anyway congratulations to senator hasan piker!

It’s funny because we do this thing where Black voters are pathologized, literally, every election cycle.

brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · 14h ago

So El-Sayed is doing better with Black voters and worse with white voters than most people imagined? That’ll be fun for The Discourse.

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ICE is not just an attack on communities, it is oppressing any regional culture not considered to be “American“ enough.

Yes, I’m still going to see “The Odyssey”. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Ben McKenzie Says Major Streamers Were Scared to License His Anti-Crypto Documentary, So He Found a Different Way to Reach Audiences

Ben McKenzie, "The O.C." star turned documentarian, is releasing his film about cryptocurrency in a unique way.

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There was, however, one exception to this: Minneapolis-St Paul. There, a finance bro, the mob, and a crooked lawyer really did buy the trains and sell them for scrap - but that was the exception, not the rule. 12/12

How a Lawyer, a Businessman, and the Mafia Destroyed Public Transit in the Twin Cities

There is a common folk theory that the North American streetcar disappeared because of a conspiracy. Allegedly, industrialists connected with the auto and motor bus industries bought up North Ameri…

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(addendum: if you want to read the book, it's called "the lost subways of north america". if you get a copy directly from me, i'll sign it for you)

The Lost Subways of North America

Official website for Jake Berman's book, "The Lost Subways of North America," containing transit maps and his writings on cities.

lostsubways.com

Vote Doom no matter whom.

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

my entire generation is highkirk committed to carrying the flame atp, i feel like the meme is going to stick around for a while in some form

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine has it figured out. I couldn't agree more. Fuck fascism.

“is the federal government assisting iran in their attacks on dem run states” is a legitimate question that needs to be asked

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Q: Can you rule out that Iran is behind the water attacks? TRUMP: I don't think so. I think that Minnesota is behind it. You know who is behind it? Minnesota. Because they're grossly incompetent. I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.

7 mo into Covid-19 after grueling 24hr caring for child with the disease, who survived. Showered at hosp, returned to office & informed staff, wasn't retiring the next mo, as had planned. Photo of that moment. This is my "diary". Nobody can change the reality of pandemic for those who lived it...

Do they owe us a living? Of course they do, of course they do. Do they owe us a living? Of course they fucking do!

one aggressive hardball thing I would like to see happen is blue states coordinating to have deliberately contradictory and difficult to navigate regulatory environments for hostile regime-aligned businesses such as X. what red states did with abortion pre dobbs.

So happy phish has decided they can be political again

Pulling a “Melt the Guns” from playlist obscurity is as political a statement as you’ll get from Phish.

Melt The Guns debuted 9-27-85 at Slade Hall, UVM. The same night as Possum. #phish

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

J.D. Vance's "Ain't I A Woman?" is going to be a real coup de grace.

Iran - a politically complex country like any other - is not a monolith has gone through several phases of liberalization and rightward drift within our collective lifetimes and the one thing that has hardened the population against liberalization every time has been western aggression.

I’m long the shortevity market.

WE NEED TO SHUT THIS COUNTRY DOWN WE NEED TO BOYCOTT IT WILL GET WORSE

Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...