-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
Remember: These are the foundations of real freedom.
Some people like feeling superior and think being critical makes them sound smart (it doesn’t).
Othering others is not super awesome.
Actually they’re both identity politics. Anything that defines by in-group/out-group.
Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court
Started season 2 and it looks like the same plot
Even Seattle gets sunshine sometimes
In the @prospect.org, David Dayen reports on Trump’s DOJ throwing in the towel against Ticketmaster. So much for ye olde right-wing populism.
"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, I’ve been studying MAGA, and trying to understand why it has been so successful – and what the Democrats ought to learn from that success. The results were published in the New Yorker magazine this week. Here’s what I learned: (a 🧵)
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.
if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story I’ve 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...
Loved this. I wish more people understood what government is for.
It’s not supposed to be run like a business, it’s supposed to be run like a public good.
Your yacht will never find out anything damning about your business.
Can Kendrick do a version of They Not Like Us for the Epstein files?
Don’t repeat the opposition’s message. You’re only reinforcing it.
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?
That’s what we are for AI.
It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
Getting truer every day (originally from 1998). @theonion.com
theonion.com/just-six-cor...
Please tell me you’re posting this on X too
They never move. They’re just used to getting their way.
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 don’t care. Musk sued Media Matters, Thiel sued Gawker. They care desperately and we on the left don’t invest enough time, energy and money in pushing out good, accurate, embarrassing intel.
I would happily pay the @democrats.org and @actblueorg.bsky.social to STOP TEXTING ME
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
Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
