go to a No Kings protest.

Take and post selfies, it's fine.

Don't photograph anyone else's face without their permission.

You don't need a burner phone.

But turn off FaceID and touchID on your phone.

Write your lawyer's phone number on your calf with a sharpie.

Roadmap to American Reconstruction A roadmap for retaking power and laying the foundations for American Reconstruction.

the state wants nothing more than to confront armed tacticool antifa agents in the street. steven miller is gagging for it. if we want to win we need to change the terrain to something we can win on--a moral and narrative terrain.

www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...

Holding a rope that seems to be tied to the Moon. But that can’t be right, can it?

Spooktober sleeper:

‘The Endless’ is a low-budget little brother to cosmic horror blockbuster ‘Annihilation’, hitting a similar note of facing a mystery that seems •almost• humanly comprehensible.

Then check out the filmmakers’ earlier (even smaller) ‘Resolution’.

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I think of this now as the difference between living in a house you built that requires some effort to visit and going into a town square where there are not particularly rigorous laws about whether or not someone can punch you in the face.
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This graph from a new AP-NORC poll out this week highlights a crucial point: The Democratic Party's favorability rating is so low today (when compared to the GOP's) because _Democrats_ are upset with the party, not because swing voters rate Ds more negatively than Rs. 1/3

I would much rather have oligarchs obsessing over goofy monuments than building torment nexii, but competing with the Golden Gate Bridge is dumb … especially when Silicon Valley doesn’t have any public landmarks.

How about a big WPA-style Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper gesturing toward the horizon?

It’s almost as if we need some actual proper liberalism

Dammit, we need a real economist.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_The...

I’m tempted by a Piketty-ish hypothesis that there is economic growth but it goes into capital investment into military infrastructure which gets blown to bits in all the star wars so there’s never more butter.

Then Keynes shows up to say that’s how they soften galactic-scale boom-and-bust cycles

It took me years to learn the importance of repetition.

If you’re communicating across disciplines or levels of expertise or with people you don’t already have a strong relationship with, “but I told them already” doesn’t cut it.

The art is in not being tedious about it.