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If you read one thing today, please read this. It’s a masterpiece. Sure, it’s about the Ezra Klein controversy of the day, but more importantly, it’s about empirical evidence of how to build a movement out of our current horrors.

Oh thank you

Garrett Bucks nails it!

Sorry can’t talk right now, putting the finishing touches on my new essay “I was a lifelong leftist but I’d love a job at CBS News so I don’t know man, here’s a video of some sophomore at Sarah Lawrence who was rude to me on TikTok”

As always, the most thoughtful post about a topic (this time, Ezra Klein) comes from @garrettbucks.bsky.social

Ezra Klein, have you considered just hosting a potluck? Or volunteering for an ICE Watch, or organizing a childcare cooperative, or throwing an intergenerational block party...

A modest proposal!!

thewhitepages.net/p/ezra-klein...

Man, it would be pretty cool if cities could just be “complicated places where a lot of people live” and not “overstuffed signifiers that exist primarily to be yelled at by culture warriors desperate to squeeze just a little more juice from their most chicken-hearted supporters”

BRB writing an oped for the Times and The Atlantic about how this is Zohran's fault.

A protester outside an ICE detention facility marches through clouds of irritant gas carrying American flags. A sign lying on the pavement by his feet reads “EVERY ICE AGENT WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.”

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

'The counterpoint, I suppose, is “what if these rights are not allowed in the future?” but my friends, that’s not a counterpoint at all. It is but one more reason to do those things now.'

Whatever you can still do, you can still do On what despots want you to forget

I wrote about how there are cowards in our midst, and how the temptation to follow their lead is real, but that we know deep down inside that our hearts are bigger than that.

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Whatever you can still do, you can still do On what despots want you to forget

I wrote about how there are cowards in our midst, and how the temptation to follow their lead is real, but that we know deep down inside that our hearts are bigger than that.

thewhitepages.net/p/whatever-y...

social media posturing =/= bravery

If Charlie Kirk lived in Liverpool Times, he would have been the third Beatle. They'd have kicked Ringo out to make room. If he lived in Mcdonaldland Times, he'd have been Grimace's best friend. If he had lived in Dinosaur Times, he would have been the biggest coolest dinosaur RAWR RAWR RAWR RAWR

I’m Francesca Hong, a single mom, service worker, and State Rep—now running for Governor of Wisconsin.

This campaign won’t be funded by billionaires or corporate PACs. It’s powered by working people.

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Fran and I hosted about a dozen Medicaid town halls earlier this year, and I learned she's the real deal. For the past couple of months I've been helping with her gubernatorial campaign prep — I believe she is *the* left/progressive candidate for Wisconsin. Let's talk about policy:

A sincere RIP to Robert Redford but also everybody knows that the universe only has a finite amount of hotness available for adult blond men, so I am crossing my fingers that maybe moving forward we can spread that around a bit more evenly?

What you can try to control is how YOU fight... not how they fight.

JD Vance, sitting in front of a super creepy gilded fireplace and outstretching his hands like he wants to destroy a peasant village.

Hey fam, I'd love your feedback. Today was my first day on the job as the guy in charge of making JD Vance look and sound, like, extra fascist. Like cartoon Mussolini. The stakes were high, what with all the fascism we had to roll out today. How'd I do? Does he look craven and vainglorious enough?

“With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, eliminate and destroy this network and make America safe again for the American people.”

All right, so we just crunched the numbers over here at the "what kind of regimes do stuff like this?" factory and the bad news is that our machine just preemptively fled the country.

Apropos of a certain hagiographic project right now, public viral debates-- filmed for propaganda and brand-building purposes-- are not a vital pillar of a functioning democracy! They are publicity stunts! They are not designed to build understanding or find truth or make society better!

A tv screen with a picture of a broken barn and the Chet on “preparing for the fall pumpkin season after extreme weather challenges”

Whatever we have been through as a nation, I think we can all agree that what is most important is that we come together for fall pumpkin season

If I can't [jam two snack foods together to see if they taste good], I don't want to be a part of your revolution!

Honestly it seems to me that one of the most important tasks for modern parents is raising their kids to be mostly offline normies

Tell me with a straight face you would not raise your hand to be a member of the worker's coop whose job it is to see if two snack items go together well and, if the answer is yes, just make it happen, man.

Actually in the version of socialism I dream of we would also have this.

Venezuela says 11 killed in US boat strike were not gang members amid reports vessel was returning to shore Interior minister says ‘murder has been committed’ while US Congress demands justification for attack

Whose life matters?

"I hope that you are showing even more love through the politics you practice and the movements you build. And I hope, with an increased sense of urgency, that you show love by standing in the breach against those who preach the gospel of blood and power."

How do you respond when a famous person whose ideology you abhor is shot and killed? The same way you respond to every death in a world too full of it

This is less about what you do or don’t say both Charlie Kirk than it is about being alive, together, in a time and place that cares about far too few of our lives.

thewhitepages.net/p/how-do-you...

Not real: The AI generated podcast hosts Clare Delish, Oly Bennett and Nigel Thistledown

I'm sorry, this is the first I am hearing that my beloved friends Clare Delish and Nigel Thistledown are "not real." Please respect my privacy during this difficult time for me, a dumb person.